The relationship with the Spartans and the ai is so interesting. Spartans are people built to be like a machine. And the ai are machines built to be like a person. Fused into one being through the armor
Eric Nylund, who wrote the first few Halo novels and most of the background lore, had an educational background in chemistry and physics, which is why much of the tech in the Bungie-era Halo games had such technical explanations for how they worked.
I never considered how connected Cortana and John were trough the neural interface. It makes losing her more significant. She wasn't just a voice in his head, she was a part of him like a long time partner.
Don't forget part of the reason that the AI was given to spartans is to help them interface with humanity better. The spartan program kidnap and then brainwash children into being machines and since they behaved like machines they felt no attachment to humanity or the repercussions to the actions they take that may kill many humans as long as the goals they were given are achieved. The AI was there to guide them into being better humans once again (as well as other tasks that an AI can perform). Think of all the times Cortana chided John about his actions or the repercussion they may have.
I think Master Chief mentioned once that after the event of Halo 4 he struggled to operate without cortana because he didn't need to ask for something, cortana was already doing what he wanted, they basically become one and Cortana saved directly master Chief life few times, back in installation 04 a Flood infector made his way throught the armour almost reached John's skin, Cortana overdrive the energy system to fry it
If you read the first 2 or 3 books of Halo, you can learn a lot about the Spartans and their trainings with and without the Armor. There is also a lot to learn about Master Chief and Cortana's relations in the second (?) book. I just recently discovered that there are more than only 3 Halo Books and I plan on reading them all soon.
God, the amount of detail and effort that went into this video, the capabilities of each gen of armor, the time they were in service, the time the next gen of armor began production, everything.. down to the smallest details, amazing work, truly.
Check out Installation 00. Great Halo UA-camr and makes super cool, super detailed breakdowns. Not to mention he’s trying to build mjornir as close to lore as possible irl
This actually deserves more attention like holy crap. Not to talk down on them, but this video was actually more detailed than a lot of the top Halo content creators' videos. Very informative and relaxing to watch
Your videos always have such a high level of quality production, intricate depth of the Halo extended lore, and attention to detail that it's genuinely sad that they aren't seen enough by the Halo community. I loved how you covered how armor has Evolved to Combat different stages of weaponry throughout history with the pros, cons, and compromises. The custom animations were also a great addition. When I saw the title, I was really hoping to see some footage or reference to The Prototype from Halo Legends, with it being a massive exoskeleton like the Mark I and II, but didn't need to be tethered and had a plethora of powerful offensive and defensive capabilities. Would have also loved to hear you describe some of the awesome features of the early models in addition to the downsides like extreme power consumption or cost but your video was already a mountain of information at half an hour long and I genuinely loved every minute of it! Even got goosebumps a few times from how cool everything was. I'm gonna go refresh my lore knowledge from your past videos. Amazing job as always!!! :D
Feels like I'm a 26th century student studying for a military history exam or sumthin, that's how good these videos are cuz I feel oddly immersed for some reason while watching this!
A another reason I love halo is the believable science. It's really science fiction instead of fiction that has a bit of science. The TV show has dump all this down the drain. Just one thing. I believe the Bioform injector was already there for Mark 5 armor as I'm pretty sure I read it being used in Fall of reach, The flood or The first strike. Not sure which book exactly
@@pasindudinusha6507 I think what you meant was 'scientific' part, rather than science. In my understanding, the word 'science' means both the struggle to find knowledge and the knowledge itself, so it can be something like our own limited understanding of our world laws of physics or it can be someone's understanding of their own universe laws of physics (or the lack thereof) like things such as the commonly known/named as magic, psychic power etc. If we get to be more technical, even the power-system/magic-system in some fiction like 'Mother of Learning' that have their own well-defined parts of said power system is "methodologically" correct within their own universe and thereof 'scientific' in their own way. What I understand from your writing, what you want is actually 'our-world-physics's-scientifically-correct', and not just some mumbo jumbo regarding unobtainium and Shakespearean-influenced story plots which are prevalent in science fantasy. An easy example of the comparison between Sci-Fi and Sci-Fan are the movies Star Trek and Star Wars. It seems that you're the kind of guy who likes weaponries and wars like in the irl history of world wars and in fictions such as fallout. Got many friends like you, who sadly I'm not in contact again after the pandemic. Hope that you'll find more sci-fi works that you'll like and I'm sorry for my rambling lmao. Stay safe and healthy.
@@문아대 Yeah you are right about that. Like you mentioned Marvel and DC don't sit well with me. But I do watch their movies. I just think of them as fantasy. But I'm a fantasy fan too. It just I want a believable system even within those fantasy settings. It doesn't have to exactly as ours but I like it that when fantasy worlds have rules and systems that sets limits and enables creative opportunities. Hopefully we will see more creative sci fi work in future. By the way I hope you'll be able to contact your friends again. Maybe find some new friends too. Yours is the friendliest ranting I heard recently. I'll say the same to you. Stay safe and healthy.
