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[QUOTE=the_killer24;24439459]Alpha Company was about 12 (yes, younger than most of us) when they assaulted the Covenant refinery.[/QUOTE] srsly wat

[QUOTE=Spiderfaec;24439730]srsly wat[/QUOTE] They were children, hopped up on super-future steroids. They've got shit in them that Barry Bonds would kill for.

Wow, seriously?

[QUOTE=Tk1138;24439188]Also, right now Halo 2, I'm the Arbiter, in a Human tank, attacking flood controlled Ghosts with a Spectre following me. Ha[/QUOTE] I miss the Flood being able to drive vehicles. :saddowns: Why did they have to take that feature out of Halo 3?

[QUOTE=Tk1138;24439873]Wow, seriously?[/QUOTE] It goes into detail at the beginning half of Ghosts of Onyx. They begin their training at a VERY young age, I think it was around 5 or 6. I can't recall correctly since it's been a while since I read it. Whatever group of Spartans were the main characters through Onyx and into the shield world, they were young too. About 13 or 12. Again, it's been a while.

They are only 15 on there first op. Noble are from 23-32

Alpha company is around their 20's during the Fall of Reach. Carter, one of the oldest in A company, is 32. Beta company was the same set of recruits as Lucy and Tom in the beginning of Ghosts of Onyx. The reason Kat and the other Betas on Noble Team were not present at Operation: TORPEDO was because Kurt and Mendez pulled them during training for deployment to other operations. Kat is 22 during Reach, Tom and Lucy would be around 19-20 when they slip into the Dyson Sphere.

Did you guys know that Sgt. Johnson was 82 at the time of his death? It didn't look like it because he was physically much younger, from all of the time he spent in cryogenic suspension during Slipspace jumps.

[QUOTE=the_killer24;24433033]Plasma weapons can't actually work. They're shooting hot gas. Unless they're somehow firing blood plasma, then what is this i dont even[/QUOTE] It's still superheated gas, it can cause severe burns and if the cloud is dense enough, melt through metal. It doesn't have the disadvantages against armor like laser weapons, either. By our current technology, a plasma weapon (which wouldn't be portable with our current reactors anyway) would act more like a blow torch, since we don't really know how to control magnetic fields yet.

I got a picture in my head of a bunch of short Spartans chasing grunts around a refinery now. I can't wait until I get my hands on that journal that comes with the limited edition. I haven't read any of the Halo books so hopefully the journal will shed some light on everything about the Spartans.

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;24440781]It's still superheated gas, it can cause severe burns and if the cloud is dense enough, melt through metal. It doesn't have the disadvantages against armor like laser weapons, either. By our current technology, a plasma weapon (which wouldn't be portable with our current reactors anyway) would act more like a blow torch, since we don't really know how to control magnetic fields yet.[/QUOTE] We have plasma torches. [QUOTE=Atomicrockets]Silly as they are, plasma weapons are a popular SF concept that just won't go away. They are encountered in such diverse places as the original Star Trek TV series, the Traveler role playing game, and the Babylon 5 TV series. They play the role of a futuristic flame-thrower. Their main draw-back is that they won't work. Plasma is the so-called "fourth state of matter", and is basically hot air. That is, it is a gas heated to temperatures comparable to the interior of a star or the center of a thermonuclear explosion so that all the atoms are ionized. Unfortunately, according to the virial theorem, the plasma wants to equalize its internal pressure with the external, i.e., it wants to expand into a diffuse cloud of nothing. John W. Lewellen says that a "plasma beam" could be thought of as an exceedingly dense, slow-moving particle beam. Personally that seems a little strained, but what do I know?[/QUOTE]

Also it was kind of sad to know that Spartans could die during the enhancement process when they were put in the big pods or whatever.

[QUOTE=Snail562;24439095]And there are so many feminine girls in the military? (excluding some air force)[/QUOTE] What I meant was, she doesn't really sound like a girl.

[QUOTE=Funky Pickle;24440775]Did you guys know that Sgt. Johnson was 82 at the time of his death? It didn't look like it because he was physically much younger, from all of the time he spent in cryogenic suspension during Slipspace jumps.[/QUOTE] And the increased life expectancy 500 years from the future and the fact hes a SPARTAN I may also be a factor.

