User:Rotaretilbo

Me
The name is Brandon Rebuga. I'm 16. I live in Arizona (America). I am a gamer, prefering FPS and then RTS style games. I also enjoy satire (and can, at times, be heavily sarcastic...can't help it), and thus view several comics of the nature of Red vs Blue, VG Cats, Pure Pwnage, and Concerned (which ended...how sad). I don't watch much TV because the television is so polluted with nonsense, even in the commercials, that the only channel I watch anymore is the Military Channel, and I've usually seen everything they show several times, so there isn't much to watch. I am a fast reader, but I usually stay inside series that I know. Thus, I usually tend to read Redwall and Halo books, with the occasional World War II history book (Tigers in the Mud for the win!) thrown in and maybe some Conservative propoganda to balance the Liberal control of a large portion of the media and school system. I am a German, and speak the language decently. I am still learning. I am not, however, a Nazi. On my list of heirarchy, Fascists scores twenty-second of twenty five and Hitler (one of six singular beings) scores twenty-fifth, dead last. Anyway, I am currently writing a piece of fanfic for Halo, which won't be any good because I suck at writing, but I'm doing it anyway. That's about it I suppose.

Hitler
As you may have guessed from the above paragraph, I hate Hitler with an uncommon passion. So much so, that it warrants an extra paragraph in my page. I mean, the Jew thing was one thing, but then again, the Soviets did it, the Romans did it, the Babylonians did it, etc. For that, he is just another follower. However, the fact that he could take Germany, the most technologically superior country in Europe, and somehow lose a war to Russia, Britain, France, and America (and the smaller powers involved like Canada and Australia) and have allies like Italy and Japan is quite a feat. I mean, Germany had the King Tiger tank! A regular tiger could effectively take out ten T-34 tanks (Russian tank, Russians ranked second when it came to tanks). Hitler always insisted on making huge tactical errors, canceling projects that could win the war, and refused to listen to his generals. Rommel says "Tag Hitler. Ich denke, dass die Amerikaners werde in Normandy kampfen. (Hey Hitler, I think the Allies will attack at Normandy)" and Hitler is all like "Quatsch! (Balogna!)" and then holds the German Panzer division at Calis for an additional 15 days AFTER D-day. He gets the SS-Panzer division slaughtered in the east when the Russians break through by ordering them a mile behind the line when they should have been five or ten miles back in order to be alerted when the line broke, he sent the German troops to Russia just prior to winter WITHOUT snow gear, he canceled both the Vengance 2 (first cruise missile) and Vengance 3 (ICBM capable of hitting America) programs, he sent Rommel to Africa with low supplies, little intel, and wouldn't even make an effort to resupply him (and yet, against five to one odds, Rommel still holds out against the Allied war machine for three days), and he generally destroyed Germany.

Germany and World War I
Many people (usually the ignorant Americans, though there is plenty of ignorance to go around) seem to believe that Germany was not only the aggressor of World War II, which is true, but that they were also the aggressor of World War I. Because of this, I have decided to summarize World War I in a way that might shed some light on the cause for the war, as the History class is apparently failing to do so.

We begin in Austria-Hungaria. More specifically, in the Bosnian reason. Now, we have Archduke Francis Ferdinand. This guy is heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and the king is about to die, so he is gearing up for his new policy. The Archduke isn't the most popular Austro-Hungarian people because he has a radical idea. He regards the Serbs in the Bosnia area so poorly, that he wants to drop them from the empire because he doesn't want to have to deal with them. In effect, the Archduke wants to free Bosnia from Austria-Hungaria. Ok, so the Archduke heads down to Bosnia to parade about his upcoming promotion, and then maybe announce his new idea. However, before he can, a radical Serbian, Gavrilo Princip shoots him and his wife dead. Austria-Hungaria, not wanting to provoke Russia, Serbia's ally, calls the Kaiser of Germany. They ask if, hypothetically speaking of course, Austria-Hungaria went to war with Serbia, would Germany back them up. The Kaiser, not wanting to be disturbed, as he was on vacation, told them yes. Austria-Hungaria then sent Serbia the July Ultimatum, which required Serbia


