User:Spartan 501/Ares Program Notes

Just general notes on S-II Class III related stuff, for use as a reference for anyone with Ares stuff.

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 * May 4th: Roger-341 is born on Miridem to navy captain and factory worker
 * June 11th: Adam-309 is born in new alexandria to successful buisness people
 * July 22nd: James-319 is born on Draco III to illegal refugees
 * November 14th: Mica-311 is born on Aristotle I to two CAA refugee aid officers
 * Arnold-351 is born on Reach
 * Michael-356 is born on Luna
 * Jenny-347 is born on New London
 * Mathew-363 is born on Stallion IV
 * Jacky-359 is born on New London
 * Mason-317 is born on Earth

2535

 * January 7th: Rachel-343 is born on Kholo

2538

 * Adam-309 moves in with uncle after insurrectionists kill his parents
 * James-319 is put in orphanage and legalized after parents are killed in packbus accident

2539

 * Rachel-343's family is killed in Battle of Kholo, Rachel is relocated to Skopje, lives in an orphanage, then a foster family, then runs away
 * Project idea created by Admiral Rich
 * Rich gathers expert drill instructors and scientists

2540

 * Project approved and headstarted
 * Elicits fundraising
 * 26 killed in Covenant strikes


 * March 2nd: Standoff is transferred
 * April 3rd: Standoff continues evaluating candidates, avoids Covenant patrols, several candidates already killed
 * April 23rd: Standoff retrieves S-347 in the middle of a Covenant attack and places her in cryo
 * May 14th: Standoff interviews 338, sends query to ONI about "odd feeling"m recovered second candidate since the 23rd
 * May 27th: Augustus system glassed, 4 candidates lost, interviewed Rachel-343
 * July 22nd: Recruitment officers are dispatched, Laszlo and Standoff meet for the first time
 * July 29th: ONI sends cease and desist message to Standoff due to his "inquery"
 * August 2nd: Standoff discovers genetic link, contacts Laszlo, realizes November Romeo is Rich
 * August 5th: Laszlo meets with the newly arrived candidates, reflects into genetic match, sorts into teams
 * August 6th: First day of training, modelled after Halsey's model
 * August 7th: Laszlo responds to Standoff with brief comminque
 * August 17th: Six flash clones dead, training going well
 * November 9th: Crimson team attempts to escape, almost suceed
 * December 22nd: Candidates report in, training going well, ONI agent tried to steal over a few candidates early in the week

2541

 * March 15th: Team Leaders roster for all teams except Orange, Gold, Violet
 * June 18th: Scarlet very specialized, more so than other teams

2542

 * August 6th: Laszlo takes recruits on a recreation of forest excericise

2543

 * May 23rd: Recruits requesting specialist training, Rachel with flamethrower, Standoff indecisive
 * June 9th: ONI unknowingly steals project funding, Standoff decides to acquire money for himself

2544

 * January 12th: Situation with 347/363 becomes more tense
 * December 19th: Rich discovers Standoff took funds from one of his special warfare programs, demands return, Standoff resorts to less pure methods of fund raising

2545

 * May 14th: Half dozen separate training programs going, recruits exhibiting 2-3 times as many behavioral problems, 319 uploaded grunt head virus
 * June 16th: Altercation between 363 and 347 results in 347 being transferred to squad leader of Scarlet
 * July 6th: Otto-333 placed into Gold from Olive, Daniel-366 placed into olive from scarlet, jennifer-347 placed into scarlet from gold, Scarlet/Olive stable, Gold drops to No. 9 in rankings

2546

 * July 8th: Entered phase 3 of training, disparity between genetic matches visible but not obvious, 90% overall compared to Class I's
 * November 13th: Standoff feeling behind enemy lines
 * December 11th: Standoff cracks down on potential relationship between Anna-374 and Mathew-363

