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Posted by: ElementalRunner
Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.
omg not realistic stop game production plz
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: CoolCJ24
Posted by: crazyfoomandude
Spartan IV's are comprised of adult volunteers. Veterans of the Human/Covenant war, such as ODST's and Marines. Also, some Spartan III's are being made into/training Spartan IV's.
Spartan IV's don't have the intense augmentations of the Spartan II's or III's, so they have a weaker version of MJOLNIR. But they all have it. No SPI.
They are trained and even created on the UNSC Infinity. Also, there numbers are in the high thousands. Which fulfilled the wish of Colonel Ackerson who wanted hundreds of thousands of super soldiers to fight the Covenant.
Most of this is wrong, I'm afraid.
SPARTAN-IVs are augmented, but we dont know how yet. That MJOLNIR is not weaker, it's just lighter due to improvements in the technology behind it (it's MJOLNIR GEN2, whereas the SPARTAN-IIs have been using MJOLNIR GEN1).
The SPARTAN-IVs are not created on the Infinity, they are merely stationed there. They are made from the absolute best ODST/special forces UNSC soldiers, and this does not allow for thousands of them. It allows for maybe more than hundred, sure, but not a thousand....
We don't know any more about the exact number of IV's than we do the procedures for augmenting them, and so can say just as much about it: nothing.
Exactly what was required to be accepted as a Spartan IV once you applied (or did they ask?) we don't know. What constitutes "the best?".
What consitutes the best? I can't pretend to know, but I'd assume that they must fulfill strict criteria, maybe such as:
- Age between 22-30, perhaps. You don't want SPARTAN-IVs starting service above 30 or it's a waste of time; below 22, they don't have a chance of having enough combat experience, assuming one signs up at 18 years old.
- Enough combat experience, so pretty much only recruiting from special ops groups. You want your candidates to have an elite background so that you might only have to do 1 or 2 additional years of Spartan training before augmentation.
- Good genetic matches; you might as well pick the soldiers who tick all the right boxes ticked.
Just theorising of course, but that's how I imagine it to be.