- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well, note that he was particularly interested in the diseases and the like. Sounds to me like he's trying to thwart these difficulties so the can clone the thirty two Spartans that survived the augmentations with no ill effects.
The thing was, what would he need cloned Spartans for? Did you ever notice that it seemed they weren't developing the Mjolnir armour in Castle base, that it was being developed somewhere else?
Perhaps the reason Ackerson is really pissed off about Halsey's Spartans is that his project was the Mjolnir and when the Spartan and Mjolnir projects were combined he was delegated to a secondary roll, leaving Halsey in total control.
Ackerson is a proud man who clearly doesn't like the idea of taking orders from a civilian and, more from his attitude, a woman in particular.
Now, if something were to happen to Halsey's Spartans, the new Spartans that he's cloned, completely under his control, will be the true Spartans. Only then would he be happy.