User:Samdoo

"The good guys always win, not because they're good, but because they're the ones that get to write history."

- Samdoo

Hey there ,

I love Halo more than anyone else I know of and have been a fan for over ten years now. I own most Halo story media and have almost finished collecting at least until the next release. I’ve been meaning to get involved in Halo Fanon for a while and now that I have I’ve gotten quite involved in fan-fiction and I'm excited to continue being part of this community. I unintentionally started my first fanon, which I was working on concepts for a number of years before I started writing (see Halo Wars: The Great War).

Above all my fanon works the one you'd be most familiar with, though you may not know that it is my work, is Halo Fanon's current logo (see top left corner of the screen). I originally created it among others just for fun, but then I got many supporting comments from the community which later led it to becoming the official logo. I also created all the logos you see on Halo Fanon's banners.

Even though I do have many ideas for stories about Halo, I don't intend to write any, at least for the moment seeing that most of the articles on this wiki are just novels and characters. I plan to focus on writing less popular fanon types like games, apps, soundtracks and even game controls. Within the next year I plan to make and upload many pages for this site, that I hope the community enjoy reading and continually be interested in.

My current projects are:
 * Halo Wars: The Great War
 * UNSC (faction - The Great War)
 * Covenant Empire (faction - The Great War)
 * Halo: Armory
 * Samdoo's Gallery

Note to self: I really got to re-write some of this intro...

Casual
Besides from Halo, I like collecting stuff related to almost anything that strongly catches my interest (such as Halo story merch). I don't speak too much, but like to remain in thought and observe conversations. I’m a fairly good planner, I love being organized and having things well ordered. 

Entertainment
I wouldn’t say I’m a big gamer anymore but I still play all the Halo games when they come out, as well as a few other games. I like (electronic) entertainment to have a good and deep story, which has to be creative, imaginative and occasionally containing some thrills, preferably being in a science fiction universe (with aliens not all this modern humanity is the center of the universe stuff we only seem to be getting now). Note: I still do like games and movies, just not as much as I once did.

My favourite game series are:

Music
I love music, I used to play guitar but I gave that up to start working out and as well sadly I was just losing motivation to play. But listening to music is still a greater passion of mine; I listen to most genres, but I prefer music with powerful, authoritative, emotional, piercing, dark yet soft sounds, with deep, powerful, thought-out and meaningful lyrics. My two favorite kinds of music are (any) extreme metal and symphonic music, but I do like to explore new artists and genres that aren’t massively popular and bands that don’t get much recognition nowadays or ones that just aren’t popular in my country.

My favorite bands and genres are:

Metalcore - Demon Hunter, For Today, As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Oceana.

Symphonic Metal - Epica, Tristania, After Forever, Sirenia, Theocracy.

Death Metal - Becoming The Archetype, The Agonist, Sacrificium.

Alternative Metal - KoЯn, Love and Death, P.O.D.

Other Bands - Emery, Anberlin, Stryper.

Currently Listening To: August Burns Red, Theocracy, Hope For The Dying, plus over 60 artists - no kidding I got a massive compilation album.

Other things
I am planning to add a few more sections to "About Myself", but I don't think I'll have time to write them for the moment, but I should have some new content up within the next few months :)

Halo Wars: The Great War
Game Editions




 * Halo Wars: The Great War


 * Halo Wars: The Great War Limited Edition - not finished yet


 * Halo Wars: The Great War Saga Edition - not made yet


 * The Great War Project (name may change over time) - not made yet

Expansion Packs


 * Halo Wars: Ancestors Expansion Pack - not made yet


 * Halo Wars: The Array Expansion Pack - not made yet


 * Halo Wars: Pre-War Rebellions Expansion Pack - not made yet


 * Halo Wars: Halo Wars Rerun Expansion Pack - not made yet


 * Halo Wars: The Great War Specialist Expansion Pack - not made yet


 * Halo Wars: Reclaimer Expansion Pack - not made yet

Factions from the game


 * UNSC (faction - The Great War) - not uploaded yet
 * UNSC Units Information (The Great War)
 * Covenant Empire (faction - The Great War) - not uploaded yet
 * Covenant Empire Units Information (The Great War)
 * Covenant Loyalists (faction - The Great War) - not finished yet
 * Covenant Loyalists Units Information (The Great War)
 * Insurrection (faction - The Great War) - not finished yet
 * Insurrection Units Information (The Great War)
 * Flood (faction - The Great War) - not finished yet
 * Flood Units Information (The Great War)
 * Colonial Militia (faction - The Great War) - not finished yet
 * Colonial Militia Units Information (The Great War)
 * Colonial Insurgents (faction - The Great War) - not finished yet
 * Colonial Insurgents Units Information (The Great War)
 * (Covenant) Heretics (faction - The Great War) - not finished yet
 * (Covenant) Heretics Units Information (The Great War)
 * Kig-Yar Pirates (faction - The Great War) - not finished yet
 * Kig-Yar Pirates Units Information (The Great War)
 * Jiralhanae (faction - The Great War) - not not finished yet
 * Jiralhanae Units Information (The Great War)
 * Forerunner Caretakers (faction - The Great War) - not finished yet
 * Forerunner Caretakers Units Information (The Great War)

Factions from expansion packs


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Apps

 * Halo: Armory


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Other fanons

 * Halo 6 Controls & Game Concepts (this article is very messy and is practically just notes for now)


 * Unnamed Halo 6 Feature


 * Unnamed Soundtrack


 * Unnamed Halo Table-Top Game


 * Samdoo's Gallery


 * I've done a few smaller fanons mostly about what books and novelizations I think need to be released to flesh out the important stories of the Halo universe - their only like a title with a very brief story summery, you see I wouldn’t expect to be writing them all myself. TGW will probably be the only thing I'm uploading on Halo Fanon, though I do have some other smaller ideas whether I do them or not is another thing.


