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::::With regard to the SPARTAN augmentations, they were working on those long before the war ''ever started'', going back to ONI's reactivation (under the guise of the then-mostly defunct [[Colonial Military Administration]]) of the [[ORION Project]] (aka: SPARTAN-I) in 2491, from which came several graduates, including [[Avery Junior Johnson]]. This phase of the project was shut down in 2506. The SPARTAN II augmentations were simply the next round of human trials in the SPARTAN-series of augmentations wherein, in 2511, they took the data gleaned from Project ORION, & eventually brought in [[Catherine Elizabeth Halsey]] who immediately began refining (by leaps and bounds), the various compounds, procedures & techniques used in the previous project and, in 2525, began testing them on [[Spartan-II_Program|live subjects]]. The successful results of this phase of the process were put into service to aid UNSC forces, first against the Insurrection, then the Covenant. However, the SPARTAN II Program was never meant to be anything more than a step on the path to mass-produced supersoldiers, due to the exclusive and exacting genetic requirements of its candidates, and the still-experimental nature of the technology up to that point... After SPARTAN-II was shut down, ONI's science geeks, under Col. [[James Ackerson]] took the volumes of research generated from that program & continued to refine the process which by then had been going on for about 50 years, culminating in [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM]] (or SPARTAN-III), which was able to achieve many of the same results chemically (ie: with less surgery) through the use of drugs and nanotech administered through strategic injection points across the subject's body. The end product wasn't necessarily an improvement on the SPARTAN-IIs; the goal of Project CHRYSANTHEMUM wasn't to create superhuman living weapons, augmented even further beyond the limits of human ability. The [[MJOLNIR]] Armor would serve that purpose. The goal of CHRYSANTHEMUM was simply to augment the average soldier to the point where they could use the armor effectively, without killing themselves. As for the armor costing as much as a starship, well... Anyone on here who's old enough can tell you about how much the Pentagon used to pay for hammers & toilet seats... Just because the number is on paper doesn't mean it's a true or accurate reflection of the actual cost... Especially when you have an asteroid belt, Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud packed FULL of enough raw materials to make just about everything you'll ever need for the next few million years... The fact that the UNSC now has ''Infinity'' and hundreds (if not ''thousands'') of S-IVs onboard is ample proof of that.  --[[User:DJenser|DJenser]] ([[User talk:DJenser|talk]]) 15:36, 25 January 2013 (EST)

Just to advise, you guys can also chat about random stuff like this on the [http://www.halopedia.org/Halopedia:IRC_Channel IRC channel]. Just throwing in my two cents here ;) - [[File:Major.png|20px]] [[User:Nicmavr|<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod; font-weight:bold; font-family:Arial">Nìcmávr</span>]] ^{<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod">(</span>[[User Talk:Nicmavr|<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod; font-weight:bold">Tálk</span>]]<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod">)</span>} 14:02, 25 January 2013 (EST)

y'know, I had an idea recently for a halo game. It would sorta be the next ODST, except you'd play a jackal, or a skirmisher. Maybe there could be like, some differences in gameplay? Like maybe sprint jumps that send you really high, and being able to sprint sideways and diagonally, and firing while sprinting? And maybe have better aim somehow. I was sorta thinking that maybe you'd be fighting '''alongside''' the UNSC, and I sorta figured maybe w/ enough time that would be possible, since they re kinda cool w/ humans, but that ''might'' be too far fetched. '''This is''' [[User:CraZboy557|<span style="color:orange; font-family: Gill Sans Ultra Bold; font-size: 105%;">'''craZboy557'''</span>]], '''signing off.''' 06:21, 13 February 2013 (EST)