The year is 2559. It has been seven years since the Human-Covenant War has ended, and a year after Master Chief returned from a shield planet known as Requiem. The UNSC and Shangheili have made a peace treaty, the Spartan IV project has been put in to effect, and no one is to go anywhere near forerunner technology... Although the war is over, there is still a group of rebellious aliens that still believe in the old traditions of the Covenant known as the Storm Faction. They plot terrorist attacks on human colonies, and create issues concerning the safety of the galaxy... But as the Spartans focus more on forerunner technology and scientific research, the galaxy deals with the next best thing there is.

Orbital Drop Shock Troopers are highly trained UNSC soldiers that are used for espionage, special operations, and when something needs to get done. If they were any better, they would be Spartans. Highly trained in combat, tactics, firearms, and alien technology. Recently they are used to fight against the Storm Faction, and when needed, they aid the Spartans. Dropping from drop pods, they are always ready for danger, and ready to protect humanity at all costs.

A group of Spartan IV's, Elites, and ODST's are put together to patrol the outskirts of the human colonies, to make sure the Storm Faction doesn't do a surprise attack... But when they come across something they weren't expecting, It will take all of their training to make it out alive.

RULES:

1) You can choose to be an ODST, Spartan IV, or Shangheili. But this is mostly going to be about the ODST's struggle, so the more of them the merrier! haha
2) This RP will be more than just shooting things, so be ready for some character, story, drama from time to time, etc!
3)If you have any ideas for the plot, or a character, please send me a PM! I'd love to hear them!

FORM:

Name:
Age: Optional for Shangheili
Race: Human/Shangheili
Class:
Rank:
Appearance:
Bio: Doesn't have to be long
Personality:
Skills: specialty on the team
Family/Loved ones? Optional. family members, relationships, friendships, etc.
Other:

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Name: Raymond Chase
Age: 27
Race: Human
Class: ODST
Rank: Captain
Appearnce:



Bio: I was one of those people who was born on Earth. A small little town near Atlanta Georgia. I was born the year the Human-Covenant War started as well. We grew up in constant fear of these aliens attacking us. People from everywhere started to join the UNSC. My dad was a soldier. He would leave for quite some time and come back worse than ever. It was hard for us. We lived in a place where it wasn't that affected by technology, fields and trees and a truly amazing view of everything out there at night... I was always a fighter too. I would fight anyone who said that this war was stupid. anyone who though it was funny to pick on the smaller guy. Because those were the things worth fighting for. The war was protecting Earth. The bullies were attacking their own kind while my father was risking his life. I was the oldest out of my siblings too. I had a younger sister, Anna, and a brother, Ben. We were close, and when my dad was gone, I made sure my mom and them were alright.

On my 15th birthday we heard the news. My father was killed in action while defending a human colony from getting glassed. They say he was a hero. He ran in and out of buildings pulling civilians out and in to Pelicans just before they attacked. All we had left of him was his ODST helmet. That's when I knew if I was going to be anything, it would be at least half the man he was.

I enlisted as soon as I could, motivated every time I heard someone say "I knew your father. He was a good man." It didn't take long until I enlisted in the ODST program. I showed natural charisma, and charm. I was a good shot, and not bad of a fighter. I was on Reach still in training to become an ODST when the covenant found us. Barely anyone made it off that planet, but I managed to get through with a few scrapes and dead friends. Months later I graduated, and soon lead a group of ODST's in the Tidal Wave Squad. For the rest of the war we fought alongside Spartans, marines, seeing the worst of everything... The best things about humanity though, is our sense of humor. Our chance of hope. Having something worth fighting for. I constantly thought of my family. I constantly made jokes to lighten the mood... But that was harder to do when they discovered Earth.

Tidal Wave fought with accuracy, and skill. We soon lived up to our name, and became a bit of a lesser known story behind Chief. Once the war ended, it was a feeling I couldn't describe. I was able to look up at the sky and feel this different way about those stars shining. As if I was a kid again. It was over. I stayed enlisted though, but I was able to visit my family more. My brother and mother stayed on earth, but my sister moved to a colony to start a new. She met a nice man, and had a child. The most beautiful baby girl I had ever seen. I was chosen as their godfather, and I visited any time I wasn't fighting off the Storm Faction or at training...

Then a couple years ago... The worst happened. An army ambushed the planet my sister and her husband lived... They were taken along with other civilians, and I took it as the right to chase that ship down... I was too late. We snuck in, got to the prison cells, and just as we were going to unlock them, they shot them out in to space. An ambush for us. They were expecting Spartans. But oh boy did they mess with the wrong troopers. I took a break from the UNSC after that. I took Anna's baby girl, Rebecca, and went back to Earth, where I started to be her father figure. I love that girl like she is my own, and while my brother and mother help, I rarely left her side.

