User:Flood12345/SPARTAN-II Program Class III

"You are the Protectors of Humanity. You are the best of the best. You are hope. You are Spartans."

- Admiral Alice Parangosky upon graduation of her Spartans.

The SPARTAN-II Program, Third Generation was part of the SPARTAN-II Program, an effort to produce more elite soldiers through mechanical and biological augmentation. The Third Generation would be the first Spartans in the UNSC to meld advanced exoskeleton technology with the soldiers' superior physiques after the Human-Covenant War.

Origin
In the years following the end of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC, Sangheili, Unggoy, Lekgolo and Froet races united to form the Alliance of the Orion Arm Races (AOAR), a Gold era of peace started until 2561, where a large Insurrection attacked the AOAR. After 2 years of fighting with the Insurrectionists, the AOAR started the creation of the Third Generation of SPARTAN-II. At the front of this generation was Admiral Alice J. Parangosky, leader of ONI and granddaughter of Margaret O. Parangosky.

These new soldiers, instead of beingkidnapped at the age of 6, they were kidnapped at the age of 4, to be even better trained than their pat counterparts. They were selected by a strict gene candidate pool. They must also possess superior physical and mental attributes. The trainees must be instilled with military value, and the understanding of war; something that cannot be taught to enlisted soldiers. This narrowed the candidates down to children who would be raised, and taught in the art of warfare and military values, from a young age. A military project using such controversial means of creating a soldier, though, the Third Generation were revealed when they graduated.

Though conventional body armor has protected soldiers for centuries, the SPARTAN-II new geneation's radical change involved integrating the subject with a new powered MJOLNIR exoskeleton device, designed to help keep its user safe and provide a powerful means of combating enemy forces. The drawback of this new armor is its requirement of augmenting the subject, effectively turning the Spartans into human guinea pigs. This autorized the creation of the seventh incarnation of the MJONLIR powered exoskeleton.

Despite the tremendous risk, and the unethical means of creating a new generation, the SPARTAN-II project was approved by the top brass within ONI - who concluded that the risks far outweighed the lives that could be saved. By 2563, 120 suitable candidates, had been identified and conscripted in the Program. One Hundred Twenty children, all four years old of both sexes were kidnapped, and in order to preserve the program's secrecy, the children are replaced by perfect flash clones; they would not die and will live like a normal human being.

Train
The SPARTAN-II candidates after being sedated were taken to Earth, instead of being trained only in Earth, the SPARTANs were also trained in Arcadia and Minister. Like their past counterparts, to marginalize the civilian lives they had once led, their names became a combination of their given names and a number, with family names being discarded. The Spartans endured a great deal of hardship during their first years of training, the Spartans were placed into situation and drills that pushed their abilities to their very limit and beyond. Their hard training was complemented with a good education, from math and science, reading and writing, to military tactics. His training methodology tough, even brutal in some regards. ONI trained the Spartans until 2575 when at the age of 16, the Spartans would go the Augmentation Procedures, a process that incapacitated the 120 Spartans for a whole week, using the drugs of the SPARTAN-III Program, the 120 kids were not crippled or dead.

Personnel
In difference from the first generation of SPARTAN-II which were 75 candidates and only 33 were "full Spartans" and the second generation which were 81 candidates and only 39 became "full Spartans", the third generation of SPARTANs-II were 120 candidates and thanks to the SPARTAN-III procedures, all survived.

The following is the list of all SPARTAN-II, Third Generation subjects conscripted in 2563.