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Originally Posted by Night Owl im tellin ya, th e masterchief alone would suck, its like 1 against 100000 WTF?! |
thats why he is a
!!!SPARTAN!!!.
"Until the age of seven, boys were educated at home and were taught to fight their fears as well as general superstition by their nurses, who were prized in Greece. Their training was then undertaken by the state in the
agoge system and supervised by the
paidonomos, an official appointed for that purpose. This training consisted for the most part in physical exercises, such as dancing, gymnastics, and ball-games, with music and literature occupying a subordinate position. This tireless emphasis on physical training gave Spartans the reputation for being "laconic," short in words, a word derived from the name of their homeland of
Laconia. Education was also extended to girls. Both sexes exercised
naked. Women, however, could not compete according to the
Olympic rules. There were also contests to see who could take the most severe flogging, an ordeal known as
diamastigosis.
At the age of thirteen, young men were sent off into the countryside with nothing, and were expected to survive on wits and cunning. This was very probably, in origin, an old
initiation rite, a preparation for their later career as elite soldiers.
At the age of twenty, the Spartan began his military service and his membership in one of the dining messes or clubs (in Greek 'syssition' or 'phyidition'), composed of about fifteen members each, of which every citizen was required to be a member and where all meals were taken. The Spartan exercised the full rights and duties of a citizen at the age of thirty. Only native Spartans were considered a full citizen, and needed to undergo the training as prescribed by law, and participation in and contribution to one of the dining-clubs. Those who fulfilled these conditions were considered
peers, (
homoioi) citizens in the fullest sense of the word, while those who failed were called
lesser men, and retained only the civil rights of citizenship."-Wikipedia(spartan)
the prequal book shows that Masterchief, or john, was trained in the exact way. In the book he was taken from his family at 7 or so, trained till 13, with hundreds of other children. At 13 he was taken out in the wild and tested, at 20 he began his service well more like 17. In the book he is also 6 foot at 16 yo and 9ft. at 20.