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Hello everyone. It's us. It's not crime. Professional as always.

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I already did the confirmation.

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Only 20 minutes.

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It's fine. It's fine.

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I already did the confirmation like we are live so I never, never believe it until I

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see it.

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He has no faith.

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No faith brothers. Thank you everyone for coming just so that everyone knows. I remember

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this time we are on Spotify. We are on Amazon as well. We are on maybe something else. I

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don't know. Probably something else as well. We are, so if you want to listen to us offline,

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you know, if you're working or actually having a normal existence, you know, you've got things

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You aren't one of the parasites known as a YouTuber.

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Yeah, you've actually, you know, I don't want to be, you know, I just want to be happy that

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that good meme. Today is a topic that's got one of us like rocking back and forth.

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Go.

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Yeah. Colin is very happy about that. Today we're talking about Halo. But before we get

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into that, we need to address the comment of the week we had last time on our last episode.

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This one was to deal with one of the fantasy. So good old fancy that was out there. They'll

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appreciate that episode. But before we get into that, Donkeyman USA says, Colin, do not

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deny me.

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Thank you, Donkeyman. Unfortunately,

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gritties will be here at some point.

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The last question of the week was to do with drawing the sword of Cain, just for quick

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reference for only the uninitiated non fancy people who don't know it. The sword of Cain

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is basically like this, so I literally the sword of the god or elder God Cain and basically

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draw it and makes you into a crazy psychopath. And some of your responses work as predicted,

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pretty horrific. Hashtag Cain train was by the rude Canadian 8068. I'll just also address

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people Eli is unfortunately not with us this episode is actually living a normal existence.

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Yeah, lucky man. He has hobbies. Not kidding. He's having fun and shout him out. And if

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you people want to donate and diss him, that's he will literally not know about it. So it's

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perfect.

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But for the root Canadian 8068, he says hashtag Cain train. I'd give the sword of Cain to

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our Lord and Savior boing gob so that he may find about the light of the realm of.

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But again, for the uninitiated boy in gob, our Lord and Savior, absolute like sponsor

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basically of the law crimes podcast. Boyngeb is essentially the father of all squakes in

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Muhammad, Ada sigma, and he died because he tried to eat the sun. RIP rest in peace. He

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will not he will be sorely missed. The next one is by at Trista Maura 1081. It says hashtag

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Cain train. I will personally use the Widowmaker to white streak. This is Pelan or white straight,

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by the way, and then tell him that 40k is his home timeline and that the murder of attempted

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to hide their existence by simply changing their names. Once Cain watches him get to

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work on killing the greatest bromance will be made. Shout to Elder Scrolls law there.

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And then we have another one by resident, greatest supporter of law crimes, Mr. At DJ

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Beast. Oh, good. This guy is he's in the he's probably in the chat right now roasting Colin

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as he deserves it. Is the bed made? The bed is made because because of DJ Beast. He's

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not like the second hairline joke. I think is your materials getting a bit stale. Yeah,

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right. Listen, we've we should on always saying it before stream, we should put sponsors on

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our foreheads because they're just so big. I pretty sure chair me because I just I just

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don't know why he's commented. Why are you here? Why are you here, brother? Please watch

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make her watch to initiate hashtag Cain train by DJ Beast says I will take the sword of

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Cain into 40k just to go in a leagues of vote and killing spree. Hopefully this will be

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a big enough event to get them any amount of law. If not, then nothing of value is lost.

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Yeah. Oh, voting. They're being carried by another franchise. Only person I know who

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actually likes them is Arthur Bones and like he's like the battered housewife of the 40k

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communities. It's already been abandoned. I'm gonna be honest. So make sure to remind

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him that thank you, Mr. Potato who, who's but coming in saying Colin, your sheets are

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getting pretty stale. Wow. They already the slander has already begun. And the last one

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is by Darren Weathington 1923. They said, after Cain train, I would draw the sword of Cain

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to cleanse the universe of con goers, tabletop slash smash players and V tubers and all their

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fan bases is the only way we can achieve true peace.

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All right, look, you had me for the first two. Don't that last one wasn't necessary.

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I don't know what he means by this. There's clearly nothing wrong with the smash bros

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community. Not a single problem. No controversy, nothing. I can't even remember it completely

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going out my eye. Just like the Minecraft community. It's all wholesome and nothing

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goes wrong. One of them have ever done inappropriate things to their fan base. No, the community

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law is more interesting than the actual game sometimes. I'm not gonna lie. The TV spelling.

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Yeah. Thank you guys so much for answering that question the week. The next question

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of the week is you can wear power armor. What would you do? And this is hashtag power trip.

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So in today's theme, you could bear Mjolnir for your powered up armor or space marine

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power armor if it was once be more or hammer theme question.

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Bear in mind, you don't have like like Colin said, if you try to wear space marine or Mjolnir

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armor, you would pretty much die because you're not supposed to wear it just out the bat,

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but assume you can wear it and there's no spine breaking. There's no like you need a

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black carapace. It's like you imagine it's like fallout armor where you can just be like

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open in done. Like it's no object. Just have a bit of a power trip. Have some fun. Don't

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worry about the law. That'd be hashtag power trip or one word and just give us your, you

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know, funny answers. Maybe even a serious one. One from the heart brothers. We appreciate

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you. It's a safe place. But speaking of not a safe place for humanity, we're gonna talk

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about some halo law today.

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Not a safe place for humanity there.

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Oh, it's not. And if people who are listening and watching live, we have a new element we

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want to test out, which is basically we're going to put some nice scale bit of halo footage

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in the background for you. So you're listening on just audio.

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I applied the halo was Colin has supplied the other halo stuff. So you look like a human

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being. What does that mean?

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we could just put subway surf run off and just follow along. But we've chosen something

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a little bit more on topic. But going on with the law today for the episode, the podcast,

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I believe it's either I think it's Colin, you starting and just ripping.

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Okay, beginning with halo, little brothers, sit in relax and and, you know, pucker up

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whenever any questions to both of you, but mostly how

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Yeah, interrupt as needed. But yes, today we're going to be talking about Spartan. So

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with that in mind, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna start and then eventually I'm gonna

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stop God. God only knows when that'll be. But you know, we will eventually stop talking

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about Spartan Donkeyman with the five. Okay. Thank you, Donkeyman. Thank you. In fact, Mjolnir

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armor definitely had a built in hog cranker for Spartans. It did not. It's not true. There

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was no hog cranker in the meal.

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Just as a slight teaser for people later, there will be some gameplay recorded from

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Colin. So if you feel, feel free to let us know exactly.

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I was talking to the leaderboard both on my team, both matches. I just, that doesn't matter.

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I just know exactly how you feel about Colin.

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I'm gonna get ripped no matter what human being TJBs. I didn't need to see.

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Human being is very accurate.

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I'm gonna go now.

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One last comment from TJB says Colin is standing on a stool for his stream.

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This isn't even me yet. I don't play like trash. I'm not in the game yet. This isn't

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my footage.

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And it's mine. I'm still here. I'm just my camera. Don't mind me. It's fine.

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That's okay. Halo. Halo be with us.

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Spartans. So, you know, everyone, you know, you've seen Master Chief at least once in

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your life, I'm going to assume the basic idea of a Spartan, you know, super soldier, given

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the best armor augmentations, all that is not probably a new concept to you.

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But you might have noticed he's a Spartan too. And to be the second of something there

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needs to have been a first. This is groundbreaking stuff. I know.

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So the first iteration of the Spartan project was the Orion project or Project Orion. Doesn't

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go either way. It doesn't really matter. It was not at first called the Spartan project.

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It was just Project Orion. It was renamed retroactively once the twos came around. They

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were all not much as Spartans are called Spartans. These guys were known as Orions. And the initial

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iteration of them starts kind of in the 2200s where the newly formed UNSC, at least relatively

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new by this point, was trying to think, okay, are super soldiers something worth doing?

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And they weren't good enhancements really by any means.

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Imagine giving someone PCP and telling them to just go nuts. It was about at that level,

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just with military funding.

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What's the CIA project where they like, did crazy, crazy stuff? They gave LSD to dolphins

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or something.

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Well, that was one of them. And then they had a woman jerk the dolphin off.

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Yeah, I wasn't gonna go there. Appreciate that.

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Leon Leon with 10 sterling British pounds, mate. Thank you, brother. He says, remember

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the kids? Catherine Halsey did nothing wrong. I don't think people are gonna agree with

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that.

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You are insane, but we'll get to that.

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Stealthy 47 says, law crimes doing Fortnite law because Halo in Fortnite.

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I need the Master Chief armor in Fortnite.

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Yeah, pretty much.

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But yeah, start like the even precursor to Project Orion, really not great. But it did

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prove that to some extent, you can make a super soldier. If we build on this, we can

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get some good out of it. It also paved the way for like minor enhancements become standard

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for every human soldier in Halo, like adrenaline injections, which is incidentally a research

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in Halo Wars, at least the first one, I'm not sure about the second game. Johnson had

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a sex scene in Contact Harvest. Very true document USA and thank you for the five Johnson

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MK Ultra, I think that was the name of the experiment.

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And then Project Orion proper though 2300s.

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You get, you know, the first round of Project Orion, the first one I was just talking about

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was Project Orion point five. Now we're on to Project Orion phase one. It started with

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at least five test subjects may have been more not sure, but at least five and they

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were augmented. They tried it out and the project, however, was ultimately shelved because

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of lack of funding, poor results. It really, again, was not a very good project at this

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point. Things things didn't go great. To its credit, the augments sold the soldiers that

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were augmented were all quietly, you know, reintegrated back into the military. So the

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side effects weren't as bad as they're going to get, but they also all died within a year

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due to quote unquote undisclosed reasons. And when something in Halo is happening because

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of undisclosed reasons, it's probably because only took everyone involved behind the shed

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and put them down like dogs. We'll get into only a bit more in a bit. So whatever happened

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to those first five, who knows? And the reason I said, you know, at least five, it's not

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clear is because all the data on this original project by this point beyond the fact sure

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existed is either just deteriorated. You know, it's been five or 300 years, pardon me, 200

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years, at least since the first iteration of Orion, or because someone stole it, which

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again, probably only stole it. They tend to do that kind of dickery thing. So Project

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Orion is once again shelved for about 150, 100 years until we hit the end of the 25th

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century. There's a bit of a time jump again. And the insurrection. So for those of you

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not too aware of Halo, the insurrection was UNSC by this point is about 800 planets, you

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know, obviously nothing like the Imperium. It's 800 planets. That's pretty decently big.

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Plasma radiation sickness, that's we're going to get to that for the Oriens I'm about to

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talk about because it comes back. The insurrection though is like I was up to say, some of those

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outer colonies, they're called the ones that are, you know, farthest from Earth and the

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UNSC's heart. We're thinking maybe they didn't want to be part of the UNSC anymore. When

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you're 800 light years from Earth, why do you need to pay Earth taxes? Why, you know,

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who hasn't complained about taxes? And you know, I can walk to a government building.

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If I had to FTL travel to my government office, I was paying taxes to, I'd probably not be

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terribly happy either. Is this the plot of the Separatists in Star Wars? Well, not quite

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because the UNSC is also, I mean, kind of, but there was also a little bit of a, there

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might have been some human rights violations happening in the background, you know, the

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UNSC is in perfect. This is a sprinkling, just a small lot. You know, the UNSC, again,

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it's not the Imperium, but a few, you know, a couple just here and there, you know, oops.

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And the UNSC had been dealing with that more and more. And given that about a year from

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January 29th, 2491, which is the date of Project Orion restarting, given that a year from that

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date the UNSC's best way to prevent rebellion is to just nuke an entire planet, all of it,

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shout out to Far Isle. They were looking back into that super soldier thing to see if that

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wouldn't be a viable way of dealing with the insurrection. At the very least, less collateral

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damage than glassing a colony. Exterminatus usually best save that for a last resort.

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So they gathered the best and brightest of the UNSC Marines, the special forces, and

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they were, these were actually volunteer forces, which again, that's going to get put on hold

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for later. But, you know, they say, hey, you want to be an even better soldier? They took

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some volunteers and took them to where else but Reach, because Reach is where all the

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cool stuff happens in Halo.

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Shout out to the TV series.

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Shut up. Shut up.

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Completely honoured Reach.

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Kill this man.

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No.

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I've had enough of that.

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Even I know that was perhaps, I mean, like, I'm sad currently about how Star Wars has

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been murdered. Halo didn't even breathe as a TV series.

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I like the meme though of, I can't remember what it's originated with, like the guy being

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hanged and it's like first time and it's just like a Star Wars guy. First time being like

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crucified.

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You get a horrible TV show.

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Thank you, Zano for the two bucks. It says I hate Halsey. All my homies hate Halsey.

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Appreciate it.

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George doesn't hate Halsey.

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No, but you know.

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There's a bit of Stockholm syndrome in that, but still he's got a moustache.

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Yeah, there might be some psychological problems going on with the Spartan IIs. We'll get to

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Mom, that'll be all George. Like, bitch, give him some respect.

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He's such a cuddly bear.

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Yeah, Reach, you know, head of everything military industrial complex related, take

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him to be trained and augmented on Reach.

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It started with 65 volunteers and eventually reaching a peak of 300 with Project Orion

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round two, one of whom is of course Sergeant Avery Johnson. You know, if you ever wondered

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how the hell he survived up until the last of the original trilogy.

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Bring it in, baby.

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It's like, well, he was a Spartan. Hold me. That's right.

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Yeah, I love it.

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But even though, you know, Project Orion round two, far more successful. The augmentations

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were pretty awful. Johnson described it as both agonizing and it would also send him

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and others into just bouts of confused rage. But, you know, once they calmed down for good

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and stopped swinging at whatever scientist was pumped them full of magic, they were pretty

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good in combat. They were key in a whole lot of operations against the insurrection. They

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were good soldiers, quality knew their stuff. They were already the best of the best. So

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they they knew what they were doing. Problems were twofold this time around. Project Orion,

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these Spartan ones, as they'll come to be known, were good, but they weren't good enough.

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They were definitely better than on augment and humans. But just to give you a base of

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what we're still dealing with at this level of Spartan without like an in-depth medical

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examination, you really couldn't tell them apart from normal people. They essentially

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took a soldier, a good soldier, but just a soldier and made them within the context of

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Would it be fair to say that people loved Sergeant Johnson so much they like post actively

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put Spartan ones in and were like, he's cool because he's a Spartan one. But like when

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they made the original, they weren't thinking that through. They were just like, oh, he's

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cool. I'm well, we'll make this like just for him. I'm almost I'm almost certain they

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did that because also if you have like an OG copy of Halo combat evolved, it mentions

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how like on the back of the box, you are the master chief, the last Spartan. And then we

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see that turned out. Yeah, yeah. The last Spartan in this vicinity is what we meant.

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It wasn't even that Linda was on the pillar of autumn. But last Spartan for real, except

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not really. But Project Orion, it again, within the context of Halo, it made normal soldiers.

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Like it just you turn them into basically top of the line ODSTs in terms of overall

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effectiveness. You know, ODSTs are awesome. But for the level of, you know, budget and

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time and effort they spent on making super soldiers, you'd like something a bit better

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than just top of the line, something you already have. All the while, insurrection keeps getting

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worse. Civilians are being caught in the crossfire all the time. And the outer colonies are turning

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more and more against the UNSC. They it needed the ultimate soldier and Orion really just

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gave them good soldiers. It also I know someone brought it up caused irreversible genetic

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damage in some of them. Physical mental degradation, which just reduced their quality of life.

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And you know, most prevalent for the UNSC made them worse in combat. You know, this

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that's that's that's the main issue, of course. I mean, not being funny, but the the failed

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space marine aspirants usually just become bitter assholes, but they're actually pretty

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like strong. It's like, there's no drawback to being an aspirant. I'm pretty sure most

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of them like if they fail, they just either a servant or suit depends like you get you

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get examples like Caleb Aaron who became a house call. But then you get guys like the

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guy in that ultramarine comic about Marneus Calgares origin where he's like, I failed,

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but I'm still like seven foot tall and pretty strong. Yeah, in a cornet berserker. It's

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like, okay, okay. I'm pretty sure most of them become like, I think it's in the blood

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angels, they basically become like the next smoothie for like the hungry. I mean, the

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iron hands, the iron hands and their successes are the worst. They're just like you failed

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like 1% servitor, servitor. They don't have failures. They have they have success and

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then still things that are useful equipment. Yeah. Yeah, it's real. It's free servitors.

