UNSC projects

This is a list of various projects, programs, initiatives, etc. run by the UNSC and/or UEG.

List
Note that some of these share their names from 343i-era armor variants, as most of those variants don't exist in Daybreak, at least as such.


 * ACHILLES: bio-augmentation trial program involving experimental combat drugs, something like Gamma's. Or cybernetic limbic system control/override implants, possibly mood-altering chemicals, etc.
 * AEGIS: War/post-war era project to reverse-engineer Covenant energy shielding.
 * APOLLO: War/post-war era project to increase the lethality of anti-ship missiles like the Archer.
 * AQUILA: MJOLNIR Mark V/VI hybrid innovation and development project.
 * ATLAS: UNSC Army heavy infantry armor program that spun out of Project HRUNGNIR. Part of TITAN-II.
 * AMALGAM: Navy project experimenting with neural augmentations and extended neural laces for strikecraft pilots. Possibly connected to the Sabre program.
 * BRAVADO: War-era model for units of independently operating prowler crews & naval special forces, mainly to gather reconnaissance and disrupt Covenant supply lines.
 * BULWARK: Ackerson's / Watershed's off-brand MJOLNIR efforts.
 * CENTURION: Marine Corps cybernetic battlespace awareness enhancement program for field officers on the battalion, company and platoon level.
 * CONSEQUENCE: Proved successful in the Covenant War. Weapons development project of some sort?
 * DANDELION SEED: Part of OUROBOROS, DANDELION SEED was a project and later protocol launched shortly after the end of the war, meant to create a viable strategy for decentralizing the UNSC's structure in a way that even the loss of major worlds such as Earth would not be a crippling catastrophe for the UNSC and humanity overall. Carried out largely in secret, this involved the continued relocation and mobilization of industry and the creation of population centers far out into the Cygnus Verge and other regions outside the Local Bubble.
 * GASLIGHT: Massive effort by ONI to intercept, decrypt, and translate Covenant communications. The project also involved psychological operations meant to prevent the Covenant from learning how compromised their communications were. Later iterations would focus on planting false reports and orders in the Covenant battlenet, an ability that would have extreme ramifications in the late War and Post-War era.
 * GOFANNON: Part of OUROBOROS, Project GOFANNON entailed the creation of mobile industry for the UNSC.
 * GUNGNIR: Energy weapon and armor development project; coordinated with S-II, Project MJOLNIR and UNICOM. Many of its supplemental armor designs were widely adopted by the UNSC Army and Aerospace Force in the M43 cross-branch equipment standardization push, and saw limited adoption in the Marine Corps. Saw the creation of the M6 G/GNR "Spartan Laser"; further developments in the post-war decades introduced increased diversity in UNSC laser weaponry.
 * HORIZON: Part of OUROBOROS, Project HORIZON involved the construction of arkships to carry human evacuees deep into unknown space, away from the Covenant.
 * HRUNTING: The Navy's early exoskeleton project, later spun off into a side project of MJOLNIR through synergy with YGGDRASIL.
 * HRUNGNIR: Sought to port MJOLNIR-specific technologies such as the force-amplifying piezoelectric system into a form usable by baseline humans. Some cross-pollination with HRUNTING.
 * HUNTER: UNSC Navy warship development program that emphasized a focus on MACs. Originally planned for a fast battleship class paired with a cruiser, but the latter was upgraded after the battleship was cancelled. Led to the creation of the.
 * ISTHMUS: Joint project between ONI and the UNSC Army to rehabilitate wounded soldiers with superhuman prosthetics. The Siberia Prime Civil Defense Force participated heavily in spite of its separation from the UNSC Army.
 * IVY: War-era bioweapons program to produce a highly-directed and controlled disease which could only infect designated targets. As of 2542, it produced SILENT NIGHT, a chemical blood agent specific to Elites and Grunts.
 * JAVELIN: UNSC Aerospace Force augmented commando/pilot program.
 * LEVIATHAN: ONI Section One project launched during the war to map the Covenant's interstellar presence, later shifting increasingly to charting the Milky Way overall and the other civilizations there.
 * LOKI: electrowarfare and infiltration-focused Army (Ranger?) project with minor augmentations; came with a non-strength enhancing photoreactive camouflage suit based on SPI tech. The program crossed over with GASLIGHT to create "Vampire" teams of operatives that would infiltrate and sow confusion in the Covenant battlenet.
 * MJOLNIR: Pioneering power armor system designed for the Spartan-IIs.
 * OUROBOROS: UEG directive put in place to ensure the survival of the human species and culture in the event of the fall of Earth and the major human colonies
 * PROMETHEUS: ONI initiative launched during the war to bring the biochemical, medical and cybernetic technologies developed for the SPARTAN programs to wider military usage. This included an effort to develop adult-compatible augmentations on the Spartan level or close. The work was based on ORION, ASTER and CHRYSANTHEMUM protocols along with new technologies, and would later flower into various augmentation programs, such as JAVELIN, HOPLITE, and TITAN-II.
 * RENEGADE: Aerospace Force codename for the space fighter developed for JAVELIN. Later provided the foundations for the Sabre program.
 * ROGUE: Next-generation Army Ranger helmet/armor system project.
 * TITAN: Army supersoldier project which saw involvement by Col. Ackerson and select ORION soldiers.
 * VALKYRIE: Army Airborne project to enhance joint resilience, endurance, and sensory input processing. Came with its own helmet/armor pieces; origin of the AA helmet.
 * VORPAL: The augmentation maintenance and upkeep program for the SPARTAN-IIIs, particularly Gamma Company
 * YGGDRASIL: Initiative to percolate MJOLNIR technologies to the wider UNSC. Overseen/initiated by Stanforth?
 * YOKAI: NAVSPECWAR special operations outfit of SPARTAN-III "washouts" with limited augmentations, some of which were later used in the Hoplite program. (produced the Operator helmet)
 * ZEUS: UNSC plasma weapon development program active since the late 2520s. Produced projectile-based plasma shells and later plasma-based warheads and other weapon payloads.

Other names

 * ANUBIS: later post-war corporate armor system?
 * ARES:
 * ARGONAUT
 * HERMES: something to do with speed
 * PATHFINDER