When the alien menace is defeated. Everything goes back to business as usual. They need to make a game about that where they try to take out Master Chief after his usefulness ends.
@@JackCrossSama I doubt that will ever happen, considering they keep contriving new reasons to fight aliens even though the Covenant is dead. Also wasn't the UNSC hunting down Master Chief basically the plot of 5?
@goldlight1322 yes and no, UNSC was hunting chief because he went awal and they framed him for assassination, also the covenant isn't dead the human covent war ended in halo 3 but the covenant was taken over by the banished.
@@GoldLight73technically chief was still working for the UNSC up until the reveal that Cortana was still “alive” and then went rogue, so they deployed a unit to arrest him (dumbest plot line ever)
The SPARTAN IIIs were WAR orphans, who were essentially given the enhancements and armour and basically told, "Go get your payback. If you live, you'll go again. And again. And again, until you die."
They had barely any enhancements or armour and were still very young when they were deployed. They were the mass production model compared to the super prototypes. They were then also used...poorly.
@weareharbinger914 It's part of why SPARTAN-B312 was seen as something of an aberration among the other III's, seeing as they're one of only two SPARTANS classified as Hyper Lethal.
@@GreedyDrunk92 Their genetic augmentations caused their bodies to grow and mature at a faster rate, allowing them to have the muscular bodies of an 18 year old at the just the age of 14 years... To what other ends this alteration goes, I cannot say for certain
@@GreedyDrunk92 they were physically more mature, yet mentally still young teens. There's one book where early teen master chief, fresh out of augmentations, no armor, kills 3 adult ODSTs (by accident) in the gym because they were trying to pick a fight with a "teen" and they couldn't believe that the SPARTAN 2 kids could be that strong.
Jorge was the only spartan 2 on noble team. Its kinda ironic that in the end he sacrificed himself instead of the covenant killing him like the rest of the III's (except jun)
Dr Halsey is still a figure of controversy because of the Spartan programme and how a lot of the 2s call her mom just because she was the closest thing.
Technically, 150 were chosen, 75 were conscripted, and 33 survived augmentation. By the end of the war, there were about 16 spartan 2s left, give or take a couple.
By my tally, there are 15 known surviving Spartan-II's, with a further 4 possibly surviving: Known Active: Blue Team - John-117, Frederic-104, Kelly-087, Linda-058 Gray Team - Jai-006, Adrianna-111, Mike-120 Omega Team - Leon-011, August-099, Robert-025 Red Team - Jerome-092, Alice-130, Douglas-042 Kilo-5 - Naomi-010 Status Unknown (as of 2560): Silver Team - Vannak-134, Kai-125, Riz-028; active as of 2540 Joseph-122; last seen 2525 Retired: Maria-062; transferred to UNSC reserves, last seen working at SWC Seongnam in 2552
@@johnhalo-ug4go Silver is canon, actually, even if the Silver Timeline isn't. Kai, Riz, and Vannak were drawn from a pre-existing list of Spartan-II's that 343I has. Every Spartan-II that is, was, or will be is drawn from that list. Furthermore, a recent Canon Fodder article titled "If They Want Lore, We'll Give 'Em Lore!" revealed that they were the other three Spartans on Arcadia with Omega Team, alongside Leon, August, and Robert, before splitting off at some point to become Silver Team.
I do like how, for the image of the four groups of them, Johnson is confirmed KIA (R.I.P.), and Noble Six is still MIA, "Spartans never die, they just go 'Missing in Action.'" 😢
I literally just explained all this to my dad a couple hours ago. The last game he ever played was Halo CE on his power mac g5. I busted out my Reach pre-order Halsey journey and told him a bunch of the basic spartan lore. Personally that journal is top-tier pre-order bonus and the quality of it is just phenomenal Ps I felt so compelled to give him good Halo lore because I saw in his watch history that he saw the first episode of paramounts abomination of a show and felt I needed to give him a healthy dose of accurate lore. He was extremely impressed by the quality of the journal and contents
I did the same with my dad and his friend when they were asking about it in conjunction with the tv show. Don’t have Halsey’s manual, but I also couldn’t get out my halo encyclopedia either.
Good on you mate. Fuck the Paramount show. Have him play the games and if he wants a TRUE Halo show that expands the lore have him watch Red vs Blue. It's canon at least until Season 14 when new writers took over.
Spartan IIIs were also put on “suicide”missions on reach and other rings which caused over half of them to die on reach, noble team was an exception bc they were too valuable to lose
The first (unofficial) meeting of a spartin 2 and 3, the 2 does a open palm strike and drops the 3 and bent their chest plate. Their active camo was so bad that every spartin 2 that encountered them quickly learned how to track them using their suits motion tracking
you should get informed before talking. spartan 3’s only had like 5 companies one single team of them was on reach gamma was in cryo and the rest likely all died on their first mission. they were made as a single use high efficiency unit that could fight until their last breath. they mostly wore low quality armor and were equipped with cqb weapons and training in covenant weapons.
Unfortunately, they were the only ones to survive metal injection experiments to make them more durable, adults weren't adaptable enough, children had a higher survival rate
There were *40* SPARTAN-IIs, as seven of the 'washouts' whose bodies rejected the augmentations were later returned to active service. Margaret-053, Jerome-092, Victor-101, Alice-130, Otto-031, Douglas-043, and Roma-143.
@@vitobratta_WL Maybe some of them, but a bunch of others straight up had mutilated bone structures and were instead taken to be analysts for ONI because their minds were still sharp.
Fun fact, Emile wasn't actually supposed to be in Noble team during Reach. If I recall correctly, there was a different Spartan 3, Rosenda, who was supposed to be there but couldn't be for some reason. Emile was deemed too violent to be deployed on insurgents
Im both sad and glad he was in noble team. Sad cause he wasnt meant to die there in the first place, but glad because he's in noble team we get to see the badass that he is
Actually it was the opposite reason for Emile that's why he was their scare tactic and she was deployed somewhere else on reach and The insurrectionist were quiet during that timeframe
It gets worse when you realize that the Spartans weren't created to fight aliens (humanity had not yet encountered the Covenant), the UNSC used them to put down human rebellions.
Spartan 2s- The best/strongest who were child abduction cases Spartan 3s- Tragic orphan heroes sent to their deaths Spartan 4s- Adults given better toys plus egos Spartan 1s- Best “spartan” was a marine that loved to give motivational speeches and top tier 1 liners such as “I know what the ladies like”
I'd argue Forge should count as better than Johnson. Johnson got bitch slapped by the Arbiter. Forge fucking KILLED the last one in 1v1 melee combat. Johnson had to ask Chief to send him out with a bang. Forge sent HIMSELF out with a bang.
@@cpMetis But he wasn’t part of the orion project which is why I put sgt johnson, but yea forge is a fkin hell of a marine. Apparently in early development, sergeant forge was actually meant to be a spartan til they switched him to be a badass marine instead
@@donovanchong8246 It's been an increasingly common fan speculation that Forge was an Orion, and his daughter is actually a 1.1 His daughter Rion. Short for her middle name........ Orion.
i mean tbf the IIIs were technically volunteers. They were kids whos families died in the war and wanted revenge. not much better but slightly more ethical than the IIs
@@colinadams5419iirc, Ackerson, the one who replaced Halsey, specifically chose children who had lost their families to the Covenant because he detested how Halsey handled the Spartan IIs acquisition. He was still aware of how much of a hypocrite he was by taking away the futures of the Spartan IIIs, but he always tried to justify it by saying that the Covenant had already done that form them, and he was giving them a chance for payback.
