[OOC] [HALO: The Erathellian Awakening]

[WardenCelestine]

[HALO: The Erathellian Awakening]

Music to set the mood.

(Prologue - Part 1) Inner Colonies - Space Station Colistis - Year 2557 - Universal Time: 10:05

A soft, electronic beep came from the personal data pad that sat upon the metal desk to the left of Andromedai's bed. For a moment, it seemed as if the female spartan would sleep through the alarm, though with a sudden movement, she rolled onto her left side and quickly got out of bed. Her left hand lightly brushed across her personal data pad and its alarm instantly stopped, now leaving the room filled with the soft hum of a fan she kept on for white noise. Daily tasks were taken care of before she equipped the under armor that every other Spartan wore before fully suiting up in armor. The door to her private room shut closed behind her with a soft hiss as she left her room. She walked right past the mess hall where other Spartans and crew of the station were eating breakfast and conversing about any number of topics. After a short while of walking, she found herself upon the Command and Operations floor of the Colitis space station. "Morning Andromedai, skipped the mess hall again?" a normal sized man with average military physique and dark brown hair stood in near a large interactive holographic projector in the middle of the room.

"I am not hungry, Colonel Icarus, so I made my way here immediately." Andromedai folded her arms over her chest and stared at Icarus before he waved her over to his side. "Neil has something for you to look into while I take my leave for a little while, I need to check over some reports of my own in my personal quarters." Icarus left the command and operations floor without another word. Neil, the stations AI, quickly saluted Andromedai then brought up the image of Requiem and began to talk. "I trust that you remember the Forerunner planets we have discovered in the past, correct? Very recently, we managed to find another one of these precious and unique planets near the outer-rim colonies." Andromedai nodded her head a couple of time to let Neil know that she knew of the Forerunner planets they had discovered in the past.

"That does not surprise me at all Neil, what makes this planet so unique though?" Asked Andromedai, watching Neil closely with sapphire blue eyes. "Well Commander Andromedai, we have received an encrypted message buried deep within an SOS message that is coming from the planet. Here, let me play what I have been able to piece together." There was a moment of silence before the sound of what appeared to be a male human speaking quickly in between panicked, painful sounding breaths. "This...Spartan Solares...Argent Dawn...We...Forerunner world...attacked by...forces. Shortly...sky...crashed...surface. Those...appears to be Covenant forces...surface...Due to...I was only able to offer...I am alone...the enemy...captured...energy..."super weapon"..."composer"...I...but in the end...good for us...shit..." This was followed by the sound of some sort of weapon being fired. Neil glanced up at Andromedai who was now lost in thought.

Suddenly and out of nowhere, she asked a number of questions including when the message had been received and how long it would take for him to completely decode the message. "My systems are telling me that we received this message last night, around six hours ago. As for completely decoding the message, I should be able to do that rather quickly." At that moment, Icarus returned with his own personal data pad before asking if Neil had played the message back to Andromedai. "One moment, alright I have the message completed and you are not going to like what you are about to hear." said Neil before playing the completed message.

"This is Spartan Solares of the Argent Dawn. We approached a Forerunner world and were immediately attacked by the planet's defence forces.Shortly after, we were shot down from the sky and crashed on the planet's surface. Those that survived the crash were picked off by what appears to be Covenant forces who have set up bases upon the world's surface. Due to the fact that I am severely wounded, I was only able to offer some help to the others, but now I am alone and may fall victim to the enemy or end up being captured. I did manage to do some scouting while I had the energy, I heard talk of a "super weapon" and a "composer" device. I am unsure of what they plan to do with these but in the end, none of it can be good for us. Ah shit, here we go..." This was followed by the sound of automatic gunfire before the message went silent.

