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Subject: So apparently you can drop 30 feet and land on your feet and walk a...

I'd have a seizure too if some genetically enhanced freak starting shooting me in the head.

"Hey you! BOB carrying my second pistol, let's go!"

COD= WW2, and sometime nowadays
Halo=500 or so years into the future
By then medical advances would allow for such things.
Posted by: Toad117
Just curious, and even in COD you die after droping 15 feet. I can understand that they have been trained to deal with the large amount of shock.

  • 06.01.2009 6:14 PM PDT
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Spartan III Project is rumor and non canon.
COUGH

  • 06.01.2009 6:15 PM PDT

Has anyone here really never heard of parkour??? Those guys jump off roofs and stuff. it looked more like 20 feet to me, and that is survivable with the right training and equipment (ODST armor).

  • 06.01.2009 6:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: RvB Rocks95
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WTF! Spartans of Halo are named after the Spartans from thousands of years ago...

Spartan I Project exists. And one of the squad leaders of the IIs is meant to be a Spartan I.

Spartan II Project exists. That is the one with the MJOLNIR armor.

Spartan III Project is rumor and non canon.

Posted by: RvB Rocks95
Dear God, here, let me make it simple. They're SPARTAN II's because the first Spartans, lived thousands of years ago. Does a movie full of half-naked men with large weapons yelling at the top of their longs while being attacked by fictional monsters of the Persian empire ring a bell? Maybe?

So you're trying to say that somehow, everyone in the whole of the UNSC forgot how to count, and thinks that either "1" doesn't exist, or that is comes after "2"?

Or have you just never read the comics, and the books, both of which basically scream *SPOILERS*

"JOHNSON IS A SPARTAN-I!!"
You're a little backwards pal. Spartan I's don't exist, and Spartan III's ARE real, as they were one of the main plot lines in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

Ok ok. So they do exist. Anyway, Spartan Is are not the ones wearing only underwear and armor.

  • 06.01.2009 6:15 PM PDT
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Please:

If you read the books you would know (which I haven't)

If you didn't read the books, check halopedia (which I did)

Clearly makes a reference to SPARTAN I program

Why skip from 1 to 2?

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people its called a PK roll, now if only we could get bungie to encorperate it for long drops.

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Posted by: TOXC1TY
Spartan III Project is rumor and non canon.
COUGH

That spartan in the picture is a Spartan II though.

  • 06.01.2009 6:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: br55ftw
Has anyone here really never heard of parkour??? Those guys jump off roofs and stuff. it looked more like 20 feet to me, and that is survivable with the right training and equipment (ODST armor).


thank you

  • 06.01.2009 6:17 PM PDT

People are complaining that he can survive that well think about this. ODST do not have recovering shields. So when they hit the ground like that they will survive but will be one shot until they find a health pack.

  • 06.01.2009 6:17 PM PDT

Feet first into hell..

  • 06.01.2009 6:18 PM PDT

Sieg Zeon

Posted by: Spencer1519
The prologue of Halo: Contact Harvest even blatantly tells us that Johnson was in the ORION Project. That makes him a known Spartan 1, along with Nolan Byrne, James Lee, Gilly, Morales, Gladys Wilson, and possibly Franklin Mendez.


i just reread the prolouge of that book, and no ware in the entire prolouge is there mention of the orion project, the Operation: TREBUCHET which Johnson and Byrne are on is a millitary campaign against the insurectionests, that Halopedia article about it wasa just written by some dumb ass little kid who didnt know a damn thing about wat he was writing

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Posted by: Last Hanyou
Um, yes there was a SPARTAN-I program. Sgt. Johnson was a member of that program. The Master Chief was a member of the SPARTAN-II program, and "Ghosts of Onyx" focuses on the SPARTAN-III program. Idiot.
Yes there was but that doesn't make up for your retarded post above.

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Posted by: Alexthekid3000
Posted by: TOXC1TY
Spartan III Project is rumor and non canon.
COUGH

That spartan in the picture is a Spartan II though.

Wonders of Halopedia.

  • 06.01.2009 6:20 PM PDT

"Bungie controls everything. You have no rights. Play nice."

For the last time its TURRETS not TORRENTS. A TORRENT is either a peer to peer file sharing protocol or a violently fast stream of water. A TURRET is a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation. And TURRENT isn't even a word.

Logically speaking, shouldn't the SPARTAN-II Project have simply been called the SPARTAN project if it was being named after the Greek warriors? Its not like people would be confused on the battlefield about what kind of reinforcements you were getting.

The fact that it is called the SPARTAN II Project insinuates that there was a SPARTAN I Project.

