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Posted by: Tury07
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Can nobody comphrend the fact the S3 augmentations were cheaper, and safer due to medical advances that in no way made the end results worse? Seriously, I've yet to see any proof the results were rose.
Just like SPI armor was supposed to be as effective as mjolnir right? Ackerson cut all sorts of corners, I can only imagine but what I do know is that the S-III candidates weren't the cream of the crop genetically.
Ghosts of Onyx page 67-68:
..."Kurt discovered they didn't match the perfect psychological and genetic markers set in Dr. Halsey's original selection protocols."... "These recruits wouldn't be anything like himself, John, Kelly, or any of the original Spartan-II candidates."
They were augmented, with cheaper stuff. Better? Who knows, but what we do know doesn't look like it led to better results. The augments work with what you have and genetically they were inferior to the S-II's. Kelly was already fast but it made her faster, sam was already tall but he got taller. The S-III's couldn't have gotten equal results cause of their own genetics.
I don't really think that anyone person in here is entirely right about the argument between the quality of the SIIs and the SIIIs, but this post is accurate. The majority of the IIIs are not anywhere near the genetics of the IIs and that will make them inferior in some ways, however they're not automatically inferior to the IIs just because they're a Spartan III. And that is certainly not true of Noble Team. The teams like Noble were taken out of the suicide missions and put into special teams because they were exactly the same as the SIIs or pretty damn well near it.
So you have no basis saying that Noble Team is inferior to Blue Team because the majority of the Spartan IIIs don't match up to the genetic parameters of the Spartan II program. And the augmentations are exactly the same. Neither the augmentations used on the IIIs or the IIs is better, except in the sense that those used on the IIIs provided a much, much, much higher survival rate, but even that had more to do with advances in medicine and technology than the catalysts of the augments themselves.