Forum:Hang on to your helmet!: Difference between revisions

:::Honestly, my advice to them would be to stay as far from Spartans as you could, and expand on the "regulars". ODST is still my favourite story for that reason - and the fact that comparing the ODSTs with how they otherwise stack up against Spartans, it makes the Spartans feel all the more legendary. Portraying Spartans as "relatable" undermines the point of them. I'm fairly sure non-Spartan servicemen and servicewomen must get at least some kind of augmentations - standardizing people from a range of planetary conditions and all that. Plus, I find it hard to believe that at least some of the medical advances made in the original ORION Project, its 25th century reboot, and S-II and III didn't filter down in a safer form to less expensive warfighters. You can refer to Spartans as mythical figures, play with how people react - awe, derision, skepticism, etc. Maybe even have one or two show up to overawe the characters and audience, or in a twist, reveal that a character we'd dismissed as anything special was an undercover or former Spartan the whole time. If I was going to use an existing show as a model, I would use Stargate - focus it on a spall expeditionary team, probably ONI, working in a complex political environment to destabilize the enemy. Hell, give us some awesome Jackal collaborators! Brute mercs! Elite zealots! Grunt rebellions! Innies running guns back and forth! Naval battles! [[Wikipedia:Ronon Dex|Ronon]]!