Just an idea for a one-shot RPG I crafted:
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Subject: The Great War.
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THE FORERUNNERS...
In the distant past, an ancient, yet very technologically advanced race known as the Forerunners had dominance over the galaxy. They used their advanced technology to protect all life in the universe. But things changed when the parasitic race known as the Flood caught them by surprise...
Able to feed off of and spread their control through any species with enough biomass, the Flood were nigh unstoppable. Through this method they were able to threaten and overrun many worlds before the Forerunners could contain their infestation. So, seeing no other options, the Forerunners conceived a final plan to end the Flood's reign of terror once and for all.
Constructing an installation simply referred to as "The Ark", they stored all of their information on every sentient species, miscellaneous Forerunner artifacts as well as a few of the very sentient species they catalogued and protected. From there, they began manufacturing 7 ring-shaped megastructures or "Halos" and scattered them across the galaxy. Their purpose: to eradicate all life throughout the universe to deprive the Flood of their food. Including themselves.
They then activated the "Halo Array", and thus, all life, including the Flood and the Forerunners, had been destroyed. Then, life throughout the universe had the chance to begin anew.
THE SPARTANS...
Tens of thousands of years later, more specifically the 26th Century, Humanity, under the auspices of the The United Nations Space Command or UNSC for short, have began colonizing worlds thanks to the invention of faster-than-light "slipspace" travel. However, tensions escalated between the older but more stable "Inner Colonies" and the remote "Outer Colonies", which led to a civil war amongst the groups.
To suppress the rebellion covertly, the UNSC recruits Dr. Catherine Halsey to head the newly commissioned SPARTAN Program. A program with the purpose of creating an elite group of supersoldiers.
These Spartans, equipped with MJOLNIR exo-skeletal powered armor suits, surpassed the physical abilities of even the most experienced and battle-hardened marines tenfold. But the project was very costly and due to this the project only produced a small number of SPARTAN-II and SPARTAN-III soldiers. But what few they had were enough to serve their purpose of quashing the insurrectionists.
But nothing prepared them for what was about to come...
THE COVENANT...
In the year 2525, the Earth colony of Harvest fell under attack by a theocratic alliance of alien races known as the Covenant Empire.
The Covenant, believing the Forerunners to be Gods, and the Halo rings to be the key to their salvation via allowing them to take the "Great Journey" into Godhood as the Forerunners did before them and not knowing their true purpose of eradicating all life, saw the human race to be heretics and thus began the systematic and methodical extermination of the Humans and their worlds, beginning with Harvest.
In the initial attack on Harvest, a lone Covenant ship bombards the Harvest colony with plasma, turning the planet's crust into molten glass. The lone ship, broadcasts the Covenant edict, "Your destruction is the will of the Gods... and we are their instrument", and destroys several UNSC ships sent to attack it.
However, the real truth was discovered prior to the attack on Harvest by the newly crowned Covenant Hierarchs, the Prophets. A Forerunner relic that came into their possession had revealed that the humans were the true descendants of the Forerunners. Knowing this would splinter the Covenant, they decided to obliterate the humans instead, declaring that a new Age of the Covenant has come.
The Covenant's superior technology allow them to annihilate the outer human colonies within four years; the Covenant begin to destroy the inner colonies soon thereafter. As a defensive measure, the UNSC creates the "Cole Protocol"; human ships are prohibited from directly traveling to human worlds to avoid detection by the Covenant, and destruction of a ship's navigation databases and artificial intelligence if threatened with capture.
This, however did not stop the Covenant. In 2552, they managed to track the UNSC ship
Iroquois via a hidden transmitter to Earth's most well-defended colony. The crown jewel.
The Covenant has found Reach.
REACH...
Reach. The Crown Jewel.
An Inner Colony planet residing in the Epsilon Eridani System, Reach is the UNSC's main Military hub as well as the home to over 700 million civilians. And the Covenant have found it, and won't stop until it has been destroyed.
Winter Contingency is about to be declared...
NOBLE TEAM....
But there is hope. For there are a small group of individuals who may be able to turn the tide in humanity's favor...
They are Noble Team.
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Subject: Noble Team.
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FROM THE BEGINNING... YOU KNOW THE END...
The year is 2552. Humanity is at war. And we're losing...
But there is hope. For
YOU have the power to stop the Covenant.
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Subject: Battle of Reach.
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This is the "Halo: The Fall of Reach" RPG.
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