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Hey, exactly. But yeah, not not all of the not all of the orions, you know, went through

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this, once again, of course, most notably Avery Johnson, but enough did that only fabricated

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a disease known as Boran syndrome, that he only existed to explain why several hundred

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soldiers were suddenly on record as just kind of melting. So not great for them. But they

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had a better end than Orion 0.5 as I guess as I'll call it way back in the 2200s because

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they're the first iteration of Orion because these guys weren't disappeared. They were

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just quietly put back to the military, whatever position they had. And they even inspire the

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ODSTs to be restructured. So they paved the way for the ODSTs to be the badasses they

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are. So hey, that's good. And I am going out of chronological order a bit here. But the

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last big thing to know about the Spartan ones is that they had they had their own children

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that were known as Spartan 1.1s. They weren't they weren't even like as impressive as the

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Orians, but they were superior to baseline humans. They might have been augmented at

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birth, you know, only might have, you know, dicked around with that. But they also might

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not have been which is if that's true. It's a good thing only didn't pay them much interest

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because there would have been super soldier breeding programs in Halo. And that would

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have been even more horrific than what's about to show up in a moment. Speaking of Spartan

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1.2s, the ones on the box, the the master chief, George, you know, Cal 141, my beloved.

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While Project Orion was created and then gotten rid of for good with the this last round,

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there was a thing a report known as the Carver findings, which was looking at the state of

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humanity looking at the insurrections all the civil unrest that you want to see was

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dealing with the UEG. And it basically said that humanity is on the brink of total war

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between the inner and outer colonies. Dr. Halsey, may she burn in a lake of boiling

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piss for the rest of added her own report to the mix that stated that not only is total

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war inevitable, humanity is on the brink of sending itself back to the Stone Age when

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it occurs and that at the very least, billions of people are going to die. So her response

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was no, her response was not only to go no, but also you're stupid and wrong and you're

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not as smart as I am because I think it's going to be worse. Thank you.

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Let's show them democracy with my gun. Calling all hell divers, but it's basically the hell

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divers. Outer colony policy is, oh man, this is why does everyone like everyone obviously

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hate. I just even like from something doesn't know like a huge amount. I kind of just basically

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is sort of watch the games mostly. Like why is Dr. Halsey like particularly isn't like,

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is it just because she doesn't, is she like, she doesn't asshole or is it because she's

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a like genocide or maniac? I think I'll give like, there's three main reasons.

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Part of it is that as much as I already didn't like her before 343 took over the franchise,

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343 made her even worse. Just in terms of being just insufferable, arrogant and a bad

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person. Yeah. I mean, I think there's something to

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be said about when 343 were like, oh, it's not that humanity just like figured this stuff

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out. The forerunners, they like implanted them the schematics to build a space Marine

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into their DNA. And I guess Halsey knows that it's kind of like, she has some parallels

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with biggie in the, in the terms of like, if we want to win, we have to worry about morality.

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And that's kind of her thing. And to be fair, she's not wrong in the halo setting.

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At least there was also, well, saying that we'll get into what the Spartan two, thank

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you. Donkey man USA as well. Law fat three, a Spartan two named Maria test row chiefs

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armor then retired and had kids. Congratulations, Maria. She was the only one

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I believe to get a happy ending. But there's that like 343 also turned hate the UNSC into

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the Imperium light. Like the UNSC was never nearly as like dictatorial as it was after

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they took over. Remember when humanity were the forerunners? I like that red con. I'm

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going to be honest out. That's one three, four, three is them. I'll defend.

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I think they, I mean, they clearly made the best game with halo five. So

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I, all right, let's yeah. Like, okay, little man's slow roll right there.

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I'm slowing your roll right there. There's really halo five, maybe even halo

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six, but it's even called halo six. It just called halo infinite.

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Uh, but yeah, there was a, there was, you know, she's just kind of unpleasant, arrogant,

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know it all. Dick, uh, she was rude to noble team and halo reach. Uh, I know that's not exactly

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big. She was, she, she like kind of signed as Baron a little bit. She, she, she was mean

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Louis Rodriguez. Thank you for the one. Thank you, brother. Uh, she, she was rude to noble team.

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I'm glad Carter put her in her place. Uh, and there's also the little fact that as we're about

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to find out, she kidnapped 75 children. So, you know, not great. God, I mean, is, is it,

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isn't just because from a Warhammer perspective, like that's like low key not like that doesn't

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make me blink at all. Just because of Warhammer perspective. So, so hold on. There's 70,

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70 plus children. Then why is John called one one seven? Where's the other 40 come from?

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I will get to that. Okay. Cool. Thank you. Stealthy four seven is who is more insufferable,

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Halsey or Fabius bile have his balls, not insufferable. You might not want to hold a

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conversation with them because he's probably going to be torturing you, but like he's,

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he's cool. But like you might not leave with your scrotum.

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To be fair, I'd rather be tortured by Fabius then Halsey. But you'll laugh and then you'll die. But

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you'll laugh. Yeah. I don't want to be tortured either way, but I'd love to have, have like a

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bit of a silver lining. Fabulous Bill. Yeah. Bill. Yeah. One of them at least is a conversationalist.

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But yeah, humanity is in danger or at least only thinks it's in danger of sending itself back to

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the stone age. Doesn't matter or not if it's actually true because only felt it was true.

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So Catherine Halsey was brought to ONI section three, which is the special branch,

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special projects branch of them that does all the wacky awful things. And in 2511,

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they got to work on continuing what Orion began. Side note, Andy, did you know ONI exists?

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Yes. Yeah. The office of Naval intelligence is a branch of the United States Navy. I know somewhere

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I have like one of those halo collectibles where they had like an ONI booklet and some like

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declassified documents somewhere. I've got them somewhere. Yeah. It's sorry. I just, I just thought

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of the, it's kind of not related, but it's semi-related, which is like a funny like

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naming of things. Cause I think it was like, there's a, it's like in America, like, you know,

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like in your colleges, you design like special, like big like jumpers or shirts or whatever.

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It has like a white lettering. And one that was like Christian University of Michigan.

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Believe it or not, there's no come branch of ONI.

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How did that not pass the sniff test?

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ONI, come ONI, let's go.

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Did it say come on your shirt? Like surely come on. Oh man. Sorry. So off topic.

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I'm five. Oh, but uh,

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Mr. Mealog says Marathi versus Halsey, hell in a cell.

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Thank you, brothers. This time around, uh, their branch, uh, their goal is of course, you know,

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once again, not dealing with aliens yet. Humanity doesn't know the covenant exists yet. This is

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solely to deal with separatist movements. Uh, they are now going to make the perfect super soldier,

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the best you can possibly get. Uh, the idea overall being, you know, the Oriens weren't

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good enough. We want super soldiers who can bust in, eat a wall of bullets just without phasing.

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And then, you know, there's a meeting going on where some moderately important people are like,

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hey, maybe we should break away from the UNSC. And then before it gets any farther than that,

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a bunch of super soldiers storm in and kill everyone and then leave.

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Uh, so what else do they do? But Amber Alert children, uh, the reason they needed to be,

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uh, children, I say needed to be children. So I thank you for the two bucks from a non-dormant.

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He says Grimgoor, Ironhide, Wa versus Reach, who wins? I think a Matt Cannon could destroy

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a planet if you fired enough of them at it.

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Don't reach DJ Beast earlier said I love come and the universities.

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University in Michigan.

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Uh, but there were two reasons Spartans needed to be kids. One was that they needed to be young

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enough for the augmentations to be accepted, but only also wanted soldiers that would only ever be

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soldiers, uh, pure complete indoctrination, no questioning of orders or wondering if what they

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were doing is right or having family concerns or anything like that. Because as far as their

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concerns are concerned, they're not going to be able to do anything. So I think that's a

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concern. Total collapses on the line and everyone wants super soldiers in their back pocket, even

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beyond that. So any and all morals were promptly thrown out the window before the project even

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began. Uh, these children needed to be as close to perfect as a human being could possibly get.

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No history of anything like disease or any genetic problems in their family, nothing at all.

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It was, you were not the running to be a Spartan candidate. Although to be quite frank, I don't

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think I'd want to be in the running to be a Spartan candidate. Uh, the kids, you know, they needed to

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be competitive and have a real go-getter spirit, which in most other settings, you know, this might

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be the start of a great heroic journey where these, you know, these children are destined to be, you

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know, the hero of the story and then only kidnapped all of them. Uh, when they set out, and you were

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asking earlier, they found 150 children, uh, from ages six to eight, uh, that they felt fit the

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criteria, which is why, Hey, well, how come Cal 141, John 117, why does it go up that high?

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There was 150 of them first. Uh, there's also Spartan 1337, but that's just a gamer joke. So

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that doesn't really count. Another one from a donkey man, USA. Thank you brother for five bucks.

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Says law fact four, keep him cum brother. She quite cool. He says, Fred one Oh four gets used

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as a sled by a pretty detective lady. He then sends her a, a massage or message saying next time

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he rides on top. So Fred, Fred's also will get to him. Probably the only one to come out of the

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Spartan program to program with a normal personality. Uh, yeah. Cut down to 75,

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kidnapped those children. Their family names are erased to the point that I don't think any of them

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actually know their last names. And from that point on, they're only ever referred to by their

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first name and a number, uh, at, you know, again, eight years old, they're put through like special

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ops grade training regiments. Uh, like you shove your, you know, your little brother into a Navy

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seal class. And that's about what happened here. Uh, overseen by one, uh, officer Franklin Mendez,

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he put them through the wringer. Uh, they would, it was just hellish training. Like that's, there's

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only so many ways I can say that he did to some extent try, uh, and a little bit go against maybe

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what only wanted, like he tried to instill like, you know, duty, honor, respect to the Spartans,

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try and teach them the difference between right and wrong, you know, stuff like that. But for one,

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he was also teaching them how to kill their fellow man with great efficiency. And for two,

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and for two, only was hanging over this entire affair, making sure that, you know, you don't

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want the Spartans to be too honorable. They exist to kill people who want to not be part of the

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UNSC any longer. There's, there's only so much honor you can still into that kind of thing.

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history, mathematics, science, the best of the best and all that, which again,

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might have been a good thing were it not for the fact these are child soldiers. Uh, yeah. Uh, for

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00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,800
the Spartans part, uh, they would come to consider each other basically family to the point that

403
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:02,720
outside looking in, you would think they were all like telekinetically linked with each other

404
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:07,120
because they'll give each other a glance. And then a battle plan has been formed and they're just

405
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:14,480
always on the same wavelength. And this comes to a head when they reach the age of 14 and 25, 25,

406
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:23,360
and they get their augmentations. So if you remember how I said, project Orion discount

407
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:30,080
Spartan project, Avery Johnson said it was agonizing and, uh, those augmentations were only,

408
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:36,080
like only really amounted to a noticeable, but small boost in their effectiveness.

409
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:42,000
We'll take that, double it, double it a couple more times. And now it's not being done to train

410
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:47,040
soldiers. It's being done to your 14 year old sibling. Uh, they were, despite the fact they

411
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:54,160
were put into medically induced comas, they were filled with agony and each of the own augmentations

412
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:58,880
had their own special kind of pain, uh, which we'll go through in a bit, just what those augmentations

413
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:03,440
were. Uh, but yeah, there, uh, there was all different kinds of hell they were in for.

414
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:09,120
Uh, so out of these 75 children, 30 of them just straight up died. They're just dead. That's it.

415
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,880
That's it. Thanks for, thanks for joining the Spartan program. You're not good enough. I'm afraid.

416
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,120
Thanks for playing. Here's your participation. Yeah. Gravestone.

417
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:25,120
12 more of them were crippled to the point of not being able to function as human beings

418
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:32,240
and were put in cryostasis in the hopes that one day you can rehabilitate, rehabilitate them.

419
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:36,320
Again, probably just for the purposes of I want that super soldier investment back, please.

420
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:42,240
Uh, so at the end of the day, when all of a sudden done, uh, less than half, only 33 survived the

421
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:49,840
process and came out as proper actual Spartans. Um, while this was happening, uh, all of those,

422
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:54,320
you know, you might be wondering, well, how did they hide the fact they just kidnapped 75 kids?

423
00:38:55,120 --> 00:39:01,040
Uh, flash clones is what they're known as cloning does exist in halo and on the upside,

424
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:09,280
it does make just an identical clone to you on the downside. It, the clones aren't perfect.

425
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,320
Pretty much the moment they come out of the chamber, they start falling apart.

426
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:18,960
And after a few years, all these clones had died of technically natural causes.

427
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,960
Like there's nothing put into them that makes them die. It's just the cloning process.

428
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:24,960
Isn't very good.

429
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:32,160
We have a donation donation by, um, Luis Rodriguez, who says, you first time live

430
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:40,000
is written in a strange way versus Colin dumb. I, I, L Y Colleen. I think, thank you.

431
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:40,560
Really?

432
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:42,240
Really?

433
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:48,560
I was like, it reminds of, um, you know how, like, I don't remember which book it's in

434
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:54,880
Warhammer, where someone like, it's one of the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,

435
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:59,760
the, it's like one of the women who's like with the, uh, always in the nightlords omnibus,

436
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:05,200
it's the navigator Octavia. She just says in the, when she's like talking to Talos,

437
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:10,000
the nightlord, she basically in her head goes, Oh my God, that's why they're so terrifying.

438
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,840
It's cause you are literally like super soldier children. You never got to be adults.

439
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,720
So you never got there. Like she says, what makes you terrifying is you never get to

440
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:24,240
look at the world with an adult sensibility. And that was, and you're just children running

441
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:29,680
around with weapons and in slaughtering people. Uh, it's probably a similar thing.

442
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:32,400
Uh, kind of.

443
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:33,280
We need super nanny.

444
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,200
Well, that's in like,

445
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,480
I'll certainly say the Spartans are definitely more disciplined than the nightlords.

446
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,440
Well, she thought, she thought that I have all space green. She said like, they're just

447
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,360
10 in a way. They're mostly just children with guns.

448
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:46,400
Yeah.

449
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,640
Except for our Jack Rockfist from the space wars is like, I had a family, but I was so

450
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,440
hench. I could become a space. Fair enough. Why not?

451
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,520
I'm sure Ragnar, the Ragnar Blackmane book, like he immediately is like,

452
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:02,560
like the way he becomes a space marine, like it's the night where they invade his

453
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:07,920
home and he's like clapping cheeks and then, and then, and then it just happens. And he like

454
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,280
semi half dies and they're like, you can become a space Marine. And his,

455
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,880
his like girlfriend gets like taken off, casted off somewhere.

456
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,120
It's probably, he's pretty a great grandfather at this point.

457
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,200
You know, good old Ragnar.

458
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,360
He was just like, I didn't hear no bell.

459
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:25,520
Just basically except the bell is I didn't hear. I could stop having children.

460
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,400
Not, yeah, not a bad comparison though. They, these are, they're child soldiers.

461
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,920
With those, you know, those flash clones though upside, both between the fact,

462
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,520
you know, they were clones. So they were in some ways, most ways identical.

463
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,440
And because they all died, most people wouldn't think to go look for them in,

464
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:51,440
you know, the missing children, because as far as almost everyone was concerned,

465
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,720
they weren't missing. They just very unfortunately died of rare,

466
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:59,840
but as far as anyone knew, natural diseases. To my knowledge, there was a,

467
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,280
only one, there might've been more, but there's at least one confirmed father of one of the

468
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:11,120
Spartans, Spartan Naomi 10, who was convinced that his daughter was still alive out there

469
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:17,040
replaced with an imposter. But if anything, his mad rantings might've just been,

470
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:21,840
might've just helped people dismiss the theory because he then became an insurrectionist

471
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:29,680
and a great way to make, you know, to come off as a conspiracy theorist is to start blowing up

472
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:38,000
government buildings. So that'll do it. Yeah. For what it's worth, the head of ONI,

473
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,800
Margaret Perangoski, even worse woman than Halsey, call her out for this.

474
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:47,920
Cause this was mostly just Halsey doing her own thing, which, you know, Perangoski said,

475
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:52,080
you only did that to ease your own conscious, which whether or not that's true,

476
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:58,880
seems like it's a handy excuse to explain away the mass kidnapping. So my only assumption for

477
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:03,680
why Perangoski was angry at Halsey was because this was something ONI didn't approve of.

478
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,760
And anything that ONI says is bad is bad and therefore you deserve to die for it.

479
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:13,280
They didn't kill her though. She was a bit too valuable, but you know, they weren't happy. Also

480
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:17,360
two of the surviving Spartans came into contact with their flash clones and killed themselves

481
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:24,640
after the fact. So we're down two more Spartans before any fighting's actually begun. Isn't Halo

482
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:34,000
fun? I mean, it's not as depressing as Warhammer, but it's very much like the theme of this. I mean,

483
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:39,360
was it like the theme of, I hate to even quote it from like the theme of like Ubermensch or like

484
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:45,440
the super soldier in itself is just a dark road. Would it be fair to call it grim light?

