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[BaconShelf]

Quite simply, this is a roleplay i thought of after reading Sykos fanfic. So here is the setting;

 

It is the year 2578, and humanity has made great advances in they years following the Wars that nearly caused their extinction and is now much more powerful than ever! Recently though, remnants of the Insurrectionidts that plagued the UNSC over fifty years ago have resurfaced, with new technology of their own. Recent Fighting has caused many colonies to break away, and begin their own ideals.

 

This is where you come in- you must create a faction(using the faction sheet below) and join the battle between hindreds of worlds in an attempt to gain control of one of the largest empires since the Forrunners.

 

Rules-

-The flagship of a fleet can be no bigger than the Infinity or similar size.

-Slipspace travelling can take a few weeks for nearby planets, and months for further away planets.

-Humans cannot jump accurately and must exit millions of kilometres away from a planet

-covenant can arrive next to a planet

-No OP faction

-No forerunner/precursor faction UNLESS it is done EXTREMELY well (Sentinels, Prometheans, monitors from installations are fine though)

-Same with Flood and Ancient human factions

-it would take weeks, if not months to conquer a planet. GLASSING IS PROHIBITED AND MUST BE AGRREED UPON!

-invading an occupied planet/system must be agreed upon

-there should be two-three people operating a faction- one as a higher up person and two normal people/soldiers

- remember the powers if weapons. A CCS battlecruiser can not take a MAC round from an ODP and survive.

 

-will add more as time goes on

 

Now the fun part-

 

FACTION SHEET, if you do not use this, you will be denied instantly though you can reapply

 

Name:

World of origin:

Primary Species:

Other member species and their roles:

Flag:

Fleet sizes:

Population:

Other information:

 

CHARACTER SHEET

Only use this if you want to create a character

Name(try to keep it similar to existing names for a species):

Age:

Species:

Faction:

Physical appearance:

Personality:

Height:

Preferred weapon and vehicle(if any):

Backstory:

Other information;

 

I will post mine in the thread for everyone to see.

If you are stuck for planets/systems-

Installation 1,2,3,5,6,7

Requiem

Reach

Harvest

Eradinus system

Earth

Mars

Jovian moons

Jericho system

Covenant home worlds

Madrigal

The asteroid belt where the Rebel base (was)

Again I will add more and remove the taken ones. You can make up your own planet as well though.

 

See you on the battlefield! I will begin the RP at five accepted factions.

 

Accepted people-

BaconShelf (obviously)

HaloGeek

Ledgend1221

SykoWolf

[D-38 Boss]

Wanna work together on this one? I prefer to play a grunt rather than a commander.

[BaconShelf]

Yeah, there can be preferably 2-3 people per faction

[D-38 Boss]

I leave faction Details up to you. once you make that, I'll come up with a character accordingly.

[Surveillance]

 

FACTION SHEET

 

Name: Forerunner Artificial Intelligence Society (FAIS)

 

World of origin: Ghibalb

 

Primary Species: Sentinels, Constructors, Sentinel Majors, Enforcers

 

Other member species and their roles: The Council of Oracles. 5 monitors who oversee everything and anything the forerunners ever built. They also command the other A.Is.

 

Flag: Red on the left, black in the middle, and green on the right with a halo ring on top.

 

Fleet sizes: 65 ships

 

Population: 500,000 total

 

Other information: None

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CHARACTER SHEET

Only use this if you want to create a character

 

Name: 646 Eternal Nova

 

Age: 142,976

 

Species: Council of Oracles (He is the Leader of the Council)

 

Faction: Forerunner Artificial Intelligence Society

 

Physical appearance: A regular monitor, but with a green photo receptor (colorful thing on the front)

 

Personality: Difficult, Reasonable, A tad odd, protective.

