Team Xiphos (S091)

Team Xiphos is a UNSCDF military element, part of SPARTAN-III program's Gamma Company. They were one of the many moderately-skilled Fire Teams in Gamma, not scoring high enough to compete for top honors, but still recognized as superior. At around the age of seven, the orphaned children in this element chose to become SPARTAN-III super soldiers, and were sent to Camp Currahee on the planet Onyx. After all of their members survived the biomodification process, Xiphos Team graduated from the SPARTAN-III training program on February 20, 2551. They were deployed shortly afterward in preparation for an anticipated Covenant assault against Human worlds. However, Xiphos Team would be deactivated when two of its members were pulled to join the Headhunters.
==Dossier==
*Jack-G101- Xiphos' scout/stealth expert, Jack was known for his habit of prevarication and his relatively detached nature when compared to the other SPARTAN-IIIs on the team. He was occasionally known to his teammates as "Zippo", the nickname of serial killer Jack Guillamfort, mainly because of their shared obsession with fire and lying. Like his friend Travis, he was recruited into the Headhunter program, mainly because of exhibited deceptive behavior.
*Travis-G292 - Xiphos' demolitions expert, Travis was highly reserved in his approach to firefights; however, he was also a pyromaniac, always discovering new and more creative ways to blow Covenant installations to smithereens. He was recruited into the Headhunter program after setting fire to an ammo dump on Onyx to relieve stress, often attributed to the increased pressure by his instructors.
==Trivia==
*Team Xiphos, like the other fire teams of Gamma company, takes its name from a type of blade, in this case, the famous Greek shortsword used by the Spartans at Thermopylae and by many other ancient fighting forces.