Portal:Spartans

An aggregate page for information on the Spartan supersoldiers in the Daybreak Continuum's version of the Halo universe. As with everything UNSC, when it comes to Spartan numbers (and programs) we're trying to do more with less. This means some Spartan characters (particularly Spartan-IIs) from post-2008 canon have been culled, these usually being characters deemed nonessential or extraneous to Daybreak's narrative.

Note that the list below is not final; the Spartan numbers are open for expansion, but to what extent depends on the generation; the Spartan-IIs are the least flexible as their numbers are the most fixed.

ORION project

 * 1) Avery Johnson
 * 2) Nolan Byrne
 * 3) Randall Aiken
 * 4) Noah Forge
 * 5) Sieghard Schuchardt
 * 6) Kores Van Schalkwyk
 * 7) James James (possibly)

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; rather, the focus should be on expanding on existing characters, many of whom have had little to no development. Note that some 343i-era Spartan-IIs have been cut from Daybreak to restore their numbers back within reasonable levels.

Notable omissions from the list include most of the Spartans introduced (and subsequently killed off) in Halo Legends, Black Team, Naomi-010, and Serin Osman. Some of the omitted characters may or may not make an appearance in some form later on, but for now they can be assumed to never have existed in Daybreak's internal canon.

There is no Spartan-II Class 2, as the concept is too difficult to reconcile with everything else we know about the progress of the Spartan programs. Some candidates identified for the second class of S-II would likely have been recruited in to the S-III program instead, provided the opportunity presented itself.

As a general rule for creating new successfully-augmented Spartan-IIs: Don't. There's rarely a good reason to. With the washouts there's considerably more leeway, though they can't be cyborg action men. If you want active-duty Spartans, use S-IIIs - preferably Gammas. Expansions of preexisting characters should be discussed with the team on a case-by-case basis, but there is quite a bit of freedom to expand on the less known Spartans in particular.

Spartan-IIs active (in combat duties or otherwise) in the post-war era are highlighted in bold. Spartans who could potentially be active in the post-war era are highlighted in bold italic.


 * 1) James-005 - MIA. Assumed KIA during the mission to Gamma Station in the Fall of Reach (2552). Potentially recoverable, possibly captured by the Covenant. Would have to be a story.
 * 2) Jai-006 - Active as of 2565
 * 3) Li-008 - Assumed KIA during a battle inside an anomalous slipspace bubble (2552)
 * 4) Daisy-023 - Confirmed KIA during the Battle of Sargasso (September 2546)
 * 5) Karan-026 - KIA upon landfall on Reach (2552)
 * 6) Joshua-029 - Assumed KIA during the Fall of Reach while assaulting a Covenant cruiser (2552)
 * 7) Vinh-030 - Assumed KIA while attempting to escape Reach (2552). Potentially recoverable, but most likely gone for good.
 * 8) Samuel-034 - Confirmed KIA aboard the Covenant vessel Unrelenting. First SPARTAN-II to be killed in action (2525)
 * 9) Isaac-039 - Assumed KIA while attempting to escape Reach (2552). Potentially recoverable, but most likely gone for good.
 * 10) Douglas-042 - MIA with the UNSC Spirit of Fire (2531)
 * 11) Will-043 - Confirmed KIA during the Battle of Onyx (2552)
 * 12) Anton-044 - Assumed KIA during a battle inside anomalous form of slipspace (2552)
 * 13) Keiichi-047 - Last seen on Harvest on February 4, 2531. Call sign Beta-Red Actual during the Fall of Reach. Most likely KIA. (2552)
 * 14) Kurt-051 - Confirmed KIA after the detonation of two FENRIS nuclear warheads at the core of Onyx (2552)
 * 15) Jorge-052 - Withdrawn from the mainline program mid-war to serve with UNICOM SWC3. Initially coached and led S-III off-company teams; later assigned to NOBLE Team. Confirmed KIA during Operation: UPPER CUT in the Fall of Reach (2552)
 * 16) Linda-058 - Active as of 2565
 * 17) Malcolm-059 - Confirmed KIA during the Fall of Reach (2552)
 * 18) Maria-062 - Retired active duty to start a family and assigned to UNSC reserves (potentially WIA/later complications with augmentations?). Worked with SWC Songnam on armor testing; participated in the Battle for Earth.
 * 19) Sheila-065 - Confirmed KIA during the Battle of Miridem (2544)
 * 20) Guillem-071 - KIA upon landfall on Reach (2552)
 * 21) Cassandra-075 - WIA in during the Battle of Actium in 2545 (received severe plasma burns). Residing on the M25L Recovery Station as of October 2552. Potentially rehabilitated post-war, though may not have continued military career.
 * 22) Kelly-087 - Active as of 2565
 * 23) Jerome-092 - MIA with the Spirit of Fire (2531)
 * 24) Grace-093 - Confirmed KIA during Operation: FIRST STRIKE (2552)
 * 25) Frederic-104 - Active as of 2565
 * 26) Adriana-111 - Active as of 2565
 * 27) John-117 - MIA aboard the Forward Unto Dawn (2552)
 * 28) Mike-120 - Active as of 2565
 * 29) Kay-126 - KIA upon landfall on Reach (2552)
 * 30) Alice-130 - MIA with the Spirit of Fire (2531)
 * 31) Carris-137 - Served during the Fall of Reach as Red-Fifteen. Possibly KIA/MIA (2552); fate TBA
 * 32) Calliope-141 - KIA upon landfall on Reach (2552)
 * 33) OPEN SLOT - Likely KIA during the defense of the ODGs on Reach. Reserved for future review and development.

