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I think that the Spartan II project was a product of the technology available to the UNSC and the level of control the government has over the lives of the people. The Soviet Union could have done something like the Spartan II project, and the US could have sometime during the 60's or 70's. Maybe.
Someone once told me that mass media killed the conspiracy. Without nationwide news coverage, the Watergate scandal would have blown over if it ever came to light in the first place. Thanks to the internet and bloggers and alternative media, we know about Operation Fast and Furious, NSA spying, and every nasty detail that Wikileaks has unearthed. Something with a big budgetary and personnel footprint, like training and equipping 30+ child soldiers, wouldn't stay hidden for long.
But the UNSC can spend trillions of credits like chump change. They have a whole planet full of wilderness to train Spartans in, and another more secretive planet to train whole companies of them. ONI is big enough that finding employees that don't care one way or the other about child soldiers shouldn't be a problem. There's AIs to perform background checks, monitor communications, and watch the news media for signs of trouble.
For the UNSC, the Spartan II project was doable.
: The way I look at things it seems that without Microsoft Halo would not have
: turned into the great franchise it is today. It would not be as
: interesting as it is not going by what we now have with Destiny.
Perhaps it would have been as interesting as Marathon?