The Rise: Athena's Province

The Rise of the Warrior Spirit, or the RRP, was very popular for a while, and in the hope that it is still popular, I'm going to be remaking it.

Cowriters:
Skippy (Kayle)
Garth (the beast)
Josh (Sean)
Seth (Kabnit)


New Characters
-You'll have to remake your characters, you can use the same name, role, etc. But you have to have a realistic bio, (...)
New Missions
Similar Storyline, this will be 4-6 years after Halo 3 (or the same year or 2 years after Halo 4)

Remember:
"The SPARTAN-IV Program is the fourth generation of the SPARTAN Program, consisting of members recruited from the UNSC's military who were augmented to be capable of wearing a new variant of the MJOLNIR GEN2 armor. This phase was initiated by Admiral Margaret Parangosky after the Human-Covenant war, and some are stationed near the UNSC Infinity in the Oort Cloud.

Similar to the original ORION Project, the SPARTAN-IV Program would only consist of adult volunteers, as opposed to young children (despite their stellar operational record in previous generations of the program). When the program was started, surviving members of previous generations were offered an opportunity to be integrated into it, though it remains unknown how many accepted or declined. The first active SPARTAN-IVs were already deployed as early as 2553 as some of them were temporarily assigned to the UNSC Infinity before it was scheduled to launch." -Halo.wikia.com

And remember: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/MJOLNIR_GEN2

Check your armor.
Name:

Age: (if you want, as long as they aren't younger than 23 or older than 35)

Race: (caucasion, asian, black, etc)

Limitations: Spartan IV (as the story is developed, Marines may be introduced.)

Skills: Strengths and Weaknesses, Ties into your Role

Role: You are part of a Squad/Fireteam, there are 4-5 people per Squad/Fireteam, pick a role and stick to it. (Example: Medic, Assault, Support, Marksman, etc.)

Screenshot/description, in armor and out of armor: (If you can, otherwise, a description.
Take your Screen shot from Bungie.net or wherever you can.

Insignia: (Optional) This distinguishes you. This can be your insignia on Halo or something you've created.

Biography: (required) Use the examples provided and fill in the gaps.



Example Character: (Spartan II example)

Name: Nick Spartan 149 Age: 46 Race: Cacausian (mixed ethnicity) Spartan: IV Biography: Originally a Spartan II, he was conditioned and trained since he was a child. He's one of the few surviving Spartan II's. He's 7 feet tall, blonde hair, blue eyed. Like all Spartan II's he has sociopathic tendencies. He joined the Spartan IV program because it's the only thing he knows. When not in high stress scenarios, he's aloof and distant. He's quiet and doesn't talk much. But he's an asset to any team he's on, despite his lack of social ability. Cybernetics: Spartan Neural Interface (all spartans have this) Insignia: Ⓝ Role: Specialist OOT (out of team) Recon (Primary), Current Location: Serving on Athena's Province Current Status: Alive Helmet: Recon Torso: Infilitrator L.Shoulder: infiltrator R.shoulder:infiltrator Forearms: Twin plated Legs: RG63 counter Visor: Midnight Color: Sage/Sage Emblem: White Bearclaw on black background

Name: Spartan 150* Ghostpaw Age: 28 Race: Cacausian (mixed ethnicity) Spartan: IV Biography: Cybernetics: Spartan Neural Interface (all spartans have this) Insignia: Ⓝ Role: Specialist OOT (out of team) Recon (Primary), Current Location: Serving on Athena's Province Current Status: Alive Helmet: Pioneer Torso: Pioneer L.Shoulder: infiltrator R.shoulder:infiltrator Forearms: outer plated Legs: XG-89 Narrow Visor: Midnight Color: Steel/ white Emblem: Black bear claw on white circle

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NPCs
Name: Commander Stone Race: Cacausian (mixed ethnicity) Spartan: IV Biography: Formerly in the Marine Corps, served 13 tours, on 6 different planets. Leader of All Fireteams Fought in the Human-Covenant War Green eyes. brown hair. Cybernetics: Spartan Neural Interface (all spartans have this) Current Location: Serving on Athena's Province Current Status: Alive
Name: Jon Age: 30 Race: Cacausian (mixed ethnicity) Spartan: IV Biography: Former ODST, Leader of Fire-team Sanguine Cybernetics: Spartan Neural Interface (all spartans have this) Role: Leader (Primary), Assault (Secondary) Current Location: Serving on Athena's Province Current Status: Alive
Name: Dr. NO Age: 38 Race: Cacausian (mixed ethnicity) Biography: A Scientist aboard the Athena's Province, specializing primarily in biology. He's also an MD (Medical Doctor) aboard the ship. Cybernetics: none Role: Scientist, Chief Medical Doctor Current Location: Serving on Athena's Province Current Status: Alive
Name: Commander Aegir Age: 34 Race: Cacausian (mixed ethnicity) Spartan: IV Biography: Spent most of his life in the Navy surviving aboard Naval Ships from planet to planet, his military career was on the up and up. Most of his missions had been classified. Leader of Fire-team Aqua Cybernetics: Spartan Neural Interface (all spartans have this) Role: Leader (Primary), Medic (Secondary) Current Location: Serving on Athena's Province Current Status: Alive
Name: James Age: 32 Race: Caucasian Spartan: IV Biography: Cybernetics: Spartan Neural Interface (all spartans have this) Role: Leader (Primary), Espionage (secondary) Biography: Former Spy and Agent of ONI, leader of Fire-team Umbra. Insignia: 007 Current Location: Serving on Athena's Province Current Status: Alive

