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Posted by: thebobafettest
Posted by: superiorarsenal
Here is a fun quote for all you "S-IIIs are just as physically capable as S-IIs":
Halo Glasslands pg 206
This was always the moment when Mendez fully appreciated just how different a Spartan-II was from a regular soldier and even from the Spartan-IIIs. He'd seen it hundreds, even thousands of times, but it was still sobering to watch a human being in a power-assisted suit accelerate to nearly sixty kilometers and hour and keep going.
Well yeah, as the SII in question was in MJOLNIR, and the SIII's had SPI armor.
MJOLNIR is much better than SPI, so it's not really a fair comparison.
just how different a Spartan-II was from a regular soldier and even from the Spartan-IIIs.
He was clearly talking about them in terms of their physical and soldierly traits. He only mentioned the MJOLNIR in the end because he was separetly admiring their speed with MJOLNIR. A fully grown S-II without armor can hit 50kph-60kph and hold that for probably 20 seconds or so. WITH MJOLNIR they can maintain that pace for much longer, with their max speed approaching 60MPH.
Also, for the genes, Halsey screened the 800 worlds that the UNSC controlled, and got 150 total that qualified. Ackerson screened the refugees of planets that had been "glassed", but managed to get TWICE as many as Halsey got, multiple times. This shows how different the gene selection was. Halsey had a MUCH MUCH greater population to take from, but only got 150. Ackerson had a MUCH MUCH smaller population to take from and got 300, multiple times.
The GENES is what determines the effects of the bioaugmentations. S-IIs literally had the best genes available, probably verging on "perfect". This caused much greater effects from the augmentation process. An example would be the reaction time. The label was 300% boost, the S-IIs got a 1400% boost. You know why? It was their GENES. The S-IIIs had a much wider gene pool. They still had restrictions, but were not nearly as tight as the S-IIs. This would cause a SLIGHT boost from the labels, but nowhere near the IIs. However, some S-IIIs exhibited the genes of the S-IIs. This means they got the same level of effects. They were taken out from the rest, equipped with MJOLNIR, and given S-II-like missions and dubbed NOBLE Team.
BTW, can anybody explain how INJECTIONS grafted ceramics onto the S-IIIs' bones? Is that even possible?