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{{Quote|The soldiers in the SPARTAN-III program were more like your standard gods of myth and legend, the Titans' kids. Hermes and Apollo and Aphrodite and such. If the Spartan-IIs are more powerful than you can imagine, Spartan-IIIs are probably just inside your limits. The Spartan-IVs—my new designation—are like demigods then, the offspring of the real gods. Think Hercules. We can pass for regular people most of the time—something folks would generally have a hard time mistaking the earlier generations for—but inside, we're far more than that.|Spartan Edward Buck, comparing the augmentations of the Spartan-IVs to the previous Spartan generations<ref name="nb113">'''Halo: New Blood''', ''page 113'' (Google Play edition)</ref>}} | {{Quote|When I say walking gods, I mean the Spartan-IIs. Like the old Greek Titans in the way that they live among us but are literally head and shoulders better in every way. And they’re just about as hard to kill. The fact we lost so many of them during the Covenant War tells you something about how horrific that conflict was. The soldiers in the SPARTAN-III program were more like your standard gods of myth and legend, the Titans' kids. Hermes and Apollo and Aphrodite and such. If the Spartan-IIs are more powerful than you can imagine, Spartan-IIIs are probably just inside your limits. The Spartan-IVs—my new designation—are like demigods then, the offspring of the real gods. Think Hercules. We can pass for regular people most of the time—something folks would generally have a hard time mistaking the earlier generations for—but inside, we're far more than that.|Spartan Edward Buck, comparing the augmentations of the Spartan-IVs to the previous Spartan generations<ref name="nb113">'''Halo: New Blood''', ''page 113'' (Google Play edition)</ref>}} | ||
Like their forebears, the [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IVs]] undergo a series of procedures to enhance their physical capabilities. The augmentations are performed through a combination of chemical injections—like [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|those]] of the [[SPARTAN-III program|Spartan-IIIs]]—and invasive surgical implants—like [[SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures|those]] of the [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-IIs]]. The technology used in the two preceding [[Spartan|SPARTAN programs]] necessitated that the candidates meet exceedingly strict genetic qualifications as well as the application of the enhancements on preteens to avoid the catastrophic failure rates produced by the augmentation of adult subjects in the [[ORION Project]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', ''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]''</ref> | Like their forebears, the [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IVs]] undergo a series of procedures to enhance their physical capabilities. The augmentations are performed through a combination of chemical injections—like [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|those]] of the [[SPARTAN-III program|Spartan-IIIs]]—and invasive surgical implants—like [[SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures|those]] of the [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-IIs]]. The technology used in the two preceding [[Spartan|SPARTAN programs]] necessitated that the candidates meet exceedingly strict genetic qualifications as well as the application of the enhancements on preteens to avoid the catastrophic failure rates produced by the augmentation of adult subjects in the [[ORION Project]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', ''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]''</ref> | ||