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Subject: Halo Fanfic: The End of a War
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not always, sometimes there are impartial observers, who dont favor any side, and tell the full story, many Greek historians, were this way, but yes, many times the story was dominated by the side that won the conflict.

  • 04.18.2005 5:53 AM PDT
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Yo Mr C i dunno if you have seen it but there is this really good site, possibly better then the library with STACKS of halo universe information. It has links upon link upon references, its great. I havnt had a look around much but you should really check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2
Just have a look around and you will probably be surprised how much stuff you find.
Hope it helps.

  • 04.18.2005 7:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Grim Reaper 6
Yo Mr C i dunno if you have seen it but there is this really good site, possibly better then the library with STACKS of halo universe information. It has links upon link upon references, its great. I havnt had a look around much but you should really check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2
Just have a look around and you will probably be surprised how much stuff you find.
Hope it helps.


You got that from Scorptank didn't you?
I hope you don't take credit for that find (unless you really found it on your own...)

  • 04.18.2005 7:30 AM PDT
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Thanks for the concern, and yes, I was indeed quite insane in my last post.

I am often hit with bouts of insomnia, and they can go on for weeks at a time, twisting my mind into a convoluted mass of hysteria and broken images of flying cats.

With a few hours of rest under my belt I feel quite better, and looking over some of the responses I gave to people's stories, I'm very relieved to see that the insanity that was quite taken with me did not spill over into those posts.

Anyways, on to the relavant parts.

I do get a lot of PM's, and oftentimes my inbox thing will fill up without my knowledge, and when I make a sudden return, I am amazed over the large quantity of people that want to talk with me. I'm guessing there is an inbox limit, since people will often tell me that they couldn't send a PM to me for some reason, and the problem goes away after I clear some space. So if you sent one to me, and I don't reply within a couple of days, try sending it again. I always try and respond to each PM, whether in the form of another PM, or just a post on the main thread here.

If anyone was able to decypher that criptic message I posted, and I'm guessing no one aside from myself can quite understand all the points I was trying to make there, then you would know I did reveal a few facets of information.

Chapter 16 will most likely be released this coming Monday, not today mind you, but the following Monday. It won't be a behemoth like the last chapter in size, though it will be respectable.

As for Kelly and Dr. Halsey, I haven't seen too many theories on where they are going, and if you have made this deduction in your fanfiction already, than don't think of me saying that your ideas aren't worth mentioning, it just means I either haven't read it, or I somehow missed it.

The direction I'm going with them is original I'd like to say, and holds an endearing premise to which I often relish with glee. They won't be arriving in the next few chapters, but they will be here soon. Elaboration on other such events will likely come to pass as well.

Events like the Taming of the Hunters, and the Grunt Rebellion will be given more light soon enough, not next chapter, but soon. This is not to say I will be divulging another look into the Covenant past, just that I shall reveal information, through certain characters in the story that will let us all in on whatever secrets I've been keeping from us all.

I will truthfully be playing some Halo 2 today, granted I have no idea when the autoupdate will hit in Canada or if it already has, but sooner or later I'll stumble online, and if you perhaps see my soul online, then throw me an invite and I'll come join you. I'm by no means a spectacular player (look at my stats and you shall see the truth) so if you are rank-conscious, than I'd have to recommend you don't send me an invite.

That should take care of everything for now, and hopefully in the future I can hold off on any insomnia-induced rants in the forums here, and make the post in the blog I started to contain my rantings.

  • 04.18.2005 10:33 AM PDT

Kero 'Zenuree
Officer aboard the Reverence-class cruiser Intangible
Dn'end Legion

Well Mr.Clark, that there last chapter was absolutely amazing! How long was it again?
20 pages??? WOW ! ! !
As always, keep up the good work.

P.S - Take a well deserved rest. Have a nice day in where you can play Doom 3 or something!

