Halo: Tale of The UAF 'The New War' PART 1 - 3D Animation A

Real deadline is TBC

Introduction:

Hello! I'm Phenex (IV/SFM) and I'm making this casting call for my new animation. Tale of The UAF 'The New War'. This is a single video animation project. This is my first animation so I'll be real with you, It isn't going to be some jaw dropping blockbuster quality or god tier fanimation, it's just gonna be what I put together in Blender following this story. I'd rather tell you how it is than lie!

There will be no major roles in this! (As those have been taken) but there will be a whole heap of side and minor roles that will have their time to shine in this military story! Available for anyone! (So no, I don't need just men! This is set in the 26th Century! Gender norms can go [REDACTED] themselves.) However, all roles are to be done in English!

What is Tale of The UAF?

Set in an alternate Halo Timeline, Tale of the UAF is an alternate story for Halo, replacing the events of Halo 5 and beyond while making lore changes to existing Halo events. 'The New War' is set in the latter part of the UAF story and follows the Commander-in-Chief 'Phenex' and his new squad of Spartans, 951, in their first ever battle.

Tale of The UAF was originally an RP on Halo 5 (I get it, cringe) that I had major control over. Many who partook in it still say to this day that it's one of the best RPs they've ever been in (but with how people are these days, you never know what is and isn't the truth!). When it was over, I enjoyed the story so much and had so much lore for it that I continued and added more detail to the story! Adding heaps of extra lore and information while also compiling it into a discord server and posting numerous articles of lore onto my Instagram and Twitter!

Tale of The UAF starts in October of 2558, just before the events of Halo 5 in the main Halo Timeline. Instead of Cortana falling into the Domain on Mantle's Approach (The Didact's Ship in Halo 4 - Set in 2557), she is simply destroyed, thus preventing the events of Halo 5. In this story, Humanity did not suffer so harshly from the Human-Covenant war, with the Covenant attacking less colonies than in the main continuity but still ending up at Earth at the same time and ending the war at the same time. From there, humanity would begin rebuilding while an Insurrectionist organisation now finally unveils it's master plan! First attacking and killing Blue Team (Master Chief's team - You know who Chief is, right?), this organisation known as the Vanguard seeks to take down the UNSC and ONI and does so with little resistance, having planted many of their agents in key positions for over 100 years.

When the Vanguard reveals itself, many of the leaders begin to reveal their true colours, colours that some do not like. Members of Vanguard defect or leave the organisation but not enough to stop their plan of taking down the UNSC, with their plan ultimately succeeding in early 2559. But this plan is not without its obstacles, some who defected came together and formed a new organisation, one that would eventually be known as the United Armed Forces or UAF. While at first formed of Vanguard defectors, eventually one person, who recently defected from the Office of Naval Intelligence, would arrive at their hidden base. He went by Phenex and his arrival would change everything.

Phenex at first joins as a simple Spartan, unique and shrouded in that classic 'it's classified' mystery, with a voice modulator and refusal to provide any bodily samples for the database, along with his looming height of 8'2". Phenex would serve with the UAF as a simple soldier but over time proved his worth, becoming head of Security and then, their leader in April 2559. From there he lead the UAF against the Vanguard to victory.

While at first the Vanguard used standard military tactics, nothing too brutal, it was their successors known as Oblivion who truly showed the depths of mankind's evil. Oblivion was the unofficial name for the Vanguard's chemical weapons division, one of the largest divisions in the organisation. When the Vanguard collapsed due to leadership voids, Oblivion took its place and set out with a simple goal of subduing resistance to their rule, by any means necessary. Utilising highly lethal chemical agents, Oblivion indiscriminately targeted human colonies, wiping out whole cities in hours, leaving them hollowed out, poisoned husks. Were it not for the UAF, humanity would've been wiped out.

