User:The Pale Kestrl/Sandbox

Ok, this is a place where I can put all the idea's rattling around in my head so that can stop making so much noise.

Ok where to start....

Russell-041
My main man, flagship character and self insert spartan. As far as things go for him I have a lot planned, mainly up coming RP's and community projects. I'm also going to give him his own personal story set called In Their Defence which will document his time in training, outings during the human covenant war and beyond.

In Their Defence
A group of short to medium length stories documenting various events in the life of Spartan 041, including his training, outings in the Great War and the conflicts following it.


 * Boot: Either a story or a compilation of important events that involved Russell during his training on Reach. Such events include the first day of training (First Day at School), Helping Carris after she killed a drill instructor (Brother I never had), A few training exercises, A run in with Tango Company (Unbreakable) and going through the augmentations.


 * The Harvest Campaign: The five year long campaign that signified the spartans entrance into both the war and the public spot light. Bearing in mind the length of time that the fights in and around Harvest took this could be a long story, perhaps a collaboration would suit this better. Or I could just do important events again.


 * The Hunt: Following his capture during a battle in the Inner Colonies Russell, along with two Spartan III Headhunters must evade capture on a covenant world and make it back to UNSC Space. Can the trio evade capture and complete their mission?


 * The Fall of Reach: I will leave off on this very important area for now and see what I can do with Brodie's up coming community project if that is set on Reach. If not then I guess i'll have to tackle this one.


 * Last Stand in London: The war finally reaches Earth and Russell is there for the end. Making his stand in the city of London, which holds one of the last orbital elevator on the planet, alongside Team Shoto and his friend Joel (A former spartan II). Is this how it ends for our heroes?


 * To Infinity...: Fresh from the war our spartan is placed aboard the UNSC Infinity to help with the spartan IV's. I guess this could be another compilation, I still like the idea of an RP following the crew of the Infinity though I know that RP's are hard for this community. This would be another go place to collab with other writers especially those in DoH.

Team Shoto
For a long time I have wanted to make a spartan III team. I'm a big fan of the III's but I have yet to think of a good theme for them. The idea of a regular fireteam that grows into a role rather than being assigned one would make a nice change. If Ahalosniper starts up his Operation:JAILBREAK then i'd like these guys to be there. I also have a few idea's of what I can do for them.

Members

 * Shepard G127: The teams leader and assault specialist. Not overly confident in his ability to lead but Shepard knows that his team trusts him to what's right.


 * Jay G090: Jay is Shoto's marksman and scout. He is calm in every sense of the word, like he is permanently in prefect Zen of most of his life.


 * Lance G244: The explosives specialist. Lance is very protective of his friends which, along with his much larger physic, make him an imposing person. However he is kind at heart.


 * Jess G134: Shoto's tech expert, Jess is a computer girl through and through. Brought up around technology she has an innate talent not seen since Mike and Joshua from the Spartan II's.

Idea's

 * I need to think up armour for these guys, I mean they would be wearing SPI armour at the start but I would like to have them wearing the same suits that NOBLE is wearing. I just need to avoid copying Ahalosniper. I think having them break off from the main group to retrieve Joel from a testing facility on Titan would work.


 * I guess that most of Gamma is deployed on Earth, seeing as the war is coming to an end, but could they have been on Reach? Perhaps in the closing few days or so.


 * I was looking up the Winter Solider on the Marvel wiki and I really liked the idea. But can you do that to a spartan, I think so.


 * I like the idea of Shoto having a theme song, so far Bad City Fight as One is the top contender. Also an emblem is needed.

Stories

 * Deamonhunter: This story has it's gensis in Halo: Headhunters (You know that motion comic that everyone loves, with the badass spartans and awesome elites? Ye you remember). Well the special looking elites there got me thinking, would the covenant create a group specificly designed to kill spartans? And so the Deamonhunters were born. A special forces group made up of sangheili trained to hunt spartans. So far I don't know what would happen in this story but I guess at some point I could do the Headhunters from the sangheili perspective.


 * No Morals, No Honour, No Mercy: A trio of short stories about The Seven Outcasts' mercenary careers. So far I know there will be; A bank heist, a betrayal, a prison break and revenge.

Role plays

 * Down But Not Out: Something I though up not long ago. The premise of the story is about two (or more) ships, one human and one covenant, that crash land on a planet together. The following conflict is unique as it features a pitched battle between human and covenant forces without air support and inexhaustible man power. This will most likely be carted off to someone else.


