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Posted by: mojeda101
Chief was just average, he had no specialities, just another Spartan that always wanted to win.
Look at Linda for example, she could out snipe John any day.
Kelly could outrun John any day.
Fred would beat John in hand to hand any day.
Each of these Spartans had their speciality. Those being Linda's impossible sniping skills. Kelly's incredible speed, and Fred's amazing talent of using knifes.
Those are just examples but John simply had no specialty aside from blatant killing. So he saved the Galaxy, that doesn't mean he was the best. Honestly, I could see Linda, Kelly, Fred and even Kurt in John's shoes and doing the exact same thing. They are all Spartans.
To me, Kurt was the greatest Spartan that ever lived.
Look i understand where you're coming from, Kurt was amazing, kurt was great, and he had a skill: he was smart, he was sociable.
But, understand what Cortana said: "i do know how to pick 'em." she says this when the master chief picks her up in the halo 3 level Cortana, respectively. this leads me to assume, leads many people to assume, that John is perhaps the greatest. I mean look at the facts: Cortana is the most intelligent AI ever created and she knew what she was doing. The Chief was THE leader of the Spartans, and he had the best track record. Cpo Mendez thought highly of him, Halsey thought he was "the best" to reference the gentleman on the first page, and Cortana chose him because she saw something in him the others didn't have.
Although I have looked at one aspect "the chief is the greatest," there are other aspects to look at. But i believe that there is a reason we cannot make a definitive answer about this: we have not seen every single spartan, so a judgment cannot be made. If we had seen every Spartans skill set maybe we could.
However my personal opinion on this matter is that, of the spartans we have seen, there are TWO Spartans who are the greatest: Sam, and John. Sam sacrificed himself to destroy the first covenant ship in a boarding engagement. he was able to save John and Kelly, and the other ship that was coming under fire from the covenant ship. Sam was a hero, he saved so many lives, he was the first spartan "martyr." then there is John who saved the galaxy, perhaps even the universe, from the flood and the covenant.
this is my reasoning.
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