User blog:DEWM NINJA/UPDATED Cleanup, alterations, and actually fixing this place

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Some time around late 2014 or 2015, Halo Universe RP (HURP) was formed by an elusive figure named Jay. I can't say I know much about the history of early HURP, but eventually John-A222 took the reigns and HURP grew big and fast (not necissarily in that order, I'm not sure). This wikia (and I am adamant in saying Wikia because using "Fandom" as an organization name is absurd, and I simply hate the name "fandom" alone) was formed not too long after on about May 16th, 2015. Then I found it around September 2nd, 2015, where Ivan, its founder, had been caught off guard having forgotten he made it. My arrival and subsequent posting were, as natural for that time, fucking stupid.

Into the Belly of the Beast
September was a very strange time, because I reminded Ivan the importance of the wiki unintentionally whilst making an ass of myself without knowing my future self (me now) would be disappointed. I attempted to write my fingers to the bones adding content to the wikia, ultimately, but there was a lot to be added and a lot to work with. It was a daunting flood of information and it became pretty obvious why this place was never finished. My last notable contribution to this place before this blog post was on April 11th, 2016, which surprises me nowadays.

Notable about my additions to the wiki, however, was the takedown of a satellite community to HURP, known as The War For Bellaphron, which took place later from the events of Trost as seen in HURP and on the planet Bellaphron, which was the community I initially started in and where most of my contributions to HURP came from overall. As a result, I suppose it was only natural that I be the one to remove pages and significant chunks of some pages from this wiki when John-A222 told me to remove Bellaphron from HURP's subcanon in the Halo Universe when it was stagnating.

AI Constructs and Cyborgs first!
On October 8th, 2018, the unthinkable happened. Google+ was going to shut down. It really makes you wonder, who would want to shut down Google+, a site that did absolutely nothing to anybody? Well, Google, obviously. The specifics of the event go over my head because toward the end of 2018 I was practically moving over to Discord. While most people were panicking, I was content with the change. HURP had, by this point, been "finished" per say with its fourth story arc and John-A222 had moved on to A Galaxy Divided, which has its own whole history to disucss. After the Google+ shutdown, AGD migrated to Discord without John's involvement and I took over the operation, moving on with some key member to establish Paradigm after AGD stagnated which went on until April 11th, 2020. Sometime before June 10th, 2019, John returned to AGD and made his appearance known on June 10th, unfortunately, by July, Paradigm would be established without his interest and John would go on to retire from RP, a choice that reminds to this day.

Warning: Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts
The date I write this on is July 27th, 2020. I am making a return to this wiki to help actually finalize it and clean it up. While I previously possessed the HURP archive directly acquired from John and with his permission, the hard drive it was stored on was corrupted on March 20th, 2020, and a new one had to be installed. Attempted data retrievals have come back with consistent failure, and I will be shipping the hard drive off to a data retrieval company to have them try their hand at it. At the time of writing, John-A222 is sending me a possible backup. With this data, if it is recovered, this wiki will be cleaned up, remodeled, finished with a team of hard working writers, and HURP's history will be remember, this will be a monument to all our... blessings?

Light Fuse, Run Away
The purpose of this remodeling project is because HURP's legacy is important to me and many other people like that. HURP boasted nearly 3000 members by the time of its shutdown, and since the Google+ shutdown many of our friends and comerades have been lost through the currents of the internet. This is an attempt at showing them we're still around, going strong, and remembering what brought us all together. Even if it gets me to talk to one old friend, it will have been worth it. Here is to the future.

If you are interested in getting into contact with any old ex-HURP members, you can contact me over Discord at DEWM#0666, or click here to join John's Discord server, Recon Outpost, where you'll find some other familiar figures such as Marc Bedragare or Joseph Murdoc.

Dec 5th Update
I know despite posting this several months ago there have been no changes. There have been some setbacks with the HURP archive due to incredibly sensitive data on the hard drive being a threat to shipping it in to any old company to look at. I'm going to see about having someone I know see what they can do, if anything. Despite this John has sent me a backup, and although it is lacking in organization and data, I have been able to sort through it. Currently my most significant project has been the | XCOM Trost series, an entire XCOM 2 campaign with significant mods to allow for the various Spartans (and others) that appeared famously in HURP to fight back against the ADVENT menace as presented in the base XCOM 2 game. It's been fun and helped clear my mind. Just yesterday before this update I actually finished the campaign and at the time of writing I simply have to edit the final mission video (it's a whopping two hours of fun to sort through) and upload the second-to-last video to YouTube.

The XCOM Trost series should be a fun timesink for you if you're itching for HURP content of any sort and while I reprepare to start work on this damned wiki. Come mid to late January you should begin to see changes of a sort, big or small, I'm not sure, but we'll see. I cannot overstate how much of a pain this backup archive has been to me, namely in that I know it's missing significant chunks of material. Better than nothing, however.