SPARTAN-III Beta Company

Template:Ratings Beta Company is the second generation of SPARTAN-IIIs.

Summary

Beta Company was formed after the elimination of Spartan-III Alpha Company during Operation: PROMETHEUS, which, due to its success, Beta Company was given funding. This company was created by Colonel James Ackerson and was trained and supervised, by Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose and SCPO Mendez. This company of Spartans was dispatched to Onyx, and began its training on 2539 at Camp Currahee. Kurt quickly reinforced unit cohesion in Beta Company, upon seeing Alpha company lose this dramatic effect poorly at Operation: PROMETHEUS, causing the deaths of 'all the Alpha Company. As well, because he didn't make the previous class flexible enough, he reflected that by forcing them. This company's supervising AI, Endless Summer, is unlike the Alpha Company AI, Deep Winter, and actually cared about them and frequently advised Kurt not to be too hard on them (seeing that they are just "kids"), Deep Winter though, didnt care much for the SPARTAN-IIIs and Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose. There were 418 candidates, but only 300 "graduated" and became Spartans.

Combat History

In Operation TORPEDO, Beta Company was send to destroy a Covenant refinery depot on Pegasi Delta during 1135 HOURS, JULY 3, 2545^[1]. They started the mission in "stealth" pods that can launch out of Slipspace, and land quickly. However, their elements of surprise was compromised and their only viable option was to destroy the refinery quickly. The company had nine losses, killed from the landing. They then proceeded to attack, on their sprint towards the Covenant factory several Covenant-Seraph fighters bombarded the SPARTAN-IIIs and took out dozens. Only one team, Team Foxtrot, succeeded in getting to the refinery. The remaining 200 SPARTAN-IIIs were occupied with the coming force of thousands of Jackals and Elites troops attacking them in open field combat. Tom-B292 executed code Omega Three^[2] to break and run no matter the costs, when he saw the sky darkened with black clouds where afterwards 7 Covenant cruisers appeared from. They blocked their retreat by dropping hundreds of Elites behind them with their transport beams and surround Beta Company. Team Foxtrot sabotaged the reactor causing it to blow, and finished the mission. They had succeeded, but at a great cost: all of Beta Company was massacred with the exception of Tom and Lucy, from Team Foxtrot, who managed to live by jumping into the water. It was then revealed that the Spartans were only kids, most around 12 years of age.^[3]

Other Details

They wield MA5K Assault Rifles, SRS99C-S2 AM Sniper Rifles, and M19-B SAM Missile Launcher. They are divided up into Fireteams of four. They use SPI Mark II armor and have medical kits. They have been clocked at running at 30km/h.