Portal:Spartans

Spartans in Daybreak's version of the Halo setting. As with everything UNSC, when it comes to Spartan numbers (and programs) we're trying to do more with less.

ORION project

 * 1) Avery Johnson
 * 2) John Forge's father
 * 3) Others?

Successfully augmented
33 of the candidates officially made it through the augmentations, so let's try to keep their numbers within that figure. Some of the washouts may have been rehabilitated later, as Halsey suggested in her journal, but only maybe one or two would be able to enter active combat duty. Just because one might technically get away with adding an indefinite number of extra S-II survivors doesn't mean it's a good idea from the standpoint of staying true to the narrative intent.


 * 1) James-005 - MIA. Assumed KIA during the mission to Gamma Station in the Fall of Reach (8/30/2552). Potentially recoverable.
 * 2) Jai-006 - Active as of 2560
 * 3) Li-008 - Assumed KIA during a battle inside an anomalous slipspace bubble (September 2552)
 * 4) Daisy-023 - Confirmed KIA during the Battle of Sargasso (September 2546)
 * 5) Joshua-029 - Assumed KIA during the Fall of Reach while assaulting a Covenant cruiser (8/30/2552)
 * 6) Vinh-030 - Assumed KIA while attempting to escape Reach (9/7/2552). Potentially recoverable, but most likely gone for good.
 * 7) Samuel-034 - Confirmed KIA aboard the Covenant vessel Unrelenting. First SPARTAN-II to be killed in action (11/27/2525)
 * 8) Isaac-039 - Assumed KIA while attempting to escape Reach (9/7/2552). Potentially recoverable, but most likely gone for good.
 * 9) Douglas-042 - MIA with the UNSC Spirit of Fire (2531)
 * 10) Will-043 - Confirmed KIA during the Battle of Onyx (11/3/2552)
 * 11) Anton-044 - Assumed KIA during a battle inside anomalous form of slipspace (September 2552)
 * 12) Keiichi-047 - Last seen on Harvest on February 4, 2531. Potentially part of Omega Team.
 * 13) Kurt-051 - Confirmed KIA after the detonation of two FENRIS nuclear warheads at the core of Onyx (11/3/2552)
 * 14) Jorge-052 - Confirmed KIA during Operation: UPPER CUT in the Fall of Reach (X/XX/2552)
 * 15) Linda-058 - Active as of 2560
 * 16) Malcolm-059 - Confirmed KIA during the Fall of Reach (8/30/2552)
 * 17) Maria-062 - Retired active duty and assigned to UNSC reserves (potentially WIA/later complications with augmentations?). Last seen working at SWC Songnam in October 2552
 * 18) Sheila-065 - Confirmed KIA during the Battle of Miridem (2544)
 * 19) Kelly-087 - Active as of 2560
 * 20) Jerome-092 - MIA with the Spirit of Fire (2531)
 * 21) Grace-093 - Confirmed KIA during Operation: FIRST STRIKE (9/13/2552)
 * 22) Frederic-104 - Active as of 2560
 * 23) Adriana-111 - Active as of 2560
 * 24) John-117 - MIA aboard the Forward Unto Dawn (2552)
 * 25) Mike-120 - Active as of 2560
 * 26) Alice-130 - MIA with the Spirit of Fire (2531)
 * 27) "Beta-Red Actual" - Assumed KIA during the Fall of Reach (8/30/2552). May be one of the aforementioned Spartans (Keiichi?)
 * 28) "Red-Fifteen" - Assumed KIA during the Fall of Reach (8/30/2552). May be one of the aforementioned Spartans (Keiichi?)

Washouts

 * 1) Kirk-018 - Discharged. Possibly rehabilitated, for which Halsey had expressed hope.
 * 2) Serin-019 - Rejected most physical augmentations; physical damage largely repaired by ONI. Recruited as an ONI field agent, adopting the surname "Osman". Later head of ONI's Section III Beta-5 Division as of 2554.
 * 3) Soren-066 - Discharged due to failures in augmentation process in 2527. Listed as missing in action on Reach after defecting to the insurrectionists.
 * 4) Cassandra-075 - Discharged due to failures in the augmentation procedures in 2525. Residing on the M25L Recovery Station as of October 2552.
 * 5) René-081 - Discharged after washing out. Possibly rehabilitated, for which Halsey expressed hope in her journal.
 * 6) Fhajad-084 - Discharged and reassigned to ONI. Suffered uncontrollable muscle spasms due to failures in augmentation; the most critical damage was likely repaired. Later advanced to lieutenant commander within ONI, and authored a paper on slipspace theory.

