[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] silversleek 117 while there was said to be only 300 slots, there was a massive chunk of time missing between alphas first test and kurts arrival on the point of no return. it may be possible that the number of slots was increased, similar to gammas(or was it beta?) they say in the book that 300 spartans launched the attack, they never specifically said ALL of the spartans participated.some spartans, possibly even 20+ may have been deployed elsewhere. it does state, in your own words(which you quoted from the book, i think. "it cost the lives of [i]every Spartan-III [b]on the asteroid[/b][/i]"[/quote] There is also a point in the book where Tom specifically states that there were only 300 slots for augmentation in his company during training. This itself proves that at least during Beta, there was only 300 augmented Spartan III's and one can assume that all Spartan III company's were more than likely limited to 300 Spartans.