Fully rehabilitated
''Maybe 1-3 of these at most? Would have to be cases of light augmentation failure, i.e. nothing like Kirk, René or Soren.''

Washouts

 * 1) Kirk-018 - Discharged for failures in the augmentation process; later rehabilitated to a degree. Worked on Project SPHINX.
 * 2) Soren-066 - Discharged in 2525 due to being disfigured by the augmentation process. Listed as missing in action on Reach in 2527 after defecting to the insurrectionists. Subsequent fate unknown, though alleged sightings of a "goblin-man" in the wild reported by Reavian farmers may be connected to Soren.
 * 3) René-081 - Discharged after washing out. Later rehabilitated to a degree and assigned to ONI. Served as a consultant on the augmentation and training methodologies of the Hoplite program on Mars.
 * 4) Fhajad-084 - Discharged and reassigned to ONI. Suffered uncontrollable muscle spasms due to failures in augmentation; the most critical damage was later repaired though he required a medical exoskeleton to walk. Later advanced to lieutenant commander within ONI. Became an expert on higher-dimensional physics; worked on state-of-the-art slipspace technology, including wavespace communicators and contributed to the development of the CODEN-VI slipspace drive. Stationed on Luna.
 * 5) Ralph-103 - Discharged after washing out (body rejected most augmentations); rehabilitated to roughly human-baseline health and served as an ONI field attaché with the Marine Corps. KIA during the Battle of Sargasso.
 * 6) Shannon-150 - Discharged and initially reassigned to ONI Section 3. Later served in the UNSC Navy.

Spartan-III
The Spartan-III program's background is largely similar as in canon, though the reasons for non-company teams are more varied than is implicit in canon material since Reach. Rather than always being the best of their respective companies (since Halo already has enough "best of the best" characters as it is), the still-active "company castoffs" were mostly either part of the augmented company reserve (with Alpha & Beta), or were injured in one of the combat deployments prior to the "meat grinders" of PROMETHEUS and TORPEDO and pulled out for recovery whilst being replaced by Spartans from the company reserve. Most of these WIAs were too gravely injured to serve in combat duties, though a few made full recovery and served in off-company teams. The Headhunters exist but their context is slightly reimagined. Some Spartans were set apart because they were exceptional in some field, e.g. reconnaissance or leadership, and were handed out to various units as bargaining chips by James Ackerson to fuel his ambitions within ONI.

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 or ONI agents (due to e.g. psychological instability or outright refusal) were likely discarded by other means; they may have e.g. been subjected to targeted amnesia to wipe their memories of Spartan training and dropped off in groups of refugees.

