[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] stupid0g Oh, and do you know for sure that Johnson is/was a spartan 1? I don't remember seeing that anywhere... Or did you make that up?[/quote] [quote]Guest-17: (to both Joe and Brian) "Who is your favorite SPARTAN from the Halo books?" Joe-Staten: "As long as we're counting SPARTAN-Is...I'd have to go with Avery Johnson!"[/quote] [url=http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/best_buy_091509_chat_transcript.html]Source.[/url] It's also very heavily alluded to in the graphic novel and [i]Contact Harvest;[/i] I wrote Johnson into the story as a Spartan-I long before Staten confirmed it as definite.