The irony is that both the SPARTAN and MJOLNIR programs ultimately had some pretty positive knock-on effects. Less insanely extreme variants of the core SPARTAN modifications are commonplace in the 25th century, not only as soldier augmentations, but also on the civilian cyberware market, and the technology underlying a lot of the most popular prosthetics in the galaxy can be traced to the MJOLNIR line, which evolved after the Mk VI (and the discovery and shutdown of SPARTAN-II) into a cyborg-body platform rather than a powered suit. Unlike the SPARTAN-II operatives, though, the MJOLNIR Mk VIII and IX cyborg subjects were volunteers (as were the original SPARTANs, retroactively "SPARTAN-I participants", come to that).

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