- PlasmaSnake893
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Because they were some of the best of the S-IIIs. They got sent on high-risk missions. But yeah, let's give the best soldiers crappy SPI armor. Great logic.
Who made the argument the best soldiers should get crappy SPI armor? I already said I was probably missing something obvious. I was unaware they were the best of the S-IIIs. If they were, that's pretty disappointing.
You say the broke a rule that wasn't even a rule.
Oh yes, it was a written rule. I have a copy of the the 2009 edition of "117 Rules of Halo Canon: A Bungie Employee's Guide of Dos and Don'ts". Please, take everything I say by the strictest of dictionary definitions and don't even consider the possibility that any colloquial applications of the words exist, because that's how communication works.
I was just trying to communicate to you that, in the Halo universe, there existed the idea that S-IIIs use cheaper SPI armor because Spartan II armor was too expensive. This rule (oh I'm sorry, pattern? Situation? Choose your own adventure, I guess.) was followed until we got to Halo Reach, where Bungie wanted to have their cake and eat it by having you not play as a Spartan II while basically playing as a Spartan II. So they slapped power armor onto these S-IIIs.
So, no, [insert deity here] didn't come down and say "Thou shalt not put power armor on S-IIIs", but still, you had this situation in the Halo universe that Bungie just decided to throw away just because they can. I don't even really care that the S-IIIs got to use the power armor...whatever. I just dislike Bungie's reasons for doing so, and I find the method of creating Spartan II/ODST hybrids that don't even fit in with the rest of their class to be messy and unnecessary.
Even if they got rid of currency, the technology and resources aren't all there.
Maybe, but I'm pretty sure greenbacks were the biggest factor.