VARANGIAN Project

The VARAGIAN Project was part of the SPARTAN-II Program, an effort to produce elite soldiers through mechanical and biological augmentation to fight for the survival of humanity and the UNSC colonies. Originally designed to follow the same methods used by the , without taking the reigns again. The project was began in 2526 by Dr. Emily Ford, a former protégé of Halsey's, and began using many of the same screening techniques previously used, with slightly looser restrictions on age. Candidates now ranged from four to eight, as opposed to age six being the oldest allowed previously. Nolan Byrne, was selected to train the trainees due to the unavailability of Mendez. In 2530, the surviving candidates graduated.
==History==
=== Recruitment ===
Unlike the Class Is, the biological and physical restrictions had been opened slightly where candidates for the program would only be selected if deemed to possess superior physical, biological and mental attributes. By mid-2525, over 300 candidates were identified. However, there was only funding for roughly a quarter of that number, and so the Spartan candidates were further scrutinized, producing fifty-six "potential SPARTANs". Due to the budget limit, only a small fraction of the candidate pool would be selected after intensive researches and experimentation.
Similar to the Class Is, to preserve the program's secrecy, the children were replaced by flash clones which would die soon thereafter due to numerous medical complications associated with flash-cloning an entire human being.
=== Training and Augmentation ===
==Equipment==
=== Project MJOLNIR ===
=== Specialized Neural Interface ===
=== Spartan Augmentation Procedures ===
One of the essential and most dangerous aspects of the SPARTAN-II Class II Program is the augmentation procedure that a Spartan must endure. The process consists of many injections and surgeries. Only a small percentage of subjects survive the process and fully recover.
== Operational History ==
=== Battle of Reach ===
=== Battle of Earth ===
== Known VARANGIANs==
 
Category:Class II Expansions