ODSTs - The UNSCs Finest

man hell divers has been getting around hasn't it Lord knows I'm not complaining spreading democracy has never been this fun you got to defend Humanity from these horrible alien threats no matter the cost but you know as much fun as it is they weren't here first and pretty much everyone has realized this because for once there's no one using an exclusive to say my console is best and instead everyone's been asking for Xbox players to get in on the fun because my fellow Xbox 360 owners know what it's like to Plum it out of orbit from a podt into a horde of aliens trying to kill you when all you got is your weapon your instincts and maybe if you're lucky you're squadmates before we had galactically manifested democracy we had the brave men and women of the ODSTs dropping into the fiercest of fights that no one else could getting the job done no matter the odds eventually this became playing second fiddle to a whole bunch of the world's most destructive children which you better believe 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factions gained power and went to war with the UNC and the odists were faced with Humanity's greatest challenge yet and they perform quite admirably largely being deployed on Marge against the neoc Communist forces and helping deal with the interplanetary wars on that front immediately after this though Halo pulls a bit of a 40K time skip here because for about 300 odd years the OD didn't really do anything and sort of languished as a fighting force Humanity was both in its golden age and facing numerous existential problems that weren't the kind of ones you could deal with by having a big army on the one hand the slip space Drive being created meant that the whole damn Galaxy was now ripe for colonization on the other hand Earth was heavily overpopulated famine was a massive problem and given that the interplanetary wars were over the UN now had a massive military with not a lot to throw it at priorities were switched up money thrown elsewhere and the ODSTs were left by by the wayside not done away with and they were still almost certainly better equipped and trained than the average Soldier by virtue of them being a special forces organization but plain and simple the UNC just didn't really have anything for them to do until jump cut the year 2490 the United Earth government was now facing its new crisis the Insurrection turns out when you're 800 Lighty years away from Earth you might not be super keen on paying Earth taxes or following Earth laws and rules Earth meanwhile was quite keen on getting those outer Colony taxes this led to civil unrest which over the years turned into an unofficial civil war between the ueg and the rebelling colonists given the catchow term of the Insurrection despite not all of these groups being affiliated with each other a quick detour here but the Orion Project have been one of the many things the UNC and Oni came up with to deal with this problem the whole idea was to create the best soldier possible that could take on insurrectionists before they could truly flourish while also being slightly more subtle than just nuking the entire planet in case you think I'm exaggerating that one to keep the 40K audience listening no I not they did that at least once shout out to far is for being Humanity's first exterminatus planet ultimately the Orion Project was a failure only creating slightly better soldiers instead of gods of War but the Lessons Learned did lead to the ODSTs being brought into the Limelight once more their training and equipment was revamped and brought up to Modern standards and they were deployed against the insurrectionist forces on missions where the standard Marine just wouldn't cut it the Orion Project also had the other small side effect of leading to several dozen kidnapped children down the line but that's neither here or there the ODSTs has always performed admirably against the enies but unfortunately for the UNC they just weren't enough which is also unfortunately going to be kind of a running theme with the ODSTs that was the entire goal of the Spartan program in fact to create super soldiers that could quill the Insurrection before it threatened to send Humanity back to the Dark Ages in a No Holds Barred Civil War whether or not that was something that would have actually happened is Up For Debate but important people were afraid it might and the ODSTs weren't giving them what they wanted in preventing it the UNC and Oni wanted a super soldier that could eat bullets and take out an insurrectionist cell before anyone on the outside knew it existed a soldier whose standard operating procedure is to come screaming out of orbit directly on top of your house is not that they'd kill the insurrectionist of that there is no doubt they'd also leave a trail of rather bitter colonists in their wake ready to start [ __ ] once the troops left of course you probably know what comes next your destruction is the will of the Gods we will cleanse you all in holy flame death to the Heretics who solely the holy grounds we so rightfully deserve the Covenant have shown up and are ready to make their existence Humanity's problem very quickly did the priorities of the ODSTs and the UNC as a whole swi Focus going from handling insurrectionist threats to being deployed against the Covenant wherever they showed up and while I feel I'm going to keep repeating this make no mistake the odists served with distinction during the conflict early on in the war for example was the Battle of hot yai the Covenant had done their usual thing of slaughtering most of the civilian population and later established a base on the planet presumably to hunt for Foreigner artifacts but who knows maybe it was going to be grunt zoo or something in response a 100 ODSTs were dropped nearby to deal with them despite