There is a fine art to "plausible" science fiction. Yes, Halo is one of the better ones. Star Trek is probably the model for that form of writing. Others not so much. Science fiction CAN be a good test bed for actual science. It's a pre-hypothesis stage, where thinkers can experiment with new ideas to explore what realms of science we should develop further. Without the rigid 'peer review' of actual science. It's the planning stage of science.
Always intrigued me how weak a human soldier is and how a super suit absolutely turns around how a soldier would fight, halo armour has always been a fascination, excellent video
Call a recon marine, army ranger or navy seal weak and see what happens lmao. Have you seen a soldier use a “super suit” in the field?? So how would you know their tactics irl? Someone in a super suit would not be a frontline soldier, they would need regular infantry support same as a tank… as we’ve seen what happens to armor without support in Ukraine. Maybe in 2552 a powered armor suit will be available 😂
@@Ontheregz bruh a suit that soaks bullets vs a human that drops in one shot, we are just meat suits, we are weak compared to the fictional halo suits hahabh
Your narration and writing are always great to hear. Your editing skills makes the visuals engaging to watch too! I also love this video, it has a lot of tidbits most people wouldn't know, like the relation to the Cyclops exoskeleton, or the fact that the Mark IV was used for almost 3 decades!
This video came up as a suggestion and I'm so glad it did, it's an actual masterpiece, so well produced if I didn't know any better I would have thought it was based on something real! Bravo
Never seen your channel before but this is an absolutely awesome video. The writers of halo seemingly went to great lengths and effort to make things reasonably possible with the current rate of technology advancement. Of course they did drop the ball on the piezoelectric crystal thing. Humans have known for a very long time that piezoelectric crystals both produce energy when deformed and deformed when energy is applied to them. In fact pretty much every single automotive direct fuel injected gas and Diesel engine use piezoelectric injectors.
What's new here is probably the level of strain this new piezo material goes through when subject to voltage. Having a material strain by 10% or more without yielding is quite a feat to pull off, which is why you don't see it used in any large-scale robotics application
If it wouldn't be for the fact that 343 has ended the Original Halo Saga, you probably could have contributed to Halo 6 and 7, if there would have been... Out of all the halo based videos I've watched, you sir are an Artist ...this is simply Awesome and worthy of Archiving for future generations. Who know maybe in 500 years someone will take inspiration from this video...
At first I was like, oh great another Halo video going over basic stuff, but as it went on, your style where it was more like a documentary of the development of the armor. As you went onto each layer without making it too complicated, I kept watching. Honestly one of the top put together Halo video I have seen in a long time. Thank you for actually caring about the topic and making it easy for newer fans to understand. Subbed and going to go back and watch other Halo videos and cant wait for more to come out if they are planned!
Extraordinary masterpiece... Lore, level of detail of both, the tech within and also the explanation given trough the video, and of course production. Thanx, glad I came by.
I have been a massive Halo fan for years. In the last 2-3 years especially I have dived deep into Halo lore reading many books (multiple times) as well as the Halo Encyclopedia and reading the Halopedia to death. You're ability to condense it down to an entertaining, informative, and encompassing video is incredible. I greatly enjoyed watching this video and hearing it all again. Thank you.
The armor he switches to in halo 2 is the Mark 6 . It's also noted that Spartan 2 Naomi-010 was issued GEN1 Mark VII so the suit mentioned was actually built. It was expensive. And Spartan 4s where incapable of using it hence the gen 2 armor. Chief currently uses the Gen 3 version which Is a hybrid of technology from both generations and some improvements.
hey man its been a long time since your last video, hope everything is all good on your end and your happy (I know Halo isnt really for everyone right now)
This was worthy of sub. Great video. I read the books back in the day, where John becomes a Spartan and remember vaguely the membrane layer of the armour. Your presentation is quality.
The MARK IV is my favorite iteration of the MJOLNIR armor. It looks pretty and comfortable, but at the same time heavy and intimidating, plus it doesn't have that ridiculous amount of colors and accessories. It doesn't look like a robot like the armors in Halo 4 and 5, but it's also not as unnecessarily minimalist as the one in Halo 2 and 3.
Sometimes people sleep on the fact that they watch a person because their voice is nice. This dude has a great voice and It’s my first video watching from him. Another person with an awesome voice who’s successful is Star Wars theory. People who can just listen to without cringing and that paired with good content make a great all around artist in this aspect.
I’ve been such a halo nerd since I was a little kid that I know everything about the lore better than most of the big channels but I still sit here and listen to this absentmindedly, why I wonder
Astonishing job! The amount of work that you put not only in the content of the video but the editing as well is amazing!I hope this video gets a ton more of views in the upcoming weeks, it very well deserves it. Thank you for such an lore-informative and smooth experience!
Chainmail would protect you from cuts; padded armore was worn under it, but you would still be injurred from blunt force trauma. You can't slice through chainmail.