485
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:51,520
I'd honestly say in some ways it's darker. Cause I mean, 40k's whole thing is that it just sucks,

486
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:59,920
right? ONI just decided to do this. I think grim dark is definitely like, is a grunginess and tone,

487
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:05,600
whereas like Halo visually probably doesn't match that. But then in terms of its lore, it's very

488
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:12,800
much, I guess what's like realistic is the way to eat chips. Not eating corpse starts no matter

489
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:18,560
what's happening. I'm not eating that shit. I'm not fucking doing it. I said chips. The original

490
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,720
trilogy is certainly more like an upbeat space opera. Granted, a lot of people still die, but

491
00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:28,640
you know, the big green man defeats the aliens and saves the day. You know, Reach is, I would

492
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:35,840
certainly say Reach is grim dark. That's not, that is not a happy game. Darky Man USA says,

493
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:42,240
Halo Legends is great and I'll die on that hill. Halo Legends is phenomenal one day. But

494
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:49,040
we've done the, you know, the Spartan twos are now done cooking, at least in terms of augmentations.

495
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:54,160
They're not quite done yet, but you know, they're getting there. We'll just, you know, we did the

496
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:58,800
versus where I listed off all the augmentations. So I'll just, we'll speed run it here real quick.

497
00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:04,560
Ceramite, like ceramic plates, stuff like that was grafted to their bones to make them basically

498
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:11,280
unbreakable. Their muscle tissue is made far more dense. Lactic acid recovery times was

499
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:16,960
significantly reduced. So a Spartan can run for a week straight and not even feel it.

500
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:23,680
A pellet was put in their thyroid gland to boost the growth of both skeletal and muscle tissue.

501
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,840
They dicked around with the blood vessels in their eyes to make them see far better and farther.

502
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:33,520
And they messed with their nervous systems too, to increase their reaction time by at least 300%

503
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:41,360
with unconfirmed, but you know, noted reports of increases in intelligence, memory and creativity.

504
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:48,720
It's also worth keeping in mind that this was both far and away better than what Oni thought it was

505
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:54,160
going to be. And this was when they were fresh out of the chamber. Like you were augmented,

506
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:58,000
you've gotten used to it. They're still only 14 years old. They were,

507
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,880
puberty has really just kind of, you know, just begun. They're not done growing.

508
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:09,040
It was a hell of a drug. Yeah. It was when you're a super soldier. It was,

509
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:15,120
everyone involved was like, we, we made demigods and they're not done getting, you know,

510
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:20,480
more powerful yet. It does remind me of like, particularly in like, in the Warhammer setting,

511
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:27,920
is a similar thing where space marines were not actually designed to fight aliens. They're

512
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:33,360
actually somewhat, well, first of all, to kill Thunder Warriors, which the, the proto space marines,

513
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:40,080
and they were also designed to kill humans. That's why in the horrors heresy, they, it's the first

514
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:47,440
time they actually design rounds that are able to penetrate Sarah, my armor, because the Bolta is

515
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:52,240
designed to splash through a human being. Like that's the same thing, I guess, in Halo. We're

516
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:57,600
like, the humans designed super soldiers to kill other humans rather than actually to fight.

517
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,440
Yeah. They were like, quiet control rather than we're going to kill aliens. It's like,

518
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,640
we're here to like suppress Revolts and stuff like that.

519
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:11,200
Yeah. The emperor's uniting humanity. He's not, whether you want to or not, you're going to be,

520
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:15,440
you're being united. You're going to be so happy once you're united. Just,

521
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,880
just don't look behind the curtain. It's all good. So good, bro.

522
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:23,760
Incidentally, it means that, hey, the Master Chief's appearance in Halo, or in Rainbow Six Siege,

523
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:28,400
is the closest we've gotten a video game to his canonical purpose for existing.

524
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:36,720
It's very funny to me. Just to, just to put into, you know, a bit of a perspective,

525
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:42,480
Master Chief, John 1-1-7, after his augmentations, you know, they'd settled because they,

526
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,560
they had a period where they basically had to learn how to walk again. After all was

527
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:51,520
said and done, he was working out in the gym, getting used to how to do stuff again. And the

528
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:56,320
whole time he's like, everything feels wrong. Like he's checking the machines, checking the

529
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,920
everything feels wrong. Like he's checking the machines, like the, you know, all the

530
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:06,720
everything like is, like, it is like a screw loose. Why is this so easy to pull? I'm lifting like 600

531
00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:13,600
pounds. Why is this, why does this feel like I'm lifting like a five pound dumbbell? And at one

532
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:20,240
point he dropped a weight and started calculating while it was falling its trajectory and velocity.

533
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:25,200
He also says before that, oh, I'm not that good at math. I was never the best at it. As he starts

534
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:30,240
calculating the speed of dumbbells falling mid flight, like, all right, John, thank you for that.

535
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:37,360
And it comes up, you know, like, what is it? Nine point of 12 or whatever meters a second,

536
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:41,760
or whatever the, you know, feet a second, whatever, whatever the speed of something

537
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:46,800
falling is, he's like, all right, no, it's, this is right. Why does it look like it's dropping in

538
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:54,320
slow motion to me? Why, what's going on here? Like it's everything felt off because he's so powerful

539
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:59,360
that the world is moving in slow motion and he's yanking around gym equipment like it's made,

540
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:06,720
it's a pillow. Then some ODSTs come in and start being dickheads, throwing their weight around,

541
00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:14,080
we're ODSTs, we're the best, which in most cases is true. In this case, it ends with the chief and

542
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:22,400
those four ODSTs in a boxing ring and two crippled and two dead ODSTs, one of which John kicked so

543
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:27,920
hard in the balls that his hips exploded. I'm not making that up. It is explicitly said he kicked

544
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:36,160
him in the lower half and the dude's pelvic muscle, like bones shattered. I mean, damn.

545
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:45,920
You ain't never sitting down again. What is going to the bathroom? I'm assuming that was one of the

546
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:51,360
dead ones. Like that's gotta be just like, that's turning off the light switch. If you survive,

547
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:58,400
you're not going to the bathroom, you're just using tubes. You have a bag. You are a colostomy

548
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:05,760
man now. I mean, that's a hell of a way to go. Yeah. So again, 14 years old and four super

549
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:13,360
soldiers ganging up on him, like elite soldiers, either dead or crippled and have to probably leave

550
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:20,800
military service. Oh, so he did fulfill his purpose of killing humans. Well, maybe not these

551
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:26,640
ones. And for what it's worth, when he was done, there was no adrenaline shakes like, oh my god,

552
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:33,760
I just killed four people. Chief Mendez came in and John just kind of looked at him and was like,

553
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:39,760
was I supposed to do that? They were UNSC personnel, but they were attacking me.

554
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:46,800
He just kind of blankly, vaguely felt bad and asked him, did I do good? I don't think I did good.

555
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:53,840
We did have a donation by DTB. A message by DTB says that's what Morathi does to Colin.

556
00:50:53,840 --> 00:51:00,720
God, I can only- I'm very sure referring to a good old, was it hit and destroyer or something?

557
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:09,840
A bad contrived. Oh my god, hell of a way to go. But if his reaction to killing and crippling four

558
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:16,640
people didn't give it to you, their psychology was the stuff of nightmares. Halsey did him

559
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:20,640
objective, just straight up brainwashing them because that was initially what only wanted.

560
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:25,120
But Halsey and Mendez were like, they need to be soldiers. They need to understand what they're

561
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:30,320
doing. There needs to be team cohesion and you don't get that if you just turn them into servitors,

562
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:39,600
basically. So they did view each other as family. They stuck together. They pretty frequently avoided

563
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:45,440
contact with normal people. There just was no relation. They had nothing in common. They

564
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:52,400
could not relate to almost everyone. The only exception really was Fred. Fred at one point

565
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:56,640
like cracked a joke and the guy in charge of the mission he was on was like, oh I don't know.

566
00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:00,320
Spartans came with a sense of humor. Is that gonna cost me extra? And he just goes, no, I'm just

567
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:08,160
defective. They just didn't quite do me right when it came to the conditioning. The rest of them,

568
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:13,360
there's not a therapist alive that can begin handling that nightmare.

569
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:21,040
They didn't hold it against anyone. They thought of what was done to them as both necessary and

570
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:29,600
what they were born to do, which Oni probably loved that mentality, but really did not get along

571
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:33,440
with normal people. Didn't dislike, didn't hate them. They just could not talk to them.

572
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:40,240
When it comes to the reverse, normal people looked at Spartans with both reverence and disgust

573
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:46,880
because, you know, on the one hand, you're a UNSC Marine, a brute's about to rip your entire squad

574
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:53,280
in half, and then a seven foot tall maniac comes rocketing out of nowhere and rips the brute apart.

575
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:59,280
There's going to be some hero worship. But on the other hand, and I know especially Andy's probably

576
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:04,560
going to roll his eyes at this one, but I promise I'm saying it for a reason. The Spartans, like,

577
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,920
they're described almost in a way kind of like the Eldar, which like, you know how the Eldar,

578
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:12,320
it's like they said they move with like this grace that's straight out of the uncanny valley.

579
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:19,360
Yeah. I mean, I like the Halo 1 cinematic where it's one of the team just like a back flip

580
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:26,080
over an elite and then shoots them in the back. How can you do that in that much armor? That's crazy.

581
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:31,680
They're insanely flexible, durable, all that. It must be like nothing's wasted, I guess.

582
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:36,800
It's like there's no, not a single movement is wasted. It's like they're flowing through

583
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:41,920
like the space they're walking through. It's like they look uncanny to the point that again, like,

584
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:47,360
solitaires, people were like to the point of they were afraid of touching a Spartan.

585
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:50,480
It's like something is clearly not right with that.

586
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:56,320
We've got a few donations here with Leon Leon with 10 pounds. Thank you, brother. How much I love

587
00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:01,200
the Spartan 2. I do enjoy Spartan 3 and some of the headhunters Spartan.

588
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:02,560
We'll talk about the headhunters.

589
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:07,600
Iron Lord 2. Not right in USA says, law fact five. Thank you, brother. Again, he says,

590
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:12,080
half naked Fred hugs detective lady after leaving a shower. Can't relate.

591
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:21,040
One day says also, no, Eli, he's fighting the nails. The nails, the truly the nails are biting

592
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:29,840
right now. He's, he's very quite sad to miss the Halo edition, but we will be back with some.

593
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:35,200
Well, you'll see us in a week, brothers, anyway, so we'll maybe even some gaming streams.

594
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:43,120
We'll see you with us soon. One day. I say one day like Eli's not going to be back.

595
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:47,440
Yeah, he's going to be back.

596
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:56,160
We're back from Mordor. Yeah. But and then we the ODSTs, they did not like the Spartans for the most part.

597
00:54:56,160 --> 00:55:00,160
They found a way to get back to the game. They found a way to get back to the game.

598
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:06,080
The ODSTs, they did not like the Spartans for the most part. They felt that the Spartans were.

599
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,840
Mr. Nehalov, can a Spartan outrun Forrest Gump?

600
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,800
I will. No one can really outrun Forrest Gump.

601
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,320
That's a really important question.

602
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:16,560
I started running.

603
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:22,000
As long as I know exodite hater Eli got me.

604
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,200
Kelly might have been able to.

605
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:27,440
But what was it? Where was I? Where was I? There I was.

606
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:29,440
Yeah, ODSTs didn't like Spartans.

607
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:38,960
They felt they were like, like just glory hogs would go through a sea of bullets just to get all the credit for the mission, which for the Spartans part,

608
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,840
they didn't care one way or the other.

609
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:46,640
It wasn't related to the mission, so it just was not relevant.

610
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:51,760
There were there's a couple like standouts where a Spartan manages through the mission.

611
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:59,120
There was Jerome 92 from Halo Wars who and you played Halo Wars 1, 2, right, Andy?

612
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:07,760
I did. I mean, I enjoy 1 and 2, but like 2, 1 is like a bit of a like a power trip.

613
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,680
Yeah, what's the thing about that?

614
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:16,080
Yeah, but even in the cut scenes, they're like, oh, the Spartans, they're like impervious.

615
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:18,160
And then like you've probably seen the cut scene before.

616
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:24,080
And then Halo 2 comes around like, oh, no, oh, no, leave him alone, Atriox, leave him alone.

617
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,080
He's just a little guy.

618
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:34,880
But Jerome and Sergeant Forge in the spirit of fire once got into a fight, which according to Halo Wars,

619
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:42,480
because it's like an unlockable lore thing, resulted in a broken chair, a hole in the bulkhead of the ship.

620
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:48,240
And the shipboard AI had to tell both of them to stop beating the hell out of each other, which,

621
00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:54,240
you know, they always ate together in the mess hall after that, which, you know, that's nice.

622
00:56:54,240 --> 00:56:57,840
At least not to be funny, but Forge is a badass. We love Forge.

623
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:02,960
Maybe he wasn't kidding when he said he could have taken the Arbiter if the lady hadn't stopped him.

624
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:06,240
And for the record, I could have kicked your ass the first time.

625
00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:11,040
That's also also the first time Jerome used a chair in combat.

626
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,040
The second time was against the flood.

627
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:15,040
My man hit him with a steel chair.

628
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:17,040
He did. He beat a combat form over the.

629
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:24,560
Imagine beating up like a like a hive guard with a steel folding chair.

630
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,560
My god.

631
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:28,560
What he did.

632
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:34,560
There's also the armor, the Spartan, you know, the armor, the armor, the armor, the armor, the armor.

633
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:40,800
The armor, the Spartan Mjolnir armor marks one to three were prototypes that were flawed.

634
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,840
Couldn't really be used in proper fighting.

635
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,160
Mark four was the first one.

636
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,240
It's the one you see in, you know, Halo Wars.

637
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:49,680
That's what those Spartans are wearing.

638
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:54,560
And the could feasibly be used outside of testing.

639
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:56,640
It weighed about a thousand.

640
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:58,080
It weighed one thousand pounds.

641
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:02,000
Pretty much any piece of sci fi military equipment you can think of.

642
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,360
It had it, except for energy shielding, did not have that one yet.

643
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:14,480
Vacuum sealed and just every possible contingency in it to ensure that the decades long investment inside of it isn't going to die.

644
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:23,920
The moment some random bozo with a gun points it points it at them, which was very good timing because they had exactly, I believe, one insurrectionist mission.

645
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:27,440
In twenty five, twenty five.

646
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:29,360
And then the covenant showed up.

647
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:39,440
Who began the twenty eight year long process of reducing humanity from eight hundred worlds to.

648
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,880
At a dozen ish something like that.

649
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:44,400
Not many.

650
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:49,680
There were twenty four billion people in twenty five, twenty five in twenty five fifty three.

651
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:50,800
There were less than one.

652
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,960
The covenant did not take prisoners.

653
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:58,640
Regardless of what the garbage TV show seems to think it did, it did not.

654
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:06,240
They did, you know, they did decent in that operation against the the insurrection against the covenant.

655
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:10,480
They were just kind of thrown to the threat like Spartans, we have those.

656
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:11,680
Let's let's go deal with that.

657
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:21,520
Sam Kelly, the Spartans and good old John, master chief, boarded a covenant ship by a hole put into it by a mack round.

658
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:29,040
They planted missiles on the ship's generator, but Sam suit was breached by a plasma overcharge and the vacuum ceiling failed.

659
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:37,520
He stayed behind the detonate, the missiles and in the first engagement, the Spartans had completely destroyed the covenant ship at the cost of one of their own.

660
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:43,280
Who prior to this felt invincible, which began, I don't blame them for that.

661
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,280
I mean, first of all, they're 14 years old.

662
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:50,880
What teenager doesn't feel invincible and also super soldiers.

663
00:59:52,240 --> 01:00:02,800
Yes, I imagine the craziest thing you did when you were a teenager and now imagine you can like lift a car with your hands like we would have got up some crazy stuff.

664
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:07,040
So I've been a teenager and having lots and lots of money.

665
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:16,160
You just you're not going to make a smart. Yeah, but like you don't make smart choices.

666
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:22,160
If you if you if you if you have lots of money and go into a nightclub and you're like a bit of a creep, you get slapped in the face.

667
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:27,040
But like if you can lift a car with your bare hands, like I'm sorry.

668
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:34,080
Yeah, you don't get slapped in the face because they can't reach your face.

669
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:39,760
They're not big enough. They're not tall enough.

670
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:47,840
But, you know, on the bright side, it proved, you know, both to the other Spartans and the rest of the UNSC, you can kill the covenant.

671
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:53,760
You can do it because prior to this, it took 13 UNSC ships to destroy a single covenant one.

672
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,720
And I'm pretty sure 10 of those UNSC ships exploded.

673
01:00:56,720 --> 01:01:01,040
So, you know, hey, victory is possible.

674
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:05,440
Another donation by Donkeyman USA. Thank you, brother, for five bucks says,

675
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:14,800
Law fact six UNSC used a sneaky nuke to shatter a covenant moon and half a planet that was only on one occasion.

676
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:19,840
Oh, dude, Nova bomb, my beloved. I don't know where they pulled that from, but.

677
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:24,000
And DJB says playing Bloodborne right now. Great game.

678
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:28,960
Fighting, fighting, living Collins boss.

