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Posted by: Atom Alchemist
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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
The idea is that they were given MJOLNIR as a part of Noble, but to me that defeats the entire purpose of saving money with the III's. The most expensive part of the II's was their armor and the whole point of the Spartan III's was to make cost effective super soldiers in massive quantities.[/quote]
But giving MJOLNIR to select few (aka, the couple squads) is different then outfitting every S3 with it.
Why not just make more II's then? That's what I mean by defeating the purpose of III's. If they wanted more MJOLNIR soldiers then they might as well just used the newer augmentation methods to make more Spartan II's. If the original Spartan II program made them rethink their funding with just 75 Spartans and their armor, then what about a 5 man squad of III's with around 2-3 replacements (so around 8 MJOLNIR suits)? Thats a small fortune seeing as that is another 1/10 of what they spent for the III's.
Lets use all that extra money from the complex suits to train more spartans faster and then we can spend even MORE money on top of that to give a select few the armor we were trying to cut out of the equation in the first place! Sounds wonderful right?
spartans 2 were selected by their genetic markers as well as upbringing, they were then trained from a very young age until 16-17 and then given their augments, spartan threes on the other hands were choosen for their simple hatred of the covenant, still from a young age, but they were trained only for a few years before given their augments at around 13-14, then they were sent in as basically kamekaze forces.
spartans two are just plain up better than spartan threes, but spartans threes are way way better then any odst sqoud, so yea.
also, to build a single mjolnir armour it costs as much to build a entire unsc frigate.
Hahahaha, sorry I just can't take you seriously.
SPARTAN II's were chosen by their genetic markers, yes, they were abducted at the age of six and replaced by flash clones who died shortly after. They were trained until the age of fourteen, then they received the augmentations which killed/cripple more than half of them, although according to Halsey, the cripples were healed by the time Reach fell.
SPARTAN III's were chosen because of their hatred against the Covenant and also genetic markers, that was the reason only 300 of them were chosen, Ackerson hoped that they would be able to augment the normal population one day though. Again, they were trained from age four through six until they were twelve, then they received their augmentations, which didn't cripple nor kill a single one of them and on top of that, they received superior training from both Mendez and Kurt-051.
Giving MJOLNIR to the members of Noble Team was just logical whatsoever, they matched the Spartan II genetic criteria and thus, were deemed more valuable. Truth is, the only reason more SPARTAN II's were made, was because of the lack of kids matching the specific criteria, the lack of funding for another seventy five to one hundred and fifty MJOLNIR armors and because there was no one to train them, since Franklin Mendez was busy on Onyx.
So, I don't see how SPARTAN II's are superior to the III's save for the experience and superior equipment.