SPARTAN-IV augmentation procedures

The SPARTAN-IV augmentation procedures were a series of biochemical and biomechanical manipulations surgically induced upon SPARTAN-IV candidates prior to training.

Introduction
Developed over the three decades between the partly successful SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures and the end of the war, the augmentation procedures for the fourth iteration of the SPARTAN Program were conceived as a way to produce a soldier as powerful as a SPARTAN-II at the cost of a SPARTAN-III. Even as early as 2536, biochemical surgical augmentations had been developed that had 0% mortality rate. Nevertheless, these procedures were built for the augmentation of the far weaker and more expendable SPARTAN-IIIs. The UNSC began developing a method of blending the brutal effectiveness of the SPARTAN-II procedures with the safety and reliability of the SPARTAN-III procedures. The result was a wide array of biochemical and biomechanical augmentations relying heavily on the use of artificial-organic synthesis.

Appearances

 * Halo: Initiation