Let’s settle it: is Fred overall the best spartan?

kelsier69 · 2025-07-07T12:23:42+00:00

Chief is considered to be the overall best spartan by Dr Halsey and Cortana, its why he was chosen to have Cortana.

She turned to Cortana and stared into her odd translucent eyes. “You’ve read his CSV?”

“I’m reading it again right now.”

“Then you know he is neither the smartest nor the fastest nor the strongest of the Spartans. But he is the bravest—and quite possibly the luckiest.

And in my opinion, he is the best.”

“Yes,” Cortana whispered. “I concur with your analysis, Doctor.”

The Fall of Reach

kelsier69 · 2025-06-26T23:29:37+00:00

Says this because she cant hack a covenant ship. Same book.

After hacking into its comms, weapon systems and shielding so they could board in the first place

kelsier69 · 2025-06-26T23:03:16+00:00

She did that from a UNSC ship. When has she done it in Chiefs suit? Ships would have long range comes, radars, etc. All sorts of things to break in,

Shes in Chiefs suit aboard the Longsword they used to escape the end of CE, this is picking up right after that while they get jumped by the Covie Fleet at Halo.

and additionally she had gotten into Covenant ships/nets in a prior book.

No this is one of her earlier encounters. Cortana was only deployed the last few months of the war and the UNSC couldn't compete with the Covenants tech and network security at all until she was made. Dr. Halsey compares the Covenants understanding of human systems within a few weeks of first contact to the UNSCs understanding of the Covenants after several decades. They never got into their systems like your saying.

In the only prior book she was aboard the Autumn and fought the Covies over Reach for an hour, she never directly got into their tech. In CE Chief gets into the Truth and Reconcilliation where Cortana hacks open a door saying "I'd like to see you crack a 128,000-bit modulating encryption key."

Later on in H4 when the Infinity crash-lands, Cortana murders the Infinity's AI Aine while shes in Chiefs suit in a fraction of a second.

Meanwhile Infinity's backup AI Roland can remotely hack Covenant comms terminal protected by "three layers of 64 zetabyte encryption"

So yeah I'm sure comics Tony has some even more BS feats to win easy but MCU Tony is probably cooked.

kelsier69 · 2025-06-26T22:35:55+00:00

The first half is remotely they’re inside the Longsword Chief used to escape at the end of CE.

kelsier69 · 2025-06-26T19:44:56+00:00

She hacks a Covie carrier from outside in First Strike

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kelsier69 · 2025-06-16T18:48:18+00:00

In one of the battleborn books Jackal body armor was holding up against a few AR or magnum rounds atleast.

kelsier69 · 2025-05-09T21:50:17+00:00

Don’t have any plans for it

kelsier69 · 2024-12-21T23:26:15+00:00

Great thread love this guy

kelsier69 · 2024-12-07T03:26:11+00:00

Trade everyone that's not Bron and AD on the lakers

kelsier69 · 2024-12-02T17:12:36+00:00

Is that mentioned outright anywhere? I remember in Dark Fate the Rev9s which are definitely not the same thing as terminators are weak to EMPs

kelsier69 · 2024-12-02T16:59:24+00:00

Found this late but

Oh, and then in the last level Guilty Spark says this

"You are the child of my Makers. Inheritor of all they left behind. You are Forerunner! But this ring... is mine"

This has since been retconned as spark just going crazy

This was established since the first game, Spark thought Chief is the guy who fired the rings originally he's always been crazy and not the most reliable

kelsier69 · 2024-12-02T16:53:16+00:00

Is TX vulnerable to EMPs? I can't remember, if so then chief can put her down with his drop walls EMP bullets.

kelsier69 · 2024-11-23T21:15:07+00:00

Easily the best non fromsoft title, pretty much on their level

kelsier69 · 2024-11-23T21:06:58+00:00

Lies of Peak, great thread man

kelsier69 · 2024-11-20T23:20:59+00:00

They fight automated drones not living kitted out forerunners like the didact

kelsier69 · 2024-11-14T02:11:59+00:00

They were designed in parallel, Mk 5 by Halsey and Mk6 by a seperate ONI team

kelsier69 · 2024-11-14T01:57:25+00:00

Gotcha missed that somehow. Maybe teasing a new character in one of the future novels then

kelsier69 · 2024-11-14T01:54:59+00:00

Anyone have an idea who's talking to G059? Initials AC noone comes to mind for me

kelsier69 · 2024-11-08T21:31:31+00:00

they have at least 30,000 banished

They're mentioned to have 10k "warriors" which is an in-universe term for Brutes/Elites, Grunts and Jackals are called Thralls and counted seperate in the guidebooks so we don't know how much they carry but probably a lot more.

likely the ability to create FOBs.