There are no Spartan I soldiers in the UNSC. They started the numbering at Spartan II because they are supposed to be "better than even the Greek spartans". There never was a Spartan I program in the UNSC
If you really look into it. Chief has been with an S-1(I know they're Orion)for a few games already. Legitimately only like one functioning S-1, and that was Johnson. Of course he's dead. Other S-2 is more probable being that there's 16(give or take)of them left
And remember Sgt. Major Johnson was one of those original Orion "Spartans" or so ive heard. Kind of shows why hes sich a badass and lived as long as he did.
Not to mention Spartan 3s were sent on suicide missions. The battle of Pegasi Delta sent out 300 Spartans from Beta Company to destroy a covenant fuel refinery and only 2 Spartan 3s survived. The mission was however a success
“Cheap mass production models” “Disposable heroes” It sucks but also the cruel reality that when faced with extinction, ANY alternative is a viable option
Just like with being a Bomber pilot. Your mission is not to survive, it's a plus. Your mission is to drop your payload. If it hits your target and you die or you die, but it hits your target, mission success.
@@Wondrrboy pretty much, and the S3’s were usually deployed offensively against covenant targets- take the destruction of the covenant shipyard K7-49. At the cost of 300 Spartans, they crippled a covenant shipyard, which was producing 12 ships at the time. Each ship is equivalent to three human ships of the same tonnage, which is a crippling blow to the covenant. Kurt, the leader of the Spartan program, estimated that, without the destruction of the shipyard humanity would have most likely lost all of their colonies on one side of the Orion constellation. They likely saved literally dozens of worlds. As cruel and callous, as it might be, the math more than makes up for it.
I thought the Spartan threes were recruited from kids whos family died due to the covenant, they were worse but not by much. A few also were selected to start the headhunters if i remember correctly
To my knowledge, that is correct. That being said, Noble team was only sight worse because they had proper mk5 Mjolnir armor. Most spartin 3s got the mutch cheaper (and worse) SPI armor.
Their enhancement process was much better, Far less drop outs post enhancement, they just had a much less stringent selection proccess and worse gear, Take a top of the Pack 3 and they are pretty much indistinguishable from a general spartan 2 But both are light-years ahead of Spartan 4's
@@Aichi1138they had less genetic enhancements. The reason for the spartan 2 strict selection was because of how severe the enhancements were. Only people with the right genetics could hope to survive. 3’s still got some but not as much. Allowing them to use orphans and have many more.
@@nubgaming5342they got less augmentations but the effects of the chemical augmentation were far more wide spanning per augmentation and reliable, out of mjolnir they were very close in terms of physical ability, but mjolnir was largely reserved for spartan IIs and select spartan IIIs
@@Aichi1138 the enhancements were actually worse, less invasive but safer to mass produce. Spartan 3's were conscripted from the ages of 10-15 (I think the youngest was 8) from orphans of the Covenant specifically. Spartan IV's have the least invasive augmentations and rely more on their armor. An S-2 in Gen 3 Mjolnir is so so so much more of a super soldier than any S4
REMINDER: John 117 Master chief wasn't the last Spartan 2 for the first 3 games he was just the only confirmed alive as there were about 13 at the end of Halo 3 then 9 by the end of halo 4 because of the didact Survivors were Red team, Blue team, Grey team, and Black team
@@ninjaraider2568 I believe Omega doesn't have any canon sources of their whereabouts post-war, so they aren't confirmed alive. We just don't know of their deaths. (Their appearance in Halo Wars beyond Arcadia in 1 is always non-canon)
So they can raise them with discipline. Since the Spartan 4s use augmented adult soldiers with good service records, but they lack the discipline of Spartan 2s and 3s.
Also. Spartan 3's werent random orphans. They were orphans who lost everything due to the government and displayed extreme anger for the covies. All oni did was give them some enhancements, give them some armor cheaper thwn mjolnir but better then ODST. And those who showed a lot of promise got to have the spartan II treatment IE noble team. As they were granted the right to earn and wear mjolnir
The thing with the spartan 3s is that as they “grew into” their augmentations, and the chemical augmentations they had became more advanced, the became on par with the Spartan 2s
I don't know if this is the original lore or it was added later, but initially there were suppose to be 300 Spartan II candidates, in reference to the 300 Spartans that defended Greece long ago, but the funds were cut in half twice, reducing the number to 150 and then 75.
Spartan 1's had some health issues that popped up later in life making them less effect, it effected their nerves so they covered it up by saying it was a similar disease. Sgt Johnson was a spartan 1 and those nerve alterations made him resistant to the flood, not immune but it would take a bit more to infect him. Spartan 4's are more of a quantity over quality, while still good and most of them are made from the ODST's or who would have been they are still not mark 2's. Doctor Hallsy the baby stealer even says they are a step down but some have the temperament to be more like Spartan 2's
There are no Spartan I soldiers because that would be the warriors of Sparta. They are called Spartan IIs because they are supposed to be "better than even a Greek Spartan." There was no Spartan I program under ONI/UNSC.
@@lexecomplexe4083 Yes... it was called Project ORION and people (either fan or cannon, doesn't matter which it is tbf) started calling them S-I out of respect.
To clarify, Spartan-IIIs are just as fast and strong as the IIs, the cost cutting was primarily in their armour, but some still got Mjolnir Mark-V. Spartan-IVs are all former ODSTs so they're not that much worse.
Thank you someone who actually knows the lore of the 3s. I always see people shitting in the 3s for being worse than the 2s but they literally weren't and imo better than the 2s simply because their augmentations had 100% success rate. Plus their training and background is more interesting and cool since they hated the covenant with a passion and was trained by Spartan 2 Kurt. Please keep spreading the Spartan 3 love bro 🤙❤️
@@JefeInquisidorGOW they are not shorter. They were younger, being sent into fight the covenant as early as 12 years old. The 3s are as tall as the 2s on average. The 3s augmentations also allowed them to grow whereas the 2s were capped at the height from 14 years old because their bones were encased in ceramic, unlike the 3s bones that, through chemical augmentations, were as strong as the 2s with their ceramic coating naturally, allowing them to continuously grow if their bodies ever did grow. If the 2s did continue to 'grow' their bones would become pulverised inside of their ceramic coating and would not outgrow the ceramic
Some of the special kids they picked gave trouble to trained Naval inteligence field operators trying to catch them. One disappeared and got away from them.
If memory serves, spartan 4's were recruits that followed something similar to the orion and spartan 2 projects. Just that the technological improvement allowed the implants to now work on adults.
Spartan 2s will always be the best yet sad child abduction cases, Spartan 3s were tragic orphan heroes, Spartan 4s are adults given better toys and an ego since they’re spartans, and Spartan 1s best “spartan” was a marine that loved giving motivational speeches and 1 liners
Let us share a moment of mourning for our best boy, Jorge-052. Big man was the sweetest cybernetic alien annihilator that there ever was, and it's good that he got to go out thinking Reach was saved.
Jorge was the epitome of a hero in war contrary to 117's war hero. He's tense in combat but knows when to soften up when hes needs to. Hes independent, but knows to respect authorties. Hes the perfect embodiment of the soldier.
THANK YOU for being the first RUclipsr I found it mentions that the Orion Project subjects were NOT Spartan 1’s. The “Spartan 1’s” are the original Spartans from Ancient Greece.
@HelixChannel Sources, the second paragraph from the article pertaining to the ORION Project from the Halo wiki, as well as the first paragraph from article pertaining to the ORION Project from the Halopedia website. The latter also includes sources from official Halo media.
