@euandewar said:
@corruptedevil said:
@bigjeffrey said:
@corruptedevil said:
Looks like a Ridley Scott thing.
If they could just make more spartans why didn't they do that after Reach?
they did with the Spartan IV program but it took a while to crank them out. Master Chief is a Spartan 2 which are the ones that good juiced up and experimented on. Spartan4's are like regular soilders in battle armor 2's are like walking tanks.
Let me rephrase that, why didn't they make more Spartans that are exactly like Master Chief
I believe the in-universe explanation was that it was just too time-consuming and expensive a thing to do when you're constantly at war with everything. Much easier to just take adult men/women and put 'em in fancy suits then go through with all that fancy gene therapy and extensive training.
Oh and I think Spartan II's came from a specific gene pool whose genes allowed for them to be fitted with augmentations without them being crippled for life.
I read The Fall of Reach in high school, I can answer this! Sort of!
The whole Spartan II program was headed by Dr Halsey. However, as @euandewar said, it was really expensive and time consuming. They essentially kidnapped young kids and threw them into military training programs that made Ender's Game look like summer camp. And sometime in their teenage years, they set up augmentations for those kids. As I recall, only around thirty of them actually got through the augmentation process in good enough shape for military duty. The rest either died or were crippled. Just from that little paragraph, you can imagine a myriad number of potential issues, both practically and morally.
From what I remember, Spartan I's were just regular badass soldiers (essentially an army of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Commando). III's and IV's were just programs intended to produce soldiers that has as many Spartan II qualities as possible without going completely overboard in the time, cost, and moral questionability departments. I think Halo Reach was Spartan III's.
So, yeah, there's my embarrassing "I know too much about Halo" post.
EDIT: Oh right. Something on topic. At least it doesn't look completely silly. Looking back at the first three games, it's hard to imagine those turning into a live action movie that doesn't look ridiculous. But then, we live in a world where The Avengers and those Thor movies are popular things, so perhaps a Halo movie that smartly uses a similar aesthetic won't look so out of place after all.
Still, I doubt that I will watch it, unless practically everyone on the internet starts talking about it.
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