That's something else I'm kinda trying to figure out myself... When I read the Halo books I noticed that there were other Spartans who were CPO's or 1st Class PO's. John-117 is the only Master Chief among them.
Was this to maintain a chain of command among the Spartans themselves? I don't know for certain. To read the books, Spartans usually seem to operate in groups of three, minimum. This would explain why the Covenant came to grudgingly respect them as much as they do - they used to be able to do significantly more damage as they had more people. Could you imagine how the first Halo would have turned out if you had the full compliment of Project SPARTAN II at hand instead of the Master Chief alone? Then again, I suppose that's why they're now making Halo Wars.
Anyhow, I suppose that maybe, just maybe, Spartans advance rank based on a system rather like a grading curve - your merits set against the merits of your fellow sodiers. It would make sense and also maintain a certain command structure within the organization.
Rhodes, even as the test-type, proto-type, and production model of Project MANTICOR II, is not the best of the best among his group - that honor would belong to another Manticor who was part of the SPARTAN II program, but was dropped from the project due to post-surgery complications (Spartans are first trained like marines from a -very- early age, and then they are augmented through surgical procedure). In fact, all other Manitcor candidates, both past and future, are Spartan Trainees who'se enhancements backfired one way or another.
Rhodes is special because A)He was the first and was successful from the get-go, so what else would you have him do? And B) he is indeed a strange attractor for weird stuff, though this is due to the fact that he's on trial by Powers That Be. Of course, nobody knows this.![[Image: wink.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/wink.gif)
Thus, it'll be interesting if he runs into WashuTsunamiTokimi or SkuldBeldandyUrd because they're bound to notice something's not quite right with him there.
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Was this to maintain a chain of command among the Spartans themselves? I don't know for certain. To read the books, Spartans usually seem to operate in groups of three, minimum. This would explain why the Covenant came to grudgingly respect them as much as they do - they used to be able to do significantly more damage as they had more people. Could you imagine how the first Halo would have turned out if you had the full compliment of Project SPARTAN II at hand instead of the Master Chief alone? Then again, I suppose that's why they're now making Halo Wars.
Anyhow, I suppose that maybe, just maybe, Spartans advance rank based on a system rather like a grading curve - your merits set against the merits of your fellow sodiers. It would make sense and also maintain a certain command structure within the organization.
Rhodes, even as the test-type, proto-type, and production model of Project MANTICOR II, is not the best of the best among his group - that honor would belong to another Manticor who was part of the SPARTAN II program, but was dropped from the project due to post-surgery complications (Spartans are first trained like marines from a -very- early age, and then they are augmented through surgical procedure). In fact, all other Manitcor candidates, both past and future, are Spartan Trainees who'se enhancements backfired one way or another.
Rhodes is special because A)He was the first and was successful from the get-go, so what else would you have him do? And B) he is indeed a strange attractor for weird stuff, though this is due to the fact that he's on trial by Powers That Be. Of course, nobody knows this.
Thus, it'll be interesting if he runs into WashuTsunamiTokimi or SkuldBeldandyUrd because they're bound to notice something's not quite right with him there.
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What!? Were you expecitng something witty?