User blog comment:Damac1214/New Call of Duty: Black Ops III Teaser Released - "Ember"/@comment-3171236-20150423201939/@comment-1263839-20150424003720

To be fair, the Halo novels that were about before the series went to shit put heavy focus on the augmentation thing. Given that the series has progressively tried embracing the novels more and more so (depressingly so in Halo 4), I'd say it was just a lucky coincidence.