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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Alpha Company was the first company of Spartan-IIIs to be trained. This group originally had 497 trainees recruited between the ages of four, five and six years old, but only 300 of them became Spartan-III's.<ref>'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', page 69</ref> The children were orphaned by [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] attacks on various colonies such as [[Jericho VII]], [[Harvest]] and [[ | Alpha Company was the first company of Spartan-IIIs to be trained. This group originally had 497 trainees recruited between the ages of four, five and six years old, but only 300 of them became Spartan-III's.<ref>'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', page 69</ref> The children were orphaned by [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] attacks on various colonies such as [[Jericho VII]], [[Harvest]],[[Biko]], and [[Erandis II]]. When they were found, all of them joined to exact revenge on the Covenant. | ||
From the moment they arrived on the planet [[Onyx]], they were tested. That night they were instructed to paradrop to the designated pickup location.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', page 71</ref> They then began their training at [[Camp Currahee]] on Onyx instructed by [[SPARTAN-051|Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose]], a [[SPARTAN-II]], on December 27, [[2531]].<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', page 67</ref> They went active in November of [[2536]] after they "graduated". | From the moment they arrived on the planet [[Onyx]], they were tested. That night they were instructed to paradrop to the designated pickup location.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', page 71</ref> They then began their training at [[Camp Currahee]] on Onyx instructed by [[SPARTAN-051|Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose]], a [[SPARTAN-II]], on December 27, [[2531]].<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', page 67</ref> They went active in November of [[2536]] after they "graduated". |