And by that, I mean why doesn’t every soldier of the UNSC receive some type of augmentation? The Soartan-III and IV augmentation procedures have 0% fatality rates. I know that people with the right “genes” get the most out of the enhancements, and that they are fairly expensive. But why is it out of the question that every soldier receive at least the improved night vision or enhanced reflexes enhancements? It’d make the UNSC twice as effective.
NOTE: I’m not talking about the MJOLNIR armor, just the augmentations.
Since the equipment used for Spartan IVs is EXTREMELY expensive, and the augmentations still somewhat require the correct gene-set - obviously not everyone gets to be a Spartan IV.
> Since the equipment used for Spartan IVs is EXTREMELY expensive, and the augmentations still somewhat require the correct gene-set - obviously not everyone gets to be a Spartan IV.
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> It’s only the best of the best.
I not talking about the MJOLNIR armor, just the enhancements. Even if it’s just the muscle or bone enhancements, shouldn’t every soldier get something since there’s no risk? It would make the UNSC twice as effective.
> > Since the equipment used for Spartan IVs is EXTREMELY expensive, and the augmentations still somewhat require the correct gene-set - obviously not everyone gets to be a Spartan IV.
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> > It’s only the best of the best.
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> I not talking about the MJOLNIR armor, just the enhancements. Even if it’s just the muscle or bone enhancements, shouldn’t every soldier get something since there’s no risk? It would make the UNSC twice as effective.
It’s still extraordinarily expensive, even with just the augmentations. And also, they aren’t 100% safe either.
> > > Since the equipment used for Spartan IVs is EXTREMELY expensive, and the augmentations still somewhat require the correct gene-set - obviously not everyone gets to be a Spartan IV.
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> > > It’s only the best of the best.
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> > I not talking about the MJOLNIR armor, just the enhancements. Even if it’s just the muscle or bone enhancements, shouldn’t every soldier get something since there’s no risk? It would make the UNSC twice as effective.
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> It’s still extraordinarily expensive, even with just the augmentations. And also, they aren’t 100% safe either.
What if they could choose just one or a few enhancements, such as improved eyesight or enhanced reflexes. I just feel the UNSC is at the point where every soldier (or at least every SpecOps soldier) should receive some kind of augmentation.
Everyone becoming a Spartan is the logical conclusion of the Spartan IV program, and Ackerson’s end-goal, as well as the thematic focus of the story, with humanity’s “next step” in evolution being the Spartans.
> > > > Since the equipment used for Spartan IVs is EXTREMELY expensive, and the augmentations still somewhat require the correct gene-set - obviously not everyone gets to be a Spartan IV.
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> > > > It’s only the best of the best.
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> > > I not talking about the MJOLNIR armor, just the enhancements. Even if it’s just the muscle or bone enhancements, shouldn’t every soldier get something since there’s no risk? It would make the UNSC twice as effective.
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> > It’s still extraordinarily expensive, even with just the augmentations. And also, they aren’t 100% safe either.
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> What if they could choose just one or a few enhancements, such as improved eyesight or enhanced reflexes. I just feel the UNSC is at the point where every soldier (or at least every SpecOps soldier) should receive some kind of augmentation.
I agree with you, I’ve thought about it for a while. Even if every human had the body of a Spartan, or even most. We would be a race of 7 - 8ft tall superhumans, Elites wouldn’t be able to call us weak little parasites any more and we would be able to deal real damage, even civilians. Just give normal soldiers the armor of Marines from Halo wars, that looked more like combat skins, with a few modern upgrades to make them fit the time frame.
Have engineers tinker with the suits a little bit, and they would be amazing. Also it would cost less. Ideally, the drugs should be taken as a matter of security and necessity, they should be given to children with parental consent or guardian consent. The only reason why I say children, is because of how the augmentations effect the body positively if given to the subject at a young age. It wouldn’t be harmful, it would just make humans as a whole… better.
Plus, it should be fairly easy to distribute given that there are only 300 million humans left after the human covenant war, and once the DNA has been altered, the genes are set forever and will be carried over to the children. So really, they would only have to administer the drugs to one generation and that would be it, humans would have evolved… so to speak.
> Plus, it should be fairly easy to distribute given that <mark>there are only 300 million humans left after the human covenant war</mark>, and once the DNA has been altered, the genes are set forever and will be carried over to the children. So really, they would only have to administer the drugs to one generation and that would be it, humans would have evolved… so to speak.
I’m pretty sure that number is closer to 13 billion. The current US population is well in excess of 300 million. Given that most of Earth survived the various battles intact, we can safely assume at least 6-7 billion made it through the war.
> > Plus, it should be fairly easy to distribute given that <mark>there are only 300 million humans left after the human covenant war</mark>, and once the DNA has been altered, the genes are set forever and will be carried over to the children. So really, they would only have to administer the drugs to one generation and that would be it, humans would have evolved… so to speak.
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> I’m pretty sure that number is closer to 13 billion. The current US population is well in excess of 300 million. Given that most of Earth survived the various battles intact, we can safely assume at least 6-7 billion made it through the war.
