User:Brodie-001/SPARTAN-IV Program (Brodie-001)

Look's like our Replacements...

-Marco-025 to Jax-007 at the Start of their training

In 2569, a year after the costly Battle of New Hope, the UNSC needed a new generation of supersoldiers to combat rising Insurrection in the rebuilding colonies. The Spartan-IV Program was launched to make a cross between the hardy and long-lasting Spartan-II's, and the cheaply-made Spartan-III's.

Recruitment
ONI called in Six Spartans to begin training the three planned companies. All of the Spartans had fought in and survived the Human-Covenant War. Unlike the other Spartan projects before it, The Spartan-IV project had several profound Differences:


 * The Three Companies, X-Ray, Yankee, and Zulu, were named after the NATO phonetic alphabet, whereas the Spartan-III companies were named after letters of the Greek alphabet.


 * The Program did not only conscript children. They recruited people up to the age of 30. The age depending on what company they were put in, X Company being 20-30 year old's, Y being 10-20, and Z being all children under the age of 10.


 * The recruits volunteered into the program, and were not conscripted. However, they had to meet certain physical skill requirements to be allowed into training.


 * The recruits were not allowed to leave the Program at any time. Once they had been put through their Augmentations, there was no going back.


 * X Company was only able to have a Single Year's training, as the Spartans were needed badly by the UNSC to field against Insurrectionists.

Training
After the recruitment of 500 men and women for X-Ray Company, they were taken to the Special Warfare Center in Songam, Korea. There they would spend a year undergoing a harsh training routine, involving Paintball gun fights, VR Simulators, and Fighting automated turrets that fired rubber bullets.

However their harshest test came at the end of training when they were forced to Spar against one another. The winners of each fight would progress until eventually three Spartans, Maynard-X112, Artyom-X043 and Max-X489, the three winners, were forced to spar with their chief trainer and mentor, Marco-025, and his second in command, Alex-A121. At first, the Spartans were pushed back time and time again, but eventually, using teamwork, they were able to floor their trainers, completing their Training. For this accomplishment, the three were each given command of a small, Hand-Picked team.

The training for Yankee and Zulu companies was much the same, although they had more years of training experience.

Augmentations
The augmentations were identical to the procedures the Spartan-III's went through, with a 0% casualty rate. These were:


 * 8942-LQ99         A "carbide ceramic ossification catalyst" drug, their skeletons become virtually unbreakable.


 * 88005-MX77        A "fibroid muscular protein complex" drug, the density on the Individual's muscles was increased.


 * 88947-OP24        A "retina-inversion stabilizer" drug, Colour sharpness is improved, and night vision is adapted.


 * 87556-UD61        A drug used to improve the individual's reaction time, decreasing the time taken by 300%

Special Teams
Team Wulf

Overview: Team Wulf, named after SPARTAN-Wulf-041, who died during the Fall of Reach, Team Wulf consisted of X Companies' best and brightest. Often used for missions that required a 'delicate' approach, the Team, Commanded by Maynard-X112, was known for always getting the job done.

By the time of the Team's formation, it consisted of:


 * CPO Maynard-X112
 * PO1 Mateo-X234
 * PO2 Ross-X090
 * PO2 Kate-X500
 * PO2 Bernard-X432

The Company Trainer/Commander, Marco-025 always tried to keep watch over Team Wulf due to the fact that his niece, Kate-X500, the youngest company member, had joined the Spartan-IV program against his wishes.

Headhunters Similar to the Spartan-III Headhunters, these were two-man teams, sent in deep behind enemy lines.However, very few Headhunter missions went through without some problems. Unlike the Spartan-III Headhunters, they had their own squad, consisting of roughly 20-30 Headhunters, the Commander of whom being Chief Petty Officer Artyom-X043. The last surviving Headhunter Pair, Alejandro-X412 and Raymond-X199, were put out of action in 2599 after the Battle for Steel Mountain. Some notable Headhunter Pairs were:


 * CPO Artyom-X043- MIA After Operation:SCIMITAR
 * PO1 Erik-X109- KIA During Operation:SCIMITAR


 * Guy-X340- KIA during Operation:SCIMITAR
 * Stuart-X352- Active -Only Known Survivor of Operation:SCIMITAR


 * Raymond-X199- WIA after the Battle for Steel Mountain
 * Alejandro-X412- KIA during the Battle for Steel Mountain