User:RelentlessRecusant/Justified Unorthodox Special Therapeutics—Chemical Augmenters for Unconventional Special Elements

Justified Unorthodox Special Therapeutics—Chemical Augmenters for Unconventional Special Elements (JUST CAUSE) was a collaborative initiative sponsored jointly by the UNSC Special Operations Command, UNSC Department of Biological Warfare (UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence), and Acumen Science Laboratories to investigate the utility of small molecule compounds in augmenting UNSC warfighters from the general population.

While the UNSC Progressive Warfare Command had extensively employed small molecules in its "supersoldier" programs since the Vector Era (2570s), such as with Kimberly Ivy Blackburn and the first-generation Myrmidon forces, both Blackburn and the Myrmidons had received extensive developmental mutagenesis (Blackburn in the form of Flood mimetics, the Myrmidons in the form of developmentally-bioactive small molecules) that had increased their endogenous capability to sustain further chemical augmentation during neonatal and adult life.