Unassigned

 * 1) Carris-137 - status unknown after September 27, 2520. Potentially part of Omega Team.

Spartan-III
There were a few candidates in each company that dropped out fairly early due to total psychological unsuitability - mostly issues with enduring the training. Those who could not be used in other duties, even as base personnel, were likely placed in cryo indefinitely due to the inconvenient questions inherent to their existence.

Trainees who didn't make it to the final companies but remained motivated usually became either trainers or were assigned to separate ONI black ops units. Some may have volunteered for experimental augmentation programs run in parallel with the S-III program; most would likely have accepted the offer, bitter as they were over not becoming true Spartans, even if survival was not guaranteed. It's also possible that some were put into cryo to wait for a time there might be resources or need to augment them all.

Still, there were several pseudo-Spartan spec ops teams, with few to no augmentations but Spartan-level training, operating during and after the war, mostly in ONI and NAVSPECWAR. These groups would be very much their own thing and might provide and interesting contrast to the S-IIIs that "made it".

Of Alpha Company, such "washout" teams are all that remain. The successes prior to PROMETHEUS made their superiors overconfident, and no Spartans were extracted from the company's main body before it was too late.

Several - 10-20, perhaps - candidates from Beta Company were set apart for special duties before the final company of 300 was organized, usually with entire teams -- rather than individuals -- being picked given how integral team-level training was to the IIIs. As well, only 291 of the final company made it to the ground on Pegasi Delta. Tom assumed that the missing nine were killed on entry or landing, but it could be that a handful - up to five, maybe - pods were never launched to begin with as a last-minute, potentially impromptu extraction. Still, a few of them should be true fatalities just for realism's sake.

Also, just as a side note, Beta would've started training in 2537, a few months after PROMETHEUS. Nylund messed up the dates a few times in GoO and there's a seeming implication that their training began only in 2539, but a two-year gap doesn't make much sense especially as Parangosky tells Kurt to focus on Beta's training in the same meeting where they break the news on Alpha's demise.

Most of these off-company teams would still use SPI armor, as would some of the washout teams, though MJOLNIR suits were procured for a handful of Spartan-IIIs in the war's final years.

The Headhunters can also be included, with some adjustments to their background. The idea of some of these scrappy, traumatized kids becoming total murder-sociopaths deemed unsuitable for working with larger teams makes sense, but I'd downplay their special equipment in comparison to "mainline" S-IIIs and portray them more as a side project mostly reserved for particularly antisocial candidates than "Spartan-IIIs, BUT BETTER". They could've also been picked from the general company population potentially years earlier.

Of Gamma Company, Team Saber, Gladius and Katana were the ones to be set apart; there were no washouts. Unbeknownst to the Spartans themselves, the final "top honors" training exercise would have determined which team of the three would have been issued with MJOLNIR armor. There are also the 15 others, in addition to the main company of 300, who may have been assigned to special duties, e.g. Headhunter teams, or reconnaissance deployments, etc.

Alpha Company

 * Robert-A057 - KIA
 * Shane-A112 - KIA
 * Jane-A203 - KIA

Beta Company

 * Adam-B004 - KIA
 * Lucy-B091 - active as of 2565
 * SPARTAN-B170 - Unknown status; potentially removed from Beta Company prior to Operation: TORPEDO for deep reconnaissance
 * Min-B174 - KIA
 * Tom-B292 - active as of 2565

Gamma Company
As per current plans, about 200+ members of Gamma Company made it through the war. Fatalities couldn't be avoided altogether, though they were fewer than before, and high-intensity operations ceased before the company could be ground down entirely.


 * Holly-G003 - KIA (2552)
 * Jelena-G012 - KIA (2552)
 * Yui-G066 - WIA; discharged from active duty on medical grounds (2552)
 * Maya-G067 - active as of 2565
 * Connor-G085 - KIA (2552)
 * Zahra-G098 - active as of 2565
 * Ash-G099 - active as of 2560
 * Laura-G179 - active as of 2565
 * Dante-G188 - KIA (2552)
 * Abraham-G195 - active as of 2565
 * Sigurd-G203 - active as of 2565
 * Flynn-G228 - active as of 2565
 * Olivia-G291 - active as of 2560
 * Pavel-G311 - MIA, assumed KIA (2552)
 * Mark-G313 - active as of 2560


 * Team Gladius
 * Five Spartans; all KIA on Onyx (2552)


 * Team Katana
 * Five Spartans; placed in Forerunner stasis pods, status TBA