 * To suppress any publication which incites to hatred and contempt of the Austrian Monarchy
 * To dissolve immediately the society styled Narodna Odbrana (National Defence), and to proceed in the same manner against the other societies which engage in propaganda against Austria
 * To eliminate without delay from public instruction in Serbia, both as regards the teaching body and the methods of instruction, all that serves or might serve to foment propaganda against Austria-Hungary
 * To remove from the military service and the administration in general all officers guilty of propaganda against Austria-Hungary, names of which were to be provided by the Austro-Hungarian government
 * To accept the collaboration in Serbia of organs of the Austro-Hungarian government in the suppression of the subversive movement directed against the territorial integrity of the monarchy
 * To take judicial proceedings against the accessories to the plot of June 28th who are on Serbian territory, with the help and direction of organs delegated by the Austria-Hungarian government
 * To immediately arrest two named persons implicated by the preliminary investigation undertaken by Austria-Hungary
 * To prevent by effective measures the cooperation of Serbia in the illicit traffic in arms and explosives across the frontier
 * To furnish Austria-Hungary with explanations regarding statements from high Serbian officials both in Serbia and abroad, who have expressed hostility towards Austria-Hungary
 * To notify Austria-Hungary without delay of the execution of these measures.

Serbia agreed to all except to take judicial proceedings against the accessories to the plot of June 28th who are on Serbian territory, with the help and direction of organs delegated by the Austro-Hungarian government. Austria-Hungaria declared war on Serbia on July 28, five days after issuing the ultimatum.

Serbia called on its ally, Russia for aid and support. Russia, who was rather frustrated with having to bail Serbia out again for its lack of self control, decided to help anyway. Russia was, naturally, paranoid, and believed that Austria-Hungaria declaring war on Serbia was somehow proof of a German plan to take over the world. Russia subsequently called France, asked them to advance (defined as to retreat in the direction of the enemy) towards Germany. The Kaiser, who was still on vacation, suddenly found two major countries mobilizing on him. When he asked Russia or France, they both said they were mobilizing against Austria-Hungaria, but the Russian advance was too far north, and France didn't even border Austria-Hungaria. Germany decided they had one option; they had to quickly take out France, and then turn their attention on Russia. The Kaiser asked Austria-Hungaria to cover their flank while they attacked France.

Austro Hungaria jumped to disobey orders, and marched on Serbia into well-placed artillery kill zones rather than cover Germany's flank against the advancing Russian army, so Germany was forced to fight a two front was for a short amount of time. Germany, wanting to avoid France's main defense and take advantage of French lack of hindsight by moving through Belgium, like they had several years prior in the Franco-Prussian War. Germany asked Belgium to allow them passage, promising not to conquer any of Belgium on the way. Belgium refused, saying it would violate their neutrality. Several days later, Germany invaded Belgium.

Britain looked at Europe and realized this was war. Britain, not knowing who to side with, chose France because French trade was better than German trade. Britain used Belgium as an excuse to declare war on Germany. Britain would, however, later break several rules of war that are overlooked.

America, being America, saw the bright side of the war. By remaining neutral and bending the rules, America was trading with both sides, and making lots of money. However, trade was slowly leaning towards the Allies because Britain had created the Hunger Blockade, which stopped any food from neutral or central countries from reaching Germany. Britain used its above surface fleet to block ships physically and then confiscate the supplies. Germany decided to fight fire with fire, and soon German U-boats would surface next to supply ships en route to Britain, tell them they had five minutes to abandon ship, and then torpedo them when the five minutes were up. Britain, always one to break the rules, began issuing weapons on supply boats, so that when German subs surfaced to warn them, they could just shoot the relatively thin-hulled ships and cause them to either sink, or remove the ability to submerge. Germany, in response to this breach of naval rules, stopped warning ships of imminent torpedo attacks, reasoning that a torpedo left plenty of time to abandon ship, and the sub could surface after the ship sank and retrieve survivors. However, Germany limited this submarine warfare to ships flying British flags, so Britain broke the rules again. British ships began flying neutral flags, and when German subs surfaced to warn them off, they would sink them. The Germans, angry at the British lack of respect for the rules of sea warfare, declared unrestricted submarine warfare, which stated that any ship that came within a certain distance of Britain would be sunk, no questions asked. America, angry that they could no longer trade with Britain, reprimanded Germany for breaking the rules, but refused to acknowledge British breaches of conduct. Germany ended unrestricted submarine warfare for a short while, but soon the Hunger Blockade began to take its toll. Germany redeclared unrestricted submarine warfare, and again America reprimanded them. However, Germany ignored.

