Halo Effect (Cross Over) Main Thread

[Lunar Templar]

"Ma'am, I'm Staff Sargent Murphy. Not that it means much in such a small group, but it looks like I'll be your NCO lead, so just put me where you need me."

"good to have a few ODSTs on my team Staff Sargent" Sarah said shaking his hand back

"Look, I know you don't like or trust the Covenant." Murphy gestured to his scar, "I have plenty of reasons to hate them too. But we can't be those people, ma'am. This is a new war with a new enemy. And Mee is here to help. And for what it's worth, I do trust her. Get your gameface on, your squad is depending on you to lead them."

Sarah was taken aback a little "is it really that obvious? thought i was doing a better job hiding it .." she said before nodding in agreement as the room changed. Sarah looked around a bit

"i need a quick run down from you guys on your primary skill sets so i know what i have to work with" Sarah said to her team as more or less her first order

 

[CmmdrRosh99]

"I hate to break it to everyone, but this isn't an versus simulation, well more so indirectly. Both our teams will have a score based on objectives completed, kills, and so on. The simulation will be split between our teams. We may do a versus in the future but only when we know everyone's skills. Just to get used to it..."

Kenneth sighed slightly. Pity... Might have seen some better action.

Just when the VR room changed to the moon setting, Kenneth's eyes hardened. "[sub]Right, back to business...[/sub]" he muttered under his breathe.

 

[alandavidson]

SSG Murphy

As the room changed Murphy shifted uneasily. Part of it was pre-mission jitters. Those never went away, no matter how many he'd been on. But the biggest part was this place brought back memories that Murphy had hoped to never relive. His jaw tensed as he cleared his head and got into mission mode.

"I need a quick run down from you guys on your primary skill sets so I know what I have to work with"

The voice of Sarah put Murphy in full combat zone.

"SOF, so I'm a little bit of everything, with a focus on dirty deeds done dirt cheap. Hence the different uniform, so you can deny that you ever knew me should I die."

Murphy caught the look on Eli's face, he was smiling nodding with understanding. "It's in your ODST contract that they can deny your presence on mission, and if you go into the dark world of SOF, every mission you go on will be officially denied. That's why my medal count is almost zero. Officially." Murphy jerked his head over to Eli. "I'd wager he doesn't even have one."

Murphy turned back to Sarah, "I'm mostly a breacher and close quarters combat guy though."

Murphy checked his weapon and put a round in the chamber. It was go time.

 

[Kasten]

Eli started checking his weapons and grenades "I started as a marksman in the footsoldier infantry, got up to Spec. Ops and became a marksman/sniper, and in ODST I've continued to be a mid-to long range fighter, unless we're talking about hand-to-hand. My sniper trainer thought that was the second most important thing. I'm competent in all the weapons, though." Eli loaded a live mag and chambered his own round into his rifle.

 

[mcpop9]

Luna sounded off. "Mid to long range assault rifle with close to mid range biotic support. Need something cleared out of the way, just ask me." She said, unfolding her rifle. The asari glowed blue for a second, checking her biotic powers to make sure she was at full strength.

Mee "I have extreme long range capabilities and superb close range combat. My rifle and blades suit me just fine. I also have invisible capabilities thanks to active camo." The sangheili said to her team leader, fading out of view and then back in to demonstrate.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Everett looked around as the VR room began to change to a lunar setting, first everything looking grey and fuzzy; soon coming into focus. He soon began to take note of the other members of Red Team for this training session, looked like he had been paired up with the Geth platform who called itself Lincoln, and the man known as Kenneth Senshi, a Biotic Vanguard... whatever that was. Across the room, Blue Team was talking about skillset, which seemed like a smart thing to do.

"Whilst I may not be the leader of this team, it might be an idea if we discussed our own individual skillset, so we know who will be best with tackling what objective." Everett remarked, thinking that it seemed like the obvious thing to do.

