Halo: The Great War
A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil - William Hooke
Preface
After some time being away from RPing at all, I have returned with this. I was playing some of the Halo series lately. I realized you never get to see what happens from the eyes of an UNSC soldier other than their shitty attempt with ODST. So I was this to start off in the initial Human-Covenant War and perhaps in time, lead further into the series. We will play as the marines, not Super-Soldiers, no John-117, none of it. We will be the marines, the Helljumpers, etc. I want to create our own original characters, fire teams, battalions and so far in the world of Halo.
Background
Humanity and the Covenant first came into direct contact on February 3, 2525, when a Kig-Yar Frigate, the Minor Transgression, discovered a human ship that had dropped out of slipspace due to a problem with the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine. The Kig-Yar raided that ship and another one. The Harvest shipping operations AI, Sif, found out about the raids as a result of the distress beacon from the ships (although she and an undercover ONI spook on Harvest thought that Insurrectionists, not aliens, were behind the raids). The spook set a trap for the Kig-Yar which resulted in a minor skirmish between Staff Sergeants Nolan Byrne and Avery Johnson and the Kig-Yar privateers. When the Covenant returned with another ship and a contingent of Brutes, the UNSC proposed a meeting (via pictogram) to trade. The Covenant met the UNSC on Harvest, but were only interested in claiming the relics that the Luminary had detected on Harvest, completely oblivious that the humans were the "relics" in question. The meeting was botched after Osmo, a member of the Colonial Militia, was attacked by a nervous Grunt, part of a second Covenant force sent to look for the relics. As a result, a firefight erupted between the two groups and the Covenant retreated back to their ship.
The Prophets declared Humanity to be an affront to their gods (later propaganda would declare humans had inhabited and "defiled" Forerunner artifacts and worlds), and called for a crusade against the Human species. The Covenant's final objective was nothing less than total genocide.
Unknown to all but the highest echelons of leadership, the campaign to exterminate Humanity was an attempt by the Prophets to maintain political and religious power. In truth, the Prophets had discovered Forerunner objects that the Luminary revealed on Harvest were actually Humans (which the Prophets interpreted as meaning that the Humans were descendants of the Forerunners, or possibly surviving Forerunners). Initially, the Covenant interpreted the glyph from the luminary as "Reclamation". The Forerunner AI 032 Mendicant Bias revealed that the interpretation was incorrect: the glyph meant "Reclaimer". The Prophets Regret and Truth realized that if the Humans were Forerunners, then it was possible to be left behind when the prophesied Great Journey occurred. This stood in direct contradiction to the Covenant religion. The Hierarchs, recognizing that this truth would destroy the Covenant, declared war on Humanity, hoping the truth would perish with their newly declared foe.
Objective
We will be part of the 58th Marine Division. I figured since Halo has combat in space as well, we will be attached to be a Battle Group, which is force of ships but will be limited. Our goal is flesh out the soldiers of 58th Marine Division and the Battle Group. You can choose almost any character as you want. You can be an Admiral and take control of a ship that is part of the Battle group or regimental commanders and down to battalion commanders. Think of this as a wider scale of Halo Wars, but with more grit and darkness that Halo didn't quite touch. We will have many characters, as during war, people will die.
A wiki explained the make-up of the UNSC. UNSC Military Organization
As I said earlier, you don't have to play as a regimental commander, you can create a battalion under another player, granted that they're a regimental commander.
Our story will begin during the Retake of Harvest and may led to many places in the Halo Universe. Like I said, I will flesh this out more and provide more information if people are interested.
