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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Master Chief 719 Brilliant your last chapter should be Chapter 6.[/quote] I don't agree. i think it is chapter 3. but in the books they go back in time, you can tell by looking at the mission logs in the beginning of each chapter (if you didn't already know that), so it could just be chap. 6 unless it was an after thought of Sir after making the other chapters.

Ok I now this will take up alot of forum space but it says alot about the battle of marrathon ancient gods and the piersion wars so here you go feal free to copy past and print YOU ARE A SPARTAN! Be proud! You have endured unbelievable pain and hardship to become a superior Spartan soldier and citizen! Taken away from your parents at age 7, you lived a harsh and often brutal life in the soldiers barracks. You were beaten by older children who started fights to help make you tough and strong. You were often were whipped in front of groups of other Spartans, including your parents, but never cried out in pain. You were given very little food, but encouraged to steal food, instead. If caught stealing, you were beaten. To avoid severe pain, you learned to be cunning, to lie, to cheat, to steal, and how to get away with it! Some of you are members of the Spartan secret police (Krypteia) and enjoy spying on slaves. If you find a slave who is showing signs of leadership, you have orders to kill them immediately. You are fierce, capable, and proud of your strength. You know you are superior and are delighted to be Spartan! the following are greek gods witch are good names for ships in the book Olympian Gods Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Hera, Aris, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, Artemis, Hephaestus Titans Gaea, Uranus, Cronus, Rhea, Oceanus, Tethys, Hyperion, Mnemosyne, Themis, Iapetus, Coeus, Crius, Phoebe, Thea, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Metis Other Gods Demeter, Persephone, Dionysus, Eros, Hebe, Eris, Helios, Thanatos, Pan, Nemesis, The Graces, The Muses, The Erinnyes, The Fates Myths The Creation, The Creation II, Creation of Man by Prometheus, Zeus's Lovers, Birth of Athena, The Wanderings of Dionysus, Theseus Adventures Creatures Cyclopes, Hecatoncheires, Giants, Ash Tree Nymphs, Typhoeus, Cerberus, Sirens, Centaur, Medusa, Argus Panoptes, Chimaera, Echidna, Gorgons, Pegasus, Chrysaor Figures Epaphus, The Pleiades, Pontus, Nereus, Doris, Nereids, Amphitrite, Triton, Teiresias, Minos, Rhadamanthus Places Mount Olympus, The Underworld, Tartarus Heroes Perseus, Theseus, Bellerophon, Atlanta, Heracles, Meleager Online Books Bulfinch's Mythology, The Odyssey, The Iliad , Argonautica , Hesiod Theogony Classic Literature Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Aesop ok this is the batlle of marrathon it kind of big The Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon by Thomas Setzer After Darius' fleet was destroyed in 492 bc, he sent envoys to the Greek states in Spring 491 bc, demanding that each city-state send him the earth and water of vassalage. This was accepted by many of the states, from the northern Aegean to the Dardanelles, but this was refused by Athens and Sparta. With so many of the city-states submitting to him, Darius felt Greece was ready to fall to him. In the spring of 490 bc, Darius assembled a fleet of over 600 ships and a large army near Tarsus. This armed force was jointly commanded by Darius' nephew Artaphernes and a Midean nobleman named Datis. They had with them also an exiled Athenian named Hippias as a guide and advisor. The fleet traveled through the Cyclades to Naxos, which they then assaulted and looted. The Persian fleet, having secured command of the Cyclades and the Aegean Sea, moved forward with the invasion. The fleet sailed from island to island, conscripting troops and taking hostages. The Persians met with only slight resistance at Carystus, the southernmost town of Euboea. The Persians then laid siege to Eretria, and after a week of resistance, the city finally fell to a betrayal from inside the city. The Persians pillaged and looted the city without mercy. The Persians then moved on to the shores of Attica. Hippias had advised the Persian military commanders that the Bay of Marathon was the most logical place for landing and disembarking the army. It had a sheltered bay, a long, firm, flat plain between the mountains and the sea, and was protected from the north and east winds. It was also within an easy march of Athens, which was only thirty-eight kilometers away. The long and sandy beach could accommodate all of the Persians' 600+ ships. Also, the open plain of Marathon was perfect for the use of the Persian cavalry, against which it was thought the Athenian infantry would be ineffective. The Persians situated their camp near the Makaria Spring, which provided a plentiful supply of water, and the nearby plain had good grazing for the horses. Hippias' information on Athens would prove to be out of date, as the government had had many changes sine his exile. The power now was in an elected Commander in Chief, called a Polemarch, and new military officers called Strategoi, and the new government was determined to maintain Athens' independence. The Commander in Chief was Callimachus. The main planner and strategist was Miltiades, who also served as a commander of one of the ten main infantry divisions (Lochoi). The Athenians were warned of the Persian invasion by a series of beacon fires. They sent word to Sparta by fast runner, and the Spartans announced that although they were sympathetic to the Athenian cause, they were forbade by religious belief to send their troops into combat until after the full moon. The full moon would not be for another six or seven days, as it was only the 5th of August. This meant for most of a week the Athenians could not count on any support from Sparta. The Athenians did manage to get a small contingent of troops (about six hundred Hoplites) from Plataea. The first instructions for battle from Miltiades were to contain the invading army and block its march on Athens. A force consisting of approximately 9000 Athenians and 600 Plataeans took up their position at the southern end of the Plain of Marathon with Mount Agrieliki on their left flank, the sea on their right flank, and the Brexisa Marsh to their rear. They had effectively blocked the road to Athens. The Athenian commanders had trees cut down and manhandled into position with their branches facing the Persian line to create a defense against the Persian cavalry. For the next few days, till the 11th of August, the lines remained static, five kilometers apart, neither side willing to make a move to attack the other. The Athenians did not wish to advance onto the plain where the advantage would lay with the Persian cavalry and archers. The Persians on their part remained stationary, as they did not want to engage the Greek line where it had taken up a position that was unfavorable to the Persian cavalry. The Persians were also hoping for a betrayal in Athens itself by the friends of Hippias. Datis, after becoming frustrated by the stalemate, put his own battle plan into action. During the night on the 11th-12th of August, he reboarded his ships with most of the cavalry as well as the infantry under his command, and, slipping away under cover of darkness, sailed for Phaleron Bay, leaving Artaphernes with a holding force facing the Athenians. Miltiades' scouts discovered the departure and quickly informed him of it. The Athenian leaders were summoned, and Miltiades' laid out the only possible chance of a Greek victory. As it would take the Persians a minimum of ten hours to reach Phaleron by sea, and disembarkation would take a few more hours, by which time it would be late afternoon or early evening. This gave the Athenians one chance for victory. They must defeat the remaining Persians and return to Athens before Datis arrived. The Persian general, Artaphernes, was now without most of the cavalry, and a large portion of the infantry, but he still retained a large number of archers. With this in mind, Miltiades set forth a plan for attempting to quickly defeat Artaphernes' force so that the Athenians would be able to return to Athens to meet Datis' force. At 5:30 am, with time short, and only three hours in which to win the battle, the order to attack was given. Map of battlefield at 6:00 am, 12 August 490 bc. The Athenian army was drawn up in a battle order as planned by Miltiades. Callimachus commanded the right flank, the left flank was held by the Plataeans, and the center was commanded by Themistocles and Aristeides. The Athenian tactic was to use a long, thin center with the ranks reduced to four instead of the usual eight, with deep formations deployed on the two flanks. The main strength would be in the massed formations on the two flanks, which were to drive off the Persian flanks and then wheel and attack the Persian center.

