Author notes: do note, the third one if off somewhere. I'm glad that other people have taken advantage of the story gap about the three Spartans. Some of them are better then mine )
Captain Thanas was on the Prometheus as they jumped back from patrol. It took the full attention of a bored repair crew 72 hours straight to fix the Prometheus up. Apparently the ship would have fallen apart on the next slip space jump.
The productions of Spartan armor for the Spartan III's were started once the two Spartans on the Prometheus reached the planet's surface. It was projected it'll take them 6 weeks, to get the armor up, but another 12 weeks to get all the technology for all of them into it.
Sam volunteered to supervise the production since was training the "kids". Nate had done basically everything Mendez did to him, When everyone asked him why, he said "if it isn't broken, don't fix it."
Day after day of intense training was preparing the Spartan III's to act like a team. Its goal was to make them into a team. The only problem Nate was wondering if they were ready yet for combat. Sending a full adult human into combat is one thing, but a teenager? They couldn't wait here forever and train them for a few more years. They had to get out there and help the human race. Nate was partially right, in fact, though he didn't know it.
Nearby a Covenant Cruiser on patrol had intercepted the transmission of new Spartan class warriors being trained and they headed straight for the system.