a dozen ODSTs being either shot down or killed in landing accidents the base was taken with zero casualties just to emphasize how insane this is during the actual combat not a single Odus was lost to the Covenant forces they rolled up dragged their balls across cvy chins and took the base of course if you're familiar with how the human Covenant War went you can probably guess what this ultimately amounted to somewhere between [ __ ] and all in space cover reinforcements arrived and the UN ships in orbit went from bayy hanging on to Jesus Christ we need to get the hell out of here now no matter how good a soldier or Pilot you are you can't really outfight a glassing beam nevertheless uny forces were able to evacuate the ODSTs dropping a nuke on the remaining Covenant for good measure of course hot yai was still glassed but hey the ODSTs look good what's a planet compared to a propaganda piece this sort of trend continued on throughout the war at the Battle of New Jerusalem a UNC force was nearly completely annihilated by the Covenant but the ODST Carlo Hoya managed to rescue several high-ranking officers in spite of being captured himself we'll briefly come back to him later on on Arcadia ODST forces were Keen allowing much of the civilian populace to be evacuated although you were probably too busy swearing at red team to shoot down just a single Banshee to notice that happening and my fellow Halo Legends fans will know that ODSTs were crucial in assassinating a minor profit as one of them was the soldier that ultimately took the killing shot after the accompanying Spartan was mortally wounded by a Chieftain relatedly Cal 141 my beloved thank you the babysitter for rewriting my brain chemistry speaking of however the Odus tees had a rather tense relationship with the Spartans it started when the master chief killed four of them in a training ring after they tried to shove them around not realizing that Spartans are to ODSTs what ODSTs are to toddlers whereas the average Soldier generally looked at the Spartans with all reverence and dread the odss were much more competitive there was a bitterness against the Spartans from the ODSTs that came about from equal parts jealousy over their reputation and a plain old competitive Spirit After all you've got to have at least a little bit of a hot streak to willingly drop from orbit into a firefight the ODST Edward Buck once called them Glory hungry bullet catchers and overall the ODSTs felt rather inferior regarding the Spartans that's also an ironic statement given what happens to Buck but again we'll get to that regardless the ODS were still sent on extremely important missions even if the Spartans were given the worst of them all in spite of the od's bruised egos for a general rule of um here's who was sent on what missions ODSTs were given the brutalist missions a normal person could feasibly carry out Spartan 2s were sent on missions that required something no mortal could hope to achieve and the poor Spartan 3s were sent on missions that the ODSTs couldn't complete and the Spartan 2s couldn't complete without dying still it wasn't all one-sided rivalries ODSTs working alongside Spartans frequently came to respect their skill in battle hard not to after seeing one of them flip a warthog over and then punch a wraith to death while it wasn't a universal by any means odss who fight alongside their super soldier comrades often came to if nothing else appreciate that they were on the same side against an alien Alliance that wanted their complete destruction once again cal 141 my beloved you cannot understand how badly I want to be this ODST and of course the ODSTs were present for the final major battles of the war on reach they were just about everywhere as could be expected deployed is always to missions that normal troops just couldn't quite swing chiefly among them being Noble teams return to sword base because Oni decided Ed they need a Noble Team and Oni gets what Oni wants aside from that pick a battle during the fall of reach you could probably find a couple of odists kicking around there somewhere and we can't forget about their actions on Earth I would certainly hope you don't forget about them because they have a whole goddamn game Edward buck and his Squad which I am led to believe is called Alpha 9 was originally part of a task force of ODSTs to board the profit of regret ship via their drop pods instead however Veronica dare who is an Oni agent takes command of their squad to break into the artificial intelligence that was part of the city's infrastructure it had critical data and Oni wanted it naturally dare did not actually tell Buck or anyone else what they were doing there or what they were there for but what can you expect from Oni at least an Inquisitor will usually tell you why they aren't telling you something but despite the squad being separated due to the profit of regret tearing a slip space portal directly in the city they were able to reunite and capture the engineer that had absorbed Numan boss's Ai and I real feel like the rookies Mission show you just what ODSTs are capable of even if you know the ultimate reason he kicks so much ass is because he's an FPS Agonist ODSTs aren't jumping on Covenant artillery with energy Shields and billions of dollars worth of equipment and augmentations they're special forces operatives they creep through the Shadows have the best training and know what they need to do to get a given job done as much as they can go in screaming on top of the enemy's head they can also be a surgical tool to get the job done that's the lesson of Halo 3 ODST that and to make sure you fall for a woman with balls they're tough and strong but they're tactically brilliant from the extensive training they go through almost makes you understand why a lot of them dislike Spartans they wanted missions