Clan History

*The history of Tactical Operations Command, all information has been provided by the founders and reliable sources credited at the bottom.*

## 2009

### Origins

The earliest our clan be found is way back in Jan. 2009 back on Halo 3. A group of friends came together, who wanted to roleplay as spartans and marines in the halo 3 campaign and online. These people would end up becoming the founders of TOC; John-117 (Ultra), Kurt-051/Jegt, Jorge-052 (Gen1) and Fred-104 (Unconnecteds). The founders would begin to gain a presence on the halo scene with Ultra being one of the first tag collectors as he began to claim tons of Spartan Gamertags that he thought his friends and himself could use, these included tags the TOC Gen1 Font of Name S000 followed by their Gen2 Name 000 SII. With this the SPARTAN-II Program would be founded with the founders taking up roles within the branch.

And as the founders continued the roleplay, in 2010 they started to expand their organization and started to do recruitment, along with the opening of their next branch the UNSC O.D.S.T.s. With the two branches the clan began to gain some traction. Before the release of Halo Reach the clan wouldn't have any strong leadership, the Spartans would be seen as the heads while the ODSTs had no staff or NCO structure at all and just ranks and would earn the name Tactical Command.

TacCom began working with other clans around the time, serving time with United Spartan Command before the revolt in March. And then helped and aided MOH during their revenge on USC and their civil war, when MOH shutdown in December most of their members joined the ranks of the 1st ODST Platoon.

### Chain of Command

At the same time, the clan would begin to push itself into giving it the proper foundation with the following personnel taking up positions of leadership to cement the chain of command for both branches and the GCO;

* Ultra would become GCO and Spartan-II CO
* Fred-104 would become XO of the Spartan-IIs
* Jorge-052 would become OPSO of the Spartan-IIs
* ODST D Cambridge would become CO of the ODSTs.
* ODST Ed Buck would become XO of the ODSTs.
* ODST T Miles would become OPSO of the ODSTs.

## 2010

### Community Ties

While the community continued to grow, TacCom made no efforts to coordinate with the wider community at first and only focused mostly on building up their ODST Platoon, Cambridge and Jorge-052 were able to go out and explore and socialise with clans. Thanks to them relationships started to form with the community such with USC, United Nations, Operations Command and NavSpecWar.

### Alliances

Later on, TacCom would go on to form it's first ever alliance with Operations Command with soon after Fleet Command led by ADM A Parker.

### Tactical Command x Operations Command

When USC died a majority of their members began to join the ODSTs. In the same time Ultra and Isaac Delo (GCO of OpCom) started to socialise a bit more, sharing similar opinions and mindsets with how they want their clans to grow in strength. With Ultra wanting to start an infantry corps to allow the ODSTs to begin filtering people and Isaac wanting to build a Spartan Division. So after a few meetings and talks and a merger was agreed between groups.

#### Formation of the 106th Marine Corps.

With the agreement, OpCom's marines would join forming the third unit and first ever Marine branch in TOC the 106th, carrying over the leadership (CO UNSC A Johnson, XO DreamFXA and HDI UNSC Dagger) and squads and with any ODST that didn't fit our requirements would be pushed into the Marines including none other then Jason D Price himself.

#### Name Change

Along with the merger, the groups have made a decision to also switch the name adding Operations into the name and forming the name we know today as "Tactical Operations Command."

#### Spartan-II Class 1

As a final part of the merger, Isaac himself would become the first conscript of Class 1 and be the only one. He would later graduate as Isaac-039 and begin working hard with SII Staff to further strengthen the program for the later years.

### Battle of Valhalla / UN Tensions

In August of 2010, The United Nations attacked one of our ODST Squads (Hornet-5 Squad) in a 12v4 resulting in our favour, this battle was a blow to the UN and sent a message to the community, while our ODSTs weren't the best H-5 was one of our best units. And gave our troopers a power edge. This in turn would cause some issues between leadership but after a few rounds of Jenga and Fatkid TOC/UN became friends again and even opted to letting our H-5 train with their soldiers and TOC took part in the Vegas All Bright conflict with UN and TOC fighting against VAB forces from August to October when they were finally crushed.

