User:RBC RT16 Alycia/The Centurion Program

The Centurion Program is thought to be one of the most succesful programs ever programed by joint forces of Sangheili, Hurragok and Humanity.

Initial Planning stage
With planning begining as early as the 2560s, the program was given a few decades to prepare itself to allow it to be extremely succesful. Using information from previous special forces and supersoldier programs such as The Spartan Program and The Vanguard Program, it easily had assets and guidance on how to administer training, augmentations and paygrades to the subjects involved. The program was planned by the infamous Spartan Mother Dr. Catherine Halsey after her unexpected dissapearance.

There were plans for 2,600 candidates just like the numbers used for the Vanguard Program however due to the sensitive nature of the augmentations, subjects had to be of the age of 4 and for that only 99 were selected for Class One, 1-2 years younger than the subjects for the Spartan-II program. However, even though the subjects were younger, their training would be far more advanced, sophisticated and harder.

There were going to be four leaders to the program including Halsey, an ex-ODST D.I, an A.I known as Dauntless and a Sangheili known as Ripa Xhuve. Halsey would focus on administration and lectures, the A.I would focus on battle school, the D.I would focus on ODST class drills for the first year of training and Ripa would constantly lecture the trainees about the need for honour, belief and integrity.

After schedules were set, the subjects were located from all over the galaxy and sent to the planet of Cerbexus II were they would recieve the harshest 10 years of training known to man until the age of 14 were they would be sent to frontline combat and other duties.

Training
It is widely known that the trainees were taught some of the most ruthless training exercises known to man, it was lucky that they only recieved one fatality from the initiation bootcamp. The training was split into two phases including the BICTA(Basic Initiation Centurion Training Academy) and the ACTA(Advanced Centurion Training Academy). In both areas, trainees were given social lives aswell as military based lives. Its thought this was done because the Rust Legion military also greatly ensured all members were given a good social life. The training was also split further into designated assignments including: Social Readyness(2 years), Sangheili tradition(2 years), Battle readyness(2 years), Flagship Commanding(2 years) and Strategy Awareness(2 years). During these times, trainees could also volunteer for additional courses for specialisations including E.O.D, Advanced Vehicular Specialisation, Recon Courses, Underwater Combat, Medical Ability Course, Advanced Energy Sword Combat Training and many more classes were available to the trainees.

During the training phases for the trainees, they would also be competing on a leaderboard. The higher up on the leaderboard you were, the higher chance you were at to get selected for sensitive ops and the more you would get paid. It is believed a CIT(Centurion in Training) earned as much as 240,000cR per week which they could spend on anything. CIT's were also permitted to spend time at local military bars and social complexes when they were considered off duty however they were closely monitored.

Augmentation Procedures
It is believed that even though the art of augmentation was perfected at the time of the Centurion program, the trainees were still given highly lethal augmentations which saw the death of many, some of the procedures(not all) are mentioned below:
 * TA3BP Bone Infusion, Titanium A3 battleplate is fused to the bones to provide extreme strength to the subjects bones.
 * Robotic Retina Enhancements, the subjects retina is enhanced with robotics to provide extreme sight increase and abilities to see in near/perfect pitch black conditions.
 * SEP, the Stomach, Thyroid and Liver are greatly altered to make it so all nutrients are kept when food is digested.
 * USEPB, an organic piece is placed next to the liver which stores additional nutrients and contents should all other existing forms of storage in the body become full.
 * CEP, the Cardiac system is greatly improved by about 600% to allow for extreme Physical activity.
 * ALPP, the third Lung augmentation procedure further reinforces the Lungs ability to take in compounds such as Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and for a time of about 2 hours Carbon Monoxide. Should subjects exede two hours in Carbon Monoxide environments they will suffer similar fates as normal humans when exposed to large amounts of carbon monoxide.

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 * HAP, the heart recieves a second augmentation which adds two additional valves and additional lines for arteries, capiliaries and veins to allow for better blood flow.