Project Letalis

"Halsey's mistake was her passion. She cared for them. She failed to eradicate their empathy. Ackerson's mistake was that he saw them as expendable. There is a thin line between what they wanted and what we need. Letalis will answer the call Spartans couldn't."

- Major Ryan Kita Akiyama Project: LETALIS was a top secret program by ONI Section Three, Delta-7 Divison. They attempted to enhance SPARTAN super soldiers through furthered mechanical and biomechanical augmentation as well as furthered pschological indoctrination. The elite super soldiers were former spartans kidknapped from SPARTAN-III companies Gamma and Delta, taking full advanatage of the entirity of the 200 Delta orphans. Exactly twenty three Gamma members were abducted after their augmentation.

LETALIS was not to succeed or supplement the dwindling numbers of the Spartan-IIs and even the devistated Spartan-III programs, but to be an enitity of it's own. Delta-7 was not restricted by a policy of expendeble soldiers, or the small numbers of fully able bodies like the second generation. LETALIS operatives would be fully armed, suited, and trained by the time they engaged the Covenant.

Similar to the SPARTAN-II program, a large amount would not survive the augmentation process furthered by the project. All of the Gamma spartans would survive do to their already enhanced state with exception of one, while only forty-five former Delta members would survive. Delta recieved all enhancements Gamma had, but had been subjected to further stress and augmentation. Gamma would serve as mentors and instructors to the young Delta, and eventually recieve the full augmentation process.