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...and the UNSC is scrambling to figure out how one fights a losing war. Our enemies, The Covenant, are an alien conglomerate society hellbent on exterminiating Humanity in a holy war. First contact was made more than a year ago. Since then, the Covenant have been busy. They've compltely destroyed four planets; Harvest, Bliss, Circinius IV, and Biko. Humanity is outgunned, outnumbered, and still divided. Old wounds from the many Outer Colony insurrections, anger over the "reorganization" of the Colonial Military Administration, and the continued actions of the United Rebel Front keep tensions high, even as aliens reduce the surface of colonies to glass.

For the past year, Humanity has been on the defensive, suffering constant losses. Now, Admiral Preston J. Cole leads humanity's first offensive. He intends to retake Harvest. Though a ruined planet, unsuitable for sustained human life, taking it would be a massive morale boost. ONI specialists figure that Harvest will be back in human hands within the year but the good Admiral isn't so sure.

But the Battle for Harvest is far from the only battle on Humanity's plate. We've got a whole host of UEG Colonies just ripe for Covenant Cleansing. This is like no war we've ever fought. We need good leaders, good ships, and good soldiers if we're going to survive. If we want to win? Well, we'll need a miracle, and a few heroes. In 20 years, Humanity will probably remember those freak-shows in the power armor better than they'll remember us, but if Humanity even exists in 20 years, that'll be all the legacy we'll need.

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Halo: Acceptable Losses is an RP in which players will control UNSC Marines, instead of Spartans. Acceptable Losses takes place early in the Human-Covenant War, A full five years prior to the earliest game (Halo Wars). We're going to be focusing on the camaraderie that one finds on the battlefield and the thought of soldiers in a hopeless war. Player Character death will be a major part of this RP, and not in a "you made a mistake and now I'm killing off your character" sort of way. Instead, I'll be encouraging you to occasionally kill off characters. I intend for the RP to span the whole war, so there'll be 20+ years for that to happen. Characters will die, be promoted, desert, maybe even defect to the Rebels. The point is, I want to to have a changing cast. By the end, we may even be facing a Theseus's Ship sort of situation, with none of the OG characters remaining.

As of now, our characters are in the 17th Marine Regimental Combat Team, 53rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 9th Marine Expeditionary Force. We'll be only very loosely sticking to Halo canon. The Harvest Campaign that starts the RP is a real event in the Halo timeline, but moving forward future battles may be completely fictitious. We see but a fraction of the Halo Universe in-game, and it would be cool to expand on that. Knowledge of the Universe is not required. I'll be doing a bit of research to form a sort of "codex" in the OOC of the actual thread, and even then, strict adherence to canon and the rules of the universe if by no means required.

I'm looking for 8 people at the most. Marine Squads have 10-13 soldiers, but I want room for NPC's and extra player characters.

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• GM's word is law, as is the word of my Co-GM's. That being said, I'm pretty laid back. You may disagree with me, and I will take your concerns into consideration, but I will be making the final decision.
• Typical RP rules. Don't godmod, metagame, etc.
• Due to the very nature of this RP, there will be blood. Aliens will be blasted apart, humans will get run through with energy swords or stomped by Brutes, and characters will very likely use coarse language. That being said, do be over 18 if you intend to join.
• Both men and women, of all manner of sexualities, serve in the UNSC. This RP will be spanning over the course of at least 26 years. I expect, at some point, that love and sex will come up. Keep it tasteful and abide by Guild Rules and we should be fine.
• Contribute to the story. You should be interacting with your fellow RP members, and your character(s) should be interacting with other characters. Throw ideas out there! Plot!
• We will have a posting order. The posting order is not to be broken unless I or a Co-GM allow it. If you need some time, let us know, and we'll let someone else go ahead. If someone is taking awhile, we'll go ahead and skip them, anyway. If someone is taking a while and is holding up proceedings, I will warn them, and if the warning is not heeded, I will kill their character. Character death, even in this case, is not the end of one's involvement in the RP, unless they want it to be.
• Finally and most importantly; Wheaton's Law. Don't be a dick. Of all the rules you might break, this is the one I will come down most harshly on. Respect your peers.

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Special thanks to @CaptainBritton for this!

