Spartan Enclave

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"We are the protectors of Earth and all her colonies!"

- Jorge Csaba, Reach, 2570.

The Spartan Enclave is a commune on the planet made up entirely of Spartan residents. It was founded in 2564 by Jorge Csaba and Maria Cortez initially as a sanctuary for the remaining Spartan-IIs, but slowly began to progress into a colony with the birth of Spartan 2.1 and 3.1 children. In 2570, it was recognized as a legal nation by the, and entered under their leadership to work in cooperation with the.

The Enclave is a dual diplomatic and martial organization, representing interests to the former  species alongside other representatives, and also as a special operations regiment on request for High Command. Compared to the SPARTAN-IVs, the Enclave's Spartans serve a more ambassadorial purpose, their military assignments more publicized to uphold their reputation.

Internally, the Spartans lead themselves by a council, which was an oligarchy in its earliest days, but later amended to have members be elected by voting.

The Enclave lastly serves as a seminary, inducting young adults who will be trained to become Spartans, taught under the apprenticeship of the original Spartan-IIs. Their community is stationed in the by the, and the student population is made up of volunteers, children of previous Spartans, and adopted orphans (at one point including kidnappees). Admittance limited to those between the ages of fourteen to twenty-two, and separated among four schools honoring the four Spartan teams, Red, Blue, Green, and Gray. After a three year long education, the students are given the choice to undergo augmentations, with another two years training them afterward. Graduates then are then accepted as Spartans, able to act in the same authority and roles as those before them.

"In respect to the tradition of the original Doric Spartans, The New Rhetra was never written down physically or printed in any form. Instead it was spoken orally by us at the founding ceremony, with our AI Amaranth recording our speech. She made digital copies for us and HIGHCOM's archives, which can be read, but never printed in full. Any amending laws are to be recorded orally, though I keep some fragment notes of it around just in case."

- Lt. Commander Frederic Alfaro.

"The UNSC keeps a rather loose leash on the Spartiaties. They don't need to tighten it. Nowhere else will you find a group of people more happy to stay under and enforce the UNSC's leadership. The community's small enough that nothing happens without someone knowing about it. They live right next to HIGHCOM's capital and largest military sites. Their physical size means they can't leave through the cities covertly; someone will notice them. And the only way they maintain this warrior tradition with the Office's gifts of augmentation drugs and equipment, which they can't make themselves. It'll be half a century before someone shows up who resents Spartans being under UNSC leadership, another half century before they learn to make augmentation drugs and MJOLNIR themselves, and then another half century before they're big enough to rebel. By then, who will still fear the Great War's Spartans?"

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"The Enclave appeals to a lot of Laconophiles, since these Spartans seem to represent a perfect harmonious warrior culture. Simple, frugal, lots of young kids with noble ideals, volunteering from many unique human cultures, out in the wilderness, led by old elders who were once great heroes, all under a foundation of ancient Spartan philosophy. Sounds romantic, doesn't it? Except a close look of their teachings and views reveals a lot of stresses and bigoted undercurrents. Half the teachers hadn't formed normal human relationships aside from with their Spartan teammates until the end of the war. The most faithful to the UNSC have racial superiority complexes, and prefer trainees made up of only their children and kidnappees. The most progressive ones who take in volunteers and focus on building lives as well as soldiers can be rebellious and don't see why they have to stay working for the UNSC. They stay enslaved to HIGHCOM because ONI's their only supplier of resources, including the drugs and armor they need to make more Spartans. The schools form quite high-tension rivalries, and you have to wonder which training exercise will it be that makes them finally snap and kill for dominance. I've heard they've risked a schism once. I fully expect to see them creep toward it again."

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"You'd think they're just an entire nation on beck and call of High Command. But no, hardly. Before they were recognized, they lived off the grid for years. Many were vigilantes. They put down rebellions all over Viery. Their biggest secret? That they've been taking on "underground" assignments from the locals for quite a while now."

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"Their culture's a mishmash of Euro-American UNSC background, their own SPARTAN-II training and "brother" society, wilderness reliance and naturalistic ideals, and a coating of Doric Spartan framework likely skimmed off of online encyclopedias. Add that to the diversity of their admitted students and you get quite a mess of ethno-integration. But they'll all get assimilated into Spartans."

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"This - is nothing I ever dreamed it would be. ...Thank you... my children."