SPARTAN-IV program

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Sp4 — Spartan IV, as seen in the Halo 4 First Look

The SPARTAN-IV Program is the fourth generation of the SPARTAN program. It consists of members recruited from the UNSC's military, augmented to be capable of wearing a variant of the MJOLNIR armor. This phase was initiated by Admiral Margaret Parangosky after the Human-Covenant war, and some are stationed near the UNSC Infinity in the Oort Cloud.^[1]

Similar to the original ORION Project, the SPARTAN-IV Program would only consist of adult volunteers, as opposed to young children (however, it was succesfull).^[2] When the Program was started, the surviving members of the previous generations were offered to be integrated into it, though it's unknown how many exactly accepted/declined.^[3] The first active SPARTAN-IVs were already deployed by 2553, as some of them were temporarily assigned to the UNSC Infinity before it was scheduled to launch.^[4]

In Making Halo 4: First Look, it is stated that there is a "Fairly convincing reason why red SPARTANs can fight blue SPARTANs," meaning that SPARTAN-IVs might train by fighting each other, similarly to how some SPARTAN-IIIs trained.

Trivia

They may appear as customizable player characters in Halo 4's multiplayer.
The IV's appear to be wearing suits of powered armor similar to the MJOLNIR, though these cannot be used on un-augmented subjects. It is possible volunteers for the project experienced a procedure similar to CHRYSANTHEMUM.