WIP

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The date is March 3rd, 2526. Whiskey Squad is aboard the UNSC Eternity Abroad, a Pheonix-class Colony Ship repurposed into a Battle Carrier. In a few short hours, they will board a Pelican Dropship and take part in one of the first ground battles of The Harvest Campaign.

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Also, we have a Discord!

Wooo, it's actually here! The hype is (still) real!

Room for an app? Not such a fan of the games themselves, but HALOs universe always seems pretty interesting

Still in.

Woah, this RP seems great. I've always wanted to do a Halo RP, especially one like this. Didn't see the interest check, so hopefully I can get in to this one!

On the "relationships section"...

If you'd like, you can fill it out after more sheets come in. It's just for pre existing friendships and shit.

On a related note, if anyone was planning on playing a Former CMA character, let me know. Our characters probably knew each other.

Is there room for a newbie?

this looks fun

Alright. As of 10:11 PM Central Standard time, I'm closing the thread. Anyone who has expressed interest so far, either on the thread or on the interest check, may make a sheet. From here on out, spots will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. I was going to operate on 8, including myself, but we'll make it 8 plus me. Datadogie, Driving Park, and NarayanK have filled three spots. CaptainBritton and FrostedCaramel have proved active in the discord, so that's 2 more filled. Three spots left, guys. Go wild. Sorry, if you end up getting screwed by the timezones or something. That's just the way it happened. Spots will probably open up, eventually.

-Fisticuffs

(Oh yeah fore I forget. I'm in the middle of screwing around with friends so this is gonna be rough. I would fix but I don't really have the time to fix. What can I say GTA got me sorry)
Name: Adam Smith
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Jericho VII
Rank: Private
Role:corpsman (maybe)
Experience: Adam enlisted at the age of 18 with the UNSC marine corps. Since enlisting Adam has seen combat against the insurrectionists multiple times. Ranging from small hit and run attacks by the rebels to large scale urban suppression. In the line of duty Adam has suffered two injures, one from a young woman who stabbed him in his side and the second from a frag grenade.
Bio:Adam was born on Jericho VII to a retired major James Smith and his wife Dr Susan Smith. Adam is the eldest of four children with the second being his sister Alicia(17), his younger brother Thomas (16) and James (14).
Adam's parents ran a clinic for a tiny farming community, much of his youth consisted of him helping his parents in the clinic. Mainly due to his parents influence Adam spent a lot of his free time studying to become a doctor. While he was okay with becoming a doctor, the constant studying gave him very little time to make friends. Life would have ended rather boring for Adam, had his Uncle not gotten involved. During the fighting between the UNSC and insurrection, Adam's cousin Lewis was killed in action when his squad was ambushed. At Lewis's funeral Adam met many of his cousins squadmates. The first thing Adam noticed was a sense of brotherhood the Marines had. They spoke about the action they saw, the way Lewis always made the squad laugh. If nothing else that was Adam wanted. Not long after the funeral Adam enlisted, eventually training as a corpsman and seeing action with the rest of his unit.
Personality: On the battlefield Adam is a very serious individual, often coming across as rude. Adam will do his best to stabilize the wounded, no matter the danger he will run out to treat the wounded.
When not in combat Adam is an odd individual. He feels pride in being one of many who safe guard their families from the genocidal alien threat. He cares deeply for his squad, in his own weird little way.While he tries to be friendly with his squad some could see the stress of his duty weighs heavily on Adam. The only solace Adam has is the letters and video chats from his family. While he makes time to reread his letters Adam does enjoy a number of things to take his mind off the war.
Appearance:
Gear:medical gear plus whatever the GM thinks I need.
Relationships:N/A swigglediggle

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Name:
Edwin Tai

Age:
28

Gender:
Male

Homeworld:
Mars, Olympus Highlands

Rank:
Corporal

Role:
Anti-Armor/Sapper

Experience:
Seven years as a UNSC Marine. Following his firing from the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards, with no other options left to him due to the circumstances of his firing Tai enlisted in the UNSC Marines at the age of twenty one in the year 2519. Tai went on to take part in Operation: TREBUCHET in the Eridanis System as a part of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Force, facing Insurrectionist forces over the course of the next four years before being reassigned to Reach following injuries sustained in combat.

