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| - During the post-war crisis, amidst the ruins of the glassed Misriah HQ on Mars, lay prototypes for numerous weapons and the design blueprints for the XH-55 Rifle. This rifle was designed to serve humanity in a post-apocalyptic situation, after the eventual glassing of Earth. Designed by ORION II's Aggressive Task Force (Division ONE), by Jack Rosevelt, Adam Breton and Alicia Ackerson during 2551, the rifle would not go into production until the year 2598.
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| - During the post-war crisis, amidst the ruins of the glassed Misriah HQ on Mars, lay prototypes for numerous weapons and the design blueprints for the XH-55 Rifle. This rifle was designed to serve humanity in a post-apocalyptic situation, after the eventual glassing of Earth. Designed by ORION II's Aggressive Task Force (Division ONE), by Jack Rosevelt, Adam Breton and Alicia Ackerson during 2551, the rifle would not go into production until the year 2598. The first prototypes were used during Division TWO's last stand on the surface of Mars, outside the Misriah Complex. When all UNSC Forces besides the ORION II Forces were eliminated, the XH Rifle was field tested for its true purpose - a post-apocalyptic weapon capable of being reliable after all facilities and UNSC Bases were destroyed. The XH was the first rifle in a long period of time to use the 5.56mm round. Devastatingly effective in the last moments of the ORION II Soldiers, the men and women were able to hold off numerous waves of Covenant Forces until being overrun by a Sangheili Special Operations Unit led by the ruthless Khotta 'Moramee, a field Marshall that had killed several SPARTAN Personnel along with those under his command. Khotta 'Moramee was responsible for the deaths of more SPARTAN Personnel than any other Sangheili warrior, as he had led the final assault on the SPARTAN-II Red Team was rumored to have been killed by a 5.56mm round fired by Jack Rosevelt. The XH Prototype is a modular system, though coming in two variants, one modular, and a standard issue variant with a single attatchment rail and an undebarrel projectile weapon capable of launching either 30mm HE Grenades or holding a specially designed flashlight. The recovery of the designs by ORION-AFO Squadron, SPEC06 led to a radical change in weaponry for the ORION Supersoldiers serving in the year 2587. The standard issue M6J, a semi-automatic carbine that fired the .50AE/L (The lightest rifle ever utilized by the UNSC because of its skeletal design) round was replaced by the XH-52 Rifle in its respective year. Initial reception was extremely negative, stating that the M6J was a more effective long range rifle, and that the change to the 5.56mm round was unecessary. The XH-98 was tested in the same facility the original design was recovered from (clearly rebuilt), and was redesigned by Cmdr. Jack Rosevelt, Devi Agu and Enrica Ackerson. The XH-98 design had sucessfully answered most of the issues with the earlier design, including the reliability issues, ambidextrous complaints and the problem with the propietary 3-D Holographic Sight. Critical Reception for the '98 Rifle was extremely positive, increasing the potency of the rifles advantages while simultaneously ridding itself of its many disadvantages.
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