Project Knight

Project Knight was a program conceived by Redmond Venter of the Humanity Liberation Front that was intended to create Insurrectionist super soldiers comparable to the SPARTAN-IIIs. Inspired by his time spent mentoring the Spartan traitor Simon-G294 and equipped with data and DNA samples he had retrieved from Simon's body, Venter hoped to raise and train a small army of operatives who could serve as elite assassins, saboteurs, and spies. Devoting massive amounts of resources to the project, Venter even went so far as to arrange the covert assassinations of any HLF leaders who opposed the fulfillment of his brainchild. Although it encountered several problems during its early stages, the project was eventually a success and numerous operatives-dubbed "knights"- produced by Venter's wild dream were created to wreak havoc on the UNSC

Development History
Under the guidance of the skilled geneticist Dr. Seid Al-Furud, the rebel scientists assembled for the program used the data extracted from Simon to carefully construct augmentation drugs similar to those given to the Gamma Company SPARTAN-IIIs. When the project's initial augmentation experiments, performed on regularly-grown clones of Simon, began, only one out of twenty subjects survived the procedures. Al-Furud was forced to start from scratch, and through a mixture of high-level espionage and the doctor's own ingenuity, safer brands of the drugs were created. These chemicals were then used on a new batch of genetically conceived children. These were not clones, but test-tube babies modified with DNA from several HLF personnel and mercenaries who exhibited desirable physical and mental traits. The new batch was a near-complete success and Venter immediately called in both his own instructors and mercenaries such as David Kahn to train the newly minted "Knights."