Editing Smoothers

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{{Quote|no=four|q1=And if you don't get your injections, you... what? Start hearing voices? Go berserk?|[[Veta Lopis]]|q2=Something like that. Except we don't always hear voices.|[[Ash-G099]]|q3=Or see flying dinosaurs. That only happens sometimes.|[[Mark-G313]]|q4=But we can usually... read thoughts. I kind of like that, especially when there are civilians around, thinking about sex and stuff.|[[Olivia-G291]]|Exchange between [[Special Inspector]] Veta Lopis and the three Gamma Company Spartans of [[Blue Team]] regarding the latter's augmentations in a joking manner{{Ref/Novel|LL|Page=136}}}}
'''Smoothers''' is the name given by the [[Gamma Company]] [[SPARTAN-III program|Spartans]] to the drug cocktail that acted as a counteragent to the effects of mutagen 009762-OO.
==Overview==
Smoothers are a cocktail of cyclodexione-4 and miso-olanzapine which act as a counteragent to the effects of mutagen 009762-OO, used in the [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|augmentation procecures]] of the [[SPARTAN-III program]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=LL123|LL|Page=123}} Without Smoothers, a Spartan will lose their strategic judgment and become more prone to impulsive, instinct-driven behavior.{{Ref/Novel|GoO|Page=340}}

There are several different types of "Smoother". The most common type used during combat operations is administered via a hypodermic injection and lasts approximately twelve hours, after which its effectiveness begins to steadily decrease. Several factors such as stress and fatigue can precipitate the mental unraveling process.{{Ref/Novel|Id=ll145|LL|Page=145-146}} Ash referred to the Smoother-deprived state as "Gamma-mode fury."{{Ref/Novel|Id=DW17|DW|Chapter=17}} The first symptoms, appearing within several hours after the Smoothers' effect wears off, include nervousness and irritability,{{Ref/Novel|LL|Page=182}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=ll214|LL|Page=214-215}} eventually followed by paranoia, fits of temper and physical outbursts.{{Ref/Reuse|ll145}} After well over a day without a Smoother injection,{{Ref/Reuse|ll214}} [[Mark-G313]] began having difficulties distinguishing friend from foe in the middle of a firefight, holding a combat knife to [[Nguyen|a Marine sergeant]]'s throat before being successfully convinced by Fred-104 that the Marine was an ally rather than an enemy infiltrator.{{Ref/Novel|Id=LL247|LL|Page=247}} Another, significantly more expensive type of Smoother is a subcutaneous insert with a longer-lasting effect. While they can only be changed out in a medical facility, they also cannot be lost or destroyed during a mission like the more commonly used kind.{{Ref/Novel|LL|Page=249}} While in a Smoother-deprived state, [[Ash-G099]] had to be dangled out of a Pelican by [[Alice-130]] in order to be brought back to his senses. Once Alice assured him that [[Mark-G313]] really was dead and allowed Ash to check, he calmed down completely. Seeing that Olivia was going to put everyone onboard in danger in her "Gamma-mode fury," Ash warned Alice not to use [[polypseudomorphine|polly-sue]] or sedatives on either of them as they wouldn't work and would only serve to make Ash and Olivia crazy.{{Ref/Reuse|DW17}}

==History==
Smoothers were created to counteract the effects of mutagen 009762-OO.{{Ref/Reuse|LL123}}

While exploring the [[Montero Cave System]] on [[Gao]], [[Olivia-G291]] lost her Smoothers during the fighting, meaning that the young Gamma Spartans of [[Blue Team]] would inevitably run out of them on the way out. [[Mark-G313]] volunteered to take only one of the remaining five Smoother injections, leaving two doses each for [[Ash-G099]] and Olivia, with Mark subsequently taking point as the group began their nearly one and a half day's climb toward the surface.{{Ref/Novel|Id=hll|LL}} As a result, when Mark encountered Marine Sergeant [[Nguyen]] and, believing him to be an enemy infiltrator due to his paranoid state caused by his Smoother deprivation, Mark took the sergeant hostage and held a [[combat knife]] to his throat. However, Fred was able to convince Mark to release the Marine.{{Ref/Reuse|LL247}} The Gammas' mental condition was stabilized once again after they got access to Smoothers again.{{Ref/Reuse|hll}}

During the [[Ferret]]s undercover mission to [[Keepers Eradication Campaign|eradicate]] the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]], they received clandestine Smoother shipments. However, [[Cortana]] [[Created conflict|rose to power]] and the result of this takeover was the decimation of ONI and its field operations, causing the Ferrets' undercover support prowler to disappear along with the clandestine communications station to which the Ferrets delivered their intel. The [[D102 Owl]] that was kept on standby in case of an emergency extraction was also unreachable. In addition, they no longer received covert deliveries of Smoothers for the Gammas on the team, forcing them to begin searching for their own way out.{{Ref/Novel|Id=DW1|DW|Chapter=1}} The Ferrets ran out of their remaining Smoothers, leaving Olivia in "Gamma-fury mode" by the time that the Ferrets were rescued after the [[Battle of Epsilon Clarion]].{{Ref/Reuse|DW17}} The crew of the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} had trouble tuning the Ferrets' Smoothers because they didn't have quite the same pharmaceuticals available. However, they were enough to restore Ash and Olivia's sanity.{{Ref/Novel|DW|Chapter=Epilogue}}

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo: Last Light]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]''

==Sources==
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