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‘Well, that was unexpected.’
‘Great.’
‘ONI is going to love it when word of this gets out.’
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‘Humanity is no longer fighting a desperate war for its very survival against a technologically superior foe. Nor are we utilizing antique variation of a Sangheili battle harness slapped together over a MJOLNIR power armor base. Put simply, the UNCI no longer needs things like you.’
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‘So what now?’
Boy oh boy this is an old one. Way back when Halo was the first person shooter of the time and people, including me, were getting into full marine battle armor and standing in line for the release of Halo II several hours before the nearest Game Stop opened. Ah, such fond memories.*
This one I stumbled across near the very beginning of my gallery, something that really shows how much I have progressed and evolved as an artist. Though I would love to delete it half the time and pretend that I was born a Michelangelo overnight.
Anyways, meet Ashy ‘Fuzz’ Meeza, a, this is going to sound corny, because it is, Spartan from the halo universe. Her back history is probably written down somewhere and buried in a pile of paperwork and probably likely to cringe worthy to ever be extracted from said pile.
In a nut shell her story can be summarized as [Redacted]
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Her current whereabouts, having been extracted from a stasis chamber abord a salvage ship, only to find herself displaced four years in the future. The human Covenant war effectively over, humanity back to its usual infighting as the alien races that composed the Covenant are considered more of an inconvenient foot note than an extinction level threat.
Spartan armor has made leaps and bound from the Mark V with the new Mark VII and its variants now readily available. So to is the process for creating a Spartan, making them much more readily available and more stable than in the past.
This has left Ashly in a precarious situation, her armor, a combination of functional but outdated design is primarily Covenant built, featuring Jackal shield emitters built into the legs, but not in any way, shape, or form, in production.
That and she is not human.
There was a story in here somewhere, but I hate to say it, it has been lost to the ages. Probably for the best, but this was a fun one to draw all the same.
*Though I admit I probably had more fun creating flood infection forms attached to fishing line, so that when one moved it looked like they were chasing you. Great effect when viewed from more than five feet away, especially when one has twenty or more stringed out in loose clusters.