Halo Universe RP

**Halo Universe RP** (later renamed to **Halo Universe: Trost**) was a community on Google+ created, at the latest, on August 30th, 2014, and officially ended on January 11th, 2018. On April of 2019, Google+ officially shut down and all data was purged. While some data was backed up, there has been a data crisis on the preserved data on the community, more of which can be read below.

## Function

Halo Universe RP (HURP) as its name suggested was a Roleplay community dedicated to activity related to the Halo Universe. When it was first created, it was managed by a man known simply as Jay, though the ownership swiftly transferred to John-A222 who managed the community until its end.

HURP was home to nearly 3000 members toward the end of Google+, which needless to say made it one of the most popular Halo RP communities. What set it apart from the average Google+ RP community was its focus on organization and a cohesive setting, a standard that was met by many communities that mimicked its style, such as The War For Bellaphron, Halo Universe: Lambda Rho, Star Wars Universe RP, Vorcium, A Galaxy Divided, Paradigm and countless others, even continuing today, though with a platform shift to Discord after the shutdown of Google+.

What honed this well-managed community was the presence of John-A222, who developed a memetic infamy due to his behavior of being incredibly blunt and creating unintentional humor.

## Story Arcs

Part of HURP's cohesive nature was its setting strictly on an original planet which opened up a lore sandbox to work with within Halo's universe, this planet being Trost. While the sandbox was always open to original RP between members in almost any capacity, the course of the story revolved around four story arcs which were bluntly referred to as "Stories", and each usually followed a formula of four chapters of significant events.

## Legacy

Despite the official ending of the community and the shutdown of G+, there is a wide number of people who have been affected by HURP and many remain active on Discord or MeWe, typically still creating Roleplay-oriented content or documenting HURP's legacy such as the wiki here. It is needless to say that everything remains mostly in the shadow of the accomplishments of HURP. Since its closing, John-A222 has taken a backseat to large-scale projects and RP. Currently DEWM manages this wiki, Marc Bedragare and Brandon Willi have a Halo-focused Discord RP server under their control. Other notable mentions is Paradigm previously managed by DEWM and currently managed by IrishTitan, The Dirt by Valence, Marc Bedragare, Klepto2322 and TitanManiac, and the upcoming server Elysium as created by IrishTitan, Valence, Marc Bedragare, Alex Wiken and Wheezus Christ.

## Data Crisis

With the deletion of Google+ content there remained only two archives preserved on HURP, one in possession of John-A222 and one with DEWM. On March 20, 2020, the hard drive of the computer DEWM had the data stored on corrupted and caused a permanent blue screen, and the only means of resolving the issue was with replacing it with a new hard drive. The fate of the archive remains unknown, though DEWM still possesses the hard drive and intends to have it sent to a data recovery center whenever possible, but that likely won't be for some time.
John-A222 sent him his copy of the archive for storage on the new computer, however as John runs a MAC OS, the archive is misread on DEWM's Windows and the data on the new hard drive is minimal and not as well preserved. John does not appear to have a wholly intact copy of the original archive. For now it remains to be seen if the archive can be fully saved, though it is unlikely. This has made publishing legacy content on the wiki an extreme challenge.