The British luxury ship, the RMS Lusitania, sailed between Britain and America. Germany realized that the ship was ferrying war supplies, and targeted it. Knowing there were probably Americans considering boarding, Germany got a front page article in a popular American newspaper warning Americans that the Lusitania would be sunk, and that there would be casualties. Americans, being Americans, ignored this warning, and were shocked to find out that the Germans went through with it. America was angry, even though the Germans had photographic proof that proved the Lusitania had been smuggling war supplies. American, however, really liked the power of being "neutral", and remained so.

Germany, realizing that America would most likely join the Allies soon, pushed to keep them busy. German ambassador to Mexico proposed that Mexico and Germany ally, mainly for oil reasons, and that if Mexico helped Germany, Germany would return the favor and help Mexico retake some of the land America "bought" from it. America intercepted the letter, and was quick to accuse Germany. Still, they remained neutral.

America entered the war after a string of American merchant ships off the coast of Britain were sunk. The American troops were fresh, and helped turn the tide of the war.

In the end, Germany, in order to get the cease fire they wanted, and end the Hunger Blockade, had to accept responsibility for the war. If that was not enough, they had to virtually pay for France and Britain's war machines, because France and Britain both owed America a lot of money. Wilson allowed this, even though it went against his 14 Points plan, because Europe had agreed to the League of Nations, and he wanted that money from France and Britain too. America, and most of Europe went into depression, but Germany's depression was far worse than any others. In Germany, it was cheaper to line the walls of a house than buy wallpaper, or to burn money than to buy firewood. Eventually, the Germans would follow Hitler, which was probably the worse mistake they ever made.

Heirarchy Structure

 * God
 * Chuck Norris
 * John SPARTAN-117, the Pope, Dick Cheney (he'll take you hunting)
 * Ninjas, Samurai, Pirates, Vikings, Lumberjacks, Spartans
 * Patton, Rommel, Romans
 * Marines, Navy Seals
 * Army Rangers
 * Soldiers, Sailors, Airforce personnel
 * Normal People
 * Centrist/Liberatarian Politicians
 * Conservative Politicians
 * Ignorant Masses
 * Pacifists
 * Vegetarians
 * Liberal Politicians
 * Communists
 * Mimes
 * Emos
 * France (the nation, not the nationality)
 * Criminals
 * Fascists
 * Terrorists
 * Hippies
 * Hitler

My Wiki Style
As for my style of Wiki editing, I am what Wiki defines as a "bold" editor. If there is not a discussion and I see an error (which is usually a spelling error or a bad link), I fix it without question. If there is a stub, why discuss when you can just totally overhaul (sorry to Sanghelli about the Battle of Onyx!!! had I known you got a Triple Kill I would have contacted you prior to rewriting it). If there is a discussion, I try to prove my point through text from the books and games. I haven't decided whether I will start removing Fact or Fiction boxes after thoroughly proving my point and not getting any response, but I will probably start doing something liek a five day layover or something, and I will definately leave it up in the Talk page. I spend my time looking for double redirects (none so far, I think I got them all yesterday...lol), articles that need proof, and occasionally wander into the merge discussions.

War on Rank
It exists. There are some people who will refuse to believe that the UNSC ranking system is based on the United States Navy and Marine Corps ranking systems. I don't know why, as 73% of the US ranks are already confirmed UNSC ranks, while 0% of the confirmed UNSC ranks are not US ranks. In fact, 100% of the confirmed UNSC ranks are US ranks. However, some need proof, even to the already confirmed ranks, so I have made a page concerning ranks, which can be found at User:Rotaretilbo/Ranks.

Awards
Courtesy of Darth nexes

Halo Fanfic
It is true, I am writing one. It will be four sections (prologue, two sections, epilogue) long, and will be approximately 22 chapters (prologue, 10 chapters per section, epilogue). Beyond that, I am not saying (partially because I don't know yet). I am currently working on Section 2. I'll try to finish it up, but until then, sit in anticipation (or boredom, whichever occurs naturally).