(continued) The Persian force was deployed with the center being the crack troops and the flank held by inferior battalions drawn from the conscripts of the Persian Empire. This was exactly as Miltiades had predicted. The Athenians were still at great risk, however, as they only had a little over half the strength of the Persian elite troops. They would also have to advance across an open plain while being fired upon by the Persian archers. The distance between the two armies was approximately fifteen hundred meters when the advance was sounded and the Athenian ranks moved forward at 6:00 am. The advance started at a brisk walk, then developed into a trot, and then into double-time as they rushed the last 140-150 meters. This fast advance was the first double-time advance by Hoplites according to Herodotus, and was done in hope of avoiding the worst of the hail of arrows from the Persian troops. In the center, the Persian royal troops, made up of the Immortals and other elite units, began forcing the Athenian center back. Meanwhile, on either flank the Athenians' deep formations had crushed and carried before them the Persian flanks, putting them to flight. With the Persian flanks destroyed or put to flight, the Athenian and Plataean flanking forces wheeled inward, hinging upon the retreating Athenian center, catching the Persian elite troops in a perfect pincer maneuver. The Persians had no choice but to try to fight their way back to their ships. Many of the Persians drowned in the marshes where they had retreated to. Others who tried to flee into the sea were also drowned. By 9:00 am, the beaten up Persian surviving royal troops and such ships that could get away were heading out to sea and toward Phaleron. The Persians had lost 6,400 troops, and an uncounted number of prisoners and wounded, along with seven ships. The Athenians had lost only 192 dead, including their Command in Chief, Callimachus. Miltiades detached one division under Aristeides to guard the prisoners and captured equipment, and quick-marched his troops back to Athens.

