Roman Squad

"We do what the Spartans do, but we do it better."
-Squad's motto
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Category:ODST
Roman Squad was a squad of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers consisting of five members that were deployed for what were described as "attrition missions", often sent to fight large amounts of Covenant and Flood forces during the Battle of Earth, killing as many enemies as they could to wear down the enemy's numbers before extracting from the combat zone. This would often result in Roman Squad missions becoming Hell for the participants, who barely returned alive. Roman Squad quickly gained a reputation as "The Unbreakable" during the Battle of Earth in a series of engagements that saw Roman Squad repeatedly fighting for their lives for over a day against overwhelming numbers before being pulled out.
==Description==
Roman Squad is an ODST unit consisting of six ODSTs, each equipped with unique weapons based on their proficiencies. Roman Squad is known to be capable of fighting for extended periods of time repeatedly, being able to withstand crushing enemy force and escape with several members alive. The squad, on occasion, was able to access vehicles and use them in combat.
==History==
===Battle of Earth===
Having seem little combat experience as a unit during the Human-Covenant War, Roman Squad was forced to learn how to work together quickly or die when the Covenant attacked Earth with all the forces they could. Roman Squad found themselves suddenly deployed for "attrition missions" during the two-month long battle.
====First engagement: Los Angeles ====
In the opening days of the battle, the UNSC remained relatively in control of the situation. This would not last as more and more Covenant fleets poured into the Sol system, and the UNSC's frontlines rapidly degraded into utter chaos on the ground. With Flood forces raining down onto North America, the UNSC decided to test a new tactic, deploying Roman Squad for "attrition missions," the objective of which was to deploy into a large force of Covenant troops and eliminate as many as possible. Roman Squad was not expected to survive.
With Covenant ships looming over the North American West Coast, Roman Squad was dropped into Los Angeles on October 23rd to battle the Covenant force of Unggoy and Kig-Yar swarming the Los Angeles Space Elevator. Roman Squad engaged Covenant forces for hours before being extracted on October 25th by a Pelican dropship. After returning from the mission, they were estimated to have killed over 1300 enemy combatants, but at the cost of 3 of the 6 ODSTs.
====Second engagement: Voi====
On November 17th, the Flood-controlled Indulgence of Conviction escaped from the infested High Charity and made a slipspace jump to Earth, crashing into the Voi, Kenya, and spreading the Flood infection across the region. An alliance was forged between the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios to contain the Flood and eventually eliminate the Covenant. Roman Squad was deployed to as part of a larger operation to stop the spread of the Flood in order to buy time for a glassing of the region by the Swords of Sanghelios.
Entrenching themselves behind barriers and with an M12 Warthog under their control, Roman Squad was made a vanguard to contain the Flood. Fighting a massive swarm of Flood combat units for over six hours, killing nearly 2600 Flood forms, the battle saw the Flood repeal their assault in that area, instead attempting to escape containment efforts in other ways. This was unsuccessful, and the Flood on Earth were eventually exterminated. Roman Squad was extracted from the area shortly after with no casualties.
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