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Subject: Halo: Exodus; First Chapter Teaser. "Once More..."

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People who say the Assault Rifle sucks probably gets killed with it too often...

Yes, the title says it. I have been working on a fan-fiction Halo story and the first chapter is about half-way done.

Info about story:
The Human-Covenant war has ended. Hundred of ships have been sent reclaim lost colonies in an effort to maintain order. The UNSC Exodus along with other UNSC, and Sangheili Ships come back to Reach, only to find something big and unexpected to happen that will change the course of the reconstruction.


Here is a part of it:


Chapter 1: Once More...

UNSC Exodus

UNSC Marathon Battlegroup 34-Delta

Unknown Space, 9:17 A.M. October 12th, 2554


"All systems seem nominal. Captain, shall I warm up the slip space drives?"


"Negative on that Lieutenant, keep the ship on a steady pace."


"Aye, sir."


The UNSC Exodus was one of the best battle-cruisers I've been on in my entire career as a UNSC Spartan. She's seen action since the Insurrection in the 2500's. Now, she has the special mission of repopulating lost planets during the Human-Covenant War. I was in charge of seeing to the ground ops.


"Petty Officer Jacob Holloway please report to the bridge at this time."


Well, so much for sleeping in this morning. I proceeded to the bridge to find Captain Ulysses Walker standing there waiting for me. He was one of the best Captains in the history of the UNSC. He almost beats Admiral Cole.


"You rang?" I asked.


"Yes," the grizzled starship captain replied, "we're about to make the jump to Epsilon Eridani system...."


"Reach?" I asked.


"Yes, our first stop is there." the Captain replied back.


I felt smug. "Reach? Why there first?" I thought to myself. There must have been something big going on in the UNSC Brass.


"Sir, with all due respect, why Reach first? Shouldn't we head to more important planets like Algolis or Harvest?" I asked bluntly.


"Reach was one of our most best military theaters anywhere in UNSC space. We need to reclaim it in order to salvage what we can from the destroyed ships." He replied, "We should be there by 2 hours. You should head back to your cabin and rest. I will call you back when I need you."


"Aye, Aye, Captain." I said.


E-Deck

9:33 A.M.

I paced my room while looking at my MJOLINIR armor, R-Type variant. It was Mark V still because I refused to trade it in for Mark VI. Besides, it's cheaper to use what you've got anyway.


Then the ship started to shake a bit. It was entering slip space towards Reach.


"Why must we still go to Reach? There's probably something serious going on. Sure, we've got a coalition of Humans and Elites on board and on other vessels, but why Reach if there is something serious?" I thought.


I decided to just relax and take a nap. At least that will relieve me.


UNSC Exodus

UNSC Marathon Battlegroup 34-Delta

Epsilon Eridani 11:13 A.M. October 12th, 2554


"Wake up, Officer Holloway. The Captain requests you to join him on the bridge." the V.I. stated.


I got up and shrugged off the crappy feeling. I then walked up to my armor to suit up.


A few minutes later, my armor was set and ready to go. As I put my recon helmet on, I got a strange transmission through the comms. It sounded like an SOS, but only a Spartan could interpret. Then, I realized what it was.


"The Oly, Oly, Oxen Free Message."


I will plan on finishing this novel by this year's Bungie Day in July.

Feel free to ask questions and I will try my best to answer them.




[Edited on 04.20.2011 5:45 PM PDT]

  • 04.20.2011 3:53 PM PDT

Pace*

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  • 04.20.2011 4:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: mojeda101
Pace*

=]


Oh, sorry didn't see that there. Thanks!

  • 04.20.2011 4:03 PM PDT

So i'm assuming this spartan is part of the II's and not the III's.

  • 04.20.2011 4:07 PM PDT

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People who say the Assault Rifle sucks probably gets killed with it too often...


Posted by: razmatazpurple
So i'm assuming this spartan is part of the II's and not the III's.


Yes.
Here's the dossier if you're interested:

Name: Jacob Holloway
Rank: Petty Officer
Homeworld: Mars

Introduction to the SPARTAN Program: April 24th, 2514

Weapon(s) of Choice: MA5 Assault Rifle, BR55 Battle Rifle, M6J Carbine, M6G, and M7 Caseless Machine Gun.

Preferred Armor Type: Mark V/R-Variant

Vehicular Training: All


  • 04.20.2011 4:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: PhoenixWarrior

Posted by: razmatazpurple
So i'm assuming this spartan is part of the II's and not the III's.