  • 04.18.2005 11:15 AM PDT
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JEEZ clark. take a -blam!-in break. for a seecond there i thought some crazy person was talkin.(no offense of course) Dude put YOURSELF BEFOR us... were nothin but aa bunch a stoory hungry groupies which MAY threaten you but cant do a damn thing. NOW THIS IS AN ORDER! Go to sleep! get a couple of nights of sleep without worrying about the story. dont worry about readin any story! so unless you have a perfect idea for your story i want you to put down your pencil for a day or two play halo2,(splinter cell whatever) and HAVE FUN! Go out with your g/f. OR get one. go to a baseball game or sumtin. Watch a movie!(in the wise words of scorptank. lol)

Stop revolving yourself around us! We can wait athree or four extra days if it means KEEPING YOU SANE! Because if you go insane you cant wright anymore(not aa pressuree builder) :) ... I dont want to see you on these forums for at least a day!(you know)

Do you have an uncle? go visit him! SOMETHING dude... we can wait because (dare i say) we care about you.

ok i think i was pretty clear...




What do you guys think of my sig? about the homeless sign thing?? [/quote]



tyis guy is right.
buy the way, WOWOWOWOWOW!!! best thing i ever read in my life!!
good work, i hope to see the next chapter soon.
and, if you take a rest for a wile, you might make a better work. (or something like that )
I love it!
keep up the good work!!



Red VS Blue RULES ( next to this ) go to www.Redvsblue.com !!

  • 04.18.2005 11:26 AM PDT
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Wow, can't believe I forgot to mention this.

The End of a War has now reached the 200 review mark on fanfiction.net. Apparently the 200th reviewer knew this as well, and therefore made a comment on it in his review.

This is quite an accomplishment, seeing as how the Halo section on fanfiction.net is relatively quite small, when compared to other sections. For instance, go look at the number of Harry Potter fanfics, and then compare them to Halo's. It's staggering.

Just goes to show you that I've gained some rather faithful fans around here and on that site, so I'd like to extend a personal thanks to everybody that's taken the time to read my stuff, and a very big thanks to those that happened to wander over to fanfiction.net and review this story.

  • 04.18.2005 4:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: SpecOps Elite007
Posted by: Grim Reaper 6
Yo Mr C i dunno if you have seen it but there is this really good site, possibly better then the library with STACKS of halo universe information. It has links upon link upon references, its great. I havnt had a look around much but you should really check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2
Just have a look around and you will probably be surprised how much stuff you find.
Hope it helps.


You got that from Scorptank didn't you?
I hope you don't take credit for that find (unless you really found it on your own...)


Umm i dunno, i didnt find it myself i read it in a forum, it was late and i cant remember. But, no i am not taking credit for it. I just thought that if Clarke hadnt seen it i would post it 4 him because the library has some gaps that this site might not.

  • 04.18.2005 11:39 PM PDT
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I had seen that site a little while ago, but before I could really take a closer look at everything, I lost the link so I am quite appreciative of you posting it Grim. One of the things I found immediately that I had forgotten is that Penitent Tangent is comprised of 7 unique letters.

When I was creating the name for the "First", the Monitor that Kinlumee discovers inside the Control Room shortly after he releases the Flood by accident, as I called it in Chapter 14, I had originally wanted to do this, but I quite quickly forgot. As it is, Atoning Deviant is comprised of 10 unique characters, and I'm not quite up to changing his name, so for now, we'll just say that like Guilty Spark, it wasn't taken into consideration.

At least I did put 7 Spartan III's though right?

It might seem trivial, but I do like to put in as many odd little typical Bungie quirks as I can, just for authenticities sake. I would have come up with a name for Ackerson's A.I that had something to do with a mythical sword name, like all the other A.I's, but if I did than not many people would have realized what Ackerson did to Mendez.

Also, isn't it interesting that Ackerson knew to acquire a nueral scan before the Covenant attacked Reach? Hmmm, that's an interesting question there itself.

Edit: Also I have come to realize that perhaps releasing Chapter 16 on the following Monday may be a saddening folly on my part, seeing as how Bungie has released the info stating the 4 new maps will be available on that day. I'm guessing most people (myself included), will be dying to play them, if not competitively than to at least check them out.

Soooo, in the interest of fairness I'll work myself into an early grave and try to get the chapter tidied up and finished in all its juicy plot developmental goodness for Sunday.


[Edited on 4/19/2005]

  • 04.19.2005 2:38 AM PDT
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cool, but dont worry about rank, i think they reset stats, though i could be mistaken, so dont trust that comment.
MUST commit fanatical prayer and thanks, with some sacrifices for unyeilding wonderous love of Bungie for new maps now, be back later.