Bio:
Born in a suburb of the Olympus Highlands; located on, around, and even under Olympus Mons; Edwin Tai was raised as an only child by his parents Melissa and Jeong Tai both of which were biology professors at a university located an hours travel from the Olympus Highlands. Although raised by two successful individuals, Edwin found himself mixed up in the wrong crowd by the end of of his highschool education. His parents, not very happy with his life choices and the fact his grades were not high enough to land him in any of the very competitive universities on Mars pulled a few strings with some of the professors they knew in the School of Engineering at their university and landed the then delinquent Tai a job working in orbit at the Reyes-McLees Martian Orbital Shipyards.

For the next three years Tai would work in orbit above Mars, the realization that he couldn't be the spoiled and delinquent child he had been in school hit him quickly as everyday he watched his home pass below him. Soon enough Tai found himself taking pride in his work, his a hands taking part in the construction of many of the great ships of the UNSC and CMA Naval forces. Apt with a welding torch, Tai was quickly placed in an apprenticeship position and expected to learn the trade within his first year. By the end of the year the Master welder that Tai had been shadowing decided that he was knowledgeable enough to work on simpler welds without supervision. Satisfied, the yard foreman would cut Tai loose on smaller welds and expect him to continue following Journeymen and Master welders whenever his welds were complete.

Following an unfortunate accident on a CMA vessel that resulted in the death of twelve CMA sailors when welds gave way to hard vacuum under a high-g maneuver, Tai and two Journeymen that had worked on that portion of the ship were let go in order for Reyes-McLees to hold onto the trust of the UNSC and CMA.

Out of a job, and his parents now unwilling to house him, Tai found himself outside of a UNSC Marine Corps recruiting depot and signing his life away by the end of the month. Following graduation from boot camp, Tai was assigned to the forces that were currently taking part in Operation TREBUCHET as a replacement for a recently injured Marine. Taking part in a handful of smaller operations against the Insurrectionist forces.

On Eridanus II on the 19th of March, 2523, a then fireteam leader Corporal Tai would find his Warthog mounted patrol of two fireteams ambushed in a small farming hamlet. Following an improvised explosive devices detonation beneath the lead Warthog to open the ambush, Corporal Tai and his fireteam would find themselves pinned by effective fire from two heavily entrenched machine gun positions at nearly one hundred fifty meters to their left. Leading a desperate diversionary assault with one other member of his fireteam, Corporal Tai and Private First Class Leads would draw the entrenched positions fires away from the two Warthogs long enough for the remaining fireteam members to retrieve the two pinned survivors from the Warthogs wreckage. Tai and Leads would go on to successfully destroy one of the two machine gun nests with a set of five bound together grenades before being pinned by the second machine gun.

Pinned by the now destroyed first machine gun nest, Tai and Leads would attempt to make their way back to their Warthog after laying smoke but would both be hit by the random fire coming through the smoke screen. Following what would turn out to be a forty minute long fire fight which culminated in the destruction of the second machine gun nest by a flight of UNSC Hornets, Tai and Leads would be CASEVAC'd by Pelican Gunship. Corporal Tai would be awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for his actions that day as well as a Purple Heart for his injuries while Private First Class Leads would be posthumously awarded a Bronze Star for outstanding heroism in the face of overwhelming odds and a Purple Heart for his ultimate sacrifice during the ambush.

Corporal Tai was sent to Reach to recover in the more capable medical facilities there where he would remain until the beginning of the Human-Covenant War. Following his full recuperation Tai was offered the chance to attend the Marine Sapper course, where he would learn how to effectively using many forms of explosives and weapons systems to breach buildings, deny areas, reclaim areas, and destroy enemy forces in battle. Following his successful graduation he was promoted to Sergeant, which would be taken away just six months later following a bar fight with a Second Lieutenant that resulted in a large amount of property damage.

Personality:
Tai can normally be found pouring over the latest in available data sets on Covenant weapons systems or reading some sort of technical specifications manual. He is known to be sarcastic at all times and tends to get right to the problem at hand when in combat. Outside of combat Tai is rather easy to approach, easy going and sociable, Tai has no problem putting a stop on what he is doing to be an ear for a younger Marine or Sailor and enjoys the company of others even while reading. Tai also a tendency to make distasteful jokes with great timing, much to the chagrin of his superiors.