"Spartan Solares? She left with the Argent dawn over six months ago. The crew was never heard from again until now, we have to go after her. Did you inform ONI of the situation?" asked Andromedai only mere seconds before Neil responded. "I just sent the message and a request to engage to ONI, I am currently awaiting their reply." Suddenly, Colonel Icarus's Data Pad received a message informing him to report with Andromedai to a station known as "Obsidian" and that star-chart directions would be directed to his personal ship momentarily. "Well, it seems ONI came through on something for once and we will be heading to this planet immediately. Andromedai, there is a message for you here as well, it says that ONI is getting Team Rogue Seven back together again for this. If I remember correctly, you were the head of the team, weren't you?" Andromedai nodded her head, "Yes sir, that is correct. We were one of the best squads around, it will be good to see my old squad mates again." After saying goodbye to Neil, Icarus and Andromedai went their separate ways to prepare for the mission.

A word from the GM's.

What you just read is my long intro for my RP called [HALO: The Erathellian Awakening.] We will each be playing a Class 4 Spartan from the elite team known as Rogue Seven. Each and every one of you will have received a personal message from ONI, informing you that you have new orders to report to the space-station known as Coltists and to board Colonel Icarus's Charon-class light frigate know as Nova, which is waiting to depart in docking bay [A33]. Once everyone has boarded the spaceship, we will begin the story and venture forth towards the ONI Space-Station known as Obsidian where the Orion will be waiting for us.

The Orion will be fully crewed and prepared to depart on our very important mission to rescue Spartan Solares, to put an end to the Covenant forces upon the Forerunner planet of Erathell and to learn it's secrets. There is more than the covenant to worry about upon the planet and in the story though. We will be traveling to many other worlds, visiting space stations and boarding other ships throughout the story. This RP takes place right at the start of the Halo 5 timeline. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, ideas for the RP, or need any help, then please let either myself or my CO-GM know.

The Orion

An Autumn Class Heavy Cruiser that is roughly based off of the Pillar of Autumn's design. This heavy cruiser has been upgraded with new technology and equipment to make it a much more powerful, effective and deadly ship than its predecessor. When the UNSC needed another heavy cruiser to keep up with the Infinity, the plans to create the Orion were quickly put into place and production began. Ten Years passed while the ship was built upon a top secret ONI facility within a massive asteroid belt, hiding the facility and it's secrets from those who were not authorized to know of its existence. When its construction was complete, the Orion was still kept a secret from many people, never leaving its hanger for an actual mission. Test flights were carried out however and the ship handled exceptionally through all the simulations and real life challenges it was put through. To this day, the Orion remains silent and still inside of its hanger within the secret ONI facility, waiting to be brought to life and offer its advanced services to all those who called it home.

Shortly after the discovery of Requiem, the Forerunner Shield World and the return of Master Chief, ONI discussed the option of officially bringing the Orion online adding it to their military forces. When the all clear was given, a large number of UNSC and ONI members were trained on how to operate the Orion's new technology. Colonel Icarus, a long time surviving pilot and veteran of many wars was hand picked by his superiors to lead the Orion and her crew across the stars. Alongside Colonel Icarus is Commander Andromedai Morgenstern, a generation four spartan. Andromedai is in control of all the Spartan teams upon the Orion. She has proven herself in combat time and time again, going above and beyond that of many other Spartans that she has worked alongside.

Within the cargo deck of the ship, large numbers of equipment, weapons, gear and vehicles are stored and ready to be used at a moment's notice. Among these are the M808B Main Battle Tank, M12 Force Application Vehicle, M312 Heavy Recovery Vehicle, HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark IX Armor Defense System, M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle, HRUNTING Mark III Exoskeleton, M510 Siegework/Ultra-Heavy Mobile Anti-Aircraft Weapons Platform, D77-TC Pelican, AV-14 Attack VTOL, Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle, AC-220 Gunship, D81-LRT Condor, D96-TCE Albatross, GA-TL1 LongSword, with many others and their assorted variants.

Alongside all of the new technology that had been installed into the Orion, the interior of the ship was made to be much more comfortable for those living upon it. Many disagreed with this costly addition but in the end, came to realize that this was no ordinary UNSC Naval ship. Every member of the crew came to be thankful for the costly addition, quickly spreading rumors and words of praise about how advanced the ship was, including how clean and new everything looked and felt.

