User blog comment:Sith Venator/Mandalorians vs Spartans/@comment-1017446-20110815223014/@comment-181289-20110816031730

Actully if were going to be technical, most Spartan were killed do to the augmentation process. I'm not talking about literally out running blaster fire, I'm talking about the ability to quickly get to cover while there shields recharge. They are faster than the Madalorians, they can run extremly fast and have reactions times far superior to the Mandalorains. There were only ever 33 active Spartan II's at any given time, yet they manged to to avoid being destryed in the Covonent War, where as the Mandalorains were an entire culture of a world and were virtully wiped out. The Spartans abiltys are just superior. And in fact the Spartan II who have been confirmed killed in action and have specific manners of death listed were generally killed during explosions of heavy ordinance or being hit by somthing like a Covenant capital ship blast., not being shot by enemy soldiers, the one who did get killed by this manner was distracted while helping survivors escape from Harvest.