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I am looking for a small group of like-minded fans that would enjoy making this with me. You can be a SPARTAN-II, III, IV, or an ODST (Cause always could use the gumption of a Helldiver. Plus it would add a 'human element though Spartans are indeed human. Weapons are numerous, ammo will be pick up as you go. Spartan Armor is fully customizable. This takes place before 'Infinity' and between 'Guardians'. Your team is stranded on the Ring World X-ray.

Custom loadout at the start then I will switch you up with weaponry suited to your particular 'class'.





  • ** You can make up to three characters unless Co-GM'ing; You can only have one SPARTAN II or III but up to two ODST's or Spartan IV's.**

    Name:
    (Name of SPARTAN or ODST)

    Spartan Class: (SPARTAN-II-III-IV)

    SPARTAN Designation: (S II-117, S III-B312, Spartan IV & ODST: FIRETEAM CHARLIE)

    Height: (SPARTAN-IIs can be up to 7'6" and no shorter than 6'4";SPARTAN-III's and IV's are, on average no larger than 6'7 when in armor and no shorter than 5'6" without armor.)

    Specialization: (Breacher, Demolitions, Recon, Sniping, First Man In, etc.)

    Loadout: (Two main weapons (I.e: Shotty/ AR/Storm Rifle) and side arm such as pistol or SMG; Sniper rifles, Rocket launchers, Fuel Rod Cannons and LMGs are considered large and therefor can only have a pistol, SMG,Type-25 Needler,
    Type-25 Plasma Pistol, Type-25 Plasma Rifle & Brute Plasma, Type-25 Spiker which can be dual-wielded.)

    Appearence: (Without armor)

    Personality: ( What is their personality like?)

    Three Skills: (Marksmanship, grenade sticking, driving, etc)

    Three Flaws: (Arrogant, greedy, bloodthirsty, etc)

    Three Traits: (Leadership, Diplomat, Linguist)

    Bio: (Background)

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    The SPARTAN-II Program, originally known as the ORION Project Generation II, was part of the SPARTAN program, an effort to produce elite soldiers through mechanical and biological augmentation. The SPARTAN-II program would be the first in the series to meld advanced exoskeleton technology with the soldiers' superior physiques.

    The SPARTAN-II project was conceived by Dr. Catherine Halsey of ONI Section III's Special Projects Division as the successor to the ORION Project and the best possible solution to end the widespread insurgency that raged throughout UNSC space. The project was created with several goals in mind. The first was to create a group of elite soldiers meant to subdue insurrections in their infancy, without substantial military casualties. The second goal was to minimize civilian casualties and avert civil war. The third goal was to substantially reduce the cost of conventional means of pacification.

    Halsey's proposal for the project detailed radical changes in many different fields. The first and most controversial was the subjects themselves, who were selected by a gene-candidate pool, and fit into a certain age restriction protocol (six years old). They also possessed superior physical and mental attributes when compared to other children their age. This narrowed the candidates down to children who would be raised and taught in the art of warfare and military values from a young age, which cannot be taught to older enlisted personnel. Using such questionable means of creating a soldier meant that the project would have to be carried out under the highest levels of secrecy.

    Augmentations


    Carbide Ceramic Ossification: Advanced material grafting onto skeletal structures to make bones virtually unbreakable. Recommended coverage not to exceed 3% total bone mass because of significant white blood cell necrosis. The specific risk for pre-and near-postpubescent adolescents: skeletal growth spurts may cause irreparable bone pulverization.

    Muscular Enhancement Injections: A Protein complex is injected intramuscularly to increase tissue density and decrease lactase recovery time.
    Five percent (5%) of test subjects experience a fatal cardiac volume increase.

    Catalytic Thyroid Implant: A Platinum pellet containing a human growth hormone catalyst is implanted in the thyroid to boost the growth of skeletal and muscle tissues.Rare instances of Elephantiasis. Suppressed sexual drive.

    Occipital Capillary Reversal: Submergence and boosted blood vessel flow beneath the rods and cones of the subject's retina. Produces a marked visual perception increase.

