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Posted by: privet caboose
Posted by: switch 104 sv
Posted by: privet caboose
Posted by: switch 104 sv
However, it is stated in GoO that as well as the chemical augmentation procedures there were also a surgical procedures.
Can I get a page number or a direct quote please? I never remember seeing that. It was just chemical.
"They'd be sedated and injected with chemical cocktails and surgically altered . . .", Page 99. I hadn't noticed it before either. Just saw it recently when I was reading the book again.
More context please? Is that what they were SUPPOSED to do? Like, that wasn't a description of them in surgery or anything. Everything else points to simply chemical augments, and that's what made the difference in survival rate.
They'd be sedated and injected with chemical cocktails and surgically altered to give them the strength of three normaol soldiers, decrease their neural reaction time, and enhance their durability. It was the final step in their transformation to Spartans." It then goes on to say that Kurt had explained the risks and showed them some of the possible side effects by footage of the deformed Spartan II candidates, however, the new and improved medical protocols would prevent this. Still it seems a little pointless unless it was somehow relevant.
Besides, if the word "surgery" is used there is no reason to think otherwise. If you hear hooves think of horses, not zebras (occam's razor). If Nylund put the word there its for a reason. If he was referring simply to the effects of the drugs then "physically" or "biologically altered" would have fit better, but that's not the case.