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 (e.g. YOKAI, JAVELIN); most would likely have accepted the offer, bitter as they were over not becoming true Spartans, even if survival in offshoot efforts 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".

There were a small number of medical washouts from Alpha Company (though very few as severe as in the S-II program, with no fatalities), and even fewer with Beta. Augmentation complications may have prevented some Spartans from being deployed with the main companies, though a small number may have been rehabilitated in later years. As the augmentation technology improved, success rate rose to 100% by Gamma Company. Note likely improvements in the augmentation process over the years; these would not be major, but they did happen.

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

The Headhunters receive minor adjustments to their background to shift the focus of their presentation from "elite of the elite" to simply being specialized in a different way. Namely, they were less of an outfit for the best-performing candidates and more of a side project reserved for the most antisocial kids deemed incapable of functioning in larger teams, either because they were chronic bullies, extremely closed-off, or just emotionally immature to the extreme. Virtually all of the S-IIIs were traumatized and scrappy, and many had psychological issues, but the Headhunters would've been actively detrimental to team cohesion even after multiple attempts to rehabilitate them. Such cases were usually spotted fairly early on, and picked out from the general company population accordingly. Those that could bear working with another similarly antisocial individuals were paired up, though many were also deployed alone. But few if any of them received any special equipment because being a Headhunter wasn't any particular honor, it was a sign you couldn't play with others. Alpha likely had few to no Headhunters; the concept was codified into a proper training program with Beta Company.

Alpha Company
''Born between 2525-2528; Trained between 2532-2536. Team size 3, 100 company teams in total (organized into squads/platoons?), teams named after animal themes, e.g. collective nouns for groups of animals.''

The initial training class comprised 497 trainees, of which a number dropped out during training (usually early on); 300 of the best-performing teams were selected for the final company (selection was on a team basis), while 30 were augmented as the company reserve to patch up losses in combat and those who experienced complications from the still-early augmentations. In addition to this were Alpha Company's six Headhunters and Lonewolf operatives.

Few "mainline" Spartans were extracted from the company's main body before it was too late (possible exceptions: severe WIAs before PROMETHEUS). James Ackerson used the extracted Spartans as chess pieces in his bid for power within ONI, handing them out to different parties for favors, along with keeping some to himself. Still, augmented Alpha Company survivors should number in less than 10 (pre-Reach).


 * 1) Sonam-A031 - Part of Team Cobra, KIA during Operation: PROMETHEUS.
 * 2) Robert-A057 - Part of Team Wolfpack, KIA during Operation: PROMETHEUS.
 * 3) Shane-A112 - Part of Team Wolfpack, KIA during Operation: PROMETHEUS.
 * 4) Jane-A203 - Part of Team Wolfpack, KIA during Operation: PROMETHEUS.
 * 5) Emile-A239 - Withdrawn from company during training; assigned to the Headhunters (likely tragic backstory with partner), later served with NOBLE Team; KIA during Fall of Reach
 * 6) Jun-A266 - Withdrawn from main company deployment due to augmentation complications; later rehabilitated and assigned to NOBLE Team; fate TBA, possibly survived the Fall of Reach
 * 7) Carter-A259 - Set apart for special duties shortly after company deployment; led NOBLE Team; KIA during Fall of Reach
 * 8) Marica-A288 - Leader of Team Cobra, KIA during Operation: PROMETHEUS.
 * 9) Thom-A293 - WIA in the Battle of New Constantinople; hospitalized and replaced by a company reservist during PROMETHEUS; later assigned to NOBLE Team, KIA during Battle of Fumirole
 * 10) Rosenda-A344 - Part of augmented company reserve; later served in SWG3's specialist teams, including NOBLE and GAUNTLET. Fate TBD, possibly killed on Reach.
 * 11) Axton-A423 - Headhunter

Beta Company
''Born between 2532-2534; Trained between 2538-2545. Team size 4, 75 company teams in total (organized into squads/platoons?), teams named after UNSC Phonetic Alphabet (and what else?).''