@@chrispellegrin People didn't wear gambison and chainmail because it kinda worked; I think chainmail being sliced open would have been quite rare. It would either be the result of poor craftsmanship (nobody would want to buy their mail), or it being hit a lot without maintenance.
@@jonathanbetenbender307 Yeah no slicing of chain mail but it was very weak against thrusts, and spears were the main weapon of war, swords were more of a secondary weapon for the rich. That's what made plate armor so terrifying to go against, you were most likely a peasant with a spear going against a guy you can't really poke with your weapon. As for sword fights the stuff depicted in media is pure fantasy, sword fight were short, a sword fight between 2 unarmored opponents would usually end in a few seconds after a feint or two and maybe a parry. Combat between 2 armored opponents was basically a wrestling match, the idea is to tackle the other guy to the ground so gaps in his armor are easier to exploit, then using a dagger to poke at the joints etc. There is quite a few videos on youtube of what realistic medieval plate armor sword fights looked like.
After reading the Reach data pads it's clear to me that the AI Assembly influenced humanity or Halsey somehow to equip Spartans to be as overkill as they are for human standards cause they saw hostile first contact with aliens to be an inevitability and wanted to make sure that humanity was as prepared as it could be.
Really well done video. If I didn't know better, I would have thought it was watching a documentary on human armour and it's evolution throughout history. Two thumbs up!
Real life militaries actually want suits like spartan armor problem is the same the energy production and storage the damn batteries are way behind the tech level needed and lets not forget we can't even get fission reactors that snall yet let alone positive output fusion reactors which we still haven't figured it out
pretty much, modern tech already supports making something like the mk1 or 2 and close to 3, but the power supply issues those variants suffer also affect any such irl designs
@@DigitalDNA And if the fire team has the misfortune of being in a grid square being erased by MLRS, you are cracking open a fission reactor which is kinda bad. Fusion reactors if cracked just kinda puff out whatever was plasma and go dead.
12:47 btw that's a real life thing, your basic Bic lighter work like this, you put the Piezo under pressure and their you got your spark that light up the fluid...
This is an excellent video. You've started in my real history and connected it to a futuristic fantasy world that I have enjoyed using a reasonable and logical story. Excellent work!
No one, and nothing, will ever make me appreciate Halo except this. The Piezoelectric Effect is such a masterstroke of Sci-Fi writing that I hesitate trying to come up with an alternative system of motor control for such an exo-skeleton. I don’t care for the story, the war criminals, the shallow thematics, gameplay or any of that. There are geniunely well thought out concepts here that I want to know more about.
just a little correction: kevlar doesnt counter high powered bullets (since we talking about military weapons and protection), it counters shrapnel. Kevlar+ceramic or metallic plating stops high powered bullets, and only up to a certain caliber!
You can make rifle-rated flexible armor even without shear thickening fluid, for example Safe Life Defense Flexible Rifle Armor System by employing smart design and better commercially available material. Basic rule of creating really good ballistic armour is stacking many layer of 2 types of alternating materials that's optimized for 2 different purposes (akin to bullet resistant window), one high hardness material to break apart the kinetic penetrator and one high tensile, compressive and shear strength material to act as crumple zone to absorb kinetic energy of (hopefully) fragmented kinetic penetrator.
I've always thought that Science Fiction was one of the factors that accelerated technology advancements the most. Every sci-fi work has shared a vision, an ideal of what technology could do. And when the right minds have the vision, they can make that vision a reality.
I like how you hand-waved away four hundred years (1600s to 2000s) like there was a seamless progression from suits of armour to kevlar, and then claimed that exoskeleton progress was 'slow'.
There has been a massive rate of advancement within the last 100 years, whether in weapons, or on armor systems. It can only be expected that it would slow, at some point.
Now I'm expecting a teacher to come in and say we are having an exam about this and it leads up to us possibly graduating from spartan history and moving forward to in the field spartan armor training
some might have notice mk7 got skipped, good reason for that, it never hit production with only a few suits worth of parts ever being made and only one complete suit actually being constructed and deployed, its was used as a testbed prototype for gen2 variable modular systems with the greater power of gen1
@@kamaro3695 i mentioned that, she was the test operator for the prototype, the only others ever made were never assembled into complete suits, hence it never entering production since only the development prototypes were ever built and said parts were really only used in combat out of necessity, the war was going on and they were hideously expensive parts so why not use them if the opportunity arises
I really loved this video, the way you told the story of the evolution of MOJLNIR armors is marvelous. I love the engineering aspect of the video with the music. Thank you for this
The part about how an AI works was a bit off, but the rest seems legit. I always appreciate SameToken’s videos on this kind of stuff, the science is my favorite part about Halo
@@SameToken Incredible video! I don't see anything that was a bit off, I learned a vast array of new detail I did not know! However, I thought a neat dynamic regarding AI and MJOLNIR was missing. In the Fall of Reach, newly acquainted Cortana and John perform a test exercise of their new integration effectiveness in which they ultimately defelect a SkyHawk launched scorpion missle with John's left palm. Dr. Halsey adds a fascinating detail regarding further improved reaction time via AI integration above the already boosted neural implant/MJOLNIR response time - another encyclopedic-level bit 🤓 "Cortana resides in the interface between your mind and the suit, Master Chief. You will find your reaction time greatly improved. She will be translating the impulses in your motor cortex directly into motion-she can’t make you send those impulses.” Cheers to a great video!