### Launch of Halo Reach & Website V1

In September the community changed drastically as H:R came out. Opening the way for more customization, maps and abilities to grow as a community. TOC quickly relocated it's forces onto reach and began to grow even quicker! To celebrate this TOC also opened it's first website on weebly, the site was created by Isaac & Ultra, the link was sadly lost to time when they forgot their passwords to the site.

### Fleet Command Civil War

At this stage of Fleet Command's expansion, tensions in leadership grew bigger and bigger even with TOCs attempt to help, by the end of the year a huge split in leadership would form causing the clan to split in two, Parker was thrown out with his loyalist following suit and leaving the clan in the hands of Ramer12 and AceMaker. With this TOCs alliance would be scrapped and they would follow suit with Parker, offering assistance and helping him rebuild his former fleet.

## Foundation - 2011

### Birth of the Spartan-IIIs

New year even more changes and progression for our clan**, Kurt-051** made a proposal to HIGHCOM to allow the formation of a new Spartan Division, one that would them to filter in more spartans, less conscription time then the IIs and higher turnover. Due to how Halo Reach focuses mainly on Noble Team and the IIIs now would be the perfect time to bring them into the clan, this decision was approved with Kurt being made Commanding Officer with his assistants Carter A259 (XO) and Chris G081 (OPSO) along with the creation of the Spartan-III Class 1 that would graduate in early April with Jun SIII A266 graduating.

### Cleaning ties with the United Nations

TOC and UN finally borrowed hands and form a truce/alliance to share resources and push on. During an attempted coup within their ranks TOC came in and helped provided assistance, offering full support to the UN to strengthen both ties.

### G-Staff Appointments

Now that the clan was beginning to thieve and expand in not just members but rising leaders, a booming Marine Corps, dedicated ODST Unit and now two active and hardworking Spartan Programs. Now more then ever was it time to step up the ranks. Ultra decided it would be better for the clan if he stepped away from SII Commander in order to focus solely on GCO and allow others to push the IIs in another direction. This allowed Frederic-104 to be not only SII CO but also GXO with Jorge taking on the role of OPSO/G-OPSO.

### Assassination attempt of MAW

During a clan meeting one of TOCs members who was a spy for Mercenaries Above War and attempted to overthrow and backstab Ultra, this attempt was foiled thanks to the quick response of other SIIs present. This incident was taken seriously by High Command who in turn perceived this as a direct attack from MAW.

#### Declaration of War of MAW

Following this attack, TOC HighCom launched an all out war against MAW. While at first both sides agreed to ROE and engagements but MAW was clearly outmatched for TOCs power and with a lack of resource to keep loosing, stability within MAW was quickly turned upside down so in late April after MAW and TOC Leaders agreed to call a truce, these conditions included the removal and blacklist the members involved with the attempted assassination and both sides will look into providing aid to each other in future issues.

### Death of Cambridge.

Nearer the end of 2011. It was discovered that ODST D Cambridge had chosen to take his own life, the announcement of his death effected the entire clan, he was a good friend and even better leader. His XO ODST Ed Buck took over the mantlepiece of CO but would never truely be able to accept his friends passing. Even till this day the ODSTs have always had a tribute to him with the formation of Cambridge Squad, Platoon and company.

### Rise of the Covenant Empire

During the year the community was faced with it's first big problem; the formation of the Covenant Empire. A coalition of clans formed with those who enjoyed and loved the Sangheili culture from the games and preferred the lifestyle of the Sanghelil models compared to the rest of the community. The Central clan the Fleet of Particular Justice. The community then would see something that has never happened before, a large scale collection of clans with over 100+ members these groups would attempt to establish themselves as a power to be feared. This at first wouldn't work with most groups trolling or outright denying the existence of this empire including TOC. So to show true strength and That all changed in the middle of the year when the Covenant Empire rose up and decided to strike a vow to face down all UNSC and her colonies and destroy them or push them to surrender and submit to their rule. In the span of a few months several low and high profiled clans in the fell to the Empire and her coalition with even more members joining their cause and soon enough was the Empire considered as an actual threat to the greater community. During this ordeal one of TOCs allies Fleet Command was torn apart by CE forces and after a raid in their group chats the clan collasped, this was the last straw for TOC who after seeing the destruction left behind knew they couldn't stand for this and chose to announce a full on war.