    Retinal rejection and detachment. Permanent blindness.

    Superconducting Fibrification of Neural Dendrites: Alteration of bioelectrical nerve transduction to shielded electronic transduction. 300% increase in subject reflexes. Anecdotal evidence of a marked increase in intelligence, memory, and creativity. Significant instances of Parkinson's Disease and Fletcher's Syndrome.​

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    Project CHRYSANTHEMUM was the codename given to the biological augmentation procedures performed on the SPARTAN-III supersoldiers. They represented a significant improvement over the augmentations used in the previous SPARTAN-II program, retaining the procedures' effectiveness but being safer and less invasive to perform.

    The CHRYSANTHEMUM bioaugmentation set improved upon the augmentations of the SPARTAN-II program, pioneered by Dr. Catherine Halsey. With advances in technology, the casualty rate for SPARTAN-III candidates was usually 0%, as opposed to the 56% casualty rate of the SPARTAN-IIs. Most of the SPARTAN-IIIs' augmentations were chemically induced instead of surgically implanted like many of the SPARTAN-II enhancements.

    The schedule of the SPARTAN-III program was accelerated from that of the Spartan-IIs: because the Office of Naval Intelligence wanted to have the Spartans deployed in the field as rapidly as possible, by the time of Gamma Company the Spartan-IIIs were augmented at an average age of twelve, whereas the Spartan-IIs were fourteen during their augmentations. As puberty had not yet started for the majority of candidates at this time, they were given human growth hormone as well as cartilage, muscle, and bone supplements added into their food over several months to artificially induce the onset of puberty. As a result, the candidates had the bodies of near-adult Olympic athletes at an average of only twelve years of age, and it took some time for them to acclimatize to their larger physiques.

    AUGMENTATIONS

    8942-LQ99: "Carbide ceramic ossification catalyst" drug. Skeletons become virtually unbreakable, allowing survival in harder impacts.

    88005-MX77: "Fibroid muscular protein complex" drug. Increased density of individuals' muscles, greatly enhancing physical strength.

    88947-OP24: "Retina-inversion stabilizer" drug. Color sharpness is significantly improved upon, and night vision is heightened.

    87556-UD61: "Improved colloidal neural disunification solution" drug. Greatly improves the individual's reaction time, decreasing the time taken to react by 300%; "Spartan time".

    In addition to their chemically-administered primary augmentations, Spartan-IIIs were subjected to a number of surgical alterations to enhance their capabilities. Their circulatory systems were also augmented from the human baseline. Like all UNSC Armed Forces personnel, the Spartan-IIIs are implanted with a neural interface.

    The augmentations also involved some degree of genetic modification. As discovered in 2548 with Owen-B096, this made the Spartans immune to the negative genetic effects of some Forerunner artifacts.

    In addition to the standard set of chemicals, Kurt Ambrose covertly had a set of three additional drugs added to the augmentations of Gamma Company in hopes of increasing their survivability in the field. All of the three had been outlawed by the UNSC Medical Corps in 2513.

    009762-OO: Neural-altering non-carcinogenic mutagen: Alters key regions in the individual's frontal lobe to enhance aggressive response, making the animal part of the brain more accessible in times of stress. This allows the subject access to enormous reserves of strength and endurance and enables them to remain fighting even under the influence of a wide systemic shock that would be instantly fatal to a normal human. Depresses higher reason centers of the brain over time; requires regular doses of 009127-PX and 009927-DG to be taken to avoid uncontrollable aggression.

    009127-PX: cyclodexione-4, bipolar integration drug: Counters the effects of 009762-OO.

    009927-DG: miso-olanzapine: Counters the psychological effects of 009762-OO.​

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    The SPARTAN-IV Program is the fourth generation of the SPARTAN Program consisting of members recruited from the UNSC's military who were augmented to be capable of wearing a new variant of the Mjolnir Powered Assault Armor (GEN2) armor. This phase was initiated by Admiral Margaret Parangosky after the Human-Covenant war.

