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Issac F***ing Asimov
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Most People have jumped to Master Chief Collection
Yeah, that was most of what I figured. 4 has all the kids who can't afford Xbox Ones and are playing the newest game they have, while Reach probably has older people who never cared to pick up 4 in the first place.
I think also maybe I never played enough of 4 to be put where I belong in the skill system? I probably never even hit 20 games at launch.
And yo Psycho, I'd be down for 3 if y'all do it before the 20th.
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space elves who save the world from time travelling cyborg death gods
I have Halo 4 and Reach for my 360. I can always help too.
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I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.
But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.
game - gun = gay game + gun = -gay game + gun + Arem = ???
Shamanic Enzan: Appearing randomly in your life since...too long.
Issac F***ing Asimov
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
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Battle of Reach[edit] Main article: Fall of Reach During the Covenant attack on Reach, the SPARTAN-II company was divided into two teams: Red Team and Blue Team. Blue Team was tasked with defending an orbital space station's navigational data that could possibly lead the Covenant to Earth - which would be devastating to the UNSC. Red Team, far larger than Blue Team, was sent to the planet surface of Reach to defend its power generators that powered the Orbital Defense Platforms. Blue Team consisted of John-117, James-005, and Linda-058. Blue Team departed from the UNSC Pillar of Autumn in a Pelican dropship and crash-landed on the space station shortly before waves of Jackal and Sangheili Rangers landed. On maneuvers, James was shot at with crystalline needler rounds that penetrated the propellant module on the back of his armor that allowed him to maneuver in zero-g. With thruster wash billowing everywhere, James was blown into space, unable to control his trajectory. However, John and Linda were able to infiltrate the locked-down space station, and with the help of Staff Sergeant Avery J. Johnson and several other Marines, destroy the navigational data so that the Covenant would be unable to find and destroy Earth. However, during extraction, Linda was shot in the back with an overcharged plasma pistol, and fell into a deep coma. John and the Marine fireteam survived, however. Operation: FIRST STRIKE[edit]
Blue Team fighting aboard Unyielding Hierophant Main article: Operation: FIRST STRIKE Blue Team was newly formed when John came back to Reach after destruction of Installation 04 in search of his survived comrades. Upon his arrival Master Chief regrouped with Fred-104, Kelly-087, Grace-093, Anton-044, Will-043 and Li-008 who were protecting Dr. Catherine Halsey and Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb with Kelly critically wounded by the assault cannons of two Hunters. The Spartans managed to escape Reach and return to Covenant flagship Ascendant Justice previously captured by John and the Marines at Alpha Halo and linked it with the damaged UNSC frigate Gettysburg. During a battle with pursuing Covenant ships, Anton-044 and Li-008 were killed during an EVA operation to repair a plasma conduit. Soon after this they discovered that the Covenant already possessed coordinates of Earth's location and were building a massive invasion fleet consisting of about five hundred ships at the command-and-control center Unyielding Hierophant. John-117 came up with a plan to assault the Covenant station, although Ascendant Justice first had to undergo repairs. The crew managed to negotiate a truce with the inhabitants of the rebel base, Eridanus Secundus, infiltrated by Blue Team in 2525 and now led by Governor Jacob Jiles. While the vessel was being repaired Dr. Halsey managed to return Kelly-087 and Linda-058 to active duty; however, she sedated Kelly shortly after, took her aboard the private vessel of the rebel governor and left the system without anyone's knowledge or permission, heading to Onyx. After receiving some repairs, John and the rest were forced to abandon the rebels in the face of a Covenant assault, and made their way toward Unyielding Hierophant. Blue Team, consisting of John, Fred, Linda, Will and Grace, infiltrated Unyielding Hierophant and succeeded in overloading the station's reactors, at the cost of Grace's life. Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson were both killed when the station exploded, annihilating 486 ships of the Covenant fleet, leaving only around a dozen intact, delaying impending invasion of Earth. Upon Blue Team's return to Earth John ordered Fred and Linda to report to ONI HQ where they should inform the UNSC Security Council about Operation: FIRST STRIKE's success and imminent invasion of Earth. Battle of Earth[edit] Main article: Battle of Earth
Fred and Linda directly before the Battle of Earth Shortly after John-117's disappearance after the Mombasa slipspace event, Blue Team was deployed to help defend Earth during the span of two weeks, while In Amber Clad was busy pursuing the Prophet of Regret. Blue Team conducted operations including numerous operations in orbit around Earth, stopping a Covenant invasion on Mount Erebus in Antarctica with a HAVOK tactical nuke, and stopping Covenant forces on the sea floor off of the Yucatan Peninsula. Following these ops, they were deployed to the Centennial Orbital Elevator in Havana, Cuba to stop Covenant forces that had gathered around the orbital elevator. They then stopped the Covenant forces, who had captured multiple nuclear warheads, before they could ascend the orbital elevator. The Spartans then ascended the orbital elevator themselves, and in the process destroyed one of the Covenant capital ships at the top of the elevator. The three Spartans then left the battle in another Covenant capital ship called the Bloodied Spirit under orders by Fleet Admiral Hood to aid Dr. Halsey on Onyx. Onyx[edit]
