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| rdfs:label | - Project HERCULES
- Project Hercules
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| rdfs:comment | - Project Hercules was the code name for a top secret effort by the United States government in the 1960s to develop enhanced fusion (also called "super-atomic") technology for military use. The project was initiated by 1961, and based at San Lobos Atomic Research Facility outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. By late 1968, an enhanced fusion bomb had been built, and was prepared for test detonation.
- Project HERCULES was a program initiated by the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence in 2585, with the goal of strengthening humankind against the growing threat of large-scale civil war. Unlike the previous programs that had focused on repelling insurgency with force, HERCULES instead concentrated on reshaping the leadership of humanity as a whole. To this end, two projects were conceived: THEMIS and NEMESIS-II. While THEMIS focused on engineering the best minds to act as humanity's leaders, NEMESIS created peerless warriors to answer any sign of dissent with swift and effective force. Both projects utilized SPARTAN DNA and other "perfect" sources to create a pool of physically and intellectually superior candidates, who would be trained almost equally until adolescence, when they would spli
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| abstract | - Project Hercules was the code name for a top secret effort by the United States government in the 1960s to develop enhanced fusion (also called "super-atomic") technology for military use. The project was initiated by 1961, and based at San Lobos Atomic Research Facility outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. By late 1968, an enhanced fusion bomb had been built, and was prepared for test detonation. Project Hercules came to the attention of the Beta 5 computer earlier in the year, and months later, Aegis agents Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln discovered a Soviet spy ring in Albuquerque working to compromise the project. Seven and Lincoln then infiltrated the project, where they discovered the project head, Dr. Diana Winters, was in fact a deep-cover Soviet spy. In the wake of this discovery, Project Hercules was shut down pending an investigation, and never resumed. (TOS - Star Trek: Assignment: Earth comic: "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns") Unknown to Seven at the time, the group Counter Strike had supplied advanced technology to the Soviets in order to prevent Aegis interference in the Hercules test. (TOS - Star Trek: Assignment: Earth comic: "We Have Met the Enemy...")
- Project HERCULES was a program initiated by the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence in 2585, with the goal of strengthening humankind against the growing threat of large-scale civil war. Unlike the previous programs that had focused on repelling insurgency with force, HERCULES instead concentrated on reshaping the leadership of humanity as a whole. To this end, two projects were conceived: THEMIS and NEMESIS-II. While THEMIS focused on engineering the best minds to act as humanity's leaders, NEMESIS created peerless warriors to answer any sign of dissent with swift and effective force. Both projects utilized SPARTAN DNA and other "perfect" sources to create a pool of physically and intellectually superior candidates, who would be trained almost equally until adolescence, when they would split off to follow courses in either political management or advanced special warfare. Upon reaching adulthood, the THEMIS subjects would then be "released" and allowed to integrate into the UEG, following a long-term plan to maneuver into key positions over time; the NEMESIS subjects would remain under ONI command, passed off as Spartan-IVs and dispatched on missions.
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