Three years of that, and she was now six years old. I then got a message from the UNSC. They told me they needed me for an important mission. One that only a select few had an honor of doing. I was to patrol the outskirts of the human colonies with Spartans and Elites. To command a squad of my own. I said i'd only work with my old squad, and they agreed, and added some new faces as well. I only do this so people don't lose their family like I did. I'll dive in to the fight feet first, like I always do.

Personality: Headstrong, Brave, and a bit of a smartass. Uses humor to ease nerves, but won't fool around with serious matters. Extremely loyal for his team. Someone who will like to know why they are fighting instead of just rushing in blind. Charismatic, charming when he has to be. Hides most of his feelings by using a gun.

Skills: Leader of the ODST Squad titled Tidal Wave. Master tactician, and knows his way around a battle rifle

Family/Loved Ones?: Mother, brother, but most importantly his niece Rebecca. If anyone's interested in a relationship let me know!

Other: Has a scar on his lip from a fight as a child, and a larger one across his chest from the Battle of Reach. Also known as "Cap" to his squad.

Will put up a CS tonight

Name: Wade Carter
Age: 30
Race: Human
Class: Spartan-IV
Rank: First Lieutenant
Appearance:

Bio: My name is Wade Carter. I was born on earth, in South Carolina, shortly before the war began. I was born into a military family. Dad was a Marine, then a Helljumper. My uncle was in the Navy, and my sister was a jarhead.

Growing up, I was the only child at home. All my other siblings were off fighting the Covenant, and I was at home, just waiting for my family to come back to me. At school, I was always told my dad was a hero, my sister was a hero, my uncle was a hero. I was always being told that, that I had built them up in my head to be these invincible paragons of war. When I was ten years old, my uncle died. The loss was hard, but we weren't that close. Nevertheless, that shifted things. I began to see the war differently, I started conditioning my body to be ready for the military. Five years later, at Eighteen, I enlisted in the Marines, serving for three years before being recruited into ODST.

As a Helljumper, our motto is 'feet first into hell.' I took it to heart, even volunteering for dangerous missions so that others didn't have to. My service got me promoted up to Sergeant. I had originally served on Tidal Wave, but then my father died, a victim of an Elite. I was shocked. I was angry, I was hurt. We took him back to earth, buried him with honors. My mind wasn't quite on the job then, still grieving. It was around this time that I was approached about the SPARTAN-IV program. I thought, if I volunteer for this, if I become a spartan, perhaps I could do more.

So I volunteered, and went through the augmentations. It was the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life, but I came out feeling different, like I could hit harder, fight longer, run faster. And in fact, I can. A few months training, and I was sent back into a new squad. We did spec ops, and our service got us all into hell-like situations. Eventually, I got promoted to First Sergeant, and they placed us doing black ops, the kind I can't talk about.

When the war ended, a kind of weight was placed on me, and I went home for a two week leave. My sister, Kate, she came home too, and it was an...awkward leave. We were so used to the military life, living for the uniform, that we were itching to go back. We still owe my mom a new coffee table, because Kate and I took to running combat drills in the living room. It was nice, I guess, and I met Morgan. She was here from Dublin on holiday, and we sort of clicked. For the next five months we dated when I had leave, when she'd visit on base, we'd see each other whenever possible. I wasn't the one to pop the question, she was. We married, and went on honeymoon.

That was short lived, however, as Spartan Command approached me about a Joint SPARTAN-ODST squad, how Tidal Wave was a part of it. I can still remember Morgan cussing out the messenger. I agreed, and shipped off immediately.

Personality: Stubborn, aggressive, loyal. He is cold and focused on the job, but loyal to a fault.

Skills: Tactitian, CQC specialist, distinguished Marksman, interrogation.

Family/Loved Ones: Kate,his younger sister, and Morgan, his wife, from Dublin,Ireland.

