Spartan IIs are the best Spartans. Kthxbai
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Spartan IIs are the best Spartans. Kthxbai
What's ironic is that the Spartan-II's have been the best out of all of the iterations. The most disciplined, the most skilled, the strongest, the fastest, and the best-equipped.
Because they were the first, the least restrained, and the only ones created by Halsey, unless they bring her back in Halo 4 which would render the entire scene FUBARQuote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
They were actually the second (derp), Johnson was one of the first.
The reason Spartan-II's are the best is because they were trained since six years old. Like the Spartans of ancient Greece, combat is really all they have ever known. They were raised together, so their unit cohesiveness is second to none. Their augmentations were also the first truly ambitious ones, so the techniques were very brutish and the process was refined with a higher success rate in the later generations. I suspect they had to insert an HGH pellet in order to get the other augmentations to take in a short time-frame, hence seven-foot soldiers.
Their armour is also the most feature-complete. Spartan III's got the el-cheapo SPI that offered zip for protection against Covenant armaments. Spartan-IVs get a light-weight version of MJOLNIR, which implies less protection (it's in the Game Informer issue where they state this blurb).
Spartan-IIIs, IVs, and later will never be as good as Spartan-IIs unless they get the lifetime of combat treatment as well. They can't be as strong because they are less massive than Spartan-IIs (less tissue to work with in building muscle). They can't be as fast for much the same reason (greater leg length grants a higher top speed). They can only become "comparable" when provided with equivalent armour, but in a straight fight I'd put my money on the II over the III and IV.
The only way to get Spartans like the Spartan 2's would be either go through the trials again or in the future one or two of the Spartans settle down and have offspring which then decides to join the military.
I think by the rule in Biology that parents do not pass down acquired traits to their offspring would mean this wouldn't work. Then again, I'm sure someone here is better qualified in Biological sciences than me and could tell me I'm missing something.Quote:
Originally Posted by =sw=warlord
Augmentation modified their genetics directly. Being that the genes are passed down, it may work.
Wow did I say V? Yeah, I meant II. I must have been thinking of the Mark V armor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
So yeah, Spartan IIs are the best spartans.
Genetically engineered.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Also your genes mutate as you grow older, it's partially what causes you to get old in the first place.
Genetic and DNA decay through the replication of our cells, infection and ambient radiation.
So yeah, had the Spartans bred with their dominant and modified genes the offspring would also inherit those modifications though they would not get all the modifications as not all of them were results genetic engineering.
The ceramic infusions onto the bone layer, for instance, are not genetic enhancements...and holy fuck that would have serious health complications with age.