Think about it the UNSC (tier 2/3) has Spartans as their most bad ass mother-blam!-s, who are far stronger and better then normal humans. So do you think ancient humans (tier 1) had their version of super soldiers? And if so could they take on Prometheans such as the Didact?
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They were probably all super-soldiers. In order to compete with the forerunners militarily they would at least need the power armor. And genetic modification was well withing their capabilities.
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I think the ancient humans only had half a planet because its better than no planet at all.
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I think I heard somewhere that ancient Human warriors [i]were[/i] super soldiers.