Spartan R41:They are born with some enhancements, yes. But then the parents make the decision to augment them further. Keep in mind these aren't the Joe and Sally Sue parents; they're warriors. Remember Gilly? My god, that woman was insane with war. The Spartan 1.1's augments included:
- Higher-than-average intelligence
- Increased Speed
- Enhanced vision
- Immunity to most illnesses
- Inability to become drunk, though they can become intoxicated by an unspecified illegal recreational drug, as well as by painkillers
- Decreased amount of time required for sleep
- Enhanced hearing
- Increased lung capacity
- Superior muscle density
- Heightened sense of balance
- Accelerated cellular regeneration
- Extremely fast reflexes
- Increased Strength
The ones that are bold and underlined are most likely their original traits, with the normal points the medical enhancements. To quote a conversation directly:
Axon Clips, Chapter 5:Jan: Oh hey, did... did I get injections when I was a baby?
James J: I guess you noticed you're not a typical kid.
Jan: Well, I do have excellent table manners.
James J: ...superior muscle density
Jan: ...lung capacity.
James J: ...some eye work.
Jan: ...balance?
James J: Cochlear tuning.
Jan: And when the cops took me and they did tests?
James J: Right.
Jan: And that would have turned up...
James J: Right.
Jan: So you...
James J: Pretty much.
Jan: So what's even... me? I mean what's not just Spartan-I 'voodoo potion'?
James J: Well, those table manners for one.
Jan: Dad...
James J: The way you roll your eyes at me, how you hate doing dishes...
Jan: Dad...!
James J: That's all you, honey. Hell, if I'd known, I would have told the medic to skip all that fancy stuff and just cut me a nice kid.
Jan: Oh 'nice', you didn't want a nice kid.
James J: (laughs)
Jan: You wanted a kid who would happily learn 23 ways to kill a man, armed only with a stick of chewing gum.
James J: You don't really think that do you?
Jan: I'm your dream child, dad. Don't kid yourself.
James J: Okay, we're here. Now you wait in the car.
There is medical work done on Spartan 1.1's while they're kids, after birth.
Cant ague with that and i got a good laugh out of it to this bit;
James J: That's all you, honey. Hell, if I'd known, I would have told the medic to skip all that fancy stuff and just cut me a nice kid.
Jan: Oh 'nice', you didn't want a nice kid.
James J: (laughs)
Jan: You wanted a kid who would happily learn 23 ways to kill a man, armed only with a stick of chewing gum.
Aloysius:If you think about it, Galactus is a giant purple alien who eats planets. Kind of like the Covenant.
wolver frog
It's official, straight from the mouth of an employee who works on Halo.
The Covenant eat planets.