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 Though conventional body armor had protected soldiers for centuries, the Gen-II project's second radical change involved integrating the subject with a new powered exoskeleton device, designed to help keep its user safe and provide a powerful means of combating enemy forces. The drawback of this new armor is its requirement for augmenting the subject, effectively turning the participants into human guinea pigs.<ref name="journal"/>
-Despite the tremendous risk and the unethical means of creating new soldiers, ORION Generation II 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"/> 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. 75 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.<ref name="journal"/>
+Despite the tremendous risk and the unethical means of creating new soldiers, ORION Generation II 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"/> 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. 75 children, all around 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.<ref name="journal"/>
 [[File:Johnabducted.png|thumb|225px|left|ONI agents abducting John-117 into the program.]]
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 Halsey was not satisfied with the project's 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 (mythology)|Hyperion]]''; the latter two were quickly excluded.<ref name="journal"/>
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 [[File:S-II's awaiting augmentation.png|thumb|250px|Spartan-II candidates lined up before their augmentation procedures.]]