Casualties of the Covenant

by LieutenantGjs

A look into who had died at the hands of the Covenant and what their last moments were like. More of an anthology than story, if you don't know what anthology means . . . Look it up ya lazy bum.

1. Chapter 1

April 12, 2525. I day that I would never forget, but I would also never remember.

My name was Jason Colchis and I was the pilot of the CMA scout ship Argo. I had just come out of slipspace in the Epsilon Indi system to check on the colony of Harvest because it had not sent any communications for a few months. Why? At the time I didn't know, but looking back I knew something was wrong as soon as I got there. When I tried to end a message it was as if I was being jammed, at first I was confused. Was it the Insurrection? Had they really taken over? While many in the CMA may have been sympathetic to the Insurrection, I was not one of the people with my family having a long line of military to the point, I was worried that it was the Insurrection but a moment later something I never even expected happened. A massive 1 kilometer long ship was orbiting above a burning Harvest. It was at that moment that I realized that we had a hostile first contact with an alien species, and that I was in their line of fire. However that was to be my last thought as I was destroyed by a volley of fire by the ship. Looking back my only regret is that I didn't get a warning out to the UNSC or really anybody, because every now and again I start to think, what if I had gotten a warning out, how many people would have been saved, would we have been better prepared?