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In the beginning of things the children of Delta only knew a few things. The Doctors on board the 'Catharsis' and the solidity of the pitched white walls within the medical quarter, where they were often detained from the normal crewmen aboard the vessel for hours on end as numerous tests were run on them. Blood testing, psychological screenings, beta and gamma-wave testings, though the children only had a glimpse of the truth of what they would become.
The actions of the SPARTANs were legendary, even to the children of outer colonies, these were the brave men and women who could single-handedly make their worries and anxieties disappear. The ones who fought the covenant tooth and nail and always won their battles on land, but even then, as the children had learned, orbital battles were an entirely different story. Many had lost their homes to the glassings of Covenant Cruisers and battleships, even after the SPARTANs won a massive land battle. But this was what they were being trained for, or so they believed, to be able to take the fight to the enemy, in ways even the SPARTAN-IIs could not.
They had not yet learned that half of their numbers would die, and that almost every SPARTAN-III before them had gone already.
About the Medical Quarters:
The medical quarters themselves are stark white, with few stains far enough between to make each distinguishable. Though the individual wings could only hold up to 300 people individually, and were not intended for anything more than triage and delivery to more secure or grounded stations for the truly important procedures, many supplies have been added for the sake of the SPARTAN-IIIs and their preliminary testing, quarantining an entire wing of the larger Medical Bay to themselves.
The lights give a harsh fluorescent buzzing during normal operating conditions, but most every time one of the children sees the interior halls of their wing, the lights are dimmed, as their eyes often come out with a hypersensitivity to visual inputs.
The sounds of various monitors always fill the halls, and emergency medical stations and tentings are but a button press away from anything to containing dangerous toxins, to detaining an unruly patient, to locking down an entire wing.
For the next month and a half of their lives, these halls and their barracks will be all these children know.