Yes.
Here's the dossier if you're interested:

Name: Jacob Holloway
Rank: Petty Officer
Homeworld: Mars

Introduction to the SPARTAN Program: April 24th, 2514

Weapon(s) of Choice: MA5 Assault Rifle, BR55 Battle Rifle, M6J Carbine, M6G, and M7 Caseless Machine Gun.

Preferred Armor Type: Mark V/R-Variant

Vehicular Training: All




I may also mention that he hates broccoli. Seriously.

[Edited on 04.20.2011 4:53 PM PDT]

  • 04.20.2011 4:52 PM PDT

Wake me when the jews are gone.

it's very dificult to the UNSC reorganize in less then one year i should be like 20 years later

  • 04.20.2011 5:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: fsabran
it's very dificult to the UNSC reorganize in less then one year i should be like 20 years later



Ah, but I didn't mention how many ships that were still active to this point.

Think about it. Though many of Earth's colonies were wiped out, she still could have other colonies spared the fires of glassing and what not. That would mean that they could have at least 100 ships still in service. (Also add that the Sangheili made peace with Humanity so they could have given ships to the UNSC)

Note that this is a fan-fiction. And it is not related to the actual halo story.

  • 04.20.2011 5:35 PM PDT
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Well, UNSC is extremely large nation, with 800 colonies. It's likely that during Human-Covenant War; Covenant didn't find ALL of it. UNSC probably had several hundred left. Books mentioned that Covenant only attacked about dozen inner colonies and went straight to Reach and Earth.

It's possible that UNSC can recover from this war in five to twenty years, depending on how much they had lost and personnel. It's reasonable that UNSC probably had slightly above of 100 ships or less. We're not sure, actually. (With alliance with Elites, it increases the possibility of UNSC being recovering much faster. Besides, Elites would need Human's help, due to their unable to get more fresh warships, providing repairs, etc. Elites aren't exactly keen on science and technology, only military.)

Besides, Your story is pretty good, with a big flaw. 2553 is bit too soon, I'm afraid. Perhaps it would sound better in 2555 or 2560.

Besides, it's possible that they can easily construct frigates and destroyers in relatively short time, while cruisers and carriers are slower to construct.

[Edited on 04.20.2011 5:42 PM PDT]

  • 04.20.2011 5:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: raganok99
Well, UNSC is extremely large nation, with 800 colonies. It's likely that during Human-Covenant War; Covenant didn't find ALL of it. UNSC probably had several hundred left. Books mentioned that Covenant only attacked about dozen inner colonies and went straight to Reach and Earth.

Besides, Your story is pretty good, with a big flaw. 2553 is bit too soon, I'm afraid. Perhaps it would sound better in 2555 or 2560.

Besides, it's possible that they can easily construct frigates and destroyers in relatively short time, while cruisers and carriers are slower to construct.


Thank you for the complement and the flaw. I changed it to 2554, which is the max for the year I wanted the story to take place in.

BTW, here's a beatdown on the Marathon Batlegroup 34-Delta to prove how big this group is:

Flagship: UNSC Exodus

Main Vessels: 3 Marathon Class Cruisers, 4 Heavy Frigates, 2 Frigates, 2 Sangheili CCS Battle cruisers, and 1 Sangheili Carrier

This is practically a coalition force of 12 ships, which is acceptable instead of saying that there's 100 Marathon Class Cruisers, 1200 Frigates, etc.


[Edited on 04.20.2011 5:48 PM PDT]

  • 04.20.2011 5:43 PM PDT
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Perhaps I'll join in your story. I have been working on my own story. First I had to create UNSC's new battle-group, consisting twenty-one ships.

It has most notable ships such as UNSC Savior of the Damned, new class of battle-cruiser to combat against the Covenants, used some covenant-reversed technology such as antimatter reactor and experimental plasma turrets. Other ships such as: A Soft Heartened Devil,Arabahaki, Shadow's Dusk, Lucifer's Will, and A Soldier's Bane and it is led by a SPARTAN-II who previously supposed to die during augmentations in early beginning of Human-Covenant War but ONI recognized that SPARTAN's potential and decided to stage it and use it as their puppet until early 2550, he went to missing in action and until 2554, he came back to Earth.

He was re-assigned to assemble a small battle-group with prototypes classes of ships such as battle-cruiser (1) and heavy carrier (1).

This is example of my story can be possibly integrated into your story. (it's your wish, if you want to me to add it or partake the ways.)

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  • 04.20.2011 5:49 PM PDT

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People who say the Assault Rifle sucks probably gets killed with it too often...

I could possibly add it into a chapter of my story. As it sounds pretty good in my book. Maybe in Chapter 3: Reconciled Truth, but that's all I have up to this point, as I am still coming up with names for the chapters.

  • 04.20.2011 5:54 PM PDT