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| - Attempts by the UNSC to create supersoldier-grade personnel are well documented - the original ORION Project, SPARTAN-II and SPARTAN-III, TROJAN, VOLSUNG, and a number of shadier projects that are of dubious authority. Less well-documented are Insurrectionist attempts to field their own counterparts, developing their own above-average personnel in their determined but misguided fight to liberate themselves from the only thing standing between them and the Covenant. During the early years of the Human-Covenant War, or Great War as it has since come to be known, various cells attempted to use prototype stimulants provided by corporate backers, the infamous "rumbledrugs", but while it provided an instant boost to cognitive function, muscular density, reflex action and pain tolerance, the effe
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| - Attempts by the UNSC to create supersoldier-grade personnel are well documented - the original ORION Project, SPARTAN-II and SPARTAN-III, TROJAN, VOLSUNG, and a number of shadier projects that are of dubious authority. Less well-documented are Insurrectionist attempts to field their own counterparts, developing their own above-average personnel in their determined but misguided fight to liberate themselves from the only thing standing between them and the Covenant. During the early years of the Human-Covenant War, or Great War as it has since come to be known, various cells attempted to use prototype stimulants provided by corporate backers, the infamous "rumbledrugs", but while it provided an instant boost to cognitive function, muscular density, reflex action and pain tolerance, the effects were short-lived and came with lethal side-effects. Rumbledrugs would be used across a number of Insurrectionist fronts, either by soldiers who were not told about the after-effects and were deemed disposable, or by kamikazes who didn't care. Though they would become a major morale boost and propaganda coup, they would have little real effect on the war effort - there is little a dying man with super strength can do when a Covenant cruiser is pouring plasma onto a city. Understanding their critical position, on the verge of collapse, a cabal of Insurrectionist leaders, primarily from the United Rebel Front and including future-turncoat Admiral Ulysses Lee, met in approximately 2529 to pool their resources and decide what would be done. Rumours had already spread of UNSC supermen clad in advanced armour, who could kill an entire army in their bunks, or turn the tide of battle against the Covenant. The Spartans by this time had already become a morale boost, even before their official disclosure by ONI. When Blue Team, lead by John-117, attacked an Insurrectionist missile base in 2531, this was all the proof needed to convince them that not only were the rumours true, but they could be replicated. These Insurrectionists would decide upon a radical course of action - the PERSIAN Initiative.
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