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Not everyone has forgotten this, and it has been brought up before. The problem is that the only proof of another group may exsist is in a few words. In the Fall of Reach when Cheif Petty Officer Mendez says his farewells to the Spartan IIs it was mentioned that he was going off to train another group of Spartans. In reality the Master Cheifs Spartan training last only about 8 years since it began at age 6 and ended at age 14 in the year 2525, which as a total of around 27. In that time period an additional 3 more groups of Spartans could have been created since each group takes 8 years to complete their training. But you must remember that these books are based around the journies of the Master Cheif and not any other group of Spartans other than his. So, maybe in the next book (or even Halo 2 for that matter) we may hear of these other groups of Spartans. Since Reach fell in the year 2552 which was 27 years after the Master Cheifs training was completed the training of Spartans could no longer be conducted their. But, maybe the UNSC and the ONI (Office of Navy Intelligence) Section 3 spooks in Intelligence had a eerie feeling that the Covenant may have found out about this training within that time period, so they may have moved to a planet closer to Earth. This is all possible, but we have not been given enough information to clarify any of this because either Bungie has no plans to include more Spartans in their Halo games or we just will have to wait and see how everything unfolds in Halo 2.

There was another mention about additional Spartans though in First Strike. While Dr. Halsey was looking through a former ONI worker's (Ackerson) secret files she found something very interesting. She found one file called "S-III" or in simple terms Spartan IIIs. She was also suprised to find that all of her Spartans personal medical files had been search through. Could this have meant that Ackerson wanted to get back at Dr. Halsey for creating such a powerful group of soldiers that made him look back, so he was planning to make his own which were stronger, faster, and more efficient that the original Spartan IIs? It is all very interesting to look into, but as I have said before we need more information in order to along all of our speculations to been clarified. So we must just sit tight, look through the information we have, and hope for a deep and intelligent story surrounding these facts in Halo 2 or upcoming Halo novels.

  • 07.11.2004 7:16 PM PDT
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so the world may never know. i still say it makes more sence that u get some kind of new character if all of the covies get suped up and new guys. i also said in one post that in the brutes and in the 03 e3 demo that they make the brutes look like freakin idiots but are very srtong. i think some how the elites are going to be in command of brutes and it would be the eqeal of a shock team. and if they do this it only makes since to me that they give u something or someone to even the odds just a tad.

  • 07.11.2004 7:24 PM PDT
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In the E3 2003 video most of it was scripted, which means that nothing was in full force because they wanted to be able to show off new features without the enemies killing them.

  • 07.11.2004 7:46 PM PDT
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i get the lagestics but hell wouldnt u try to slow down or jump off a ghost goin at a door thats about to close?

  • 07.11.2004 7:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: grunt shart
i get the lagestics but hell wouldnt u try to slow down or jump off a ghost goin at a door thats about to close?
I am a bit confused by the statement above.

  • 07.11.2004 7:52 PM PDT
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like i understand they want to show the game and not look like idiots. but in the cutscene at the end u see the door close way before the brute even yells. i would have tried to slow down and or jump off insted of going full out into the wall and blowing up.

  • 07.11.2004 7:56 PM PDT
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Im sorry if this sounds Rude:

1:Chief Mendez was training another group yes but if there has been no word maybe there all dead.
2:Akerson was speculating on making SIII's to piss off Helsey.
3:You for get about the four Spartans that lived at the end of FS
John,Linda,Fred,and Will and there might be Kelly but who knows what Dr.Helsy is doing with her.
4:who knows there might be or might not be another unit in halo2 but it would most likly be Linda,Fred,or Will,and maybe Kelly,but the book First Strike came out after they did the game and there might just be the ODST's and normal Marines.
AND!!!
5:I personaly dont care if there are other Spartans(im lying of cores)just aslong as i get to listen to Sgt.Avery Johnson chew out some Marine a s s may it be ODST or just plain Marine itl be damb good to work with the Sgt again.

  • 07.12.2004 12:55 AM PDT
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in the very fist halo book when the master cheif graduates he is told by mendez or somebody like that there was another batch of sparatans being created on reach. Everyone seems to have forgotten this little bit or so it seems. maybe since the covies are geten a new character aka brutes maybe well get one of the censored characters as a new sparatan. if some one else thinks that this is wrong tell me i dont want to go on believing something wrong. but this to me makes more since than a civil war in the covenant.

  • 07.11.2004 6:58 PM PDT
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The Covenant get all kinds of "suped" up goodies: brutes, Phantoms, faster, stronger, better Elites, smarter Jackles and Grunts, and more AI.

What do we have to level this out? Master Chief. Hes got MJOLINER Mark VI Battle Armor <i could be wrong> and a whole load of new tricks and skills. Yes, I think the odds are defenently stacked in the Covenants favor...however, teh odds were also on the side of the Covenant in Halo: Combat Evolved and look wha happened. In addition, Master Chief was up against three enemies (Flood, Forrunner<aka homocidal, psycho Moniter>, and the Covenant). I think the CHief has got the situation well in his controll.

  • 07.12.2004 4:06 AM PDT