Image of the Orion

Rules

Here are some simple rules for the RP.

1: No God-modding.

2: No Meta-Gaming.

3: Be respectful.

4: If someone in the RP group is bothering you, please let me know via a PM.

5: You are required to have your posts be two paragraphs long. If this is an issue, please let me know via a PM.

6: If you are busy in real life and won't be able to post for 5 or more days, please let me know via a PM.

7: If you are going to leave the RP, please let me know via a PM so I can plan ahead.

8: Please post your character sheet in the OOC section. Once it is approved, please post it in the characters tab so I can keep track of everything.

Character Sheet

Name:

Age:

Sex:

Rank: (You can be any rank below Commander. Please refer to the chart posted below for available ranks in the UNSC.)

Appearance: (You can use a picture for this if you wish, just please make sure it's something unique.)

Weapons: (Please only stick with weapons that are from the Halo Universe.)

Items/Gear: (Please only stick with gear and items that are from the Halo Universe.)

History: (Can be classified, but your awesome if you write something here.)

Personality:

UNSC Ranks

Halo Wikipedia/Halo Nation

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Approved Characters.

GM: @Andromedai = Andromedai Morgenstern - Spartan F22R

CO-GM: @Nallore = Riley Parish

1: @Arcarius = Koda 'Pouncer' Omicron - Spartan F428

2: @Hopeless = Gerard Wulff - Spartan 396

3: @Silentsniper211 = Carly Renton

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Legal

All rights belong to Microsoft, Bungie, and 343 Industries.

EDIT - #4 - 11/20/2016

I am currently working with the SDK/Hammer Editor to create a couple visual representations of locations in the RP.

[WardenCelestine]

@Sleeth@Silentsniper211@Arcarius@CGinger@Hopeless@caliban22@Thanatos@Nallore: The RP is up, I am looking forward to seeing people's character sheets and to starting the story.

[Arcarius]

Name: Koda 'Pouncer' Omicron - F428

Age: 32

Sex: Male

Rank: Major grade 2

- Appearance

Primary: M45D Tactical Shotgun or Sniper Rifle System 99-Series 5 Anti-Matériel (SRS99-S5 AM)

Secondary: M6C/SOCOM

Items/Gear: Combat knife x2, Fragmentation Grenade x2, Smoke Grenade x2

History: Earning the nickname Pouncer from his ODST days, Koda is someone of little to no words, getting him to speak is rare, instead he uses gestures to communicate, when he does speak it to make a point or to protest against an idea. Koda is also most comfortable equipped with a jetpack. He was earmarked by his commanders for his cool head and superb marksmanship later in his career. Koda prefers either a long range rifle or a shotgun so he can get in close, When Rogue Seven split apart Koda was reassigned and relocated to protect a science installation which would later get attacked by the Covenant, during the fight Koda came across he could only assume a high-ranking elite with an energy sword, had spent all of not most of his ammo defending the area he was assigned to, only armed with two combat knifes Koda fought long and hard with the elite for what seemed hours as he made his moves carefully, but after making a mistake in the elites movement he would get his right arm severely wounded but not before inflicting his own devastating blow to the elite before being rescue by reinforcements who would push the Covenant forces back quickly.

Afterward Koda would get heavy medical attention for the next five months, and have to get his right arm from the shoulder down amputated and replaced with a cybernetic arm, which he would take another 3 months to get used to. After insisting he was still fit for combat Koda was put to the test to prove himself, which he did with great precision and quickly shut the critics out. He would get reassigned and relocated to the Colistis Space Station where he would get a message while in-route by ONI and ordered to go to docking bay [A33].

