User:Underlord1271/SPARTAN-II Program (Class-II)

The SPARTAN-II Program had proved influential to Humanity's ultimate success; By the time they graduated in 2525, Catherine Halsey had already had high hopes for a second generation. However, the main problems were that there was not enough funding and not enough candidates. This ultimately lead to the project being abandoned; However, by 2537, funding was secured and ultimately, the 50 remaining original children, plus an additional 30, were taken to be trained like the previous program.

After receiving augmentations in 2545, the company went on many small deployments before the Battle of Sargasso, where they went on full-scale operations. Over the next several years, they would serve alongside both Class-Is and SPARTAN-IIIs. One of the most prominent Class-IIs were Sara-151, who ascended to be the leader of them much like John-117 for the previous program.

Background
Following the deactivation of the ORION program (or SPARTAN-I Program) in 2506, the UNSC struggled against the growing insurrection. This made it increasingly obvious that drastic soldier measures were required. During 2510, the Carver Findings were dug up, which were written in 2591 and predicted that a potentially devastating war between the Inner and Outer colonies could occur with Billions dead.

At that time, young civilian scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey had proven that an even darker end would occur, potentially making Humanity go extinct. She presented her professional work towards Vice Admiral Michael Stanforth, working in ONI Section III, and was offered a job as they had both come to similar conclusions. This lead to her developing ideas for the SPARTAN-II program, a supersoldier program that would use young children as opposed to aging adults, mainly because their unopinioned minds and young bodies made Brainwashing and Experimental Surgeries easier on them. The first class, training from 2517-2525, proved influential to humanity's success against the Covenant. There were, however, few SPARTANs and, because the loss of one was devastating, an alternative was required; By the time they graduated in 2525, Catherine Halsey had already had high hopes for a second generation. However, the main problems were that there was not enough funding and not enough candidates. This ultimately lead to the project being abandoned in favor of the expendable SPARTAN-III program. However, by 2537, funding was secured and ultimately, the 50 remaining original children, plus an additional 30, were taken to be trained like the previous program.

Training
Training was much like that of the Class-Is. However, additional exercises were added and were heavily focused around a competitive atmosphere. Regular competitions between teams were enacted and led to Rivalries, Fights, and Cruel punishments for losers. This lead to teams becoming rather close, and certainly much more competitive than their Class-I brethren.

Their first week, they were sorted into twenty teams of four. Later-on, these became several larger or smaller teams based on each members abilities and capacity for training. The most well-performing team was Rose Team, consistent of Sara-151, Karlie-167, Rowan-199, Daniel-200, and Hestia-202.

Augmentations
During the night of August 15th, 2545, the 80 children were sent to Traxis Station, orbiting Reach, to receive their augmentations. Known as PROJECT : CYPHON, it would give augmentations similar to that of the SPARTAN-IIs; not the safe, less powerful variant SPARTAN-IIIs were given.

By the end of the Augmentations, Thirty out of Eighty candidates died. This included Yasmine-229.

First Deployment
The Class-IIs first saw their first deployment during the Battle of Sargasso in 2546. However, several smaller groups conducted covert operations, for example Sean-157 and Jackson-160, a duo of SPARTANs during 2545.

Five of the Class-IIs died, and another two were deemed W.I.A.