ORION Project

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ORION Project Active 2491 - Unknown Allegiance United Nations Space Command Branch ONI NAVSPECWAR Type Special Operations Role Special Forces Nickname NAVSPECWAR Marines, Special Special Forces Battles The Insurrection Operation: KALEIDOSCOPE Operation: TANGLEWOOD Operation: TREBUCHET

The ORION Project was an ONI NavSpecWar program to produce UNSC NavSpecWar Marines to combat the Insurrection. It is unknown what their training included, except for that they became experts in standard infantry field craft and hand to hand combat.^[1]

[edit] Operations

ORION was behind many operations, including:

• Operation: KALEIDOSCOPE^[2]
• Operation: TANGLEWOOD^[3]
• Operation: TREBUCHET^[4]

[edit] NavSpecWar Marines

• Avery Johnson^[5]
• Nolan Byrne^[6]

[edit] SPARTAN-I Program

Main Article: SPARTAN-I Program

The SPARTAN-I Program was the first and initial known phase of the Spartan Supersoldier program. Initiated in 2491, as an element and subdivision of the ORION project, not much is known about this first generation of warriors.^[7] The program was canceled due to unknown circumstances, but it was successful enough to garner a second phase.^[8]

The original Spartan Project was created to test genetic enhancements on volunteers from the armed forces.^[9]. These enhancements were the precursors to the enhancements used in the Spartan-II program. The mortality rate for those injected was high, a factor which contributed largely to the failure of the program. Those who survived the injection(s) had a greatly increased rate of mental problems later in life. It is not known at this time how many soldiers participated in this program. However, it is mentioned that there are several offspring known as 1.1's, some of which may have been chosen for the Spartan-II program.The Spartan 1.0 do not wear armor apart from their battle suit.

[edit] Trivia

• Project Orion was also a spacecraft program in the real world. It was the first engineering design study of spacecraft powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Its supporters felt that it had great potential for space travel, but it lost political approval because of concerns with fallout from its propulsion. The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is generally acknowledged to have ended the project.

[edit] Sources

1. ↑ Halo: Contact Harvest Prologue
2. ↑ Halo Graphic Novel, Symbol top left hand corner
3. ↑ Halo: Contact Harvest page 47
4. ↑ Halo: Contact Harvest Prologue
5. ↑ Halo: Contact Harvest Prologue
6. ↑ Halo: Contact Harvest Prologue
7. ↑ Halo: The Flood, page 16
8. ↑ I Love Bees
9. ↑ Jan - Axon Clips Chapter 5