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Spartans are.
Or the equivalent to what the Spartan II project has created over the years. Does this make sense to anybody else? In "The Flood" Halo book, 343 GS says to the Chief that his armor needs to be upgraded, that it's not as good of a version as it could be, hinting that someone has been there before with better armor than him. Also, 343 believes he has talked to MC, or someone like him, when he says "when you asked me before what I would do..."
Since we know that a normal human can NOT wear the MJOLNIR armor without crushing their own limbs and organs, it makes sense. A lot of people seem to think that the ForeRunners were humans originally, but I'm starting to think that the ForeRunners were in actuality equivalent to Spartans in terms of intelligence and physical feats, especially if they were wearing MJOLNIR armor.
Also, both MC (in "The Flood") and Spartan Fred (in "First Strike"), both find something familiar about ForeRunner technology- MC in Halo, and Fred in the tunnels beneath Reach. Both of them seem to instinctively know how to use ForeRunner (and for Fred, Covenant technology in other circumstances, which was based off of ForeRunner tech) technology, and are rather competent unknowingly with it. They are even both surprised by this. Also, I don't recall humans feeling this way with ForeRunner artificats or technology- only Spartans.
So- that's my theory. Spartans, through experimentation, have become in evolution what the ForeRunners were.
[Edited on 6/4/2006]