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Posted by: InaneDrivel
Where does it say that? I'm not doubting your logic.. but I had no indication of that whilst reading the book. However it doesn't directly reference their running speed.. merely their reaction times. While they say the armor + spartan weighs a little under half (edit: orginally i said a ton.. i was wrong) a ton.. my impression is that the suits hold themselves up.. the spartans don't feel the weight at all.. in fact it makes them stronger, so I have no reason to doubt it makes them run faster, too.
Actually, I just thought of a part of the book which is relevant to the fact. When he gets the upgraded armor with shields, and has just narrowly avoided the missile (awesome visuals at this point of the book) it says..
"He could feel his Achillies tendon tear, but he didn't slow. He crossed the half-kilometer stretch in seventeen seconds flat and skidded to a halt."
Now, I'm really bad at math, and to be honest.. am just too lazy to work out how fast that is.. but that's extremely fast. Maybe someone else could figure it out. Please? When I was in school I did 100 metres in 13 seconds.. 500 in 17 is quite something.
Okay, anyway, at this point I'm taking the book way too literally. The sprinting feature in Halo 2 is going to be awesome, there's so many parts of Halo I wish I could sprint to close distance, or get out of a bad situation fast.. or hell just walk from one part of the map to the next.
Converting 34 sec to run a Kilometer times 1.6 gives 54.4 seconds to run a mile; 3600 seconds per hour divided by 54.4 seconds gives 66.18 MPH (although his top speed would be faster, since this is the average speed from dead standstill until the end of 500 meters).
You're right about the power of the MJOLNIR more than making up for its weight.
You can find out how fast Chief runs in Halo 1 by starting up an oddball game on Sidewinder (a flat surface on the ground, unlike Blood Gulch) that has the blue objective indicator with distance to object indicator on. Then place the skull 1 Kilometer (that's the units they use, if I remember) from you and time your run towards it. Conversion factor from Kilometers to Miles is 1.6 (1.6 kilometers equals 1 mile). I think I read it's 15 MPH in the game.