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lol PK roll. Throw all that Earthbound stuff at me lol.

Ok, tell me this:

A Spartan II say Master Chief (John 117)

Why can't he survive a 30ft fall in Halo 1?

He sure as hell can do it in Halo 2...

How the hell does a human (say Rookie) survive a 30 ft fall?

Sure, he has been trained, but not even a genetically enhanced human can do it (in Halo 1)

  • 06.01.2009 6:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: GAMEWINNERS
I guess the name Orbital Drop Shock Trooper dosent mean anything

inorite?

  • 06.01.2009 6:22 PM PDT

Posted by: Alexthekid3000
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Posted by: Alexthekid3000
WTF! Spartans of Halo are named after the Spartans from thousands of years ago...

Spartan I Project exists. And one of the squad leaders of the IIs is meant to be a Spartan I.

Spartan II Project exists. That is the one with the MJOLNIR armor.

Spartan III Project is rumor and non canon.

Posted by: RvB Rocks95
Dear God, here, let me make it simple. They're SPARTAN II's because the first Spartans, lived thousands of years ago. Does a movie full of half-naked men with large weapons yelling at the top of their longs while being attacked by fictional monsters of the Persian empire ring a bell? Maybe?

So you're trying to say that somehow, everyone in the whole of the UNSC forgot how to count, and thinks that either "1" doesn't exist, or that is comes after "2"?

Or have you just never read the comics, and the books, both of which basically scream *SPOILERS*

"JOHNSON IS A SPARTAN-I!!"
You're a little backwards pal. Spartan I's don't exist, and Spartan III's ARE real, as they were one of the main plot lines in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

Ok ok. So they do exist. Anyway, Spartan Is are not the ones wearing only underwear and armor.
No, those are Spartan's. Spartan I's are non-existant. Just because the ancient Spartans didn't call themselves SPARTAN-I's doesn't mean they weren't the first ones which the SPARTAN-II's are second to.

  • 06.01.2009 6:23 PM PDT

lol PK roll. Throw all that Earthbound stuff at me lol.

Ok, tell me this:

A Spartan II say Master Chief (John 117)

Why can't he survive a 30ft fall in Halo 1?

He sure as hell can do it in Halo 2...

How the hell does a human (say Rookie) survive a 30 ft fall?

Sure, he has been trained, but not even a genetically enhanced human can do it (in Halo 1)

Please try to understand perfect english, as many of us know that Spartan's are the first, though they didn't call themselves SPARTAN-I's.

[Edited on 06.01.2009 6:25 PM PDT]

  • 06.01.2009 6:25 PM PDT

Wow... this topic is chaos. Who'd've thought that no one had the Spartan project facts straight? All three existed, and the first sucked. That is all there is to it.


As for dropping from high heights... well, get the training and the 500-years-later especially-high-tech equipment and I'm sure you'll be able to walk with just a bit of pain from such a fall. He's an ODST, likely with borderline state-of-the-art equipment, given that the human population at this point in the Halo timeline is small enough that the military needs to shovel every experimental piece of advanced equipment into the fight as fast as possible (Spartan Lasers included).

I will admit, though; I forgot entirely that it was written that Johnson was in the ORION project. I would suspect Mendez of being a Spartan I aswell, since he kinda has that athleticness to him in Ghosts of Onyx.

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I can only please one person per day.

Today isn't your day.

Tomorrow isn't looking too good either.

The ORION Project, which was the code-name for SPARTAN-Is and their operations, was instrumental in one very important operation before the Human-Covenant war : Operation TREBUCHET.

Quoted from page 11 of Contact Harvest. as said by Johnson, during a raid:

"...marine had other, shorter and cruder names for rebels in this campaign - codenamed TREBUCHET - was designed to crush."

Wy would Johnson be part of something primarily carried out by high-level special forces and SPARTAN-Is, if he was not one of them?

Further, as pointed out by Halo: First Strike, Johnson has abnormally high endurance, strength and several other factors that stand out. Further, he is completely immune to Flood Infection - something that only SPARTANS are immune to, thanks to their physical agumentations, and neural enhancements. As pointed out by Doctor Hasely in First Strike, the "official" reason given for this is that Johnson has Borhen's Syndrome, whichs affects his mental and neural abilities, making it too hard for Flood to infection and control him. However, she notes that he denied treatment for this diease, even though it is almost always fatal within 15 years. The even odder part is this - that the "official" records show that Johnson would have had Borhen's Syndrome for almost 21 years at the time of First Strike - elminating the possibilty of that being the cause, and making all the more likely that he recieved augementations through the SPARTAN-I program.