"As for me personally, I'm a trained sharpshooter, doing my best work over long distances with this here sniper rifle; but that doesn't mean I can't handle a threat up close, thats were the other weapons come in. If a scenario calls for a stealth approach, I can render myself invisible due to active camouflage." He said to the others, briefly turning transparent, then fading into view again. He then turned to Senshi.

"Lieutenant Senshi, I'm curious, what exactly is a Biotic?" Everett asked, sounding intrigued by the term, as nothing like that existed back home.

 

[Korten12]

JASTIS-015

?Alright, let?s do that.? And then Eevrett began to explain his own skillset and Jastis nodded and then turned to Kenneth as Eevrett asked the question. ?I too would like to know what Biotics are.?

 

[Lunar Templar]

Sarah chambered a round into her rifle as her squad filled her on on they're skill sets, she understood all of it, save one "whats a 'Biotic'?" as she thought about how best to utilize her squad

 

[CmmdrRosh99]

Lieutenant Kenneth Senshi

Kenneth depolarized his visor to see Everett and Jastis asking the same question. Oh boy, here we go... I'm no teacher but... His face didn't a show a hint of what he was thinking.

"'Biotics' refer to any lifeform that has the ability to create Mass Effect Fields with their thoughts due to Element Zero exposure, the stuff that has helped our civilization and those that came before us thanks to the Reapers meddling. Asari are naturally gifted as Biotics as their entire race has the ability to generate Mass Effect Fields. As for myself, I had the experience of being exposed to Element Zero with an accident back home. Slightly painful."

Kenneth cleared his throat before continuing. "Biotics usually go into three categories: Adepts, Sentinels and Vanguards. Adepts rely alot on their powers of Mass Effect Field manipulation, however they have the ability of spawning singularities and have the most fun out their own powers."

"Sentinels rely slightly on the powers, but have different tech abilities like firing plasma or subatomic particles that snap freeze people."

"And finally the Vanguards, like myself." Kenneth said with alittle bit of some pride. "We are heavy-hitters and front-line attackers, charging directly into the heart of the enemy in a blitzkrieg type of way. We do have our powers, but nothing is better than having a rifle or shotgun at your side."

Kenneth sighed. "But enough of a brief summary about that, I for one, do hold the Vanguards usual 'gun-ho' charge, but I know that having that is simply not enough. That's why I always have my Mattock rifle at my side, fast and not a spray-n-pray rifle, I can still knock down targets when getting into close range is suicide."

 

[ServebotFrank]

Lincoln-Geth-VR room

"That is an adequate summary, Lieutenant Senshi." Lincoln stated after Kenneth explained what Biotics are. He removed his Sniper Rifle from his back and readied it, "I am a long to close range unit, Staff Sergeant Kerrigan, and like all Geth, have superior Tech skills." He explained. Looking around the refinery area, he decided to come up with a plausible strategy while they had time, "Staff Sergeant Kerrigan, If you can get an opportunity to get behind enemy lines with Active Camo then try it. Lieutenant Senshi, if it looks like up close might be feasible then you should be at the front attracting enemy fire and taking them out with your biotics, We will stay slightly behind and take out whatever we can but if you start having trouble then we will move up." Lincoln described.

 

[Korten12]

JASTIS-015

Jastis nodded, it would be interesting to see how this ?biotic? works out. ?My skill set is long ranged to close up, I will adapt to any given situation. That?s all I can really say, I am a pretty good leader, but if you see something that can be done do it. Just tell me beforehand. Don?t want a dictatorship squad running here.? He then turned to the other squad and then called everyone together.

?When we begin, our paths will be split down the middle so we won?t see each other, and we have no chance to hit each other. In this mission we will be fighting, Hunters, Jackals, Grunts, Sangheili, Brutes, Drones, and with an occasional Spartan in the mix,? he did notice the slight irony in it that there would be a Spartan fighting alongside the covenant forces even if it was fake. ?Hope you don?t have a problem with that Mee, at least the Sangheili part. Your race are good fighters, won?t be easy going up against them.?

