Halo: Ghosts of Onyx: Difference between revisions

Like the [[SPARTAN-II]] program, candidates are selected at a young age, and undergo radical biological augmentations as they reach (What would be considered) the normal age of pubity. They are also equipped with special SPI Armor ([[SPI Armor|Semi Powered Infiltration Armor]]). However the difference with the Series-III lies in selecting orphaned volunteers from ages 4 to 6, who are gathered from worlds destroyed by the Covenant. They are trained by the SPARTAN-IIs' original trainer, [[Senior Chief Petty Officer Mendez]] Who even in his later years, is still considered the recruit's best and only hope of becoming true SPARTAN's. Had he been a Spartan himself, he would have been one of the the best. Ackerson and the ONI brass agree that only a Spartan can train Spartan's, Ackerson selects Kurt-051 as he is viewed as the best SPARTAN-II for instructional duties. His death is then staged during a scout mission on a seemingly, and very much so, desolate plateu. He awakens sometime after and meets Colonel Ackerson; who later promotes him to [[Lieutenant, Junior Grade]] and assigns him the name: Lt. Kurt Ambrose. Kurt is then told of the SPARTAN-III project and is given orders to progress and succeed with the seemingly impossible task of creating hundreds, if not thousands of new, 'Disposable Heroes'. The operation is conducted on a classified UNSC controlled world called "[[Onyx]]", which was the site of a major archaeological survey of alien artifacts conducted by ONI.

The first SPARTAN-III company, [[Alpha Company]], proves highly successful, but is wiped out when deployed to a major Covenant shipyard just outside of Human controlled space in a mission codenamed [[Operation PROMETHEUS]]. Devastated by the images of the battle and the loss of his soldiers, [[Kurt]] improves the training regime for Beta Company, but most are killed in action.  So in an effort to reduce casualties, Kurt then institutes an illegal bioaugmentation procedure on [[Gamma Company]], which will harden their minds and bodies against pain and shock to better their chances against the Covenant onslaught.