@@danielsilver1244 lol….you realize both Halopedia and Halowiki are fan edited and can be changed by anyone? They’re extremely unreliable and there’s a reason why more prestigious Halo lore content creators don’t use those two. Feel free to drop their apparent “official” sources that they obtained their info from but I’m trying to help you but letting you know you’re definitely wrong on this one 🫡
If they ever make the Vs, it'll probably be human genome augmentations and making those kids naturally develop a lot of the stuff that's been done surgically and chemically. Bone density, eye sight, brain augments. New organs and stuff would have to be surgical though.
@@shawnemmons1184 .. .Not necessarily if these spartan V's were literally born for the job, and thus used genome modding from the literal inception of life.
Yeah, that's pretty spot on. II's are the monsters to humanity's enemies they are because that's how they were raised. Soldiers who never stop. IT'S are adults with emotions and conscious
Except for the IIIs. They weren't random orphans. They needed to be part of a genetic pool to be augmented like the IIs. The pool was a bit broader since the augmentations they were using would allow for a bigger pool of genetics to be compatible.
@livingglowstick1337 20 survived, Blue Team (4) Black team (4) (KIA as of 2556) Red Team(3) Gray Team(3) Omega Team (3) (MIA but survived the war) Naomi 010 2 others retired from the UNSC but still survived the war, those being Randall 037 and Maria 062.
@@rm0379 Sixteen Spartan-IIs are known to have survived the Covenant War: John-117, Frederic-104, Kelly-087, Linda-058, Naomi-010, Jai-006, Adriana-111, Michael-120, Leon-011, Robert-025, August-099, Randall-037, Otto-031, Victor-101, Margaret-053, and Roma-143; the last five have since been killed. Literally from halopedia
@@rm0379 here's a better run down of who's alive Sixteen Spartan-IIs are known to have survived the Covenant War: John-117, Frederic-104, Kelly-087, Linda-058, Naomi-010, Jai-006, Adriana-111, Michael-120, Leon-011, Robert-025, August-099, Randall-037, Otto-031, Victor-101, Margaret-053, and Roma-143; the last five have since been killed. There was also the crippled candidates, some surviving past the war's end, such as Musa-096, or Serin-019. The early composition of Red Team: Douglas-042, Jerome-092 and Alice-130, spent most of the war in cryo-sleep and were not awakened until 2559, nearly six years after the war's end.[23] The members of Gray Team were left drifting in space after their latest operation in late 2552 and went to cryo-sleep. In mid 2558, their lifeboat was recovered by a Sangheili fleetmaster, Rojka 'Kaasan, who held them in stasis until their release a few months later. After being transferred to highly covert ONI Kilo-Five unit in 2553, Naomi-010 continued to serve on highly classified operations as of 2558. Though being missing in action since 2532 and discharged from service by ONI in 2546, Randall-037, now a Colonel of the Sedran Colonial Guard, participated in a mission to capture the smugglers of a highly dangerous element used as a weapon in a terrorist attack, and sacrificed himself to ensure the operation's success.[24] At least three members of Omega Team managed to survive the war, though their current status is unknown.[25] Following the ceasefire, the surviving Spartan-IIs were offered the choice of integrating into the newly formed Spartan Operations branch along with the remaining Spartan-IIIs.[26] Some Spartan-IIs are known to have taken part in the training of Spartan-IV personnel.[27]
Addendum: Spartan-IIIs become stronger and faster as they age and their bodies acclimate to their augmentations putting older IIIs on par with and sometimes exceeding Spartan-IIs. It's just so few IIIs ever got to that age because they were always sent on suicide missions with subpar SPI-Armor. Only the special elites like Nobel Team after got Mjolnir armor
That book wasn't great. There was so much shit in it that doesn't make sense. Like, why would you spend all this money augmenting kids to become super soldiers just to send them out to die? Not to mention the training, where they ask five-year olds to jump out of a plane. Has the author never been around a five-year old?
Spartan IVs were mostly recruited from the unsc veterans and odsts. The odst rank grew thin due to the high recruitment and attrition of the human covenant war.
Technically Spartan IIIs weren't random orphans. At their core they underwent similar augmentation and training to Spartan IIs, but the selection criteria for them was much, much broader, allowing for far greater number of recruits. Spartan IVs were just ODSTs and other highly trained military combatants that underwent minor augmentation and made up for that with superior numbers and tech.
It should also be noted that spartan 3 were used like fire-and-forget missiles and their missions were usually suicide missions with only few, if any, spartan 3's surviving
If memory serves, the 3s were given a different cocktail of enhancements that included something that increased aggression and recklessness, since they thought they were being sent of missions with a better chance of death
That's only Gamma Company. The augmentation only triggered when a they were supposed to go into shock. The augmentation was actually added to give them a better change of coming home.
The Spartans are also all given AI girlfriends implanted in their armor directly connected to their heads but the AIs are so advanced that they'll think themselves into suicide, go crazy and die within 5-8 years in which case they'll be given another AI girlfriend that will also eventually kill herself in half a decade if the Spartan didn't die yet because they usually die pretty quickly if there name isn't Mister Chef
@@rm0379 Oh, when did Linda get an AI? I'm not totally up to date in the novels. I do know we have other temporary pairings with Naomi + Black Box and Jerome + Isabel, but this is the first I am hearing of Linda having one.
Spartan 3’s were war orphans that were given a less potent cocktail of enhancements that guaranteed survival but didn’t make them as physically capable as a Spartan 2. It was noted however that the Spartan 3 enhancements did enhance their adrenal glands to the point that they could experience enhanced reactivity that was referred to as “Spartan time.” But they were essentially disposable shock troops meant to buy time for the UNSC.
Spartan-IIIs enhancements were a quantum leap over the Spartan-II project and yielded the same practical results. The issue was that Spartan-IIs had genetics that made them basically superhuman naturally, while the Spartan-III had a larger pool of candidates due to the higher augmentation success rate. Spartan-IIIs that had the same genetics as Spartan-II candidates, like the ones in NOBLE team, were basically indistinguishable from Spartan-IIs and thus equipped and treated as such.
The spartan-4 program was developed when the UNSC worked out how to implement the Spartan enhancements on adults. They saw haveing larger amounts of Spartan-4's as a better option than a small cadre of super soldier Spartan-2 or Spartan-3's.
When someone brings up halo around me I talk about it for hours the games the books I just wanna share it ya know. It’s a big part of my life despite the people working against it these days.
Got the number of spartan II’s that were abducted it was around 147 cadets and only 72 survived and then 33 became active Spartans while the others were given officer positions and put in places to strategically secure positions for battle, since they were all defective, because the augmentations they received crippled their boddies.
I think the best way to explain the differences between SPARTAN IIs, IIIs, and IVs is that the IIs are like the Greek Titans, the IIIs are like the Olympian G-ds, and the IVs are like demig-ds. (This is how it’s explained in one of the novels about Buck)
I never really thought about it till now but I think one of the reasons they get the soldiers so young and the reason they call them spartans is cause in the real world of rome spartan soldiers from actual history were raised from 7 years old under harsh conditions and thats the reason the army of rome was so formidable and so the halo universe taking 6 year old giving them armour, training, and enhancments, calling them Spartans, is a subtile if not flat out nod to the real world Spartans of rome
I used to not like the Spartan IVs, mainly because of their characterisation in Halo 4, and Spartan Ops. I came around to liking them a ton after reading the Rubicon Protocol. It does a great job humanising them, and giving insights into their mindsets, primarily their frustrations at failure even when it's far outside of their control. Spartans Stone, Kovan and Horvath were definitely the main highlights. For exmaple Whilst evacuating Infinity, Spartan Kovan aims her escape pod into a Phantom that was firing upon another escape pod, her pod slicing through the hull before coming to a stop. The phantom then crashes into the ground, before she clears up the sangheili inside. She then gives some intel to another team of Spartans, dropping a "Нет problem." when they thank her, and then getting straight back to it
It was said that in the Human-Covenant, the human resistance was seen to the Covenant as: Drowning the Covenant in Human Blood. Spartan-III's were basically the poster child of that saying😢
Spartan II's are a different breed. I remember reading a novel that stated by age 11 they were significantly taller than an average man and (I think) stronger. Their reflexes were unparalleled due to EXTENSIVE genetic enhancement. I think only a third of these children survived the enhancements before being able to be trained.
