- superiorarsenal
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Posted by: UphillMercury
Posted by: superiorarsenal
Well, I have found the quote that seals the deal on the S-III genetic requirements, as well as hinting on the effects of the augs.
Halo: Glasslands pg 269-270
"Well, you know we didn't select them on the basis of perfect genomes," he said. Halsey had suspended the second tranche of the Spartan program because she'd run out of candidates with the deal genetic profile. She knew he wasn't going to let her forget it. "They were all orphans. No qualification beyond the Covenant slaughtering their entire family. We asked them if they wanted to get their revenge, and we took the ones who said yes." He put his cigar back in his belt pouch, but he was staring right into her face. "We took volunteers. We enhanced them some, but we took whatever we could get, and they turned out fine."
"No filtering at all?" A six-year old couldn't possibly understand combat enough to volunteer, but she didn't want to start a pissing contest with him over ethics, not in front of the Spartans. "Not even genetic screening?"
"You think it's all about genes, Doctor? The Spartans that I trained were made from random, raw, imperfect huumanity. But by God, they were motivated. And that's what it's all about. A state of mind."
Halsey wanted to resist a debate, but if she'd just nodded and smiled it would make him just as angry. "If that were true, then we wouldn't have needed the Spartan program. Exceptional genes create an advantage in any field."
What I get from this:
1)Very little, if any, genetic requirements
2)enhanced them SOME, indicating they did not recieve anywhere close to the effects the S-IIs had
THe excepton of course would be NOBLE Team, as they had S-II genes. I highly doubt, after taking that quote into account, that a regular S-III could even wear MJOLNIR. NOBLE Team could because they got the same effects that the IIs did.
There weren't any genetic requirements for S-IIIs.The only requirements were that 1. They were orphans and 2. They wanted revenge against the Covenant.
As for the enhancements, when comparing the S-II augmentations to the S-III augmentations, it is clear that the only differences between the two are the fact that the S-IIIs had their frontal lobes altered to increase aggression levels. Project CHRYSANTHEMUM had a 100% success rate because no surgery was involved whatsoever; everything was injected. This allowed for much safer augmentation procedures, while still giving the S-IIIs equivelent augmentations to that of the S-IIS. As for Noble Team, they did not have "S-II genes", but were found to be better soldiers than their comrades, similar to but seperate from the S-III Headhunters. They were also a special operations squad, and as such, were deployed with MJOLNIR variants in lieu of cheap SPI armour in order to improve their effectiveness in the field.
I swear to god that people just straight up ignore things. NOBLE was taken out because the augmentations effected them the same as the S-IIs, BECAUSE THEY HAD THE SAME TYPE OF GENES. THe effects of the augmentation proccess are heavily dpendant on genes. The label for one aug was 300% reaction increase, the S-IIs got roughly a 1400% increase. Know why? BETTER GENES!
As shown by my quote, S-IIIs did not come close to the S-IIs' gene requirements. This would cause the effects of the augmentation to have less of an effect than the S-IIs got. Hence Mendez's notice of how different S-IIs are from the IIIs, and his quote "enhanced them SOME."
Shall we not mention Kurt's letter, in which he says that NOBLE had the markers that would have qualified them for the S-II project? Which PERFECTLY explains why they were specifically taken out, given MJOLNIR, and treated like a S-II squad.