Appearance

Gear:
MA5B ICWS
M6E Magnum
1x Thermite Grenade
1x Satchel Charge
M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon
UNSC Battle Dress Uniform
Multi-Tool
Standard Issue Combat Knife

Relationships:
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Awards and Accommodations:
01FEB2523 -- Good Conduct Medal
01JUN2523 -- Purple Heart for Injuries sustained in support of Operation: TREBUCHET on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for Heroic Service while serving on Epsilon Eridanus on 19MAR2523
01JUN2523 -- Operation: TREBUCHET Participation Medal
01NOV2523 -- Sapper Designation earned after successful graduation from course located on Reach.
24MAY2524 -- Non-Judicial Punishment resulting in demotion from Sergeant to Corporal- Assaulting or Willfully Disobeying a Superior Officer

Name: Toby Skinner.
Age: 26.
Gender: Male.
Home world: Earth, Sol system.
Rank: Private First Class.
Role: Rifleman (Whiskey 2-4)
Experience: He's only ever seen the Covenant once. He almost never even fired a shot. Very inexperienced against the covenant.
Bio: Born, then soon orphaned, Toby grew up in a group home with other children. Being very mischievous and care free. Holding this childish role throughout his teens, he surprisingly joined the military. He trained himself in self control and they trained him in discipline. He worked extremely to build himself. He continued to work until he got a promotion to PFC.
Then he heard of the war, how badly we were losing. So, he signed up to be shipped out to help. He heard that they were sending reinforcements, he was a little too exited for it.
Personality: Joyful and easily intrigued. It's not hard for him to find an objective and strive to overcome it. But, at times, he can be carefree and idiotic. He does have a serious side that will show from time to time.
Appearance:


Gear:
Relationships: None.

@FrostedCaramel Fantastic sheet, welcome to the crew. I'll throw him up when I get the chance.

@Raknarion Awesome. All I'm going to nitpick you on is a little discrepancy. He just came out of boot camp, but he's a Private First Class. To my knowledge, in the real USMC, completing training makes you a PFC (according to Wikipedia). However, in the Halo Universe, marines straight out of training are Privates and are later promoted to PFC (Accord to the Halo Wiki). If you could change either his experience or his rank, then you're all set.

@caliban22 There's nothing really wrong about your sheet, but I'm going to ask that you clean it up a bit. Just make it a little nicer looking, so it's not just a wall of text, and see if you can patch up a few of the grammatical errors that I caught. Other than that, there's the fact that you mention Adam's uncle, and then promptly go on to talking about his cousin, totally forgetting about the uncle. Essentially, it's an alright sheet, it just needs to be cleaned up a bit.

@CaptainBritton Alright. Looks good. I'll put him up when I get the chance.

@ReusableSword

Your CS is currently lacking in the character appearance aspect, you'll want to put a description of the character if you're not using an image. I'm (personally) willing to let your character keep the rank of sergeant, as he is the second in command, however this can easily be overturned by @Fisticuffs.

I do find it iffy that Victor was able to keep the ONI operations a secret if 'his squad was constantly off mission'. If they were so, his superiors would be asking a lot of questions, I imagine. ONI usually forms teams by taking it's 'chosen' individuals from their original positions and making a new team out of them, as evidenced by the "Kilo-Five" trilogy, the team usually sticking together for months if not years with collars around their necks to be dragged at ONI's willing. They also have their own teams, for example, ONI Recon 111, the team which found and reported the Ark Portal during the second stage of the Battle of Earth, during the excavation.

ONI do, however, use mainstream infantry assets in some of their operations. There has been reported cases that ONI sends an attached operative with mainstream forces to make sure everything goes to their willing. It'd make more sense in your sheet if you put that the team was being ordered to go and do that stuff for ONI (with an attached ONI agent) than going off mission, which would lead him to the platoon leader's doorstep and if he was blatantly ignoring orders while doing the ONI operation, probably to a court marshal.

(I'm not even mentioning the parts where he individually gets pulled from his squad)

It'd be great if you could change your CS a bit based on that information.