Speed, agility, endurance, and so on always take center stage, and CQC scenarios often come down to technique and training over raw strength.īut it's the massively superhuman lifting and striking strength of the Spartans that largely necessitated the use of children in the augmentation procedure, and that only makes sense if the Spartans are expecting to have to wrestle with superhuman opponents. It's the principle of "why lift something super heavy, once, when you more often will need to lift something of moderate weight several times, and carry it long distances?" Raw lifting strength has its uses, but soldiers are most often trained to carry their gear over kilometers of rough terrain, then still have enough juice to engage in a tense combat encounter, all while maintaining mental focus to come out the other end alive. In training for performance in the context of a combat situation, movement, or carrying loads over long distances, muscular endurance will always take a greater emphasis over raw lifting power. This is probably most clearly seen in the strength enhancing augmentations that largely necessitated the use of children due to their ability to adapt to the growth hormones better. But the backstory that had them built to fight humans was only added later, and that carried the consequences of the Spartans being more nefarious in their design than perhaps intended. This, ultimately, comes down to the retroactive backstory the Spartans were given Bungie designed them as peers to the Covenant Elites, super soldiers meant to protect humanity against the Covenant. They were designed as warriors and line breakers when what they needed were infiltrators and agents. There is no Spartan deployment against the Insurrection ever recorded that had Spartans leverage their unique abilities against the Insurrection in a way only they could nothing they did couldn't have been achieved by a crack team of human ODSTs. And while those roles definitely would be needed in some of the most destructive theaters of war, they wouldn't ultimately be solving the wider problem of the Insurrection, which would have required them to dissolve their ability to organize resistance in the first place. They were designed as frontline warriors, force multipliers useful for breaking enemy sieges, spearheading a combat operation, or leveling the playing field against a superior opponent. The Spartans meanwhile are 6 foot 8 Amazon super beings that wear half ton armor with the durability of a tank and the subtlety of a fighter jet. This required discretion, careful recon, stealth, blending in and infiltrating key locations. The most effective tactics against the insurrection were clandestine operations targeting leadership and other key personnel, precision strikes against the insurrection's ability to maintain their resistance either through asset denial, enforcing disorganization, or cutting heads off the snake. The Spartan II's meanwhile are abysmal for the task they were built for. All they had to do was regroup, compare notes, and make improvements where it counted they were effective when they worked. The technology behind augmentation hadn’t advanced enough to be able to use volunteer soldiers. Should they have instead created another version of the Orion Project, with adult's whom want to join? What are your thoughts? Do you think the Spartan II's were a good idea against the Insurrection, and could they have helped the UNSC win the war if the Covenant didn't show up? Even if the Spartan IIs were able to kill all of the current Innie leaders/cells, more would rise up. A belief that Mankind must be united forevermore and controlled by the UEG, no more having different political/government factions outside of the UEG reach. It's hard to kill an ideology.and the UNSC was fighting for a dream that could never hold. After all, not even having many of there worlds glassed by the Covenant, ended the movement, since they still exist post Halo 3. If they stick to replacing their losses, it would take years for new spartans (if they keep to training children) to come about.Īlso I get the feeling that if Operation Trebuchet was not paused because of the Covenant, the Spartans could still not truly stop the Insurrection. Spartans of course can die, even by human hands. The whole kidnapping children (and killing some in experiments) could be used as justified propaganda against the UNSC, if some Innies ever found out. Of course they were great against the Covenant, but what if the UNSC never encountered those aliens, and the Spartans were only focused on killing rebels? When it comes to fighting the Insurrection and putting an end to that threat for the UNSC.
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