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Its Fall time, and you know what that means? It means Americans can't spell Autumn. Weird, right? That aside, this means, important Necros update! There's plenty of news to keep you vaguely occupied and possibly bemused. There's quite a bit, so I'm breaking it down.
Bulletins? Stolen? NEVER!
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| Ahax 013
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October 5th, 2010
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Operation: HELLFIRE post is up, get your posts in, the invasion has begun! THE UNSC Fleet has arrived, and the ground invasion is kicking off!
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| Ajax 013
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October 5th, 2010
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New Necros Bulletin is stolen up now!
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| Ahax 013
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October 5th, 2010
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If you have an edit important to the Necros-era, post them in here, so others are aware.
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Some of you may have noticed, we now have a Necros Bulletin. Feel free to put this on your user page. The Bulletin is divided into two parts. Necros News, is where I'll plant important news to the Necros project. The second part concerns you, the lovely contributors who make Necros what it is. If you have a edit you think concerns other users, or wish to make a collaborative work in the Necrosiverse, post these up in the second Bulletin board.
SPARTANS never die, they just get reorganized
Some of you might have noticed, I uploaded a new version of this yesterday. There's some shiny changes, which might make you ecstatic, or just curse my name. I'll go through the updates blow by blow.
First off, the unit has been moved from Marines to Joint Service, meaning you can shove more Navy and Army personnel on in there!
Now, the Command Section has some changes to it. CO and XO remain the same, by the NCO ranks have been changed about. We now have Senior Enlisted Advisor, held by Sergeant Major/Command Sergeant Major/Master Chief Petty Officer (Marine/Army/Navy). Their job is head liaison between the enlisted and the officers. Below him is the Operations Chief (Gunnery Sergeant/Sergeant First Class for Marine/Army respectively) and is in charge of maintaining and coordinating logistics, organising CASEVACs and training. On top of that, the command section now has an attached ONI Spook from Section 1 (ranked Lieutenant). This spook will probably come under a codename and is responsible for gathering intelligence, analysing this intelligence and operational planning.
The Security Team has been scrapped in favour of the Asymmetric Action Unit (GASP!). Basically its a SPARTAN/SOCOM commander (1st Lieutenant Rank and five SPARTANS, the Team Leader (Staff Sergeant), Assistant Team Leader (Corporal) and 3 privates, of any speciality you feel like. Their role is to test new equipment, tactics, enemy capabilities, etc, but they often action as the Company CO's executioners, filling in whatever they need doing, where ever.
Each Squadron's commander section has a ONI S-1 specialist (Lieutenant Junior Grade) to fill the same job as the company spook. Also, Wolf operators and now Fenrir operators. More news on that later.
Arsenal Updates? WHERE?
There's some updates to the UNSC's arsenal, for blowing shit up and the such.
- The M2A LAR and M73D Carbine are now gone. There's one unified Carbine, the M2A Carbine, with 60 round bullpup magazines.
- Scorpion family is now expanded. The Komodo, Monitor and Goanna are now part of the Scorpion family and share the same body and systems, just differing turrets
- Petrels no longer carry different pods for cargo, just one massive cargo bay for vehicles and infantry.
- The Knife lighter fighter is officially gone. The Sabre Light Fighter is now in! Enjoy!
RPs never die, users just forget to post
In case you were wondering, RP:Operation HELLFIRE is alive and well. I've made a super duper post, I'm waiting on the rest of you. Angry face, and such.
Talk
Now, any questions you might have, or desire to talk amongst yourselves, will most likely be ignored, but I'll try my best to pry myself away from Reach to help. Maybe.
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| Sonasaurus
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April 11, 2012
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Read my blog on AAO's new direction, and be sure to discuss your thoughts!
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| Athena32
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February 12, 2012
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The AAO Character Board has been created to promote character cooperation between AAO users! If you've got a character that you want to involve more in the project, or you want to help others do the same, do it here!
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| Sonasaurus
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December 30, 2011
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Why am I the only one to have snagged awards for AAO this year? Get working for 2012, and I expect everyone to glorify our expanded universe for next year!
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| Actene
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October 3, 2011
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My Day by Day is now officially AAO's database for short stories. Feel free to add your characters and submit short pieces about them!
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| Sonasaurus
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October 25, 2011
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AAO has a new character infobox, and Sona demands that you use it!
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| Sonasaurus
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September 20, 2011
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The AAO rulebook has received major updates! Please review the changes to make ensure you are familiar with the changes to the guidelines.
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| Sonasaurus
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May 16, 2011
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The new AAO roleplay, Ghosts In the Machine has begun! Sign up if you're interested in participating!
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| CommanderTony
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February 6th, 2011
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BBC News is now a joint project between the Tonyverse and Against All Odds! This project consists of daily news reports concerning military, political, social, and other stories relevant to the universe, with some modern-day stories "hijacked" for the project. To check out how you can participate by writing daily reports, check out the Tonyverse page HERE and go to the "News & FAQ" tab for more information. Thank you!
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| Sonasaurus
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January 7, 2011
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The 2010 HFFAs are over. Thanks to everyone who participated, AAO has racked up 14 awards this year! Special congratulations to Athena32, who outshone the rest of us with an outstanding 8 nominations and 6 awards!
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| Sonasaurus
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November 1, 2010
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If you have any minor characters that do not have articles, list them here.
