Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-26395021-20150519000208/@comment-25555436-20150519034819

You know, higher quantity does not always mean lower quality. The Spartan-IIIs were not truly inferior to the Spartan IIs, if anything they were superior than them. Only problem was the augmentations that pretty much were likely to kill you, effectively dying before even starting. That, and being stronger, naturally they would be sent to more dangerous missions, with higher possibility of death. And no Spartan is inmortal, that's just bullshit they tell soldiers so they don't think it's all over sooner than it is.

Hell, Halo: Reach shows us. We were told and shown that Noble Six, a Spartan 3, was pretty badass on his/her own, almost as much as Master Chief (who is his own category of badassery, Spartan models be damned), and only died pretty much because (s)he didn't have even half as much Luck (and because of it, no unexpected method of escape). For an unlucky man/woman, that's no small feat.

When you get a good orange, you want more good oranges, not more not-as-good oranges. You want more oranges of the same quality, if not better. So you would find a way to get as many oranges of the same good quality as you could until you were able to get a better one. Got it? Like you said, it depends on the Spartan, but not on the Spartan's model.