    Similar to the original ORION Project, the SPARTAN-IV Program would only consist of adult volunteers as opposed to young children.[2] When the program was started, surviving members of previous Spartan generations were offered an opportunity to be integrated into it.[4] SPARTAN-IV recruits are drawn from active combat veterans of any branch as well as young soldiers who show potential to be Humanity's next guardians. The physical augmentations of the SPARTAN-IVs, while more advanced than their predecessors, still cannot produce similar results without the risk of a high failure rate, due to the lack of genetic requirements. This drawback is reconciled by modifying the individual to the closest margin possible of the two previous Spartan programs' physical results and then relying on Mjolnir Powered Assault Armor (GEN2) armor to enhance the Spartan's abilities even more than that of Mjolnir GEN1 armor.

    Project ORCHID is the codename for the SPARTAN-IV Augmentation Program, a set of biochemical and surgical augmentation procedures performed on the Spartan-IV supersoldiers. Because of practical necessities arising from the SPARTAN-IV program's return to the ORION Project's recruitment protocols—namely, the use of adults as candidates—as well as advances in technology, the fourth-generation augmentation set differs considerably from the procedures used in the SPARTAN-II and SPARTAN-III programs. While the SPARTAN-IV augmentations enhance the subjects' strength and speed, the improvements in these areas are not as extensive as in the two preceding programs[4] and their technological underpinnings are considerably different. However, the SPARTAN-IV augmentation series also introduces many specialized procedures not applied to the previous spartan generations, and the second generation of Mjolnir armor, a standard-issue to all Spartan-IVs, is able to effectively bridge the physiological gap between them and the earlier generations due to its superior physical enhancement. Like the augmentation procedures of the preceding SPARTAN programs, Project ORCHID is sponsored by the Office of Naval Intelligence's Section Three.

    The augmentations for the SPARTAN-IV Programfeature a number of new procedures not used in the preceding programs. Due to the subjects' bodies no longer being in developing stages as well as their lack of genetic requirements, the process must be carefully custom-tailored for each individual.​

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    The Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST) are a special operations capable organization of the UNSC Marine Corps that specializes in orbitally-dropped shock infantry and special warfare tactics. The ODSTs are one of the primary Special Operations units of the United Nations Space Command and are under the supervision of Naval Special Warfare Command

    The ODSTs perform highly specialized, small scale, high-risk operations including:

    - Deep Ground Surveillance or Long Range Reconnaissance: Patrols in small groups, in uniform, usually far behind the enemy lines. While DGS units may direct air or artillery strikes against enemy positions, they strive to be unobserved and have only self-defense, not DA, capability. Groups engaging in surveillance deep behind enemy lines, are commonly known as "Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols" or LRRP's.

    - Direct Action: Short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments and which employ specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover, or damage designated targets. Direct action differs from conventional offensive actions in the level of physical and political risk, operational techniques, and the degree of discrimination and precise use of force to achieve specific objectives.

    - Unconventional Warfare: Military and paramilitary operations, normally of long duration, predominantly conducted by indigenous or surrogate forces who are organized, trained, equipped, supported, and directed in varying degrees by an external source. It includes guerrilla warfare and other direct offensive, low visibility, covert, or clandestine operations, as well as the indirect activities of subversion, sabotage, intelligence gathering, escape, and evasion.

    - Counter-Terrorism Operations: The response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.

    - Counter-Contraband Operations: Missions undertaking the recapturing of smuggled/stolen goods.

    - Personnel and Special Equipment Recovery/Capture: The recovery/medical treatment of friendly personnel in combat environments, as well as the capability of capturing high valued individuals and any equipment.​

