A Conclusive History of the United Nations Space Command:
Chapter Three Posted By: witelancer<email@example.com> Date: 14
December 2003, 7:18 PM Chapter Three: The SPARTAN II Program
Part One: The Selection and the Early Years The brushfire
conflicts of the late 25th century did not go unnoticed. The
Office of Naval Intelligence, Section Three, noticed that the
power of the UNSC's mighty space fleet was too powerful and
reliant on brute force to settle minor conflicts, and that the
starships used by the UNSC were too valuable to risk in fighting
guerrilla actions. Thus, in reaction to this new threat posed by
insurgents, rebels, and pirates, the UNSC began work on devising
a solution. In association with the Colonial Military
Administration (CMA), Project ORION began in 2491. This research
project is kept obscure by ONI blackouts and the lack of
official sources, but one can only surmise that the results of
ORION was to produce the SPARTAN program. There were several
people involved in the SPARTAN program its