First off, Spartan 2s aren't sterile, unless some crazy accident happened, their reproductive bits are completely functioning. Instead, they have a thyroid implant that suppresses their sexual urges. While it's not impossible for them to get aroused, it does take a bit more effort.
Many of the Spartans' signals comprise relatively simple hand gestures that can substitute for most verbal communication. This is particularly emphasized on missions where COM silence is necessary. Having grown up as soldiers, the Spartans kept their emotions to themselves, always controlling bursts of emotion.
The AI Data Crystal Chip is inserted into a socket near the base of the Spartan's skull in the Mjolnir Armor. The only Spartans confirmed to receive and utilize the interface is John-117, Victor-101, and Naomi-010. John-117 used it to integrate Cortana, and this has proven vital over the course of the Halo trilogy.
Its never been said that the Spartan augmentations made them sterile, however their sex drives were severely reduced. However, technically speaking they should be able to have a child. The child should turn out to be a regular human unless the augmentations include tampering with DNA.
While Athenian women might have expected to marry for the first time around the age of fourteen to men much older than them, Spartan women normally married between the ages of eighteen and twenty to men close to them in age.
Spartan men were not allowed to live with their wives until age 30. Spartan society didn't discourage romantic love, but marriage and childrearing were both subject to some peculiar cultural and governmental constraints. The state counseled that men should marry at age 30 and women at 20.
Kurt-051 is one of the few Spartans that has been able to outsmart Master Chief. Arguably the best tactician out of all the Spartan-IIs, Kurt had an inhuman ability to sense traps and ambushes that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Prior to augmentation John likely had an IQ close to his peers around 160. Enhancements to intelligence/memory from augmentation have likely boosted his functional IQ well above that.
Samuel-034: Was taller than Chief, and was shown to be stronger than Chief was, making him literally the strongest Spartan-II during his time.
Yûko was kidnapped and replaced by a flash clone at the age of 6 for the SPARTAN-II project. Though physically the weakest of any of the SPARTANS she was still physically stronger than a normal human. Her main strength lay in her mind.
Powerful Line: "I know Spartans don't cry, but for once, I was glad for the helmet." – Kelly-087, during Sam's sacrifice. : r/halo.
Spartan "Smile"
Having grown up as soldiers, the Spartans kept their emotions to themselves, always controlling "bursts of emotion." The closest thing to an emotional symbol is the "Spartan Smile," used in place of a smile. The Smile consists of a quick swipe across one's own faceplate or a teammates with two fingers.
BOYS: When a Spartan baby boy was born, soldiers came to the house and examined him carefully to determine how strong he was. If a baby was weak, the Spartans took him to the forest and left to die. The city-state decided the destiny of the child.
Neural degeneration was also considerably slowed, estimated to be nearly three times slower than that of an unaugmented human in peak health. While the ONI initially projected optimal Spartan lifespan to be 150 Earth years, it would later be extended to 200.
“Offspring was not reared at the will of the father, but was taken and carried by him to a place called Lesche, where the elders of the tribes officially examined the infant, and if it was well-built and sturdy, they ordered the father to rear it, and assigned it one of the nine thousand lots of land; but if it was ill ...
An IQ score over 140 indicates that you're a genius or nearly a genius, while 120 - 140 is classed as "very superior intelligence". 110 - 119 is "superior intelligence", while 90 - 109 is "normal or average intelligence".
The community has worked out that Master Chief is biologically 49 years old in 2560, as he was born in 2511. As many fans will know, John was genetically mutated to become a super-soldier by Dr.
20 He Has An "Emotion Pellet" Lodged In His Back
The purpose of this pellet is to suppress the emotions of the Spartans. There's a whole storyline regarding this pellet (and its removal) in the Halo TV show, but suffice it to say that it affects the Master Chief and his outlook on life.
Kelly is notoriously fast, even by Spartan standards. She is the fastest of all the other Spartans, capable of running at bursts of up to 62 KPH (38.502 MPH), has quicker reflexes than all other Spartans and is even capable of accomplishing normal tasks quickly and more precisely than her fellow Spartans.
Leonidas was Sparta's legendary warrior king, who with his three hundred brave warriors defended the narrow pass at Thermopylae against the mighty Persian king Xerxes.
In Athens and Sparta, homosexuality was practiced to various degrees, and its status was somewhat “complicated,” according to Plato's Pausanias. In Thebes, on the other hand, it was actively encouraged, and even legally incentivized.
Sparta stands out as an important city-state in Ancient Greece because of the way it treated its women; Spartan women enjoyed more freedoms and held greater control over their own lives. However, this came at the price of harsher marital and familial duties, which both society and the state expected of them.
Xenophon also reveals that if an older man had a young, fertile wife, he could 'introduce' her to a young man whose physical and moral qualities he admired for the purpose of begetting children. Polybius (c. 200‒118 bce) even claims that it was 'common custom' for three or four Spartiates to share one wife.