Fastina Nar Nusha

They had arrived at the Broken Destiny, and she was still hidden. UNSC soldiers and such began to take the pieces off and bring them to where they were needed. When they were looking she hopped out and stepped into the shadows and slowly began to make her way out of the hanger. When she did moved into the hallways, the ship was incredible, much better the flotilla ships, although they were getting better, much better since the end of the war.
She saw no in the hallway and then continued to move, but then felt a hand grab her shoulder and forced her to turn around. She was looking into the visor of a tall man in blue and black armor whose visor glowed red. ?Well? Who do we have here?? Spoke the being which reminded her of the Spartan Jastis.

He began to speak again but not at her despite him looking straight at her. ?Captain, this is Spartan-032 Raynor.?

?Captain Nassa speaking, good to hear from you Spartan, did you just wake from Cryo?? Fastina could hear the Captains voice.

?No, just a couple of hours ago, but I was being caught up on current events and such. I was just coming to meet you when I found a Quarian, I believe its race is, walking around here. I looked at the list of personnel, there is no Quarian?s on the list.?

Just when she thought she was sneaky, she was caught. No doubt she would be thrown off the ship. ?Bring them up here.?

?Will do,? He pulled out his magnum and poked her on the back, ?Move.? After a short walk, they arrived at the Deck, where the Captain was sitting waiting. He had not seen the Captain yet, only heard of her as they arrive on the Citadel. She was no different than any Human from this dimension.

?What is your name?? She asked.

Fastina gulped and cleared her throat. ?Fastina Nar Nusha.? The Captain inspected the Quarian and didn?t seem to be angry.

?I will ask only once, why are you on my ship? I have no one on the list with that name. How did you get on??

?Earlier I met with the Spartan you know as Jastis when he was on the Citadel. He told me much about you to me and my friends. I was really interested in learning more, but I knew I had no way of really getting on the ship through legal ways since I am really a loner. So I snuck in the storage along with the new pieces being brought to your ship. I just wanted to learn more, sorry for the trouble I caused you.?

Nassa could tell there was honesty in her voice. ?Alright Fastina, I will let you stay aboard my vessel but you will need to make yourself useful. What skills do you have??

Fastina under her helmet smiled and was happy with the results. ?I am not a good technician, but I am one of the very few biotic Quarian?s. So I know how to fight.?

The Captain nodded her head. ?I read about biotics? That is sure interesting, something unique to your dimension. Spartan-032, escort Fastina down to the armory and give her an evaluation, test out her abilities.?

Raynor saluted. ?Yes Captain!?

 

[CmmdrRosh99]

Lieutenant Kenneth Senshi

Kenneth nodded at the Geth known as Lincoln. "My point exactly. I've seen other Geth in action, you guys are definitely tough."

He turned back to Jastis and nodded. "Good enough. Shall we get started?"

 

[Lunar Templar]

Sarah listened on in Lt Kenneth's explanation of Biotic's "i see" then re directed her atention to her team "so ... magic then" she thought aloud "Luna, you and Eli will be pulling up the rear, Murphy and i will be on point, Mee" she started and paused, for a second, not entirely sure what to do with her given her skill set "your floating, back up who ever needs it" she then sighed an internal sigh 'well, least its something, and least its only training, so no one will get killed from me not knowing what I'm doing command wise' she thought

 

[Bravo 21]

As the teams prepared for the VR sim, Quintus, lacking anything more productive to do, opted to try to get to know some of the other crew members of the ship he would be serving on. Approaching a serviceman, that had the look of an engineer, he found himself unsure as how to proceed, with doctrine and training for first contact scenarios rarely going beyond "try not to start a war". Hoping to break the silence that had descended, he inquired "So are contests like this common where you come from?"

 

[vrbtny]

Alan look up at the strange, armour-plated Alien with the plate-like face painted white and red. It had strange mandibles that clicked together, and very strange mouth. Even though Alan was sitting down, he could tell that the Alien was distinctly taller than he was, although looked rather skinny. Alan wasn't the best at fisticuffs, but he thought a marine could have taken this rather scrawny looking alien.

