Project WATCH

Project WATCH was a secret program initiated by ONI in 2505 and overseen by Colonel Tony Donald to counter the growing unrest in the outer colonies. It's operatives was selected from orphaned children from age 4 to 6 that had lost their family to rebel attacks. It didn't matter from where the recruits came from, only that they had a hatred from the rebels that had taken their families from them and the desire to strike back. The children that were recruited underwent extremely hard training to become the ultimate spies and assassins. The WATCH projects operatives have, though never credited in official records, had a big hand in the gathering of information for ONI over the course of not only the Insurrection but also during the war with the Covenant. The program was eventually disbanded shortly after the end of the Great War and its surviving members were absorbed directly into the ranks of the many different divisions that make up ONI.

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ONI quickly realized that the insurrections would become a major problem when the UNSC hadn't been able to suppress it after nearly nine years and it only seemed to worse by the year. To deal with this problem was Section One tasked with dealing with the problem. Their solution was that their agents weren't capable enough and that they needed better spies. To achieve this they created project WATCH. The goal of this project was to create the ultimate spies and assassins and so they went about recruiting orphan children that had lost their family to the insurrectionists. The children, ranging from age four to six, were all brought to a secret military training facility on Mars. Here the children would spend the next many years, training and studying to become elite spies. It was also here that they were introduced to the overseer of the project, Colonel Tony Donald, a strict military man who had served with ONI for many years. Along with Colonel Donald was there also other highly decorated spies and soldiers that would become their teachers and drill sergeants.

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