NPC Fire teams	Leader	Team 1	Team 2
Aqua	Aegir	Rän (Female), Elysif (Female), Døn (Male), Ɲjar (Male)	Anders, Sif, Thorin, Heindaal
Sanguine	Jon	Connor (Male), Ingrid (Female), Karl (Male), Ben (Male)	Tom, Hanson, Müdakar, Qintar
Umbra	James	Lokil (Male), Jordan (Male), Kip (Male), Hadrian (Male)	Ken, Fred, Richard, Winston
Amber	Kayla	Jake (Male), Rin (Female), Jayson (Male), Foy (Male)	Hal, Sawyer, Earl, Gunjar

Marines

Fireteam	Fireteam Leader	Specialist/rifleman	Scout/designated rifleman/rifleman	Rifleman	Rifleman	Rifleman
Raven	Rank: Corporal Name: Eir Jarvaskur Biography: This black haired, green eyed vixen has trained in multiple martial arts, and has proven herself to be a capable leader, despite the team command had given her. She's an excellent shot, and a terrible public speaker. She keeps her squad unified, and fears that leaving them will cause them to fall apart.	Specialist Rank: Lance Corporal Name: Turner B. Biography: A smartass who makes wisecracks when given orders. Often makes homosexual jokes with the other marines. A real libra. Has smartass contests with Nicholas. They tease each other and pick on each other, but it never gets violent.	Rifleman Rank: Private First Class Name: Ryan Anders Biography: joined the military after failing to get into a university. Is still trying to cope with not getting in. He also thinks he's better fit to command than Eir.	Rank: Private First Class Name: Charles H. Bio: Tired of not being able to help support his family financially, joined the military. He's pretty good at what he does, but he doesn't like taking orders, but Eir, his leader, knows this, and tries not to trap him in a box of regulations. Gets along fairly well with the others.	Rank: Private First Class Name: Alex C. Bio: Born to a Jewish family with little money, joined the military to feel like he had self-worth. Often pessimistic, he's constantly putting himself down. Eir, the team leader, tries to encourage him, and congratulate him when he does something right. As a result, he's developed a bit of a crush on his leader.	Rank: Private First Class Name: Nicholas O. Bio: Joined the military to see the stars, but not to fight. A true pisces. He's very knowledgable about lots of things and gleans information from his surroundings about as fast an AI transfers data. Though an excellent shot, he seldom fires his rifle. His cousin is Aegir, of Fireteam Aqua.
Wolf
Sparrow

Names of places on the ship	description
S-deck
Armor-Bay

Name: Lyle
Race: Caucasian,
Limitations: Spartan or Elite.
Skills: Studying and understanding technology, explosives
Weaknesses: Long range combat, driving, staying focused
Role: Combat Engineer
Current Location: Athena's Province
Current Status: Alive and kicking
Biography: Started out as a Marine, working in EOD. Willing transferred into the Spartan 4's, once it was available, somehow surviving the augmentations and training. He retained his skill in explosives work, but gained a new appreciation for field repairs and engineering. He's slightly shorter than most Spartans, but a little thicker with muscles and tissue. His light brown hair is often shaved close to his scalp, as per military regulations, while is bright green eyes contrast his hair nicely. Has has a few battlescars, but they are generally small and easy to miss.

Appearance:

Screenshot:
Insignia:

Name: Joshua Strapp

Age: 27

Race: Human, Russian and Irish, Caucasian.

Spartan: S-IV

Strengths: As the heavy weapons guy, Joshua is pretty strong. Even for a Spartan-IV. I would say strong as a II but that'd be a lie.
Enough about that, let's move on. When he has smaller arms he can usually hit his mark. But not all the time.
You'd think somebody like him would be pretty slow right? You would be wrong. He can be fast when he wants to. Quite fast.

