SPARTAN-III Beta Company

SPARTAN-III Beta Company was the second group of SPARTAN-IIIs trained by Kurt-051 in 2539 on the hidden world of Onyx at Camp Currahee.There were 418 candidates, but only three hundred slots. Originally three-hundred strong, Beta Company was assigned to Operation TORPEDO to destroy a Covenant refinery on Pegasi Delta in 2545. They had been launced through slipspace from the UNSC Carrier All Under Heaven in stealth orbital drop pods. Nine died either on reentry, from the impact, or from Covenant forces. Team Foxtrot consisted of Tom, Lucy, Min, and Adam. When it was discovered that the STARS (Stealth Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance Satellite) systems had missed the seven Covenent cruisers over the factory, mistaking them for a part of the factory, the panic code (Omega three) was given. Team Foxtrot ran into the factory anyway and attempted to disable the factory using thermite-carbon cord explosives. Before they could get inside to disable it, Adam was shot by an elite with a needler. The shot punctured his lower spine, leaving him paralyzed. He told the others to go on without him. While they were setting the timers for the explosives, an EM field set off Min's explosives, engulfing him in a flash of smoke and thunder. After Tom convinced Lucy, that there was nothing they could do for him, the ran deeper into the factory complex until they jumped out the back of the factory into the ocean. Their water-logged Mark I Semi-Powered Infiltration Armor pulled them down deeper into the water as the factory exploded, killing off all seven cruisers and any other surviving members of Beta company, leaving Lucy-B091 and Tom-B292 the only known survivors of Operation TORPEDO. Before boarding the Black Cat-class Subprowler to return, Lucy said "How are you sure we're alive?" in response to Tom saying that there were no other survivors. It was the last thing she said before she became unable to speak due to psychological complications.

SPARTAN-III's from Beta company: Tom-B292 Lucy-B091 Spartan-B004 "Adam" Spartan-B174Min