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Posted by: superiorarsenal
Posted by: Plasma Prestige
doesn't change the fact that the only reason she was even looking at him was because of his genes. She means by that quote, that though they may have the REQUIRED genes, emphasis on REQUIRED, they could have had a horrible up-brining, or were in an accident that crippled them. Environmental factors do apply, but ultimately it was the S-IIs genes that was why Halsey was looking at them.
Yes, but the point is that genes are not everything; you have gone as far as saying that the genes are the difference between who can and cannot wear MJOLNIR.
This is all Nature vs. Nurture.
HOWEVER
If all S-IIs and all S-IIIs had roughly the same training(some is based on specialization, and some varience between IIs and IIIs) and if all SPARTANs try to preform and train the same(As hard and as best they can), then you can eliminate the nurture part. The thing that will set them apart from their peers will be their genes.
Then in Bioaugmentation, nurture holds ABSOLUTELY NO standing when it comes to bioaugmentations. Genes are the ONLY factors on the results, maybe with the exception of being fit aswell(Which all SPARTANs are). Better genes give better results. Certain people are predisposed to take them better. Hence why people who don't have the right genes get killed. Those that have perfect genes get even better effects, as evident by the difference of the labels and the results for the S-II project.
SPARTANs:
Train the same
Train as hard as they can
Preform the best they can
So if they all train and preform the best they can, what would set them apart from eachother?
GENES
Some people are just born faster, stronger, and/or smarter than others. It also makes it easier for them to train, because their body got the right combination for whatever they are training. This gives them the advantage over those that are not genetically "designed" for the task.
All -IIs and S-IIIs are fully capable of wearing MJOLNIR armor. They have the ceramic ossification, therefore their skeletons are strong enough to wear it. The S-IIs were chosen for their genes because the program was deigned to make spartans the best possible soldiers, so every advantage, however slight (or great) was used. Furthermore, the reason why so many S-IIs died had nothing to do with their genes. The procedures, which involved dangerous surgery and equally dangerous injections, is what killed or severely disabled all those in question. Furthermore, the S-IIIs had a 100% success rate with the augmentations because there was no surgery involved; it was all injections. Furthermore, if we want to get into more specific details, Project ORION had room for 75 candidates only. Halsey herself said (in Fall of Reach) that getting into the program was going to be equal parts luck as it was genes. This means that even some S-IIs didn't have the best genes from the candidate pool. Does that hamper their ability to wear MJOLNIR? No, it doesn't. They have the augmentations, they can wear the armor, and no matter how "perfect" their genes are, it will make no difference. Even the S-IIIs were like Olympic athletes, and they didn't have "perfect genes". They were smaller, but that was most likely do to a lack of thyroid implant that the S-IIs got. As for training, muscles can adapt and change to whatever fibre type is needed for the given demand (i.e., endurance running, more slow-twitch fibres). In conclusion, S-IIIs are just as capable as S-IIs.