[QUOTE=fish puncher;24440989]What I meant was, she doesn't really sound like a girl.[/QUOTE] Thinking of girls in Halo, the only one that actually sounded like one was Echo 419. I would love it so much if she appeared in Reach, because after all she isn't dead yet.

[QUOTE=Trooper-guy1;24439180]I'm pretty sure Spartans are actually younger than they look. I think some of the Spartan III's are like 13 to 16 years old, hence some of that immaturity.[/QUOTE] Depends on the generation. They were around 13 on their first ops, but Noble team has survived for ages, and Noble 6 is probably from the first batch of S3's, which makes him pretty old already. [editline]11:05PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Funky Pickle;24440775]Did you guys know that Sgt. Johnson was 82 at the time of his death? It didn't look like it because he was physically much younger, from all of the time he spent in cryogenic suspension during Slipspace jumps.[/QUOTE] And he was most likely a Spartan 1, with their unknown enhancements. They probably live longer than the average human anyway, and I bet the average Earth citizen lifespan in mid-2500's is around 120. [editline]11:06PM[/editline] [QUOTE=the_killer24;24440815]We have plasma torches.[/QUOTE] Fire them in capsules that can contain the plasma for a few hundred meters. This was how plasma weapons in XCOM worked. [editline]11:07PM[/editline] [QUOTE=P1X3L N1NJA;24441121]And the increased life expectancy 500 years from the future and the fact hes a SPARTAN I may also be a factor.[/QUOTE] Ninja :arghfist::frown:

Let me get this straight, Sgt. Johnson is a SPARTAN I, Master Chief is a SPARTAN II, and Noble Team are SPARTAN III's. Correct?

[QUOTE=fish puncher;24442106]Let me get this straight, Sgt. Johnson is a SPARTAN I, Master Chief is a SPARTAN II, and Noble Team are SPARTAN III's. Correct?[/QUOTE] Yes.

[QUOTE=PistolKid;24442120]Yes.[/QUOTE] Two more questions. Did SPARTAN I's not have armor? And if SPARTAN III's were made after II's, then why are the II's stronger than III's? Sorry if that's confusing.

Spartan 1's were ordinary adult marines with chemical enhancements. Pretty sure it heightened their strength, stamina, pain threshold and other battlefield capabilities somewhat well, considering there was subsequent SPARTAN projects. SPARTAN 3's were made to be expendable shock troops, cheaper, but more cost effective. A Mjolnir MK V armor cost more than a few starships. SPI (the Spartan 3 armor) gear didn't have energy shields, and was much cheaper. They also had quicker and more effective training, and less than optimal genes for augmentation.

Thank you, I just wanted to clear that up.

In short, Spartan 3's can turn your shit into diamonds.

My friend and I were playing Social Big Team. It was Multi-Flag CTF on Standoff Heavy. I got a 29 killstreak on a guass warthog turret, my friend driving. Feels good man. (Other team quit, we won anyways. Final score: 30 kills 1 death)

[QUOTE=PistolKid;24442840]My friend and I were playing Social Big Team. It was Multi-Flag CTF on Standoff Heavy. I got a 29 killstreak on a guass warthog turret, my friend driving. Feels good man. (Other team quit, we won anyways. Final score: 30 kills 1 death)[/QUOTE] I see you weren't exactly contributing to the match, though.

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;24442964]I see you weren't exactly contributing to the match, though.[/QUOTE] We picked up the flag carrier and dropped him off at the base twice, and blew up the banshees/choppers that were chasing them down.

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;24441460] Fire them in capsules that can contain the plasma for a few hundred meters. This was how plasma weapons in XCOM worked. [/QUOTE] That would be terribly inefficient and you would be better off using magnetic weapons.

I am not stating how practical they would be, just that they'd work.

Anyone want to do halo 3 campaign together?

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;24443638]I am not stating how practical they would be, just that they'd work.[/QUOTE] Go find me a workable plasma weapon that's not a torch or a flamethrower and we'll talk.

[QUOTE=Spiderfaec;24443695]Anyone want to do halo 3 campaign together?[/QUOTE] I'd like to but I might lag a lot.