Boren's Syndrome
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Boren's Syndrome is supposedly a human neurological condition.[1] The disease was most notably used as a cover-up by the Office of Naval Intelligence to keep the identity of the SPARTAN-Is classified.[2]
Summary
Boren's Syndrome supposedly causes tumors and migraines, and is believed to be caused by exposure to certain types of radiation. Claims as to the cause of the disease include inhaling the gases released when a Type-51 Carbine magazine is ejected[3] and being exposed to radiation from plasma grenades.[1] Several Insurrectionists on Victoria claimed to have this condition, hoping to bargain with the UNSC to gain treatment for the condition in trade for some FENRIS nuclear warheads they had in stock. However, their status was false, as the bargain was revealed to be a trap set up by General Howard Graves in an attempt to capture the SPARTAN-IIs of Blue Team.[4] Notably, John Forge's father died of Boren's Syndrome.[5]
ORION Project
The Office of Naval Intelligence used Boren's Syndrome to cover up the side effects experienced by the surviving subjects of the ORION Project once the program was discontinued and the augmentees had been dispersed back to the UNSC Armed Forces at large. Due to the cover-up, it is unclear whether the condition is actually genuine, with the ORION augmentations only causing similar symptoms, or if it was entirely fabricated as part of the cover-up.
Staff Sergeant Avery Johnson's falsified medical record - to hide his real, classified record - had him as a sufferer of Boren's Syndrome, in which he was to have contracted the disease on Paris IV, after being in contact with a dangerously high amount of radiation apparently originating from a crate of captured plasma grenades the Sergeant used against attacking Covenant forces.[1] This false record event (known to ONI as the "Paris/BS Spoof") was likely used as a means of avoiding any investigation into his altered DNA and physiology, which would have revealed him as a SPARTAN-I.[2]
List of appearances
- Halo: First Strike Template:First mentioned
- Halo: Graphic Novel
- Page 122 (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Smoke and Shadow (Mentioned only)
Sources
- ^ a b c Halo: First Strike, pages 243-245
- ^ a b Halo Graphic Novel - page 122
- ^ Bungie.net: Type-51 Carbine
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, Chapter 1, pages ??
- ^ Halo: Smoke and Shadow, page ??
