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Hello,I Have a few questions about Master Chief and i thought some of you would know At The Beginning of Halo why was MC in The Cryo Tube?Also How Tall and How Strong is Master Chief?

  • 04.20.2004 6:51 PM PDT

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he's in the cryotube because the POA made a slipspace jump from Reach and he has a special strength enhancing surgery done to him when hes 14 so his strength is off the charts

just read the books

  • 04.20.2004 6:54 PM PDT
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Aye, this might be long:

The MC is approximately 7 feet tall in the Mjolnir Armor, IDK how tall out of it. He is extremely strong...exactly how strong I don't know, but flipping a tank over might give you a clue.

As for the Cryo tube, he was in it because the Pillar of Autumn jumped from the Reach system to the Threshold system. They went through Slipspace to get there, and since the trips take so long, the crew of the ship is usually frozen in cryostasis for the journey.

  • 04.20.2004 6:55 PM PDT
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I was always under the impression that the MC was around 8 feet tall -- the same as the Elites

  • 04.20.2004 6:58 PM PDT

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The Master Chief is in a cryo tube because, normally, all non-UNSC personel (that aren't required to run the ship) are put into a cryogenic sleep. Although slipspace (UNSC's mode of "faster than light" travel) greatly reduces the time required to travel between stars, it still takes days, weeks, maybe even months. Cryo sleep is a way of making it so the person does not lose precious minutes of his life during interstellar travel. The Master Chief is non-UNSC personel, so they put him in cryogenic sleep as well.

The Chief is probably about 2 meters tall, I think (over 6 feet). And, without his special armor, he is much stronger than a normal human (due to chemical and physical enhancements). With the armor on, he's strong enough to flip over a Warthog with one hand.

I know most of you know this, but this is for BigRudy's sake.

  • 04.20.2004 7:00 PM PDT
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I beleive in Halo: The Fall of Reach. Master Cheif used either 40 or 60 Kilogram weights when he was 14! That's about 90 or 135 lbs approximately for each arm. That's what he was lifting. In the Mjolnir armor, he's like 5 times as strong. His bones are indestructable too.

  • 04.20.2004 7:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: Blaze97
I beleive in Halo: The Fall of Reach. Master Cheif used either 40 or 60 Kilogram weights when he was 14! That's about 90 or 135 lbs approximately for each arm. That's what he was lifting. In the Mjolnir armor, he's like 5 times as strong. His bones are indestructable too.


Arnold's got NOTHING on the Chief

  • 04.20.2004 7:04 PM PDT
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LMAO

  • 04.20.2004 7:05 PM PDT
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The chief can flip the wrait covenant mortar tank, that is FAR-FAR-FAR heavier than the scorpion. (if you're wondering how to flip a wraith, you have to first knock it over with a banshee, and than stand near it and press x) also, he flips it very high, and often it does a full flip.

  • 04.20.2004 7:07 PM PDT
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Okay Thanks For The Info Guys gonna have to read those Halo Novels

  • 04.20.2004 7:07 PM PDT
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On top of everything we said, remember these guys? Well, correct me if I'm wrong, MC (or John, as he was named then) killed one of these with his bare hands, seriously injuring the other two, in a brawl in a gym in the book Fall of Reach. The kid was 14 when this happened

That...is strong

  • 04.20.2004 7:14 PM PDT
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I'm pretty sure MC was older than 14 when he fought those ODST's in the gym. Although I could be mistaken. The MC has fought too many people for me to keep track of. I do know that he did kick the crap out of a few soldiers when he was fourteen, but i don't think it was the in the gym, i think it was somewhere else (for some trainning exercise).

  • 04.20.2004 7:22 PM PDT
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It was, that was the around the time when he started realizing that everything was moving in slow-motion, and that his reaction times were greatly increased

  • 04.20.2004 7:24 PM PDT
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the fight happened in a boxing ring after he was dropping the pin to make sure the gravity was right. The ODST's were lifting and the weights fell over.

  • 04.20.2004 7:27 PM PDT

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A lot happened when he was 14. He went under the augmentation procedure, kicked the crap out of a few ODSTs, went on his first real mission, got his Mjolnir armor, and blew up a Covenant ship (something smaller than a cruiser).... he was a good kid.

  • 04.20.2004 7:34 PM PDT
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wow i really wanna read those books now, sounds like an interesting story, all of this when he was FOURTEEN? i weighed 100 points when i was 14

  • 04.20.2004 7:38 PM PDT
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read the damn books, so we dont have to answer your pointless questions

[Edited on 4/20/2004 10:19:36 PM]

  • 04.20.2004 7:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: RotateMan
wow i really wanna read those books now, sounds like an interesting story, all of this when he was FOURTEEN? i weighed 100 points when i was 14


You weighed 100 points? That's incredible...

  • 04.20.2004 8:09 PM PDT
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my question is what the -blam!- is the holy torrid subsapce that cortana refers to in the opening cutscene of pillar of autumn

  • 04.20.2004 8:11 PM PDT
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It's not the "holy torrid subspace," it's the "hole we tore in Slipspace." Slipspace is the alternate dimension through which the characters travel to attain faster-than-light speeds while traveling. According to the books, the UNSC ships use special drive engines (called Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace drives) to "rip" open a "hole" in normal space and travel through Slipspace. I imagine that a ship transitioning to Slipspace is a pretty vivid sight to see, and I get the impression that Nylund envisions it like this too. Apparently, Cortana is making reference to this phenomenon being the reason that the Covenant were able to follow the PoA when they made a random jump across the universe.

Also, the MC is UNSC personnel. The books state that all non-essential personnel be put into cryostasis during Slipspace jumps. This means anyone that isn't driving the ship, working on it, or manning the guns is packed into a cryotube during a Slipspace jump.

  • 04.20.2004 8:52 PM PDT
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The most important thing to remember here is that the Master Chief is a big manly man, and big manly men don't spend time in cryo tubes if they can help it. So let's think about this for a bit...ok. The most obvious answer is that he was tricked into getting into the tube, probably with a girly magazine or something of the sort. See, he never really wanted to be a covenant ass-buster, he just had an acute need to take after all the other big manly men in the galaxy and go and do something exciting for a few years. So he went down to his favorite neighborhood travel agent and camp counselor and signed up for an excellent adventure... But he got duped into military service for lack of anything else which would appeal to him, and that service mostly involved lying around in a cryo-tube all day. That's the most complex and annoyingly sarcastic thing I can think of, but in the meantime I suggest you read the Halo novels and play the game a few dozen times more.

Have good sleep...

  • 04.20.2004 9:02 PM PDT
Subject: "manninng the guns" ?
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Why the hell would navy personnel be "manning the guns" in the middle of a slipspace jump? Look, I realize that it happened to the Ascendant Justice, but that was because of a goofy little crystal that the curious little monkeys were to stupid to dispose of....

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  • 04.20.2004 9:06 PM PDT
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The book says two meters tall so he would be six foot six exactly not 7 or 8 feet

  • 04.20.2004 9:12 PM PDT
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when i was 14 i lifted about that much, so i think your off, cuz its that much(90 lbs each arm)

[Edited on 4/20/2004 10:20:48 PM]

  • 04.20.2004 10:19 PM PDT
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ehhh

  • 04.20.2004 10:20 PM PDT

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