 

Height: 1 foot (Estimation for a little floating ball)

 

Primary Weapon: Red Forerunner Laser

 

Tools: Blue laser of opening doors, Technokinesis (The things you can do in forge)

 

Backstory:

646 Eternal Nova was made when the forerunners first emerged. As the first A.I. in the Universe, he was tasked to Monitor anything the forerunners built or developed. Soon they created four other monitors, and Nova formed the Council of Oracles. Then even more diverse A.I.s were made, like Sentinels and so on. The parasite was found, and Nova took all of the A.I.s to another planet: Requiem. Years later, after the Halo Ring was set off and the forerunners gone, the Council of Oracles developed FAIS, or Forerunner Artificial Intelligence Society. The remaining 500,000 A.I.s began to scour and unlock the secrets of their masters, but soon after the insurrectionists returned, FAIS began to go on the offensive

 

Other information: None

[Composite Armour]

So does this play like an TBS or what?

I'm not sure how one roleplays a fleet.

[Surveillance]

Well, we have general fleet role-play in which we communicate with other fleets and stuff. Then during battles we have character-character interaction like my RP.

[BaconShelf]

Remember, existing factions can be played!

 

Faction name: Talons of Sanghelios

Origin: Sanghelio

Primary Species: Sangheili

Other species: Huragok, Jiraelhanae, Yan'me, Unggoy, kig-yar, human, Lekgolo

Flag: Crossed swords above a forerunner glyph

Fleet sizes: approx 34 fleets of varying sizes, ships from all species make up the fleets

Population: approx 140,000

Information: this group, led by Sangheili, welcomes all species to join them. They are dedicated to researching and protecting Forerunner artefacts while destroying those who threaten them.

 

[Surveillance]

Was I accepted?

[BaconShelf]

Yup

[Surveillance]

YAY! Thank you. Can you please put my name under the Accepted part in the OP?

[D-38 Boss]

Remember, existing factions can be played!

 

Faction name: Talons of Sanghelios

Origin: Sanghelio

Primary Species: Sangheili

Other species: Huragok, Jiraelhanae, Yan'me, Unggoy, kig-yar, human, Lekgolo

Flag: Crossed swords above a forerunner glyph

Fleet sizes: approx 34 fleets of varying sizes, ships from all species make up the fleets

Population: approx 140,000

Information: this group, led by Sangheili, welcomes all species to join them. They are dedicated to researching and protecting Forerunner artefacts while destroying those who threaten them.

 

Now who am i going to make for that... Hmmmmm the choices!

[Composite Armour]

Name: United Colonial Republic.

World of origin: Citadel V (Formerly Beta gamma 0045 V.)

Primary Species: Humans

Other member species and their roles: None

Flag: White backround with a black shield and two swords crossed.

Fleet sizes: 3 Carrier Battlegroups consiting of 1 Carrier, 3 Battle ships and 9 Destroyer escorts.

Population: 3,230,900 Civilan, 2,502,500 Enlisted.

Other information: During the covenant war, a large group of colonists saw the state the UNSC was in and feared the worst for humanity.
Being led by a group of disgruntaled ODSTs, they set out to get as far away from the UNSC as possible, hoping to avoid extinction.
This was 2 years after the war started.
After 10 months of hardship, they found the planet they had been waiting for. A small garden world, perfect for habitaion and rich in mineral resources.
These people were determined to resist the covenant at any cost and the entire system was based around the military.

A number of measures were taken to increase the population quickly
An exterme example of Quality vs Quantity, there ground forces are better equppied, trained and motivatied then nearly anything currently known.
They fight using guerilla tactics and almost every citizen owns and is trained in the use of weapons.
Their one weakness however is their fleet which is underdevolped whose training is only based on theroy.
To compensate for this, the planet is protected by several massive anti-orbital guns and many smaller ones, requiring an opposing force to establish ground control before gaining space control, which is exactly what the U.C.R wants.
 

A Terraforming effort is underway on Citadel VI and a mining operation is being conducted on the asteriod belt surrounding the solar system.

