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Posted by: manwith
Posted by: Lt Leitner
Posted by: manwith
I'm not sure why people would give a crap about genetics in the first place because it has little to no effect on combat effectiveness.
It should be obvious once the technology and medical care gets further the candidates gets wider, because it's not as strict anymore.
Uh, yeah it does. Take Usain Bolt. There are sure as hell people who train harder then him, but he's the fastest man in the world because of his genes. This can be applied in a broader sense to any characteristic.
Yes training is essential, but a team of soldiers with world class training, against a same sized team of the forty best candidates in the world, with the same training will lose.
Except we don't know exactly if Spartan-III's have worse, the same, or better genes compared to Spartan-II's because S-III candidates weren't around by the time the Spartan-II program started.
Kurt even says in one of his letter to Mendez that Halsey would have chosen Noble Team if she had had the chance.
We know Kelly is the fastest human ever in the Halo universe, but that doesn't make her any better than other Spartans. In fact, there are most most casualties in a Spartan team Kelly was part of.
We can reasonably assume that they are in some elements inferior. The most obvious would be psycological profile (compare Emile to Jorge), and size. Yes Jorge is exceptional, but the average SII is bigger then the average SIII.
It's simple statistics. The SII has almost every single human alive as a possible candidate. The SIII had those orphaned by the covenant. A muc smaller population, with the obvious damage of being orphanes.
Now I suppose you could argue that the SII were chosen simply by how close they matched the medical profile to survive the procedure, but their success prior to that indicates the reverse. They were chosen for being exceptional individuals first, and with much looser guidelines on surviving the upgrades.
Which means yes the SIII might be able to take more candidates who would be ideal except from being medically unsuitable, but I don't think this makes up for the otherwise drastically reduced candidate group.
Edit: Hey Caboose, sup, don't think I've seen you round since your epic thread on whether or not Reach was going to focus on Blue team.
[Edited on 02.26.2011 9:12 AM PST]