Editing Boren's Syndrome

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'''Boren's Syndrome''' is supposedly a [[human]] neurological condition.<ref name="fs">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''pages 243-245''</ref> The disease was most notably used as a cover-up by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] to keep the identity of the [[ORION Project|SPARTAN-I]]s classified.<ref name="hgn">'''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]''' - ''[[Halo_Graphic_Novel_Pg122|page 122]]''</ref>

Boren's Syndrome supposedly causes tumors and migraines, and is believed to be caused by exposure to certain types of radiation. Claims as to the cause of the disease include inhaling the gases released when a [[Type-51 Carbine]] magazine is ejected<ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/projects/halo3/content.aspx?link=h3carbine '''Bungie.net''': ''Type-51 Carbine'']</ref> and being exposed to radiation from [[Type-1 Antipersonnel Grenade|plasma grenade]]s.<ref name="fs"/> Several [[Insurrectionist]]s on [[Victoria]] claimed to have this condition, hoping to bargain with the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] to gain treatment for the condition in trade for some [[FENRIS nuclear warhead]]s they had in stock. However, their status was false, as the bargain was revealed to be a trap set up by General [[Howard Graves]] in an attempt to capture the [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II]]s of [[Blue Team]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', Chapter 1, ''pages ??''</ref> Notably, [[John Forge]]'s father died of Boren's Syndrome.<ref>'''[[Halo: Smoke and Shadow]]''', ''page ??''</ref>

The [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] used Boren's Syndrome to cover up the side effects experienced by the surviving subjects of the [[ORION Project]] once the program was discontinued and the augmentees had been dispersed back to the [[UNSC Armed Forces]] at large. Due to the cover-up, it is unclear whether the condition is actually genuine, with the ORION augmentations only causing similar symptoms, or if it was entirely fabricated as part of the cover-up.

[[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|Avery Johnson]]'s falsified medical record - to hide his real, classified record - had him as a sufferer of Boren's Syndrome, in which he was to have contracted the disease on [[Paris IV]], after being in contact with a dangerously high amount of radiation apparently originating from a crate of captured plasma grenades the Sergeant used against attacking Covenant forces.<ref name="fs"/> This false record event (known to ONI as the "Paris/BS Spoof") was likely used as a means of avoiding any investigation into his altered DNA and physiology, which would have revealed him as a SPARTAN-I.<ref name="hgn"/>

*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{First mentioned}}

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