Kelly and another member of Blue Team during the Battle of Onyx Main article: Battle of Onyx During the Battle of Onyx, Blue Team fought alongside with Team Saber against the Onyx Sentinels and the Covenant separatists that had arrived. Upon landing on Onyx, they were reunited with Kelly-087, Dr. Halsey, Senior Chief Petty Officer Mendez, and Kurt-051 (who they thought had been dead for quite some time). However during the course of the battle Will, Kurt, and a number of SPARTAN-IIIs were killed by the Sentinels and Covenant forces. The rest of Blue Team, along with the remaining SPARTAN-IIIs, CPO Mendez, and Dr. Halsey entered Shield World 006, which lay in a slipspace rift at the core of Onyx. Upon retreating to safety inside the shield world the survivors erected gravestones for those lost in the Battle of Onyx.[15] After the ceremony, Lucy-B091, Tom-B292, Ash-G099, Olivia-G291 and Mark-G313 were reassigned to Blue Team by Fred and Kelly. Blue Team then proceeded to explore the vast construct, soon establishing base camp in a Forerunner structure. A group of Huragok, discovered by Lucy-B091, eventually helped them bring the sphere out of its slipspace bubble into normal space, and an ONI team was dispatched to retrieve them. The few days the survivors had stayed inside the slipspace bubble turned out to equal over three months in normal space-time, and as such they returned to normal space in February 2553.[16] Blue Team was taken to Earth aboard the UNSC Port Stanley for a debriefing in HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6 in Sydney.[17] Post-war years[edit] The SPARTAN-IIIs assigned to Blue Team were later offered the chance to integrate into the SPARTAN-IV program and, by extension, the new Spartan branch, under the leadership of the surviving SPARTAN-IIs.[18] By September 2553, three members of Saber Team were missing in action. Though their deaths were not confirmed, the UNSC later changed their status to killed in action, with Lucy and Tom being assigned to an unknown location.[19] Fred, Kelly and Linda were not folded into the Spartan branch and comprised the core roster of Blue Team in the coming years.[20][5] They embarked on numerous confidential operations under ONI's direct oversight, eliminating hostile Covenant remnants across the fringes of human space.[21] Investigation of Gao[edit] During 2553, Spartan Blue Team was deployed to escort a UNSC research battalion on the planet, Gao. The Composer's Forge[edit] Main article: Skirmish on Installation 03
Blue Team engages Promethean Knights on Installation 03. By July 25, 2557, Blue Team, at the time consisting of Kelly, Linda, and Fred, was stationed at Earth. Shortly after the New Phoenix Incident and the loss of contact with a science team on Installation 03, the team was joined by John in an "advisory" role due to his recent encounters with Promethean constructs. The team was deployed to Gamma Halo, whereupon arrival they found the bodies of Black Team and the scientists before being attacked by Promethean Knights. The Spartans soon discovered the Composer's Abyss, and a slipspace portal within.[5] The portal took Blue Team to the Composer's Forge, where they encountered the Ur-Didact and numerous new Promethean constructs he had created from the residents of New Phoenix. In addition, the Forge's monitor, 859 Static Carillon, had Installation 03 transported above the Forge. Intending to use the Halo against Earth, the Didact took one of the Composers and headed back to the portal to Installation 03. Blue Team gave chase and engaged the Didact again atop the Composer's Abyss on the Halo's surface.[22] The Didact's armor soon adapted itself to the Spartans' weapons, but Static Carillon appeared and saved Blue Team by teleporting the Didact away into the installation's control room. While the rest of Blue Team returned to their Longsword, John entered the control center to confront the Promethean in person. The Master Chief disabled Gamma Halo's safeties, enabling Static Carillon to eject the segment of the ring housing the control room toward the planet housing the Composer's Forge. The monitor teleported John to Blue Team's Longsword just before the Halo fragment struck the Forge while the Didact was seemingly incinerated.[23] Further operations[edit] Following the Didact's second defeat, Blue Team returned to Earth. John was debriefed by Admiral Hood who ordered him and Blue Team to rest and recover from years of continuous combat. Instead, the Master Chief, refusing to ever cease fighting, chose to embark on new missions—unknown to Lord Hood.[23] Blue Team, still under operational command of NAVSPECWAR[20] and equipped with the MJOLNIR Mark VI[24] continued to serve by 2558 on highly classified operations.[21] Among these operations was a mission to the ONI research vessel Argent Moon. There they would encounter Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction in contest for control of the ship.[25] Shortly later, Blue Team was declared AWOL by the UNSC with a fireteam led by Jameson Locke tasked with recovering them.[26][25] In one notable incident, Spartan-117 disrupted an assassination attempt by Sapien Sunrise on a human-Sangheili peace summit on Biko (with the insurgents attempting to frame the Sangheili of the crime). Unfortunately, the truth was covered up and John-117 was used as a scapegoat to hide the UEG's laxity towards preventing the attack.[27]
TL;DR for Patrick. Blue Team was essentially picked up during First Strike on Reach, fought on Earth/went to Onyx during Halo 2/Halo 3 ODST, Blue Team (Fred and Kelly) arrive on Onyx to help assist in SPARTAN III disaster that happened. They ended up being stuck in a 3 month slipspace bubble that had only seemed like a few days.
They do not join into SPARTAN IV, but still go on missions for ONI.
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They end up going on a mission with Chief to kill the Didact after his fall to Earth, they do, and are given permission with the Chief for some R+R time, but end up going AWOL.
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No split-screen play in Guardians. Frank O'Connor claims it can't be done, saying "If we could do it, we would do it. But it is what they call 'non-trivial.'"
Shamanic Enzan: Appearing randomly in your life since...too long.
Issac F***ing Asimov
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
If having Technical Issues with the forum please post details in the Board Improvements thread and I'll look into them ASAP
This does a good job of summarizing where the hell Blue Team is/was/where during gaming events and right before our beloved Halo 5 descends from heaven. :)