Apparently a bunch of the Spartan washouts actually were able to get rehabilitated. Literally Jerome Douglas and Alice were all washouts and yet they beat the crap out of the banished
Many of the spartan 2s who didn't make the enhancements but still survived were given to the UNSC's intelligence program, ONI, so they could still be of some use for the unsc. And If I remember correctly a few surpassed Master Chief's Rank and deliberately tried to put MC in suicide missions
Spartan 2's. They survived the procedures, Then they survived reach. And those that remain, survived years of conflict with the covenant. All while dealing with major PTSD and utilizing pretty out-dated armor (They had it updated here and there but you get the point) There is a reason why everything not a UNSC member is terrified of MC
Glossing over the fact that the 3s were meant to be mass produced: hence why their armor was cheaper to mitigate bulk cost. Iirc, Lone Wolf was a Spartan-3 and is the only "hyper-lethal" classified asset other than Master-Chief himself.
Spartan 4s were pretty much Drugged Delta Force, but John was literally Born & Built Different. He fought ODSTs as a 13 year old, which were pretty much the same as Marsoc Raiders with airborne training
Even among the higher echelons of the UNSC the Spartan 2s were mythical creatures. To put it in perspective one of them destroyed a halo ring by himself with minimal help from others. The UNSC treated Spartan 2s like tactical nukes. When all else failed they didn’t.
Spartan 4s are at the point where they're basically just augmented marines, or the next step up from ODSTs. Which is a big part of their appeal militarily - quantity has a quality all its own.
Reminder: SPARTANs weren’t even originally meant to fight aliens, just help the UNSC retain control and put down rebellions.
Very unrealistic. We all know UN Peacekeeping forces are the weakest in the world. Iceland Coast Guard could take em.
When the alien menace is defeated. Everything goes back to business as usual. They need to make a game about that where they try to take out Master Chief after his usefulness ends.
@@JackCrossSama I doubt that will ever happen, considering they keep contriving new reasons to fight aliens even though the Covenant is dead.
Also wasn't the UNSC hunting down Master Chief basically the plot of 5?
@goldlight1322 yes and no, UNSC was hunting chief because he went awal and they framed him for assassination, also the covenant isn't dead the human covent war ended in halo 3 but the covenant was taken over by the banished.
@@GoldLight73technically chief was still working for the UNSC up until the reveal that Cortana was still “alive” and then went rogue, so they deployed a unit to arrest him (dumbest plot line ever)
The SPARTAN IIIs were WAR orphans, who were essentially given the enhancements and armour and basically told, "Go get your payback. If you live, you'll go again. And again. And again, until you die."
Their unfortunate circumstances that were also needed sacrifices at the time is one of the saddest things in Halo.
So the ancient Greek in Sparta most when they were most influential
They were also not inferior to Spartan 2s either :)
They had barely any enhancements or armour and were still very young when they were deployed.
They were the mass production model compared to the super prototypes. They were then also used...poorly.
@weareharbinger914 It's part of why SPARTAN-B312 was seen as something of an aberration among the other III's, seeing as they're one of only two SPARTANS classified as Hyper Lethal.
"Kids are cruel, and im very in touch with my inner child"
Red Sun intensifies
@comicscinemaothermedia9247 I believe you mean, ahem-
*RED SUN INTENSIFIES*
Relax sundowner
Christ sundowner as a Spartan would be mental.
@@alexspencer5926 *GIVE WAR A CHAAAAANCE!*
Surprisingly, he managed to sum up a lot of information in less than a few minutes
Shorts can only be 1 min at max
“Shorts are 1 min max🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓” nah but seriously he even managed to slip in the unsc corruption without fully saying it
The only thing I didn't understand: did those Spartans II age naturally during training, or they were artificially aged with some sci Fi voodoo?
@@GreedyDrunk92 Their genetic augmentations caused their bodies to grow and mature at a faster rate, allowing them to have the muscular bodies of an 18 year old at the just the age of 14 years... To what other ends this alteration goes, I cannot say for certain
@@GreedyDrunk92 they were physically more mature, yet mentally still young teens. There's one book where early teen master chief, fresh out of augmentations, no armor, kills 3 adult ODSTs (by accident) in the gym because they were trying to pick a fight with a "teen" and they couldn't believe that the SPARTAN 2 kids could be that strong.
Jorge was the only spartan 2 on noble team. Its kinda ironic that in the end he sacrificed himself instead of the covenant killing him like the rest of the III's (except jun)
Wait wasn’t noble 6 a spartan II?
@@igrisamiss8660 he was a menace but no he was like the rest of noble a spartan 3
all for nothing💀
@@igrisamiss8660hell no, just a really good Slll
Didn't Jun end up MIA?
What all these sci-fi shows and games tell me is that child soldiers are the future
CORRECT!
Then you get ace
Exactly look at warhammer
@@digitalpickleridgy2971 not just Warhammer and Halo, look at the Tenno from Warframe
Dude, they are literally the present 😬
Dr Halsey is still a figure of controversy because of the Spartan programme and how a lot of the 2s call her mom just because she was the closest thing.
Smol masterchief looking up at Halsey: "mother. Mother I crave violence."
@@crowgrabber_former_er5bb8yb2t I think his first fight was when he was 8, so yeah, violence was in order
Master chief: “Mom, I frew up.”
It’s also her fault that she’s the closest thing they have to a mother, since she helped kidnap them
@anthonyramirez9925 then stuck an ai that was designed after her at like the age of 20 and naked into one of there heads.
Technically, 150 were chosen, 75 were conscripted, and 33 survived augmentation. By the end of the war, there were about 16 spartan 2s left, give or take a couple.
By my tally, there are 15 known surviving Spartan-II's, with a further 4 possibly surviving:
Known Active:
Blue Team - John-117, Frederic-104, Kelly-087, Linda-058
Gray Team - Jai-006, Adrianna-111, Mike-120
Omega Team - Leon-011, August-099, Robert-025
Red Team - Jerome-092, Alice-130, Douglas-042
Kilo-5 - Naomi-010
Status Unknown (as of 2560):
Silver Team - Vannak-134, Kai-125, Riz-028; active as of 2540
Joseph-122; last seen 2525
Retired:
Maria-062; transferred to UNSC reserves, last seen working at SWC Seongnam in 2552
@@believer2 is silver team canon to mainline story?
@@believer2 Silver team is not canon to the main line tho.
@@johnhalo-ug4go Silver is canon, actually, even if the Silver Timeline isn't. Kai, Riz, and Vannak were drawn from a pre-existing list of Spartan-II's that 343I has. Every Spartan-II that is, was, or will be is drawn from that list.
Furthermore, a recent Canon Fodder article titled "If They Want Lore, We'll Give 'Em Lore!" revealed that they were the other three Spartans on Arcadia with Omega Team, alongside Leon, August, and Robert, before splitting off at some point to become Silver Team.
