User blog:The Pale Kestrl/Just something I made

Well I haven't really done much with this account yet, some much has been happening. However I was inspired to write something today as a prolgue to a book/short fiction I may write.

In eorum defensionem

Prologue: For those who would otherwise forget

It was once said that should Mankind ever face the threat of an alien onslaught that we would band together, fight as once against a common enemy. I’m sure that who ever said that was turning in his grave as he watched how we bickered amongst each other as the covenant tore our worlds apart. 20 years of war and never once were we all united.

In those 2 decades we faced challenges that we had never faced before, and while most of us sat there and did whatever we needed to so that we could pretend nothing had happened, a select few incredible people took the steps needed to make sure we could all have a tomorrow. I have had the pleasure of fighting alongside these people, sharing every hardship and challenge.

These men and women weren’t Spartans, we have had plenty of ceremonies about them, these people were ODST’s. They didn’t have fancy armour or genetic augmentations or a life time of training, they were people just like you and me. But one thing made them different, they had the gumption, the balls, to go out there and stand in the way of the biggest threat to our existence. And out of all humanity, were the only ones to do it united.

Our enemy was the covenant, a group of aliens that had ordered some holy war on humanity. A war that had one certainty, we fight or we die. And we chose to fight. From Harvest, Miridim, Ariel, Reach, New Constantinople and a hundred other worlds our hero’s stood shoulder to shoulder, with pride in their eyes and fire in their hearts. In this, they were magnificent. They first fought with guns, when their guns ran dry the fought with knifes, when they broke they took up all they could find, and when there was nothing to find they fought with bare hands. And our enemy saw us, and they feared us for what we could do.

So today I raise my glass not to humanities greatest champions, no I raise my glass to our bravest warriors, for their decisions required courage beyond measure. And for that they shall never be forgotten.

It isn't much but it is a start, as I make things I will post them here for someone to see if they want and can find it.

--The Pale Kestrl (talk) 15:16, February 25, 2013 (UTC)