679
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:34,080
That's quite rude. There's a boss called the Living Failures. I know what he's getting.

680
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:39,840
Oh, I don't know what the boss is for, but you know what?

681
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:44,640
Living Failures. It's like the swarm of the weird, bulby dudes.

682
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:52,800
Oh, yeah. And it's next to the church that the lost one of the left behind great ones is in.

683
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:56,320
Yeah, I think I remember that one. And they just come at you.

684
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:59,760
Then they did from a little garden, don't they?

685
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:01,920
Yeah, yeah, I believe so.

686
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:06,160
God's been a while since 60 FPS remake on PC is going to happen.

687
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,600
Please, please, please. And Half Life 3.

688
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:13,600
All right.

689
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:19,840
So with that opening round, the Spartan IIs would become humanity's greatest asset.

690
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:23,680
They were pretty much the only thing turning a complete defeat

691
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:27,280
into a defeat where it said we got something out of it and lost.

692
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:31,840
Like what the Spartans did cost the Covenant millions of their soldiers.

693
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:36,160
They weren't. Now, you might be thinking there's only like 30 of them now that Sam died.

694
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:40,080
I think it's like I think we're down to 29 now.

695
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:46,000
I know I think I think exactly 30. There's not a lot left is my point.

696
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:50,560
I might be thinking that's not a lot. How do they, you know, how do they help?

697
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:54,480
Because Spartans, you know, they weren't sent to the front lines unless absolutely necessary.

698
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:57,600
They were sent, you know, on the high priority missions.

699
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:02,160
UNSC armies holding off the Covenant. Spartans are sneaking behind, blowing up

700
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:07,120
anything that looks like it's even remotely valuable, assassinating key figures,

701
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:10,800
causing hell, basically.

702
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,920
In essence, play Halo on heroic.

703
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,880
And that's pretty much what the Spartans were doing.

704
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:22,000
They couldn't, you know, run in the middle of a field of Covenant bullets because that would kill them.

705
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,800
But they were taking out anything thrown at them.

706
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:29,440
They were the perfectly disciplined gods of war, basically.

707
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,520
They could take hits no one else could when they needed to.

708
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:35,120
They were stealthy. They were proficient in anything they were given.

709
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:38,720
They were unbelievable soldiers.

710
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:41,840
Hell, did you know Spartans are immortal?

711
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,400
As in like they don't age?

712
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:49,120
Well, that's actually some we could get to, but no, they never die.

713
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:52,880
As I don't know to what level they could be killed.

714
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:54,560
Anytime. No.

715
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:56,560
Here's a fact for you. Here's a little bit of lore.

716
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:00,480
Whenever one is, quote, killed, they're just listed as missing in action.

717
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,560
Spartans never. Spartans never die.

718
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:04,720
They just don't use them in action.

719
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:11,040
OK, I was like for a second, I was like the hunk of meat just sits there still pulsating.

720
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:13,200
Still wiggles every now and then.

721
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:14,560
And I've seen.

722
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:18,640
So well, they're basically a can of spam.

723
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:23,680
As long as they're in that tin shell, there's nothing they'll never degrade.

724
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:26,960
They'll be fine. You can put them in the skillets whenever you want.

725
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:31,120
They're fine inside that little tin coffin.

726
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:38,720
Yeah, but with that, though, they weren't even declassified until 2547,

727
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:45,280
just about 22 years after the program had finished augmenting them.

728
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:51,440
And six years before the war ends, it was done to both one boost morale,

729
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:55,360
because by this point, the writing is not even on the wall.

730
01:04:55,360 --> 01:05:00,640
The wall has collapsed under the weight of all the writing on it that humanity is not winning.

731
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:01,840
It's not doing very good.

732
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:06,560
They left out the origin of the Spartans, but they revealed that, hey,

733
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:10,880
humanity's got these real cool supersoldiers that are wiping the floor with the Covenant,

734
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,120
which that part's not a lie.

735
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:23,360
And even before that, people talk and a Spartan grabbing basically a Humvee

736
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:25,200
and then beating an alien to death with it.

737
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:28,000
That's conversation worthy.

738
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:29,760
What word about that's going to get around?

739
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,280
So, yeah, 2547, they revealed that.

740
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:35,280
And that was also Oni Directive.

741
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:36,320
I wrote it down.

742
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:37,840
I can't find Directive 930.

743
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:40,080
What it was is these guys don't die.

744
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:44,880
They just go missing in action because the truth that Spartans could die,

745
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:50,880
probably not something you want to let the public know about that they're most massive.

746
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:52,240
Morale decrease.

747
01:05:52,960 --> 01:06:00,000
Yeah, that's on the battlefield is about the same as like if a guardsman sees a space

748
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:04,080
spring, just get atomized, except there's only 30 of these guys.

749
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:08,960
Yeah, it's like imagine every time one dies, it's like Commander Dante is lost.

750
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:12,000
Like, oh, no, not Dante.

751
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:13,200
He's gone to the Emperor's.

752
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:15,520
He's fighting with the Emperor in hell.

753
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:16,020
It's like.

754
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:18,880
By the end of the week.

755
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,760
Like a Primarch, I suppose, with the Space Marine.

756
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,680
A returns of comparison, yeah.

757
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:26,240
Yeah, they're like, imagine if it was just like,

758
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:29,120
by the by, guys, Lionel Johnson is dead.

759
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:30,320
Oh, no.

760
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:31,920
Please no.

761
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:37,680
If Master Chief like if he died, like when he died, Halo three, if that was public knowledge,

762
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:39,600
every human alive left is killing themselves.

763
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:41,840
That's even a line.

764
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:43,760
What do the Marines give sometimes when you die?

765
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:46,240
They're like, well, I guess I'll eat my gun now.

766
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:49,280
Plastic bag says RIP Carter.

767
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:50,560
He was a real one.

768
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,320
We'll get to Noble Team shortly.

769
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:53,600
Almost done with the Spartan twos.

770
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:58,080
By the end of the human covenant war, there were only 16 of them left,

771
01:06:58,080 --> 01:06:59,440
at least known to survive.

772
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:01,360
It was a little bit higher than that.

773
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,400
Red Team, for example, they weren't listed as having survived.

774
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:05,680
Those are guys from Halo Wars.

775
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,680
But the Spirit of Fire was listed as having been lost with all hands.

776
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,560
So even though the Red Team was listed as being alive.

777
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:16,160
And no one really thought they were.

778
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:25,760
And, you know, despite these guys best efforts, 29 of them is not enough to prevent an alien

779
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:29,920
empire that has at least most of the galactic arm humanity is on under its control.

780
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:36,720
That's can't really fight that off, especially because, you know, Spartans are people and

781
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:40,480
the covenant would usually just glass a planet from space unless it had foreigner artifacts

782
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:45,200
on it, whereupon they would go land, look for the artifacts and then glass the planet.

783
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:52,560
I guess that was a big technological gap between their massive technological gap.

784
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:53,520
Technological gap.

785
01:07:55,920 --> 01:08:01,040
Difference between an average guardsman and the Tau, probably worse, in all honesty.

786
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:08,480
Like I know the Mechanicus's deep vaults have stuff that makes the Tau look like cavemen.

787
01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:11,680
But your average guardsman does not have that stuff.

788
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:14,000
It's a trusty...

789
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:19,920
The way it's written in Warhammer, sometimes the Laz is like, oh, it's the fucking Laz gun,

790
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:22,720
man, this thing is like, it can do so much damage.

791
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:28,640
And then it's like, oh my God, his flashlight, his flashlight gun.

792
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:32,880
There was a massive technological gap.

793
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:38,080
Humanity was not in a winning position in any way whatsoever.

794
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:43,680
They needed, you know, they needed more men, more ships, equipment, technology, everything.

795
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:46,640
And most prevalently for this, needed more Spartans.

796
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:53,200
So Spartan III program created and directed now by Colonel James Ackerson,

797
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:57,920
who I'm going to call Ackerman at least once by accident because I keep thinking of Attack on Titan.

798
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:01,920
His name is one syllable different.

799
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:03,600
They were...

800
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:04,000
Levi.

801
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,960
I keep thinking of Levi when I hear Ackerson.

802
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:08,720
I almost, I almost did it.

803
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:13,040
Oh, bro, I can't, I don't, I do, I don't even want to finish Attack on Titan.

804
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,040
I heard the ending is a bit mid.

805
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:20,960
I mean, it's not, it's not great, but only I don't think it's that bad, honestly.

806
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:21,920
But...

807
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:29,360
It was a good first, that first season though, that first season blew my mind, blew my mind.

808
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:34,560
At least the first episode of the ending, it's been out for over a year at this point.

809
01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:35,520
I'm going to spoil it.

810
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:41,440
Hanji's death, man, that made me tear up and I hadn't seen like the preceding two seasons.

811
01:09:41,440 --> 01:09:45,120
And I think, yeah, I think there's one of those shows that you probably don't have to go in,

812
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,600
like that, you're not going to miss like everything.

813
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:49,600
You actually would in that show.

814
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:51,680
I just don't.

815
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:53,760
It goes completely off its rails.

816
01:09:54,800 --> 01:10:01,760
I mean, it's like in Warhammer, when certain things are still mysterious, there is like a kind of like,

817
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:08,640
like we still talk about missing Primarchs, even like 20, 30 years off, like that mystery is like,

818
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:10,000
it just won't be solved.

819
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,080
It's not, it's never going to be, that's the point.

820
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:17,280
They're only going to solve that mystery if there's a financial reason to solve that mystery.

821
01:10:17,280 --> 01:10:19,840
Yeah, when the stocks dip a bit too low.

822
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:27,280
Well, the thing is, is like, if it continues with the trend of like one Primarch every five years,

823
01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:31,040
there's like a good view still to come.

824
01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:31,680
Just the lawyer.

825
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:36,480
I think they are, I think they couldn't, like, they may need to slow down a bit in terms of,

826
01:10:36,480 --> 01:10:40,480
like, it's okay, it's okay for Primarch returns, and they just don't join the Imperium.

827
01:10:40,480 --> 01:10:45,840
Like if Vulcan is like, hi, I'm here, I'll pop in and out every once in a while, but I'm not like,

828
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,000
I don't want to join the company.

829
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,880
I just want to like, I want to be like freelance.

830
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:55,680
The Imperium is even worse than it was when I was around, and it's not, it wasn't that great to begin with.

831
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:59,440
Yeah, I don't mind if they like a few of them freelance, but I think at some point is just,

832
01:10:59,440 --> 01:11:01,760
there's too many players on the field.

833
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:07,600
The two missing Primarchs, like, I believe, I think I also read they were explicitly just a reference to like,

834
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:09,280
The missing legions.

835
01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:12,640
Yeah, the Roe, the Tautogen Forest, like the legions destroyed there.

836
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:19,680
That was it, and they just like, at the time, 40k wasn't nearly as developed, so they didn't think about going forward,

837
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:26,560
like, oh, we said there's these two Primarchs got rid of because they did stuff worse than Horus.

838
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:30,880
We can never talk about that because there's nothing we could come up with.

839
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:35,440
I'll be, I mean, it might, if it happens in my lifetime, that'd be crazy.

840
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:41,760
I mean, but if we think about it, like, if we take Gilliman and Lyon out the equation, we don't count Sanguineous and

841
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:43,360
Ferris, because they're dead.

842
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:44,400
That's four.

843
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:45,920
So there's five Primarchs left, right?

844
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:46,960
So there's what?

845
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:52,160
Jagatai, Leemon, Rogal Dawn, maybe.

846
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:59,680
Khorax and Vulcan, if that's five years apart, that's 20 years.

847
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:01,920
That's, I'll be 50.

848
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:04,080
I'll be 50 when they roll back.

849
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:10,240
But every Primarch you bring back, I know this sounds, it is obvious, but everyone you bring back

850
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:13,280
is one you can no longer bring back in a big event.

851
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:18,720
So at some point, like you got to be, you need to be conservative with that.

852
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:20,160
I think you should bring none of them back.

853
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:26,560
But all I'm saying is like, if they roll back Vulcan, like Tushan doesn't have a model or like much artwork.

854
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:27,920
So nothing is lost.

855
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:30,320
We need some Salamanders before we get Vulcan, please.

856
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:31,120
Yeah.

857
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:34,720
Can we have like Vulcan to maybe get some Salamanders?

858
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:39,920
Like, oh, I get Kavan Shrike and Korsaro exist, but let's be honest.

859
01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:40,880
No one gives a shit.

860
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:44,000
They'd prefer if we brought back Khorax and Jagatai.

861
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:50,240
Leman Bjorn is like a dreadnought and he's now a model that is now no longer in production.

862
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:54,560
So we could bring Leman and like Regal Dawn, like, oh, who's in charge?

863
01:12:55,280 --> 01:12:56,080
What's his name?

864
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:57,760
I can't even remember the chapter master's name.

865
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:00,160
Vladimir something.

866
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:01,520
Who cares is the answer.

867
01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:02,320
Yeah.

868
01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:03,200
It's like bring them back.

869
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:03,840
Why not?

870
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:08,800
I think they could kill off, they could kill off Lorgar and Khorax and I don't think anyone would.

871
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:11,040
They're both demons though.

872
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:13,680
They're like some of the ones you can't kill off.

873
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:17,840
Yeah, but I wonder if like it'll be like, because that's already like an existing prophecy thing

874
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:21,040
and being like if he fights Khorax, he'll die.

875
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:25,840
I just think it was like, yeah, like bring them back and then they kill, they die.

876
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:27,680
Some need to die.

877
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:29,120
So I'll continue with Halo.

878
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:30,400
Sorry, Halo.

879
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:31,120
No worries.

880
01:13:32,480 --> 01:13:33,440
Spartan 3s.

881
01:13:35,440 --> 01:13:40,400
Optimistically, well, they were intended and they were the next generations of Spartans,

882
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:41,360
improving on the 2s.

883
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:47,120
It was very optimistically hoped that there would be over a hundred thousand Spartan 3s deployed.

884
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:52,400
So they could use them as like an actual proper army force, not just, you know, spec op soldiers.

885
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:58,720
That never happened, but can't fault them for having that spirit.

886
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:05,600
But you know, this time they had a, they had a different way of, you know, of acquiring the Spartans.

887
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:09,680
Instead of just kidnapping children from, you know, random planets.

888
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:14,240
They would approach, you know, they would go to a child from a colony destroyed by the covenant and go,

889
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:19,520
Hey, little Timmy or little Sally, do you want revenge on the people who killed mommy and daddy?

890
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:22,480
And then they would kidnap them and turn them into super soldiers.

891
01:14:22,480 --> 01:14:25,440
You know, these were now explicitly war orphans.

892
01:14:25,440 --> 01:14:31,920
They're pumping full of drugs and throwing in an unmarked van and then telling them to kill aliens.

893
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:33,360
Now they're designed to kill aliens.

894
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:38,000
First batch was all gathered by December 27th,

895
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:41,680
2532 and four years later by 2536.

896
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:42,800
They're ready to go.

897
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:47,200
Their augmentations were far more advanced than the Spartan 2s.

898
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:49,600
Akrasin and those on the project.

899
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:54,800
They took the data from Halsey as well as just, you know, accounting for advancements and technologies in the last 20 years.

900
01:14:55,520 --> 01:15:00,080
And it allowed for both, you know, a wider gene pool.

901
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:03,760
You could be a little bit less strict with who you augmented.

902
01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:06,320
You don't need to be baby Hercules.

903
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:08,480
You don't need to be baby Hercules anymore.

904
01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:13,920
And it was a safer procedure to the point that I don't think anyone actually died from becoming a Spartan 3.

905
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:18,880
Some didn't quite, you know, take, but they didn't die.

906
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:20,720
So we got that going for them.

907
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,800
Their training was also headed by a Spartan 2, Kurt,

908
01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:28,960
who was been was said to be even more intensive than the Spartan 2s training.

909
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:31,440
So they were going through the wringer.

910
01:15:31,440 --> 01:15:37,040
The three main companies, as they were come to be known as, I believe, were Alpha, Beta and Gamma.

911
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:41,680
And it's a pick your poison in terms of who got the worst deal.

912
01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:50,880
Gamma Company in particular was further enhanced with three additional drugs given to their augmentations.

913
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:59,120
One of them both prevented their bodies from going into shock, as well as, you know, making them deadlier in combat.

914
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:03,440
It basically, let's see what's the word it.

915
01:16:04,480 --> 01:16:08,080
Spartan 2s had fight or flight disciplined out of them.

916
01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:10,640
This drug just turned off the Gammas.

917
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:12,320
It just turned off flight.

918
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:13,520
All that is left is fight.

919
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:18,720
The other two drugs that were given had to be regular taken because that first drug,

920
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:26,800
if those two other ones were taken, the Spartan 3s of Gamma Company would drive be driven into an animalistic rage.

921
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:29,360
You would watch 28 days later.

922
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:32,480
Yeah, very depressing.