  • Name Description Image Statistics
    Assault Rifle “The standard Assault Rifle utilized by UNSC forces.” Halo Online - Weapon Variants - Assault Rifle - Standard.png Halo Online - Weapon Statistics - Assault Rifle - Standard.png
    MAG Assault Rifle “Has an extended magazine capacity for protracted firefight scenarios.” Halo Online - Weapon Variants - Assault Rifle - MAG.png Halo Online - Weapon Statistics - Assault Rifle - MAG.png
    DMG Assault Rifle “Redesigned barrel provides higher damage than the standard variant.” Halo Online - Weapon Variants - Assault Rifle - DMG.png Halo Online - Weapon Statistics - Assault Rifle - DMG.png
    ROF Assault Rifle “Improved ammunition feed and receiver allows a higher rate of fire during combat.” Halo Online - Weapon Variants - Assault Rifle - ROF.png Halo Online - Weapon Statistics - Assault Rifle - ROF.png
    SNP Assault Rifle “Match-grade barrel and scope allows for more precise shots over longer distances.” Halo Online - Weapon Variants - Assault Rifle - SNP.png Halo Online - Weapon Statistics - Assault Rifle - SNP.png
    ADV Assault Rifle “Extensively redesigned Assault Rifle that improves upon every characteristic of the original.” Halo Online - Weapon Variants - Assault Rifle - ADV.png Halo Online - Weapon Statistics - Assault Rifle - ADV.png

    Removable shroud variant
    By October 2558, a newer variant of the MA5D existed with the "p/n 00118-B" body and the serial number of "007230814". This variant had a removable case at the top that hides a "P/N 16309" rail to attach various attachments onto it. This variant is most often fielded with a Projection sight.

    COG MA5D: Assault Rifle with COG sight. Security configuration issued to ONI's armed-response teams.

    Hybrid MA5D: Assault Rifle with Hybrid sight. This variant is a testbed for human-Sangheili technology sharing, fitted with a modified Carbine horoscope.

    Longshot MA5D: Assault Rifle with Longshot sight. UNSC Marine Corps Interim Fireteam Support (IFS) configuration for intermediate-range combat and long-range suppression.

    Morph MA5D: Assault Rifle with Morph sight. Test configuration issued to Spartans assigned to Infinity's science field teams, fitted with a modified LightRifle holoscope.

    Recon MA5D: Assault Rifle with Recon sight. UNSC Army configuration with quick-acquisition sights for mid-range engagements.
    MA5D attachments

    Energy Bayonet: Increases melee damage and range, allowing for a one-hit kill against normal opponents.

    Extended magazine: Increases both ready and reserve ammunition capacity by 50% for a total of 54 rounds per magazine and 324 reserve rounds.

    Kinetic bolts: Augments knockback and damage against vehicles.

    Knight Blade: Increases melee effectiveness, with extra damage and knockback against vehicles.

    Laser targeter: Increases weapon accuracy by reducing bullet spread.

    Long barrel: Increases range of bullet magnetism and aim assist.

    Stabilization jets: Helps control vertical recoil.

    Silencer: Firing the weapon does not make the user show up on enemy radar. However, walking still gives away the user's position.

    Sound dampener: Increases effective range and reduces firing signature.

    Threat marker: Tracks targeted enemy personnel for a short time.

 

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@Ur Degaton Great! You can play one of four teams I'm working on the OOC; its slow going but I hope it will pick up. Spartan Armor is customizable as in Reach, but because GEN 2 is also being used, you can pick from their armors as well as permutations.
 
Ooh, interesting.
I'm generally interested in the Halo universe but I can't say I am an expert at the lore. How much understanding would you be looking for in playeres?
 
@NewWaveOldie

Pretty comprehensive, but we can always deal with a Newbie who gains his stripes
 
Cool, cool.
I'll do my best, then.
 
What would you be?
 
Probably either Spartan III or ODST.
 
I'm the commanding Spartan formly of Gamma, Headhunter, and renowned assassin.
 
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I’m fine with that. If other people want to join they can join in while the Rp is going on
 
I don't mind either.
 
I don't know BBCode at all so, no.
 
can't wait to play a cryo'd oldie that wakes up and goes "holy hell we have attachments?
 
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This is me googling Halo Reach customization desperately trying to make it look like a proper human being wearing a proper spartan armor holding a proper magnum and a proper grenade launcher
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interested
 
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By the way, if we don't get to meet marines with one of those one liners
I'm gonna do them myself
 
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