[Naked Crook]

New! Halo RPG Timeline Pre-Human-Covenant War 2480 June Barrabus is born. 2487 January Tyber Vernette is born. 2490 May Preston Vernette is born. 2500 Various months All Class 0 Spartan IIs are born. Section 0, Fearing speculation of the closure of the ORION Project, considers selecting new candidates for a new and enhanced Super Soldier Program known as the Spartan II Project. 2503 September Tyber Vernette joins the UNSC Marine Corps. 2505 August Preston Vernette joins the UNSC Navy. 51 Class 0 Spartan II candidates are selected. 2506 January The ORION Project (Also known as the Spartan I Project) is shut down. Class 0 Spartan candidates are kidnapped and replaced with flash clones. Augmentation of Class 0 Spartans begins on Reach. Class 0 was intended to serve the highest, and most mysterious echelons of Section 0 in a personal-army type style. All 51 cadidates are successfully augmented. Key formula in Section 0's augmentation drug is destroyed. Remaining information is slowly passed down to various minds in Section III. Information is thought to be retained by top minds in Section 0. 2511 Various Months All Class 1 Spartan IIs are born. 2516 Febuary Class 0 Spartans are fully completed. Trainined regiments and drug enhancements are fully completed. Their existance is kept secret from the rest of ONI and the UNSC. Section 0 holds exclusive control of Class 0. Class 0 Spartan files are fully destroyed, and all record of their existance is removed. Class 0 never happened. Class 0 Spartans are relocated from Reach to New Harmony. Insurrectionist activity in the colonies begins to escalate to civil-war levels. Using its pull, Section 0 forces a review of the Carver Findings. 2517 June ONI Section 1 begins an exhaustive review of the Carver Findings. August Pre-selected Candidates are kidnapped and replaced with Flash-clones. Augmentation and training of Class 1 Spartan II Candidates begins. Due to the loss of vital information, specifically a key formula, augmentation drug proves fatal to a minority of the pre-selected candidates. 2522 April Section 0, working through frontmen, file contract work to Korman Industries for the creation of advanced ONI field weaponry and vehicles. Korman Industries CEO, Eugene Korman, accepts the contract. 2523 April The King Raven is chosen among 12 ships to undergo experimental military refit under the direct supervision of ONI Section 0. The project was headed by Commander Preston J. Vernette. Korman Industries becomes too complacent in its contract responsibilities. Section 0 frontmen warn of penalties for defaulting on the contract, with threats of legal and economic retaliation. 2524 April The King Raven's experimental refit is completed. Admiral Brandon Yates is assigned as commaning officer of the King Raven. Section 0, working through frontmen, close the contract with Korman Industries due to insuffeciant progress. Section 0 retaliation results in massive stock reduction and near faliure of the company. Korman Industries files for chapter 1 bankruptcy protection. May Preston J. Vernette is promoted to Captain after successfully foiling separatist militant actions. 2525 Febuary Contact with Harvest is lost. Before its first mission, Admiral Yates is removed from command of the King Raven. Command is given to Captain Preston J. Vernette. Captain Preston J. Vernette, in direct command of the King Raven, is sent to investigate Harvest. King Raven is assigned 30 Class 0 Spartans. First contact with the Covenant is established. Brutes are the first species encountered, led by Chieftain Barrabus. Contact is made with the Elites. Elites are soon identified as Heretics, and are led by the disgraced Fleet Master Quinn. Kirk Korman is selected by Section 0 to replace his aging and uncooperative adoptive father as CEO of Korman Industries. March Class 0 Spartans go rouge during the Harvest crisis. The Spartans turn hostil to the UNSC. Captain Vernette is promoted to Commodore for his combat role against the Covenant, desite poor odds. Knowledge of the Spartan betrayal is withheld from ONI. An alliance is brokered with the Brutes to deal with the Spartans. In exchnage for cooperation between Vernette and Barrabus, Harvest is promised to Barrabus. Agreement was made without consulting ONI. Vernette's crew was not privy to the details. Vernette decieved his crew into thinking the alliance was ONI-approved. Kirk Korman replaces Eugene Korman as CEO. Eugene Korman is kept in cryo stasis, under Section 0 observation, as a means of coercion for Kirk Korman. 2526 2527 2528 2529 2530 2531 2532 2533 2534 2535 2536 2537 April The Covenant attack New Harmony. Preston J. Vernette is stationed at New Harmony at this time. Although considered a Naval victory, New Harmony was eventually glassed. Construction of the Cloak and Dagger Begins. Shipyard is located in orbit of Mercury in the Sol star system. Shipyard logisitics are classified and all knowledge of it is buried. 2538 May Private construction of advanced ODST suit, under the supervision of Preston J. Vernette begins. The Covenant attack Paradise Lost. Preston J. Vernette is stationed at Paradise Lost at this time. Major Covenant victory, Paradise was glassed. Completion of the Nighthawk and Anaconda suits and weapons. Assault on classified ONI Shipyard in orbit of Mercury occurs. Assault is Carried out by two unidentified assailents known simply as Nighthawk and Anaconda. Classified ONI Stealth Vulture is stolen. Several Spartan IIIs are killed. 2539 January Nighthawk and Anaconda are spotted on Genesis. ONI directs immediate action against the two terrorists for their ongoing activities. Preston J. Vernette is relieved of his command of the King Raven. he is replaced by Deputy Director Yates of ONI Section 0. Yates is assisted by Nikolai 035, a Class 1 Spartan II. A large portion of Vernette's crew find out about the immediate threat of a Covenant invasion. Vernette's crew, lead by Major Jacob Sharpmen, disobeys ONI orders to hunt Nighthawk and Anaconda, and proceed evacuation of Genesis. The Covenant attack Genesis. Jacob Sharpmen forms an alliance with Nighthawk and Anaconda to combat the Covenant. This results in a major Covenant defeat. Genesis was never glassed. 2540 2541 2542 2543 2544 2545 2546 2547 2548 2549 March Nighthawk and Anaconda are spotted on Paris IV. ONI Section 0 devotes massive resources to the elimination of Nighthawk and Anaconda. Vice Admiral Preston J. Vernette (temporary flash clone) is called in to deal with Nighthawk and Anaconda after multiple failed attepts to stop the duo. Vice Admiral Vernette accpepts the task, despite working in full cooperation, unbeknownst to ONI Section 0, with Nighthawk and Anaconda. Due to the crippled nature of the Spartan II and Spartan III programs, Nighthawk, Anaconda, and the flash clone of Vice Admiral Vernette orchastrate a fake death for Nighthawk and Anaconda. Nighthawk and Anaconda are confimred dead by Vice Admiral Vernette and all those involved in the mission to kill Nighthawk and Anaconda. The flash clone was subsequently killed by Nighthawk. Vice Admiral Vernette returns to duty, commendated and highly praised for the completion of a mission where countless have failed. Chieftain Barrabus returns to the Devotion from "religious observance leave" The suits belonging to Nighthawk and Anaconda are fully repaired and stored away on Earth. Nighthawk and Anaconda retire. May The Siege of Paris IV Begins. Paris IV is glassed. 2550 2551 2552 2553 2554 2555 Human-Covenant War The Elite Betrayal