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Posted by: Ruley117
hmm, good point.
For the uninitiated: 2's and 3's were igven hormone suppressants to reduce their sex drive but it seems 4's don't?
Maybe they're an even cheaper version of spartan than the 3's? as the 3's were supposed to be "the production line" of spartans, maybe the 4's are like walmart? i.e. fewer drugs and augmentations overall?
Actually that is inaccurate. Some of the augmentations had the risk of reducing sex drive...but it wasn't an intentional part of the program or one of the goals, merely a potential side-effect. There weren't hormone suppressors or anything administered intentionally to take it out. And we don't know much about how the IIIs' augmentations worked, except that they got all of the positives of the Spartan IIs without the possibility for the candidates getting killed in augmentation. I would imagine that because they changed the methods entirely they were able to trim out some of the potential side-effects as well, or reduce how much of it would happen if the side-effect does occur.
Actually the Spartan IVs are pretty much on par with the IIs considering they're outfitted in full Mjolnir armor. And the Spartan IIIs actually received all of the same augmentations as the Spartan IIs did, the augmentations themselves and augmenting wasn't what was expensive about the Spartan IIs, it was the whole thing with Mjolnir armor that made them expensive.
As for the question in the OP, considering that the IVs all consist of adult volunteers...I'd imagine that they would do their best to remove that possible side-effect. And they obviously do have a sex drive of at least normal levels as two guys in one of the Spartan Ops trailers made mention of "making the ladies of Rio feel safe"...if you know what I mean, and then one of those two guys tried to hit on Commander Palmer when first encountering before figuring out she was the leader.