923
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:33,760
Yeah.

924
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:41,440
Well, if a Gamma didn't get their happy pills, it was that just not infectious, but also worse because it's a Spartan.

925
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:45,920
And 28 weeks later is also, but to be fair, what's that tune that goes,

926
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:55,920
It's a great tune.

927
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:57,920
I know.

928
01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:00,560
But yeah, it was

929
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:05,520
That's what happened when a Spartan 3 didn't get their happy pills at least of gamma company.

930
01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:09,200
But for what it's worth,

931
01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:10,400
in

932
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:14,800
ideal circumstances, which admittedly there's a couple reasons that didn't happen we'll get to

933
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:23,600
Spartan 3s could have been every bit as deadly as the 2s and probably more so and I promise that's not just my favoritism for Halo Reach talking

934
01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:25,600
because how about I just tell you what Fred and Kelly thought?

935
01:17:26,480 --> 01:17:34,480
Fred was like watching them fight and he was saying that they are fighting incredibly like even for a Spartan their attacks are masterworks.

936
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:37,520
Kelly fought one briefly

937
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:40,080
and the

938
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:48,080
3 was able to twist her arm and like Kelly put him in an arm lock and then 3 broke out, twisted her arm and just ran away.

939
01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:58,240
Now, she did lay him out not long afterwards, but immediately after she punched the dude in the face and then immediately afterwards he was up and moving

940
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:04,240
and Kelly noted that if I did that to any normal person, I would have just ripped their arm clean off.

941
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:08,160
So that's how Kelly was like, I'm gonna wreck it and that was her thing.

942
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:15,160
For that matter, that punch to the face probably would have turned anyone's skull into a

943
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:22,520
jelly. So yeah, and if all that's not enough for you, in one of the books, June, Noble Team Spartan 3,

944
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:27,480
was ripped out into the vacuum of space without a helmet and fought his way.

945
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:33,080
Well, first he was fighting out in the vacuum of space, then when he was done fighting, he got back in after the fact.

946
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:36,120
Very, very Gilliman of him.

947
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:39,560
He wasn't feeling great, you know, it wasn't an enjoyable experience,

948
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:44,760
but he did recover and I mean, it's more than any of us could say.

949
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:52,120
The problems of the threes, which is really the circumstances regarding their creation,

950
01:18:52,680 --> 01:19:00,200
because Oni didn't really want Spartan 2s, but better. They needed expendable time, like expendable soldiers

951
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:06,840
that could do missions that ODSTs couldn't and Spartan 2s couldn't without getting the

952
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:09,880
ODSTs couldn't and Spartan 2s couldn't without dying.

953
01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:16,200
Yeah, it's like you could have 50 super soldiers, but that means you can only deploy them to 50 battles.

954
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:18,360
And if you're doing a galactic-wide

955
01:19:18,420 --> 01:19:19,560
campaign,

956
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:23,720
50 is not much. Yeah. Yes, you might win 50 battles,

957
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:28,920
but then you need more. It's not enough. Yeah, so they

958
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:32,040
were given, compared to what their predecessors had,

959
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:40,860
substandard equipment and were treated as what they were expendable. They were given semi-powered infiltration armor, SPI armor for short,

960
01:19:42,380 --> 01:19:45,660
that gave them a little bit of a boost to their strength and speed,

961
01:19:46,300 --> 01:19:48,780
not much. And I don't mean like,

962
01:19:49,260 --> 01:19:55,660
you know, paradox game players where it's like, oh, this only gives me a 5% instead of a 6%, that's apparently massive because

963
01:19:56,460 --> 01:19:58,940
paradox players are psychotic at a certain level.

964
01:19:58,940 --> 01:20:04,460
Normal people could wear SPI armor without their nervous system just collapsing in on itself, which

965
01:20:04,940 --> 01:20:07,900
if you tried to wear Mjolnir armor as just a normal person,

966
01:20:10,380 --> 01:20:15,980
the spasms of your nervous system being thrown out of whack would kill you.

967
01:20:17,900 --> 01:20:24,700
We have a donation by TheLegendHimselfCribsInGlory, RIP051Curt, he was a real one.

968
01:20:24,700 --> 01:20:30,700
Kurt was a real one. Shout out to nuking those Covenant.

969
01:20:31,180 --> 01:20:35,180
DonkeymanUSA again with lore fact number seven.

970
01:20:35,660 --> 01:20:41,020
Jun may or may not have gotten off-reach by climbing a space elevator.

971
01:20:44,060 --> 01:20:46,060
Is that just, I don't know, Copium there, I don't know.

972
01:20:46,380 --> 01:20:48,380
I'm sure he had eyes in a later book though.

973
01:20:48,380 --> 01:20:54,620
He might, but hey, he trained the force, he got off-reach, he lived, like, him living is not Copium, he lived.

974
01:20:55,100 --> 01:21:04,780
And a donation by AlphaOmega5Bucks, he says, at least Oni sold that ethical dilemma from Amber Alert and Flash clones to semi-optimal

975
01:21:05,740 --> 01:21:07,740
A-Gog from Hell?

976
01:21:08,220 --> 01:21:10,220
A gogi.

977
01:21:11,420 --> 01:21:16,060
That's probably a goji, that's what the Spartans, actual Spartans were like trained in, so.

978
01:21:16,060 --> 01:21:20,060
Semi-optional, you know, they asked the kids if they wanted to get revenge for mommy and daddy.

979
01:21:20,620 --> 01:21:22,620
I still really like that.

980
01:21:22,620 --> 01:21:24,620
I'll see if I can find it, hold on.

981
01:21:26,620 --> 01:21:28,620
Yeah.

982
01:21:28,620 --> 01:21:30,620
Spartan IIs all the way also.

983
01:21:30,620 --> 01:21:34,620
Some of them, like Spartan IVs or Spartan IIs were 13 when they were thrown into the fire, not old.

984
01:21:34,620 --> 01:21:38,620
Some of the Spartan IIs were 11, or Spartan IIIs were 11.

985
01:21:38,620 --> 01:21:44,620
Like, they had puberty put in early.

986
01:21:44,620 --> 01:21:48,620
Because they need the supersoldiers now, time for them to fight.

987
01:21:48,620 --> 01:21:52,620
They were younger than the two IIIs, less well equipped.

988
01:21:52,620 --> 01:22:02,620
Because you can make 100 suits of SPI armor for every Milner suit you made, it's just effective, it's just better ODST armor at the end of the day.

989
01:22:02,620 --> 01:22:06,620
Like, it's inherently stealthy, like it's got reflective plates.

990
01:22:06,620 --> 01:22:10,620
That's really the only noticeable benefit you're getting out of it.

991
01:22:10,620 --> 01:22:18,620
And to top it off, the mission Spartan IIIs were sent on were, like I said, the ones with the 100% casualty rate usually.

992
01:22:18,620 --> 01:22:26,620
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma each had about 300 members. Gamma had, I believe, 330, but about 300.

993
01:22:26,620 --> 01:22:30,620
There was a planned Delta company that never came about because the war ended.

994
01:22:30,620 --> 01:22:38,620
But Alpha Company served for nine months in 2536, and they performed spectacularly.

995
01:22:38,620 --> 01:22:43,620
A couple of them were taken off of Alpha Company earlier, but most of them stayed in Alpha Company.

996
01:22:43,620 --> 01:22:50,620
Then what's known as Operation Prometheus happened, where they were going to destroy Covenant shipyard, which they did.

997
01:22:50,620 --> 01:22:57,620
Every single one of them died doing it. All of them. Not a single Alpha left that battle alive.

998
01:22:57,620 --> 01:23:04,620
Beta Company, similar deal, had a period of spectacular stellar service against the Covenant.

999
01:23:04,620 --> 01:23:11,620
And then Operation Torpedo, same case as before, particularly valuable members were taken off the mission.

1000
01:23:11,620 --> 01:23:15,620
Everyone else, go complete Operation Torpedo and die doing it.

1001
01:23:15,620 --> 01:23:20,620
But, you know, two of them survived this time. We're up from zero.

1002
01:23:20,620 --> 01:23:22,620
Hey, that's something.

1003
01:23:22,620 --> 01:23:29,620
And then there was Gamma Company, which was a rush job, even by the standards of the IIIs.

1004
01:23:29,620 --> 01:23:38,620
Because you take a seven year old and biologically, because of the augmentations, they were turned into an adult in about nine months.

1005
01:23:38,620 --> 01:23:41,620
And you see the Spartan IIs had to learn how to walk again.

1006
01:23:41,620 --> 01:23:49,620
The Gammas had to learn how to move their fingers and grab things and coordinate again.

1007
01:23:49,620 --> 01:23:52,620
Horrible stuff.

1008
01:23:52,620 --> 01:23:57,620
They didn't have nearly the amount of cavalry as the other companies, and a lot of them would survive the war,

1009
01:23:57,620 --> 01:24:01,620
which led to ONI having to figure out how to just what the hell to do with them,

1010
01:24:01,620 --> 01:24:07,620
because that angry juice in their brain problem would, you know, keep...

1011
01:24:07,620 --> 01:24:12,620
You don't want the rage virus breaking out among your super soldiers.

1012
01:24:12,620 --> 01:24:22,620
But they were, they did end up being sent on like far away special ops stuff to keep them out of the public eye.

1013
01:24:22,620 --> 01:24:26,620
Don't be a Spartan III, even more than a II, maybe.

1014
01:24:26,620 --> 01:24:31,620
Wasn't a good, wasn't the good storyline for them in the end.

1015
01:24:31,620 --> 01:24:35,620
No, no. Horrible, horrible.

1016
01:24:35,620 --> 01:24:43,620
There were about three alternatives to Company Death, which was the usual option.

1017
01:24:43,620 --> 01:24:48,620
One was, some of them were put on special teams, given the actual Mjolnir armor,

1018
01:24:48,620 --> 01:24:54,620
and they were treated about the same way as Spartan IIs, which is, you're still going on horrible suicidal missions.

1019
01:24:54,620 --> 01:25:00,620
But special guy that you are, you could feasibly do this without guaranteeing your death.

1020
01:25:00,620 --> 01:25:07,620
And they were treated so similar to the point that a lot of what Spartan IIIs did were was attributed to the IIs,

1021
01:25:07,620 --> 01:25:11,620
because the public wasn't really aware there was different generations of Spartans.

1022
01:25:11,620 --> 01:25:17,620
Spartan was a Spartan as far as they cared, which for the IIIs part, they didn't really care.

1023
01:25:17,620 --> 01:25:21,620
They just wanted to kill aliens.

1024
01:25:21,620 --> 01:25:26,620
You can even see some of these guys in the last mission of Halo Reach, although it's just their corpses.

1025
01:25:26,620 --> 01:25:32,620
So, you know, still probably not a happy end.

1026
01:25:32,620 --> 01:25:40,620
Damn, they just don't get any, like, proper dubs. It's just like, year, kinda.

1027
01:25:40,620 --> 01:25:45,620
Yeah. There was Noble Team, which is just kind of its own thing.

1028
01:25:45,620 --> 01:25:48,620
It was under the Army's jurisdiction.

1029
01:25:48,620 --> 01:25:54,620
They got Mjolnir armor. They didn't have the same restrictions as other Spartans, which usually you're not allowed to collect covenant weapons.

1030
01:25:54,620 --> 01:26:01,620
You're supposed to destroy them in case they get destroyed, or in case they have like trackers on them and they can find more human worlds easily.

1031
01:26:01,620 --> 01:26:15,620
Emile has a collection of them for fun, just because he's from that period of gaming where one of your main characters could have a personality that starts and ends with having a skull for a face.

1032
01:26:15,620 --> 01:26:18,620
Damn, good old Mjolnir.

1033
01:26:18,620 --> 01:26:27,620
And it's all like every time there's a collectible armor piece. It's Emile, top of the stack, 50 billion V-Bucks to get.

1034
01:26:27,620 --> 01:26:29,620
50 million Reach fun bucks.

1035
01:26:29,620 --> 01:26:38,620
It's like, rock, it's okay. It's like, I'm ready. How about you? Yeah, that's a cool line, not gonna lie.

1036
01:26:38,620 --> 01:26:40,620
Cookery knife, pretty cool.

1037
01:26:40,620 --> 01:26:42,620
He died like a real hero.

1038
01:26:42,620 --> 01:26:46,620
Cosmic Stealth Bomber says, Hey, their reach has the best Forge maps.

1039
01:26:46,620 --> 01:26:48,620
Oh, yeah.

1040
01:26:48,620 --> 01:26:52,620
Phenomenal Forge stuff.

1041
01:26:52,620 --> 01:27:04,620
Noble Team, it was always a six man team with another one rotated in when they fell, with a special exception again for Emile, who had someone rotated in for his place whenever they fought Insurrectionist.

1042
01:27:04,620 --> 01:27:17,620
Because whatever he did to them, he was so brutal that he made the agency that kidnapped children to make super soldiers out of say, hey man, you're going too far, you got to cut that out.

1043
01:27:17,620 --> 01:27:22,620
No idea what he did to the Innis, I don't know if I want to know.

1044
01:27:22,620 --> 01:27:25,620
But it's like a flayed one he just wore them.

1045
01:27:25,620 --> 01:27:30,620
I might have public relations nightmare, whatever it was.

1046
01:27:30,620 --> 01:27:38,620
And then the last other option, you could have been a headhunter, which I know someone said, was it Spartan Nightlords?

1047
01:27:38,620 --> 01:27:46,620
Basically, these were threes that managed to complete at least two of their assigned missions. They were taken from the respective companies.

1048
01:27:46,620 --> 01:28:09,620
And officially, their job was like they would go behind enemy lines on like the most brutal of missions that need to get done, given extra training, given either Mjolnir armor or, pardon me, they were given a special SPI armor that was almost approaching kind of equal to Mjolnir, but still not really.

1049
01:28:09,620 --> 01:28:11,620
Officially, that was their job.

1050
01:28:11,620 --> 01:28:20,620
But in practice, the UNSC gave them all these fancy toys and training and said, go have fun behind covenant lines.

1051
01:28:20,620 --> 01:28:29,620
And then they did, and there was absolutely a couple headhunters who were wearing grunt skin capes.

1052
01:28:29,620 --> 01:28:32,620
That was the threes.

1053
01:28:32,620 --> 01:28:42,620
That was probably the most tragic of the Spartans because again, they're just thrown into their deaths because humanity needed more bodies in the line of fire.

1054
01:28:42,620 --> 01:28:47,620
It's just like, hey, I want Spartans. We have Spartans at home.

1055
01:28:47,620 --> 01:28:50,620
Spartan threes. They're like Spartans from wish.com.

1056
01:28:50,620 --> 01:28:53,620
Yeah, well, they're good, but they're not as good.

1057
01:28:53,620 --> 01:29:02,620
If treated the same way as the twos, they could have been better, but that was never their purpose. They were never supposed to be better.

1058
01:29:02,620 --> 01:29:11,620
I don't know what this comment means, but Mr. Milo says, Emile and Thankul were on the same page.

1059
01:29:11,620 --> 01:29:16,620
I think that's just being horrible beings.

1060
01:29:16,620 --> 01:29:19,620
Truly the worst.

1061
01:29:19,620 --> 01:29:22,620
I'll give Halsey some amount of credit.

1062
01:29:22,620 --> 01:29:26,620
She was never, she still kidnapped the children.

1063
01:29:26,620 --> 01:29:30,620
She never was able to really truly convince herself that she needed to do that.

1064
01:29:30,620 --> 01:29:34,620
She kind of carried that guilt with her for the rest of her life and every single one of their deaths.

1065
01:29:34,620 --> 01:29:40,620
Like she felt personally responsible for, which to some extent, yeah, you are.

1066
01:29:40,620 --> 01:29:43,620
But, you know, I'll give her credit.

1067
01:29:43,620 --> 01:29:46,620
She felt some level of remorse.

1068
01:29:46,620 --> 01:29:54,620
Yeah. Was like, all right, first batch died. We need another one cup. Chop chop, boys. Come on. We need we need more super soldiers.

1069
01:29:54,620 --> 01:29:56,620
Did not care. Yes.

1070
01:29:56,620 --> 01:30:01,620
I mean, Big E has no remorse, whereas Halsey was at least was like, yeah, I feel bad.

1071
01:30:01,620 --> 01:30:06,620
Any other way I would have done like differently, but we're desperate.

1072
01:30:06,620 --> 01:30:12,620
It's like maybe looking back, I definitely could have done some things different, but yeah.

1073
01:30:12,620 --> 01:30:19,620
Crimson Gloria, another five bucks, says, Did you mention how all of noble teams deaths are intertwined with their character?

1074
01:30:19,620 --> 01:30:25,620
They are. I was about to say with the Spartan twos or threes, because so much was attributed to the twos.

1075
01:30:25,620 --> 01:30:34,620
No one really remembered them with the only major exception being that on reach after they started up, like re terraforming and making a habitable again.

