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She believed the story of Thermopylae continued to be well-known and cherished throughout the 26th century.

Catherine Halsey had three reasons to choose SPARTAN, rather than many other suggested code names. The SPARTAN soldiers of the UNSC are named after the ancient Spartans of Greece, specifically during the famous Battle of Thermopylae.

Initially the three separate programs were humanity's various attempts to create the perfect soldiers, in order to patrol the colonies, protect civilian and government populations, crush uprisings in their infancy and ensure others didn't rise up as a result. The SPARTAN program first arose as a brilliant plan to enhance normal human soldiers into powerfully augmented special operations commandos. These super soldiers have been deployed numerous times throughout human conflict, leading up to and during the Human-Covenant war. Since the establishment of these protocols humans have been using performance enhancing equipment and augmentations to make them stronger and faster than previously thought possible. The basic concept of the SPARTAN program has been around since the late 22nd century when the first bio-engineering protocols were developed for interplanetary war.