cuntinued When the Persian invasion force arrived, they found the Athenian army had already taken up defensive positions at Cynosarges, south of the city. Datis found Athens to be well defended, and attempts to land would have been useless, so he anchored and waited for Artaphernes to arrive. When Artaphernes arrived with his battered and depleted, force, there was only one course of action left for the Persian fleet, and that was to return to Asia. In 489 bc, Miltiades made an unsuccessful attempt to regain control of the Aegean islands that had capitulated to the Persians, but he did not have sufficient naval force to accomplish this task. After failing in his blockade of Paros, Miltiades was imprisoned at Athens for his defeat, and he died soon afterward of a wound received at Paros. Thus was the victor of Marathon rewarded. the first persion war During the ten years following the First Persian Invasion of Greece, Darius' son Xerxes became the new Persian king and began preparations for another invasion of Greece. He started his preparations by sending envoys to spread propaganda designed to induce as many areas of Greece to capitulate without a fight as possible. He also made plans to bridge the Hellespont and his engineers devised a plan that used over 600 ships to construct two huge pontoon bridges. He also ordered a canal to be dug across the isthmus to avoid the Cape of Mount Athos to protect his fleet from storms rounding that dangerous Cape. Xerses conscripted troops from every satrapy of the Persian Empire, amassing the largest army that had been seen to this date. In 481 BC, he had his headquarters at Sardes in Lydia. He sent out envoys to all of the Greek city-states except Athens and Sparta, demanding the earth and water of submission. It is estimated that Xerxes' force contained over 150,000 combatants, approximately half of which would have been Persian and Medes troops. It included the very best cavalry of the Mediterranean area, fast cavalry armed with spear and bow. His fleet contained approximately 1200 ships, of which many would have been transports carrying supplies and the horses for his cavalry (the cavalry of the day did not use horseshoes, and most of the horses would have came up lame if they had made the long trek from Persian territory to the Greek mainland). He would also have had to carry a large amount of supplies of all kinds for such a large force to be able to live in such an arid land as Greece. The fleet would need to provision the army from the sea if there was to be any chance of success. It was the plan of Xerxes to subjugate the whole of Greece, and it was for this reason he had made such extensive preparations, including agreements with the Carthaginian and Phoenician Cities of the Western Mediterranean to attack the Greek Western Colonies and tie up Greek resources. In the Spring of 480 BC, Xerxes crossed the Hellespont with his army into Thrace, where he was met by his fleet and proceeded to make his way in three separate columns toward Thessaly. The Greeks gathered at Corinth in 481 BC to discuss strategy and what was to be done to defend Greece against the coming Persian invasion. All of the Greek city-states that were not already under Persian domination sent representatives to this meeting. An alliance led by Athens and Sparta was formed to deal with this crisis. At this time the Delphic Oracle predicted that disaster would befall the Greeks and advised the Athenians that their only hope lay in a wooden wall. Most people took this to mean the wooden palisades around the Acropolis, but Themistocles interpreted it to mean the Greek fleet. The Spartans and the other Peloponnesian States held the view that the main defense should be at the Isthmus of Corinth, as it was the entryway to the Pelopponnese. This plan was objected to by Athens and the city-states of Central Greece, as it would lay them open to pillage by the Persian Army. The plan also was unsound in the fact that it would leave the defenders open to being outflanked by sea and attacked from two sides at the same time. It was consequently decided that a force would be sent to hold the Persians in Thessaly; because the Greeks had an inferiority of numbers, this would only be possible if the narrow passes could be defended. Due to a request of the Thessalonians, a force of 10,000 Hoplites was sent under the command of Evaenetus and Themistocles. These were transported by ship to Hallos and from there marched to the Vale of Tempe. On arrival, Evaenetus determined there were too many passes to be held with the forces at hand, and so retreated to the Isthmus of Corinth. The Greek Council of Corinth decided to attempt a defense of Central Greece in the area west of the Euboean Channel. This was a position that would be favorable to the Greeks due to its narrow, easily defended passes. Also, because any outflanking movement by the Persian fleet would carry it into the Euboean Channel where its numbers would cause it to be at a disadvantage. It was thought that if the land forces could hold long enough to cause the Persians to attempt such a move with their fleet, the Greek Navy would have a chance to inflict a defeat upon the Persian fleet that would be sufficient to prevent the Persians from carrying forward their invasion. It was the Greek plan to stand at Thermopylae supported by their Navy in the Malian Gulf. Led by Leonidas, a King of Sparta, the Greek army consisted of some 7000 to 8000 Hoplites and light troops. Some of these were Boeotians who were of dubious loyalty. It also included the famous 300, the Spartan King's Bodyguard. Themistocles commanded the Greek fleet of approximately 300 triremes, of which 147 were from Athens. This was based in the Bay of Artemision, just to the north of Euboea.

