Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:12 pm
Indeed, humans are Forerunner, it's just that the Chief and his fellow Spartan-II's are closer to the genetic make-up of the Forerunners, seeing as they were all as close to genetically perfect as they could be, part of the reason they were "recruited" (abducted) at the ages of 5-6 into the Spartan-II program.
The Master Chief's past is actually pretty simple...relatively. Or at least, it is well known if not simple. He was an above average child, smarter and stronger and faster than the rest of the children around him, who was abducted by the UNSC at the age of six and conscripted into the Spartan-II program along with 74 other children out of the original 150 genetically pre-screened candidates. A second round of screening (performed by then Lt. Keyes and Dr. Catherine Halsey) is what reduced that pool down to the amount that they actually had funding for. John-117 (the Master Chief) was the first child they visited.
He then underwent a series of brutal training regiments along with the rest of his class, until at the age of 14 he underwent serious and dramatic surgical enhancements, doing such things as grafting ceramics onto his bones to make them nearly un-breakable, steroidal injections to increase muscle mass and concentration, and sensory enhancement to increase reaction speeds, as well as practically giving them night-vision, pin-point hearing, and extreme dexterity and speed. Nearly 9 months later, at the first signs of the Covenant around the time Harvest had fallen, the Spartans were first equipped with power armour designed by Dr. Catherine Halsey, codenamed MJOLNIR. It enhanced their strength, speed, and agility even further, but lacked the capacity to carry an AI, and also lacked shields...these things came later.
The Spartans as a group (reduced down to only 33 active-duty soldiers from the original 75 by the augmentation process, most of the rest dead, some others were permanantly disabled) undertook a wide variety of missions against both Rebel insurgents and the Covenant until nearly 27 years later, when the Covenant had nearly wiped out all of the UNSC's outer colonies, and the UNSC was desperate. They were going to send all of the remaining Spartans (besides those too far away to be recovered) on a mission deep into Covenant territory in an attempt to kidnap a Covenant Prophet and force a cease-fire with the Covenant. Towards this end, MJOLNIR had been re-designed to now carry shields, and also granted the capability to carry a smart AI like Cortana, who would help them bipass Covenant security and computer systems without burdening them with delicate technical staff. They also completely overhauled the antiquated Pillar of Autumn, giving it brand new powerful reactor technology, a powerful new MAC weapons system, as well as a wide variety of equipment and weaponry upgrades and specialty personell (including a regiment of ODST's) to help the Spartans carry out their mission.
The Pillar of Autumn was on the verge of leaving the Reach system to begin this mission when a huge Covenant fleet assualted the planet. The mission was scuttled so that they could aid in Reach's defense. Most of the Spartans were sent groundside to defend the power plants powering the orbital MAC stations. Three (including the Master Chief) boarded a UNSC space station in orbit to destroy unsecured NAV data that could lead the Covies to Earth. The planet was overrun, the Chief succeeded in his mission, but one member of his team was sent off on a wild trajectory into space, the other "killed" as they escaped. The Chief made it back to the Pillar of Autumn, and they jumped out of the system and arrived at the first Halo ring. Thus begins Halo:CE.
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