2547

 * June 8th: Will from Lyla arrives
 * September 15th: Upstart DI complains about Laszlo, 363 and 347 get into fight
 * September 5th-23rd: Discusses:
 * Augmentation Procedures
 * SPI Armor
 * Hayabusa
 * Funding
 * 341
 * Secret RKD Deal
 * Project on it's own---Standoff keeping project afloat
 * "Efforts" for 312
 * Gold/Tan Competition
 * Top Honors Reward
 * ONI infiltrating ranks of DI's/wanting to beat them up
 * Early SPI usage/343 putting a dent in 347's suit
 * Ackerson's traits/history/reason he changed
 * Headhunter/Relation to S-III/Probably Sierras
 * Future/Optimism vs. Cynicism
 * Noble/Relation to S-III/Headhunter/Definitely Sierras
 * 343 likes fire/potentially unstable/most candidates not ideal
 * Whether Class Is like Halsey or not
 * Sneaking past Kalimya/How she was created
 * Kurt Ambros/Laszlo knowing a Kurt/Going down on recon mission
 * Dracula/No info
 * Sierras not all model students
 * Laszlo's history with Halsey
 * Mjolnir going to Algol/Plotting recovery of it
 * Going against ONI
 * Standoff having a familly/not thanks to the military
 * Funnelling spare Class III's to Noble
 * Laszlo not having chance at a normal life/no life beyond war
 * laszlo high iq/overated
 * dirtiness of covert ops
 * crimson scavenging for upgrades/adorable
 * laszlo not confident in his teaching abilities
 * standoff needs to find himself a woman
 * discover "extra" sierra teams
 * September 23rd: Conversations between Laszlo/Standoff continue, Standoff wishes he'd contacted earlier, worries about relative value of Ares SPARTANs vs. others, turns up CSV's on headhunter and noble, extra sierra teams are known to be operating
 * September 23rd-October 15th: Discusses:
 * Laszlo bad a morale upkeep
 * 347 behavior problems/reason being very egotistical/counseling
 * how other candidates are doing/keeping up with difficulty
 * if tell recruits about Algolis armor/not/worried about being able to contact them
 * Standoff romance set up/wants simple one
 * kurts death/random nature of war
 * rather have laszlo than some of the others/laszlo misses them
 * 332 sleazy/laszlo not caring/useful
 * laszlo really likes crimson/adorable
 * further cynicism vs. hope/trainees in the war
 * what laszlo would have been if not a spartan/same question for the candidates
 * list of laszlo's ladies
 * 341 adorable
 * laszlo not confident
 * losing territory
 * standoff not going near in-suit training/getting beaten up
 * not liking halsey/because she picked favorites
 * intercepting messages/helpful uses
 * October 15th: ONI data intrusion attempts increase, hands on training decreases for Standoff, ONI wants deployment schedule

2548
Cyan partakes in Operation: RIPOSTE, Gregory and Dominic are killed, Rachel saved at last minute, completes mission on her own,
 * January 17th: Crimson hacks project databasse, copies everything, Laszlo/Standoff suspicious but can't prove anything
 * May 28th: Final honors ends, Gold, Tan, Crimson, Cyan, Scarlet, Orange, Turquoise, Violet, Silver, Olive; bigger area, no hayabusa prototype reward
 * July 25th: Augmentation day, 30 survive, 5 wounded, 15 killed
 * August 25th: Gold Team is deployed, one month recovery time, dangerous zones, no dedicated special forces units, Standoff manages to stay with program
 * September 22nd: Last team is shipped out, DI's being shipped out, Tan first to see combat, Cyan out of contact
 * September 25th: Turquoise sent on mission to kill URF drug dealer
 * October 3rd: Rachel goes off the grid, completely dissapearing
 * Rachel has name changed to Rachel Hawke, abducted for class III version of project leonidas, promoted to Petty Officer First Class
 * Turquoise is sent to Drakon to kill several hundred covenant, forced to retreat
 * Turquoise sent to Covenant refit station, destroy it with nuke
 * Rachel is sent on Operation: HEARTSEEKER, mission into Covenant territory

