


The latest installment, SPARTAN-IV, returned to the idea's roots by using consenting adult volunteers primarily drawn from the various special forces units of the UNSC. The subsequent programs, SPARTAN-II and SPARTAN-III, were highly successful, but also controversial because of their dubious ethics concerning the use children as candidates, particularly in the Spartan-II program where risk of injury or death in the augmentation procedures was relatively high. The first major effort to create augmented supersoldiers was the ORION Project, later retroactively dubbed "SPARTAN-I", which used operatives drafted from the UNSC. Although the word "SPARTAN" is written in all capital letters when used in reference to the programs in a formal context, it is not an acronym the supersoldiers are known simply as "Spartans".
ANCIENT WARS SPARTA NUMBER OF DI SERIES
Spartans or SPARTAN Programs are members of a series of United Nations Space Command projects designed to create physically, genetically, technologically, and mentally superior supersoldiers as special fighting units. They stand alone - undaunted - before the mightiest enemy in the universe.

A symbol representative of all incarnations of Spartan programs.
