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Subject: Whats an ODST?
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They look like special forces i guess but im not sure what they are so can somone fill me in?

  • 07.07.2004 5:17 PM PDT
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Orbital Drop Shock Troopers or "Helljumpers." They are special forces that drop from space onto planets.

  • 07.07.2004 5:19 PM PDT
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Orbital Drop Shock Troopers or ODSTs. They are a form of marine special forces that mount up in pods that are droppped from orbit. The ODSTs are a special kind of crazy since not all pods will make it. All volunteer unit and total badass. Problem is they are no where near as good as a Spartan.

  • 07.07.2004 5:19 PM PDT
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they are Orbital Drop Shock Troopers... also known as Helljumpers (feet first into hell). Yea they are special forces marines... please correct me if i am wrong

  • 07.07.2004 5:20 PM PDT
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Send me a link of where you have seen them at, I haven't!

ODST-Orbital Drop Shock Troopers aka helljumpers

Someone said they are just like the elites that dropped in from the halo 2 demo at the end.

  • 07.07.2004 5:20 PM PDT
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ODST's are Orbital Drop Shock Troopers. They are basically a better type of marine, and they also (sometimes) drop down to combat from space in some type of pod. For a better description, I would advise you to read the Halo novels

  • 07.07.2004 5:21 PM PDT
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Heres the Pic

  • 07.07.2004 5:23 PM PDT
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Oh, they are those marines at the beginning of the E3 2K3 demo that are wearing that black armor

  • 07.07.2004 5:23 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

here and here

  • 07.07.2004 5:24 PM PDT

"We at Orbital Artillery are often said to have a 'God' Complex. We would like to set the record straight: We do not consider ourselves 'Gods'...
...We did however borrow his 'Smite' button."

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you are right about the elites at the end being just like the ODSTs. The covies 'stole' the tech because they saw its usefullness on halo. Because that is what basically took the butte in the end. correct me if i am wrong in any way

  • 07.07.2004 5:29 PM PDT

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and where did you hear that?? that wasnt mentioned in the books

  • 07.07.2004 5:31 PM PDT
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In the Flood the ODSTs were used, but I know the Covenant have seen the Orbital Drop on many occasions. Halo's was just one of them.

  • 07.07.2004 5:32 PM PDT

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i know,but i havent heard or read anything saying that the Covies stole our HEV and orbital insertion technology

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  • 07.07.2004 5:34 PM PDT
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It was not mentioned in the books but there is a lot of evidence of it having happened. Watch the E3 2K3 video at the end. The Elites are using drop pods similar to our own. And since they are imitative we can assume they watched our's and stole the idea claiming it as their own.

  • 07.07.2004 5:36 PM PDT

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yeah thats true,but they could have had it before us,but never had to use it because they usually just glassed the planet.

  • 07.07.2004 5:38 PM PDT
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Maybe, but we've had the pod technology for a long ass time and it does look very similar to our own.

  • 07.07.2004 5:40 PM PDT

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what do our pods look like?? i havent seen any pics,just a rough description

  • 07.07.2004 5:42 PM PDT