2549

 * Rachel sent on solo Operation: BROKEN CHAIN, mission to the Eden Asteroid Belt
 * Rachel tests Hayabus armor, life as ONI operative ends, fights alongside Battlegroup Walpurgis night
 * Rachel fights on New Bejing
 * August 19th: Crimson contacts Standoff about their illegal armor, he redacts after action report for them
 * Tuquoise sent to destroy Covenant methane rig, along with company of ODSTs, lose Oliva, destroy rig
 * December 26th: Crimon, some Class Is, and Turquoise deployed to Paris IV, Turquoise been there the longest, Standoff arranges evac in case of emergency, Rachel there covertly
 * Crimson helps ex-ped landing group defend HQ
 * Turquoise deployed to capital, holds off waves of Covenant, uses dug out defensive positions, attacked by 5 scarabs, destroys 1, injures 1, evacuate by pelican, attacks fleet as it glasses planet, boards destroyer, repulsed
 * Rachel is present in some capacity, unknown to other teams
 * Turquoise sent to assassinate fleet master in charge of Paris IV attack, attached to Black Cat subprowler Ghosts of Night, kills the fleet master, escapes
 * Turquoise Infiltrate Hat-Yai, blow up Forerunner installation, evac to Ghosts of Night

2550

 * Rachel acts as Thom-293's temporary replacement for Operation: SWEEPING STRIKE
 * Rachel is transferred into Winter, fights with them for the rest of the war
 * Turquoise refuel at Roost, short leave groundside, Covenant attack, Turquoise defend beaches, saved from corvette by wet navy, battle won
 * Roost heavily reinforced, forerunner artifacts at beaches, massive covenant invasion, Turquoise holds off Covenant for some time, forced to evacuate
 * May 25th: Standoff spends time juggling admirals, Tan, Crimson, still looking for Rachel/Balduin, Crimson mentions Herald, covertly notes they aren't SWG-3
 * Turquoise participates in Operation: SUMO
 * August 25th: Gold, Scarlet, Tan; 9 killed so far: lucy, gregory, dominic, olivia, kaito, cecilia, regulus, draco, kamala
 * November 9th: Standoff discovers lead on Rachel connecting her to Noble
 * Turquoise participates in Operation: BOOMERANG

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 * January 13th: Tan returns from Op: Philosopher, first time on Reach in 10 months, Tan meets with Hood, Hood contacts Standoff, Standoff gives affirmation
 * February 9th: Standoff still redacting Crimon's reports, but most of brass know about Ares teams, Standoff gets nice message about Silver from brass, after Silver lead re-taking of a flagship and saved some of the brass
 * March 15th: Standoff locates Laszlo and sends message to him to test waters
 * March 24th: Laszlo responds vaguely, Standoff sends casualty report and CSVs in return
 * June 15th: Standoff has no word on offensive measures III, except whispers it was costly, Crimson and Scarlet have unintentional joint op on Sargasso, Scarlet leakss Crimson's armor to Rich, Standoff blackmails Rich with threats of retaliation by Crimson/Hood
 * Turquoise participates in Operation: CHAIN

