User:Brodie-001/Sandbox

Right, ideas, ideas, ideas.

Regarding 343i Canon
Well, I've decided that the main divergence point for the Sigmaverse will be immediately following the end of the Human-Covenant War, roughly early 2553 onwards. Need to list the important changes to it.
 * Infinity isn't built. Not yet, at least. I'll probably have it created by the late 26th Century, or even just after the Dark Uprising. Not sure what I'd do with it, but I plan to integrate the ship at some point.
 * As I've mentioned before, the Infinity will be included at some point, though I don't want it as a gamebreaker. Come to think of it I could have it unveiled by the 2599 battle of Sanghelios, before having it go toe-to-toe with the Ragnarok over Minerva. Then the SPARTAN-IV's and new SPARTAN-V Program can have their base.
 * The SPARTAN-IV Program, or at least Halo 4's one, doesn't happen. My own one begins in 2569 after the events of Shrike begin to seriously stir shit up. Even then, at least a thousand S-IV's are recruited at a young age, Zulu Company being made up of 6-9 year olds, and so on. They won't be receiving that Gen2 nonsense until the 2590's either, though It'll be very powerful when they do get it.
 * John-117 and the other SPARTAN-II's are another factor. The way I see it, I'll have Fred, Linda and Kelly sent off to find him, may even push the events on Requiem forward to the 2570s, though the Didact still gets stopped. Might not even include it, come to think of it, since all that nonsense severely screws with my canon. Let John sleep.
 * Parangosky and Kilo-Five will be a minor plot point. I might put Ryan Samson in charge of ONI in the 70's, revealing Parangosky for her crimes and deposing Osman quietly. I might have Parangosky alive by this point, though near-death. It'll be quite sad and ironic if I have Richard Mack Jr. of all people testify against her, considering her past. Still, contrapasso, as she says...
 * Okay, with Parangosky's death being all but confirmed, I guess her trial will have to be passed on to Admiral Osman, who might have to be disposed of forcefully. I'm thinking the newly promoted Rear Admiral Samson, backed by Spartans (probably Elena and Kane), heading down to her office. Captain RMJ has to be there too, along with Admiral Hawkins and Vice-Admiral Harris leading what is essentially a coup of ONI. Interesting. Oddly convenient, since this lot all appear in the meeting at the start of Halo: Mercy Kill.

Work within 343i canon.
Though I have my issues with 343's take on Halo, I still find the whole S-IV's on Requiem fascinating, and wouldn't mind trying my hand at my own fireteam. Just a few preliminary ideas for some, silly S-IV team names and all. I've kept the fireteam sizes different, just like there are six in Castle, Five in Majestic, Four maximum in Crimson and so on. I'll keep this entirely separate from the Sigmaverse, as a sort of H4-related side project for the time being. Might work with other users who are doing their own Infinity Spartans. Should be good fun to write in conjunction with the others in DoH.

SPARTAN-IV Fireteams
For use in the Demons of Hope Expanded universe.

Fireteam Iron
Iron will serve as my Protagonists for the Infinity S-IV's. I'll largely focus on them for the time being, going off on all sorts of adventures. And no, I'm not having a token female to even things out here.


 *  Thomas Floyd (Leader of Iron, he's very trusting of his team, though his leniency may cause problems.)
 * Nikolai Kuhlman (Takes missions very seriously, a consummate professional who operates as Iron's pointman)
 * Jack Cunningham (Shameless usage of my surname here. Team techie, bit of a smartmouth.)
 * Glenn Calhoun (Something of a complainer, but gets things done. Rounds off the team nicely.)

Fireteam Panther
I'll use these two as a scouting team, and probably some kind of group that will need help from Iron at some point, someone gets captured, etc. They'll be handy to have around, at least.


 * Christian O'Connel (Chatty guy, epitome of the 'Friendly Sniper' Trope.)
 * Donald Kinley (The sometimes over-eager partner of Chris. A little too happy to be in combat.)

Fireteam Rune
These guys form a bigger team, probably for reinforcements and fire support. I also had a notion of making them Iron's rivals, as well. Nothing too bad, like betrayal on the battlefield, but things could get rough in wargames. Again, plot points, plot points...


 * Todd Vance (The typical 'bully-boy' type. A good fighter, but all-round asshole.)
 * Melissa Houston (A somewhat 'bitchy' character who often sparks arguments with Iron. Not nice.)
 * Vlasi Yang (A quiet one, usually in charge of demolitions.)
 * Jordan Cornelius (Named in honour of an old friend. A big guy, but fast.)
 * Alvin Millan (A younger SPARTAN, quite overconfident.)
 * Abigail Evans (Quite a tough and surly, but respectful character. People like that make excellent redshirts.)