Note: indent doesn't work on this, nor does a single new line, so the dialogue is all throw into the paragraphs. Sorry about that...

Prologue
COVENANT ATTACK ON ERIDANUS II

1205 HOURS, MAY 16, 2530 (MILITARY CALENDER)/ ERIDANUS SYSTEM, ELYSIUM CITY, PLANET ERIDANUS II

Bryan didn't know how he had gotten assigned here. He had joined the Corps in 2519, something Chris would have approved of, had he survived the rebellion. Chris had always wanted to join the Corps, always talked about guns and tactics. But there wasn't time for this. The Covenant had been detected at long range. The city was in utter chaos. His job was to maintain the peace, and it would have taken more than his unit to do so. Bryan was a Corporal. He had been since he was promoted in 2525, and probably would be for his entire military career. He had joined the Corps more to honor Chris's memory than for his own self, and he had never truly aspired to much, but what could he do? Now he was here, trying to maintain control of a more than likely doomed city on some God forsaken planet. He missed Earth, with its natural atmosphere, rather than these damned domes that controlled the weather. He missed the arid heat of Arizona.

Kami 'Zornumee had recently been promoted to the command position of the CCS-class battle cruiser Enlightened Patience. He was a rather reckless Sangheili, and added with the confidence of his new post, he decided to rush into battle against this new human planet rather than wait for reinforcements to arrive. It didn't appear well defended, and he considered himself to be quite a good ship commander. The planet appeared to have artificial atmosphere, so his troops would have to enter the domes and kill the human scum polluting what might contain Forerunner artifacts. If he waited for reinforcements, he would also have to share the glory, and that was not his style.

The UNSC Socrates was one of several UNSC ships near Eridanus II when the Covenant was detected. It was a frigate, and it was now assigned to protect Eridanus II until reinforcements arrived. It was commanded by Commander Michael Bartnett. The planet was being evacuated, but there wasn't enough time. When Commander Bartnett saw that it was only one Covenant ship approaching, there was a general sigh of relief felt throughout the ship. There were at least five battle-worthy UNSC ships in the area, two of which were destroyers; certainly their combined fire power could take out a single enemy ship. It wasn't going to be easy though. As the Covenant ship approached, Commander Bartnett recognized it as a CCS-class battle cruiser. A battle cruiser was still bad, but it could be worse, at least it wasn't a destroyer, or a carrier. "Bring the MAC gun online," Commander Bartnett ordered, preparing for the upcoming battle. Lieutenant Luke was a good Weapons Officer. Most of Commander Bartnett's crew was good at what they did. Lieutenant Junior Grade Purinton was a decent Navigation Officer, though the fact that he only had seven fingers hindered his work a bit. Lieutenant Konkar preformed the task of Communications Officer with a sort of light hearted ease, something that may cost them all in the battle to come. Ensign Zuniga was a bit rough around the edges, but he was a good Operations Officer. "Aye sir!" replied Luke, "MAC capacitor at 50% charge." "Arm Archer pods A through D" "Armed sir!" "Purinton, set new course one eight zero by zero zero zero." "Aye sir!" Commander Bartnett loved how well his crew responded. He hoped it would make a difference in the battle to come.

Kami 'Zornumee's ship sped ever closer to the new planet. Kami was beginning to have second thoughts. What he had failed to realize upon setting course for this new planet was that there were five enemy ships there. Had there been two, maybe even three, he would not have doubted success, but five would push his limits. He had decided he would burn one ship, and then circle around the planet and deploy his Spirits. These dropships, loaded to the brim with Covenant soldiers, would assault the planet and prepare it for the Huragok to search. He was lucky to have a Lekgolo pair aboard, as this would aid his ground troops greatly.

Bryan was monitoring his radio to get an update. The city was still in a panic, but many had been evacuated, so there were fewer people to manage. It seemed that only a single Covenant ship, a battle cruiser, was attacking. This was good, but a single Covenant ship was the equal match for three UNSC ships. Perhaps if they won in space, they could avoid a ground battle altogether. Bryan knew such wishes were impossible. If one ship was here, more were bound to follow. The destruction of Eridanus II was inevitable. Every Marine on the planet knew it. The only true question was how many of the Marines would be evacuated before the end came.

