- Shai Hulud
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I just thought of something... Now Drearden, you do bring up good points, but remember that this is the UNSC and ONI, which are many years ahead of us, and fictional... Using traditional military naming methods might not apply (although, as I said, its a good point)...
BUT, in The Fall of Reach, it clearly states that CPO Mendez was recalled to train the next batch of Spartans... Would these Spartans be Spartan-IIIs, more Spartan-IIs, or something else? And note that not much time had passed since Spartan-IIs went on the board (they were only 14 years old) when Halsey said that (I think the year was 2525).... just like not much time had passed between 2491 and 2517... Unless people, at that time, thought that Spartan-IIs were unsuccessfull (they'd only been in military action for less than a year, but they had lost a lot through the augmentation process), why start a new batch?
The answer I come up with: Because there is a threat.
If there were Spartan-Is, as I think, there was a threat then that made the military want super soldiers to solve it.
Spartan-IIs were created because of the "new" threat of rebelion and civil war within the human "empire."
The next batch of Spartans (next generation, perhaps called Spartan-IIIs, or S-III for short (possible meaning of the "S-III" stated in First Strike)) were probably created because of the threat of the Covenant, which were known within the military at that time (I think it was officially stated in the same meeting that Halsey said Mendez was off to train more Spartans).
Success or failure may not apply... we may have simply needed supersoldiers.