User:El Milo007/Spartan IV Program (El Milo007)

"These kids are going to be evything the IIIs should have been, cheap but far more lethal. Hell with the stuff they're packing into the new Mjolnir armour they'll probably be better then we were."

Adriana-111 to Kelly-087 during the first week of Phase-2

The Spartan IV program was one of several projects started by HICOM and the Office of Naval Intelligence to rapidly rebuild the UNSC in the wake of the Human-Covenent War by integrating Covenent and Forerunner technology into every level of human society.

Commanded by Colonel Franklin Mendez and Dr Catherine Halsey, the program was split into four phases, R&D, basic training, test deployments and full integration with UNSC forces. Although it started with just a few dozen personell, mainly scientists and former Spartan Commando's and a single orbital facility, by the time the program had passed Phase-4 it had grown to several thousand staff, twleve mobile space bases and over eighty five thousand graduates.