 * I have also done some KotOR fanons, which is my second favorite franchise.


 * Halo: Tartarus and the Flying Elephant - Don’t take it seriously I used this page as a sandbox to get used to Wikia and its features, though I still have a few things to figure out.


 * User:Samdoo/Sandbox - Not a fanon, just where I test and play around.

Possible characters or short stories


 * Untitled Story with a Spartan-II and a Spartan-I - not made yet


 * Unnamed Spartan-II - not made yet


 * Unnamed ONI Professor - not made yet


 * Unnamed Sangheili Commander - not made yet


 * Unnamed Jiralhanae - not made yet


 * Unnamed Captain (pre-2500s) - not made yet

Official Halo Fanon logo
Yes, I made Halo Fanon's latest logo, including all of the different logos used for Halo Fanon's banners as well. Other logo designs I have made that weren't used for banners can be found here.

How I Got Into Halo
This year 2013 marks 10 years since I first played Halo.

When I first became a fan of Halo
I remember when I was young my mother was going to buy my dad an Xbox for his birthday - note it was an original Xbox. With it came four games: Amped, Project Gotham Racing, Enter The Matrix and Halo. I didn’t know much about Halo than, other than seeing several copies lined up in a store and one other though I cant say 100% that it was actually Halo; I remember my family dropped in to see some family friends and as soon as we walked in the door they got us to walk into their kitchen because they were watching something inappropriate for kids, something they had been working on for a while on their Xbox. I didn’t see much but what I did see and what I believe it was, was part of the final cinematic from Halo: Combat Evolved (where the Chief is just leaving the Pillar of Autumn before it explodes, destroying Halo), I think I saw a soldier and an alien fighting or hugging (one of the two they both happened) - this was obviously the Legendary ending of Halo: Combat Evolved. That kid never knew when he saw that scene how much that game was gonna impact his life.

I was convinced I was going to play Halo as soon as I found out it came with the console, but on the day my parents said I was to young and they were going to throw away all the violent video games that came with the console. A few days after we got the Xbox at night my father thought he should play the game just once before he got rid the game, but when he started it he was amazed, he'd never played anything like it in his life, he had gone from the low-level graphics and gameplay of Wolfenstein to Halo. Soon after that night me and my family (except my father and sister) went shopping and when we came home, dad was playing Halo with my little sister... so we kept all the shooting games, though I was still not aloud to play them.

Every time dad or me had friends over my father would show and play Halo with them and then their parents would get angry at him for exposing it to their kids. But the first time he showed it to friends was some weeks later after we first got the Xbox, my family had some family friends over (the same we came to visit mentioned in the first paragraph) and they happened to be traveling and they had their Xbox with them and they had an extra controller with them so dad took the opportunity to do a game with them on co-op. And sometime near the end of the level I FINALLY got given the controller to play =D I played for a short while, I remember seeing some strange metal buildings in the area around a cliff and I also remember trying to drive this car thingy (cause vehicles are cool) and then after awhile of trying to get in, I eventually hopped in it and (accidentally) drove it off the cliff... :/ I came back to life and assumed it had re-spawned with me, sadly because it was co-op my companion informed me that it was gone and it was my fault, so we had to walk for the rest of the level - this was in Halo: Combat Evolved the second level Halo, but some of you would have already guessed that.

And that was that how I first got into Halo.

Playing Halo and the Xbox 360
I remember when I first watched my dad finishing Halo: Combat Evolved, the excitement and that massive race in the warthog trying to escape Halo before the Pillar of Autumn exploded and when the game was finally over and we didn’t get to see the Chiefs face as he took off his helmet. I remember being the only one in the family who was convinced their was going to be a sequel and I was right, we got the limited edition of Halo 2 the day it came out.

Time went by I still couldn’t play Halo by myself except for the occasional co-op game with dad and with my friends, but eventually my father gave me permission to play the game and other like it on my own. This was great but then the Xbox 360 came out of which no-one could afford. It didn’t worry me to much because Halo 3 wasn’t to be released until a few years after the 360 but when it came out in 2007 to my confusion we didn’t get it (I didn’t release I was the only one I knew who was obsessed with it).

In 2008 almost a year after the release of Halo 3 my family put some money together to by an Xbox 360 Arcade. It like our original Xbox (which died and fortunately got replaced because we still had insurance) came with four games, one of them being Halo 3 which was great to finally see how the trilogy ended and use the assault rifle again, but it was nowhere near as good as the first two games.

