"Dark Angel": Why did Manticore breed any female X5's?

[Gozu_Tashoya]

@Lumpy

Actually, the perfect soldier (as opposed to ninja assassin or Special Ops types) wouldn’t be super-strong or fast; they’d be super-enduring. Able to go a week without sleep; able to keep marching and fighting after an ordinary solider would have laid down and died; able to go for extended periods with little or no food; able to endure extremes of heat and cold; able to take massive injury and not only survive but be able to keep fighting; psychologically resistant to “battle fatigue”, panic, depresssion, etc. In other words, something like a WW2 Red Army soldier only x10- a super-grunt.

FWIW, Max commented a bunch in season 1 (or at least the first few eps) that she doesn’t sleep. Possibly an exaggeration on her part, but given that she rode a bike around Seattle all day by day and was a cat burglar at night, it’s probably a good bet that her endurance and stamina were pretty good. Not saying you said any different, but just saying.