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Spartan Powers in the Halo novels: Fact vs Propaganda

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(While I'm sure this theory has a snowball's chance in hell of being canon, my friend brought this up as an interesting theory that can explain why the Spartans are stronger in the novels than they are in the anime, games, and live-action Halo media.) My friend had an interesting idea that he shot by me one day, when we were talking about Spartan abilities in Halo: he noted that there was a large discrepancy in terms of Spartan abilities between the novels and the visual media. (live-action, games, anime) We were talking about it for a bit, until he finally proposed an idea: considering that the UNSC already uses the Spartans for propaganda, and considering the fact that they would lie to their own people to the point where they would claim that “Spartans don’t die, they’re just missing in action.” His idea suggested that the Halo novels where Spartans exhibit abilities not shown in the games, anime, or live-action media are propaganda by the UNSC, that the n

Judith B-312: The Story of an Outcast

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"As long as I have lived, I have rarely gained my comrades' love.......I have never felt that I was one amongst them. More often than not, I was called 'The Lone Wolf.' As the only Spartan III amongst a squad of ODSTs, I was always the odd one out. Whenever the guys come back home after a mission, I was always outside the loop when it comes to the celebrations. Everything about me is classified. For years, the only person I can fully trust was myself. Not my comrades, who sought to outdo me at every turn, jealous of my accomplishments and my power. Not my superiors, who see me as an expendable weapon to use and dispose of at their leisure. I was and always was, alone. I always had to do things by myself." -Spartan Judith B-312, debriefing to Executor Xulinree of the Proto-Sancti forces Judith B-312 was a Spartan III supersoldier of the United Nations Space Command. Unlike most Spartan IIIs who were orphans of war, Judith was abducted from her ho