Name: William Turner
Age: 35
Race: Human
Class: ODST
Rank: Lieutenant

Appearance: ARMOR


Appearance: FACE'n'stuff


Bio: William Turner was one of the many farmers' sons and would-be soldiers on Harvest- an agricultural planet on the outer edges of human space- who sought to join the militia that the two marines had began training. However, very much unlike everyone else, the first whiff of his very political parents had of some kind of trouble- namely, aliens- they sent him away, before anyone else had even begun considering it. Shortly after his arrival at Reach, word came from Harvest- it was glassed by an unknown alien race. This lead to a short bout of depression and grief from William, before it transformed into vengeance. There, he joined the Marines, and learned to control it a bit more. He didn't make it too far before he was recruited into the ODST training program. By the time he had finished advanced training, the war was halfway through- Reach had fallen, and with it, the last of his family. After Reach fell, William served on any ship attacking Covenant space, intent on attacking anything that wasn't human. This will probably negatively affect his combat effectiveness if a Sangeheili is fighting right next to him, with him. He'd rather shoot it in the back and then get back to fighting- but orders are orders.
Personality: To be RPed? Is dat okay? But he's generally a cool guy, but can fall apart if things get REALLY bad. The fall apart that goes bitter and what's-the-use.
Skills: Taking point- a regular sharpshooter with any weapon.
Family/Loved ones? N/A; he's friendly, but he doesn't mention anything, doesn't write anything to anyone, and generally just appears to not have any outside contact. Doesn't care to get too close.
Other: WIP

Name: Brian "Preach" Holt

Age: 49

Race: Human

Class: ODST

Rank: Staff Sergeant

Appearance: Brian is a tall man, with a heavy barrel-chested frame. His hair is kept short in usual military fashion, and is heavily greyed. The skin on his face is rather ragged, and pot marked, making him appear old than he is. His eyes are of a pale blue.

He wears the close quarters combat variant of the ODST armour, with the image of a white crucifix stencilled onto the left ballistic plated pauldron.

Bio: Brian Holt is a grizzled veteran of the Human-Covenant War, where he spent the majority of his enlisted service with the UNSC's ground-based armies. Shipped from planet to planet, deployed with thousands of his fellows in battles of endurance against the Covenant, Brian became a bit of a legend. Several times, he would be one of the few to be airlifted out of a combat zone, shortly before a planet was glassed. Seven times he was able to escape a UNSC ship even as plasma consumed its hull.

His constant cheating of death led him to consider the existence of a Higher Power, and during a six day cryosleep (from which he was rudely awoken early due to an imminent engagement), he had a dream. In this dream, the Christian God spoke to him, and told him he had a purpose that surpassed that of lesser men. Whether the dream was a real religious experience, or whether it was just the effects of the cryosleep, Brian immediately converted to Christianity and began himself on a spiritual voyage as God's own executioner.

Though past his best in years, Brian found new youth and strength from his sudden spiritual realisation, and immediately requested a transfer to the ODST. He was not sure why Earth's special forces was the place for him, but it "felt right".

Suffice to say, he passed the rigorous entry exams with flying colours despite his advanced age.

He missed out on the First and Second Battles of Requiem, as he was posted to anti-insurgency roles throughout Man's shattered colonial holdings. During this time, he fought both Covenant Remnants and human-borne terrorists.

Personality: Calm, sober, quiet, deeply religious.

Skills: Medic/Breach and Entry

Other: Uses weapons designed for the mission at hand, but prefers his trusty and slightly personalised M90 Close Assault Weapon System, that he calls "Judgement".

Can't join

I shall make my character either tonight or tomorrow most likely tomorrow.

Yay Scotland! also Sangheilli in progress.

All really awesome characters!!! Everyone's accepted!

Name:Lisa Loch "Nessie" Anders
Age: 36
Race: Human
Class: ODST (ONI Agent)
Rank:Technically she's a captain, but is on loan to Team Tidal Wave. This said she cannot command anybody in team tidal wave so she is pretty much a private.
Appearance:

Bio:

Personality:Lisa is an angry person who tends to push away anyone who gets close to her, she has self destructive tendencies often taking initiative or initiating suicide charges, but these things are to cover up the fact she's war weary and just wants to go home, shes been fighting for quite a long time and it hurts her to see more and more people die for something she no longer believes in.
Skills: Deep Recon, Hazard Ops, EVA Trained, and a exceptional marksmen
Family/Loved ones: (PM me if you must) Otherwise N/A
Other:She has two scars, one on her cheek from a near miss with an energy sword, and a plasma burn along her lower back, she has developed a taste for tobacco gum a standard in any ODST's kit, and when she's normally not on mission she's watching old videos on her datapad.

Very nice character as well! Accepted!

I'll get one out later tonight, probably.

Name: [Redacted] nicknamed Knight
Age: 23
Race: Human
Class: ODST (Formerly of the 82nd Airborne Pathfinders and ONI assault group.)
Rank: Corporal
Appearance:
Out of armor

Normally wearing Air Assault Armor painted black with many scratches and cuts.