[Edited on 4/19/2005]

  • 04.19.2005 5:50 AM PDT
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Yeh Clarke, its a pretty good site although it is alot harder to navigate. One thing i found on penitent tangent is that penitent is synonymous with guilty, a possibly reference to the monitors eradictaion of the forerunners. This helps for other monitor names.

  • 04.19.2005 6:08 AM PDT
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You can take a break man don't worry about it. But i got a question on those maps? are the Killtacurlar packs coming out with the free ones (Killtacular packs as bungie states it contans turf and the other level.) i know the pack comes out for free in june

  • 04.19.2005 6:55 AM PDT
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magnificent chapter yet again Mr Clarke.

The next chapter is in a week?!??!! Take a break Mr Clarke, please don't rush the next chapter, take your time, we'll all be patient, don't worry. We're not going to hunt you down with pitchforks and such are we? Please Mr Clarke, don't worry about getting the chapter out, put yourself first. But if you want to put out the chapter first yourself, then by all means do so. We can't tell you what to do, we can only inform you.

  • 04.19.2005 10:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: Prowlaz
Oh are you not talking about the "Halo 2 map pack" as featured on ebgames.com?


No i was talking about the one with sancuary and turf in it which costs 5ish. the Map pack has all the maps and all the updates and free stuff included with it

  • 04.19.2005 1:12 PM PDT
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No need to worry about me rushing the chapter. This later half of the story is the most intregal, and will need the highest degree of effort placed into by myself. If I don't have it finished in time, i'll delay the release.

In other news, soulguard's fic is on the last chapter, so if you're a reader I urge to check it out .

  • 04.19.2005 3:15 PM PDT
Subject: Halo Fanfic: The End of a War (Chapter 15 Released)
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dude this is an awesome story. I'm not one for criticsm or w/e but there are a few gremmatical errors but what do you expect typing story. I really wanted to print the whole thing off but then it would cost me $40 for ink. Maybe you should consider making it in to a real book. Just like the fall of reach and the flood and such. Keep writing i'm reading the whold thing!!

  • 04.19.2005 6:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Th3_Sp0uj
Awesome chapter Mr. Clark. Thanks for the PM. How did the arbiter know about the prophets' betrayal in the past? Isn't history always written by the victors?


The Arbiter did not know about the Prophet's earlier betrayals. What we read was an overlook of three particular ages and some of the most important events in each.

All the Arbiter knew was what the Prophets taught them to know. And as we found out in Chapter 14, the Prophets had a special interest in a specific line of Elites.

[Edited on 4/19/2005]

  • 04.19.2005 9:30 PM PDT
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Hey folks. Just thought i would post seeing as bungie went all screwy on me the last few days (okay it said i was banned every time i went on the forums and then i couldnt ever get on the site?!) well everything is better now. All this talk about halsley has got me thinking about where she is going and why is she coming back. all will be revealed soon though so yay! mr Clark you must lead a very stressful life and all because of us pressuring you to get the next chapter now but please take your time doing your writing and take a break. I would rather wait for each great chapter rather than having a bunch of not so great chapters all at once. on other notes its rounf 4 of me getting broadband but this one does look good. well thats everything i have got to say. oh wait did somebody say there were star wars jedi academy books? if there are do you know who wrote them and if they are any good and do they follow the storyline? oh and can you buy them in england? thanks in advance!

HENSHIN-A-GO-GO-BABY

  • 04.20.2005 1:04 PM PDT
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Great chapter Mr. C, and I have a few questions.

Now that Sergeant Johnson is whole once again, what is he going to be up to now? If I read the end of Chapter 15 right, then its only the Master Chief and Cortana going along with the Arbiter.

Is he going to be involved with the Spartan III's at all? Wouldn't mind seeing what would happen if Johnson had to fight them.

Same question goes for Jan and Commander Keyes, I imagine your not going to let them fade into the woodwork.

What I presume to be Gravemind and Penitent Tangent's goal is Earth, but would the Brutes really have the coordinates for Earth in their navigation systems? If not, then could Gravemind mistakingly be headed for the Covenant homeworld?

That's it for now, keep up the good work.

  • 04.20.2005 7:00 PM PDT