The Death of Halo
We continued to buy Halo games and got the Halo Wars Limited Edition soon after it’s release, but in 2009 very soon before the release of Halo 3: ODST my father had made a very big and very painful decision. He had told me and my siblings that he was thinking of having a month off violent video games and we all thought it sounded fair, but soon before the day came he changed his decision and got us around a table to talk, our original plan was when we got our first Xbox was to not play any violent games and dad said that he was finally going to do this decision. He said the games weren’t really edifying to our minds. We had to destroy all our games that had any violence in them (and we had a lot) including all our Halo games. We understood why and accepted the decision to an extent, but it was still a extremely hard thing to do. Note! we were still aloud to play these games but only with friends and not at our home.

Beyond Video Games
Even though I couldn’t play Halo anymore I still loved it and when Halo Legends came out I was right into it and it’s terrible canon (I mean come on a Mark-VI multiplayer spartan at Harvest, ancient Japanese style supposed Forerunner buildings and two spartans easily dying under the command of the Master Chief in stupid flying push bikes). When I watched Legends it was interesting, there was nothing much to do with the games at all except for “Origins”, there was these characters that were supposably meant to be close to the Chief. I heard that Kelly, Fred and Dr. Halsey were characters from the books, so I went and bought Halo: The Fall of Reach.

I read The Fall of Reach in five days and that’s impressive for me I hate reading and had never read a book all the way through before. While I was reading I realized that I barely knew anything about the Halo universe and that I wasn’t even the big fan I thought I was - not a true fan. I got the next two books and read them a little slower especially The Flood that was way to much like playing the games but without the color and movements, though I did like the side stories that weren’t mentioned in the games - still wish Eric Nylund wrote it and gave it a different name like “Reclaimer”, that would have sooted it so well. I continue to buy and collect the novels and comics today.

The Return of the Halo Games
I decided one day I would collect every piece of Halo story media and I did that, but I didn’t have one thing; the games. I went on ebay to check prices on Halo game, after a while I asked my parents if I could collect the games for display but not play them and he said yes :D. The first game I got and pride of my collections was the limited collector edition of Halo 2 in very good like new condition at a very cheap price and some months after that a got a game bundle with the Legendary Edition of Halo 3 with most of the games. When I got the bundle my family looked over the games with hungry eyes, dad decided just for once to let us play all the games we hadn't gotten before we stopped playing shooters, but that once didn’t seem to end. We have since started playing shooters again though I wouldn’t call myself a big gamer nowadays.

Final Words
And since that first time in 2003 I’ve been a very big fan of Halo. It’s now 2013 ten years since I first got Halo, though I'm not really obsessed with it anymore like I was when I was a kid, but I still love learning new stuff about Halo and its story. I've played and own almost every standard, limited and legendary edition of the games and every original and reprinted novel, comic and other bonus materials, plus other media and I probably will continue collecting and learning stuff about Halo for a long time still.

~ Samdoo

Halo media and items I own
In 2011 I set myself the challenge of getting every edition of every story piece of Halo media, I have been working on this challenge for awhile now and I'm almost up to date with the currently released Halo media. Take note the challenge isn't my main reason for collecting everything, I just want to learn as much as I can about the Halo Universe and thats my true motivation.

Games

 * Halo: Combat Evolved
 * Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
 * Halo 2
 * Halo 2 Limited Collector's Edition
 * Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
 * Halo 3
 * Halo 3 Limited Edition
 * Halo 3 Legendary Edition
 * Halo Wars
 * Halo Wars Limited Edition
 * Halo 3: ODST
 * Halo Reach
 * Halo Reach Limited Edition
 * Halo Reach Legendary Edition
 * Halo 4
 * Halo 4 Limited Edition

Novels

 * Halo Box Set
 * The Fall of Reach
 * The Flood
 * First Strike
 * Halo Boxed Set
 * Ghosts of Onyx
 * Contact Harvest
 * The Cole Protocol
 * Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
 * Halo: Glasslands
 * Halo: The Thursday War
 * Halo: Cryptum
 * Halo: Primordium
 * Halo: Silentium
 * Halo Boxed Set 2
 * The Fall of Reach Reprint
 * The Flood Reprint
 * First Strike Reprint

Graphic Novels

 * The Halo Graphic Novel


 * Halo: Uprising (Complete Hardcover)


 * Halo: Helljumper (Complete Hardcover)


 * Halo: Bloodline (Complete Hardcover)


 * Halo: Fall of Reach (Hardcover - Boot Camp, Covenant, Invasion)

Other Media

 * Halo Trilogy - The Complete Original Soundtracks


 * Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume 1


 * Halo 2 Strategy Guide


 * Halo 4 Limited Edition Strategy Guide


 * Halo Legends Special Edition


 * Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (DVD)


 * Halo The Art of Building Worlds


 * Numerous Figures (no-longer collecting)

I used to collect many photos related to Halo, I had over 5000 last time I checked that was over a year ago. I decided at that time I wasn’t going to do that anymore, it was just getting too ridiculous, though I still do collect them occasionally, but you can tell where I go when I need some Halo images.

Others...