Didnt grey team die in a comic story from the diadact?
I do like how, for the image of the four groups of them, Johnson is confirmed KIA (R.I.P.), and Noble Six is still MIA, "Spartans never die, they just go 'Missing in Action.'" 😢
The planet was glassed. Noble Six is fused to the ground, if anything of them even survived
@@lexecomplexe4083Wouldnt be surprised if they glassed some of their own to ensure the death of this Spartan.
Which makes no sense, I get they both died by why list ONE not KIA
THE PLANET WAS GLASSED for Heavens sake
When did Sgt Johnsons die? Maybe it's time to replay the trilogy again
@@Casper0844 Remember the snow?
I literally just explained all this to my dad a couple hours ago. The last game he ever played was Halo CE on his power mac g5. I busted out my Reach pre-order Halsey journey and told him a bunch of the basic spartan lore. Personally that journal is top-tier pre-order bonus and the quality of it is just phenomenal
Ps I felt so compelled to give him good Halo lore because I saw in his watch history that he saw the first episode of paramounts abomination of a show and felt I needed to give him a healthy dose of accurate lore. He was extremely impressed by the quality of the journal and contents
I did the same with my dad and his friend when they were asking about it in conjunction with the tv show. Don’t have Halsey’s manual, but I also couldn’t get out my halo encyclopedia either.
Good on you mate. Fuck the Paramount show. Have him play the games and if he wants a TRUE Halo show that expands the lore have him watch Red vs Blue. It's canon at least until Season 14 when new writers took over.
I wish my son be like you in ten years :)
Spartan IIIs were also put on “suicide”missions on reach and other rings which caused over half of them to die on reach, noble team was an exception bc they were too valuable to lose
Also Jorge was a Spartan II rather than a III
Most of the first 2 classes (300 Each) of Spartan III's died on their first missions.
The first (unofficial) meeting of a spartin 2 and 3, the 2 does a open palm strike and drops the 3 and bent their chest plate. Their active camo was so bad that every spartin 2 that encountered them quickly learned how to track them using their suits motion tracking
To be fair, Noble Team had Spartan II armor. Those energy shields saved them a lot
you should get informed before talking. spartan 3’s only had like 5 companies one single team of them was on reach gamma was in cryo and the rest likely all died on their first mission. they were made as a single use high efficiency unit that could fight until their last breath. they mostly wore low quality armor and were equipped with cqb weapons and training in covenant weapons.
Ahhh yes the worlds greatest weapon child soldiers.
I mean, Raiden and Sundowner kind of prove that correct
Unfortunately, they were the only ones to survive metal injection experiments to make them more durable, adults weren't adaptable enough, children had a higher survival rate
@@tinaherr3856 Yeah, that's right though
That's why they are called Spartans.
I wanted to like this comment but noticed it's like count is 343 and I simply cannot mess with something so perfect
"What would an old lady do with a bunch of children?"
"First, we taught them how to be quiet. Then we taught them how to be Spartans."
There were *40* SPARTAN-IIs, as seven of the 'washouts' whose bodies rejected the augmentations were later returned to active service. Margaret-053, Jerome-092, Victor-101, Alice-130, Otto-031, Douglas-043, and Roma-143.
"A bunch of them were killed in reach-"
*Vietnam war flashbacks*
Let’s not forget that some of the Spartan 2’s didn’t even see frontline combat as they were crippled when they’re genetics were mutated
They did eventually, the failures were put in cryosleep until reaugmented and sent off
@@vitobratta_WL Maybe some of them, but a bunch of others straight up had mutilated bone structures and were instead taken to be analysts for ONI because their minds were still sharp.
@@perrycarters3113 And some do it by choice, i believe there was a spartan 2 who retired for ONI. maybe spartan 3s retired
@@vitobratta_WL Nobel 3 retires from being a Spartan and starts working on the Spartan 4 program
@@Matt-zu2lu I know about Jun but i figured since every spartan 3 is pretty much dead.
There are some others, such as Black, Red, and Omega teams that died in augmentation and were resuscitated and deployed as full Spartans.
Jerome, Douglas, and Alice are a goated team
Lmmfao Halsey said aye wake they ass back up and run that shit back we aint done with them yet 😂😂😂😂
Geez that just sounds like bad writing w/o the context 😂
I thought they rejected the augmentations
And had to try again
Fun fact, Emile wasn't actually supposed to be in Noble team during Reach. If I recall correctly, there was a different Spartan 3, Rosenda, who was supposed to be there but couldn't be for some reason. Emile was deemed too violent to be deployed on insurgents
Im both sad and glad he was in noble team.
Sad cause he wasnt meant to die there in the first place, but glad because he's in noble team we get to see the badass that he is
Actually it was the opposite reason for Emile that's why he was their scare tactic and she was deployed somewhere else on reach and The insurrectionist were quiet during that timeframe
This short is already better then the show
"They stopped using Children."
"WHAT THE FU-!!"
I died at the end laughing.
This is actually really straightforward. The morality of all of this is fucked though 😂.
It gets worse when you realize that the Spartans weren't created to fight aliens (humanity had not yet encountered the Covenant), the UNSC used them to put down human rebellions.
Yeah. Most people don't realize the Spartan IIs like chief trained for assassination and CIA shit, not war.
@@DuskboundYeah, the United Earth Government is an empire. ONI has zero respect for human rights.
Morally? Fucked
Logically? Yeah training from childhood would be by far the most effective
Spartan 2s- The best/strongest who were child abduction cases
Spartan 3s- Tragic orphan heroes sent to their deaths
Spartan 4s- Adults given better toys plus egos
Spartan 1s- Best “spartan” was a marine that loved to give motivational speeches and top tier 1 liners such as “I know what the ladies like”
I would have been your daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence.
I'd argue Forge should count as better than Johnson.
Johnson got bitch slapped by the Arbiter. Forge fucking KILLED the last one in 1v1 melee combat.
Johnson had to ask Chief to send him out with a bang. Forge sent HIMSELF out with a bang.
@@cpMetis Johnson can't be infected by the flood. Can SGT forge?
@@cpMetis But he wasn’t part of the orion project which is why I put sgt johnson, but yea forge is a fkin hell of a marine. Apparently in early development, sergeant forge was actually meant to be a spartan til they switched him to be a badass marine instead
@@donovanchong8246 It's been an increasingly common fan speculation that Forge was an Orion, and his daughter is actually a 1.1
His daughter Rion. Short for her middle name........ Orion.
And Pancreasnowork constantly loves using the whole “kidnapped orphans” bit a lot to drive the point with Spartan II’s, which is just hilarious
I just realised his name is pancreasNOWORK not pancreasnetwork.
@@xd._.earnest1672diabetes iirc
You mean lll's?
i mean tbf the IIIs were technically volunteers. They were kids whos families died in the war and wanted revenge. not much better but slightly more ethical than the IIs
@@colinadams5419iirc, Ackerson, the one who replaced Halsey, specifically chose children who had lost their families to the Covenant because he detested how Halsey handled the Spartan IIs acquisition. He was still aware of how much of a hypocrite he was by taking away the futures of the Spartan IIIs, but he always tried to justify it by saying that the Covenant had already done that form them, and he was giving them a chance for payback.
Honestly it'd be kinda cool to see a storyline where Chief has a run in with a Spartan 1 or another Spartan 2, it'd make for compelling lore
There are no Spartan I soldiers in the UNSC. They started the numbering at Spartan II because they are supposed to be "better than even the Greek spartans". There never was a Spartan I program in the UNSC
If you really look into it. Chief has been with an S-1(I know they're Orion)for a few games already. Legitimately only like one functioning S-1, and that was Johnson. Of course he's dead. Other S-2 is more probable being that there's 16(give or take)of them left
And remember Sgt. Major Johnson was one of those original Orion "Spartans" or so ive heard. Kind of shows why hes sich a badass and lived as long as he did.
