Yeah, Halo: Reach beta is coming next Monday. Before then though, we’ll get a glimpse of Carter, SPARTAN A259, prepping to become a SPARTAN-III supersoldier . The clip from the short film “Birth of a Spartan” is below.
A longer version of this short film should be out later this week. So, stay tuned.
A bit of trivia for all of you who didn’t read the Halo novels (which are very good sci-fi reads, by the way): The Master Chief was a SPARTAN-II, which come from much narrower gene pool due to special criteria for the SPARTAN-II program. The survival rate for SPARTAN-II genetic augmentation procedures was 44%. Advancements in technology and a less aggressive augmentation procedure for SPARTAN-III recruits yielded a 100% survival rate.
SPARTAN-III’s were meant to be expendable, and were trained in classes of 300 or so. The SPARTAN team in Halo: Reach, Noble Team, defied the odds and, as a result, are rewarded with more suicide missions, from which they keep coming back.