AAO Work

 * Since I've joined AAO, I've done relatively little to fit into my own niche there. While I've only added two characters so far, I'd like to integrate myself more with the community. As such, I'll have to plan out a few ideas here for the future regarding my characters.
 * Scientist-y character for something. Got a lovely image of Derek Jacobi to use. Was thinking of using his short appearance in  for inspiration on his personality. I have full intentions of laughing evilly at it. Mwahah.
 * After some discussion with Lieutenant Davis, I've decided to work with him regarding the UNSC James F. Adams and those weird AAO SIII's. While I'm dubious of making some myself, they may be interesting to work with.
 * Need to expand on my Freelancer things, particularly 'ol Northy. Got a few ideas for childhood and the like. Tie-ins, maybe?

Wulf Team Triolgy

 * Halo: The Howling Dark. I've had this story planned for so long, and I'm beginning to doubt if I'll ever finish the Wulf Team trilogy. New canon bothers me, and I'm beginning to regret my already deeply-embedded decision to kill off almost all of Wulf Team on Minerva. THD will also include the battles on Teltin Station and Sanghelios, which I need to plan out properly. Some of Wulf Team gets captured, there's a Shadow Broker-esque Jiralhanae called Saernus (reference to the little bro there) controlling stuff. Oh, and Jack's prancing around being evil in the background.
 * I feel as if Wulf Team are a sort of cut-price Sigma, really. We've got Maynard, the white knight and blandy McBlanderson protagonist, Ross, the generic psychopath, Mateo the foreign sounding sniper, there as a Jun expy, Devin, who I've actually expanded on but has been characterised as much as a brick, and Kate, the token female and niece of my over-compensatingly long-articled Marco-025. Characterisation is key, I suppose.

ORION
Plot Points:
 * The ORION Project is something that has interested me of late. As such, I'm planning on doing...something with Trident Team, and the awesomely awesome Richard Mack Sr., who serves as my protagonist at that time. Since I'll probably do a collaboration with Sona regarding ORION, I can put the Heimdall Incident off for now. Probably a good thing, since It'd probably end up as a Halo version of Shadow Moses...
 * ORION will serve as a big backstory for my main universe, being the starting-off point for Calvin Roe and Richard Mack, as well as links with canon characters, such as Parangosky, who I've always wanted to write about as a younger person, rather than the shrivelled-yet-scary old woman that we see her as in the Haloverse.
 * Frederick King and Marion Hollister's relationship, which ends badly. Well, something comes from it.
 * RMS and his actions with , should be a surprise.
 * Anton LaMarche, and what he ends up discovering on Heimdall. Not much else to elaborate on regarding it at this point, though It'll be very important to RMS at the time.
 * Trident Team's eventual collapse and the members splitting up as time goes on. FK goes to ONI, HR and JA heading the ODST's and so on.

The Insurrection

 * Carlos Driscol and his past. He's probably the first character I've made who becomes a complete and utter asshole by choice. At least Jack had a totally fucked up childhood to fall back on. I've given him an introduction in Shrike, shown his train of thought in The Damned, and some degree of development in his later years, during Awakening Demons. Provided he survives all that shit with the Minutemen, I've got a lovely story planned out regarding him and Major Michael Green, seen in his fledgeling years in Halo: Mercy Kill.

Sigma Team

 * For the supposed stars of my universe, I've written barely anything about the SPARTAN-II team themselves during the Human-Covenant War years. Perhaps it's the challenge of writing for nine people at once, of the fact that it would be a monumental task to achieve? I've already done bits and bobs on some of them, Marco, Elena, and Jax probably being the best-developed so far. Will probably stick to short stories for now.
 * Sigma-Gamma Team. Since I've pulled the whole 'no one died during SIGMA augmentations' thing out of my arse, I've got a few S-II's on standby. So far, they are five members of SIGMA, who fought against both the Covenant and the Insurrection in the war before mysteriously vanishing in 2548 after coming into contact with a Forerunner artefact. Well, it has to be a teleportation device, but to where, I don't know. They'll probably be recovered eventually by the UNSC, but I'll need info on them. If need be, then I might ask another writer if they'd be interested in writing about Sigma-Gamma. Give 'em names, numbers, and little else, and see what happens. Still, it's something to think about. Who knows when I'll need five fresh SPARTAN-II's to come out of nowhere?
 * Sigma-Delta, which is comprised of one guy, Derek-142. Yeah, he's ridiculously classified, even for a SIGMA SPARTAN-II, but what for? I need to come up with a suitable reason for this. May consider Project AEGIS, which would keep him and some others on ice when not in use, a bit like WH40K's Eversor Assassins, but with a bit less crazy. Still, need to think about him.

