I know a bunch of people will hate me for this and slap me upside the head from all sides, but hear me out. As much as I love Halo’s universe and most aspects of its lore, one thing that just irks me is how the Spartan-IIs origins slightly take away from their heroism IMO.
Finding out after playing all these games and deciding to read up on the backstory that Spartans weren’t created to fight the Covenant, but to kill Rebels kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. Because ya know, kidnapping kids and making them into killing machines wasn’t dark and morally-questionable enough on its own I suppose.
I can live with it, I’d just rather Spartans had been born through actual back-to-the-wall desperation instead of solely as government pawns that just so happened to be what humanity would need against the Covenant. That extra layer of “grimdark” just seems a bit unnecessary to me.
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> I know a bunch of people will hate me for this and slap me upside the head from all sides, but hear me out. As much as I love Halo’s universe and most aspects of its lore, one thing that just irks me is how the Spartan-IIs origins slightly take away from their heroism IMO.
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> Finding out after playing all these games and deciding to read up on the backstory that Spartans weren’t created to fight the Covenant, but to kill Rebels kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. Because ya know, kidnapping kids and making them into killing machines wasn’t dark and morally-questionable enough on its own I suppose.
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> I can live with it, I’d just rather Spartans had been born through actual back-to-the-wall desperation instead of solely as government pawns that just so happened to be what humanity would need against the Covenant. That extra layer of “grimdark” just seems a bit unnecessary to me.
While your opinion is perfectly respectable, it is slightly off. The UEG was facing the possibility of total collapse of earth rule, it quite literally was a back against the wall situation. Imagine if every outer colony had broken away leaving only the inner colonies to fend for themselves, a lot of these world’s were not prepared to become agricultural bases after creating their own colonies to do that for them. Not to mention that the UEG could see that it was inevitable for humanity to run into an inteligent alien species eventually ( while they did not find any sort of highly intelegent life before the covenant they had found world’s with life on them) and realized it would be better for a United humanity to face this potentially hostile species.
Oddly enough this doesn’t surprise me what so ever. We humans will do anything to get the upper edge on each other. Grant it some of us are good people and don’t do evil. A lot will do what they can to make sure they are on top.