Thank you so much for all your in-depth videos. I’m planning on writing a halo book (2, if you count the “117: Heroes never die” billboard novel I’m writing because no one else will and I SERIOUSLY want to see that) and it wouldn’t be possible without your library of halo lore.
This is really awsome, your way of telling, way of explaining the various bits, like if you are listening to an actual war-based documentary. Truly amazing :)
Ok ok ok… so like i played Halo as any other 90’s kid, but I kinda stopped around halo 2/3. But now as an adult who like all these concepts, it might just be time for me to get back into this. This lore is absolutely amazing and ahead of its time. Thank you for an enjoyable 30min of life.
To keep your sanity I recommend ignoring anything produced or endorsed by 343 industries. They took the core of Halo and started retconning it and muddying it with their fanfic tier ideas. I recommend replaying Halo 1-3 + ODST, and reading the novels published under Bungie's watch. As for Halo Reach, I think the game has a good plot and was quite fun so it's definitely worth playing, but it retcons the 1st Halo novel we ever got, Halo: The Fall of Reach, and that novel has a much better version of that plot imo.
Excellent video with well done narration; this is actually a top quality production (thought it must have been done by Studios or 343). Thank you for this!
its so realistic to how it would play out irl. i love it. its not some simple explination like oh the covenant attacked and we needed suits llike them.
The relationship with the Spartans and the ai is so interesting. Spartans are people built to be like a machine. And the ai are machines built to be like a person. Fused into one being through the armor
This is the aspect of Halo that when exploring, is boring af.
@@DigitalDNA literally how
@@user-ts2ny8jg9d to be fair. The games or books don’t really go much depth into. This is why i praised halo 4 story.
Getting good
Lmfao corn pop lives!
It's wild how much detail the writers of the halo universe put into the science behind mjolnir
The man was a scientist himself
Who knows what really exists.
They were at it since the 90s with Marathon. They had time to think it all through
Thats how build a fan base. 😄
Eric Nylund, who wrote the first few Halo novels and most of the background lore, had an educational background in chemistry and physics, which is why much of the tech in the Bungie-era Halo games had such technical explanations for how they worked.
I never considered how connected Cortana and John were trough the neural interface. It makes losing her more significant. She wasn't just a voice in his head, she was a part of him like a long time partner.
Crazy part is canonically, master chief only consciously knew her for just over half a year when you take into account all his cryo sleep!
An Otaku's wet dream come true. Lmfao. Especially those guys in Japan that marry virtual girls
my AI waifu can't possibly be this deep
Don't forget part of the reason that the AI was given to spartans is to help them interface with humanity better. The spartan program kidnap and then brainwash children into being machines and since they behaved like machines they felt no attachment to humanity or the repercussions to the actions they take that may kill many humans as long as the goals they were given are achieved. The AI was there to guide them into being better humans once again (as well as other tasks that an AI can perform). Think of all the times Cortana chided John about his actions or the repercussion they may have.
Even the mighty master chief had a nagging "wife" constantly in his head.
I think Master Chief mentioned once that after the event of Halo 4 he struggled to operate without cortana because he didn't need to ask for something, cortana was already doing what he wanted, they basically become one and Cortana saved directly master Chief life few times, back in installation 04 a Flood infector made his way throught the armour almost reached John's skin, Cortana overdrive the energy system to fry it
If you read the first 2 or 3 books of Halo, you can learn a lot about the Spartans and their trainings with and without the Armor. There is also a lot to learn about Master Chief and Cortana's relations in the second (?) book. I just recently discovered that there are more than only 3 Halo Books and I plan on reading them all soon.
Without cortana.. MasterChief will feel depressed...its a loss of something deep
Everything after reach is fanfic
@@eriklarsson6622 someone don't know how canon works
@@BeatAces don't care. Halo series ended with reach. Anything after that is fake
God, the amount of detail and effort that went into this video, the capabilities of each gen of armor, the time they were in service, the time the next gen of armor began production, everything.. down to the smallest details, amazing work, truly.
Check out Installation 00. Great Halo UA-camr and makes super cool, super detailed breakdowns. Not to mention he’s trying to build mjornir as close to lore as possible irl
@@Prophet311the main poster is a bot. I wouldn’t respond to it
This is all AI.
Last video posted two years ago. We miss you Same Token. Your Halo videos are second to none.
Follow HiddenXperia, he post great halo content as well pretty regularly.
"whomever wears this armor, if he be worthy, shall gain the powers of Master Chief"
What if Master Chief Mjolnir Armor is made out of Uru.
jonathan?
