[quote]I like how everyone points to Infinity and the Spartan IVs as examples of the UEG's "infinite resources" (and 343i's shitty writing)[/quote] We all know the UEG doesn't have infinite resources though, so it's just the latter. [quote]yet they're perfectly fine with the MJOLNIR Mk. VI being deployed mere months after Mk. V,[/quote] Hm. How many suits of MkIV were made? 75. How many Spartans remained operational after the augmentations to use them? 33, I distinctly recall. So that leaves quite a few spare suits that could be retrofitted with improvements for Mk V and MkVI rather than crafting new suits from scratch. How many Mk VI suits were confirmed to have been made and deployed? 1, wasn't it? I think that actually demonstrates the UNSC's rapidly diminishing resources that they went from 33 Mk V's to just 1 confirmed MkIV. The improvements that were made to MkIV over MkV weren't as large as the gaps between preceding generations, and only featured the addition of biofoam injectors, some minor alterations to the efficiency of the shields and some HUD software upgrades. That's all a far cry from equating it to pulling hundreds of Gen. 2 suits out of nowhere only months after MkVI, is it not? [quote]and the Spartan III program marching on without any issues whatsoever (even training an entirely new generation of III's) right up to the invasion of Earth. [/quote] Right, so the Spartan-IV program could have been seen as the natural continuation of that program. The Spartan-III program was able to do that though because of the lack of Mjolnir armour, remember? If the UNSC has always had the ability to pull hundreds of Mjolnir suits out of its ass, then the III's should have had them all along. At the least, Gamma company should have been equipped with it, or at the very least field testing it, rather than being shipped with SPI armour. [quote]You realize Infinity was in development for 20 years, right? Stopping the development of mankind's best hope for survival would not only be literal suicide, but economic suicide. They'd be flushing trillions down the toilet if they canned it.[/quote] *queries "Mankind's best hope for survival"...* [quote]And the Spartan IV program is a cheaper continuation of the Spartan III program, meaning it only makes more sense given that it costs less than what they were doing before.[/quote] How? They added fully operational Mjolnir armour AND expanded the project's recruitment parameters whilst having vastly diminished military-industrial and economic power, along with a crippled infrastructure, and still managed to make it cheaper? Wait, don't answer that; the answer's already in your first paragraph.

If you think you're going to get the last word with AIHT, you're sorely mistaken. Seriously, you could be arguing about whether the world is flat or round and he'd still continue replying, regardless if he's incorrect or not.

You're the one attacking the story itself instead of the matter at hand. I'm not denying that it doesn't make sense, but it isn't a matter of logic, as it's a fictional story. They could have Thel 'Vadam riding unicorns while the Gravemind shits a rainbow and it'd still be canon. If 343 says the UNSC has that kind of funding, then they do, and that's all there is to it, even if it is illogical.