nearly as dangerous and still got them done but H's test Tu babies got the propaganda all to themselves and we will stop talking about the rookie and everyone except for buck in this video because their story ends here the rookie is not killed in a book Mickey is not a traitor as wezu who sold his Squad out the story ends there and that's that ODSTs also served alongside the human forces sent to the arc and the human Covenant war and prevent truth from activating the Rings as well as the flood from eating the Galaxy for a second time and as always yeah they did good fought the Covenant good had a stand next to Master Chief so the eyes weren't on them but by that point they were fighting the Covenant and zombies on a solar system siiz construct outside the Milky Way I can't imagine many of them were feeling bitter about being shown up by the chief given the circumstances now post-war is where things get rather interesting not because there was any particular change in their Doctrine they remained the ODSTs they had been but instead the ODSTs have yet another competitor of their ranks the Spartan fours but the fours are unlike the previous generations of Spartans or rather they were more like the original generation of Spartans rather than Oni either practicing Eugenics or scooping up random orphans from the streets and turning them into Gods these Spartans are volunteer forces from either accomplished veterans or younger candidates who show promise Edward buck and Carlo Hoya themselves both exemplary odss now serve the UN as Spartan fors the Spartan fors are now direct competitors of the ODSTs both being volunteer Special Forces branches composed of already existing soldiers so now the ODSTs are in danger of being shown up by Spartans who are themselves soldiers who could have become an ODST instead Halo unfortunately hasn't really expanded on this very much in favor of trying to pretend Halo 5 never existed and also trying to pretend the endless are interesting but going forward in the universe I imagine two things will come of it one is that the Rivalry between the groups will continue and either a more or less heated manner could become less extreme because Spartan fors are now super soldiers rather than super kidnapped victims or super Orphans of war and would probably know how to interact with the ODSTs plenty of them were ODSTs before becoming Spartans so that might EAS tension a bit but it could become worse because now the Spartan program is actively poaching potential and existing ODSTs and two is that eventually ODSTs might be phased out as dismissive as you might think it is Spartans are just better than them as the Spartan program becomes more widespread and it becomes much easier to produce and maintain them odss might fall to the Wayside in much the way modern militaries generally don't perform Cavalry Charges anymore that's not necessarily a guarantee ODSTs could always exist as a place for soldiers with the dedication but not the ability to become a spar Spartan or becoming an ODST in Halo's future could be a stepping stone to becoming a Spartan but I don't think it's much of a stretch to imagine that as Spartans become more and more widespread ODSTs will be phased out or that won't happen because at the rate Halo is going Halo 7 is never going to happen and Halo devs have confirmed they've act countless Halo games some of which were based around ODSTs remember in the 2000s when every single new FPS to come out was called the Halo killer and then forgotten in months damn shame the actual Halo killer turned out to be Halo now before we wrap up let's let's take a look at what makes an ODST and ODST as I said before it's an all volunteer program which makes sense because forcing someone with either claustrophobia or a fear of heights into a small metal coffin that falls from orbit is a great way to get yourself a soldier who dies of a heart attack the initial training only last 3 weeks since everyone in had already went through basic and while it does help the soldiers get fitter and mostly just exist to see if they're tough enough to go on ODST gr missions it does have exercises involving the potential ODSTs falling from Great Heights prefare themselves hor an orbit drop though that may just be an excuse for jural instructors to push Cadets off a cliff after this the training becomes focused on preparing the ODSTs for squad-based deployments there aren't any lone wolves in the orbital drop shock troopers you're part of a squad and you damn well better act like it the training they go through is of course just as tough as the physical training from before but now you have to get used to working with the bastards you've been forced together with tactical training rounds are commonly used which for those not aware are rounds that not only act as an anesthetic but also Harden the clothing you wear on impact it's done to s actually getting shot forcing you to limp on a leg hit by a TTR as if you've actually been shot by a live round that is assuming you don't just pass out the anesthetic is not exactly a lowgrade thing and it is being fired at you from a gun after this comes the final stretch of training tactical training you've proven your body can handle the ringer the UNC is going to put it through you've proven you can work with a team without ripping someone's throat out now it's time to actually learn how to fight a war like an ODST there's even a unit of ODST whose main purpose is just this the 340th ODST combat training unit their whole deal is setting up training exercises for other UNC Special Forces to go through as well as teaching others about Covenant combat tactics you can safely assume two things these guys are going to put you through hell and they presumably get their asses kicked a whole lot whenever someone remers Spartans or spec ops units that