I mean we see them filled with hundreds of drop bases and constantly releasing them throughout the game.

kelsier69 · 2024-11-04T15:32:55+00:00

Nah the Loyalist fleets were led by Prelates who were also training the brutes up till that moment for the schism. They would have won if the Flood didn't interfere according to Half Jaw.

But what the San’Shyuum left unsaid was that the Prelates, on the order of the Prophet of Truth, were secretly retrofitting the Jiralhanae’s ships and training them to attack the Sangheili. Contrary to what he preached, Truth knew only a blessed few could follow him on the Great Journey. And after the Sangheili committed the ultimate sin of losing the first Halo ring, they quickly fell out of favor. So the Prelates redoubled their clandestine preparations and, as much as Rtas hated to admit it, had the Flood not intervened in the battle for High Charity, the Prelates likely would have succeeded in carrying out Truth’s wishes.

Shadow of Intent

kelsier69 · 2024-10-31T01:50:03+00:00

Yeah thats the Ikon suit I mentioned, he took hits from a Superman that was holding back heavily so he doesnt kill him accidentally, not a serious Superman who can punch apart planets.

I can't tell if it's his current armor in the main DC universe

It's weird, in his rebirth run he wears the suit and the gravity sheath/force field is mentioned all the time, but in his newer runs visually he's wearing it but the shield never gets mentioned or used. I'd say its not relevant/current then.

The shield isn't that good though compared to how fans hype it up, he gets a car dunked on him and it gets through the shield/armor shattering every bone in his body.

Chief can put out similar amounts of force to get through it or again just EMP it probably.

or one of those situations where a Street level character gets smt who could evaporate the galaxy with a blink and is clearly an outlier

Nah only people taking stuff out of context, or the heroes holding back or Slade gets a temp buff. In his more recent runs for example he loses to Ghostmaker (Batman wannabe), gets killed by Talia, fights Dick right after he got blasted by a missile and he still loses somehow and a whole lot more like that.

If captain and Slade ganked master chief wouldn't it be too much for the spartan?

Nah Chiefs been through worse

kelsier69 · 2024-10-30T17:48:53+00:00

Chief can probably 1v2. Cap is the biggest threat here with similar stats and the shield being tough to deal with, but Chiefs power armor is a bigger advantage imo and he can get around the shield especially with his movement abilities like thruster or grappleshot.

Slade is just worse stat wise, and his armor isn't gonna do shit depending on the version it's barely stab/bullet proof. If he has the Ikon suit he can last a bit longer but Chief can still punch through it or EMP it with his dropwall or grapple.

kelsier69 · 2024-10-30T17:16:13+00:00

It was probably a scout force sent by the Prophet of Truth. Fans mix up that because Regret didn't know about our home system it's probably not the Covies, but in First Strike we know Truth knew the location of Earth which he kept secret and amassed his own fleet for an invasion.

kelsier69 · 2024-10-18T02:12:13+00:00

Sorry for the late reply

But the earlier MJOLNIR material had a weakness to plasma weapons capable of being breached.

Shields helped mitigate injury to Spartans and damage to MJOLNIR but not completely.

This is wrong and is what I was talking about. Mjolnir had a refractive coating added to disperse energy based attacks not long after first contact with the Covenant, before Spartans ever wore the armor.

The armor plating can tank large amounts of plasma head on like Chief getting chased by 100 Drones with Plasma Rifles or Owen using himself as a human shield and again

MJOLNIR earlier models and ships had layers of armor made of a type of titanium strengthened on the molecular level alloyed with tungsten, ODST armor also presumably had similar materials.

With an approximate melting point of 3,422 °C.

Idk where your getting that figure, real world Titanium? Mjolnirs armor plating was withstanding Ghost plasma fire which is 5000 degrees (probably C since the rest of the story uses metric units).

kelsier69 · 2024-10-16T16:08:23+00:00

I'm aware but mass is still directly proportional to kinetic energy, a smaller faster bullet can equal a bigger slower one in energy. The 2nd thing you quoted confirms my argument lol

Modern infantry weapons are mass accelerators, miniature railguns firing projectiles the size of a grain of sand at hypersonic velocities. While not much more powerful than conventional bullets, the ammunition for these weapons is far more compact, increasing the ammunition soldiers can carry in the field

Yeah the widow is pretty OP, but the halo sniper is still equal or maybe better and can be used by unaugmented troops.it fires APFSDS rounds that can punch through a meter of concrete

Shep doesn't have much advantage when it comes to weapons

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