- soulguard
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Imortant dates within the "Halo: If I were your hero" timeline.
From the very begining this story was to have 4 main characters; Wesley, Rose, Eric and Siren. But the beginning started off on a bad note, the oni facility was very low key, and not very large, so giving them a smart AI seemed impossible. When I re-read first strike, it dawned on me that the UNSC had yet to discover the importance of the crystals, so I had to dum-down the security and significance of the facility in New Mombasa.
Here's a little background info that will not be covered in a the story:
Upon reading the reports from John, Fred, Will and Linda, the UNSC and ONI discovered that the crystals were much more important then theorized. In 2552 the Apocolypso arrived to warn Earth off the fall of Troy, and to deliver the object they found in space, ONI began to wonder if there theories about the crystals connection to the covenant was incorrect. When the device the Apocolypso found sent out a wide band frequency, a sub-slipspace rift, that shut down a large segment of the ChatterNet. The crystal reacted to this distoration and ONI began to take more notice of the crystal. Without Dr. Halsey, the only person to really give the crystals much attention, ONI was left largely in the dark. The Crystal was to be moved to a larger facility and studied deeply.
Upon surviving the massacre at Troy, Eric Raynord quickly used his influence within the UNSC to be assigned at the Facility with Rose, ONI decided that such an experienced officer was perfect for protecting the Crystal before it was to be moved for further testing. However, the Fall of Reach quickly became the largest contreversy across the Earth. The details of the crystal became unimportant to the overall threat that the Covenant was coming closer to Earth.
Timeline of 2552 in order of relevance:
- Apocolypso Discovers covenant transmission to attack Troy.
- Eric Raynord and his Black Ops squad encounter Heavy covenant forces on Troy during the evacuations.
- Apocolypso flees Troy with covenant data and finds covenant artifact in space: They believed that Troy had been completely evacuated.
- Raynord and his Black Ops squad finally begin evacuation of the final city as Covie forces attack. Losses are great, millions of civilian and military casualties, because the Covenant attacked early.
- Raynord's squad escapes Troy. Troy Glassed.
- Covenant locates Reach. Aug 29
- Apocolypso arrives on Earth.
- Raynord Arrives on Earth.
- Reach is overrun Aug 30
- Eric stationed with Rose at Oni Facility in New Mombasa.
- 3 days Pass and the Covenant artifact is acitvated due to a break in at another ONI Section 3 facility.
-Time line anomoly because of Crystal: Halo discovered by Pillar of Autumn Crew under command of Captain Keyes. Sept 19
- Halo 4 is destroyed. Sept 22 End of time anomoly.
- Crystal is given to Raynord while ONI works on details of approaching Covie advance. Sept 2
- Covenant Discover Earth's location. Sept 8
- Covenant forces located at the Edge of the Sol System Preparing for attack. Dr. Halsey and Kelly (spartan 087) go AWOL. Sept 12
- Admiral Whitcomb, Sparton 117 and his squad delay the Covie advance. Sept 13
- ONI is debriefed of the approaching threat, and ignore moving the crystal in order to "Prepare" for the coming Covenant threat. Sept 14
- ONI Section 3 forms the "Artifacts and Forerunner Technology Research Committee" to study the crystals but a suitable location is not foutnd. The Crystal is left at the facility in New Mombasa for occasional study.
- High Prophet of Regret Discovers Earth after fallowing signal from Covenant Artifiact. Oct 20.
- Artifact is taken and New Mombasa is destroyed.
- Second wave of attacks begin on Earth. Oct 20-21.
There you have it. Some background info. This will surely help to understand my take on the events of Halo and "If I were your hero".
-soulguard
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Timeline mostly derived from HBOrg and the Halo Library.
[Edited on 6/23/2005]