RP:Infection

Background
While you may sign up and feel free to make rough drafts of your characters, units, etc. you plan to use during the event, nothing besides official moderator-approved content will be accepted and/or submitted until May 1st, 2010 ; the event coordinator will release the prologue to Infected to give contributors a good idea of the feeling for the story, which will mark the beginning of the RP.

You can view the prologue, Halo Reach: BioWar, at this link HERE!

Directions
Please follow all directions below, your refusal to do so may entitle you a ban from the event.


 * 1) Any directions given by RP Moderators must be complied with, or you and your content will be removed from the event if it presents a clear problem with insubordination.
 * 2) You are only allowed one post per day, with a minimum of at least four six-sentence paragraphs. Your post may be as long as you want as long as it conforms to this rule.
 * 3) No SPARTAN-II's or any other supersoldiers will not be allowed for the majority of the event to prevent godmodding and lackluster The Library-esque content. Later on, a few  MAY  be allowed, but only with permission by Moderators.
 * 4) Each contributor will either be "in-charge" of a Battalion (500-800 soldiers) in the Monastir Guards Brigade (1143rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team) or a civilian group aided by a small military detail. As the event progresses, you may request and/or be given opportunities for different types of groups than the ones listed above.
 * 5) As the story progresses, focus on different parts of the battle will occur, make sure you keep up-to-date on this.
 * 6) This story is set within CommanderTony's own personal Halo timeline, known as the Tonyverse. While it is suggested you learn some of the basics about said universe, a good amount of creative freedom is given to each contributor.
 * 7) Collaboration posts are allowed, though give a brief explanation to an available moderator before hand.
 * 8) Using the templates provided HERE, participants are encouraged to write articles focused all content you create for your posts. Categorize them by adding the category Infection at the bottom of the page.
 * 9) We will be providing updates on this RP's talk page on a regular basis, make sure you read them as soon as possible to know what you need to do for each of your posts throughout the campaign.

Event Moderators
The users listed below are to be respected and listened to at all times, they know and plan the story out in detail so contributors have a good background to write their posts with. Moderators will be tasked with creating plot-twists within the event, that the contributors can base their future posts on. They may at any time, without warning and authorization, make minor edits to your posts to either conform to spelling, grammar, or canonical standards.

If you feel confident enough with the event's canon that you wish to enlist your service's as a Moderator, send a formal request to CommanderTony on his talk page HERE.


 * CommanderTony — Writer and director of the Infection series, as well as the coordinator of the event.
 * 117649AnnihilativeRepentance — Second-in-command.
 * Spartan-091 — Volunteer moderator.

Events
Throughout Infection, different battles, situations, and campaigns occur on the Human colony of New Harmony. As such, each contributor is responsible for being familiar with the timeline set forth in the timeline provided by the teaser communique Halo Reach: Infection. A summarized and more what-to-do oriented one is provided below:


 * 1) Outbreak — The unintentional release of Seoulnum virus-infected test subjects from the Andromeda Military Science Institute on October 20th, 2550.
 * 2) Response — Governor General Kinberg puts the New Harmony Land Forces Command on high-alert, and sends an evacuation notice informing the populace of a "Covenant invasion" on October 22nd. Local Naval and Marine forces quickly arrive on scene. New Harmony forces react to small infestations and are able to contain them.
 * 3) Infection — On October 25th, over half of the population of New Harmony has been infected with the Seoulnum virus despite initial estimations on the growth of the infestation. The Rapid Reaction Fleet's main body arrives to the planet and is ordered to seize and/or destroy any civilian evacuation vessel containing a possible Seoulnum threat.
 * 4) Saturation Bombing — The majority of New Harmony has been infested by the Seoulnum virus, Vice Admiral Pinto is ordered by UEG Chancellor Beland to release weapons of mass destruction over the colony on October 27th. All major cities and holdouts are devastated by the attacks.
 * 5) Containment — The main threat presented by the infected is now eliminated, and large amounts of UNSC Special Forces and New Harmony soldiers are sent back down to the surface to destroy any remaining holdouts and to rescue stranded civilians on October 31st and November 1st.

Invitation
If you want to officially invite your friends or other editors into the project, then go to this link HERE to copy and paste the embed code creating the template seen below.

How to sign up
After you've read the entire background section multiple times, and decided Infection seems like an interesting idea, sign your name below using this template: *

This will aid the Moderators and other contributors in allowing them to view content you've submitted for the event, as well as converse with you without the hassle of playing Where's Waldo in the page's edit history.

List of writers
To reduce the length of the page, this list will be contained within a Scroll box, please post above these tags:  }} 

Player Characters
Each users has their choice of one or two characters their unit/group will be based around. These characters can be a grizzled New Harmony sergeant, a geeky civilian, a power-hungry constable, or anything else you can think of.