Personality: Being a class four Spartan, Koda has spent many long years tempering himself to be incredibly patient and understanding, with an optimistic and altruistic attitude. Experience has made him rather pragmatic with regards to most things. He also has developed a confrontational attitude with regards to authority figures he feels have not earned their position or have lost sight of their purpose. In all forms of combat both long range or close quarters, Koda fights with a brutally efficient, pragmatic style, free of extravagance or flourish. He's there to fight and win, and doesn't mind taking a few hits along the way. As a final note: It is highly advisable not to get on Koda's bad side. Though he is rather slow to anger, understanding of people's flaws, and easy to get along with, shows of blatant, inexplicable malicious intent are often met with an incredibly hostile response. But his true anger is as cold as the void, and he is very patient and can be tremendously sadistic, and very forgiving of himself for whatever he does if he truly feels justified.

[Hopeless]

...Connecting to ONI Database

....Connected

....Accessing Spartan Program IV

....Accessing Rogue Seven

....Accessing Spartan-396

....Accessing Psychiatric Files

....Uploading File

....Upload Complete

Spartan-396

To the Commanding Officer of Team Rogue Seven,

The Wulff family, consisting of Logan Wulff, Sophie Wulff, and their son Lance Wulff moved from the state of Wisconsin, Earth to the Planet of Harvest, nine years before the initial engagement of the Human-Covenant war. In essence, there was no difference from their life when they moved to Harvest. They managed their own farm for several years. Life was relatively peaceful for this small family.

Fast forward two years after their arrival on Harvest, Sophie became pregnant with a second child, whom was named REDACTED. Logan was not REDACTED biological father. Sophie had committed adultery with REDACTED. Logan was led to believe that REDACTED was his biological son. Upon finding out that REDACTED was not his son, Logan and Sophie had divorced. Although, Logan still retained legal parental rights over REDACTED. After the divorce, Sophie Wulff moved back to Earth to be closer with her parents and sister. Logan Wulff remained on Harvest, working as a farm-hand. REDACTED said his father became increasingly unstable, abusing alcohol and later on his sons.

During the first contact on Harvest, Lance was of legal age to join the Militia Defense that was created to defend Harvest. REDACTED was only the age of seven and remained with his father. The Governor of Harvest ordered immediate evacuation of the planet due to the oncoming threat of Covenant forces. Lance Wulff died at the hands of Covenant forces that engaged on the surface of Harvest. Logan Wulff was killed during the evacuation process. REDACTEDmanaged to escape with numerous other survivors.

At legal age, REDACTED joined the UNSC marines, following similar steps as his half-brother. REDACTED show astonishing prowess during his time with the marines, quickly rising through the ranks among his peers. He remained at rank due to declination of further promotion. When the Spartan-IV Program became online, REDACTED was in the Mid-Upper ranks for candidates. He had performed even greater after the Program and was attached to Rogue Seven, under your command, REDACTED

The few sessions I have had with REDACTED has shown maybe promising and disturbing features. I have read several battle reports on missions that REDACTED has partaken in. He is clearly a strong-willed individual, ready to lay his life on the line for those who fight beside him and the defense of all humanity. It seems as though he has trouble to following orders, as several reports have claimed that he has done high-risk actions, putting himself in harms way against the orders of his commanding officers. He is no doubt a warrior at heart. Overall, I believe he will perform exceptionally better now that his team is being rebuilt. I know he had a hard time during it's pacification and has missed several sessions with me.

REDACTED is somewhat troubled. The split between his non-biological father and his biological mother has left unopened wounds. I believe the abuse from said father has also solidified these wounds with his abuse. He still suffers from the lose of his half-brother and the unknowning of his mother, whom has been reported deceased as of last month. He has attempted to deflect many of my questions with humor. REDACTED claims that he has trouble sleeping at night and often takes walks to combat this. He has an immense rage in him and could prove deadly to anyone during these moments. He has begun self-medicating as well. I had advised that he would remain in treatment until he was more stable for the team, but ONI ultimately disagreed. All I ask is that during his free time, he continues his sessions.

- Laura Telawny M.D.

