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01-28-2011, 07:45 PM | #107131 |
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Here ya go Black Swan.
Amazon.com: Halo, Books 1-3 (The Flood; First Strike; The Fall of Reach) (9780345473042): Eric Nylund, William C. Dietz: Books These three come in a box set and will get the 'back story' for you caught up pretty well. When they actually cover the parts that are 'played' in the game.. they read about like.. someone playing the game and writing it down, but the other parts, the back story and all, is very good. "The Fall of Reach" especially. Just don't be confused. it's not about Halo Reach (( noble team)) it's about the Master Chief and his training and stuff. Those three take you up to.. either just before or just after halo 2
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01-28-2011, 07:58 PM | #107132 |
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As a side note, I'd like to give a good word out to Black Swan. He collects Halo figs too and has been hunting like a fiend for me out West.
I just happened to walk into game stop today as they opened the case and hip checked a teenager out of the way to grab the only kat in the box and grab a Carter. But Black Swan has been busting ass to try and help me out. Lots of respect his way! |
01-28-2011, 08:02 PM | #107133 |
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I've thought the same. But it came down to Halo or food...
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01-28-2011, 08:06 PM | #107134 |
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BS: Cool deal.
A little bit of looking tosses out this. the Spartan II Project was originally slated for 300 candidates, but funding was reduced to half that 150, then reduced again. 75 children age 6 were taken from all over the Human controlled planets. At age 14, they went though the bio augmentation. It killed 30 of the kids and crippled 12 more. Of the original 75 only 33 made it through the augmentation. The augmentation had Carbide Ceramic Ossification: bonding ceramic stuff to bones, making them almost unbreakable. If they had a growth spurt after this, the bone might pulverize. muscular enhancement injections: Steroids that increased tissue density and decrease lactase recovery time. 5% died from fatal cardiac volume increase. I.E. their hearts exploded. Catalytic thyroid implant.: They put a pellet with human growth hormone in the thyroid. This caused some instances of Elephantiasis and suppressed sex drive occipital Capillary reversal: Mucking around with the rods and cones of the eyeballs, this could cause retinal rejection and detachment, permanent blindness. And superconducting fibricfication of neural dendrites.: Quicker reflexes: And this "Significantly" increased, instances of Parkinson's disease and fletcher's syndrome. They were all incredibly painful. The bone one was said to feel lie the bones are breaking as if their marrows wre made of glass and were being shattered. the thyroid implant and muscular enhancement injections produce extraordinary pain as if the veins had been injected with napalm, as well as pulsating and feeling of them being torn out of the subjects skin, the muscles density is said to feel like the entire body was on fire mixed with feeling of plated glass shattering and being worked in the subjects body, the neural speeding was said to feel like fire burning along the nerves and spine. A few months after.. if you're one of the less than half that lived and weren't crippled... you could run at 55km/h or about 34 miles per hour. That's with out the power armor one was clocked at 38.5mph in armor and the Master Cheif was clocked at 65mph once but hurt his leg doing it. They could lift 3 times their own body weights (( around 200 to 300lbs)) so... 600 to 900 pounds. Their reaction time was impossible to chart but was estimated to be 20 milliseconds, and speed up in combat and with AI help. All these abilitys were "base line" and it was said unlike normal humans they only got faster/stronger/better as they aged. (( though this might be the fact that they were 14/15years old when this was done annd they had to finish out their growing and training)) But yeah. At 7 to 8 feet, the Reach figs are still in scale with joes.
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01-28-2011, 08:14 PM | #107135 |
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BTW I got your package from you today, you should have yours by Monday if not sooner.
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01-28-2011, 08:16 PM | #107136 |
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how tall is a reach figure? because a 5 inch figure, in joe scale, would be 7.5ft tall...so if they are any taller than that, they are out of scale.
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01-28-2011, 08:18 PM | #107137 |
The Wish Master
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BS: Cool deal.
A little bit of looking tosses out this. the Spartan II Project was originally slated for 300 candidates, but funding was reduced to half that 150, then reduced again. 75 children age 6 were taken from all over the Human controlled planets. At age 14, they went though the bio augmentation. It killed 30 of the kids and crippled 12 more. Of the original 75 only 33 made it through the augmentation. The augmentation had Carbide Ceramic Ossification: bonding ceramic stuff to bones, making them almost unbreakable. If they had a growth spurt after this, the bone might pulverize. muscular enhancement injections: Steroids that increased tissue density and decrease lactase recovery time. 5% died from fatal cardiac volume increase. I.E. their hearts exploded. Catalytic thyroid implant.: They put a pellet with human growth hormone in the thyroid. This caused some instances of Elephantiasis and suppressed sex drive occipital Capillary reversal: Mucking around with the rods and cones of the eyeballs, this could cause retinal rejection and detachment, permanent blindness. And superconducting fibricfication of neural dendrites.: Quicker reflexes: And this "Significantly" increased, instances of Parkinson's disease and fletcher's syndrome. They were all incredibly painful. The bone one was said to feel lie the bones are breaking as if their marrows wre made of glass and were being shattered. the thyroid implant and muscular enhancement injections produce extraordinary pain as if the veins had been injected with napalm, as well as pulsating and feeling of them being torn out of the subjects skin, the muscles density is said to feel like the entire body was on fire mixed with feeling of plated glass shattering and being worked in the subjects body, the neural speeding was said to feel like fire burning along the nerves and spine. A few months after.. if you're one of the less than half that lived and weren't crippled... you could run at 55km/h or about 34 miles per hour. That's with out the power armor one was clocked at 38.5mph in armor and the Master Cheif was clocked at 65mph once but hurt his leg doing it. They could lift 3 times their own body weights (( around 200 to 300lbs)) so... 600 to 900 pounds. Their reaction time was impossible to chart but was estimated to be 20 milliseconds, and speed up in combat and with AI help. All these abilitys were "base line" and it was said unlike normal humans they only got faster/stronger/better as they aged. (( though this might be the fact that they were 14/15years old when this was done annd they had to finish out their growing and training)) But yeah. At 7 to 8 feet, the Reach figs are still in scale with joes. Hey PJ! You are like an encylclopedia , you are very knowledgeable and well verse on HALO. Thanks again.
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01-28-2011, 08:18 PM | #107138 |
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Got these in the mail today. Woot. Arctic Threat Duke and Desert Battle Ripcord. Bought it off ebay.
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01-28-2011, 08:21 PM | #107139 |
The Wish Master
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I am chef. So I don't need to eat. or pay for food.lol
Nice score!!! I wouldn't mind getting those Joes or Olivia either.
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01-28-2011, 08:25 PM | #107140 |
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The reach figures are about 4... 4.5 inches tall? Duke comes up to just below Carter's shoulder so only his head an a smidge.
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