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SPARTAN-III Alpha Company

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Alpha Company
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Affiliation:

UNSC

Branch:

UNSC Navy

Size:

  • 497 (training class)
  • 300 (active company) [Note 1]

Engagements:

 

"I am going to give you a chance to learn how to fight, a chance to become the best soldiers the UNSC has ever produced, a chance to destroy the Covenant. I am giving you a chance to be like me: a Spartan."
— Lieutenant Kurt Ambrose

Alpha Company was the first company of SPARTAN-III supersoldiers, initiated in 2531 and deployed in 2535.[1] It was succeeded by Beta Company in 2537.[2]

History

Creation and training

Alpha Company was the first company of SPARTAN-IIIs to be trained. This group originally had 497 trainees recruited between the ages of four, five and six years old, but only 300 would graduate to form the final composition of Alpha Company.[3][Note 1] The children were orphaned by Covenant attacks on various colonies such as Jericho VII, Harvest, Biko, and Eridanus II. ONI personnel would visit the children in orphanages with the promise that they would be allowed to exact revenge on the Covenant if they joined.[4]

From the moment they arrived on the planet Onyx, the Alpha Company candidates were tested. On their first night, they were instructed to paradrop to a designated pickup location, with the children who refused immediately washing out.[5] On December 27, 2532, they then began their training at Camp Currahee on Onyx, instructed by Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose; in reality, Ambrose was Kurt-051, a SPARTAN-II who had been kidnapped in order to oversee the SPARTAN-III program.[6] Their aggression levels were extreme, and ONI had concerns that the children would kill each other during training. Despite this, Ambrose and Mendez were able to train them into effective soldiers and Alpha Company was declared active in late 2535.[1][Note 2]

Many individuals who failed to pass training later became drill instructors for Beta Company; these washouts were particularly ruthless to the trainees, due to their regrets of not graduating to become members of Alpha Company.[7]

Before Alpha Company's deployment, Kurt and Mendez hand-picked a small number of Spartans that stood out from the rest and removed them from the company, assigning them to special duties such as elite fireteams and Headhunter pairs.[8][9] These Spartans were also issued more advanced equipment such as MJOLNIR armor to make their battlefield prowess comparable to that of the Spartan-IIs. Three of these individuals — Emile-A239, Carter-A259, and Jun-A266 — would later serve in a special operations unit known as NOBLE Team, along with other candidates removed from Beta Company.[10]

Combat deployments

The very first deployment of Alpha Company took place on October 16th, 2535, where Alpha Company was deployed to Mamore during Operation: FIREBRAND to quell an anti-UEG coup d'etat which was attempting to seize control of the colony. Alpha Company would help successfully suppress this uprising.[11]

Later, during the Battle of New Constantinople, Alpha Company was deployed during Operation: IRON GREAVE to repel the Covenant in 2537. Alpha company was able to highly distinguish themselves through their actions and saw much success, however the Covenant would later go to glass the planet years later in 2539.[12]

Alpha Company also participated in Operation: HWACHA in early 2537, where they were successfully deployed in counter-boarding actions against a Covenant fleet in the Bonanza asteroid belt, in which they highly distinguished themselves once again.[12]

Alpha Company would also participate in six other unspecified battles during this period sometime before Operation: PROMETHEUS.

Operation: PROMETHEUS

Main article: Operation: PROMETHEUS

In late July 2537, nine months after their activation, Alpha Company was sent to the Covenant-controlled asteroid K7-49 to disable as many reactors as possible so that the liquid contents of the facility would solidify and permanently clog their capacity to produce the metal. Initial resistance to the Spartans were light, and they managed to disable two reactors before the Covenant could properly arrange a proper counterforce. The counterforce was neutralized, and the Spartans managed to destroy thirteen more reactors. By then, the Covenant had sent in a massive army from orbit. The Spartans were cut off from their extraction craft, which caused the death of all of them. PROMETHEUS was a bittersweet success, as though the facility was permanently disabled, all participating members of Alpha Company were completely wiped out.[13]

Equipment

Alpha Company was issued Mark I Semi-Powered Infiltration armor, an experimental combat suit that provided the soldiers a rudimentary form of active camouflage. The Spartans were primarily issued with the MA5K carbine as a service rifle, although some members used the MA5B assault rifle. An M6 series pistol was issued as a sidearm.[14]

Known members

List of appearances

Notes

  1. ^ a b 300 Spartans (the entirety of the final roster of Alpha Company) participated in Operation: PROMETHEUS. Of the 197 who did not form Alpha Company, some were ostensibly extracted to form separate special forces teams and the remainder washed out.
  2. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx notes that Alpha Company was activated 9 months prior to July of 2537, yet Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual states that its first deployment was on October 16th, 2535, to combat an insurrectionist uprising on Mamore. This would seem to be a minor contradiction, or imply Alpha Company deployed to Mamore before it was ever officially 'activated'.

Sources

  1. ^ a b Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual, Part 05: ONI Augmentation Reports
  2. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 88
  3. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 69
  4. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 72
  5. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 71
  6. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 67
  7. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, "Chapter 9", page 89
  8. ^ Halo Waypoint: Carter-A259
  9. ^ Halo Waypoint: Jun-A266
  10. ^ Bungie.net: Communique from Kurt to Mendez
  11. ^ Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual, page 84
  12. ^ a b Halo Encyclopedia (2011 edition), page 87
  13. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, chapter 8
  14. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, pages 86-87

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