@@MrLim-wq2gn would probably be worse for him
on one hand he's unkillable now
on the other, he goes at 1 mile per hour now
This actually deserves more attention like holy crap. Not to talk down on them, but this video was actually more detailed than a lot of the top Halo content creators' videos. Very informative and relaxing to watch
Your videos always have such a high level of quality production, intricate depth of the Halo extended lore, and attention to detail that it's genuinely sad that they aren't seen enough by the Halo community. I loved how you covered how armor has Evolved to Combat different stages of weaponry throughout history with the pros, cons, and compromises. The custom animations were also a great addition.
When I saw the title, I was really hoping to see some footage or reference to The Prototype from Halo Legends, with it being a massive exoskeleton like the Mark I and II, but didn't need to be tethered and had a plethora of powerful offensive and defensive capabilities. Would have also loved to hear you describe some of the awesome features of the early models in addition to the downsides like extreme power consumption or cost but your video was already a mountain of information at half an hour long and I genuinely loved every minute of it! Even got goosebumps a few times from how cool everything was. I'm gonna go refresh my lore knowledge from your past videos. Amazing job as always!!! :D
Feels like I'm a 26th century student studying for a military history exam or sumthin, that's how good these videos are cuz I feel oddly immersed for some reason while watching this!
A another reason I love halo is the believable science. It's really science fiction instead of fiction that has a bit of science. The TV show has dump all this down the drain. Just one thing. I believe the Bioform injector was already there for Mark 5 armor as I'm pretty sure I read it being used in Fall of reach, The flood or The first strike. Not sure which book exactly
The genre you mentioned after is called science fantasy.
@@문아대 Yes. But these days most of Sci fi themed shows and movies drop the science part.
@@pasindudinusha6507
I think what you meant was 'scientific' part, rather than science. In my understanding, the word 'science' means both the struggle to find knowledge and the knowledge itself, so it can be something like our own limited understanding of our world laws of physics or it can be someone's understanding of their own universe laws of physics (or the lack thereof) like things such as the commonly known/named as magic, psychic power etc.
If we get to be more technical, even the power-system/magic-system in some fiction like 'Mother of Learning' that have their own well-defined parts of said power system is "methodologically" correct within their own universe and thereof 'scientific' in their own way. What I understand from your writing, what you want is actually 'our-world-physics's-scientifically-correct', and not just some mumbo jumbo regarding unobtainium and Shakespearean-influenced story plots which are prevalent in science fantasy. An easy example of the comparison between Sci-Fi and Sci-Fan are the movies Star Trek and Star Wars.
It seems that you're the kind of guy who likes weaponries and wars like in the irl history of world wars and in fictions such as fallout. Got many friends like you, who sadly I'm not in contact again after the pandemic. Hope that you'll find more sci-fi works that you'll like and I'm sorry for my rambling lmao. Stay safe and healthy.
@@문아대 Yeah you are right about that. Like you mentioned Marvel and DC don't sit well with me. But I do watch their movies. I just think of them as fantasy. But I'm a fantasy fan too. It just I want a believable system even within those fantasy settings. It doesn't have to exactly as ours but I like it that when fantasy worlds have rules and systems that sets limits and enables creative opportunities. Hopefully we will see more creative sci fi work in future.
By the way I hope you'll be able to contact your friends again. Maybe find some new friends too. Yours is the friendliest ranting I heard recently. I'll say the same to you. Stay safe and healthy.
There is a fine art to "plausible" science fiction. Yes, Halo is one of the better ones. Star Trek is probably the model for that form of writing.
Others not so much. Science fiction CAN be a good test bed for actual science. It's a pre-hypothesis stage, where thinkers can experiment with new ideas to explore what realms of science we should develop further. Without the rigid 'peer review' of actual science.
It's the planning stage of science.
Always intrigued me how weak a human soldier is and how a super suit absolutely turns around how a soldier would fight, halo armour has always been a fascination, excellent video
The humans in the mjolnir aren't weak. They are super soldiers without the armor.
@@alecgiblin7499 nah I mean in reality
@@ReeceCoza ahhh gotcha.
Call a recon marine, army ranger or navy seal weak and see what happens lmao. Have you seen a soldier use a “super suit” in the field?? So how would you know their tactics irl? Someone in a super suit would not be a frontline soldier, they would need regular infantry support same as a tank… as we’ve seen what happens to armor without support in Ukraine. Maybe in 2552 a powered armor suit will be available 😂
@@Ontheregz bruh a suit that soaks bullets vs a human that drops in one shot, we are just meat suits, we are weak compared to the fictional halo suits hahabh
Your narration and writing are always great to hear. Your editing skills makes the visuals engaging to watch too!
I also love this video, it has a lot of tidbits most people wouldn't know, like the relation to the Cyclops exoskeleton, or the fact that the Mark IV was used for almost 3 decades!
