History of the SPARTAN IIs
NOTE: This blog was written before the release of Halo Wars, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo Legends and Halo: The Cole Protocol. To that end none of the SPARTANs first mentioned in that media are mentioned here. I hope one day to have time to amend this.
FORMAT: Summary
{Excerpt from media}
17/08/2517: Dr. Halsey interviews John, one of 150 candidates for new SPARTAN(II) project.
{we have one hundred and fifty test subjects to consider}
23/11/2517: SPARTAN II project begins with 75 conscripts
{Seventy-five children marched in—each accompanied by a handler}
9/03/2525: SPARTANs undergo augmentations, 30 die, 12 are disabled (including Cassandra-XXX, Kirk-XXX, Rene-XXX, and Fhajad-084) and 33 are successful. 33 SPARTANs
{Sam, Kelly, and thirty othe…