The initial training class comprised 418 trainees; the 300 Spartans from the best-scoring teams were selected for the final company, while 36 were augmented as the company reserve to patch up combat losses (augmentation complications were mild to negligible at this point); in practice, some of the "reserve" for Beta in particular was prepared for separate deployments. In addition to this were Beta's twelve Headhunters and Lonewolf operatives.

As well, only 291 of the final company made it to the ground on Pegasi Delta. Tom-B292 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.


 * 1) Adam-B004 - KIA during Operation: TORPEDO
 * 2) Beatrix-B072 - Company Commander of Beta Company. Killed during Operation: TORPEDO.
 * 3) Lucy-B091 - Active as of 2565, ran through an officer course, serving as a Navy attaché
 * 4) SPARTAN-B170 - Deployed in advance prior to Operation: TORPEDO for deep reconnaissance; later served in SWG3's Gauntlet Team.
 * 5) Min-B174 - KIA during Operation: TORPEDO
 * 6) Roland-B210 - Headhunter, KIA (2551)
 * 7) Tom-B292 - Active as of 2565, ran through an officer course, serving as a Navy attaché
 * 8) Jonah-B283 - Headhunter, KIA (2551)
 * 9) SPARTAN-B312 - Withdrawn from Beta Company as a solo operator by Col. Ackerson pre-deployment; served with NOBLE Team; KIA during Fall of Reach (2552)
 * 10) Katharine-B320 [sic] - Withdrawn from Beta Company following Operation: CARTWHEEL on the basis of combat injury; assigned to NOBLE Team; KIA during Fall of Reach (2552)

Gamma Company
''Born between 2538-2542; Trained between 2546-2552. Team size 5, 60 company teams in total + 3 top honors teams + 15 Spartans in unspecified special duties (Headhunter/Lonewolf operatives?). Teams named after edged and bladed weapons.''

Of Gamma Company, Team Saber, Gladius and Katana were the ones to be set apart of the main company; there were no washouts per se, though some trainees may have quit early on; the original training class numbered at 346, with 16 trainees dropping out at various phases of training, mostly early on. By the augmentation process in 2551, 330 Spartans remained and all were augmented.

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, reconnaissance and other off-company deployments, etc. Even the main company didn't deploy as one for their final operations but was deployed in battlegroups of 100 Spartans each.

As per current plans, about 2/3 of Gamma Company made it through the war. Fatalities couldn't of course be avoided altogether, though they were fewer than before, and high-intensity operations ceased before the company could be ground down entirely. Overall, Gamma Company is the most flexible generation in terms of new Spartan characters.


 * 1) Holly-G003 - Team Saber; KIA (2552)
 * 2) Jelena-G012 - Team Dagger; KIA (2552)
 * 3) Yui-G066 - Team Dagger; WIA; medically discharged from active duty (2552)
 * 4) Maya-G067 - Team Halberd; active as of 2565
 * 5) Connor-G085 - Team Halberd; KIA (2552)
 * 6) Zahra-G098 - Team Dagger; active as of 2565
 * 7) Ash-G099 - Team Saber; active as of 2565
 * 8) Laura-G179 - Team Halberd; active as of 2565
 * 9) Dante-G188 - Team Saber; KIA (2552)
 * 10) Abraham-G195 - Team Halberd; active as of 2565
 * 11) Sigurd-G203 - Team Halberd; active as of 2565
 * 12) Flynn-G228 - Team Dagger; active as of 2565
 * 13) Olivia-G291 - Team Saber; active as of 2565
 * 14) Pavel-G311 - Team Dagger; MIA, assumed KIA (2552)
 * 15) Mark-G313 - Team Saber; active as of 2565


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


 * Team Katana
 * Five Spartans; placed in Forerunner stasis pods, status TBA/Reserved for future development

Delta Company
Delta Company does happen in Daybreak, but lore around it is not yet very established. Ideas so far include a reduced budget (which may lead to fewer inductees trained and/or augmented, with the rest being kept in cryo indefinitely or shifted to other duties) and a training regimen re-focused to the different strategic and tactical environment of the post-war era (i.e. an emphasis on covert small-unit actions over full company-strength assaults).