Spartan-Z Battalion

Spartan-Z Project
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Description
The Spartan-Z Project was a secret Spartan Project designed and created by the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence. The Project was proposed by ONI during the Human-Covenant war, but was not created due to the launch and success of the Spartan-III Program. After the Fall of Reach, the program was considered again due to the massive losses of UNSC personnel. At the end of the Human-Covenant war, the Spartan-IV Program was launched, so there was no need of another Spartan Program. By 2554, the Office of Naval Intelligence realized that the Spartan-IV Program was nothing compared to the legendary Spartan-II's, not even the Spartan-III's. The Office of Naval Intelligence decided to officially create the Spartan-Z Program. This put ONI into a conflict, because ONI personnel, such as Admiral Parangosky and Admiral Osman.

Conscription
There was a large debate of what age the recruits would be conscripted at, a lot the ONI Spartan-Z Project advisors wanted children, and a lot wanted adults conscripted. The "Spartan-Z" Project was meant to be the next group of legendary Spartans. The decision was a compromise, to conscript genetically superior candidates, and drafted at ages 16-21. The draft agreement is that if the chosen candidate is under 18, they have a choice to be exempted from the program until the next class, or until there 18.

Originally 1000 candidates were being looked at, but when most of the 16-18 year olds chose exemption, only 300 were chosen. The Spartan Candidates would undergo a 5 year training program, meaning they would be trained from 2555-2560. The Candidates would undergo very similar bio-augmentation procedures as the Spartan-II's. But, these 300 candidates were to have a variant of Mk. GEN II armor, which can handle the Spartan-II augmentation with improved shield systems, even better than S-II and S-IV shield systems. New bio-augmentations have been invented over the past 50 years, including one that can improve the survival rate to an estimate of 95%-100%. It is said that, "5 shots will break a Spartan-II's shields, while on a Spartan-IV it takes 6. Well, on a Spartan-Z, it takes 10."