Bio: Formerly a member of the ONI assault groups on board the Infinity and the only surviving member aside from Major Dare. (Assuming Dare got a promotion after the war.) He fought on the ground, watched his team be killed then he escaped with a data package for the ONI techs after that the team he was reassigned to was killed on board the Infinity once more he was reassigned to fight with Spartans after being rescued by a group of Spartans who were retaking Infinity he then joined in locking down the ship. His nickname was earned when a group of ODST's witnessed in the hangar (Who would later post the video online which ONI quickly covered up however copies still float between ODST's.) watched him jump on the back of a Promethean Knight Battlewagon and fired a rail-gun into it's open back-plate at point blank ruining his ODST armor causing him to swap back to his Air Assault kit. After this incident he became known affectionately as Knight by the ODST's for his daring and reckless act finishing his tour on Infinity ONI re-tasked Knight to ODST Squad Tidal Wave.

He's fought Forerunners and Covenant he's one of a kind, he can fight and hold positions on his own being as good a combatant using his Pathfinder training to deal with being outnumbered and outgunned. However his true calling is vehicles able to keep Warthog going with a barely any tools or repair a ghost in the field with humans tools. Recommend for Spartans augments however he has yet to sign up for the surgery as he is unsure if he wants to become a Spartan.

Personality: Corporal Knight has shown to stay cheerful even in bad situations however he has been known to get attached to the men in his squad effecting his judgement. Off duty records show that many of the soldiers regard him highly however he is not very social. Currently there is a betting pool to determine Knight's name, currently it is over 1500 credits.

Skills: Vehicle Expert/Commando

Family/Loved ones? Orphaned during the Human-Covenant war he was sent to Luna military academy where he grew up alone.

Other: His real name is Matthew Jacobs and he does not carry grenades in combat preferring to keep a pistol instead.

Man, a lot of creative people joined! I love everyone's character hahaha, and if anyone's wants to have known my character before being assigned for this mission, I can edit my bio to make that happen haha

I might make the IC later tonight, it will probably be us on Earth getting ready to jump in to the UNSC carrier to get going, that way our characters kinda have that "Moving in" feel and letting characters get to know each other haha, and it'll give the people who reserved a spot to get a CS up

Sorry for delay, Sangheili is coming tonight, just had work kicking my ass. Back to normal now :P

No worries, happens to the best of us haha

I'm going to post the IC really soon, but any last minute CS's and reserved spots will have time to be accepted once its up!

It's going to be the squad meeting in front of and on the ship, so there will be time for people to finish, and get a post up and running haha

Name: Julie B162

Age: 27

Race: Human

Class: Spartan IV (Former Spartan III)

Rank: Staff Sargent

Appearance With Armor:

Appearance Without Armor:

Bio: Julie was born and raised just outside of Atlanta Georgia September 29th 2530, she grew up never knowing who her real family was and spent most of her time with Raymond the two of them knew each other when they were little kids. Julie would spend most of her time causing some mischief with kids and adults around the orphanage, when she turned six Julie was abducted by ONI to be put into the Spartan III Program and taken to Onyx which was now called Trevelyan. Julie spent the rest of her childhood training with the other Spartan III's of Beta Company, she was eventually gone through the training and augmentation and survived. Due to Julie's skills she was put into The Headhunters, going behind enemy lines and taking out Covenant targets and bases Julie during her time behind enemy lines has learned how to speak Sangheili, Unggoy, Kig-yar and Jiralhanae. Having survived missions behind enemy lines as a Headhunter Julie was sent to Reach when word came out that it was attack by The Covenant.

That is where she met Raymond again though she didn't recognize him at first she aided his team with getting civilians out of the major city, Julie was then sent to Earth shortly before The Covenant attacked. She lived through when the Flood eventually came into South Africa, when the war ended Julie was offered to join the Spartan IV Program along with the other surviving Spartan II's and III's. Julie participated in both the First Battle of Requiem and the Second Battle of Requiem, now she is assigned to Tidal Wave.
Personality: Julie can be funny and sarcastic at times, but knows when to be serious and when not to be, she tends to be very quiet during combat but when off duty she tends to joke around and seems to be carefree most of the time.

Skills: Linguist, hacker specialist, covert ops, and pilot.

Family/Loved Ones: None she grew up as an orphan in an orphanage.

Other:

another interesting character! haha accepted!

I may or may not remake/edit my character, though I'm not sure. I'm not entirely pleased with her.
Though if I do she'll still have the demolitions role. I'll let you know if I decide to make the edit.