Not to mention Spartan 3s were sent on suicide missions. The battle of Pegasi Delta sent out 300 Spartans from Beta Company to destroy a covenant fuel refinery and only 2 Spartan 3s survived. The mission was however a success
“Cheap mass production models”
“Disposable heroes”
It sucks but also the cruel reality that when faced with extinction, ANY alternative is a viable option
Just like with being a Bomber pilot. Your mission is not to survive, it's a plus. Your mission is to drop your payload. If it hits your target and you die or you die, but it hits your target, mission success.
@@Wondrrboy pretty much, and the S3’s were usually deployed offensively against covenant targets- take the destruction of the covenant shipyard K7-49. At the cost of 300 Spartans, they crippled a covenant shipyard, which was producing 12 ships at the time. Each ship is equivalent to three human ships of the same tonnage, which is a crippling blow to the covenant.
Kurt, the leader of the Spartan program, estimated that, without the destruction of the shipyard humanity would have most likely lost all of their colonies on one side of the Orion constellation. They likely saved literally dozens of worlds.
As cruel and callous, as it might be, the math more than makes up for it.
The Headhunters were so kick ass, I wish we saw more of them.
@@deathtrooper9003 and this is why in my mind the Spartan 3s are superior to the *4'
I thought the Spartan threes were recruited from kids whos family died due to the covenant, they were worse but not by much. A few also were selected to start the headhunters if i remember correctly
To my knowledge, that is correct. That being said, Noble team was only sight worse because they had proper mk5 Mjolnir armor. Most spartin 3s got the mutch cheaper (and worse) SPI armor.
Their enhancement process was much better, Far less drop outs post enhancement, they just had a much less stringent selection proccess and worse gear, Take a top of the Pack 3 and they are pretty much indistinguishable from a general spartan 2
But both are light-years ahead of Spartan 4's
@@Aichi1138they had less genetic enhancements. The reason for the spartan 2 strict selection was because of how severe the enhancements were. Only people with the right genetics could hope to survive. 3’s still got some but not as much. Allowing them to use orphans and have many more.
@@nubgaming5342they got less augmentations but the effects of the chemical augmentation were far more wide spanning per augmentation and reliable, out of mjolnir they were very close in terms of physical ability, but mjolnir was largely reserved for spartan IIs and select spartan IIIs
@@Aichi1138 the enhancements were actually worse, less invasive but safer to mass produce. Spartan 3's were conscripted from the ages of 10-15 (I think the youngest was 8) from orphans of the Covenant specifically. Spartan IV's have the least invasive augmentations and rely more on their armor. An S-2 in Gen 3 Mjolnir is so so so much more of a super soldier than any S4
REMINDER: John 117 Master chief wasn't the last Spartan 2 for the first 3 games he was just the only confirmed alive as there were about 13 at the end of Halo 3 then 9 by the end of halo 4 because of the didact
Survivors were Red team, Blue team, Grey team, and Black team
Omega team is also still alive
even the Spartan branch Commander and chief and the top ONI leader of post war is Spartan-2.
Don’t forget about Naomi and Osmin
if looked more, 15 to 20 spartan-ii has survived the war along with Spartan III Gamma, Alpha, and some Beta.
@@ninjaraider2568 I believe Omega doesn't have any canon sources of their whereabouts post-war, so they aren't confirmed alive. We just don't know of their deaths.
(Their appearance in Halo Wars beyond Arcadia in 1 is always non-canon)
I absolutely love how the determining factor for the super soldiers is just how young you traumatize them😂
So they can raise them with discipline. Since the Spartan 4s use augmented adult soldiers with good service records, but they lack the discipline of Spartan 2s and 3s.
I actually understood this 👍, and good on the UNSC for slowly making their recruitment tiny bits better
Spartan 3s meanwhile had a slightly bigger age range, a case of this consists of Carter from Halo Reach who was 11 when conscripted.
Also. Spartan 3's werent random orphans. They were orphans who lost everything due to the government and displayed extreme anger for the covies. All oni did was give them some enhancements, give them some armor cheaper thwn mjolnir but better then ODST. And those who showed a lot of promise got to have the spartan II treatment IE noble team. As they were granted the right to earn and wear mjolnir
IIIs were entirely voluntary
I always love the "WHATDAFUCK" at the ends of these.
Correction, no Spartan is dead. They are just missing in action
Oni Directive 930
🫡Spartans never die
Idk they’re some ones that look pretty dead in infinite
Kat seems pretty dead to me, catching a sniper shot through her skullcap
The thing with the spartan 3s is that as they “grew into” their augmentations, and the chemical augmentations they had became more advanced, the became on par with the Spartan 2s
I don't know if this is the original lore or it was added later, but initially there were suppose to be 300 Spartan II candidates, in reference to the 300 Spartans that defended Greece long ago, but the funds were cut in half twice, reducing the number to 150 and then 75.
I think there was a case where 300 S3s were deployed to take out a Covenant refinery or something. I think only 2 survived.
I love the first image of all the programs, it's like: Orion is the little sibling, 3's&4's are the middle children, and 2's are the oldest😅
Spartan 1's had some health issues that popped up later in life making them less effect, it effected their nerves so they covered it up by saying it was a similar disease. Sgt Johnson was a spartan 1 and those nerve alterations made him resistant to the flood, not immune but it would take a bit more to infect him.
Spartan 4's are more of a quantity over quality, while still good and most of them are made from the ODST's or who would have been they are still not mark 2's. Doctor Hallsy the baby stealer even says they are a step down but some have the temperament to be more like Spartan 2's
There are no Spartan I soldiers because that would be the warriors of Sparta.
They are called Spartan IIs because they are supposed to be "better than even a Greek Spartan."
There was no Spartan I program under ONI/UNSC.
@@lexecomplexe4083 Yes... it was called Project ORION and people (either fan or cannon, doesn't matter which it is tbf) started calling them S-I out of respect.
Sgt johnson is literally a Spartan I
@@lexecomplexe4083
Johnson was imune to the flood because he got a strange dna alteration after he throwed a ton of plasma grenades in Harvest.
To clarify, Spartan-IIIs are just as fast and strong as the IIs, the cost cutting was primarily in their armour, but some still got Mjolnir Mark-V. Spartan-IVs are all former ODSTs so they're not that much worse.
Thank you someone who actually knows the lore of the 3s. I always see people shitting in the 3s for being worse than the 2s but they literally weren't and imo better than the 2s simply because their augmentations had 100% success rate. Plus their training and background is more interesting and cool since they hated the covenant with a passion and was trained by Spartan 2 Kurt. Please keep spreading the Spartan 3 love bro 🤙❤️
The augmentation process was different too, that's why they are way shorter than spartan two's.
@@JefeInquisidorGOW Not that much shorter. Outside of armour, a lot of Spartan-IIs are around 6'9-6'11.
@@JefeInquisidorGOW they are not shorter. They were younger, being sent into fight the covenant as early as 12 years old. The 3s are as tall as the 2s on average. The 3s augmentations also allowed them to grow whereas the 2s were capped at the height from 14 years old because their bones were encased in ceramic, unlike the 3s bones that, through chemical augmentations, were as strong as the 2s with their ceramic coating naturally, allowing them to continuously grow if their bodies ever did grow. If the 2s did continue to 'grow' their bones would become pulverised inside of their ceramic coating and would not outgrow the ceramic
they are ALMOST as fast and strong, not much, but they are still weaker compared to a S-II
Some of the special kids they picked gave trouble to trained Naval inteligence field operators trying to catch them. One disappeared and got away from them.
