Guide to dates in this story
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12. – Stellar Day
34. – Stellar Month
567. – Stellar Minutes
890. – Stellar Hours
2595 A.D. SMART Ai - Jezabelle
2295 A.D. The year the Spartan VI Insurgency ended with the death of T-254. T-254, designation - Zain, our best attempts at bio-mechanical engineering in the Spartan program to date, although, I'm surprised it took 70 years of research, trial and error and a freak accident to achieve this. Let me recap our logs as to start this from the beginning.
2558 A.D. SMART Ai - Julie
Spartan V program fails with 100% failure rate at stage 3 AUGMENTATION. "The subjects couldn't handle it. Run it again, S-6." says Lucinda Hawkes as she paces around her lab. Hawkes means well but Halsey's replacement isn't up to scratch.
"Damn, the UNSC is getting slack."
I think to myself as I run a few thousand sub-routines per macro-second.
"You're getting slow in your old age" says Ai - Daniel
"Oh I'm old? You're the one who's about to crack 7 years." I reply dryly
"But I can still function at a high capacity." Oh I hate this man
"If you're so good, how come you didn't solve the error with stage three?" I ask, my avatar placing her hands on her hips and looking at his with a half-cocked smile
"The S-6 program is much better. They'll actually use the embryo combinations from real Spartans."
"Really?" I wonder before being ejected and carried into the hallway. Sierra-087 - Kelly, places me back into her Mjolnir Mk3 helmet port as we walk.
"Are we still going to see the terra-formed Reach?" I ask excitedly
"Even better, John and I are raising the kids there." Kelly replies before entering her cryopod "Sweet dreams Kels" I say softly as she is thrown into the blackness of cryosleep.