SPARTANs - The Ultimate Super Soldier

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0:00 - Intro
0:57 - Fabletics Sponsorship
2:22 - SPARTAN Is
7:04 - SPARTAN IIs
20:24 - SPARTAN IIIs
29:58 - SPARTAN IVs and Power Levels
36:47 - Conclusion
37:32 - Arbiter

Music:
Halo 3 - Menu Theme, Released, Black Tower, Edge Closer, Halo Reborn, Tribute
Halo: Combat Evolved - A Walk in the Woods
Halo Wars - Bad Here Day, Money or Meteors, Flollo, Flip and Sizzle, Work Burns and Runaway Grunts

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[Influfferious]

My favorite kind of child soldier: The kind full of drugs

[Emanon...]

ONI is the most realistic clandestine organisation ever written:
Massive budget, omnipresent surveillance and data gathering, and yet completely incompetent.

[steadyjumper]

Also let’s not forget, half of the Spartans didn’t betray humanity. 99.9% loyal AF and died proving it

[ForgottenHonor]

Inquisitor to ONI Agent: "Have you considered changing jobs?"

[Bilskirnir]

Ask not what Emile did to the Innies. Ask instead, "What did the Innies do to deserve Emile?"

[martymiarty]

Remember, Spartans don’t fall in battle. They’re only MIA.

[thethghostface]

"Hey guys, I'm in the Outer Colonies, and I'm looking for that kid who can perfectly predict a coin flip. What've we got here! YOINK! Ooh, it's a kid who just lost his parents in an Innie attack! He'll make a fine soldier, just look how mad he is! Check out this cool math prodigy! YOINK! These guys are super valuable for data analysis and other nerd stuff, I'm sure she'll come in handy. Ooh, what do we have here? It's a street urchin! YOINK! You're not that kid who can perfectly call a coin flip, but I'll take you along anyway. These kids probably won't survive all the augments the docs stick in them, but if they do, they'll be able to do some really cool stuff. I'm still looking for that kid who can call a coin flip, but in the meantime-YOINK-check out this kid whose parents got arrested for being Innie sympathizers. He doesn't like me, or the UNSC, but thats nothing a little brainwashing can't fix."

[vibechecker]

I loved how as the war goes on ONI goes from "Children kidnapped in *very* morally bankrupt fashion and trained to be paragons of humanity, the best of us, the next big leap etc, etc, " to "We need to stop these alien mfs from glassing planets too quickly, lets gather as many preteen sociopaths, future serial killers, and reasonably gifted kids, pump them full of chemicals and throw them at the covenant"

They weren't even trying to hide it by the end.

[vibechecker]

Marines: "Omg spartans, we're saved!"
Spartan 3 headhunter, with necklace of Elite Mandibles around neck: "I really don't think you understand who we are."

[knightartorias]

Space Marines:
"The Emperor is an unfeeling god, and we waste our efforts on mortals!"
"We should turn to the Ruinous Powers!"
Spartans:
"The UNSC is an unfeeling entity, and we are commanded by those who could never properly utilize our potential."
"Nevertheless, we will do our duty."

[jonathanathor]

Oni is basically the weapons plus program but with the budget of the US military industrial complex, nasa and every fed agency.

[TLhikan]

“My life is so hard. Nothing feels fulfilling. I’m so tired and beaten down all the time.”

*seconds later*

“New PNW Halo video let’s frickin go”

[buzzlightyearpfp]

spartans have always been one of the most interesting super-soldiers to me due to initially being designed for human vs human warfare, only to be shifted over to alien warfare by pure chance

[TheBerchie]

“Dear Chairman, I don't give a DAMN about your committee and its opinions of my work. Have you forgotten sir, we were at war. A fight with an alien race for the very survival of our species. I feel I must remind you that it is undeniable, and may I say a fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable.”
-Dr. Leonard Church

[TheGamesJmanPlays]

SPARTANS and their story are intrinsically tied into my formative years as a pre-teen and teenager. Even now, as an adult, there's a part of my soul that will always brim with fervor when they show up.

I'd die if I was put through the Space Marine program, or trained to become a COG Gear.

I'd *refuse* to die if it meant becoming a SPARTAN.

[vinbingames]

13:14 Funny thing about that the spartan IIs did have a shrink. He ended up taking his own life out of guilt with his final request to Parangosky was to put his brain into an AI.

And my favorite line about the spartan 3s was Parangisky's simple question to Akerson: "You want to trade lives for time?" Still sends chill reading or hearing it.

Edit: One final note at 31:42 the earlier version of spartan 4 augmentations was inteded to make the 4s as strong as the 2s WITHOUT mjolnir armor. nine subjects died, one went insane her name is Ilsa Zane and she's on the loose with the banished.

[ryanheppel]

Spartan I: I’m doing my part! Join today! Service guarantees citizenship.

Spartan II: can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever... until you are dead!

Spartan III: PRAISE BE TO SPACE KING

[MoneyTrees]

Dont forget that Spartans were so valuable and dangerous that should just one be infected by the Flood, the UNSC would initiate a protocol (CORRUPTOR Protocol) allowing the use of weapons of mass destruction to take out the infected Spartan (and everything in the area). This has only happened once in lore.

[testinghydra]

Fun fact: Ackerson despised Halsey and the S2 program. Was it because it was unethical to kidnap kids? Nope! It was taking away funding from the ODST’s, his project. Despite hating the S2’s he saw that they were effective, but he saw room for improvement and an opportunity for revenge. The S3 program, expendable Spartans. He had Kurt kidnapped and faked his death in order to train the S3’s. Plus Halsey was completely unaware of the entire thing until Reach was falling (ignore Halo Reach Halsey).