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....

Main Stories
Fragment arc: Ok i'm calling this story set this because there is more I want to do with Peter than just a few books. This story set follows Russell's discovery of the first code fragment and his journey to unite all of them to save the galaxy from certain destruction.

Side Stories
These will be short to medium stories pertaining to the saga to fill in gaps and look deeper into certain aspects of various characters.


 * The Art of war: An idea I had not long ago about Russell training Spartan B312. That is literally the premise.


 * The Long Road Home: The tale of Russell's struggle to return to the UNSC after the first book. It's not a long story, i'm not even sure it'll happen. We shall see.


 * Finding Genesis: This is a story that I'm looking forward to telling. It occurs just before the second book and examines what happens when a spartan meets their parents. Russell has to simultaneously deal with this and the new information from the fragment in his head.


 * Game of Lies: The first part of a post fragments event. Russell and friends return home only to be met with persecution. ONI is taken over by a former ONI lead group who want to use the knowledge Russell still has to enslave humanity or something, not fully sure on that front.


 * Darkest parts of the mind: A little side story that I have been fiddling around with for a while. I've only got the premise down and I'm tempted to have it replace The Long Road Home. We'll see. Basically while Russell is travelling back home in cryo sleep Oberon's daughter attempts to get revenge for the death of her father by breaking Russell's mind, using his deepest fears. Our stalwart spartan must now venture into his mind and come face to face with his greatest fear.

Human

 * Russell-041: Russell is really me, more or less, as a Spartan. He is a the main character I play when RPing with friends and is a main character in a story by a good friend of mine. Here on Halo fanon he's going to take a new role. He is going to be one of those spartans that gets used by ONI a lot. Personally i'm not a great fan of that idea but it gets the job done. That said i'll try and steer away from the common themes associated with that sort of role. I've not really got much on what he does with ONI, just a lot of covert ops and so on, because the main focus on him is near the end of the war where he goes MIA. While lost he absorbs into his mind a Forunner code fragment, the fragment gives him limited understanding of Forunner technology and a sliver of knowledge about the Starforge and the Cataclysm. This then informs the rest of the story arc. Russell is a unique spartan in his out look and disposition. Of the three common personalities that fan spartans take, i.e; Sociopath, Lovable Jerk and Stoics, Peter leans in the way of Stoic with moments of dry sarcastic humour.


 * Dawn Knights: Lieutenant Dawn Knights is an ONI officer and daughter of the infamous, among ONI, Sarah Knights. Dawn doesn't arrive on the scene until after Russell escapes back home at the end of the second book. However she has a profound effect on Russell. She is his sister and this is the main focus of a short story where Russell meets his family, well Mother and Sister. After that she becomes his handler, through some string pulling, and accompanies Russell throughout the next few years. Her personality is based around that cold self assuredness, from her mother, mixed with a burning fire of determination.


 * Jason Galloway: Captain Jason Galloway has been a common, if confused, addition to a lot of my work but has never really fitted. Here he is, as usual, my main Naval officer. Commanding the Crimson Aurora in the Fragments story arc.

Covenant
Nakia 'Moramee: The classic evil covenant leader and third primary antagonist. Fleetmaster Nakia 'Moramee lives up too his fathers reputation of being a hate filled tyrant. He's really what you'd expect him to be most of the time but I will look into expanding him as time goes on.

Forunner
Oberon: Oberon is the second primary antagonist in the fragments story arc. He is sort of 'Didactish' but better. His main goal is the discovery of the Starforge and activation of The Cataclysm. He is the usual evil forunner material but stands apart from the crowd as he isn't himself....

Fornax, Master of the Forgefane: Fornax is may take on a good forunner. Fornax is the 'prophet and teacher' for most of the fragments story arc, providing Peter information through the collected fragments. He is an AI, having died sometime ago, but reached metastabilty. He resides in the Starforge, which he created and controlled, but becomes the AI for the Sovereign of Victory at the end of the Fragment arc.

Other

 * Energy Creature: So far this creature has no name, but it serves as the primary antagonist for the Fragment arc. It is the power source for the Cataclysm. It has the power to control others (think Reaper Indoctrination). Its main goal is to absorb all the energy it can to become the most powerful force in the galaxy.

Things

 * Code Fragments: The main driving point behind the Fragment arc, the code pieces are slivers of knowledge about forunner technology and, more importantly, the location of the Starforge. They were scattered through the galaxy by the forunners so that there would be a story if someone went after them. Once united they form the basis of activating the Starforge and unlocking its power......


 * The Starfoge: If you have played Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic then you'll be able to guess this quite easily. The Starforge is a giant forunner structure designed to build almost anything. It was initially designed, by Fornax, to aid in colonisation effort. However it was repurposed to fight the Flood when the war broke out. As the war drew to a close the Starforge was used to contain the Cataclysm so that it would never again threaten the galaxy. Finding the Starforge becomes the primary motivation in the Fragments arc which culminates in The Battle of the Starforge.


 * The Cataclysm: A creation of pure destruction. Initially designed to hold the power of the energy creature to use as a weapon the beast corrupted to mind of Oberon who became a puppet to the creature. Eventually it was brought under forunner control and caged within the Starforge. When fired the beam causes anything hit by it to transform into energy, feeding the weapon and the creature within. Doing this the creature planned to consume everything in it's path, until all had been converted into energy.

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.


 * Team Striker: 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. I do like the idea of 'Grey Team Mk2' or something like that. Perhaps a headhunter team or just a regular fireteam. We'll see.

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.

Miscellaneous
A dump for all the unnamed things:

Thyr 'Valum
Thyr will, at some point suffer an intense rewrite. So his article should be considered null for now.

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.

Name Dump

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Russell-041
"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

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