The Covenant bastard was approaching too fast, thought Commander Bartnett. At this rate, it would be here before all of the ships had full charge on their MAC guns. His MAC gun was at 95%, but that ship would engage before they were ready. "Take the safeties off one of our Shivas," ordered Commander Bartnett. This was going to have to work. "Aye sir! Safeties disabled," Luke replied. "Prepare a firing solution. Aim all of the Archers at one point, and set the Shiva to launch so that it arrives immediately after the Archers." "Aye sir!" Commander Bartnett hoped this would work. If the Shiva managed to get around the Covenant pulse lasers and hit the ship while its shields were down, he was pretty sure it would finish the ship off. The following EMP would most likely also shut down all of the UNSC ships in the area, so he alerted them of his plan, and had them synchronize their Archers and Shivas. "Prepare fire," called Commander Bartnett. He let five seconds pass by, then called out, "Mark!" Commander Bartnett watched as 600 Archer missiles streaked towards the Covenant ship with 5 Shiva nuclear-tipped missiles closely following.

Kami knew he was in trouble when he saw all five ships fire missiles at once. His computer told him there were 605 of them. At least the enemy heavy-projectiles, which the humans called MAC guns, weren't online yet. Had all five fired those at him, he would have been finished. 600 or so missiles could be dealt with, and would probably only break his shields and do minimal damage. Just to be safe, he ordered all his Spirits launch for this new planet. Intercepted human radio traffic had been decrypted, and Kami had learned this planet to be called Eridanus II. Such filth, that the humans named everything they came in contact with!

Vaskar was one of several Special Ops Unggoy aboard the Spirit Shining Inquisition. His leader, a Sangheili named Svaro 'Rotanumee, was known for his bravery. At least, the Council called it bravery; Vaskar regarded it as foolishness. Luckily, Svaro was an exceptional soldier, which was the only thing that had kept his unit alive thus far. Well, unit wasn't the right word. Other than Vaskar and one other, Felni, the rest of the Unggoy in the unit had died and been replaced. He hoped these new additions were better than the last three they had replaced. Vaskar knew little about the operation ahead. He knew they were attacking a human planet called Eridanus II. He had heard Svaro mention that. He also knew that the planet didn't have natural atmosphere. This didn't bother him, as he couldn't breathe human atmosphere anyway. He double checked his methane breathing apparatus to ensure it was properly secured and filled with methane. He didn't want it to break on the surface of this human planet, because there was little dignity in such a death. Vaskar was thankful there weren't any Kig-Yar aboard the Shining Inquisition. He hated the Kig-Yar, and they hated his kind back. The Kig-Yar were of the same status as Unggoy, but they regarded themselves as higher beings. They had shields, and could wield Particle Beam Rifles, but they were weak and could handle the kick of a true weapon, like the Fuel Rod gun Vaskar had hefted over his shoulder. They didn't carry Plasma Grenades either, and rarely wielded anything other than a Plasma Pistol and on rare occasions a Needler. But then, they could say the same about his race. Unggoy were not permitted to carry Plasma Rifles normally, but occasionally they did. The Sangheili preferred the Unggoy not wield weapons of the same level as themselves, so they limited them. Vaskar looked at the Unggoy around him. He saw several Gunners, a few Majors, and plenty of Minors. He knew the Minors would be used as cannon fodder, as this was common for his kind. Along with the Unggoy and a collection of Sangheili, there was a Lekgolo pair aboard the Shining Inquisition. Vaskar gave thanks that they were here. The Lekgolo were a fierce race, and though they disregarded all other Covenant races save for the Sangheili, they tried not to step on Unggoy for getting in their way. This was more than one could say for a Kig-Yar that happened across a Lekgolo's path. Vaskar could see the Shining Inquisition was on an entry vector now. Because of the lack of atmosphere, the entry wasn't very bumpy.

Kami decided now was the time to destroy one of the human ships. He aimed at one of the two frigates, and gave the fire command. The Covenant plasma torpedo was a beautiful thing. It could be guided from inside the ship, and it was almost always lethal. The enemy missiles were growing closer, so he ordered his point defense to start shooting them down.

