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- Exalted Member
I have defied gods and demons.
I am your shield. I am your sword.
I know you. Your past; your future.
This is the way the world ends.
not with a bang, but a whimper.
This is the second half of page 16 of Halo; The Flood
Sam hit the execute command, the security lockout
dropped away, and a countdown timer began marking time
until the wake-up sequence would be completed.
The soldier was coming around. Respiration was up, ditto
his heart rate, as both returned to normal levels. Here he is,
Sam thought, a real honest-to-god Spartan. Not just any
Spartan, but maybe the last Spartan. The shipboard scuttlebutt
said that the rest of them had bought the farm at Reach.
Like his fellow techs, Sam had heard of the program,
though he'd never seen an actual Spartan in person. In order
to deal with increasing civil turmoil the Colonial Military
Administration had secretly launched Project ORION back
in 2491. The purpose of the program was to develop supersoldiers,
code-named "Spartans," who would receive special
training and physical augmentation.
The initial effort was successful, and in 2517 a new group
of Spartans, the II-series, had been selected as the next generation
of supersoldier. The project had been intended to remain
secret, but the Covenant War had changed all that.