 

After years of silence, long range probes are pinging.. They're now waiting for someone to make the first move, be it agression or peace.

 

Military Hardware and programs:

 

U.C.R has a very standardised armed force with little variation in weapons and equipment used.

Many of their 8mm weapons are modular.

 

Exceptions are the .45 pistol caliber weapons and the high caliber .50 AM Sniper and the 15mm AT rifle.

 

Special forces units employ prototype weapons not seen in use by the regular armed forces.

 

The Warthog and Scorpion were deemed grossly ineffective and were immeadiatly phased out.

 

The Guardian and Crusader were brought in to replace them.

 

The design of the Guardian was very popular with it's crews. It was fully enclosed and more spacious then the warthog, with the Gunner having an armoured bubble around him. This limits vison but the trade off is worth it to protect the crews. However, anything classed as AM will have no problem going through the Guardian, still making speed the best protection.

 

The Crusader was designed to off-set the massive weaknesses of the Scorpion. It reverted to the more traditonal design of tanks by employing the Dual-thread and Central turret.

 

It's threads were made extra wide to increase traction with the ground and prevent flipping in case of a tactical nuclear strike.

 

It's hull mounted and co-ax 20mm cannons provide effective anti infantry and light armour capabilites.

It has a top mounted 2x Missile launcer and a 40mm AA weapon.

 

It's 250mm Thick frontal hull armour and 320mm frontal turret armour is sloped at a 40 degree angle, giving it supreme protection and a menacing appearence.

 

The focus of the Crusader is it's massive 150mm cannon.

 

Many engineers were stumped on how to create a reliable weapon to destroy covenant armour. Many Scorpions facing Wraiths were often defeated by shielding employed on some of them. This reduced the HEAT round of the Scorpion to little more then an annoyance.

 

Increasing the weapon caliber from 90mm to 150mm was thought to help, but there was no way to guarantee.

 

The answere came in the form of a revolutionary 3-stage shell.

 

The shell is tipped with a minor EMP warhead, creating a small gap for the rest of the round to pass through.

After the EMP is gone, the jet assisted HEAT shell is realesed from it's casing, allowing easy penetration.

An exotic explosive is then trigger after the round is inside, ensuring the crew is killed or wounded.

 

 

Project CERBERUS:

Project Cerberus: The aim of this project was to create a unit that attacked with such overwhelming force, the enemy would crumple under the sheer assualt alone. It was concived after the U.C.R ran a war game in which Blue team was unable to breach Red team's defensive line. The gurellia doctrine was altered shortly after, but many generals realised the need for dedicated assualt force.
The result was the Cerberus unit, called such because the black armour and red visors made them appear as something from hell itself.
Having a budget of over 300 million credits per soldier, this is the best equppied unit in the U.C.R's armed forces.
Only the best are put through a brutal screening process and then given extensive cybernetic and genetic enhancements.
It currently has over 1200 soldiers.

Armour Specs:
2cm thick composite adaptive plating.
Thermal and Chemical insulation, allowing for use in NBC enviroments.
Enhanced strentgh and physical performance.
Onboard computer that provides a constant stream of intel and communicates with other units in the battlefield.
Sensor package that alerts the wearer to the direction of incoming fire.
Self destruct system.
HUD that allows user to view status of his weapon.

X-1 Assualt weapon:
.50 Cal(Rifle).
Built in IR laser.
Built in Underslug railgun.
Built in dual optic that allows either a CCO or 4x Magnifaction sight.
100 round box magazine.
Experimental coolent system.
Max range of 1.2 miles

 

 

 

[SykoWolf]

FACTION SHEET

 

Name: Archturion Hierarchy

World of origin: Archturos 3

Primary Species: Zadazai (Human but usually 7-8ft tall AVERAGE)

Flag: Black Flag, Red Zadazai Character for Heroism, Courage and Loyalty

Fleet sizes:4 Fleets with Different make ups

 