can do with a refresher or something like that the ODSTs are then as before given tactical training that makes what the rest of the UNC forces go through look like a joke and by the time it's finished you have the best soldier a normal person could possibly hope to be at any time but especially during the first 3 weeks of physical training an ODST could be rtu returned to unit it's exactly what you think it is the soldiers will drop out of ODST training and return to whatever position they had before there's no penalties for this it's not like they discharged the soldier because they failed Special Forces school but it is generally seen as pretty humiliating there's also the ODST special purpose forces given additional training in specific areas the best example of this is from Halo Reach when you're flying around on your jump pack in New Alexandria those ODS flying next to you are air assault units or bullfrogs Soldiers with extra training specifically for that kind of scenario there's plenty of other areas that can be trained it as well from explosives to sniping their armor is as always with ODSTs the best of the best short of being mire armor it's tougher than standard marine armor being composed of titanium to keep them alive that much longer the helmet aside from being the single coolest design in all of Science Fiction also has a heads up display motion trackers and the visor system it allows the ODST receive navigational data store any data they receive on a mission and even the ability to access certain systems in a given area if an odd happens to be operating in let's say an abandoned city that's under attack by the Covenant they can access cameras basic security systems and whatnot to make their lives that much easier the armor has heating and cooling systems built in as well to prevent the soldier from either freezing to death or boiling alive in their armor it's also vacuum sealed and can be used in outer space 15-minute time limit mind but that's 15 minutes longer than any of us can survive in outer space so I'm not going to begrudge them for it as for their General Behavior ODS are an odd Bunch for one around themselves there a whole bunch of clowns laughing joking smacking each other in the face with rifle butts to wake each other up from a nap thank you for that Romeo you single-handedly ensured there can be no zero damage ODST run not that I'm insane enough to try it when normal soldiers come around though they usually clam up quick they become silent barely talking to the soldiers in question and are frequently outright hostile towards them they go through hell and know that normal Marines either couldn't wouldn't complete the same thing so they're certainly an arrogant Bunch goes a long way towards explaining why they're so bitter towards the Spartans seeing them as Buck mentioned as a bunch of Glory stealing bullet eaters to be entirely Fair it's not like on Amber alerting random children off the street with common knowledge I imagine they'd be at least a little bit more sympathetic towards the Spartans if they knew that fun little nugget of information they're also not the fondest of authority they're not going to be insubordinate to a higher officer but you know maybe In the Heat of battle an od's radio gets jammed or broken and he can't follow the commands the guy in charge has given him accidents happen after all nothing you can do about it they do respect the leaders of their squad though given that they know the guy went through the same training they did plus they believe that officers should lead by example from the front to the point that it's standard operating procedure for the dropt of the ODST in charge to hit the ground first and for non ODST officers that particularly impress a group of them they might just give the guy a kanji tattoo far from saying something like peace or Love or Whatever crap you can find tattooed on some college idiot the kanji here means either bastard or badass they don't have two different kanji depending on who they're tattooing the meaning entirely depends on which odist you ask if the receiving officer happens to show that tattoo to an ODS it basically signals to the soldier that this dude knows their stuff and you can accept they're in charge for a reason that little nugget of information comes from the coal protocol book though you might have forgotten about it in favor of remembering gry team dropping a star on an alien colony one of those was a cool worldl building moment the other is a war crime that gets a pass from being a war crime only because the war had already ended the Arbiter did forgive them though probably because he knows you shouldn't throw stones from a glass house there as you can probably guess incredibly proud of what they do the training they go through is no joke and they know damn well they're going on the toughest missions around and as much as their cocky dismissive attitude towards normal soldiers and the jealousy of the Spartans might rubby the wrong way I'd say they've earned it the casualty rates for ODSTs is something closer to the Imperial Guard so if nothing else if it bothers you that much they're probably not going to be around long enough to annoy you for very long and that's the lore of the hell jumpers sure they aren't as good as the Spartan Taylor loves to show around but you can be damn sure they'll get the job they're sent onone no matter the odds as always thank you to my wonderful channel members you are the orbital insertion pod to my ODST letting me drop into whatever setting I'm talking about to make it immediately a worst place to be in if you'd like to support the channel feel free subscribe or become a member either way thank you for watching and take care out there all units [Music] h

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Published: Sat Mar 16 2024