Commander Bartnett watched the plasma torpedo streak at the UNSC formation. He knew that one of these ships was not leaving this section of space in one piece, and prayed. The plasma torpedo missed his ship and struck the UNSC France, a fellow frigate. The plasma torpedo struck near engineering, and there was a large fireball as the France exploded. About this time, Commander Bartnett saw the Archer missiles were growing very to the Covenant battle cruiser. A third of them were intercepted by Covenant pulse lasers, along with two of the Shivas, but the 400 surviving impacted the enemy ship and destroyed its shields. As planned, the remaining Shivas crash landed on the hull of the Covenant ship and a ten second time delay started. He had seen similar tactics used, where a Shiva was crashed on a Covenant ship and exploded after the shields went back online, but he didn't know how long the time delay would be, nor if a Covenant shield would contain three Shiva nuclear explosions, so it might not even matter.

Kami knew that he had won when the missiles hit. His crew had shot down nearly a third of them, and the remaining 400 or so had taken down his shields and a few had landed on the ship, but they appeared to be duds. He knew the human ships would soon be able to fire their MAC guns, but soon his ship would have the planet between him and the human threat. His shields were just coming to full charge when he suddenly ceased to exist.

Bryan had heard that the Covenant ship had been eliminated, something to do with nukes. However, he was still on edge. The ship might have launched dropships before it was destroyed, and that would mean a fight on the ground regardless. Most of the civilian population was away, so that meant that they wouldn't have to deal with baby sitting during a fire fight. The Marines had all equipped zero-atmosphere suits in case the dome was ruptured. If it was, they would probably still all die because of the explosive decompression that would drag most of them high into the air and either send them flying out into space or allow them to drop back to the surface. Perhaps some would be lucky, but if there was a rupture, the survivors would be faced with the Covenant, and they would be highly outnumbered. Bryan wondered whether he would prefer to be a survivor or not.

The Shining Inquisition landed several units away from the dome entrance to what appeared to be the planet's capital city. Svaro and his team were ready to go in first through the airlock, and if the humans were protecting it too fiercely, to set charges on the dome so that other Covenant forces could get in. Vaskar recognized this as a standard suicide mission cooked up by Svaro, hoping to transcend the physical and go to paradise. Vaskar believed it was all BS, but he knew better than to say anything. If Svaro was going to transcend the physical, he could do so without bringing his Unggoy with him. The team charged the airlock and made it through without much problem, but on the other end Marines began laying down fields of fire to pin the Sangheili and his Unggoy in the airlock. Vaskar almost wished some Kig-Yar were here with their shields, but he knew Svaro had some sort of plan. They weren't far enough into the dome to plant charges and kill themselves, so Svaro would have to fight like a normal soldier. Vaskar hefted his Fuel Rod Gun, checked to ensure it was ready to fire, and then walked into view long enough to send two globules of plasma flying at the main Marine resistance.

Bryan was the only Marine at the airlock that saw the Grunt bastard fire the Fuel Rod in time to jump out of the way. He survived, but was injured badly. He decided that he would at least get the Grunt back, and played dead, hand held tightly on his M90 shotgun. The Covenant walked past him, a bunch of the purple armored spec ops kind. He waited, and then saw the one Grunt that carried a Fuel Rod at the rear of the group. He jumped up in front of him, shotgun at the ready.

Vaskar didn't react fast enough to stop the Marine that seemed to come out of no where. It blasted him with its shotgun, and as he fell it grabbed his Fuel Rod Gun. Vaskar, who had survived the shotgun blast, was mortally wounded. He hadn't realized that taking up the back, where he hoped he could easily escape if they came under fire, would be a mistake. As life slipped away, he reached for his Plasma Pistol.

Bryan was lucky the Fuel Rod hadn't gone on failsafe and exploded. For that, he was thankful. Now, he turned and began pouring fire into the Covenant before they could turn to see from where the shotgun blast had issued. He took out the Elite first, then the Grunts. As he finished, he suddenly felt a burning sensation on his back. He turned in time to see the Grunt he had shot with its Plasma Pistol raised. He slumped over on top of it and they died together. The airlock was now Covenant property, and Eridanus II would soon be overrun on the ground and in space when Covenant reinforcements arrived.