- SweetTRIX
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- Exalted Mythic Member
Doc: "i'm a pacifist"
Caboose: "your a thing that babies suck on?"
Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"
A little bit of history:
Spartans are technically conscripts, pulled into service in the UNSC as children and taught the ways of war and tactics all of their lives. They live and breath duty and have some of the sharpest tactical minds the UNSC has to offer. When they were in early adolescence, they were augmented to give them superior strength, enhanced reflexes, enhanced vision, enhanced speed, and nearly unbreakable skeletal structure. These augmentations made the Sparatans the only soldiers capable of wearing the Mjolnir armor system, as only their bodies tough enough and their minds disciplined enough to control them.
ODST's are the equivalent of special forces soldiers. While not pushovers or simple grunts, they are nowhere near as physically capable as a Spartan. ODST's also have a documented history of being somewhat mentally unstable and overly agressive. Considering their line of work it is understandable, but they are not as disciplined as Spartans.
ODST's are an asset, but as Keyes mentioned in The Flood to his ground commander, a multitude of marines isn't tactically worth as much as a Spartan.