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|allegiance=[[United Nations Space Command]] | |allegiance=[[United Nations Space Command]] | ||
|branch=[[UNSC | |branch=[[UNSC Special Forces|Naval Special Weapons]]<ref>'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 121''</ref><ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page ???''</ref> | ||
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{{Quote|You have been called upon to serve, you will be trained... and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be the protectors of [[Earth]] and all her colonies.|[[Catherine Elizabeth Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] to the SPARTAN-II recruits}} | {{Quote|You have been called upon to serve, you will be trained... and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be the protectors of [[Earth]] and all her colonies.|[[Catherine Elizabeth Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] to the SPARTAN-II recruits}} | ||
The '''SPARTAN-II Program''', originally known as the '''ORION Project Generation II''', was part of the [[SPARTAN Program]], an effort to produce elite soldiers through mechanical and biological augmentation. The SPARTAN-II program would be the first in the series to meld advanced exoskeleton technology with the soldiers' superior physiques.<ref>'''''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''''' ''page 81''</ref><ref name="journal">'''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'''</ref> | The '''SPARTAN-II Program''', originally known as the '''ORION Project, Generation II''',<ref name="journal"/> was part of the [[SPARTAN Program]], an effort to produce elite soldiers through mechanical and biological augmentation. The SPARTAN-II program would be the first in the series to meld advanced exoskeleton technology with the soldiers' superior physiques.<ref>'''''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''''' ''page 81''</ref><ref name="journal">'''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'''</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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Despite the tremendous risk and the unethical means of creating new soldiers, the SPARTAN-II project was greenlit by the top brass within the Office of Naval Intelligence, who concluded that the lives that could be saved far outweighed the risks involved. The project was initially granted funding for 300 candidates, though funding was later reduced to half this number.<ref name="journal"></ref> By [[2517]], 150 suitable candidates had been identified through DNA gathered from the UNSC's [[Outer Colony vaccination program]], though funding had been further reduced to support only half that number. Seventy-five children, all six years old and of both sexes, were kidnapped. In order to preserve the program's secrecy, the children were replaced by [[Flash cloning|flash clones]], which would die soon thereafter due to numerous medical complications associated with flash-cloning an entire human being. | Despite the tremendous risk and the unethical means of creating new soldiers, the SPARTAN-II project was greenlit by the top brass within the Office of Naval Intelligence, who concluded that the lives that could be saved far outweighed the risks involved. The project was initially granted funding for 300 candidates, though funding was later reduced to half this number.<ref name="journal"></ref> By [[2517]], 150 suitable candidates had been identified through DNA gathered from the UNSC's [[Outer Colony vaccination program]], though funding had been further reduced to support only half that number. Seventy-five children, all six years old and of both sexes, were kidnapped. In order to preserve the program's secrecy, the children were replaced by [[Flash cloning|flash clones]], which would die soon thereafter due to numerous medical complications associated with flash-cloning an entire human being. | ||
Halsey was not satisfied with the original name of "ORION Project Generation II"; thus, she renamed it out of personal preference as well as to distance the project from the failures of ORION in the minds of the politico and military bureaucrats | Halsey was not satisfied with the original name of "ORION Project, Generation II"; thus, she renamed it out of personal preference, as well as to distance the project from the failures of ORION in the minds of the politico and military bureaucrats who controlled the project's budget. In order to pay homage to the sacrifice of the ORION project, she chose to call the project SPARTAN-<u>II</u>. She considered several other "bellicose" names, including ''[[Wikipedia:Praetorian Guard|Praetorians]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Landsknecht|Landsknecht]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Immortals (Persian Empire)|Immortals]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Minutemen|Minutemen]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Titan (mythology)|Titans]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Argonauts|Argonauts]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Odysseus|Odysseus]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Twelve Olympians|Olympians]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Zulu people|Zulu]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Kronos|Kronos]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Prometheus|Promethean]]'', ''Armor'', ''[[Wikipedia:Nemesis (mythology)|Nemesis]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Daedalus|Daedalus]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Hercules|Hercules]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Viking|Viking]]'', and ''[[Wikipedia:Hyperion|Hyperion]]''; the latter two were quickly excluded.<ref name="journal"></ref> | ||
===Training=== | ===Training=== | ||