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5 years and counting on Bungie. I feel old and worthless.
Posted by: Adragalus
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Posted by: Adragalus
S-IIIs have the exact same augs as the S-IIs, just delivered differently. S-IIs were surgically altered, while S-IIIs received these same augmentations through chemicals and drugs, as well as a set of 3 drugs to prevent shock and psychosis.
The main distinction lies in the length of their training, and in the fact that the S-IIIs lack the platinum HGH catalyst present in S-IIs, making them slightly smaller in stature.
S-IIs had no "mechanical" augmentations.
Headhunters didn't survive twice, as there are in total only two known survivors of Alpha and Beta company operations. Instead, Headhunters and Noble team etc. were pulled out of company training and segregated into different units such as the Headhunters.What about the physical augmentation that the S-II's received that made their skeletal structures practically indestructible?
S-III's obviously didn't have that, but it was mostly ignored in Halo CE.They got it too, but instead of being grafted in sheets or whatever through invasive surgery, the ceramic ossification was applied through "electroplating," if you will, using drugs to apply in on a molecular level.
It's not ignored in CE. A line from Fall of Reach when the S-IIs storm an Insurrectionist base, the Chief looks down an elevator shaft and thinks something like "A thirty-meter plunge into complete blackness: his bones wouldn't break, but his organs might rupture, and there would be severe internal trauma."
Leap off of a cliff in CE, and you dislocate your legs and jam your tibia up into your ribcage. Unbreakable bones or not, that'll kill you.
Yea, exactly. The Mark V armour couldn't withstand massive falls without the armour being locked, as told in The Fall of Reach. That is why in Halo Reach there is fall damage.
In Halo 2, 3 and 4 in single player you use Mark VI, which can withstand massive falls, to a certain degree.
Master Chief withstood a fall at the start of Halo 3 that can be compared to the Spartans in free fall in the Fall of Reach. It shows shows how the newer armour can withstand greater falls. In the book, the Spartans with Mark V armour on suffered losses, and at the least ruptured internal organs.
And Spartan II's could all be the same size as Jorge, who knows? It could definitely show how different the II's and III's are from eachother.
[Edited on 07.13.2012 9:34 PM PDT]