##### Response to CE

As a response to the chaos, TOC High Command spoke out against CE and it's actions and after some poor words a vote was held and the Covenant Empire Campaign had begun. In the early stages of the war, it was down to the Spartan-IIs to take the initiative as the primary fighting unit and would often go out to lead Marines and ODSTs in several raid parties against the Empire, these methods instantly began showing progress as TOC was gaining traction in the war scale very quickly. During this the spartan-IIIs attempted to build up and form up their forces to assist in the war.

## 2012

### Spartan-II Progression

Going into 2012 the community as a whole began to get a lot of expansive and aggressive.Before the end of 2011 the IIs also launched a class which finally graduated which produced more Spartans to the branch; **Samuel-034, Leon-011** and **Li-008**. This class was the first "Wartime Conscription Class" where they were trained and allowed to lead engagements while still in training, not only this but Class 2 would go on to become a name of legends and alter many things inside of how the Spartan-IIs would work. Following Class II we would see a change in how the Spartans use gamertags. While the founders and Isaac used a combination of Name 000/Name S000 tags. While Ultra had a high limited supply of these tags but with his growing suspicions of being tag baiting he chose to move onto other collection and formats for future classes. This would be known as Generation 2 Fonts which would follow the format of "Name 000 SII" along with Generation 2 Alternative fonts like "Name S000 II" or "Name S000 SII." To wrap things off the Spartan-II Program chose to carry on and run another class back to back to fill in the gaps left by how full the rest of branches are. Which would graduate in late October with **Otto-031 (Dale), James-005** (Faison) and **Victor-101 (Canfield).** This would be another moment in the clans timeline that would change the entire ballpark and how Spartan Classes would run in the future and how the IIs would function. Victor formerly UNSC Dagger was well known within the Marines as their HDI but also had reputation for being quite the asshole, getting in constant battles with his CO and giving people hell. Many were stunned to see him get accepted and enlisted into the class but this would be only the start.

### Retirement of UNSC A Johnson

With an ongoing war, the Marines were looked at and pushed very thin in order to combat and counter CE forces, with all this and the death of his friend Cambridge last year this was all too much for Johnson who chose to make an announcement about his unfortunate retirement. DreamFXA would take on the mantle of Commanding Officer but this would be shortlived as like Johnson he couldn't cut it as a Wartime Leader and stepped back down to NCO.

### Vickram Jones

In HIS place was the legendary CO **Vickram Jones,** at this rate the war with CE was still ongoing and it was getting to a point where it seems there was no suitable leadership to take on such a task as leading our infantry. Vickram proved us otherwise and was able to achieve several milestones from being the first Marine to reach an officer status to being the first to reach over 30 Marines.

**Vickram** would be promoted to Second Lieutenant marking this as the first Marine Officer in the clan's history along with a second achievement of gaining a size of 32 members, over the course of the next few months, the Marines would get proper training and would be able to help fight against CE. the Marines would be used and deployed to defend UNSC Strongholds and attack Covenant Fortifications besides. During this war **Vickram** would sought out one of his marines **Staff Sergeant Richard M Saz** and together would form the first generation of our **Marine Force Recon**. At the same time, **Vickram** would gain a bigger presence in the battle on both the fighting ground and the politics, he would gain a positive reputation in the community and using this helped the flow of marines, pushing the Marines into the 50 member gap. This feat and amazing work from all over his staff team along with **Vickram's** performance, skills and reputation all played major factors into not just the success of his branch but the war as well and cemented himself as one of the best and greatest Marine Leaders in history. And on October 2nd **Vickram** would be given the position of **G-OPSO** and a promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, **Vickram** would go on to secure himself and help other branches further securing a strong relation with the rest of the clan.