dahuman said:
Mendicate Bias said:
The novels are canon and are used the flesh out the universe because Bungie are not fans of having long cutscenes. Even in the games if you want to get to the meat of the story you have to do extra exploring to find the terminals and audio logs. Here's an excerpt from the story. Keep in mind that Spartan 117 is the most genetically perfect human being out of a massive human population of around 20 billion and has been trained rigorously from the age of 6 (he is 14 when the enhancments are made):
1. Carbide ceramic ossification- advanced material grafting onto skeletal structures to make bones virtually un-breakable.
2. Muscular Enhancement Injections- protein complex is injected intramuscularly to increase tissue density and decrease lactase recovery time.
3. Catalytic Thyroid Implant- platinum pellet containing human growth hormone catalyst is implanted in the thyroid to boost skeletal and muscle tissues.
4. Occipital Capillary Reversal- submergence and boosted blood vessel flow beneath the rod's and cones of subjects retina. Produces a marked visual perception increase.
5. Superconducting Brification of Neural Dendrites- alteration of bioelectrical nerve transduction to shielded electronic transduction. Three hundred percent increase in subject reflexes
Also here is another excerpt from the book. Keep in mind this is all without their mjolnir suits and when they were only 14:
"Your Spartans can run at burts up to fifty-five kph," he explained. "Kelly can run a little faster, I think. They will only get quicker as they adjust to the alterations we've made to their bodies. They can lift three times their body weight- which, I might add, is almost double the norm due to their increased muscle density. And they can virtually see in the dark."
Dr. Hasley pondered this new data. "They shouldn't be performing so well. there must be a synergistic effect brought on by the combined modifications. What are their reaction times?"
"Almost impossible to chart. We estimate it at 20 miliseconds," Mendez replied. He shook his head then added, "I believe it's significantly faster in combat situations, when their andrenaline is pumping."
By the time the first game comes along the Chief is light years more advanced than in that excerpt through a combination of battle experience, Mark V Mjolnir and Cortana optimizing his neural pathways making him even faster and smarter.
Samus is just an ordinary girl who was trained by another race. The Chief is the most perfect genetic human being that has been advanced far beyond human through medical procedures, was trained from the age of 6 in over 3000 years of human war and tactical history by a super smart AI and is also known for having extreme luck. Yes without their suits the MC would kill Samus.
@dahuman
How can she take her suit off in SSBB then?
edit: although like I said before with her suit on Samus would win, the technology in her universe is just too advanced for the MC to defeat.
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SSBB also has a dood that throws grenades and shoots missiles who wears a head band that's unable to blow a little yellow animal that calls lighting down the sky into pieces of roadkill, bad example my friend (not a main series lawl) .
I've always thought that Halo novels were BS, US people do stuff like that all the time, they have 10 different authors all dibbing into a character instead of one main author which in turn results in a ton of shit that gets so out of whack that things need a reboot every decade (AKA DC and Marvel) , there is practically 0 consistency in between the games and the novels on what the MC can do, just a huge money cow and for the suckers who spend money on them. At least things like Harry Potter are consistent, Halo and Star Wars shit, not so much. As far as I'm concerned, Joseph Staten should have written all of them, they are literally up to 5+ atm and going higher with short stories written by different people, it's just crappy literature.
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Halo novels are most definitely accepted by Bungie as canon. Where in Halo 1 or Halo 2 do you ever find out that Cortana really is created as an image of Dr. Halsey, who picked John up when he was a kid, or where in those games is it mentioned that Cortana was given a choice of which spartan to pick, and she chose John because he had good luck. But both of those things, including the words Dr. Halsey said to John when she first met him are in the Cortana flashbacks in Halo 3. All of these memories come straight out of the Nylund's Fall of Reach novel. It could be argued to be crappy literature, but it is canon, unlike the Star Wars novels.
