The reason why the infinity was so massive because it wasn't meant to be a warship but a liveship as the last resort of humanity was on the verge of loosing earth so it and its sister ship the eternity was meant to carry the last remnants of humanity far away from the covenant
Opening cutsecene of Infinity being officially launched... "It's been four years since the end of the war. And today we send forth a vessel designed for battle, but now re-purposed. For peace." - UNSC Dignitary. Yes it's a warship designed to take on CSO class super carriers and win.
Palmer fought Insurgents as a Spartan 4 at least. Also, the female admiral who ordered them to kill Halsey was a Spartan-2 whose augmentations didn't work right. She was in charge of kilo-five and then became in charge of ONI.
And also here is a quote from the Fall of Reach book when Halsey learns about the risks in augmentation. Dr. Halsey sighed. “I have doubts, Déjà. I thought the reasons so compelling when we first started project SPARTAN. Now? I . . . I just don’t know.” “I have been over the ONI projections of Outer Colony stability three times, Doctor. Their conclusion is correct: massive rebellion within twenty years unless drastic military action is taken. And you know the ‘drastic military action’ the brass would like. The SPARTANS are our only option to avoid overwhelming civilian losses. They will be the perfect pinpoint strike force. They can prevent a civil war.” “Only if they survive to fulfill that mission,” Dr. Halsey countered. “We should delay the procedures. More research needs to be done. We could use the time to work on MJOLNIR. We need time to-” “There is another reason to proceed expeditiously,” Déjà said. “Although I am loath to bring this to your attention, I must. If the Office of Naval Intelligence detects a delay in their prize project, you will likely be replaced by someone who harbors . . . fewer doubts. And regrettably for the children, most likely someone less qualified.” “I hate this.” Dr. Halsey got up and strode to the fire exit. “And sometimes, Déjà, I hate you, too.” She left the observation room. So she does care about her Spartans. Plus another sentence I had here that"s been proven false.
@@Ambulatory_Viscount Sorry, guess I haven't played Halo CE recent enough and more recent Halo games changed my memories, but I know that at least in Infinite that is true. I just checked every MCC game with enemy elites and apparently I have only played one game with elites turning their shields off. I could have sworn that they did it in other games.
apparently the Elites of Halo 4 and spartan-ops are categorized by the UNSC xenobiologist as a subspecies of the primary sanghelli we've seen in CE,2,3,odst,Reach. Similar to how the Skirmishers are a cousin species to the Jackals. While in actuality it's more like a Wolf staring down a German Shepherd. Their equipment was taken from cold storage as being "outdated" (think looking at a WW2 soldier standing next to a Modern one). As for their laughable performance, a lot of Jul's combat capable veteran forces died fighting Chief in Halo 4, these in the cutscenes are essentially the inexperienced reserves and civilian militia, and are only a threat in large numbers. And if you've seen any of the stories from the likes of Vietnam, Afganistan, and currently Ukraine; it's a viable danger that ONI kicked.
@@Ambulatory_Viscount I have no evidence of a claim, because ONI is really good at their job, or it may have been a rogue agent who had over stepped their parameters. hard to say.
As for the explosive vest that Glassman wore, it appears to be a callback to when Jul 'Mdama himself was forced to wear one, whilst in ONI custody, in the novel The Thursday War. That said, still FAR too big a yield.
I really liked Spartan Ops initially - it was new content, decent CGI cutscenes, etc. The missions start off repetitive, but steadily improve, including the Anvil levels, the 'breakout' one and more, and the 'power struggle' level near the end. It was GREAT to see Halsey do so much - really stole the show, and to see Osman too (albeit the Halsey basher supreme, though not without some reason) but even at the time, there was reservations: the sloppy tactics, motion capture fights being a bit limited, sometimes good, sometimes more basic writing. Halsey is largely bluffing about 'revenge' at the end, but later in the Escalation comics, she seems to let her eagerness to get to the Absolute Record get the better of her. She DOES ream out Palmer about how she couldn't do EVERYTHING she did for ONI without oversight and handwaving along the way. Doesn't make her wholly innocent, but doesn't make her centrally culpable. Palmer meanwhile claims the armour was 'soiled' because of her. And Palmer always seems to have issues with scientists, usually somewhat humourously, other times, a bit pettily. Elites improve somewhat, in Halo 5 - though only slightly, in art style. And way better, in Infinite.
Roland was made from a scan of a human brain. He's technically a Machine Spirit. For 40k reference. Not an Abominable Intelligence. But yeah a machine spirit in the position of the ships Executive Officer did give those Spartan 4s a direct order.
Dr. Halsey is the closes thing to a mother the Spartan 2s have. If you pay attention during the prologe to halo 4. Dr Halsey's said .. "Your mistake is seeing Spartans as military hardware. My Spartans are humanity's next step, our destiny as a species. Do not underestimate them. But most of all, do not underestimate... him." She is attached to them. Especially John-117 as if they are her own children. As to her out running an elite shes 68 years old. But she also spent a decent amout of time in cryo. Which practically stops the aging process.
Admiral Osman who Captain Lasky talked to is a Former Spartan 2 "SPARTAN-019" but washed out because her body rejected most of the Augmentations. She hate's Dr Haley with a passion hence the Kill Order.
9:06 That's what she said. 10:04 This guy must love his job. 14:10 Percussive maintenance 14:28 And the answer is *YES!* 17:50 Spartan 2s will always be better. 21:28 I like this girl, she's got a sense of humor and is Irish, or is descended from some. 26:46 Is that Travis Willingham? EDIT: Yep, that's Travis, I didn't know Roy Mustang was eligible for the Spartan IV program.
Boss I don't think anyone has ever told you the full context of why hallsey is a bad person. To put it simply she was so fanatical to the UNSC that she saw colonys rebelling against poor treatment and wanting independence as an extinction level event and her solution was to kidnap children and experiment on them in an effort to create super soldiers dedicated to the Slaughter and subjugation of those who didn't want to be part of an unfair government, yes there where terrorists but they where a direct result of the UNSC treating rebellions to nuclear extermination, she also made clones of the Spartans as children, clones that where alive and somewhat sapient but underdeveloped and would live short wasting painful lives dieing slowly infront of thier families who where told thier genetics where to blame, that was the good doctors idea of kindness ,she is undoubtedly a monster one whose actions have benefited mankind but a monster nonetheless.
22:05 eeeeehhhh… I’m gonna have to disagree on that one. I mean I like Thorne, don’t get me wrong, but the other Spartans on team majestic aren’t bad. Madsen is probably my favorite after Thorne, demarco next, and the other two last because they really aren’t given personality beyond “Scottish girl,” and “black Heavy.” Of course, they are both still above Palmer, because fuck Palmer.
God I hated fire team majestic. Its like they wanted to take a dump on what it meant to be spartan. Also palmer is such a.....well we all know what her personality is.