Fleet 1 (Toron'Dai Fleet) 1 Flagship Dreadnought , 3 Battle Cruisers , 5 frigates

Fleet 2 (Zeda Xeron Fleet) 1 Flagship Dreadnought , 4 Battle Cruisers, 6 Troop Cruisers

Fleet 3 (Xol Nevadi Fleet) 1 Flasgship Dreadnought, 2 Reaper Class Dreadnoughts , 4 Frigates, 2 Troop Cruisers

Fleet 4 (Kan Nividax Fleet) 1 Flagship Dreadnought, 1 Reaper class Dreadnought, 4 Battle Cruisers, 2 Troop Cruisers

Population: 500 000 Civilian Population , 900 000 Enlisted Military Personelle

Other information: Primarily a military Species/Faction , using a Chancellor as head of state and a 3 member council for military command

 

CHARACTER SHEET

 

Name: Zax Kai

Age: 46

Species: Zadazai

Faction:Zadazai Hierarchy

Physical appearance: Green Eyes, Strong build, stern face, olive skin

Personality: Serious in combat scenarios, but friendly and caring outside of such situations.

Height:8 Ft 4

Preferred weapon and vehicle(if any): X23 Cordium Rifle (Weapon) Landstrider (Vehicle)

Backstory: Born on the home planet of Archturos 3, Enlisted at age 24 and rose through the ranks quickly due to his skills in combat and leadership abilities. He married Synar Sok when he was 42 and had 3 children in the space of 4 years. He now serves as Ship Commander on the Flagship Dreadnought in the Zeda Xeron Fleet

Other Info: The Zadazai age differently to normal humans, living to the age of 400 on average

 

 

 

(Not sure if this is too OP tell me if you think it is and ill scale some things down)

[BaconShelf]

Nice! I guess their home world is a while away due to being unexplored yes?

[Composite Armour]

Is it okay if we post stuff about our factions military equipment?

Just so everyone gets a better idea of who's using what.

Also we just need one more guy!

[D-38 Boss]

Upon further thought i will run a faction. i'll have the details up soon.

[BaconShelf]

Yeah, put that in other info. Mine is nearly all as it is all species.

 

Remember, UNSC, Storm etc can be played if you're stuck.

[SykoWolf]

Nice! I guess their home world is a while away due to being unexplored yes?

yes, quite far away indeed.

 

Im going to add some weapon and vehicle info below, aswell as some ship names/designs...

 

Individual Infantry Weapons

X21 Cordium Handgun- One handed infantry sidearm, used primarily in all military cores. sleek Design, medium power and very accurate

X22 Light Cordium Repeater - Short barreled , Sub Machine Gun like designed weapon , designed for close range engagements during ship to ship combat (Boardings)

X23 Cordium Rifle - Long barreled, powerful rifle. Main Infantry weapon designed for medium to long range engagements.

 

Cordium- A Very strong and Flexible element found on Worlds around the Archturon System. Used in weapon and ammo manufacturing. When fired from a weapon it slightly glows green and after impacting a target, it corrodes causing mild sickness in any surviving targets.

 

Infantry Vehicles

OS Landstrider- 3 Occupant light scout vehicle equipped with Heavy Cordium Repeater and armoured with Cordium NanoWeaved Plates

OS Stalker- Single Occupant Assault vehicle equiped with dual Cordium Canons, armoured lightly with Cordium Nanoweaved Plates

OS GroundShaker - 6 Occupant Heavy Assault Vehicle equipped with Heavy Cordium Canon, 2 Heavy Cordium Repeaters and Heavily armoured with Cordium Plates

Os Transporter - 18 Occupant Heavily armoured Transport vehicle, with manually fired Heavy Cordium Repeaters

 

 

Other Info: Cordium is used in all weapons and vehicle manufacturing due to its easy mining and abundance in the Archturos System.And because of it's efficiency.