 * CommanderTony — Major General Henry West and Lieutenant Simon Montgomery
 * Another Poetic Spartan — Captain Ashton Graves
 * 117649AR — Colonel Marc Lemierre
 * Bobzombie — Lieutenant Colonel Ben Garcia and Corporal Martin Jones
 * Sgt.T.N.Biscuits — Warrant Officer Ross Ainsley and Major Randall Freemont
 * Spartan-091 — Petty Officer Second Class Jack-G101 and Nick "Web" Webley
 * The All-knowing Sith'ari — Major Megan Callaghan
 * Subtank — Cameron Nadiah and Ryan Cheah
 * Sgt.johnson —Petty Officer Second Class Travis-G292
 * Jawsredfield —Journalist Beth Hedges
 * Hyper Zergling —
 * CarpeJugulum - Major Theodore Ashcroft
 * LOMI - Lance Corporal Justin Davis and URF Double-Agent Miranda Talavera
 * SPARTAN-118 -
 * Nra 'Vadumee - Major Emerson MacTaven, Joseph MacTaven
 * Shivly - Alex Mccraw

Non-player Characters
To continue to expand the universe surrounding the Infection RP, there will be numerous characters that will not be "role-playable" to the contributors. These characters will be solely featured in the RP posts of the moderators. If you wish to add a person to this list, contact any of the moderators.


 * Governor General Leland Kinberg — Leader of the Commonwealth of New Harmony, and Commander-in-Chief of the New Harmony Army.
 * Vice Admiral Jun Pinto — Commander-in-Chief, Twentieth Fleet (Rapid Reaction Forces Command).
 * Doctor Vladimir Petrovich — Chief Scientist, Andromeda Military Science Institute (Office of Naval Intelligence).

Order of Battle
A list of all units and groups featured in the Infection RP.

United Nations Space Command
(NOTE: One regiment is still needed to complete the Monastir Guards, and fill in three battalions per regiment. Inform the regimental commanders [seen in the writer template at top of each page] prior to establishing a unit.)
 * New Harmony Land Forces Command
 * Monastir Guards (1143rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team)'''
 * Royal Monastir Dragoons
 * The Pastor Rifles
 * Airborne Guards of Huntington
 * '''Rapid Reaction Fleet
 * Twentieth Fleet
 * Destroyer Squadron 87
 * Rapid Reaction Fleet Marine Forces
 * 9th Shock Division
 * 27th Marine Division
 * 223rd Marine Engineering Brigade

Civilians
To all who are commanding a civilian survivor group in the Tyumen region, all you simply have to do is link the name of your group. Preferably, these groups are named after the towns/cities in which the survivors are located in. And remember that as a Commonwealth colony, a good portion of the location names should be inspired by British, Canadian, Australian, and New England names.


 * Commonwealth of New Harmony
 * Fairfax Survivors- Nick "Web" Webley and others.
 * Hastings Survivors- Cameron Nadiah, Ryan Cheah and others.
 * Cardiff Survivors- Beth Hedges and others
 * New Remmington Survivors- Joseph MavTavish and others

Posting
'Actual posting and the beginning of Infection'' will take place on Wednesday, May 5th when CommanderTony posts the first entry for the RP. Thank you for your patience! Also, remember to read the prologue to Infection HERE!'''

Make sure you sign ALL of your posts with the following section title under the appropriate event  ====USERNAME (post NUMBER)==== . See below if you are still confused...

CommanderTony (post 1)
00:01 - 20 OCTOBER 2550 NEW HARMONY, GAMMA CENTAURI, SECTOR TWO ANDROMEDA MILITARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE

Within the Andromeda MSI, an eerie presence permeated throughout the clean interior. Dr. Vladimir Petrovich, chief scientist at the facility, was walking such halls when he heard silent thumping from the rooms ahead; wondering what sort of activity could be going on at such time of the night, Petrovich decided to check it out. Cautiously walking to the primary research lab where he thought the thumping was coming from, the elderly scientist began to hear more violent and agonizing noises as he went on.

As a veteran member of the institute, Petrovich has seen his fair share of miraculous and strange events occurring on his watch. Within visual distance of the lab's only entrance, he pondered on an outbreak that happened recently in his career at Andromeda. Only four years ago, Vladimir Petrovich was caught in a firefight between a group of Rebel infiltrators and the ONI Marine guards at the facility. The Rebels gained intelligence that their soldiers were being held in detention at the very place he called home; truth was — they were right...to an extent. Ultimately learning about the whereabouts of their former comrades-in-arms, Rebel soldiers unleashed the prisoners upon their former captors. Though the "prisoners" and the soldiers were quickly subdued by the resourceful Marines, the lessons learned on that day would be embedded in everyone who experienced it. Vladimir then reached for his sidearm....

