"Your mistake is seeing SPARTANs as military hardware and killers. Our SPARTANs are humanity's and Faunus' next step--our destiny as a species. Do not underestimate them."
— Dr. Pietro Polendina
"You know what we did to create the Spartans. All in the name of the greater good."
— Dr. Catherine Ironwood(Daughter of the late James Ironwood)
The ORION Project Generation II, was part of the SPARTAN Program, an effort to produce elite soldiers through mechanical and biological augmentation. The program would be the first in the series to meld advanced exoskeleton technology with the soldiers' superior physiques.
In the small years between 2040 - 2060 following the US presidential election of November, 2039. The effectiveness of special forces units and Huntsmen at combating the rogue bandits and Grimm had became too large and wide for them to manage. As they became more effective and the military's responses consequently become more forceful, the need for medium scale military campaigns became more and more obvious. The ORION Project Gen II was conceived by both Dr. Pietro Polendina of NATO Section III's Special Projects Division and Dr. Catherine Ironwood of Mantle Section II's Special Projects Division as the successors to the ORION Project and the best possible solution to end the widespread insurgency that raged throughout Remnant. The project was created with several goals in mind. The first was to create a group of elite soldiers meant to subdue insurgency in their infancy, without substantial military casualties. The second goal was to minimize civilian casualties and avert civil war. The third goal was to substantially reduce the cost of conventional means of pacification.
Catherine's proposal for the project detailed radical changes in many different fields. The first and most controversial was the subjects themselves, who were selected by a gene-candidate pool, and fit into a certain age restriction protocol (eight years old to sixteen years old). They also possessed superior physical and mental attributes when compared to other children and teens their age. This narrowed the candidates down to minors who would be raised and taught in the art of warfare and military values from a young age, which cannot be taught to older enlisted personnel. Using such questionable means of creating a soldier meant that the project would have to be carried out under the highest levels of secrecy and authority.
Though conventional body armor had served to protect soldiers for years, the ORION Project Gen II's second radical change involved integrating the subject with a new powered exoskeleton device, designed to help keep its user safe and provide a powerful means of combating enemy forces. The drawback of this new armor is its requirement for augmenting the subject, effectively turning the SPARTANs into super soldiers.
Despite the tremendous risk and the unethical means of creating new soldiers, the ORION Project Gen II got the green light by the top brass, who concluded that the lives that could be saved far outweighed the risks involved. The project was initially granted funding for 300 candidates, though funding was later reduced to half this number. By 2050, 150 suitable candidates had been identified through DNA gathered from a vaccination program, but funding was further reduced to support again, only half that number. A grand total of 75 candidates.
Two of them being Ivar Frank Eksinud-Takahashi and Washington Towson-Takahashi.
Training
"First we taught them how to be silent. Then we taught them how to be Spartans."
— Dr. Catherine Ironwood
The SPARTAN-II candidates, were taken to a facility in Colorado, and began their training under Nobleus Eversor and General of The United States Marine Corps Dustin Walker. To marginalize the civilian lives they had once led, their callsigns were a combination of their first names and numbered service tag, with second names being discarded or classified. The SPARTANs endured a great deal of hardship during their first years of training: they were placed into situations and drills that pushed their abilities to their very limit and beyond. Their hard training was complemented with college-level education, which included mathematics, science, physics, reading, writing, and military tactics. Although their training methodology was tough, even brutal and violent in some aspects, both always instilled discipline, honor, and respect into the SPARTANs. He taught the SPARTANs how to kill, but at the same time he taught them the difference between right and wrong. both trained the SPARTAN's until at a certain age, they would go through the toughest part of their training: the biological augmentation procedures, which would render 12 of the 75 conscripted, who would wash out of the SPARTAN-II program, injured. Additionally, while the procedures were taking place the candidates were unconscious, a state where they should have felt no pain, the Spartans felt enormous pain throughout the process, with each augmentation having its own type of pain. Subsequently, some of those which were adversely affected by the augmentation process went on to join the Task Force SWAT, while others were given an honorable or medical discharge; aside from the 63 which survived the procedures with no physiological deformities. At least some of the candidates who were crippled were eventually rehabilitated. Several elements of the candidates' training were kept secret from Catherine that only Dr. Pietro and General of The United States Army Mihaly Macnamara (who worked on the project with her) knew about.
A list of names for the 63 candidates who survived the augmentation procedures in the ORION Project Generation II:
1) Ivar Frank Eksinud-Takahashi
2) Washington Towson-Takahashi
3) Rei Shimizu
4) Kaito Nakamura
5) Emi Kobayashi
6) Jace Alder
7) Nell Macnamara
8) Remy Valois
9) Caden Mercer
10) Aurora Vega
11) Lucas Chen
12) Freya Bjornsdottir
13) Zara Khan
14) Asher Reyes
15) Isla Rivera
16) Kai O'Brien
17) Nina Vasquez
18) Leif Eriksson
19) Elara Wolfe
20) Dante Russo
21) Selene Li
22) Jaxon Parker
23) Amara Singh
24) Rhys Morgan
25) Mira Patel
26) Atlas Cross
27) Thalia Ocampo
28) Greyson Bennett
29) Talia Sane-Westin
30) Lee Malachite-Avancini
31) Kaia Fujimoto
32) Ryker Sullivan
33) Eris Ramirez
34) Kiera Matthews
35) Declan Wallace
36) Nova Alvarez
37) Ashlyn Tran
38) Aiden Lewis
39) Skylar Brooks
40) Evie Chang
41) Eliana Silva
42) Zephyr Thompson
43) Thea Wright
44) Sterling Fox
45) Seraphina Yu
46) Pho Eksinud
47) Juno Santiago
48) Kaiya L/n
49) Mika Patel
50) Rowan Foster
51) Iris Watson
52) Sebastian Ortiz
53) Lila Jensen
54) Kieran Flynn
55) Sienna Miller
56) Paxton Hayes
57) Adira Gupta
58) Remi Castillo
59) Sloane Harper-Park
60) Aspen Campbell
61) Phoenix Khan-Fernandes
62) Callie Pierce
63) Shiho Nishizumi
This list provides a variety of names for the candidates who successfully underwent the augmentation procedures, showcasing a diverse group of individuals with the potential to become elite soldiers in the SPARTAN-II program.
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One Last Stand for NATO
FanfictionThis the fourth continuation of the "for NATO" series. Prepare to see the next-gen kick a$$ and take names. While the last gen either wants another round. Or retire and leave it to the younger ones.
