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Am I supposed to write something funny here?
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Edit: Even if it doesn't have sources, how does the description come around? It's fitting, matches the lore...
Because anyone who's skilled at writing can make it up on their own and make it fit. Regardless of how great and fitting it sounds, it still doesn't change the fact that unless it was stated in/by an official source, it's not official within the universe.
I don't have the original trilogy of books with me, but I'm fairly sure in fall of Reach John makes a statement about it.
I'm currently skimming the book now to confirm. As it stands the book directly contradicts the claims of Spartans having a specialized neural interface. Page 281 of the reissue:
A moment later, Dr. Halsey entered. "This will just take a moment, Master Chief. We're going to upgrade a few components in your standard-issue neural interface. Lie back and remain still, please."
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And as we should all know, the reason why the Chief got that upgrade in the first place was to sync with Cortana. So in other words no other Spartan that we know of other than Black Four had received such upgrades to make them stand out amongst the standard issue neural lace of other personnel making the notion of a unique so-called "SPARTAN neural interface" throughout the ranks of the S-IIs, absurd.
But still, standard issue. Does imply that most, if not all UNSC personnel get it. Though the spartan neural interface bit might be from the upgrade in halo wars? I've seen other pages doing things like that.Or it is the standard issue implant that ship captains get.
And, as stated in the waypoint VISR page (this link was already in the OP):The Visual Intelligence System Reconnaissance Class, or VISR, is one of these, now used by a wide spectrum of Special Operations personnel. Unlike the variant used by SPARTAN-II super-soldiers, there is no neural interface prerequisite to the VISR. Despite this, it operates in a very similar manner to the heads-up display incorporated into the Mark V and Mark VI suites of MJOLNIR software.
So, it is "used by a wide spectrum of Special Operations personnel" and doesn't require neural interface. Doesn't that imply that most SpecOps personnel don't have the neural interface?
EDIT: Also, as I said above, if people get their HUD on their eyes, why the the green eyepiece exists? (Don't say it shows stuff that they don't see in their brain, it doesn't make sense to show only few things when you could "show" it all) And it's clearly not for protection, as it covers only one eye.
[Edited on 07.04.2011 11:26 AM PDT]