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Subject: Short Story Headhunters

Expressing my strong liberal views without shame. Favorite quotes below:

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"One starts to live when he can live outside himself."

- Albert Einstein

I've recently read the short story headhunters, and have a couple of questions for those who've read it.

1) Does the mission that Roland and Jonah were assigned to take place before the annihilation of Alpha Company?

This next part isn't necessarily isn't a question, but regardless:

I found there to be some inconsistencies with the physiology of the headhunters to that of the normal Spartan IIIs. Recall in Ghosts of Onyx that Kelly pulls on the arm of Holly, while Kelly is wearing MJOLNIR and Holly SPI, and Kelly fails to rip her arm from its socket. Recall in Headhunters that those special Sangheili that ambush the headhunters are able to easily dislocate and "man handle" Jonah with ease.

I realize that with a Universe as vast as Halo is becoming, everything won't match up, but this is pretty strange. I'm assuming those Elites were about as strong as a Spartan in MJOLNIR and that Jonah has SPI armor on at least.

Thoughts?

  • 08.05.2011 2:48 AM PDT

"Concise and devoid of elegance...what I have come to expect from human communication"-Endless Summer

Maybe Jonah was off-guard?

  • 08.05.2011 2:54 AM PDT

We're never what we invent or intend.

It has to take place before Alpha Company's death, because Headhunters are specified as being different from the standard sacrificial S-IIIs.

As for the dislocation thing, its possible that Kelly wasn't specifically trying to dislocate the arm, while the Elite most probably was.

  • 08.05.2011 3:50 AM PDT

Don't -blam!- with Kerser!

Posted by: Plasma Prestige
I've recently read the short story headhunters, and have a couple of questions for those who've read it.

1) Does the mission that Roland and Jonah were assigned to take place before the annihilation of Alpha Company?

This next part isn't necessarily isn't a question, but regardless:

I found there to be some inconsistencies with the physiology of the headhunters to that of the normal Spartan IIIs. Recall in Ghosts of Onyx that Kelly pulls on the arm of Holly, while Kelly is wearing MJOLNIR and Holly SPI, and Kelly fails to rip her arm from its socket. Recall in Headhunters that those special Sangheili that ambush the headhunters are able to easily dislocate and "man handle" Jonah with ease.

I realize that with a Universe as vast as Halo is becoming, everything won't match up, but this is pretty strange. I'm assuming those Elites were about as strong as a Spartan in MJOLNIR and that Jonah has SPI armor on at least.

Thoughts?


They were a new breed of elites with special armor (Aka Spec Ops). Normal elites are just as strong as spartans in Close range.

  • 08.05.2011 4:22 AM PDT