Flaws: In Hand to Hand combat he relies more on brute strength than actual skill. Kinda like a fury of fists and savage swings.
He driving is easily comparable to an average Marine. Isn't too good or bad, but okay. Nothing special, nothing notable.
But when it comes to piloting he's completely clueless. Which brings me to heights. Any time he's higher then a tree, he loses it.
Just can't stand it. He lost his hand because a vertibird crashed while he was on board. Who could blame him after that?
Then comes first aid. Or medical, whichever. He's not too good here either. He can perform First Aid but don't bother asking anything better.

Cybernetics: Prosthetic Right Hand, Spartan Neural Interface

Role: Heavy Weapons Specialist

Screenshot: Armor

Face?

Insignia: http://images.wikia.com/halofanon/images/3/32/UNSC_PW_insignia_(BW).png

Current Location: On the Athena's Province

Current Status: Quite alive

Biography: Joshua was a Marine before becoming a S4, like a bunch of others. He was pretty good at what he did.
But the Spartan program offered to make him better. I should say ONI offered it, but yeah. He had the chance to get better.
So he took it. 'Cause why the hell not? Well, that and why not be better? Isn't that why we exist, to be better?
Anyway, enough of the whole what's the point of life ordeal. He quite enjoys being a Spartan S4, aboard the Athenia's Province.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rosNfJHY-Xw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgW14v9ghI



G-edit: Seth is kabnit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_mlYLywrMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0e6jiMIiOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk-OlKAu2j0

Name: Tyrese Keystone

Rank: Sergeant

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Born: 2530 (28 years old, in the year 2558)

Race: African

Limitations: Spartan IV

Strengths and Weaknesses: Average shooter, good at remaining undetected, faster than average soldiers. He doesn't ignore orders, however he may advance or flank the enemy without them. Impatient, he doesn't like sitting in one spot on the battlefield for too long and he may move up, risking being shot in the process.

Role: Rifleman

Screenshot:

Spoiler:

Out of armor screenshot:

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Description: Dark skin. Both of his parents were from New Mombasa, Africa. He keeps his head shaved, although tends to let his beard grow a bit. He's largely built and stands at a tall 6'10".

Insignia:

Spoiler:

Biography: His whole life, Tyrese tried to stay away from the war. But for as long as the Covenant swept across the galaxy, it was only a matter of time before they reached Earth. It was then, when the Covenant landed in Tyrese's own backyard, when he took up arms and fought the aliens. But then was too late. They burned the city, taking his parents' lives, and almost taking his. It was right after that battle when Tyrese officially signed up to the corps. But he had already joined the battle when he fired his first shot. In the last few months of the war, Tyrese impressed his superiors with his tenacity and ability to complete objectives. He was given the opportunity to join the Spartan-IV program. An offer that Tyrese couldn't refuse.[img][/img]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOU0oc0V63Q

Name: Kamil Turski (Spartan 015)

Age: 25 yrs

Race: Caucasian

Limitations: Spartan IV

Skills: Medium Range Weapons and Close Quarters. Weakness's: Deep bottomless holes(Paralyzing fear), damaged buildings(Hesitant), and fires(Hesitant).

Role: Medic

Current Location: Athena's Province
Current Status: Still Alive and well!

Kamil T. in and out of Armor:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Insignia:

Biography: Kamil was one of the few Corpsman to leave his fellow Marines behind to become something bigger. Of course he was going to miss the lot of them, his heart as big as an elephants. He had to do this, something he needed to do this. Of course the progress was bumpy, he made it through. The augmentations, the training. He wondered how little kids could have done this, how they survived this training that not even adults were able to complete.

After this training however, a fellow Spartan was killed saving him. Kamil was trying to bandage someone up as bullets were firing from afar. It wasn't normal for a raid party or anything else coming here and attacking them. As the 4 member squad was pinned and trying to hold back the attackers, a fellow Spartan was blown apart after climbing onto a grenade to save everyone. His past would haunt him for the rest of his life, but it wouldn't stop him from progressing forward. After hearing about the Athena he immediately signed up. He was then accepted to come aboard, he was amazed of how quickly he was accepted into the ship. But no matter he was here to do his duty, that was to protect Humanity and all her colonies, well what was left of them. The missions were going to be his ultimate test, and having a new team would be even more challenging, but he will make it through these trials like everyone else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5wdiWH0xTs

