The Battle of New Mombasa
is a Halo fan fic by Thuggery, written mostly out of boredom as an attempt to detail what exactly went on during the events of Halo 2 and ODST that the player would not see. Written similarly to the much more famous Tiberium Wars by Peptuck, it follows soldiers and ordinary citizens around Mombasa during the Battle of Earth. The author/troper doesn't particularly want to toot his own horn (and quite frankly finds that sort of behavior sexually deviant and more than slightly physically impossible), he'll let the tropes invoked speak for themselves.
Also, it updates fairly irregularly.
Tropes in The Battle of New Mombasa include:
- Author Appeal: Weapons. Lots of them. As well as the military.
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Fridge Brilliance: Lampshaded. The NMPD have highly-regulated military-grade weapons. Where did they come from?
- Oh, Crap!: Colonial Militia, meet the Mgalekgolo. Watch the decapitated Mgalekgolo get back up and continue walking.
- Super-Soldier: The ONI reconnaissance operators, which are apparently Diet Spartans.
- Semper Fi: Somewhat subverted. The UNSC Marine Corps shows up, but the dominant focus is on pretty much everyone else. The author has voiced a certain distaste for focusing on the Marines.
- Shown Their Work: The dialogue between the Skyhawk pilots verges on the incomprehensible if the results of their actions weren't made obvious. Said dialogue is based on brevity codes.
- Shout-Out: Already several:
- The Sangheili commander in the first chapter has some lines that deliberately call back to Full Metal Jacket.
- The NMPD SWAT team members are all named after members of The Unit.
- Plenty of requisite '7' references.
- The UNSC Five Rounds Rapid
- Commander 'Sraomee has a conversation with one of his troopers that is highly reminiscent of something said in Generation Kill.
- In Chapter I, one of the characters' names is Marlon Kurtz
- Also in Chapter I, the character above reports to an Admiral Theodore Preston
- The junior detective in the prologue.
- Chapter II has mention of several veterans of Zegema Beach.
- Colonel Thomas Hogarth. Not unusual considering that the author is a BattleTech fan.
