> I think “The forerunners planned it all along” is way more plausible than “He’s just that lucky”. Luck is called bad writing by most professionals, and the original trilogy reeked of it. I’ll take forerunner planning any day over it.
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> Also, Halsey is a monster. She didn’t create the Spartans to fight the Covenant, she created the Spartans to oppress other humans, and said Spartans were created by cruel experiments and augmentations on children. Regardless of her sympathy for her subjects/victims, she has no regrets in her actions. That’s the mark of a psychopath.
Yes because some random women somehow planned for every little thing to happen eons in advanced is a very good idea.
First off halsey followed up on the ORION program which originally used adults but they didn’t take. They weren’t “experiments” because they weren’t constantly doing it to others, they were created as a last resort against a terrorist group that threatened the stability of our race.
Um if sticking by your decisions regardless of the outcome is a sign of a psychopath then I am one and I am sure you did think (while you didn’t like) you stuck by them. That is called owning up to what you did and not being sorry just because other people didn’t like your actions. You do understand that a few dozen children needed to save all of humanity is probably the least cost in any sc-fi universe right? In the Enders universe they were training thousands of kids in hopes at least a few of them would be good.
May i mention that Everything that happened was the work of the assembly? They started the rebellion, they called for the spartan project to be started, they called for the war to be postponed for human advantage, they did everything. The only thing the assembly didn’t do was give up humanites navel stronghold for a stupid plan in which got 700,000,000 people killed.
So you are seriously trying to argue that halsey should be persecuted for being used as a pawn in the grand scheme created to protect us? That a few dozen children used and stopped a massive civil war is somehow more important than the millions of lives already lost before them and after? Ar the lives of 75 children more important than the lives of the millions of others that died because the innies were nuking completely random planets? Are the lives of 75 child more important than the children that were killed when the covenant attacked worlds and when maggie let reach fall?
If they aren’t more important then stop making it seem like they were some angel children that deserved pampering while others wondered what would happen to them in the next day. Because of the sacrifices and actions of those children which were spartan IIs humanity was saved by two threats. How about we just go back in time and stop the spartan II project from happening. That way instead of a few dozen children not having normal lives millions will have been killed due to a civil war and the fighting there after. Lets have others be raised to avenge them and lets promote humanity fighting among themselves world to world.
Lets have an alien threat arrive that will pick off human colonies world by world with nothing to stop them because the innies won the war and each planet fights for itself. Lets have all those innocent children be stabbed with energy swords,swallowed by brutes, stomped on by hunters, gnarled at by jackals and grunts; Have them boiled to atoms by plasma bombardment, ripped apart by drones, and smacked around by elites.
That is better. Having billions of children killed because the sacrifice of a few lives is too great is better than not making any kind of sacrifice. You think you are doing a good job by trying to go against halsey’s actions? Well you aren’t, you are disrespecting and tarnishing the sacrifices that the children made in being so selfish that you wouldn’t be the needs of a few dozen over the entire human race. Because of the spartan II program no child has to ever make such a sacrifice ever again. because of the spartan II program humanity is still at whole and still united. BECAUSE of the spartan II program humanity now has the technology to ensure they they will not have to live in fear of destabilizing from within or being annihilated from above.
Not a single spartan II in service would approve of all this politician talk about “ethics” and how things could have been. Halsey has more stone than majority of you for being able to make a pragmatic decision and stick with it even if she has her own demons about it. Making a decision is far better and more respectable than not making one because you are afraid it isn’t the “right” one.