Character Info

Name: Gerard Wulff

Age: 37

Sex: Male

Rank: Master Gunnery Sergeant

Suit

Out of Suit

Primary Weapon: M739 Light Machine Gun
Secondary Weapon: M45D Tactical Shotgun

Items/Gear: 1x Combat knife, 2x Frag Grenades, 1x Explosive Charge

[WardenCelestine]

@Arcarius & @Hopeless You are both approved, please post your character sheets in the characters tab.

[Sleeth]

Getting out of work, but I'll toss mine up when I get home and have time to write. I'm going to transfer a character from another Halo RP that fell out. Hope that's okay?

[WardenCelestine]

@Sleeth As long as you follow the character sheet I have set up, that's fine.

I require more character sheets!

@Nallore will have her CS up tomorrow.

[Arcarius]

Am I free to make an entree post?

[WardenCelestine]

@Arcarius@Hopeless: If your approved, you are free to post. :3

[Hopeless]

@Andromedai :o, alright, I will get something up in a few hours.

[WardenCelestine]

@Hopeless Thanks!

I need to start pestering the other people who said they were interested. D:<

[Hopeless]

*ahem*

That should get their attention.

[Nallore]

@Andromedai Sorry for my lateness to the party here is my character. :)

Spartan Riley Parish

Name: Riley Parish

Age: 35

Sex: Female

Rank: Lieutenant

Appearance:

With Armor

Without Armor

Weapons:
MA5D ICWS
M6D Magnum
3x Frag grenades.

Items/Gear: First aid kit, 3x clips for both weapons.

History: Riley was originally born and raised on Mars, both of her parents were apart of the UNSC Navy both of them were commanding their own ships, they were veterans fighting against the insurrectionists. When the war with the Covenant started Riley was born and her mother was on leave to raise her daughter, growing up she lived a pretty normal life she rarely ever saw her father due to the war. But she decided to become a marine and fight on the frontlines and help defend humanity even though they were losing the war. She rose through the ranks of the marines very quickly, that was when her superior suggested that she go for the ODST's. Riley spent several long grueling months to a year through their intensive training, which she eventually passed, when the Battle of Reach started that was where she had heard the news of the death of her mother and father.

Riley was stationed on one of the defense platforms on Earth when the UNSC ordered the homefleet back to the Sol System to defend Earth, that's when Regrets fleet came through. She and her squad defended against their Covenant borders as the Covenant started planting bombs on the defense platforms. When the UNSC finally got most of the Covenant off the second wave carrying Truth's fleet to Earth came several weeks later. She was one of the few to battle against the Covenant at Voi, then the Flood came to Earth and the Arbiter's fleet came in glassing half of the continent just to prevent the flood from taking over. She was apart of the uneasy alliance with the Covenant separatists and fought at The Lesser Ark, when the war ended Riley was approached by some men and women recruiting her due to her service record which she agreed to.

She went through the long training and then the augmentation process, which she survived the procedure as well as training taking sometime she got used to them. She was then assigned to the Spartan Fireteam Rogue Seven alongside Andromedai.

Personality: Riley is usually seen as a very calm and collected person a lot of the time, it is very rare to see her get stressed out in combat. She is known to crack some jokes just to try and lighten the mood of the other squadmates and will take the time to try and get to know all of them when she has the time to.

[Silentsniper211]

Contrary to popular belief I am still alive! My apologies for the delay. :D

Carly Renton spartan 021

Name: Carly Renton

Age: 29

Sex: Female

Rank: Sargeant

Appearance:

Weapons: M392 Designated Marksman Rifle, M6D pistol

Items/Gear: Advanced medical kit, Bio-Foam, 2x Fragmentation-grenades

History:
To ONI Operative 240,

Carly started off life in a small village in the United kingdom, born in a large family of farmers she initially wanted to become a doctor, but after the human covenant war started, she soon started to train in order to conscript, and at the age of she enlisted as a medical officer, proceeding to do her medical training and was soon shipped out to help on the front line.

