User:K4/Black Team (K4)

"Semper Victrix"

- Always Victorious

Black Team was the oft-used codename for the UNSC Marine Corps. Project: MIST, the program to develop SPARTAN-IIs using the leftover canidates from Dr. Halsey's SPARTAN-II program. After they officialy became SPARTANs, it was suggested they use the code as their team name. Since then, Black Team has successfuly participated in over 250 engagements with the Covenant Hegemony, with 95.8% of those successful.

Founding
Project: MIST began when, in 2519, Staff Sergeant Hijotio Jacobs, a Marine Corps. Intelligence officer, was surfing around in the Navy Special Warfare servers when he discovered heavily classisifed files referencing "Spartans" and "Mjolnir". His interest peeked, he delved deeper and after several hours decrypting the lockout codes, he gained full access to the files and discovered what they meant. "Spartan" referenced the SPARTAN-II Program, under Dr, Cathrine Halsey's command, and Project: MJOLNIR, also under the doctor's command. He immediatly sent the files to his superiors, and several hours later, NavSpecWar was confronted about the operations. Openly denying the secresy of the projects, they attempted to backpedal, but were forced into a corner and admitted to it. The Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. was eventually dragged into it, and was about to reveal it to the UNSC Council, when he decided to give NavSpecWar a choice; give the Corps access to the Program to make their own SPARTAN-IIs, or they would be reported to the Council. When NavSpecwar gave in, the planning for Project: MIST began.

Project: MIST
A year later in 2520, the Marine Corps. began rounding up the S-II canidates that Dr. Halsey hadn't picked, which totaled at 50. Because NavSpecWar had a head start, the MC decided to take a more brutal approach to the project than NavSpecWar was. First, when the children were rounded up, the parents were usually fed a bogus story of some tragic accident to their child while they were really being taken away, and they made no effort to place a cover story. Second, they were trated horribly when they acctualy began training. They were told that their names, given and family ones, were of no meaning. They were given the multi-use designation of "trainee", and were told that they had to earn their SPARTAN number. Many were scared, some of them even tried to fight back to the training, but they were eventually forced to give in to their circumstances. Six years later, they were finally subjected to the augmentation drugs, the same used in Halsey's SPARTAN-II program. The result was devatating to the group, as out of the 50 trainees that went into the procedure, only seven survived. Those that did survive were told that they would probably have to see many others die before they themselves died. Four more years passed, and they graduated from Project: MIST, finally becoming full fledged SPARTANs.

Emergance
Their first assignment was to assasinate Tim Kennedy, a notorious United Rebel Front vigilante. Following NavSpecWar's SPARTANs successful extraction of Colonel Robert Watts, "Black Team", as they were designated for this mission, was to eliminate the only man capable of filling Watts shoes. Kennedy was told, by phony UNSC ambassadors, that he was invited to a peace talk on Calta VI, where Black Team was staging up.