If memory serves, spartan 4's were recruits that followed something similar to the orion and spartan 2 projects. Just that the technological improvement allowed the implants to now work on adults.
Kids are cruel!
And I'm very in touch with my inner child
I too see a Red Sun over paradise
When the wind blows through
I'm very in TOUCH with my inner CHILD
*VINE BOOM* *VINE BOOM*
@@solaroid2152 and the fires hot
"Master chief is one of last spartan 2"
Red team: "are we a joke?"
Not THE last, ONE of the last.
because he doesn’t know their existence
Blue Team (4 members)
Red Team (3 members)
Omega Team (3 members)
Grey Team (3 members)
Naomi 010
All added up there is 14 *active* SPARTAN IIs
Isn't omega team mia at the moment so it kinda hard to know if there still active
@@Jacob-gv7it good point, same with silver team (canonical version)
Thank you for explaining Spartan 1-4s. I've always wondered the difference.
Spartan 2s will always be the best yet sad child abduction cases, Spartan 3s were tragic orphan heroes, Spartan 4s are adults given better toys and an ego since they’re spartans, and Spartan 1s best “spartan” was a marine that loved giving motivational speeches and 1 liners
this is unironically a really good explanation, it's just that like the portrayal of the new player in the video there's so freaking much to take in
This is pure talent, no doubt about it.
Maybe :)
Let us share a moment of mourning for our best boy, Jorge-052. Big man was the sweetest cybernetic alien annihilator that there ever was, and it's good that he got to go out thinking Reach was saved.
I'm glad everyone collectively just loves Jorge he was by far my favourite character in reach
Jorge was the epitome of a hero in war contrary to 117's war hero. He's tense in combat but knows when to soften up when hes needs to. Hes independent, but knows to respect authorties. Hes the perfect embodiment of the soldier.
THANK YOU for being the first RUclipsr I found it mentions that the Orion Project subjects were NOT Spartan 1’s. The “Spartan 1’s” are the original Spartans from Ancient Greece.
To be fair, ONI retroactively dubbed ORION as the first official SPARTAN project once the existence of the Spartans was made common knowledge.
@@danielsilver1244 Source?
“Trust me bro.”
@HelixChannel Sources, the second paragraph from the article pertaining to the ORION Project from the Halo wiki, as well as the first paragraph from article pertaining to the ORION Project from the Halopedia website. The latter also includes sources from official Halo media.
@@danielsilver1244 lol….you realize both Halopedia and Halowiki are fan edited and can be changed by anyone?
They’re extremely unreliable and there’s a reason why more prestigious Halo lore content creators don’t use those two. Feel free to drop their apparent “official” sources that they obtained their info from but I’m trying to help you but letting you know you’re definitely wrong on this one 🫡
@@danielsilver1244can confirm I have the halo encyclopedia hard copy.
"We need more children for Spartan 5's!"
so Spartan 2's or 3's
If they ever make the Vs, it'll probably be human genome augmentations and making those kids naturally develop a lot of the stuff that's been done surgically and chemically. Bone density, eye sight, brain augments. New organs and stuff would have to be surgical though.
@@shawnemmons1184 .. .Not necessarily if these spartan V's were literally born for the job, and thus used genome modding from the literal inception of life.
2's already have Had genome therapy@@shawnemmons1184
so homunculus don't they usually have shorter life spins @@ZeorikDragon
Don’t forget that the spartan III’s were done really dirty. They were sent to go on a suicide mission were most if not all of them would die
Yeah, that's pretty spot on. II's are the monsters to humanity's enemies they are because that's how they were raised. Soldiers who never stop. IT'S are adults with emotions and conscious
Except for the IIIs. They weren't random orphans. They needed to be part of a genetic pool to be augmented like the IIs. The pool was a bit broader since the augmentations they were using would allow for a bigger pool of genetics to be compatible.
Best gaming series
Only 11 left now
14
@@rm0379 no 16 survied the war 5 have died since that makes 11
@livingglowstick1337 20 survived,
Blue Team (4)
Black team (4) (KIA as of 2556)
Red Team(3)
Gray Team(3)
Omega Team (3) (MIA but survived the war)
Naomi 010
2 others retired from the UNSC but still survived the war, those being Randall 037 and Maria 062.
@@rm0379 Sixteen Spartan-IIs are known to have survived the Covenant War: John-117, Frederic-104, Kelly-087, Linda-058, Naomi-010, Jai-006, Adriana-111, Michael-120, Leon-011, Robert-025, August-099, Randall-037, Otto-031, Victor-101, Margaret-053, and Roma-143; the last five have since been killed.
Literally from halopedia
@@rm0379 here's a better run down of who's alive
Sixteen Spartan-IIs are known to have survived the Covenant War: John-117, Frederic-104, Kelly-087, Linda-058, Naomi-010, Jai-006, Adriana-111, Michael-120, Leon-011, Robert-025, August-099, Randall-037, Otto-031, Victor-101, Margaret-053, and Roma-143; the last five have since been killed. There was also the crippled candidates, some surviving past the war's end, such as Musa-096, or Serin-019. The early composition of Red Team: Douglas-042, Jerome-092 and Alice-130, spent most of the war in cryo-sleep and were not awakened until 2559, nearly six years after the war's end.[23] The members of Gray Team were left drifting in space after their latest operation in late 2552 and went to cryo-sleep. In mid 2558, their lifeboat was recovered by a Sangheili fleetmaster, Rojka 'Kaasan, who held them in stasis until their release a few months later. After being transferred to highly covert ONI Kilo-Five unit in 2553, Naomi-010 continued to serve on highly classified operations as of 2558. Though being missing in action since 2532 and discharged from service by ONI in 2546, Randall-037, now a Colonel of the Sedran Colonial Guard, participated in a mission to capture the smugglers of a highly dangerous element used as a weapon in a terrorist attack, and sacrificed himself to ensure the operation's success.[24] At least three members of Omega Team managed to survive the war, though their current status is unknown.[25] Following the ceasefire, the surviving Spartan-IIs were offered the choice of integrating into the newly formed Spartan Operations branch along with the remaining Spartan-IIIs.[26] Some Spartan-IIs are known to have taken part in the training of Spartan-IV personnel.[27]
Addendum: Spartan-IIIs become stronger and faster as they age and their bodies acclimate to their augmentations putting older IIIs on par with and sometimes exceeding Spartan-IIs. It's just so few IIIs ever got to that age because they were always sent on suicide missions with subpar SPI-Armor. Only the special elites like Nobel Team after got Mjolnir armor
That book wasn't great. There was so much shit in it that doesn't make sense. Like, why would you spend all this money augmenting kids to become super soldiers just to send them out to die?
Not to mention the training, where they ask five-year olds to jump out of a plane. Has the author never been around a five-year old?
Spartan IVs were mostly recruited from the unsc veterans and odsts. The odst rank grew thin due to the high recruitment and attrition of the human covenant war.
there were 150 original spartan 2 candidates. 2 classes of 75 each. the first class of 75 suffered the most fatalities in augmentation
Mark 2: Kaminoan Clone troopers
Mark 4: Imperial Stormtroopers
Technically Spartan IIIs weren't random orphans. At their core they underwent similar augmentation and training to Spartan IIs, but the selection criteria for them was much, much broader, allowing for far greater number of recruits. Spartan IVs were just ODSTs and other highly trained military combatants that underwent minor augmentation and made up for that with superior numbers and tech.