 * Another day at the office: I was playing spartan ops a while back and it occurred to me that the premise for this series, i.e the daily workings of life aboard the UNSC Infinity, was a fairly engaging setting. And that is really the basic idea, it does have the added bonus of meaning the RP would last a long time.

Things to expand on
A dump for all the things that need some work to them.

Thyr 'Valum
Thyr will, at some point, suffer an intense rewrite. So his article should be considered null for now. I may having him play a role with Russell as a kind of chief and arbiter duo.

The Tel-jain
The Tel-jain are a roving group of ex-covenant sangheili warriors that have banded to together to work as mercenaries. Tel-jain in sangheili means 'A warrior without purpose'. Not much on this lot yet, other than they will appear in Hammer Fall, whenever that happens.


 * Fer 'Makn: The Leader of the group. Fer is an ex-major that left soon after the war. Peace didn't sit well with him and he started the Tel-jain along with Thror and Thurak to get his life back on track.


 * Thror 'Katar: An original member of the Outcasts and the groups explosive expert. He is brothers with Thurak.


 * Thurak 'Katar: The other original member and Thror's bother, Thurak is the heavy weapons specialist, a rare sight among elites.


 * Tal 'Zerex: An ex-gladiator and second newest member, Tal joined the Outcasts after he left the Pits. He is the close combat specialist.


 * Jaeg 'Xen: Jaeg was found soon after the groups founding and severs as the marksman, an even rare sight.


 * Zhar 'Vadam: Newest addition to the group, Zhar is the pilot of the Outcasts ship, Spirit of Ronin.

Joel S149
This thought struck me sometime ago, I haven't read much about S-II's that washed out. Perhaps it is because most of them died, but Fajahd and a few others survived. Also liked the idea of someone being a tech expert and part time 'warsmith', someone that builds weapons and armour, we'll that is Joel's new job. Also helps fill in Russell's squad in training.

The Vigilante
I've been toying with the idea of a vigilante character within the halo universe for sometime now, really ever since I started watching Arrow and looking at stuff for Watchdogs. I'm not sure where I can take that yet but it is a character that would be fun to work on.

Helion 5
Been thinking about this idea ever since I played Mass Effect 2. During a mission to recruit Jack you travel to a huge private prison that houses all kinds of unsavoury characters. I figured that perhaps there could be something similar in the Frontier. The story I have in mind for this is to have Tal imprisoned there for a crime he didn't commit. From their our anti-villain must free himself and clear his name, slightly. I may also bring this into Hammer Fall as a bit of back story for Tal.

Name Dump

 * Characters: Tristan


 * Places: Helion 5


 * Ships: Sovereign Of Victory, Crimson Aurora, Carahdras Class Cruiser, Wayward Watch

Quote Dump
A bin for quotes that I may use. Really just things I jot down whenever they come up.

"We have any more spartans running around with sniper rifles and i'll start to question why we were trained in any other form of combat."

- Russell, observing another battle of who gets a sniper rifle.

"It's all about the personal touch"

- Russell tips on how to do the job right

"I am War, the culmination of centuries of human evolution, the omega of my races power of destruction. You think you know fury? You think you know wrath? Just try me."

- Russell before his final battle with Oberon

"She was one heck of a handful, probably gave Mendez a run for his money before you picked her out for this little project hu? Of all the things I take from teaching her is that she is the most obnoxious, single-minded and hate filled person I have ever met. She'll do well as a spartan."

- Russell, after finishing his training with Spartan B312

"When you feel power like that. In it's purest form, it never lets go."

- Russell, after destroying the Cataclysm

"Many were called, few were chosen"

- Russell quotes Matthew 22:14 while reflecting on the spartan program.

"In this team it is less about giving orders and more about taking the blame when things go sideways"

- Shepard, about leading his team.

"How many innocents, are now lying dead on those streets? How many more have to die, before you end this pointless vendetta? What is Sesa could see you right now?"

- Thyr (maybe) duelling with Shinsu 'Refum

"Your so blinded by your hatred, you can't even see beyond your own desire"

- Thyr, still duelling with Shinsu

"Nothing made us special particularly, we were just some angry kids with the right genetics."

- Lance G244 talking about the Spartan III's

"They say that if you give a man a fish you'll feed him for a day, show a man how to catch fish and you will have fed him for a life time. Well it's the same with spartans. We weren't just told to shoot a gun, we were told why we should shoot it. That is what all the spartans that have come before you have had. Purpose"

- During an altercation with Commander Palmer

Kestrl FM
A place for the music I feel goes well with my characters