Flood-Thing
To be honest, you don't see very many articles pertaining to the Flood. Maybe a few stories, but you don't get much beyond that. I think I might plan for some kind of story based around a flood outbreak. I don't want it to be too unrealistic, mind. Ideas.
 * Location: would be a good one. Halo ring under UNSC control, and a flood containment facility gets breached accidentally. Infection form breaks through and begins the outbreak or something.
 * Time: I'm thinking post-HCW, probably in the early 2570's. Should be good.
 * Characters: I'll most likely introduce a new cast just for this, may grab a few tertiary characters from other stories for use. Will get to them later. Might use S-IV's, though I'm unsure of what universe I'll have them in.
 * Come to think of it, if I can't get it with the DoH SPARTAN-IV's, I'll use Layla-B101, Hank-136, and the other SPARTAN's making up Project THOR to combat the Flood instead. Might be a way of getting rid of a few unnecessary characters.

Operation: RED FLAG Multiverse Story
Okay, so at the time of Reach's invasion, the UNSC had gathered just about every SPARTAN-II they could for. This involved capturing a Covenant vessel, getting into High Charity, and capturing one or more of the Covenant's prophets with the help of an AI mission specialist (Cortana) and using them as leverage to gain peace. Definitely a desperate plan, not to mention how dangerous and difficult it would certainly be, even for Spartans. Of course, the Fall of Reach put a stop to that, but what if the UNSC still wanted to carry it out? Who would be left to send in?

Timeframe
We're talking September-October 2552 here, between the Fall of Reach and the Battle of Earth. It will likely span about a month at most, taking Slipspace travel into account.

Team
I'm comprising it entirely of SPARTAN-II's. Why? They are, simply put, the iconic and original heroes of Halo. I'd like to show some of the teamwork exhibited in Fall of Reach and First Strike here, with Fanon S-II's. Plus, the character interaction would be lovely. As far as armour/equipment goes, they will probably all be outfitted with MJOLNIR Mark VI armour, as it was stated that prototypes were tested out on Reach. It's a little early for the suits, maybe, but I wouldn't put it past the UNSC to put them out for a mission like this. A team of say, seven, would be ideal, for obvious reasons.

Other Characters
May include some canon characters into the story, either as the UNSC people planning the mission, or Covenant characters to act against the Spartans.

Universe Status
This story will not take place in any universe whatsoever, be it AAO, DoH, the Sigmaverse, and so on. It is pretty much an original story containing various characters that are around at the time. It doesn't matter if your Spartan was captured, frozen, or elsewhere following the Fall of Reach. In this story, they just happen to be in the right place at the right time to have it assigned to them. The only rule with this is that they have to have survived Reach, or at least be alive for the mission.

Character Strength
While just about every SPARTAN-II character is death on legs, I may have to tone things down a little for some, levelling the playing field for the team a little. For example, if the character was considered to be the 'best Spartan' or having silly powers, then that's not really on. Each member will have his/her own speciality, personality etc. that contributes to the mission in some way, shape or form.

Death
Going with the theme of this not being in any EU's, anyone can die over the course of the mission. I'll hardly be killing off people left and right, but considering how dangerous the mission is, not everyone will return. Might get a few people bitching over some particularly sudden deaths, but they should know what they've signed up for. Regarding how deaths will go, it will probably be decided among the writing team and myself. A larger team will probably mean that more people are killed off by the end. Lovely.

The Writers
This won't be an RP. It will be a bit like SOTF, in which a small group of writers work together on the plot. This will allow for them to interpret other user's characters in their own way, something that will be quite interesting. Might even bring in a couple of writers who don't have characters in the story to prevent any bias in favour of characters. Will make it clear that once a user has submitted a character, all they have to do is sit back and watch the drama unfold.

Submission
We're not having a big team here. There will be ONE SPARTAN-II character allowed per user for this story. I may allow for Covenant characters to be submitted as adversaries as well, though not too many. Oh, and one AI character for the Spartans as the mission specialist. The character articles should be relatively detailed, too. Stubs will likely be killed off very quickly, leaving the interesting ones alive.