2552

 * March 8th: Tuck and Lucius of Silver Team are killed by an enemy ambush on Troy-II, Richard goes insane, detroys UNSC firebase, kills 400
 * March 17th: Gold Team finishes up a small skirmish, Admiral Rich contacts Gold, they are recalled to Richard's last known position, not given any intel on mission
 * March 29th: Gold and Scarlet arrive at Richard's location, Scarlet moves in without waiting for Gold, are killed, Gold manages to subdue Richard, Richard is assassinated by Section 0 agent Leonid-144
 * April 7th: Standoff recieves report on Richard-312 incident, finds it shameful
 * April 12th: No response from ONI in query to Richard's killer, Standoff looks into every project he knows of, gets full contact report from Gold, no good leads on perpetrator
 * April 30th: Connor arrives at Reach, Standoff hears about Mellissa's death, Connor reviewed without his knowledge
 * May 12th: ONI asks Standoff to look into ways of increasing Class III survivability
 * May 19th: Standoff has semi-covert meeting with Gold, Standoff hid darker side from trainees, Gold behaved well in training, changed after Richard mission
 * July 26th: Standoff has no details on Crimson's Sigma Octanus mission yet, has bit of free time, assumes that missions regarding forerunner artifacts are actually protecting ONI facilities, ONI not paying much attention, Gold out on patrol, Olive returning from Bulgaria II
 * August 6th: Crimson due in tommorow, Standoff gets details on their mission to Sigma Octanus, Standoff infiltrates Mjolnir files, researches AA's.
 * August 12th: Standoff finds out Covenant are on Reach, supposed to brief Crimson on Reach, Crimson instead assisting on assault on the Viery Territory
 * August 17th: Battle on Reach intensifying, Crimson retakes Sabre launch facilities, Turquoise inbound, Gold is on Regent, Connor on prowler, Standoff aware of other Sierra teams deploying
 * August 30th: Turquoise return to Reach, ordered to defend generators, kill two scrabs first, generator already destroyed, hijacked covenant frigate, made several blind jumps, scoured ship for tracking devices
 * September 25th: Crimson/Standoff escape on civilian freighter, only person not affected by Reach's destruction is Roger
 * October 17th: Standoff facing questions about Connor, Richard, Crimson's armor from ONI, origin of Ares from Hood, MC's arrival being convienient distraction
 * October 20th: Turquoise defends Titan, defends shipyards, fell back multiple times, shipyard lost, fell back to ONI building, snuck out, blew up 2 groups of wraiths, escaped, stopped to kill covenant engineering team from repairing a corvette
 * Turquoise Team present at Luna
 * Turquoise Team returns to Earth, acquires prowler, saves group of marines, stole banshees for air support, covenant retreat
 * Turquoise Team went to Tokyo, assassinated brute leader during covenant counterattack, escape
 * November 19th: Turquoise is in Tokyo, Crimson in Mombassa, Gold in washington, Standoff knows about Rachel/Balduin, they're with laszlo, Hood wants Class IIIs, wants Standoff to coordinate joint mars assault, James due out of treatment in a few days
 * November 26th: James returns to duty

2553

 * Mop up on Cygnus, marines caught in covie ambush, lose half the company, getting pounded by tanks/revenants, crimson parachutes in and boards them
 * Turquoise participates in Operation: SANDBAR
 * Turquoise participates in Operation: JACKHAMMER
 * Turquoise participates in Operation: CHIRON
 * February 29th: James-319 and Mica-311 are killed at the Battle of Doisac, deployed to surface to take down planetary shields, poor intel, no support,
 * James survived with Roger and Sunef, killed when group of Brute chieftains rushed them during exfiltration, hit by gravity hammer in the chest
 * Mica surrounded by brutes, cut off from Roger & Sunef & James, killed by horde of brutes after being partially crippled by wraith blast
 * February 30th: Crimson Team is officially disbanded
 * March 3rd: 8 Spartans left, Mica, James, being mourned by Roger, Roger agitating to leave the service

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 * March 19th: Gold fighting Kig-Yar, Turquoise on Phoenix, Balduin/Rachel tagging along with Laz, Connor teaching, Roger partnered with Sunef, grabbed mjolnir, Standoff met with Laz for last time ever
 * Rachel accompanies Laszlo on Operation: SAVIOR
 * Turquoise participates in Operation: KATANA
 * Turquoise participates in Operation: NUNCHUCK
 * Turquoise participates in Operation: SAVIOR

2556

 * Turquoise Team drops out of Operation: SAVIOR
 * Turquoise Team partakes in the Cetus Campaign
 * Turquoise Team partakes in Operation: HYDRO

2557

 * Turquoise Team finishes time in Cetus Campaign
 * Turquoise Team partakes in Operation: WHIRLPOOL
 * Turquoise Team partakes in Operation: JELLY FISH

2558

 * Turquoise Team partakes in Operation: CROWN
 * Turquoise Team partakes in Operation: EMPEROR
 * Turquoise Team partakes in Operation: OAK

2559

 * Turquoise Team partakes in the Second Battle of Palace
 * Turquoise Team partakes in Operation: PRINCE
 * October 18th: Balduin, Rachel, Gold out on Savior, Turquoise operating independently, Roger mercenary-in it up, Connor teaching and checked out from life, Standoff in dead end job, discovers Leonid-144's involvement in Richard's death

2560

 * Turquoise Team partakes in Operation: SPAGETTI
 * Turquoise Team partakes in Operation: TIGER SHARK

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 * Turquoise Team helps train SPARTAN-IVs
 * Rachel helps train SPARTAN-IVs, becomes chief XO of Albion Company