"Flash!" called out Petrovich, hoping to alert any Andromeda personnel.

To his chagrin, nobody bothered to respond with a countersign...

"Hello — is anyone there? Can anyone hear me?"

Again, no response was given to Vladimir. Manually opening the auto-doors further, the noises in other rooms continued to increase in volume and frequency. Just as he was about to let his guard down and believe that this was all a prank by the newer Marines and scientists, Petrovich heard grumbling and shuffling in the conference room to his left. Stealthily walking into the room, he noticed a tall Asiatic man standing behind the table. First assuming that he was an escaped subject, Vladimir threw flexi-cuffs across the hand-crafted mahogany table hoping that this man would be subdued easily. After a few seconds of dead silence, the scientist made a step forward and raised his sidearm at the subject, hoping a bit of violence would motivate the man to comply with his demands.

"What? Are you simple! Put your damn hands behind your back and cuff yourself, it's not that fucking hard!" an annoyed Petrovich sarcastically told the man.

After minutes of statue-like behavior on the subject's part, he finally gave a short and clear message to Vladimir. Bitchy Bob, a nickname the doctor gave to him just moments before, opened his mouth and liters of blood began to spill out, growling at him at the same time. Finally realizing that he wasn't just an ordinary subject, Vladimir shot Bob just a few centimeters below his left eye...he didn't go down.

Even with a bullet lodged within his skull, Bob stood his ground and continued to growl at Petrovich, likely "strategizing" his next move against the doctor. A gunfight quickly ensued in the rooms surrounding the lab, and before Bob had a chance to strike down Petrovich, the scientist quickly ran out of the room knocking anything down in his path. Rather than chasing him down, Bob calmly walked out of the room and proceeded to head towards detention facilities. Petrovich ran to the nearest communications terminal and initiated a facility-wide lockdown, hoping to prevent outbreak of the Seoulnum virus, a biological weapon he had been working on for the past decade. Teams of Marines were put on high alert and sent throughout the facility to hunt Bob and any subjects down before they could contaminate the rest of Andromeda. The rookie Marines assigned to the facility were caught off-guard by Bob and his heightened senses, easily gaining access to the detention areas.

While a normal Seoulnum infectee doesn't have any increased abilities to further expand the viruses outbreak upon a population, Bob was naturally a body-builder prior to becoming a subject for Petrovich and Andromeda. While this allowed him to open up the doors with ease, the dozens, if not hundreds, of cells would take minutes to open — allowing the Marines to contain the outbreak in one swift action. To his surprise, Bob was overwhelmed with anger and excitement when all of the cells suddenly opened simultaneously. Within seconds, over 50 infected subjects were released by an unknown source within the facility.

Running rampant around Andromeda, the Seoulnum infectees overran Marine and automated defenses, gathering new resources as they press forward. By 00:45 hours, the outbreak had spread throughout the facility, and were knocking on the doorstep to the first two levels. A loosely organized band of Marines and scientist barricaded themselves in front of the security gates for the third and second levels. An overwhelming force that tripled in size from the time of large-scale facility outbreak rushed the hastily-built fortifications in mass-numbers. For ten minutes, Andromeda personnel pushed back wave after wave of infected subjects, and were close to containing the outbreak without a single loss by their efforts. Unfortunately for the defenders, their ammunition supply was running dry as the minutes past, and every time a small group of subjects began to run at the Marines, the more their chances of success were lost. At 01:00 hours, the Marines ordered a general retreat out of the facility.

As Bob was finally within range of their guns, he charged at the retreating Marines, wiping down a quarter dozen of them with a single lunge. Quickly, the other infected swarmed on the dead bodies and began to proceed to the main level of Andromeda. Unfortunately for the surviving Marines and scientists who were able to escape, they had numerous bitten personnel within their ranks. Before they could react to their former comrades, numerous others were already showing symptoms and complete infection. Seoulnum was on the verge of complete infestation throughout Andromeda, and there was nothing more the survivors could do about it. In one last act of heroism, all of them committed suicide to prevent their eventual infection by the subjects they once abused and tortured. Finally arriving at the main level, Bob and the Seoulnum infectees growled in anger and pounded on the main door and large bulletproof windows. Without warning to them, the door managed to open all on it's own — without the need for Human interaction. Roaring in excitement, the infected rushed out of the facility into the valley below...leaving it in a husk of mutilated carcasses.

"SCION TO COMMAND. I HAVE INITIATED LEVEL ONE LOCKDOWN PROCEDURES. NO SUCCESS. CRUSADERS BE WARNED! OVER" a shaken Petrovich whispered into his chatter.