Other things
This will contain a nice soundtrack for each chapter. Love the Halo 2 OST in particular, as I want a very 'Halo' feel to this. No John-117 and his team either. They're away doing something unspecified, and/or havn't reached Earth yet. Only Fanon and Canon Expansion Spartans for this mission. Will need to make a poster of some kind for it. May rope in the gang for a H3 picture if possible, and with a little help and editing, it should come out looking nice. Will begin formulating plans for the story once I've finished Shrike, and caught up a little on character bios. Should be fun, provided I get a decent amount of submissions from users on the site, with interesting characters to work with.

Plot Stages
For now, the story will consist of five main parts.


 * The Mission: Bringing the SPARTAN-II's together. General briefing and planning.
 * The Hijacking: Stealing a Covenant ship with plans of taking it to High Charity. Easier said than done.
 * The Infiltration: Getting into the Covenant's safest, most heavily guarded location. Probably impossible, but aren't Spartans used to beating such odds?
 * The Battle: Inside High Charity, they have to find and capture/kill the High Prophets.
 * The Endgame: Who knows what will happen?

SPARTAN-III Washout
Unlike the SPARTAN-II's, the SPARTAN-III washouts didn't die. They backed down. In Ghosts of Onyx, when an Alpha Company member backed down when asked to jump from the back of a Pelican, they 'washed out', being unable to become a Spartan. However, it was later noted that they were kept on as DI's for the training of Beta Company. This is quite understandable, as you wouldn't want a group of kids sent back to an orphanage telling people they'd been recruited by the military. I'll have this particular person assigned off planet by 2552, doing something-or-other behind the scenes. Will probably have been put to work by ONI.

Quotes I Like
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold."

- The Seventh Doctor, Doctor Who

"The day I set my flag down, it'll be over my body or over a nation I believe in."

- Ulysses, Fallout: New Vegas

"What do you think of that, Mr. Pajama-Wearing, Basket-Face, Slipper-Wielding,﻿ Clype-Dreep-Bachle, Gether-Uping-Blate-Maw, Bleathering, Gomeril, Jessie, Oaf-Looking, Scooner, Nyaff, Plookie, Shan, Milk-Drinking, Soy-Faced Shilpit, Mim-Moothed, Sniveling, Worm-Eyed, Hotten-Blaugh, Vile-Stoochie, Cally-Breek-Tattie?"

- The Scotsman, Samurai Jack

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

- Ulysses (The poem), Alfred Lord Tennyson.

"The difference between normal players and Halo Fanon members is that when normal players start a campaign, they choose the coolest armour and jump in. When we start a campaign, we create new characters with corresponding armour, creating a team name and the background of each Spartan, including childhood, likes, specialities and their favourite bloody colour."

- Yours truly, just before a Halo: Reach game.

Writings from the future
'''In December 2012, a battered and torn notebook was found lying discarded on the Irk, apparently written in the bleak, post-apocalyptic wasteland of 2032's Halo Fanon. Here is what we have deciphered thus far:'''

''Before the war, legends spoke of the legendary Sonasaurus, and the mighty AAO. Though it's true name has been lost, he smote the non-believers and united the wiki...''

...though much knowledge has been lost, Spartans could live for hundreds of years, according to the articles inscribed on his temple, and the Sangheili weren't always bad...

In the aftermath of the great NCF war, which claimed the lives of several, maybe even a dozen users, little remained of HF's ancient history, save a few demonic tales of knaves and wooden fighter jets.

Even to this day, in 2032, many still wonder if Halo 2 was as good as the legends say, or whether Halo 8's inclusion of Kratos, Samus, and Sonic the Hedgehog was truly the end of days...

The wiki is still divided.

There are rumours that Sonasaurus still lives to this day, although by now he is in his old age of 38 years.

The wiki is still divided.

''He has hidden himself from the atrocities of the modern-day Halo, as well as the war-riddled wiki that he has lost hope in. But those of great faith and perseverance can still seek him out and perhaps change the fate of Halo Fanon's turmoil.''

''Those who long to find him must journey long and hard, and be of utmost courage in order to take this matter into their hands. For if Sonasaurus will only aid those who he deems worthy of Halo Fanon's once glorified nature.''

As the oldest living admin, Ajax the Eternal, said, before his spirit was sucked into the great Necros void: 'one day the old ones will return and seriously NCF all you heathens'...

The wiki is still divided over his words.

The legends of Halo Fanon's history are incomplete...

Hammer Fall Character
WORK IN PROGRESS

Irk Shenanigans
This is a temporary place for now, until I decide to create my own IS page.

He still wants Admin
While sitting on the Irk, I was privately messaged by none other than Halo Fanon's hated troll, ODSTSuperSpartan, still seeking his beloved admin.

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