Or the fact you can survive for months in space
This video came up as a suggestion and I'm so glad it did, it's an actual masterpiece, so well produced if I didn't know any better I would have thought it was based on something real! Bravo
We miss you SameToken. I hope you're okay and are doing well!
When we needed him most, he returned! love your videos, Token.
Most thorough and cohesive Mjolnir breakdown I've ever seen.
Never seen your channel before but this is an absolutely awesome video.
The writers of halo seemingly went to great lengths and effort to make things reasonably possible with the current rate of technology advancement. Of course they did drop the ball on the piezoelectric crystal thing. Humans have known for a very long time that piezoelectric crystals both produce energy when deformed and deformed when energy is applied to them. In fact pretty much every single automotive direct fuel injected gas and Diesel engine use piezoelectric injectors.
What's new here is probably the level of strain this new piezo material goes through when subject to voltage. Having a material strain by 10% or more without yielding is quite a feat to pull off, which is why you don't see it used in any large-scale robotics application
If it wouldn't be for the fact that 343 has ended the Original Halo Saga, you probably could have contributed to Halo 6 and 7, if there would have been...
Out of all the halo based videos I've watched, you sir are an Artist ...this is simply Awesome and worthy of Archiving for future generations. Who know maybe in 500 years someone will take inspiration from this video...
It fascinates me how a game was able to produce all this amazing lore. Even down to a soldier's armor. Great video.
At first I was like, oh great another Halo video going over basic stuff, but as it went on, your style where it was more like a documentary of the development of the armor. As you went onto each layer without making it too complicated, I kept watching. Honestly one of the top put together Halo video I have seen in a long time. Thank you for actually caring about the topic and making it easy for newer fans to understand. Subbed and going to go back and watch other Halo videos and cant wait for more to come out if they are planned!
Miss you! Hope you come back at some point.
Extraordinary masterpiece... Lore, level of detail of both, the tech within and also the explanation given trough the video, and of course production. Thanx, glad I came by.
I love how John slaps the pod interior in the video as Token says "something ENTIRELY new", implying Chief had a freak out lol
Hope this dude comes back some day 🙏
same
Where have you been man? :(
Listening to you, as an aging Halo Fan who always loved the lore and the books you put a lot of love and interest in your video. Will subscribe.
I have been a massive Halo fan for years. In the last 2-3 years especially I have dived deep into Halo lore reading many books (multiple times) as well as the Halo Encyclopedia and reading the Halopedia to death.
You're ability to condense it down to an entertaining, informative, and encompassing video is incredible. I greatly enjoyed watching this video and hearing it all again. Thank you.
The armor he switches to in halo 2 is the Mark 6 . It's also noted that Spartan 2 Naomi-010 was issued GEN1 Mark VII so the suit mentioned was actually built. It was expensive. And Spartan 4s where incapable of using it hence the gen 2 armor. Chief currently uses the Gen 3 version which Is a hybrid of technology from both generations and some improvements.
hey man its been a long time since your last video, hope everything is all good on your end and your happy (I know Halo isnt really for everyone right now)
This was worthy of sub. Great video. I read the books back in the day, where John becomes a Spartan and remember vaguely the membrane layer of the armour. Your presentation is quality.
I miss your videos man
The MARK IV is my favorite iteration of the MJOLNIR armor.
It looks pretty and comfortable, but at the same time heavy and intimidating, plus it doesn't have that ridiculous amount of colors and accessories. It doesn't look like a robot like the armors in Halo 4 and 5, but it's also not as unnecessarily minimalist as the one in Halo 2 and 3.
Are you talking about Chief's armor in CE? Because that is Mk 5
You talking about the Infinite armour
All they had to do was ask Tony Stark for help.
Come back SameToken, we miss you..
A great writer knows how to start with an anecdote or history synopsis. Draws the listener or reader in. Good work.
Sometimes people sleep on the fact that they watch a person because their voice is nice. This dude has a great voice and It’s my first video watching from him. Another person with an awesome voice who’s successful is Star Wars theory. People who can just listen to without cringing and that paired with good content make a great all around artist in this aspect.
I’ve been such a halo nerd since I was a little kid that I know everything about the lore better than most of the big channels but I still sit here and listen to this absentmindedly, why I wonder
Astonishing job! The amount of work that you put not only in the content of the video but the editing as well is amazing!I hope this video gets a ton more of views in the upcoming weeks, it very well deserves it. Thank you for such an lore-informative and smooth experience!
Always A+ content Token! Well done!
Dude where you at??? Any new videos coming?
This feels like a legit history channel episode
Chainmail would protect you from cuts; padded armore was worn under it, but you would still be injurred from blunt force trauma. You can't slice through chainmail.
Highly dependant upon the quality of chainmail.
@@chrispellegrin People didn't wear gambison and chainmail because it kinda worked; I think chainmail being sliced open would have been quite rare. It would either be the result of poor craftsmanship (nobody would want to buy their mail), or it being hit a lot without maintenance.