Mission 1
-Commander Stone briefs Roman and Jericho
--Everyone gets recruit armor.
---Custom armor will be made available later on.
--Some spartans who are not new to the Spartan IV program may already have custom sets.
-Roman and Jericho are sent to two different sites
--Roman is sent to the Kolyak Mountain Range
--Note to the readers: The Kolyak Mountain Range resembles the Great Dividing Range of Australia. Notable differences include but are not limited to:
---Height, there are more cliff faces (straight drop ridges)
---the mountains are generally taller
---trails are etched into parts of the range
---the predatory birds that live here are about the body-size (not wingspan) of the average human. wingspan stretches over 6ft.
---There are many natural caves that are big enough to house hundreds of people. You may enter one without knowing (that’s how big they can be.)
---There are parasites that live in the trees on these mountains that are similar to but not related to the flood infection form. The parasite is plant-like, and when it infects something it grows what appears to be a “bulb” from the brain of the lifeform it has infected.
The insertion point for Roman is in a drier Climate area, so the mountain range appears to be more sandstone in appearance, and thus less vegetation.
---The insertion point resembles the sandstone mountains of Aurora from Fable III.
---The mountain range stretches across several different biomes. It may be visited more than once in the future.
-Jericho is sent to one of the planets many Boreal-type Forests.
--Note to the readers: if you don’t know what a boreal forest is, “ a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines,spruces and larches.” Uncharacteristically, it rains and snows very frequently. So the ground is muddy and in many areas there are ecosystems known as Bogs. “A bog is a mire that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, Sphagnum moss.[1] It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, quagmire and muskeg.” - “Bogs occur where the water at the ground surface is acidic and low in nutrients. In some cases, the water is derived entirely from precipitation, in which case they are termed ombrotrophic (rain-fed). Water flowing out of bogs has a characteristic brown colour, which comes from dissolved peat tannins. In general the low fertility and cool climate results in relatively slow plant growth, but decay is even slower owing to the saturated soil. Hence peat accumulates. Large areas of landscape can be covered many meters deep in peat”
--Caveats for the boreal forest:
---Note: The characters in the RRP will not know about these species. This includes but is not limited to: NPC’s and PC’s. These are also going to be common names, not actual scientific names for the species.
indigenous species that may attack: (or would be considered threatening to Spartans. (There’s a lot more that would be threatening to marines and people who have exposed skin, but they won’t come into play until the teams have Marines accompanying them.
Bog-beast, found exclusively in the bogs of Karjur. They vary in size, usually depending on the size of the bog they inhabit. They are aggressive only when you enter or get too close their home. They are territorial. They are composed of a colony of worms that feed off of the microorganisms that grow in the bog. An individual worm may grow up to 6ft long, individual worms (ie not colonies) may be found outside of bogs.
--Giant Snakes. Giant, non-venomous, predators of the boreal forest. They can be found just about anywhere in the boreal forest. They can grow up to 21 meters long, vary in color (seasonal colorings) in this case they will be a medium brown hue. Their eggs can be up to 2 meters in diameter.
--Indigenous plant-life that may attack:
---There is a carnivorous flowering plant, that detects infrared signatures and lashes out at them. The plant is stationary, it cannot move. It also smells like freshly cooked meat to attract many of the woodland creatures. The smell is created chemically, obviously. It has spines about 8-10 cm in length and about 2 cm in diameter. It has sticky vines that it “throws” out at it’s next possible meal. Spartans show up on it’s infrared “sight”, It is strong enough (with enough vines thrown at you) to pull a spartan into its maw. The adhesiveness of it’s maw is so great, that the spartan caught in it will have to be cut out by another spartan.
---There is a predatory, carnivorous plant. Called the Walking Death. It’s parasitic creeping vine. It appears to “walk” along the ground in jerky movements. these movements are caused [chemical mumbo jumbo, I don’t feel like explain it]. It is rooted to one place, so it “hunts” within a radius.This is one of the few near sentient plant life forms of the planet. It has a “brain-like” structure at it’s roots and what appears to be a primitive oculory system. It hunts by growing into it’s prey, whatever it’s trapped. It has barbed vines, and pieces the skin of it’s victim and grows inside them. during the planet’s “spring” it also puts seeds into the person and “willingly” leaves it’s victim. The seeds then grow and compete for the nutrients within the body. This takes a matter of weeks. It will try to pierce the spartans armor (it won’t work). Killing the “brain” will prevent the Walking Death from moving, but it will live on through photosynthesis. (it will just be immobile.) Like all plant life-forms, fire is an excellent deterrent.
-Mission parameter: Investigate what appear to be empty buildings, clear out any and all Hostiles within the vicinity.

Name: Harrison Stark

Age: 26

Rank: Private FC

Race: Caucasian

Skills*Role: Specialist and Rifleman

Character appearance: (ODST Mickey's armour: primary Forest Green. Sec White) short brown hair, green eyes, 6 foot. Smaller frame.

Bio: Harry enlisted durring the battle of Earth and stayed in afterwards. He's a friendly guy and tends to be the jokester of the squad. He volunteered for ODST shortly after the war.