ORION Project: Difference between revisions

The beginning of the ORION rogram dates back to the 23rd century, when the newly formed [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] began developing bioengineering protocols and experimenting with biochemically altering human soldiers. Although these performance enhancing substances were very primitive and nowhere near as effective as the chemicals used to augment the soldiers of the SPARTAN Programs, they did show promise and gave results and serve as the catalyst for future endeavors. Since then, human soldiers have used performance-enhancing equipment for decades.

As the civil wars began to intensify in the Outer and Inner Colonies, many of the [[Colonial Military Administration]]'s resources were taken over by the UNSC and ONI. Using data supplied by ONI, the CMA relaunched ORION in secrecy in response to insurgent attacks in the colonies. The project began in January of 2491<ref>[[Media:say_please.ogg|say_please Axon]]</ref> with sixty-five test subjects, after completing their training an additional one-hundred volunteers were accepted into the new ORION program. The first ORION deployment occurred in January of [[2496]]<ref name="enyc44"/> as part of Operation: CHARLEMAGNE, during this operation the full unit of ORION soldiers were deployed to recover the sub-orbital transit station over [[Eridanus II]]. This marked the only time a full unit of Spartans were ever deployed in the entire program — they completed their mission with only a single casualty and without being seen.<ref name="enyc"/> The resulting success of CHARLEMAGNE, and tales of the military deploying advanced super-soldiers were born, this became fuel for a range of conspiracy theories and media speculation. As the legend of the super soldiers continued to grow they gave birth to a new round of propaganda efforts by ONI in the coming decades.