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Okay hold up. First of all, where do you get the impression that Sam's death was some major impacting force on the Chief? In nearly all of the stories following the Chief, he's hardly mentioned at all; beyond The Fall of Reach, he's only mentioned in Ghosts of Onyx once to establish that Kurt had taken his place. Other than that Sam is hardly ever a factor in anything the Chief ever thinks about. You're artificially inflating his role to support your argument.
I get that impression since every story that has been told from the Chief's perspective has him reflecting about what happened to Sam in some capacity. Sam's death in 'The Fall of Reach' instilled in John the knowledge that heavy prices would be paid in the coming war, as well as the principle (which would become one of his staple ideologies) of just what was "a life spent versus a life wasted". In 'Ghosts of Onyx' the Chief has all of his squad check their armor thoroughly for fear over what happened to Sam. In 'First Strike' as he's looking over the list of MIA Spartans he stops and thinks of Sam and renews his resolve to keep on fighting. Ergo, yes, Sam's death did haunt him for the rest of his life and it effected him greatly as a leader and as a person. I'm not inflating anything, the actual canon material supports my argument just fine.
Except for Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo: The Flood (iirc), Escalation, The Halo Graphic Novel, Halo Uprising, The Package, and Palace Hotel. And I recall only one scene in Ghosts of Onyx where the Master Chief is even a character, and they were on ground, not space, so there was no risk of the same thing happening. It was this scene that establishes that Kurt had taken over Sam's position. Even if he does think about what happened to Sam, how does that mean his death haunted him? All it means is that he's got more experience and knows what to check for; that's not some deep traumatic memories coming back to haunt him, that's just a man taking the lessons learned previously and learning from them, IE: common sense.
But let's be clear what you're saying here. You're still inflating Sam's role, firstly because he isn't nearly as mentioned or thought about as you make him out to be, but because you also initially made him out to be some deep haunting memory, akin to something like PTSD. The only scene you've mentioned so far beyond the Fall of Reach that indicates any lasting impact Sam had was the one in First Strike, but it is not in a manner of a "grief stricken soldier mourning the loss for decades," it's portrayed in the manner of "a weary leader thinking about his dead comrades and renews his resolve to keep fighting." Sam was hardly the only Spartan's death that strengthened his resolve, Sam merely sticks out for being the first.
I'll grant you that Sam' death was the Ur-Example of MC's life philosophy, but again, they'd have to explain that the Chief even
has one. The ramifications of everything you're saying is stretching the boundaries of this short summary mighty thin.
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As for the other Blue Team characters, they were an influence on his life indeed, but the most significant aspects of his life occurred in the games, IE: when Blue wasn't around, with other characters beyond them having a larger and more lasting impact on those events than Blue did. They should be mentioned, but Blue Team, while important, exist in a world distinct from the Chief as we currently know him. They could mention Blue Team sure, but that won't give anyone reading the encyclopedia entries who doesn't already know about them any reason to care or any context to go off of beyond "they exist" (Hint: this is the exact problem Destiny has). Unless you want to blow up the Chief's biography to actual encyclopedic lengths, then there isn't much they could do to fit Blue Team comfortably in the point they were trying to get across with his entry, which is to say, a short summary of the significance of his life, not a dissertation on his entire life.
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So again, you're falling back on the faulty logic that in spite of their training and 30+ years of history together, just because Blue Team wasn't in the games means that they don't even deserve a mention in a biography that is supposed to be providing factual information about the Chief's life and character? The events of the games may be big and bombastic, but they are only a part of what defines the Chief as a person - everything in that regard has largely happened in the EU when he is with his Spartans. And considering the fact that a lot of people still don't know that other Spartan-IIs do indeed exist, how is it not a good time to let people know that? Again, three sentences would be enough and they could certainly fit in comfortably with what was included. The Chief's whole life has practically revolved around the importance of teamwork, and most of that was done with his fellow Spartans, yet in this entry they make it sound like he is literally the only Spartan-II to have ever existed. How is that tying the Chief's story in better with the lore as a whole, or examining his character beyond what we've just seen in the games?
This isn't about who the chief is as a person, it's about why the Chief matters, a
biography about the significant aspects of his, not a character study. Blue Team is significant only internally to the Chief himself, they are not significant externally the accomplishments he's had over his lengthy career. Anyone who isn't a lore buff doesn't know about Blue Team, as such, they have no need to care. If they want the wider audience to know who Blue team is, this short summary of the chief's significance is not the place to do this in, and in no way does this one tiny example indicate anything about the "erasure of Blue Team" or any other overblown nonsense like that. Hell you claim that they hardly acknowledge the existence of other Spartan II's, and that's objectively false because the entire biography up to the point of the Fall of Reach uses the word Spartans in plural and refers to other members of the program by proxy, acknowledging that the Chief was their leader.
But hay, let's look at the actual content of the Channel preview. Wolfkill tells us that we can pull up the Encyclopedia on whatever we are seeing and get some lore about it. If a user wanted to say, I dunno, know who the other two Spartan II's are in Forward Unto Dawn (the movie they demo'd this with) then bam, they know who Fred, Kelly and by extension Blue are. But this one particular entry wasn't about Blue, it was about Chief and the most significant events of his life in an exceedingly short summary. Blue will seem to have their own entries.
So let's stop with all the doom and gloom people and stop blowing everything out of proportion and have fun again.