 

 

Zeda Xeron Fleet Flagship Dreadnought

 

Title: Darku Zad (Translated into: Dark Death)

Length:5,240.5 M

Height:1,809.2 M

Armour Composition: 18 Dual Nanoweaved Cordium Plates (1.6M Thick) Thermoheated Shielding (1.1M Thick)

Armament: 26 Dual Barreled Heavy Cordium Canons , 40 Manually fired Heavy Cordium Ship Repeaters , 80 Automatic Missile Defence Pods , 2 Exospheric Hardlight MAC's

Crew: 52,205 Personelle

 

 

What Archturion Troopers Armour looks like ^^^^^^^^

[D-38 Boss]

Name: Omega Force Operations

World of origin: Ozguiliath, similar to Harvest in climate, snowy, but some patches of forest.

Primary Species: Human. Composed mainly of former UNSC and disgruntled Militia.

Other member species and their roles: Some Sanghelli. Left their respective factions for lack of belief in their goals, but joined OFO due to a need to fight.

Flag:Black Background, Dark Green Omega symbol, with a simplistic design in white around the edges.

Fleet sizes: 1 "Krevich" Class Capital Ship. 8 "Molenari" Class Frigates. (All restored UNSC ships) 500 "Berkut" Fighters (Retrofitted Su-47's made space worthy.)

Population: Civilian humans: 5,000 (Mostly elders and children) Civilian Sanghelli: 1,000 Military Humans: 15,000 Military Sanghelli: 6,000

Other information: Mostly use Retrofitted Earth gear. Main weapon is an Updated XM8 with attached M-750 Underslung Grenade launcher. Side Arms are surplus M6B's. Most heavy Demolitions gear is Composed of Composition 4 and attached Plasma storage rods.

 

No Specific Loyalty or side, OFO is considered a Mercenary System, fighting for the Highest bidder, Mainly fighting Rebels the UNSC Can't commit resources to deal with.

[Composite Armour]

I'm want to add a specifc unit to my faction, but I'm not sure if it will be OP.

 

Project Cerberus: The aim of this project was to create a unit that attacked with such overwhelming force, the enemy would crumple under the sheer assualt alone. It was concived after the U.C.R ran a war game in which Blue team was unable to breach Red team's defensive line. The gurellia doctrine was altered shortly after, but many generals realised the need for dedicated assualt force.

The result was the Cerberus unit, called such because the black armour and red visors made them appear as something from hell itself.

Having a budget of over 300 million credits per soldier, this is the best equppied unit in the U.C.R's armed forces.

Only the best are put through a brutal screening process and then given extensive cybernetic and genetic enhancements.

It currently has over 1200 soldiers.

 

Armour Specs:

2cm thick composite adaptive plating.

Thermal and Chemical insulation, allowing for use in NBC enviroments.

Enhanced strentgh and physical performance.

Onboard computer that provides a constant stream of intel and communicates with other units in the battlefield.

Sensor package that alerts the wearer to the direction of incoming fire.

Self destruct system.

HUD that allows user to view status of his weapon.

 

X-1 Assualt weapon:

.50 Cal(Rifle).

Built in IR laser.

Built in Underslug railgun.

Built in dual optic that allows either a CCO or 4x Magnifaction sight.

100 round box magazine.

Experimental coolent system.

Max range of 1.2 miles.

[BaconShelf]

Only if rarely deployed, and there needs to be some way of bringing one down.

 

(PS, putting thread up now)

[Composite Armour]

Well of course. If it bleeds, it can die.

[BaconShelf]

No, the armour. Not everything else. Even if its just like a vent on the neck that can get grenades lodged in it or something. Just something that makes it not invulnerable.

[Composite Armour]

No, the armour. Not everything else. Even if its just like a vent on the neck that can get grenades lodged in it or something. Just something that makes it not invulnerable.

It's only armour.

Anything that's classed as Anti-matierial or larger can pierce it.

It's resistant to HE, small arms and plasma weapons, but not immune. Sustained fire will break it.

Just like spartans.