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Shortly after the Human/Covenant war, one of the remaining Prophets seeks out Equestria, thinking it an ancient Forerunner world. Captain Veronica Dare and her Squad of ODSTs investigate the Covenant's interest in Equestria.
First two chapters copied and tweaked from my DA, Kaiser-Khronos
Cover by COBilly on Deviant Art
Shortly after the Human/Covenant war, one of the remaining Prophets seeks out Equestria, thinking it an ancient Forerunner world. Captain Veronica Dare and her Squad of OSDTs investigate the Covenant's interest in Equestria.
First two chapters copied and tweaked from my DA, Kaiser-Khronos
i was referring to your description as you can see it says OSDT's investigate not ODST's
Second completed chapter and I'm shouting to the heavens "F*BLEEP*ING FINALLY!!!" Someone FINALLY seems to be able to get that Halo feel and mesh it well with ponies! I mean, others are either too choppy, too droll, does not capture the feel of Halo, or something else that just makes the attempt boring for me to read. I will be following this closely.
One note though. Towards the end of the chapter, you started combining different character's texts in the same paragraph. Might just be an accident, but I need to point it out.
Remember, when a different character talks, they get their own paragraph.
Interesting. The ponies are rather racist and judgmental, not to mention self-righteous as hell. Not really surprising for these kind of fics, I've read enough to know that. What IS surprising to me is the fact that you actually had the ODSTs call them out on it. Good on you.
Awesome, another chapter! 
And I do hope the ponies and the other races on the planet don't just go up and deny that nothing is wrong and all that other stuff, because I think that without the Princesses and if they are caught off guard due to not even getting ready for an attack, the Covenant will completely or just mostly destroy Equestria...wouldn't want that to happen but eh, it's your story and stuff, ya do what ya wanna do and stuff. I say "stuff" too much. 
Awesome story anyway.
>>612930 I also plan to throw something in this story along this: Insert Rarity for Vespa 
Might take awhile, though. Next chapter is going to involve them going to Appleloosa on the train and/or them getting to Appleloosa. The chapter after that or the next one will probably feature this scene.
The emoticon? User iloveportalz0r created them. You can download 'em for free.
>>726418 Thanks, a bunch! 
I really have no excuse as to why I don't put out more chapters...I guess its that when I write a new chapter I do it over the course of two days, usually just two several hour chunks then a proof read. I've already got an idea for what I want for this next chapter, but I just have to figure if I want to involve Tiberium in this chapter or have a conflict in the next.
>>886659 I'd like to think so. I did take a small liberty saying the Rookie actually told someone about that incident (I honestly don't think he would have, I was just trying to give props to people who know their ODST history.)
I also mentioned Shining Armor's bubble shield was Lightish red for people who are fans of a certain cock bite variety.
Last thing: Next chapter I intend to have a Mel Brooks movie reference in the next chapter. Look forward to it!
>>898959 ...Oh dear...
Anyways, random thought of the moment, a comparison of the Human and Covenant infantry weapons and their purposes (brutes get their own section).
Human weapons, with the exception of small rapid fire weapons such as the M7 SMG and the MA5 Assault Rifle series, put them down hard and keep them down with the fewest shots fired. The Sniper Rifle (which could be considered an anti-tank weapon in today's conventions), Shotgun, and Grenade Launcher hold true to this simple rule as, when fired at their most effective ranges, usually, if not always kills their target, shielded or not.
Their other weapons are either designed to take down those shields (SMG, Assault Rifle, Battle Rifles) or are to be used against different opponents (unshielded opponents for the pistols, or vehicles for the SPNKr and Spartan Laser).
Now Covenant weapons, if they don't explode (Fuel Rod, Needler, Concussion Rifle) or pierce (E-sword, Needle Rifle, Carbine, Particle Beam Rifle), they seem more inclined for fighting Shielded opponents. The Plasma Pistol, Rifle, and Repeater all fire globs of plasma, and on impact would splash to give a wider area of damage. The thing is, this damage is on the surface only, and if the target can ignore the pain of having super-heated gas on his chest, could still fight back.
However, the less said about the Brute section of Covenant weapons, would probably be better, but hey, didn't get this far to bail out like a wuss now.
These weapons are designed for maximum pain deliverance, ignoring all other aspects of warfare beyond if it'll hurt. Take the Spiker for example.
A rail gun style, slow firing SMG that shoots out super-heated foot long spikes. If one of those don't kill you, I can easily imagine the thing passing right through your body, doing minimal damage, but leaving behind a lot of pain due to the near instant cauterization.
The Mauler seems really to be meant to tear apart the target when he's practically in your face. Any farther, and you either need to be shooting two at the same time or something else because it won't take him down otherwise.
The Gravity Hammer is downright disgusting. If Halo were closer to realistic representation, I'd imagine we'd see and explosion of blood and gore every time one is used to kill. Hell, even if you were standing on the very edge of it's blast radius, I'd still imagine the damned thing breaking multiple bones as it threw you back.
Now the grenade launcher... actually, I think that one's pretty normal compared to the others.
>>912676 Sorry I took so long to respond...but what was this comment in reference to? The only thing I know is that in the books that plasma weapons are NASTY weapons. While not having a lot of kinetic energy applied to them they cause instantaneous 2nd to 3rd degree burns to unshielded opponents. Most people, save Spartans, couldn't take that pain or muscle through it. 
In fact, most nonplasma covenant weapons could kill ANYBODY with a single direct hit. Plasma weapons would take two or three to kill, but maybe one good hit to pass out from shock.
As for the gravity hammer, I'd say it creates a sonic boom type effect. I doubt it'd cause anyone to explode but definitely broken bones. It'd probably cause concussive damage similar to explosives, like those G-Force trippers they use on Mythbusters. 100 Gs is lethal, but 50 isn't. I suspect that you'd be banged up without a main hit but still survive. I have a feeling Grifball over-exaggerates the max damage it can do, considering Romeo blocked a grav hammer with his sniper rifle and was not the worse for ware...the spike hit into the punctured lung did more damage than the gravity swell.
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also just want to know, well we be seeing the last Spartan alive in this at all?
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