ok thats it i gause ow ya this is for brilliont they are old batlle tacticts Periplus In the periplus, the fleet performing the maneuver (red fleet) backs water slowly in front of its opponent's (blue fleet), keeping its rams facing the enemy until the ships on its flanks can execute the periplus, enabling them to ram their opponents' sides. At the same time, the remainder of the fleet stops backing water and advances to attack. This is the tactic that was used at the Battle of Salamis in 480BC. Diekplus In this maneuver, the faster and more maneuverable fleet (red fleet) wishes to break through the opponent's (blue fleet) line and bring about a general action which will give it an advantage. Led by its flagship, it makes its approach in line ahead. Then the red flagship, by quickly backing water on one side, turns into an opponent, and aided by that opponent's own momentum sheers off its oars, leaving it helpless. The red fleet's flagship then picks up speed again and selects its next victim. The next ship in line will finish off the crippled opponent. Any ship in the opponent's line turning to aid its sister ship will expose its own vulnerable side to a ram from the red fleet. One tactic to counter this maneuver is to deploy in two lines, making a diekplus suicidal. The disadvantage to this is that it shortens the battle line, leaving a fleet vulnerable to a periplus. Kyklos The kyklos is a defensive tactic adopted by a fleet that is outnumbered or has slower ships. The ships form in a circle with rams pointing outward. This is the tactic used by the Greeks against the Persians at Artemisium.

or you could of just given us a link like i did

Dang you guys are obsessed with this game.

No whe're not, we just love a good story

The person on page 115 was just a normal volunteer marine who put himself up to more than he could handle. There was a SPARTAN I project though. I don't even know if she worked on them, though. They may have been before her time. They were way before the Covenant. I do know that. I'm still looking, so keep looking, too.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] sir_brilliant well, i don't want to give anything away that would simply be in the next chapter, but since alot of you are so curious, i'll give you a hint. check out THE FALL OF REACH, page 99, the third paragraph. You can also look at THE FIRST STRIKE, pages 129-130. but there are some interesting theories, and a couple that are right.[/quote] Woo Hoo ! ! ! Look what info I found!!!! Halo: First Strike, pg.130 - There was one last file in the S-III folder. As Dr. Halsey tapped it open, Kalmiya said, "That is only a fragment. It had been erased, but I managed to reconstruct it from trace ionization in the memory crystal." Dr. Halsey examined it's contents. There was only CPOMZ followed by a 512 - character alphanumeric string. "This longer portion is a star chart reference," she whispered. "Yes, Doctor, but its not a destination to any location in UNSC - controlled space." What the hell had Ackerson been up to? "No good at all," she murmured and ran her finger over the first word in the file: CPOMZ. I think I might have figured it out . . . . . .

well we all have our thoughts and ideas but its all up to Sir to confirm what he thinks, and i love the book so far, i cant wait for the next chapter, the anticipation is killing me.

lol, oops. i just replyed with a comment 2 pages ago cause i left the site alone for 2 hours and left. and now what i wrote makes no sense. anyways, i think i might be able to get the next chapter up sooner than i thought, being that around a third of it is already finished, and i've only worked on it last night and today. so expect around wed, maybe sooner or later. [Edited on 3/13/2005 3:12:41 PM]

lets think this out i have over 370 pages and you have how many pages sir-brilliant

Think out what?? Are you a writer 2? If so i have nevr heard of ur stuff

good for you yes i've been writing that was a question to sir brilliant

so what you come here to start trouble? Saying you have more? So what! Go away!

yeah, go be special somewhere where people care. i have my story here, go post yours elsewhere. geez, you don't have to be an ass about it all the time you know.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] lekgolo the god lets think this out i have over 370 pages and you have how many pages sir-brilliant[/quote] 370 pages of what? Your actual story? Or just people posting? Provide a link please, so we can confirm this if its true, or laugh at you for being a fool.

we sure showed him

"So did he feel who pulled the bough aside, That we might look into a forest wide, . . . . . . . . Telling us how fair trembling Syrinx fled Arcadian Pan, with such a fearful dread. Poor nymph- poor Pan- how he did weep to find Nought but a lovely sighing of the wind Along the reedy stream; a half-heard strain, Full of sweet desolation, balmy pain."

That guy came in her like he was the man, and when noon cared he didnt post again. LOL Soe people cant handle a lil competition!

You know i have been thinking. *gasp*. I have finally figured out why this isn't a sticky. Even though we have 107 pages this forum wouldn't last if it was a sticky. The reason is, is because this is a story which could end at anytime. Not like the forum First reaction to the flood which if possible could be answered and kept alive for a while. But, what was up with that lekaglo guy? He was probably on his period or something.

and most of the pages are of me talking to myself

That sounds like a personal problem...lol. But you got to admit Sir can draw a crowd, even if the crowd talks to themselves and is a convicted arsenist (spelling). *On Topic* Do you think Chief Petty Officer Mendez is at Halo or do you think he is dead, i personally think he is dead. [Edited on 3/13/2005 7:42:02 PM]

If hes alive he is an OLD OLD man. Most likely another capatin or one of the trainers