1076
01:30:34,620 --> 01:30:40,620
There's a statue dedicated to noble team in the city of New Alexandria, which I thought was was nice.

1077
01:30:40,620 --> 01:30:45,620
If you're fair, this trailer here that we're showing is the actual predecessor to Noble Six, I believe.

1078
01:30:45,620 --> 01:30:50,620
Canonically, this is like and this is his last moment before you come into the game.

1079
01:30:50,620 --> 01:30:54,620
Yeah. Yeah. For what it's worth, like it's him and he blows up a ship.

1080
01:30:54,620 --> 01:31:00,620
So they they did their job. But, you know, he explodes.

1081
01:31:00,620 --> 01:31:07,620
I also think while while I'm looking at it, he absolutely had time to throw that and then run if he wasn't staring at that.

1082
01:31:07,620 --> 01:31:10,620
Yeah, like he clearly started running.

1083
01:31:10,620 --> 01:31:15,620
Unless he was just like, I know I know I'm not going to make it.

1084
01:31:15,620 --> 01:31:18,620
I'll try and run, but he should have just stayed still.

1085
01:31:18,620 --> 01:31:21,620
You see him turn around, though. Why did he bother?

1086
01:31:21,620 --> 01:31:24,620
Because cool guys don't look at explosions.

1087
01:31:24,620 --> 01:31:27,620
No, they don't run from explosions, which he just did.

1088
01:31:27,620 --> 01:31:31,620
They walk away slowly then.

1089
01:31:31,620 --> 01:31:41,620
Yeah. Oh, yeah. With Noble Team, Carter's the Carter's the leader who go down with a ship, cats the like the you know, the intelligence person.

1090
01:31:41,620 --> 01:31:43,620
She gets shot in the brain.

1091
01:31:43,620 --> 01:31:51,620
George saw reaches his home and he died to save it, which slipspace rupture detected did not work.

1092
01:31:51,620 --> 01:31:56,620
Was Emil was the sniper is the only one to live. No, June.

1093
01:31:56,620 --> 01:32:07,620
How ironic was a meal's death? He was the close quarters guy and he got shanked with a sword and Noble Six, who was told to cut the lone wolf stuff at the beginning of the game.

1094
01:32:07,620 --> 01:32:12,620
And then the last mission to Halo Reach is called Lone Wolf and that and Carter dies smashing.

1095
01:32:12,620 --> 01:32:21,620
He goes. He's the he's the he's the leader of the team and he goes down with the ship quite literally.

1096
01:32:21,620 --> 01:32:25,620
Yeah. Although killing a scarab is pretty cool.

1097
01:32:25,620 --> 01:32:29,620
He didn't have the firepower, but he had the mass.

1098
01:32:29,620 --> 01:32:31,620
F.

1099
01:32:31,620 --> 01:32:37,620
And then last but not least, and I say not least because Project Orion existed and was a flop.

1100
01:32:37,620 --> 01:32:47,620
Spartan fours, which is also a case study and why first impressions matter, because I guarantee you people would not feel nearly as down on them as they do.

1101
01:32:47,620 --> 01:32:54,620
If the first interaction with the Spartan four wasn't Palmer sassing the chief.

1102
01:32:54,620 --> 01:32:56,620
Thank you. Thank you.

1103
01:32:56,620 --> 01:33:01,620
Jesus, Palmer is such a shit character. I hate Palmer.

1104
01:33:01,620 --> 01:33:05,620
Are you a little short? I thought you'd be taught. It's like, fuck off.

1105
01:33:05,620 --> 01:33:07,620
You know, he could fold you like a chair.

1106
01:33:07,620 --> 01:33:12,620
Yeah, it's like, could you not have any respect for the, the forbearance.

1107
01:33:12,620 --> 01:33:15,620
The Master Chief.

1108
01:33:15,620 --> 01:33:20,620
The Master Chief. And you're going to be like, I'm going to be a bit of a shit can.

1109
01:33:20,620 --> 01:33:25,620
And then, you know, it is just a rank, but that's, there's a Master Chief and then there's the Master Chief.

1110
01:33:25,620 --> 01:33:29,620
And the thing is, I wouldn't mind if she was shitty to everyone else, including her own Spartans.

1111
01:33:29,620 --> 01:33:32,620
Then it was like, oh, Master Chief showed a bit of reverence.

1112
01:33:32,620 --> 01:33:37,620
But it's like, hey, not being funny.

1113
01:33:37,620 --> 01:33:41,620
You're playing in the wrong league. He's out of your league.

1114
01:33:41,620 --> 01:33:43,620
Stay in your lane.

1115
01:33:43,620 --> 01:33:50,620
I say, Lorefact 8, my copium addiction tells me 6 is still in the cave. Trust me, that is totally, and he's still there.

1116
01:33:50,620 --> 01:33:52,620
I promise he's alive.

1117
01:33:52,620 --> 01:33:56,620
Noble 6, he's totally alive. He's good.

1118
01:33:56,620 --> 01:33:58,620
Cope.

1119
01:33:58,620 --> 01:34:00,620
It's Cope. I wish, man.

1120
01:34:00,620 --> 01:34:05,620
Well, so, Palmer, Palmer's not that hot. She's just tall. Calm down.

1121
01:34:05,620 --> 01:34:08,620
Some would say they're one and the same.

1122
01:34:08,620 --> 01:34:21,620
It's like, it reminds me of in the Kaifers Kane book where he says, he doesn't, he always wonders how some people like really like have a thing for the Adeptus Sororityus, because they all have that same ugly haircut.

1123
01:34:21,620 --> 01:34:26,620
And he says, they pull such a face that...

1124
01:34:26,620 --> 01:34:31,620
Danny DeVito in that one episode of Always Sunny where he's got, I can't remember where his name is.

1125
01:34:31,620 --> 01:34:34,620
He's the artist, isn't he? Yeah.

1126
01:34:34,620 --> 01:34:40,620
The fine art thing, but he says the way they, the faces they pull, and that same ridiculous haircut.

1127
01:34:40,620 --> 01:34:46,620
Ongo Gablogian, there you go. Ongo Gablogian. There we go.

1128
01:34:46,620 --> 01:34:49,620
Love Danny.

1129
01:34:49,620 --> 01:34:57,620
Spartan 4s as a whole, I'll defend this project as being a completely reasonable and logical next step for Spartans in the universe.

1130
01:34:57,620 --> 01:35:00,620
It makes sense.

1131
01:35:00,620 --> 01:35:05,620
Spartan 4 program, very simple premise and kind of calls back to the original one.

1132
01:35:05,620 --> 01:35:15,620
Take younger Marines like candidates that show promise, as well as veterans, all of them still volunteers. We're done kidnapping children everyone. We've moved past those times.

1133
01:35:15,620 --> 01:35:20,620
And turned them into demigods. This one was headed by two Spartans.

1134
01:35:20,620 --> 01:35:26,620
One known as Admiral Musa, who was one of the Spartan 2 washouts, but he managed to live and be it

1135
01:35:26,620 --> 01:35:33,620
roughly functional. And June from Noble Team. You see, like there's no copium. He lived.

1136
01:35:33,620 --> 01:35:42,620
Ackerson was going to head the project again with Halsey, them working together, but then Ackerson exploded and Halsey was arrested.

1137
01:35:42,620 --> 01:35:48,620
So neither of them were available at the time. They were quite occupied as it were.

1138
01:35:48,620 --> 01:35:56,620
The Spartan 4s, this led to the creation of just the Spartan Operations Branch. The UNSC decided we're just going to make a branch for this.

1139
01:35:56,620 --> 01:36:00,620
Feel like this is worthy of its own like little department of the military.

1140
01:36:00,620 --> 01:36:06,620
Whose whole job is just deploying and overseeing, maintaining everything to do with the Spartans.

1141
01:36:06,620 --> 01:36:12,620
Some of them, you know, there was some questioning as of to the necessity of it, the Spartan 4s.

1142
01:36:12,620 --> 01:36:18,620
And because of what the recruitment was like, mostly from ONI, because when you kidnap children, you can brainwash them all day long.

1143
01:36:18,620 --> 01:36:26,620
But when you take a volunteer from the military, you know, your super soldier who's going to rip his way through tanks like they're butter.

1144
01:36:26,620 --> 01:36:33,620
You know, he might have some baggage. He might decide that deserting and joining the other side is actually what he wants to do.

1145
01:36:33,620 --> 01:36:39,620
He or she might go, well, actually, maybe I like the insurrection. Maybe I'm going to kill the rookie.

1146
01:36:39,620 --> 01:36:46,620
Maybe I'm going to. New Blood is a horrible book that shouldn't have been written ever. Fuck you.

1147
01:36:46,620 --> 01:36:53,620
But, you know, that's besides the point. Even with those concerns in mind, Spartan 4s, they went ahead with it.

1148
01:36:53,620 --> 01:36:59,620
And January 7th, 2553 was when it started.

1149
01:36:59,620 --> 01:37:03,620
And within the next few years, more and more Spartan 4s would be created.

1150
01:37:03,620 --> 01:37:11,620
These guys even get to keep their last names instead of being just the first name and a number since they don't need to erase their identities anymore.

1151
01:37:11,620 --> 01:37:19,620
Their augmentations are better and worse. We'll go with the better first.

1152
01:37:19,620 --> 01:37:24,620
They're far more forgiving. Like I couldn't. There's nothing about a casualty rate.

1153
01:37:24,620 --> 01:37:30,620
And I couldn't even find anything about them washing out. So like.

1154
01:37:30,620 --> 01:37:34,620
We have a donation by Crimson Glory. Again, brother, thank you.

1155
01:37:34,620 --> 01:37:40,620
Says in block capital's done kidnapping and brainwashing children. What is this?

1156
01:37:40,620 --> 01:37:44,620
Capitalism. The free market has decided capitalism.

1157
01:37:44,620 --> 01:37:49,620
The free market has decided we don't need to put children into the mines of reach any longer.

1158
01:37:49,620 --> 01:37:54,620
It turns out. If the market's gone, got to put those child soldiers in the line.

1159
01:37:54,620 --> 01:38:02,620
It does. It's far cheaper to get adults and volunteer adults rather than, you know, cloning children.

1160
01:38:02,620 --> 01:38:07,620
You've not quite fully grown. I'm just saying we can't make iPhones.

1161
01:38:07,620 --> 01:38:12,620
If there are if the Covenant own all of the semi-precious metal mines, we've got to kill the aliens.

1162
01:38:12,620 --> 01:38:17,620
We can't have child laborers. It's fine.

1163
01:38:17,620 --> 01:38:24,620
If you want to still enjoy Tesco meal deals, we've got to have child soldiers. That's just the reality.

1164
01:38:24,620 --> 01:38:29,620
That's kind of like, you know, really enough. If everyone has seen the fallout TV show turn away just for spoilers now.

1165
01:38:29,620 --> 01:38:32,620
Unless you guys don't hear it. I enjoyed that. Yeah.

1166
01:38:32,620 --> 01:38:41,620
The whole plot that they change like some bits, but the whole plot point was that Volt Tech and all the other corporations that you see pop up and fall out games.

1167
01:38:41,620 --> 01:38:52,620
They supposedly like encourage the nuke dropping to essentially eliminate the entire surface of the world so that when they rebuild the world, they will entirely control the capital.

1168
01:38:52,620 --> 01:38:55,620
Yeah, they'll have the entire market share if you kill all the market. Why not?

1169
01:38:55,620 --> 01:38:58,620
So the specific way they did that is absolutely dumb.

1170
01:38:58,620 --> 01:39:05,620
But like Volt Tech causing like has been hinted before as being like behind the bombs.

1171
01:39:05,620 --> 01:39:13,620
Well, I suppose that they got upset that the war was likely not going to escalate or they were going to stand down.

1172
01:39:13,620 --> 01:39:16,620
So they were like they had to push the yeah.

1173
01:39:16,620 --> 01:39:20,620
If we want to get a return on all these volts we built better make sure there's a war.

1174
01:39:20,620 --> 01:39:24,620
Why not? The reasoning like that specific reasoning is kind of whack.

1175
01:39:24,620 --> 01:39:30,620
But like Volt Tech being somewhat behind it as that's been hinted before.

1176
01:39:30,620 --> 01:39:35,620
Plus a good lover seeing the cameo of Mr. House, my man.

1177
01:39:35,620 --> 01:39:38,620
Vegas.

1178
01:39:38,620 --> 01:39:40,620
Vegas.

1179
01:39:40,620 --> 01:39:44,620
It's going to happen. They're going to be they're going to get a Vegas, Colin. You have to watch Fallout.

1180
01:39:44,620 --> 01:39:47,620
I mean, it's not I won't I won't blow your mind, but it's all right. It's pretty good.

1181
01:39:47,620 --> 01:39:54,620
I mean, I would say considering with considering we're talking about Halo, it's far in superior.

1182
01:39:54,620 --> 01:39:59,620
I like loving the source material.

1183
01:39:59,620 --> 01:40:04,620
Yeah, I was on a two boxes Spartans got two sides of ballin and balling.

1184
01:40:04,620 --> 01:40:09,620
Right. Thank you. Appreciate that, brother.

1185
01:40:09,620 --> 01:40:15,620
Was on fours. Yeah, they're you know, they made, you know, stronger, better, faster, smarter, harder, all that.

1186
01:40:15,620 --> 01:40:20,620
Everything in the Daft Punk song than normal soldiers.

1187
01:40:20,620 --> 01:40:23,620
They were, you know, obviously better training.

1188
01:40:23,620 --> 01:40:28,620
The surgeries last about three weeks and when you're done, you get a super soldier.

1189
01:40:28,620 --> 01:40:37,620
And as a further bonus, there the armor allowed them like they were wearing was far and away better than the previous like Mjolnir armor.

1190
01:40:37,620 --> 01:40:45,620
Definitely better than SPI armor, but that's not saying much that it could kind of like level the playing field between a two and a four.

1191
01:40:45,620 --> 01:40:52,620
The downside is that the Spartan fours need two hours like of specialty training.

1192
01:40:52,620 --> 01:41:01,620
More another two hours of physical conditioning and augmentation monitoring to make sure that they're taking

1193
01:41:01,620 --> 01:41:09,620
it's it's less potent like they need to be checked out to make sure everything's going all good and you're in your in your in your organs and that crap.

1194
01:41:09,620 --> 01:41:17,620
Also, I feel like I'm misunderstanding this but when I was reading through like the augmentations for the force.

1195
01:41:17,620 --> 01:41:26,620
The way I understood it was that it sounds like they took all of the meat off your bones and then put it back on, which I feel can't be right.

1196
01:41:26,620 --> 01:41:40,620
Because you kind of need that. Yeah, but I mean I mean you have layers of skin like you have sub dermal and like you could you could theoretically if you're under anesthesia take all someone's skin off and then put it back on, assuming that stress

1197
01:41:40,620 --> 01:41:54,620
responses weren't active, you could do that with the skin I just maybe I was definitely misreading it because the first time I was going through it like, as I read it, it's it sounded like they just, they took the meat away, you had no more meat.

1198
01:41:54,620 --> 01:41:57,620
It's wild to describe it. Yeah.

1199
01:41:57,620 --> 01:42:11,620
I mean, I mean, think think of it like, like a sausage, you can take the outer layer of skin off but you still got the sausage inside so like they can always peel that off they could banana peel you put something on it, I know that's the whole, that's how you do primaris them

1200
01:42:11,620 --> 01:42:17,620
basically they have a sub dermal, they peel them back, and they put on like muscle fibers.

1201
01:42:17,620 --> 01:42:34,620
That's probably what it was it's just in my initial reading I didn't see it as like they took the skin off. Yeah, I read it as like, imagine the bone eating a chicken wing down to the bone is what I love them, and then putting the meat back on the chicken wing.

1202
01:42:34,620 --> 01:42:41,620
Crimson Gloria going to about thank you so much for removing me and me attached to bone simple.

1203
01:42:41,620 --> 01:42:46,620
Sarah Palmer there are bugs under your skin. I mean, I mean, have you heard of the term de gloving.

1204
01:42:46,620 --> 01:42:53,620
Yes, horrifying. Yeah, no thank you. Yeah. But as long as you're asleep, it's fine.

1205
01:42:53,620 --> 01:43:07,620
But, you know, another plus side twos were cheaper than the fours are definitely cheaper than the twos but they were a constant investment you kind of need to keep your eyes on twos and threes, ignoring gamma again.

1206
01:43:07,620 --> 01:43:17,620
Once you're done. Whoever lived and made it through, they were good. You didn't need to maintain them again the gamma and their anger medicine.

1207
01:43:17,620 --> 01:43:30,620
Spartan fours you need constant doctor visits and more mentioning that immortality thing from earlier Spartan twos and threes might be biologically immortal. I don't know if it's ever touched upon, but Spartan threes.