@@jonathanbetenbender307 Yeah no slicing of chain mail but it was very weak against thrusts, and spears were the main weapon of war, swords were more of a secondary weapon for the rich. That's what made plate armor so terrifying to go against, you were most likely a peasant with a spear going against a guy you can't really poke with your weapon. As for sword fights the stuff depicted in media is pure fantasy, sword fight were short, a sword fight between 2 unarmored opponents would usually end in a few seconds after a feint or two and maybe a parry. Combat between 2 armored opponents was basically a wrestling match, the idea is to tackle the other guy to the ground so gaps in his armor are easier to exploit, then using a dagger to poke at the joints etc. There is quite a few videos on youtube of what realistic medieval plate armor sword fights looked like.
@Eagle3302PL Preaching to the choir, my friend.
Man I miss this guy
Where did he go?
@@helljumper9828 No idea ig he just stopped
Hope you're doing well. You make the most polished Halo content. Hopefully you have something in the works for us soon!
After reading the Reach data pads it's clear to me that the AI Assembly influenced humanity or Halsey somehow to equip Spartans to be as overkill as they are for human standards cause they saw hostile first contact with aliens to be an inevitability and wanted to make sure that humanity was as prepared as it could be.
Really well done video. If I didn't know better, I would have thought it was watching a documentary on human armour and it's evolution throughout history. Two thumbs up!
Just wait till one gets to mechs.
I hope you're doing okay, man.
Ive never played Halo, but I love that this entire video was taken from the perspective of a history lesson in the year 2600
Real life militaries actually want suits like spartan armor problem is the same the energy production and storage the damn batteries are way behind the tech level needed and lets not forget we can't even get fission reactors that snall yet let alone positive output fusion reactors which we still haven't figured it out
Maybe in the year 2500
Your governments have already figured it out. Youre a pleb with no such access.
pretty much, modern tech already supports making something like the mk1 or 2 and close to 3, but the power supply issues those variants suffer also affect any such irl designs
@@nickolaswilcox425 we can make a micro nuclear reactor. Except the smallest version would still occupy the bed of a pick-up truck.
@@DigitalDNA And if the fire team has the misfortune of being in a grid square being erased by MLRS, you are cracking open a fission reactor which is kinda bad. Fusion reactors if cracked just kinda puff out whatever was plasma and go dead.
What’s crazy is that none of this is 500 years away.
I love the background music you chose for this video. Really matches the technology and armor theme
Are you done uploading 😢. I miss you man… we all do 🥺😭😭
Speaking of smart AI, this makes me wonder if the forerunners used the same process Halsey did creating Cortana to create the Contender Class AI.
I hope you cover more games like this in depth with your great descriptions, and passion. Keep up the amazing work my guy. 👍
12:47 btw that's a real life thing, your basic Bic lighter work like this, you put the Piezo under pressure and their you got your spark that light up the fluid...
This is an excellent video. You've started in my real history and connected it to a futuristic fantasy world that I have enjoyed using a reasonable and logical story. Excellent work!
No one, and nothing, will ever make me appreciate Halo except this. The Piezoelectric Effect is such a masterstroke of Sci-Fi writing that I hesitate trying to come up with an alternative system of motor control for such an exo-skeleton.
I don’t care for the story, the war criminals, the shallow thematics, gameplay or any of that. There are geniunely well thought out concepts here that I want to know more about.
it's been over a year man where are you? :(
26:59 this is like an ad I love it
just a little correction: kevlar doesnt counter high powered bullets (since we talking about military weapons and protection), it counters shrapnel.
Kevlar+ceramic or metallic plating stops high powered bullets, and only up to a certain caliber!
Actually there are soft Kevlar armors that can stop rifle rounds
@@Nr15121 any examples or sources? Never heard or pure kevlar armor stopping rifle rounds
@@FanEAW level 3 armor stops up to i believe 308
@@Nr15121 you are correct on both statements
You can make rifle-rated flexible armor even without shear thickening fluid, for example Safe Life Defense Flexible Rifle Armor System by employing smart design and better commercially available material.
Basic rule of creating really good ballistic armour is stacking many layer of 2 types of alternating materials that's optimized for 2 different purposes (akin to bullet resistant window), one high hardness material to break apart the kinetic penetrator and one high tensile, compressive and shear strength material to act as crumple zone to absorb kinetic energy of (hopefully) fragmented kinetic penetrator.
I've always thought that Science Fiction was one of the factors that accelerated technology advancements the most. Every sci-fi work has shared a vision, an ideal of what technology could do. And when the right minds have the vision, they can make that vision a reality.
What a brilliant video...... this almost felt like a high-class documentary, enjoyed every second of it.
does anyone know what happened to this guy? his videos are all so high quality and i love them, but he hasn't posted anything in a year
Please come back
This man really is the best Halo youtuber when it comes to lore and pretty much everything else
Where you been man!??? Need more videos, you’re my favorite halo UA-camr
I like how you hand-waved away four hundred years (1600s to 2000s) like there was a seamless progression from suits of armour to kevlar, and then claimed that exoskeleton progress was 'slow'.
