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[Ceantari]

[WILD SPEC] Yasmine: part of the SPARTAN-III program

[grimcat]

Hi, Ceantari. I believe there were a couple of references to further batches of Spartan 2.0's being created. Specifically, Chief Mendez was going on to do this. For example, here and here.

These posts reference material from The Fall of Reach, it seems.[/url]

[Ceantari]

[daboking]

i agree with you, ceantari (if your dates are accurate). Not to mention, the next batches of (potential trout here as this has been discussed b4) Spartan II's being trained would still have been on reach, wouldn't they? If so, glass bombardment, poof most of original spartan ii's destroyed on surface, and others in training there at that time, as well. Weren't they all called back, minus the 4 on a deep space mission, to reach just b4 the attack, anyway?

[Bobeo]

She may be a Spartan II but the second or thrid batch of Spartan II's. There is a difference between the second (and thrid if possible) batch of Spartan II's and the Spartan III's. The Spartan II 2nd group was still the same operation and the first Spartan II's while the Spartan III's were a completely new op with new abilities, technologies, and under different leadership (cant remeber the guys name right now...I feel so dumb.).

[DeceptaconS]

[Ceantari]

(God, I love your avatar, daboking)

Well, how much do we know about Reach itself, the planet - terrrain, structures, etc?

> Episilon Eridani System
> REACH Military Complex
> FLEETCOM Military Complex
> UNSC Military Rerservation 01478-B
> REACH Military Wilderness Training Preserve
> Omega Wing - Section Three Secure Facility: CASTLE base
> ONI Medical Facility (in orbit around Reach)
> Menachite Mountain
> Forerunner architecture

What we don't know exactly are all those places and others possibly not mentioned.

Dr. Halsey did survive in CASTLE base along with some others that were mentioned, in addition to some remaining SPARTAN-IIs. Are there still people/faculty living deeper inside CASTLE base? Did everyone evacuate in time?

Did the "plausable" SPARTAN-III program depart Reach much earlier? Or did they survive, but are secluded deeper in CASTLE base?

Like it goes back to the TROUT:
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Colonel James Ackerson's files:
* S-III
** all records on SPARTAN-II project
> names and homeworlds of participants
> armor specifications
> DNA profiles
> enhanced procedures
> flash cloning
** CPOMZ(512 character/digit string)
> files on all Forerunner artifacts
> full map of CASTLE base ((and I wanna see that map))
* KING UNDER THE MOUNTAIN
> records of CASTLE base
> complete survey of Menachite Mountain
---------

So, how much of Reach and CASTLE base do we know?[/b]

[Ceantari]

Covenant: "Your destruction is the will of the Gods... and we are their instruments."

[daboking]

deceptaconS, it IS very wild SPEC indeed, and though it is nothing new, I have not seen anything in game this far along that either sheds light or darkens the possibility. You are correct that there is no mention (as discussed in past threads) of Spartan III's. From what little I know (I am reading the books so I can better open my mouth on the subject in the future), it does not seem any more wild... wait a minute (my empty shiny head ponders)
[GE lightbulb]
hmm, reach fell in 2552 so it does possibly fit timeline wise to spartan 2 second or third generation. Wow, I can be dense! hehehe
[/GE lightbulb]

[Ceantari]

1.0 - First generation Spartans
1.1 - First generation Spartan genetic offsprings
2.0 - Second generation Spartans

Those are generations. What would "batches" of the same version be titled - 2.0.1?

[Daddy]

I don't have any of the books around at the moment so I can't be sure of the year--but CPO Mendez was sent off to 'raise' the next class of Spartan II's (definitely, not III's) sometime in their teens [edit] or later--maybe 21?. That would be in or near the year 2531, in time for Yasmine to be a Spartan II. All we know of Spartan III is that there is a file Dr. Halsey found labeled "S-III" (or something like that) implying there is a Spartan III program headed up by Ackerson somewhere. But this is just spec; SIII could be something else... doubt it, though....

[Shadowkiller]

We don't know if Yasmine was taken to be a Spartan III if such a thing even existed since S-III could also mean Section III. Ackerson is Section III afterall. She was taken to be a Spartan, we'll all agree on that. One thing I'd like to point out though that unless every Spartan after the first Class died during augmentation then other Spartan's outiside of the first Class likely still exist or possibly all died in battle (which would be odd since we still had the majority of MC's class alive before the Fall of Reach).

Now here is my point. Everybody is just assuming Yasmine died from the augmentations. Can we really be sure she did? We don't know anything about the other Classes outside of Yasmine being one of them. Spartan's are soldiers so there are a lot of other ways she could have died. As long as ONI still had access to her brain she could have been made into an AI at any time. Durga could be anywhere from 7 years old to 1 year old (realistically).

[Ceantari]

So, these next "batch" are they the 2.0.1 or 2.0.2?

So far they're not known as genetic offsprings of the Two-point-zeros, so they can't be labelled as 'two-point-ones'.

[Shadowkiller]

[Ceantari]

I'm so becoming too paranoid about HALO/BUNGIE coincidences. There's a reason for every action and every action has a reason. ^_^

At least I'm still looking forward to this secret found here.