Well the population of Earth was cut down to about 200,000,000 after the Human-Covenant War, but with Human Colonies now being raised “by the hundreds,” I’m sure that the total Human Population has skyrocketed to within the billions.
First i would like to say that it is obvious with the opening scene of Halo 4 that and new info about the Flood returning that the only way we will fight them off is by making all of humanity Spartans and winning with Cortana’s other solution.
Also it is totally BS how humanity became a super power in 4 years. We lost everything in the war. There is not way that in 4 years that we can repopulate enough to challenge the Covenant. Even if all of humanity is made up of Spartans. because we didn’t fight the entire Covenant in the war. Maybe about a 4th of their might was pushed at us near the end just because they were pissed that we have yet to get stomped out.
> First i would like to say that it is obvious with the opening scene of Halo 4 that and new info about the Flood returning that the only way we will fight them off is by making all of humanity Spartans and winning with Cortana’s other solution.
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> Also it is totally BS how humanity became a super power in 4 years. We lost everything in the war. There is not way that in 4 years that we can repopulate enough to challenge the Covenant. Even if all of humanity is made up of Spartans. because we didn’t fight the entire Covenant in the war. Maybe about a 4th of their might was pushed at us near the end just because they were pissed that we have yet to get stomped out.
Well, humanity did find a treasure trove of Forerunner tech after the war.
They probably have to endure training that would make a navy seal cry. Not to mention they probably have to be in the top 0.5% of the military to even be considered… and all that cheddar…
> Also it is totally BS how humanity became a super power in 4 years. We lost everything in the war. There is not way that in 4 years that we can repopulate enough to challenge the Covenant. Even if all of humanity is made up of Spartans. because we didn’t fight the entire Covenant in the war. Maybe about a 4th of their might was pushed at us near the end just because they were pissed that we have yet to get stomped out.
Well, the Forerunners wanted humanity to take over. As their rightful heirs, humans were altered to have easier access to Forerunner tech. This made developments like the UNSC Infinity and S-IV programs rather easy for us as compared to the Covenant. We have even be able to adapt Forerunner technology into the MJOLNIR Gen-2 armor. Simply put, humanity has a pre-programemd edge that the Covenant can’t compete with. While the UNSC was caught unprepared to the Covenant, the win was pre-determiend by the Librarian’s meddling. Not the best story-telling, but it is what it is. Humanity had to face down the Didact, so humanity had to beat the Covenant, which means humanity has to develop the S-II program, and so on.
> They probably have to endure training that would make a navy seal cry. Not to mention they probably have to be in the top 0.5% of the military to even be considered… and all that cheddar…
Even for something as simple as improved night vision and enhanced senses?
They are probably still very dangerous procedures. This is likely going to be a slow process that requires several generations of work and refinement, not to mention wrangling with a whole mess of new moral and ethical issues. Whether or not we have the time is the big question.
> > Also it is totally BS how humanity became a super power in 4 years. We lost everything in the war. There is not way that in 4 years that we can repopulate enough to challenge the Covenant. Even if all of humanity is made up of Spartans. because we didn’t fight the entire Covenant in the war. Maybe about a 4th of their might was pushed at us near the end just because they were pissed that we have yet to get stomped out.
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> Well, the Forerunners wanted humanity to take over. As their rightful heirs, humans were altered to have easier access to Forerunner tech. This made developments like the UNSC Infinity and S-IV programs rather easy for us as compared to the Covenant. We have even be able to adapt Forerunner technology into the MJOLNIR Gen-2 armor. Simply put, humanity has a pre-programemd edge that the Covenant can’t compete with. While the UNSC was caught unprepared to the Covenant, the win was pre-determiend by the Librarian’s meddling. Not the best story-telling, but it is what it is. Humanity had to face down the Didact, so humanity had to beat the Covenant, which means humanity has to develop the S-II program, and so on.
That tech doesn’t give us people to fight the wars. The Prometheans are the most elite fighting force in the galaxy and look at what happened to them in halo 4. Forerunner tech is amazing but it can be beaten by the Covenant as shown and by humanity. The tech we got will only get us so far in 4 years that hte Covenant has had 5000 observe. We are just simply not experienced enough to just jump feet first into Forerunner Tech. Thank goodness we have the huragok otherwise we’ be -Yoinked!-. But like is aid above the numbers we lost and the short time to read the Forerunner Tech isn’t good enough just for us to win, a war.
Really look at the Infinity our biggest and move powerful ship and yet a Covenant Super Carrier would waste it without a doubt. Even thought it has a crew of 17,00 of our best it still got its -Yoink- kicked and if it wasn’t for MC and Crimson the ship would of been lost. We can’t fight another war, so far as i have seen we can only buy time which we need to get a better understanding of the Forerunners and use their tech. But i’m just rambling on.
Outside of costs, who’s to say you’re not giving access of substantial power to people who could possibly rebel against the UNSC or even cause primal chaos?