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I have not had the time to finish TFoR and that is the only book ive begun reading in the series so far. So i was wondering what are Spartan III's and were they ever in a major battle of the Human-Covenant war?

  • 06.06.2009 8:20 AM PDT

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Well, I can't remember everything but I do remember that they have different armor that gives them camo, no shields, and they have augments that make them... I can''t remember what they called it but it basically makes them meaner.

  • 06.06.2009 8:22 AM PDT

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the Spartan III's were in the book Ghost of Onyx with a spartan named Kurt

  • 06.06.2009 8:23 AM PDT

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They come in during Ghosts of Onyx. They're basically riding off the success of the Spartan II project. Designed to be mass produced, less expensive versions of their predecessors, they were sent into two major battles. The first batch was all but lost. Second batch a decade later (I think) destroyed a staging facility for an offensive into a human controlled system with two survivors. If you wanna get started on GoO, I don't think it spoils too much. They lack the standard Spartan II armor, fitted with reflective armor making them all but invisible.

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  • 06.06.2009 8:23 AM PDT

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Posted by: dr spartan32
Knock yourself out.


lol, anyone else see that add under the SPI armor section?

  • 06.06.2009 8:24 AM PDT

You might want to read Ghosts of Onyx if you want to know more about Spartan IIIs. They were a new generation of Spartans trained by Kurt (a Spartan II). They used SPI armor which was a much cheaper version of the the Spartan II's armor. There were a large number of them that were trained although most of them died.

  • 06.06.2009 8:25 AM PDT

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most of the spartan III's died on Onyx only about Five of them lived

  • 06.06.2009 8:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: Tacticalkilljoy
they were sent into two major battles. invisible.

Incorrect. First, Alpha Company fought in NINE succesful battles before operation PROMETHEUS, where they all died.

But you're right about Beta Company, they fought in operation TORPEDO with only 2 survivors, but it is never stated that this is their only engagement.

And they weren't really "all but invisible", the SPI armour features photo-reactive panels, it's a very primite version of the camoflauge the Covenant posesses.


Meh. Not bad coming straight from memory though I guess. =/

  • 06.06.2009 8:33 AM PDT

This is a spartan III

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/thumb/c/cb/SPI. jpg/386px-SPI.jpg
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/4/46/SpartanIII .jpg

  • 06.16.2009 11:04 PM PDT
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Well, I can't remember everything but I do remember that they have different armor that gives them camo, no shields, and they have augments that make them... I can''t remember what they called it but it basically makes them meaner.

well isnt that in red vs blue to where tex has an AI in her armor that makes her kill happy

  • 06.16.2009 11:06 PM PDT

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You can also go to the spartan 3 section of halopedia to find out more.

  • 06.16.2009 11:15 PM PDT
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Cheap and easier to I'll say produce because they were used like equpment not soldiers well cheaper than a Spartan-2 but there inexperined don't have good protection and gennarally low morale. They were not around during Reach.

  • 06.16.2009 11:40 PM PDT

they dont get meaner ,

their augmentation included a series of chemical modifications that include when under extreme amounts of adrenaline , they can still fight even if shot multiple times but this lasts a short period of time, this is apparent when rob shane and that girl who went mute where under attack from the covies , rob got shot in the back by a needler , stopped to give shane and the girl some cover , he managed to use his ma5k full clip on a few grunts and throw a grenade while being shot at and then fell and died

  • 06.17.2009 2:07 AM PDT

did we mention they where twelve year olds?

  • 06.17.2009 2:12 AM PDT
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they were made as spartans to train other spartans in an attempt to get like ten thousand spartans trained and in the war ASAP. but a lot of them died and the last remaining spartans ever besides the chief are trapped in another forerunner demension. they also had like a stress thing for when they were stressed they became like temporarily invincible but that had a lot of sideeffects.

  • 06.17.2009 2:13 AM PDT

they already counter-measured the side effects when augmentations where going on

  • 06.17.2009 2:16 AM PDT

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they were in escence, cheaper spartan IIs, built for suicide missions and "high value targets" they had a secret brain alteration done to them during standard augmentation which upon intense stress unlocks the animal part of the brain and thus much deeper reserves of endurance than any normal human or spartan.

they were basically stealth spartans, as theyre suit had no shields like MJOLNIR, SPI suits had active camo instead, but that brain mutation caused them to, after a while, become unreasoning, lose theyre rational thought and become unstable without regular medication. them being trapped in the onyx sphere is not good

  • 06.17.2009 2:25 AM PDT

Spartan IIIs are children who had lost their families to the Covenant. They were asked if they wanted the opportunity to do something about it, and they were able to enlist in the programme if they did. They received less training than Spartan IIs, were not given power armour (a la MJOLNIR), were trained in greater numbers, and were deployed at a younger age. They were intended to be highly disposable, being deployed in large groups to make pre-emptive strikes against Covenant targets.

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  • 06.17.2009 6:28 AM PDT

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The spartan 3s are just the generation of spartans who were trained after the spartan 2s(Master Chief's generation). There were much more of them, and they went through the same augmentations as SIIs, their armour is weaker, but has active camoflauge, and there are alot more of them.

I recommend that you go read the Ghosts of Onyx if you really want to find out more about them.

  • 06.17.2009 6:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: Tacticalkilljoy
They come in during Ghosts of Onyx. They're basically riding off the success of the Spartan II project. Designed to be mass produced, less expensive versions of their predecessors, they were sent into two major battles. The first batch was all but lost. Second batch a decade later (I think) destroyed a staging facility for an offensive into a human controlled system with two survivors. If you wanna get started on GoO, I don't think it spoils too much. They lack the standard Spartan II armor, fitted with reflective armor making them all but invisible.


Damn good description. Thats in the prologue. Very good book. S-III's have lot of character to them. They're children who's planets have been glassed by the covenant and they've lost their families. I'm gonna read it again. Thanks for reminding me of it's greatness.

  • 06.17.2009 6:58 AM PDT