"Evenin' there," He said with a smile, and raising his bag of popcorn in greeting. "These sort of fights happen often in VR, sometimes in real-life we having boxing and sparring matches. But live-fire is never used in real life, we don't wanna go killing each other before we even see the enemy!" He said with a dark chuckle. There was a seat available for the strange Alien to sit in. "Here, have a seat. Do you eat popcorn?" He asked, offering the half-full bag of popcorn to the alien.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Everett listened to Kenneth's detailed explanation about what Biotic powers were, whilst giving examples of how they can be used; suffice to say he was impressed about what this universe had to offer, and couldn't wait to see these powers in action. Lincoln then followed up with its own set, plus a suggestion for a strategy that Red Team could use. Jastis then announced what exactly was going to happen in the training mission to everyone assembled.

"Looks like we're going to have some fun during this." He quietly thought to himself. Everett then turned to Lincoln.

"That's quite a clever strategy you thought up there Lincoln, I'm impressed." He remarked, complimenting the Geth on its idea before turning to Jastis.

"Will there be alternate paths that we could take throughout this mission aside from the one we start in sir? Or, is it a simple one way in, one way out?" Everett asked, wanting to know more about the layout.

 

[alandavidson]

SSG Murphy

"Ma'am" Murphy said, gesturing for Sarah to follow him away from the group.

When they were away from the group, Murphy began speaking. "I'm going to be blunt here. Your plan is good, don't change it. We have to stay together as a group or we will get chewed up in an urban scenario like this. We're going to be doing a lot of moving and breaching and if I go in a door and you're not right behind me driving your corner, I'm getting shot the hell up and so are you. The other guys are talking about active camouflage and sneaking around, but I'm going to be honest with you, that only works in a team that's been together for a very long time, and even then there are no solo soldiers."

He put his hand on Sarah's shoulder. He could see the look of concern on her face. "You've got this. I'll take point, put Eli as trunk monkey, and you've got two very experienced guns covering front and back. Mee will keep us covered and will give us sitreps, so you don't have to worry about that. Just trust your training. And if it all goes to shit, I'll take the blame for it. Just remember that I'm trusting you to drive your corner."

Murphy squeezed her shoulder, then stepped back and smiled. He had faith in Sarah. Leading a squad wasn't really a Spartan strong suit, but he knew that she could it. She just needed to trust herself and her squad. That was something Murphy learned the hard way, thankfully in training.

 

[Kasten]

Eli smiled "Finally. Guns. What I'm good at, Murphy, think you can give me good shots?" Eli walked up and clapped the other soldier on the back "And Sir," Eli turned to Sarah "I couldn't have gotten much of a better plan without much more time myself. You're not making any glaringly fatal mistakes like just about every other new commander I've met in my career."

 

[Bravo 21]

Quintus accepted the seat and sat next to the human, and looked dubiously at the popcorn. "Thanks, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work with my biology." Glancing back at the VR room, the teams seemed to be finishing their preparations. Quintus wondered about the human who seemed utterly unperturbed by the alien sitting next to him, going so far as offering him some popcorn. "So, you don't seem at all phased by suddenly being here?" He inquired, gesturing vaguely around them.

 

[vrbtny]

"Well, you haven't tried to kill me yet, and funky Aliens are nothing new to me. I was down in the engineering bay and there were loads of aliens walking around, none of which tried to kill me so...." Alan shrugged, "Maybe I just adapt quick. I'm guessing some UNSC people won't be quite so welcoming. After all. the last Aliens we met did try and wipe humanity out.... so there's that." Alan lazily chucked a handful of popcorn into his mouth.

"I suppose," He said through a mouthful of popcorn, "I'm not a person to throw all aliens in the same boat. You're obviously not the same as the Covenant.... so why automatically assume you're going to act like them?"