In 2560, with the Vanguard and Oblivion now defeated, humanity needed to rebuild. To do that, they needed a government, a military and a symbol to rally behind. Phenex was the symbol and the UAF was the military, now all they needed was a government. Phenex was put to the task, gathering governors from the now fallen United Earth Government and select volunteers, Phenex formed the United Armed Forces Central Government (UAFCG). For two years there was peace, the UAF and UAFCG worked to restore order and rebuild what was destroyed. However, an enemy can be destroyed, an idea cannot. In 2562, an Oblivion remnant used advanced technology to hack into the UAF database, taking masses of information about the Oblivion conflict and skewing it so that Phenex and the UAF were seen as the culprits, leading to an insurrectionist group known as the United Outer Colonies (UOC) to radicalise and begin rallying Outer Colonies to their cause.

From 2562 to 2570, more and more Outer Colonies began to side with the UOC, or were forced to side with them. Eventually leading to the outbreak of war on the 28th of March, 2570. The war raged on for 7 years, eventually ending in a UAF victory on December 31st, 2577.

With the UOC war over, changes needed to be made. Phenex decided that punishment was not the way to go, but forgiveness and recognition. He knew he would need to earn it from the people as well, for during the war he had used a powerful weapon known as an Unyielding PDW (Planet Destroying Weapon) on two Outer Colony worlds. Aleria and Talitsa (However, he only ever admitted to the destruction of Aleria and used the smokescreen to hide the fact that he had also destroyed Talitsa). He reformed the UAF into the United Colonial Military, taking soldiers who were willing to join from the UOC into their ranks (while also offering to drop the prison charges if they joined) and also reformed the UAFCG into the United Colonial Government, ensuring that there was equal representation for the Inner and Outer Colonies.

What is 'The New War'?

In 2578 just a few months after the end of the UOC war, the New War is fought against an enemy known as the Swarm. (look, I didn't call it that, that was one of the other guys). The Swarm are from another dimension (also not my idea but I'm not making it not canon.) and have arrived here to force this reality into its fold to either harvest it for resources or to use its manpower. While Phenex would serve with his usual team known as Fireteam ECHELON for the first part of the Swarm War, he would temporarily part ways with them in March of 2579 as part of Operation: RECONNECT, a plan to strengthen the bond between the foot soldiers of the UCM and their leaders. Phenex decides that this time would be better spent on working on another project that had been put on the backburner for some time, known as 951.

951 are clones, made from the remnants of 8 people who died in an Insurrectionist attack in 2526. These people were Phenex's only friends while he was growing up before joining the UNSC, and as such with the influence he had thanks to his mother, he saw to it that their remains were found and preserved so that he could remember them and honour them. Phenex has taken these remains and used their genetic material to revive his friends and turn them into his latest squad of Spartan killing machines. Though the truth has been kept from them about many of his doings and one day it will be revealed to them.

But for now, they are loyal. Since their resurrection they have spent much time in the battle simulators, training themselves for a war they do not understand.

Episode 1:

Phenex and his UCM Planetary Assault Force arrive at Alpha Corvi II where Swarm Forces have had the planet under their control for over a month. The first UCM force is locked in battle with the Swarm Orbital Defence Force. Phenex and the reinforcements are to clear the way for their combined ground assault team.

If the plan works, 951 will deploy with the 88th Marine Force Recon unit and assist the Northern Hemisphere force. If it fails, the UCM will be forced back into orbit or cut off by the Swarm.

What to expect:

I'm just one guy, I will be as active as possible on Discord so that I can respond to any queries you may have. However, I cannot be active all the time as I do have other things going on.

Expect your lines to have both sufficient context and direction, with also enough freedom so you can tweak your lines slightly so they feel more.. you!

Now this is the first time I've ever done this so please forgive me if I'm not up to par with some of the other folk on this platform!

What is required:

Not much to totally honest with you.
- Clean, quality lines with as little background noise as possible.
- Do as many takes as you want! The more the merrier in my opinion, really saves us both time.
- Send in your lines as files, I don't really know how to record from a discord channel..
- I probably won't ask you to redo your lines unless I feel it is necessary, I'm socially awkward as [REDACTED] so I will only ask if I think it is needed!
- This isn't something that'll happen frequently so as long as you can get the lines to me before the deadline (Only since I would like to make sure models match the voices, don't want to make a male model then slap on a female VA - No disrespect intended!)
- All roles are for more than one person! So just.. apply if you want!

Any questions, feel free to message me on Discord (Phenex IV#0600), Instagram (Phenex_SFM) or Twitter (@PhenexSFM)