Carly had an interesting start to her military career, Initially starting in the marines she participated in the battle of Battle of Sigma Octanus IV and was one of the last survivors, alongside her companion Marine 022, of the marine forces on the planet, only managing to survive by sealing off the medical area of the Alpha HQ having to defend it against covenant until the strike force returned.

After that operation, Carly was stationed on one of the orbiting space stations above reach, doing essential medical surgeries on casualties on the planet below. After reach fell she was evacuated back to earth where she had a week of shore leave where she met up with her family, but unfortunately was stationed on New Mombasa just before the slip space incident. Her Squad all perished on the mission forcing Carly to hike along side ODSTs, taking the place of their deceased medical officer, and helping them to evacuate the residential district and eventually destroy a covenant operating base. Just outside the city.

After the operation, Carly was recommended for an ODST position but thankfully declined, the reasons she gave, being that she was "otherwise engaged." But as her Acting commanding officer, I believe it was for other reasons. after she was approached she was given a Recon position in UNSC with marine 022, after many missions the both of them were approached to enlist in the Spartan 4 program. After her rehabilitation period she underwent a psychiatric assessment as all Spartans must and just to outline the results; the psychiatrist mentioned that “she carried some trauma about lost comrades on her first mission, and often is too quick to blame herself for when something goes wrong, though it seems spartan 022 seems to be helping her through, I would recommend that they paired together upon future missions.”

after an incident on a mission behind enemy lines, Spartan 022 was shot in the head by an elite and was instantly killed, Carly completed the reconnaissance and carried his body back to their drop ship. where she buried his body and left the planet. After the incident, ONI picked up on her skills and she was enlisted in the Rouge seven fireteam.

Besides that, There’s not much I can tell you that’s already in her ONI file, and not classified, Attached is also a list of most notable missions, and mission outcomes that might come in handy for some pre-mission reading.

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OPERATION GOLDEN SPIRE
OBJECTIVE Set up and keep control of HQ Alpha
OUTCOME Victory, at a high cost.
CASUALTIES Whole of squad Bravo 44 designated KIA, except Marine Bravo 021 currently refusing medical treatment.

OPERATION GOLDEN TRIANGLE
OBJECTIVE: Evacuate Civilians from residential district of New Mombasa
OUTCOME: Success. Bravo 021 reassigned to ODST squad Echo-03 in order to aid in OPERATION FLAMING SPEAR.
CASUALTIES: Delta 46 Designated MIA.

OPERATION FALLING HAMMER
OBJECTIVE: Gather information on Covenant Fleet Master, and flagship "Vigilant Redemption"
OUTCOME: Operation Success
CASUALTIES: Spartan 022 designated MIA

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I wish you the Best of Luck upon your operation, her transport has already been re-routed to the coordinates provided.

-Commander Bradley

Personality:
Carly isn’t one of those people you can describe in a sentence; on a mission, she is a complex mix of emotions and calculations. If in conversation with her old teammates they would explain that during a mission you can almost hear her running combat possibilities in her head, However during a mission break, Carly seems to change personality, switching from a combat drilled machine into a calm relaxed being, preferring to sit and drink with comrades. She has recently been a Bit shaken due to her loss and has received a psychiatric assessment, and is considered fit for duty.

[WardenCelestine]

@Silentsniper211 = Approved!

All good, it's the holidays so I expect people to be busy.

[WardenCelestine]

I'll have a post up tonight to get some social interaction going IC.

[WardenCelestine]

I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving! (Or Thursday if you are not American.) Since my internet is now working, I will get a post up. (I have had very loose off and on internet for the last three days -_-)

[Hopeless]

@Andromedai Thanks :D, my internet is like that, especially now the colder season is coming in.

[WardenCelestine]

All the information that Nesalla went over with all of you is the message from Solares, the discovery of the location of the crash for the Argent Dawn and all that jazz.

[Hopeless]

I'll get a post in either later today or tomorrow.