Are those nerds in the background?
It should also be noted that spartan 3 were used like fire-and-forget missiles and their missions were usually suicide missions with only few, if any, spartan 3's surviving
If memory serves, the 3s were given a different cocktail of enhancements that included something that increased aggression and recklessness, since they thought they were being sent of missions with a better chance of death
That's only Gamma Company. The augmentation only triggered when a they were supposed to go into shock. The augmentation was actually added to give them a better change of coming home.
The Spartans are also all given AI girlfriends implanted in their armor directly connected to their heads but the AIs are so advanced that they'll think themselves into suicide, go crazy and die within 5-8 years in which case they'll be given another AI girlfriend that will also eventually kill herself in half a decade if the Spartan didn't die yet because they usually die pretty quickly if there name isn't Mister Chef
Chief and Linda were the only ones who were given AI to work with
@@rm0379
Oh, when did Linda get an AI? I'm not totally up to date in the novels.
I do know we have other temporary pairings with Naomi + Black Box and Jerome + Isabel, but this is the first I am hearing of Linda having one.
@Xerkxes it was some comic, I can't remember the name but I'll find it for you, it was only temporary I think
@@Xerkxes Lone wolf, the comic is named
Troll
Buck is one of my favorite Spartans…. 🥺
Fun fact: Jun from Halo Reach was one of the 2 founders of the spartan 4 program.
Spartan 3’s were war orphans that were given a less potent cocktail of enhancements that guaranteed survival but didn’t make them as physically capable as a Spartan 2. It was noted however that the Spartan 3 enhancements did enhance their adrenal glands to the point that they could experience enhanced reactivity that was referred to as “Spartan time.” But they were essentially disposable shock troops meant to buy time for the UNSC.
Spartan-IIIs enhancements were a quantum leap over the Spartan-II project and yielded the same practical results.
The issue was that Spartan-IIs had genetics that made them basically superhuman naturally, while the Spartan-III had a larger pool of candidates due to the higher augmentation success rate.
Spartan-IIIs that had the same genetics as Spartan-II candidates, like the ones in NOBLE team, were basically indistinguishable from Spartan-IIs and thus equipped and treated as such.
'They stopped using children...'
The spartan-4 program was developed when the UNSC worked out how to implement the Spartan enhancements on adults. They saw haveing larger amounts of Spartan-4's as a better option than a small cadre of super soldier Spartan-2 or Spartan-3's.
When someone brings up halo around me I talk about it for hours the games the books I just wanna share it ya know. It’s a big part of my life despite the people working against it these days.
Got the number of spartan II’s that were abducted it was around 147 cadets and only 72 survived and then 33 became active Spartans while the others were given officer positions and put in places to strategically secure positions for battle, since they were all defective, because the augmentations they received crippled their boddies.
I think the best way to explain the differences between SPARTAN IIs, IIIs, and IVs is that the IIs are like the Greek Titans, the IIIs are like the Olympian G-ds, and the IVs are like demig-ds. (This is how it’s explained in one of the novels about Buck)
Wtf I didn't realize halo lore was so DARK like damn
I never really thought about it till now but I think one of the reasons they get the soldiers so young and the reason they call them spartans is cause in the real world of rome spartan soldiers from actual history were raised from 7 years old under harsh conditions and thats the reason the army of rome was so formidable and so the halo universe taking 6 year old giving them armour, training, and enhancments, calling them Spartans, is a subtile if not flat out nod to the real world Spartans of rome
I used to not like the Spartan IVs, mainly because of their characterisation in Halo 4, and Spartan Ops. I came around to liking them a ton after reading the Rubicon Protocol.
It does a great job humanising them, and giving insights into their mindsets, primarily their frustrations at failure even when it's far outside of their control.
Spartans Stone, Kovan and Horvath were definitely the main highlights.
For exmaple
Whilst evacuating Infinity, Spartan Kovan aims her escape pod into a Phantom that was firing upon another escape pod, her pod slicing through the hull before coming to a stop. The phantom then crashes into the ground, before she clears up the sangheili inside. She then gives some intel to another team of Spartans, dropping a "Нет problem." when they thank her, and then getting straight back to it
It was said that in the Human-Covenant, the human resistance was seen to the Covenant as: Drowning the Covenant in Human Blood.
Spartan-III's were basically the poster child of that saying😢
I've been a HALO fan for 10 years and own the master chief collection and never knew this
Spartan II's are a different breed. I remember reading a novel that stated by age 11 they were significantly taller than an average man and (I think) stronger. Their reflexes were unparalleled due to EXTENSIVE genetic enhancement. I think only a third of these children survived the enhancements before being able to be trained.
The children used to make spartan 3s were not chosen at random. The candidates were orphaned by the covenant.
Apparently a bunch of the Spartan washouts actually were able to get rehabilitated. Literally Jerome Douglas and Alice were all washouts and yet they beat the crap out of the banished
Now that i think about it, we are already being thorough slowly but surely by shows by games by evening that we view on the internet
Many of the spartan 2s who didn't make the enhancements but still survived were given to the UNSC's intelligence program, ONI, so they could still be of some use for the unsc. And If I remember correctly a few surpassed Master Chief's Rank and deliberately tried to put MC in suicide missions
Spartan 2's. They survived the procedures, Then they survived reach. And those that remain, survived years of conflict with the covenant. All while dealing with major PTSD and utilizing pretty out-dated armor (They had it updated here and there but you get the point)
There is a reason why everything not a UNSC member is terrified of MC
This dudes content is so funny to me. Cracks me up and I always learn a little something.
That is the most normal way I have ever heard someone talk about children fighting in a war
The whole idea of using kids comes from ancient Spartan training kids to be soldiers.
He's a Spartan 2.
What.
And this is to go even further beyond!
i get the feeling a short is not enough to do this justice
As a gamer and science fiction fan, this seems like a reasonable story
Glossing over the fact that the 3s were meant to be mass produced: hence why their armor was cheaper to mitigate bulk cost.
Iirc, Lone Wolf was a Spartan-3 and is the only "hyper-lethal" classified asset other than Master-Chief himself.
Even though i know the info this was impressive in the short amount of time you had bro. Nice job.
That “WHAT THE FU-“ had me rolling
Spartan 4s were pretty much Drugged Delta Force, but John was literally Born & Built Different. He fought ODSTs as a 13 year old, which were pretty much the same as Marsoc Raiders with airborne training
"you cant spell 'infantry' without 'infant'" - Dr. Halsey
I don’t know why I know so much halo lore even though I’ve never played the game or even owned an XBOX. RUclips just loves giving me Halo knowledge.
Even among the higher echelons of the UNSC the Spartan 2s were mythical creatures.
To put it in perspective one of them destroyed a halo ring by himself with minimal help from others.
The UNSC treated Spartan 2s like tactical nukes. When all else failed they didn’t.
Spartan 4s are at the point where they're basically just augmented marines, or the next step up from ODSTs. Which is a big part of their appeal militarily - quantity has a quality all its own.
The Spartan 1s were called: "SGT. JOHNSON!!!! HE KNOWS WHAT THE A.I. LADIES LIKE!
Jega R’domnai is a all around…straight up no joke… BADASS
Noble six: i may be a random orphan, but at least i throw hands with the best of em.
Wait till he finds out how witchers are made...
"They stopped using children " a l8ne I will use to the day I die
Spartan 3s did have requirements, they were just less strict than the 2s'. Then there are the Cat 2s, who are basically Spartan 2s.