There has been a massive rate of advancement within the last 100 years, whether in weapons, or on armor systems. It can only be expected that it would slow, at some point.
How mjolnir works? It protect, it attack. But most of all... it look badass 😎
*Heroic pose*
Now I'm expecting a teacher to come in and say we are having an exam about this and it leads up to us possibly graduating from spartan history and moving forward to in the field spartan armor training
some might have notice mk7 got skipped, good reason for that, it never hit production with only a few suits worth of parts ever being made and only one complete suit actually being constructed and deployed, its was used as a testbed prototype for gen2 variable modular systems with the greater power of gen1
One girl got it accually
@@kamaro3695 i mentioned that, she was the test operator for the prototype, the only others ever made were never assembled into complete suits, hence it never entering production since only the development prototypes were ever built and said parts were really only used in combat out of necessity, the war was going on and they were hideously expensive parts so why not use them if the opportunity arises
perfect after a hard day, thank you for your high level of quality production :D
I love the way this feels like a discovery channel doc
"There'll be Another Time..."
Damn it really has been 8 months since we've gotten an upload :(
Follow HiddenXperia, he post great halo content as well pretty regularly.
I felt like a student in a history class 50-100 years past the Halo aftermath.
Tales of zale is a cute indie film, most of the characters are owls.
Really cute, I highly recommend!
tf thx anyways
I really loved this video, the way you told the story of the evolution of MOJLNIR armors is marvelous. I love the engineering aspect of the video with the music. Thank you for this
When a youtube video about halo armour is more entertaining than the halo tv show
The part about how an AI works was a bit off, but the rest seems legit. I always appreciate SameToken’s videos on this kind of stuff, the science is my favorite part about Halo
Hey thanks for watching! I always try to be as accurate as possible, what was off about the AI? So glad you enjoyed! :)
@@SameToken Incredible video! I don't see anything that was a bit off, I learned a vast array of new detail I did not know! However, I thought a neat dynamic regarding AI and MJOLNIR was missing. In the Fall of Reach, newly acquainted Cortana and John perform a test exercise of their new integration effectiveness in which they ultimately defelect a SkyHawk launched scorpion missle with John's left palm. Dr. Halsey adds a fascinating detail regarding further improved reaction time via AI integration above the already boosted neural implant/MJOLNIR response time - another encyclopedic-level bit 🤓
"Cortana resides in the interface between your mind and the suit, Master Chief. You will find your reaction time greatly improved. She will be translating the impulses in your motor cortex directly into motion-she can’t make you send those impulses.”
Cheers to a great video!
Thank you so much for all your in-depth videos. I’m planning on writing a halo book (2, if you count the “117: Heroes never die” billboard novel I’m writing because no one else will and I SERIOUSLY want to see that) and it wouldn’t be possible without your library of halo lore.
Not to mention that I use these as podcasts while I’m waiting. Amazing content as always, Token.
Nice. What's it going to be about?
I love the thought that the meta in red vs blue could be semi possible in halo lore,
This feels like a real documentary the spartans would watch while in school history class
This is really awsome, your way of telling, way of explaining the various bits, like if you are listening to an actual war-based documentary. Truly amazing :)
What happened to same token!!!!
Can someone tell me why he is not making more videos 😢
ima gine how long these videos took to edit. this guy deserves more subscribers
Ok ok ok… so like i played Halo as any other 90’s kid, but I kinda stopped around halo 2/3. But now as an adult who like all these concepts, it might just be time for me to get back into this. This lore is absolutely amazing and ahead of its time. Thank you for an enjoyable 30min of life.
To keep your sanity I recommend ignoring anything produced or endorsed by 343 industries. They took the core of Halo and started retconning it and muddying it with their fanfic tier ideas. I recommend replaying Halo 1-3 + ODST, and reading the novels published under Bungie's watch. As for Halo Reach, I think the game has a good plot and was quite fun so it's definitely worth playing, but it retcons the 1st Halo novel we ever got, Halo: The Fall of Reach, and that novel has a much better version of that plot imo.
At the beginning of the video at 1:54 you could say “as combat evolved”. Halo pun intended
Now it makes sense, why their health bar goes up after being damaged.
The suits have Bio-Foam that sprays into wounds, healing the user on-the-spot.
We miss you! Please come back :(
I’m a huge fan of Master Chief so personally this helps me understand the importance when it comes to the arguments of Warhammer and Doom.
miss you.
So well explained sounds like it exists there is real science here and everything
Excellent video with well done narration; this is actually a top quality production (thought it must have been done by Studios or 343). Thank you for this!
Excellent quality
This is, hands down, the greatest video I have ever seen.
Yoo anybody have any idea why he stopped uploading?
Can you post more pleaseeeeeee
its so realistic to how it would play out irl. i love it. its not some simple explination like oh the covenant attacked and we needed suits llike them.