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| Sonasaurus
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October 15th, 2010
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If you find Oasis' content box to be too narrow, you can adjust it here. See this blog for help.
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| Sonasaurus
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October 12th, 2010
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Wikia has been pulled under by Oasis! Fix up your images and templates to appropriate size to fit on the really freaking narrow box.
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| Sonasaurus
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August 27, 2010
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The Against All Odds RP is back on track! If you're part of it, read the updated material and be sure to make your posts.
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| Sonasaurus
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July 23, 2010
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Please check the requests to join page regularly for new submissions!
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| Sonasaurus
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June 22, 2010
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We have begun an RP! Here's the link.
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| Sonasaurus
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June 21, 2010
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Please check our list of article that need improvement, and put your name down for any articles that you would be interested in helping out with. If you also feel that you need someone to contribute to your work, just add it to the page
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| Sonasaurus
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June 16, 2010
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Please register your usernames on the wikia IRC so that you may be given your appropriate status.
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| Sonasaurus
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June 13, 2010
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If you have any questions about AAO, ask them here. I need the more experienced members of AAO to become part of the FAQ staff; if you feel that you have a fairly good understanding of our expanded universe and can answer questions about us adequately, ask me about helping out with doing so!
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| Sonasaurus
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June 4, 2010
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AAO has a new SPARTAN template! If you find any mistakes in it, just let me know.
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| Leo Fox
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June 2, 2010
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Halo Fanon Podcast coming soon! Message me on my talk page if you are interested.
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| Maslab
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June 2, 2010
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We have a forum site. To enter the "Against All Odds" section, enter the password "albino".
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| Sonasaurus
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May 26, 2010
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For any Against All Odds stories you're planning to write, please put {{AAO Stories}} at the bottom of the page (Thanks to Leo Fox for "suggesting" this).
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| Sonasaurus
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May 23, 2010
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If you're still a bit confused about how to get yourself integrated into AAO, you might find this helpful.
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| Sonasaurus
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May 9, 2010
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Please remember to add {{Era|AAO}} to your AAO-related articles, it'll be automatically listed under Category:Against All Odds, and will make it easier to let us keep track of.
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| Sonasaurus
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May 4, 2010
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Most of you in AAO are still not participating actively in our expanded universe or interacting with the characters/events/places. Contact Maslab or me if you want to collaborate with writing a story, making an article, or otherwise help in ways that will get you more involved with our project.
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| Sonasaurus
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April 14, 2010
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We're making a timeline for important events in AAO. The template is here, you can add to it (you don't have to place references). If you have trouble understanding the wikiformat for making the table, ask me or Maslab.
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| Sonasaurus
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November 6, 2009
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I have partially started several stories, and delayed many more. Check out my page to see my fanon list, click the links and read the descriptions if you think you're interested in collaborating with me for writing it.
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| Maslab
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November 5, 2009
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I am currently working on a large project that will decide the course that AAO will take. As such, no story articles or battles are to occur after the year 2604. However, if you absolutely must have a story set after 2604, as long as it's close, then I am willing to move the date back. It's fairly loose at this point.
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- Couldn't you at least get it fixed? :| - 5əb'7aŋk(7alk) 22:25, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
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| Sonasaurus — You loved her. You always have
TALK • CONTRIBUTIONS — Canada Eastern-Standard Time
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| I think I just did. Took me a few tries though, I couldn't quite figure out what was wrong with the scroll box coding, so I took some of the parts off and added some other stuff. Anyway...this was probably the first time Ajax took something I made...I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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Ajax, just a few things. Why'd you keep the penny packets of Wolves/Fenrir suits? There's a quite a few compelling reasons to mass them in platoon- to company-size formations. Second, just a nitpick. Most US users are probably more familiar with S-2 being the intel shop and S-1 being personnel, although I can see you're using the UK system, which does differ in its staff designators.
By the way, how to we handle this canonically? Right now, I've got my units being subjected to at least two "re-orgie" periods (cue the complaints from the grunts and the writers), and I'd just as soon not change it (it makes for some great rants from the recon guys).
BTW, first part of my HELLFIRE post in up. Expect to see some dirtside action soon.FightWithHonor Contact me 07:48, October 15, 2010 (UTC)
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| Ajax 013 - <Death to Heroes>[The Damned] [The Lost][The Forgotten] ObscurumVictoria :
TALK - Greenwich Mean Time
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| Okay, reply times =D
- For the SPARTAN program or for the UNSCDF in general? For the SPARTANS, the units are big, not as stealthy as their smaller MJOLNIR cousins and not as modular. Imagine it as a SPARTAN in FENRIR being a blunt instrument and a SPARTAN in MJOLNIR being a blade in the dark. For the UNSCDF, Marine Expeditionary Brigades and Marine Expeditionary Forces get a few small formations, which might see a increase in near future. The Army might see some included in Infantry BCTs or Wolf only BCTs. In short though, the units are cumbersome, maintenance intensive and not ideally suited to operate without infantry support.
- With the intelligence officer, S-1 actually refers to the branch of ONI. The Section 1 agent will actually fill roles of S-2 and S-3 staff officers, since each squadron (and indeed, each Section and team) are designed to operate independently from their parent formation.
- Treat them like the previous events occurred as if with the new organisation. Bravo has suffered through some horrendous ones, but come out strong.
- Awesome sauce on the post, I look forward to the next one =D
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