The Leonidans

"We may have received the same training as the rest of the IIs, but we are entirely different; we Leonidans performed missions on our own for years while in the dark, while the other IIs got into the spotlight and worked together. Of course, for most of my time as a Leonidan, I didn't know there were others."

- Laz-108 talking about the Leonidans.

The Leonidans, unofficially known as "ONI's Hands", were four Spartan-II's that were kidnapped after augmentations and officially classified as killed, with one exception who was classified as wounded.

Purpose
ONI believed that it needed elite agents, super-human beings that could carry out missions with a precision and ability that no normal Human possessed: as such, the SPARTAN-II's were the perfect subjects for their ideals. Especially Section 0 and Section 1, who had no control over the other Spartans, thought they needed Spartan operatives. During the post-augmentations recovery period, ONI managed to make it look as though three of the SPARTANs had died when they had not, and managed to fake a form of eye disorder with a fourth subject - the last subject would have been replace with a dead body as well, had it not been for time restrictions (ONI later made it look like he died from disease a few days later). Each Spartan, once captured, was further trained in whatever field ONI wished to use them in, and each was told that they were the only Spartan working for ONI. This caused detrimental effects on the Spartans' mental health at times, especially with Riker-012.

The manner of missions the Leonidans were sent on varied, from assassinations to insurrection quelling, data purging to intelligence gathering, etc.

Members

 * Riker-012
 * Jared-091
 * Lavernius-108
 * Leonid-144

Missions

 * Station Houston Incident
 * Quelling the Valhalla Rebellion
 * Battle of Jericho VII
 * Battle of Reach
 * The Labyrinth Campaign
 * Defense of Manheim

Trivia

 * "ONI's Hands" is a reference to the Emperor's Hands of the Star Wars universe. Both are similar in nature, in that the two groups both have elite users, and the operatives believe they are the only "hand" in existence.
 * The name Leonidans is a reference to the fact that, when the 300 Spartans fought against the Persians, there were also Leonidans with them in the battle; however, these Leonidans, vastly outnumbering the Spartans, are hardly ever remembered.