Spartan Team Athena

Created in 2531 by the Office of Naval Intelligence Athena was original designed for extraction of information critical to the human cause. Athena was a makeshift team of various size throughout its existence.

Creation
After the loss of experimental technology at the hand of a traitor to ONI, Spartan 115-Ryner, was sent to eliminate the threat. Unknown to them the Spartan who had lost the technology- Drew-088 was also in pursuit of the traitor. When the duo met 115 initial disregarded 88 until Drew took a bullet aimed for Ryner. This was the formation of there friendship. Working as a double act throughout the Human-Covenant war the duo were assigned to assassinate various high ranking officials which eventually lead them to meeting their third member, Spartan 017- David.

A third cog
In 2531 during the final few days of the Harvest Campaign Spartan 017's squad were captured by Covenant [ spec-ops elites, led by a Zealot. The team were interrogated and tortured resulting in the every members death except for David's. Just before his torture began, Athena burst in and assassinated the Spec-ops. Freeing David the trio fought there way out of the base and Drew invited David to become the third Spartan to join there team.

Arcadia
The teams first really war together was the Battle of Arcadia. The trio were tasked with assisting in the defence of Pirth City and the retrevial of ONI operatives trapped in the city. Collaborating with Gold Team the two teams managed to retrieve every operative and extract them from the city.

Reach
The Team then continued to serve ONI's wishes throught the war. However once the Battle of Reach begun the team were extracted in order to assist in the conflict. In order to be more effective, the team gained two new Spartan III members- Matthew-A231 a expert in Mechanics and explosives, and Samuel A434 a sniper and former Headhunter. The five man team would continue under the leadership of Drew until his death in New Alexandria, where the role would be given to David.