Finally, if that isn't enough, the Halo Graphic novels, which are considered canon by Bungie, have a fairly clear and distinct panel in them wherein both the ORION PROJECT and Johnson are being discussed, with case files spread on a table shwoing Johnson under going fire exercises, and being described as a "success".

  • 06.01.2009 6:26 PM PDT

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Posted by: Last Hanyou
Um, yes there was a SPARTAN-I program. Sgt. Johnson was a member of that program. The Master Chief was a member of the SPARTAN-II program, and "Ghosts of Onyx" focuses on the SPARTAN-III program. Idiot.
No there wasn't you dip-blam!-e. That was a rumor on the internet, never confirmed before. It wasn't in ANY of the books, including the one that was based almost entirely on his actions. Wow, you're cool, you can call me an idiot when you have no idea what you're talking about. I'm so hurt.


I don't know about Johnson being a part of it, but ther is DEFINATLEY a SPARTAN-I Program, It 's all over Halo Wars.

mark iv armor looks sweet

  • 06.01.2009 6:26 PM PDT

"Bungie controls everything. You have no rights. Play nice."

For the last time its TURRETS not TORRENTS. A TORRENT is either a peer to peer file sharing protocol or a violently fast stream of water. A TURRET is a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation. And TURRENT isn't even a word.

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Posted by: Spencer1519
The prologue of Halo: Contact Harvest even blatantly tells us that Johnson was in the ORION Project. That makes him a known Spartan 1, along with Nolan Byrne, James Lee, Gilly, Morales, Gladys Wilson, and possibly Franklin Mendez.


i just reread the prolouge of that book, and no ware in the entire prolouge is there mention of the orion project, the Operation: TREBUCHET which Johnson and Byrne are on is a millitary campaign against the insurectionests, that Halopedia article about it wasa just written by some dumb ass little kid who didnt know a damn thing about wat he was writing


It must be later in the book then, read forward to the part where Avery is meeting with a superior officer about his past record. He names off a bunch of operations. One of them is the ORION project. I've read the book too, I know its in there. I'd give you a page number but I don't have the book with me. I'm at college, its at home.

It might be after his shore leave. I'm not sure. Its been a while, but it is in there.

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Well I assume that armor from the 26th Century can withstand a fall from 30 feet, if people today can survive almost that height. You also must remember that he drops thousands of feet for a living, I assume 30 feet isn't too hard on him.

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Posted by: RvB Rocks95
Oh come on, do any of you actually know any of the -blam!- you're talking about, or are you just posting to sound like idiots? There was never a SPARTAN-I program, and he's an ODST, a hardcore-er version of your average marine. Nothing more nothing less.

Wasn't the rookie a member of the SPARTAN-I program? So, he's better than your average human?
your the idiot, there was a spartan I program... it just wasn't as big as spartan II

  • 06.01.2009 6:29 PM PDT

Posted by: yugor1000
The ORION Project, which was the code-name for SPARTAN-Is and their operations, was instrumental in one very important operation before the Human-Covenant war : Operation TREBUCHET.

Quoted from page 11 of Contact Harvest. as said by Johnson, during a raid:

"...marine had other, shorter and cruder names for rebels in this campaign - codenamed TREBUCHET - was designed to crush."

Wy would Johnson be part of something primarily carried out by high-level special forces and SPARTAN-Is, if he was not one of them?

Further, as pointed out by Halo: First Strike, Johnson has abnormally high endurance, strength and several other factors that stand out. Further, he is completely immune to Flood Infection - something that only SPARTANS are immune to, thanks to their physical agumentations, and neural enhancements. As pointed out by Doctor Hasely in First Strike, the "official" reason given for this is that Johnson has Borhen's Syndrome, whichs affects his mental and neural abilities, making it too hard for Flood to infection and control him. However, she notes that he denied treatment for this diease, even though it is almost always fatal within 15 years. The even odder part is this - that the "official" records show that Johnson would have had Borhen's Syndrome for almost 21 years at the time of First Strike - elminating the possibilty of that being the cause, and making all the more likely that he recieved augementations through the SPARTAN-I program.

Finally, if that isn't enough, the Halo Graphic novels, which are considered canon by Bungie, have a fairly clear and distinct panel in them wherein both the ORION PROJECT and Johnson are being discussed, with case files spread on a table shwoing Johnson under going fire exercises, and being described as a "success".
No Spartan's are invulnerable to Flood infection. If they were, then the Chief wouldn't have gotten a tentacle through the neck. Well, he would've, but it wouldn't have remained in him until Cortana acted. Boren's Syndrome was what protected him from infection, though the Flood left him with the regenerative abilities and strength. That's the truth. Where in that did you see SPARTAN-I again?

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