1208
01:43:30,620 --> 01:43:48,620
They're said to be like in the prime of their life for about a century. And they could probably live twice as long as an elite who can live up to 300 years so that's the Spartan that needs pretty constant maintenance can live up to 600 years.

1209
01:43:48,620 --> 01:43:52,620
I don't know I don't know if Master Chief could ever die of old age.

1210
01:43:52,620 --> 01:44:08,620
Not that he's lucky enough not that the gains would even let him know. I know, but, you know, if there's still money in Halo, they will keep beating that. Yeah, but he's that archetype of like, are you guys familiar with the game Red Faction.

1211
01:44:08,620 --> 01:44:25,620
Yeah, yeah, like in Red Faction Armageddon there's like an Easter egg of the original character. It's just like some crazy old man who lives in the hills and say I didn't die I'm still here. You're like, that'd be john 117 like an eight foot tall guy living in the hills just like, I'm still alive.

1212
01:44:25,620 --> 01:44:27,620
I'm not.

1213
01:44:27,620 --> 01:44:46,620
Yeah, he's a there. Never really touched upon because even in universe it's only been like 30 odd years 40 since the twos were finished, so they just haven't had time to die of old age if it's possible but might live forever.

1214
01:44:46,620 --> 01:44:53,620
Chief will live to 40k and Master Chief is the real second Primark.

1215
01:44:53,620 --> 01:44:57,620
Truly is what he doesn't have Mule now he has plumb.

1216
01:44:57,620 --> 01:45:07,620
Truly, he said to be the luckiest Spartan he's so lucky it affects the universe. He has 11 out of 10 in luck stat. Yeah.

1217
01:45:07,620 --> 01:45:23,620
It was the worst builders the worst idea ever had didn't do anything. Yeah, yeah, like builds in Fallout are great and luck is also great in fire emblem because it means you don't get critic as much.

1218
01:45:23,620 --> 01:45:40,620
Yes, that's, that's, that's very true but jackal snipers from Halo two on legendary could probably murder the emperor, it's, it's, you know, yeah, bullshit, you stick your foot around a corner and then you're dead, and, you know, you didn't see what killed you but you know what happened.

1219
01:45:40,620 --> 01:45:53,620
You know when I, when I got Halo two on release I remember playing like I was like I've done Halo one on legendary and I got Halo two going all right I got to that one bit and then it was just like, what the fuck.

1220
01:45:53,620 --> 01:45:56,620
And it was just like half an hour to say what the fuck.

1221
01:45:56,620 --> 01:46:02,620
Yes. So, it was a it was a growing moment for me.

1222
01:46:02,620 --> 01:46:06,620
Let me let me let me just throw this in here for anyone interested.

1223
01:46:06,620 --> 01:46:11,620
It's the Boulevard of jackal snipers.

1224
01:46:11,620 --> 01:46:14,620
But

1225
01:46:14,620 --> 01:46:24,620
let's, we're almost done, we're almost I'm almost done with the Spartan Lord vomit with the twos versus the force.

1226
01:46:24,620 --> 01:46:28,620
Outside of their armor, not at all equal.

1227
01:46:28,620 --> 01:46:43,620
If the Spartan for augmentations are less intensive than the twos, they would fold them like a rag doll with the gen to me on their armor the force have, it's like, the point is to make up for the augmentations not being as severe, which is why for you

1228
01:46:43,620 --> 01:46:48,620
know all the travesty that is Halo five, it's single player campaign.

1229
01:46:48,620 --> 01:46:58,620
And the fact that they're not going to rock, you know, the chief needed a minute to kill, or you know to put them down instead of two seconds.

1230
01:46:58,620 --> 01:47:10,620
That being said, I don't know if they ever said why, or if the remaining twos and threes can't just be given the upgraded meal their armor and they can just rocket past the force.

1231
01:47:10,620 --> 01:47:19,620
And then how Halo seems to have taken to throwing shit at the wall and then abandoning it between Halo five and whatever the hell the endless are an infinite.

1232
01:47:19,620 --> 01:47:23,620
Who knows, probably never will be addressed.

1233
01:47:23,620 --> 01:47:40,620
You know what the, I even I was like confused I remember seeing I was watching Rooster Teeth at the time with like Halo five dropping I was like, damn, you know, gameplay seems pretty good and then hit like from when I followed it to Halo infinite I was like, what, like they

1234
01:47:40,620 --> 01:47:57,620
did it, I mean, as much as a halo fire was like, they set up something massive.

1235
01:47:57,620 --> 01:48:11,620
And then they went, hey, end of gears war five, where they went hey, and the gears five, one of the two main characters has to die. And it's like, oh, the, the, the mother of them of what's her name is like the locust queen.

1236
01:48:11,620 --> 01:48:18,620
And they obviously didn't know what the hell to do with that. So now they're doing a prequel site guys.

1237
01:48:18,620 --> 01:48:35,620
Don't do gear six just let us go back to the good old days. Even within that there were projects for like a helldivers style odst game almost that was canceled, not even by 343 like Microsoft higher up so good ideas are in short supply.

1238
01:48:35,620 --> 01:48:48,620
Do you think they read, do you reckon, as of like NASA 2024 they don't really know where they want to go with, hey, I even remember like infinite, infinite support.

1239
01:48:48,620 --> 01:49:06,620
Over the place. I think it's maybe the problem with like when a studio has worked on something for so long they crave doing like Bethesda could have dropped elder scroll six in like PS4 PlayStation five, like next gen stuff.

1240
01:49:06,620 --> 01:49:21,620
Like PlayStation five or like you know Xbox one or whatever but they never did because they were like we were desperate to work on something else so we're going to release starfield as a time recording starfield is basic starfield is a game on paper.

1241
01:49:21,620 --> 01:49:24,620
Like yours there, it doesn't have a soul.

1242
01:49:24,620 --> 01:49:41,620
It. Yeah, so, yeah, I reckon maybe 343 or like we just want to do something else so bad. Yeah, there's money train going, I think, unfortunately, halos soul right now is that one of the Spartan to wash outs.

1243
01:49:41,620 --> 01:49:54,620
Yeah, I think the thing about a lot of these studios like 343 and such and the coalition it's like, we want to pursue the margins rather than the game. It's like, oh, we want to like make a big expansive.

1244
01:49:54,620 --> 01:50:03,620
And then my worry we were we were opening worldy lots of guns or look at that, rather than like, how about we just do what the fans want.

1245
01:50:03,620 --> 01:50:19,620
We want more value from the fans we need to get new people involved so we're going to expand and make it ironically it's because it's just it's the slightly is the one problem where like it's trying to be a setting, rather than a finished like story, also

1246
01:50:19,620 --> 01:50:35,620
glory again with the donation that he raises on a happy note. Have you seen the new doom trailer is it do you know I think God with the shield. Don't miss the skull the skull gun that shoots ground up skulls they out war hammered war hammer.

1247
01:50:35,620 --> 01:50:42,620
Doom has not really missed as it is really not since 2016.

1248
01:50:42,620 --> 01:50:49,620
Because the if you had a master chief skin on do you would be the same thing.

1249
01:50:49,620 --> 01:50:56,620
Oh, but, uh, almost done. Last couple things now.

1250
01:50:56,620 --> 01:51:03,620
For what it's worth. I'll give you the opinion of Edward buck on the differences between you know the two is threes and fours.

1251
01:51:03,620 --> 01:51:08,620
He was a he was an ODST who became a four, and even before he was a four.

1252
01:51:08,620 --> 01:51:20,620
And he was outright said billion. Yeah, we're like if this guy was any better he'd just be a Spartan, so you can probably assume he knows what he's talking about. So, DJ beast.

1253
01:51:20,620 --> 01:51:29,620
Starfield is like Collins dating life theoretically is real but no one believes in my dude leave my get out.

1254
01:51:29,620 --> 01:51:32,620
Leave him alone.

1255
01:51:32,620 --> 01:51:40,620
He's, he's only case man. Jesus Christ. Fuck so I can end this and cease my torment.

1256
01:51:40,620 --> 01:51:42,620
Find his house.

1257
01:51:42,620 --> 01:51:50,620
He called the he called the two's like Titans like of Greek myth like they're just head and shoulders above everyone else.

1258
01:51:50,620 --> 01:51:57,620
The threes were you know the gods like not quite as strong as the Titans but definitely up there.

1259
01:51:57,620 --> 01:52:04,620
And he said like the fours were like you know the demigods like you know Hercules like heroes of myth Odysseus thesias.

1260
01:52:04,620 --> 01:52:12,620
Maybe at a maybe at first glance they're not that much different than normal people but they're, they're definitely something special.

1261
01:52:12,620 --> 01:52:22,620
And at the end of the day, you want to see high command has what's known as corruptor protocol, which is what happens when a Spartan is infected by the flood.

1262
01:52:22,620 --> 01:52:33,620
It has happened once. And with that in mind, I don't think there's any functional difference in terms of how likely you are to make it out alive between a two, three or four infected by the flood.

1263
01:52:33,620 --> 01:52:35,620
I think you're going to die.

1264
01:52:35,620 --> 01:52:40,620
So, in terms of how it matters for normal people functionally.

1265
01:52:40,620 --> 01:52:44,620
They're going to fold you in half equally well.

1266
01:52:44,620 --> 01:52:49,620
And that is the Spartans.

1267
01:52:49,620 --> 01:52:52,620
Wow. Any, any questions.

1268
01:52:52,620 --> 01:53:06,620
More like just a statement of my god, there's just, I think, because we're talking about with Space Marine, they don't really win a phase of the mind where it's like, there's only technically two, there's like different sets of armor defined on most generations

1269
01:53:06,620 --> 01:53:16,620
but there's no such thing as like, other than, I guess the Primaris Marine is an example like another generation of Space Marine.

1270
01:53:16,620 --> 01:53:28,620
All I'm saying is, I like the consistency with the Spartan variations, but please God bungee, not bungee, free for free. Don't make Spartan fives, just don't.

1271
01:53:28,620 --> 01:53:32,620
Just don't for the sake of doing it just for is enough for is enough please.

1272
01:53:32,620 --> 01:53:33,620
For is good.

1273
01:53:33,620 --> 01:53:52,620
If the store, if, if the money's there to sell things about it, it will happen. Like with them. I think, really, I mean like, probably I predict maybe 20 years from now we'll both will be like, do you guys remember Primaris Marines.

1274
01:53:52,620 --> 01:54:00,620
You know I mean like it will be a good thing of, you know, at some point they're like we need to sell more Space Marine surely.

1275
01:54:00,620 --> 01:54:03,620
Primaris Marines now.

1276
01:54:03,620 --> 01:54:06,620
Stormcast us eternalists.

1277
01:54:06,620 --> 01:54:18,620
Yeah, there's newer models look like they found their like uniqueness amongst not being copious Space Marines. No, no, they're the news models, I can't wait.

1278
01:54:18,620 --> 01:54:25,620
I can't wait for age of Sigmaris. There we go. Yeah, that's what it's going to be age of Gilmar.

1279
01:54:25,620 --> 01:54:38,620
No, I think I don't know what they'll do in the future with it. I mean, if when like because Warhammer now will be as much as like Halo like is a huge franchise and more people know what Halo is rather than Warhammer.

1280
01:54:38,620 --> 01:54:56,620
Warhammer is on an uptick and you know be crazy. I mean, I suspect when it goes to like a mainstream level it won't be. It might have to be cleaned up a little bit just because I suspect people might be like, oh my god that makes me want to throw up in my mouth.

1281
01:54:56,620 --> 01:55:16,620
Yeah, that's, that's crazy. But I think yeah I mean if it's like an on screen or like some of that it'll be, it'll still be Warhammer but it'll have to be like, yo, these are Space Marines are cool aren't they that you know Space Marine two is not going to be checking out demon hosts that, you know, invert someone anus first.

1282
01:55:16,620 --> 01:55:22,620
Probably Darktide did. Well that was a sentence.

1283
01:55:22,620 --> 01:55:37,620
Yeah, what a way to end and the Halo episode demon host it is hurting you asshole first last another nation by the salty schmuck was a great name by the way you've done it john rings you've become the Halo infinite.

1284
01:55:37,620 --> 01:55:40,620
He didn't say Johnny rings.

1285
01:55:40,620 --> 01:55:58,620
I think to that like in the future like is like silly like what divided p like me growing up not replaying much hey that was simply the fact that it was content exclusive on certain platforms like play being a more PC now it's thing I, you know what I mean like at some point it should be

1286
01:55:58,620 --> 01:56:12,620
like, we really need to get everyone by well they got game pass so halos always on like game pass stuff so you can get on BC. I'm just waiting for the point will be like, oh, john halo.

1287
01:56:12,620 --> 01:56:27,620
There's one ring to rule them all one ring to bind them in the galaxy bind them like, yeah, I guess one last one rings, why not. One last question I'll add then for Colin as our, you know, he gave an absolute showing of, you know, law not law

1288
01:56:27,620 --> 01:56:37,620
knowledge today. What would you do to the Halo franchise to kind of, I guess, more, it's not dead but like to kind of give it a new life or resurrected in some way.

1289
01:56:37,620 --> 01:56:57,620
I guess focus on some like non Master Chief stuff like another ods t game or some go back to the human covenant war, or I, I see what I want to see what some of those like potential spin off games that were being cooked up before Microsoft put them down.

1290
01:56:57,620 --> 01:57:13,620
I don't know what's going on with there because yeah, oh yes, hell divers but ods t sounds fun as hell. You know what I think would be fun. What if you just did a spin off called Halo new Mombasa, and it goes from when Master Chief drops down to when the warp

1291
01:57:13,620 --> 01:57:17,620
rift messes everything up and then you have to survive.

1292
01:57:17,620 --> 01:57:28,620
You could do an ods t style spin off. It's in like greatest hits of Halo two. And you could just you could just have a bit of fun with it and then when the when the slips they win the slip space rupture happens.

1293
01:57:28,620 --> 01:57:40,620
You could take it in a different direction but it's like hey, you could get you could you could key on in on that nostalgia, but also make a good fun game that isn't about john halo and the rings.

1294
01:57:40,620 --> 01:57:48,620
Yeah, but kind of like what they do with like Star Wars these days it's like oh we'll do another. We need we need more Darth Vader, put it during a Darth Vader era, it's fine.

1295
01:57:48,620 --> 01:58:03,620
Yeah, but making it needs someone with a interesting idea and good direction to really like steel with with most games like it's usually been one person's like, at least, at least in the beginning that one person's good vision that they've seen success with

1296
01:58:03,620 --> 01:58:17,620
and just to follow that thing. There's, there are two donations but I want to three, three, I'm going to ask them in different orders. There's one I want to stick on which is criminal glory says give it back to bungee for two bucks.

1297
01:58:17,620 --> 01:58:22,620
I think bungee bungee is like what they're doing.

1298
01:58:22,620 --> 01:58:33,620
I think they're doing destiny three at the moment so that's kind of so that's the free they're doing destiny 2.11057892 and executing it while they're at it.

1299
01:58:33,620 --> 01:58:36,620
And also all that talent has fucked off.

1300
01:58:36,620 --> 01:58:43,620
Angry among this is they put Master Chief in the soda. Don't know what that means.

1301
01:58:43,620 --> 01:58:59,620
I don't have any opinions in the upcoming Dragon Age, I have played most Dragon Age origins and Inquisition not to, but the new Dragon Age trailer just came out recently, I'll let Andy go first.

1302
01:58:59,620 --> 01:59:19,620
So all I'm saying is, it's, I played them all. I love the first one. I love the second one much less. And I love the third one much less as well. I'm kind of done with Dragon Age and personally, it's too long, it's like, that was a significant gap between free and now, like, I don't know,

1303
01:59:19,620 --> 01:59:30,620
there's something to be said about momentum. It's something to do with, particularly like the studio, come over the studio who makes Dragon Age, but they had that game.

1304
01:59:30,620 --> 01:59:37,620
Is it by the way they had that game they had a they've had Mass Effect Andromeda.

1305
01:59:37,620 --> 01:59:44,620
And then they had that other sci fi ish game that completely like failed. Oh yeah, what was that even called.

1306
01:59:44,620 --> 01:59:53,620
So this, this poor, this studio is definitely like, if this game doesn't hit, it's on its last legs.

1307
01:59:53,620 --> 02:00:02,620
But the thing is it has the bungee problem, where it's like the talent has left. Like the guys that made that company what it is, are doing other things.

1308
02:00:02,620 --> 02:00:16,620
Like they're it's it's it's the company and name only like that the OG bungee guys are gone. Yeah, 343 should just remaster. No, you know, remaster marathon and give Halo time to cool there.

1309
02:00:16,620 --> 02:00:19,620
There's my other answer.

1310
02:00:19,620 --> 02:00:25,620
Introduce people to the abomination that is marathon infinities plot.

1311
02:00:25,620 --> 02:00:35,620
I think with the new Dragon Age, I definitely saw I know people mean when they say like the visuals of it looks like cartoony Fortnite.

