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Posted by: ninjakenzen
No, they are not as far in terms of quality. But the principle of taking someone who has the trait of say Usain Bolt, and then training him in track compared to taking someone from a random street. Makes a Huge difference.
Except the Spartan II candidates were never born to be soldiers. The gene pool was necessary so that the augmentations would be as successful as possible.
In terms of augmentation and training. It was almost identical.
The Spartan-IIs however had recived specialised, nurtured training. While the S-IIIs were more focused on pumping out each candidate as fast as possible.
No, Spartan II's had a well rounded curriculum (you could even argue, bloated) compared to the III's, who were trained in teamwork and more complex battle tactics.
There's a difference when one group is being heavily focused by the likes of Halsey, Mendez etc and had extensive training over the couse of many years. A smaller group.
This is slightly ambiguous, on the one hand you're saying the II's are better because they spent longer in training, then that becomes a compliment to the skills of the, much younger, III's which had much less training but were equally (if not more) successful.
When compared to, a much LARGER class composed of many different groups, reduced funding. Training by Mendez and Kurt.(A positive thing)under the wing of Ackerson(Very bad thing), Improved augmentation rates(*) but a wider gene pool. Reduced amounts of extensive training. etc
I would argue that the training was more focused, not reduced.
The S-IIIs by all means ARE Spartans. But as a whole, the Spartan-IIs are just a different breed. A breed that had been fortunate enough to train under a circumstance not desperate and limited by funding and overpopulation. The S-II's by design,were meant to be a select few, the best of the best.
Except that the II's were trained during desperate times, (not end of humanity desperate, but still desperate enough to warrant the creation of the Spartan project) the insurrection, which was tearing the UNSC apart.
The S-IIIs had a different purpose. Produce as much as possible, with the best training possible at that time.
The difference here is, anyone can join(That is meeting the age requirement).
In conclusion:
From the very start the S-IIs were designed to be Humanity's best, the very BEST humanity can achieve under this time period.Funding for this was the single most expensive. However EACH candidate was extremely important,Bigger emphasis on Quality<Quantity.
Each candidate would have to be extremely important if you're only getting 33 of them into the field.
The S-IIIs were proposed as Cheap Disposable Soldiers, with the very best training and augmentation that the UNSC can provide.
However the emphasis on this program was Quantity > Quality.
They wanted as much as possible over a shorter time frame.
This WILL reflect on the S-IIIs ability compared to the S-IIs.
However they are still Spartans.
They have similar training, augmentations etc.
Just under very different conditions.
These conditions just cannot be ignored, as a whole the S-III program will never compare to the S-II, also noted by Halsey in Ghost of Onyx. But it doesn't make them crap or anything. Being a Spartan alone, is and always will be in the Halo universe be the best human military unit.
[Edited on 05.04.2011 2:13 AM PDT]