SPARTAN-V Program (Dawn Continuum)

The SPARTAN-V Program was the Fifth generation of Supersoldiers produced by the U.N.S.C. Instead of focusing on highly skilled, select candidates and providing them with surgeries to improve them, it would use advanced Human and Reverse-Engineered Forerunner technology. They used the SPACEBRAKE-IV style armor as opposed to the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor.
== History ==
=== Background ===
Humanity had previously had supersoldiers via the ORION project, or the SPARTAN-I program. However, a replacement was needed for intense riots during the growing Insurrectionist War. Drastic measures had to be taken; then 18-year old civilian Dr. Catherine Halsey began devising a system of complex procedures to create a supersoldier for humanity. This involved taking 6 year old children, putting them under the strongest training the UNSC had to offer, and giving them surgical advancements and massive MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor. While the SPARTANs were effective, there were only thirty-three, and when they lost, it was a massive damage to the UNSC. Especially because of the Human-Covenant war, a more effective measure had to be taken.
This was the SPARTAN-III program, taking 4-11 year old children that were orphaned from the Covenant and under less specific gene protocols. Undergoing similar training, they were given Semi-Powered Infiltration (SPI) armor over the heavy, expensive MJOLNIR. Departing onto suicide missions, several more companies of SPARTAN-IIIs were created that heavily boosted humanity's resolve during the war.
After the war, Humanity's main focus was rebuilding. However, by 2553, the SPARTAN-IV program had arose. Consisting of adult volunteers from the military, it used improved MJOLNIR [gen-2] armor. The program had about 600 members at it's highest.
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