1312
02:00:35,620 --> 02:00:47,620
I think this game has been in development so long. Yeah, that like people who are all lost boys, you know, who are watching this stream or listening to this later a day.

1313
02:00:47,620 --> 02:01:06,620
I don't think we're the target audience because I think they are definitely aiming for perhaps the like a new group to come in and to discover Dragon Age because I don't think people who are like, younger than us now, they're not going to play Dragon Age origins is just too dated.

1314
02:01:06,620 --> 02:01:17,620
As much as as much as like the tone and theme and like the actual game was like, you can play races and it's fantastic. It's like, oh, but it's 10 years old plus. It's so good.

1315
02:01:17,620 --> 02:01:36,620
They're trying to reach an audience that is different. Again, I think this I think this the problem with that game so far is like it just might be too long in development and they basically like we had a vision that was like cool, like all fortnightie and you know that was what was popping off at the time.

1316
02:01:36,620 --> 02:01:45,620
And then now at the time, you're going to go to do you reckon that you're going to do you reckon they're going to try and copy some of the borders gate free magic.

1317
02:01:45,620 --> 02:01:57,620
I don't know. I feel like they're pretty different. The common I think the gameplay of it will be good. I just I just think the story will be like lust because because the thing is anything fancy.

1318
02:01:57,620 --> 02:02:06,620
It's like you could copy borders gate free, but then you have to put some work in and most game developers these days are so anemic with how much work they put in the light.

1319
02:02:06,620 --> 02:02:09,620
That sounds really difficult though.

1320
02:02:09,620 --> 02:02:24,620
I don't really want to like put that much effort in. It's because it's not. It's, I think the we're at a point where I think we're like, I think we're quite good we're actually seeing a shift now we're like, some games just aren't making the cut anymore and some other ones

1321
02:02:24,620 --> 02:02:38,620
are being rewarded for their, like, ingenuity and actual like in the game. I mean, I've got to be honest, I haven't played any modern games in a long time like literally the last couple days I've been playing

1322
02:02:38,620 --> 02:02:46,620
Fire Emblem seven on the Game Boy Advance for an emulator because it's just like, oh, this is a really solid game that's free. You can get it online.

1323
02:02:46,620 --> 02:02:59,620
I'll just play that. I'll just play like BioShock on the switch I'll play all these old games like 1015 years old and like yeah, I'm fine. I got loads of fun comfort games and games I like there's so many games from the past I haven't picked up.

1324
02:02:59,620 --> 02:03:06,620
I might as well get around to it and how I can always turn on if I can always play another run of FTL.

1325
02:03:06,620 --> 02:03:15,620
Yeah, Mr. Mihailov said on the topic of Dragon Age and audiences we got Metallica and Fortnite before GTA 6.

1326
02:03:15,620 --> 02:03:30,620
I think because a lot of these things are when certain franchises like maybe like Halo isn't on topic now like once it's been going on for so long. It's a product. It's not about Halo. It's about a game.

1327
02:03:30,620 --> 02:03:48,620
It's about Fortnite incorporated more than anything. And I think I've it's not I mean some games have been better, like even like I think the longer franchise tend to go on like particularly in games, the longer it's somewhat loses its heart.

1328
02:03:48,620 --> 02:04:01,620
I think I remember that time where James Hetfield from Fortnite beats Eminem to death with a pickaxe while Goku and John Wick Nainade in the corner like yeah, that's gaming now. Cool.

1329
02:04:01,620 --> 02:04:03,620
Here we are.

1330
02:04:03,620 --> 02:04:18,620
So I mean like the games come I think companies will start to see like oh if you actually give you know I mean if you actually put effort into it there's actually more money that comes out of it again like the driving force for even in Warhammer.

1331
02:04:18,620 --> 02:04:20,620
But at the same time.

1332
02:04:20,620 --> 02:04:34,620
It's like I was gonna say, I again I'd like to reference Baldur's Gate 3 where the entire gaming industry for the most part said, no we shouldn't like set the tone for gamers that we're going to put a load of effort into it because that's unreasonable.

1333
02:04:34,620 --> 02:04:50,620
I remember that. Oh, oh, well we're lucky with Warhammer particularly because what seems to sell best, particularly on the lore side of it is actually just good lore. Like the seed like the particular the Horus Harris and much like if you're not even like

1334
02:04:50,620 --> 02:05:06,620
Colin like not being the biggest space marine fan. The book in a general sense, the Horus Harris series and the Seizure Terror as a book series slaps violently hard. It's actually like, if someone read all of that which we've had the Andy has, I almost have.

1335
02:05:06,620 --> 02:05:24,620
I basically at the end of it you want to like you want to have a stiff drink and a cigarette because you're like my mind was particularly blown by the normity of what I've just read about. So, as we're getting good stuff I mean, as much as like Warhammer is like, there's some issues about it.

1336
02:05:24,620 --> 02:05:45,620
Bro, we're, when it think of things like Dragon Age or Star Wars or like how Halo is currently, we are spoiled with how well it like keep like it's holding up, it may be getting a bit cleaner around the edges Warhammer but it's still somewhat has that energy to it

1337
02:05:45,620 --> 02:05:58,620
which is like, oh, this is the grim dark future and we're, they still make, you know, great looking models with pretty standout law not always great law is not always, you know, doesn't blow my mind every time.

1338
02:05:58,620 --> 02:06:08,620
But I'm still I'm not I've not read really any I've only read one book in one month I didn't finish. I had one that I thought was disappointing. And I was it.

1339
02:06:08,620 --> 02:06:19,620
And not to be funny it's like you've got the law you've got the codex is you've got the video games you've got the spin offs even even when people like, oh look at these really cool magic the gathering cards, that's cool.

1340
02:06:19,620 --> 02:06:30,620
Oh look like I won't reference Call of Duty is a good example, but occasionally like I think I don't, I don't play it but I assume people were chuffed with the world of world of tanks and world warships.

1341
02:06:30,620 --> 02:06:37,620
40k tie ins where it's like oh here's some cool stuff with a warhammer thing.

1342
02:06:37,620 --> 02:06:50,620
Yeah, or a power washer simulator. I get to clean a land raider. Praise the Omnissiah. Yeah, let's go. It's cool. It's the way they're like, it comes full circle where we're like we're slight as a critical raise when with the donation thank you

1343
02:06:50,620 --> 02:07:08,620
for for 40. Yeah, one more 40k needs to be protected at all costs. It's where you're somewhat thankful that they actually are protective of the franchise in some way like I understand that they want to make it more like they will in the future, alter

1344
02:07:08,620 --> 02:07:25,620
the warhammer in a way, not because they want to subscribe to any ideologies, the ideology is money. Like the more money you can get out of warhammer, that will be the direction it will go, but I'm sure it like, but that's the way like the writers have always found

1345
02:07:25,620 --> 02:07:39,620
balance with it. Like the writers for what your writer for warhammer, you are writing so that someone can sell a miniature line, but they still made like they let Dan Abagnat. God knows why just let him like go go do your thing Dan.

1346
02:07:39,620 --> 02:07:45,620
Yeah, go make some weird law. But at the same time, like, I really enjoyed the new Empress children.

1347
02:07:45,620 --> 02:07:59,620
Lord of Excess book where it's about the Empress children and Xanteen is like, there were no miniature ranges being sold for that book. It was just hey we need an Empress children book. Oh, they're all being degenerates and there's the navigator who's so self obsessed he crashes

1348
02:07:59,620 --> 02:08:10,620
a ship into like the sun. Cool. That's what I wanted. And you can tell like, I think there's going to be a transitionary period soon where a lot of the old guard of writers are going to be replaced with new writers, but they're all with it.

1349
02:08:10,620 --> 02:08:25,620
I think I think that that's not like they're getting rid of older themes or older things. That's mostly just because I think particularly like a lot of the writers they probably thought everything I've wanted to do with warhammer I've probably already done it.

1350
02:08:25,620 --> 02:08:42,620
Like I don't, I'm much like my loved Aaron Dempsky Bowden who's written things like Hell's Reach and some of the horror series, they probably just don't have any more like things they want to do with warhammer, I think we'll probably see a transition because a lot of them.

1351
02:08:42,620 --> 02:08:57,620
I mean, who's the guy is it Graham McNeil who he wrote the second book in the horror series series and he's written loads of book he's written the Euroventress books and he's in low I mean he's literally he's written hundreds of these one books, but then he's left and he's now like the head writer

1352
02:08:57,620 --> 02:09:13,620
who we do League of Legends. Right. Right. He's a riot, just because I think I think he's easily he's a there's no, there's nothing more for him to bring to the warhammer universe so there'll be new writers I'm do fair.

1353
02:09:13,620 --> 02:09:20,620
Some gifts, and we're going to give some of them a go because I'm, they, I'm sure they've all, they've all issued tons of material to get inspiration.

1354
02:09:20,620 --> 02:09:31,620
Yeah, or even this guy he did the Lord of Excess book his first book for black library, and it's really good. I'm like, cool, or even that guy did the gene stealer one that I haven't read yet and apparently it's really good.

1355
02:09:31,620 --> 02:09:44,620
So yeah, these new writers are kicking ass. So hopefully they'll continue to do so. I think there'll be something salty smirks as in the concept is that long running franchises will be running the ground.

1356
02:09:44,620 --> 02:10:03,620
I don't think halo is being run in. So, I don't think 40k is being run into the ground, I just think it will be like the more visible aspects of it like in the future as it grows will just not be the stuff that we think is like the true grittiest stuff

1357
02:10:03,620 --> 02:10:20,620
and getting really rid of it. I just, I don't think that a show that to a mainstream audience they've not out I don't think I can think of a retcon that I thought was like, wow, that's like, maybe I thought retcon some of them are like, bit weirdly done.

1358
02:10:20,620 --> 02:10:29,620
But I've never seen what I don't think I've seen a real maybe maybe I might miss Mary I've never seen a red. Yeah, that was like, that's like that's completely unabashedly not warhammer.

1359
02:10:29,620 --> 02:10:38,620
The other thing is as well as like it's so broad, some of you'll never get everything onto the silver screen anyway, like there's just too much weird stuff.

1360
02:10:38,620 --> 02:10:47,620
Yeah, well, even if they do a TV show it's only going to be a splinter of it, you know, I think with warhammer, so this is a bit of like a way add on to this.

1361
02:10:47,620 --> 02:11:05,620
I mean, I just think, again, like, if we ever see on TV screens or movies or anything like that. It just, I wouldn't, there won't be huge amounts of it I just hope it's not I just hope the horrors heresy is an animated series, just so they're able to get that sort of out

1362
02:11:05,620 --> 02:11:23,620
because I think the horrors heresy luckily like there's not much, like, as much as like people like the word grimdark the horrors heresy is not like 40k books are much more like that's the grimdark future and 30k is a little bit more, you know, slightly less grimdark past.

1363
02:11:23,620 --> 02:11:40,620
It's more like tragic and it's heartbreak I get sad at the 30k horrors heresy stuff I get I get like disgusted at the 40k something that happened in there though. Yeah, they think people say like, yeah, femsodes is always a bit of like a

1364
02:11:40,620 --> 02:11:44,620
companies that lore master listen to it'd be successful thank you Crimson Glory.

1365
02:11:44,620 --> 02:12:01,620
I think yeah, what's that law masters are just, I don't, I'm not sure we decide. So even like writers I don't think writers even decide direction in games workshop they're more like they get given a like brief and then it's sort of like someone saying

1366
02:12:01,620 --> 02:12:17,620
can you go paint a canvas but here's like some color like they give you the only a few set of colors to do it with. They kind of filling out a product line, in a way, and they do a damn good job at it and hopefully some elder will get some damn, damn love.

1367
02:12:17,620 --> 02:12:31,620
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I was like 30k by thank God 30k and horrors heresy is done, like, as in like the third the horrors heresy is Caesar terror, like they did it.

1368
02:12:31,620 --> 02:12:41,620
And it was good. So you know, that's always probably protected in this little bubble. And then I don't have to worry about anything else. And I'll finally read all of it soon.

1369
02:12:41,620 --> 02:12:50,620
I've really hijacked you. I think my final word is that I still like a little more than warhammer.

1370
02:12:50,620 --> 02:12:54,620
I think, I think,

1371
02:12:54,620 --> 02:13:17,620
I think what warhammer is my top, but I definitely came from other franchises and I will definitely like be playing. I mean, I hope Dragon Age four just is all right, like I don't. I played Dragon Age Inquisition for the game, like I don't think, like, I, as my law cup is filled by Warhammer.

1372
02:13:17,620 --> 02:13:24,620
DJB says in bracket, I don't know. In quotations, we all came how 2024 appreciate it, brother.

1373
02:13:24,620 --> 02:13:32,620
I'm just saying, I don't give a care about the new Dragon Age, but I'd like to play the new gears because especially now they've dropped the gears Monica and going back to gears of war.

1374
02:13:32,620 --> 02:13:41,620
It's back to like E day I'm like cool that just that that's just like a bow on the section of the fan base I really enjoy which is gears one to judgment.

1375
02:13:41,620 --> 02:13:49,620
I don't care about four five plus. I just like the old stuff. And if they're adding a bit to the old stuff and it works well.

1376
02:13:49,620 --> 02:14:11,620
The thing is like what ultimately everyone's listening will ultimately rise the top is the quality product. If Star Wars is going down the drain less people will watch it, and then you know I mean like the thing that will be good will eventually just, I mean there are other.

1377
02:14:11,620 --> 02:14:24,620
I mean, it hasn't had anything new in years we discount the MMO. And it's still like in the site guys people still revere it. It's like, as long as they don't read, as long as they don't do a TV series on code because I don't expect them to do a good job

1378
02:14:24,620 --> 02:14:30,620
I'm like, yeah, leave that in its own separate bubble. That's fine. I like code or I like

1379
02:14:30,620 --> 02:14:45,620
slot.

1380
02:14:45,620 --> 02:15:00,620
I think that's part and law, and we hope you appreciate this little small deviation from our regular sort of warhammer lashing will be about to walk on I don't know what we're doing the topic for the podcast.

1381
02:15:00,620 --> 02:15:15,620
We've got a topic lines up we've got a tier list I think next week, winter changing them with the quiz just to give people a bit of a relief from maybe too much to have any things in too many to list.

1382
02:15:15,620 --> 02:15:23,620
But we'll try get some people on as well hope you enjoyed Colin. So the alpha made this column is a Chad nerd he is.

1383
02:15:23,620 --> 02:15:37,620
I'll take it. Yes, appreciate you brothers so much thank you everyone who donated as well, the entire stream appreciate that and, but before it shows off it lets everyone know if they like the new serve where we have the actual sort of gameplay

1384
02:15:37,620 --> 02:15:53,620
display in the middle bit for yeah people like stuff like that. For you who are like audio listeners they don't understand that we had a gameplay sort of center in the middle where we basically based on the topic we'll talk about we're going to put a sort of video of, you know, gameplay or that we did.

1385
02:15:53,620 --> 02:16:07,620
And then we'll just to keep it. Keep it chugging along. Hopefully people enjoyed that they have anything else to add them other than just again, made this far, please subscribe.

1386
02:16:07,620 --> 02:16:13,620
See more of, as always, and yeah, need to add subway servers will get on it.

1387
02:16:13,620 --> 02:16:18,620
Yeah, I'll be honest I did think that was a great idea.

1388
02:16:18,620 --> 02:16:23,620
I'm a bit attached like phones and our foreheads.

1389
02:16:23,620 --> 02:16:34,620
Oh, the question the week, feel free to ask that one again if I remember correctly, hashtag power trip. Yeah hashtag power trip. Appreciate you brothers, and Colin.

1390
02:16:34,620 --> 02:16:39,620
Did he says Colin gritty only if he is in the mood. We'll see.

1391
02:16:39,620 --> 02:16:43,620
Put Fortnite gameplay selfie free seven.

1392
02:16:43,620 --> 02:16:45,620
You're on my wavelength.

1393
02:16:45,620 --> 02:16:51,620
As long as we can find a skin that matches similarly enough to the topic.

1394
02:16:51,620 --> 02:17:05,620
And we'll probably do things like critical warhammer and go unification rod of Dawn of War soul storm, because we were dying to. I'm dying to get back on that horse, I am there.

1395
02:17:05,620 --> 02:17:12,620
I also did get mechanic us on my switch because it was on sale this last week I'm like, oh, yummy.

1396
02:17:12,620 --> 02:17:18,620
So, I think among us has put on berserk armor to destroy my spine. Okay.

1397
02:17:18,620 --> 02:17:26,620
Because a great idea for power on that today but berserk almost just is just consume.

1398
02:17:26,620 --> 02:17:30,620
I was like be original ad temple run instead of subway service.

1399
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That being said though thank you everyone for listening and watching. Appreciate you guys so much, and we'll try and catch you on the next one peace and love.