A long time ago in galaxy far far away

The Halo wars

Admist the battles of the Clone Wars whilst on patrol in the outer rim territories several Republic crusiers while on patrol for any CIS activity run into a mysterious fleet of ships.

"General Argerin." A clone trooper officer on the bridge said "Are sensors have picked up three frigate class ships." Jedi Knight Argerin Sheras turned her head to meet the clones gaze, "Are they CIS in origin commander?" "No sir matter of fact I scanned the ships and tried to see if they matched anything in Republic databases but these ships are a completely different from anything any one has ever seen before." "Interesting we may have discovered a new species of alien amongst the stars." Argerin said. "Indeed maim and protocol dictates that we first hail these new comers and bring them back to Corusant." The officer said. "Very well commander set up communcations with them post haste." "Yes sir."

Meanwhile onboard the Covenant frigate Righteous Clarity shipmaster Atem' Radumee stared at the view screen of the unidentified ships in front of his fleet. "We have yet to discern the ships infront of us shipmaster." Atem's chief navigator Rasum said. "Find out whom these travelers are so that we leave immediately the more time we spend here the more time those human fools cower on their worlds." Atem declared.

"Shipmaster," said Arum' Nasamee, Atem's communication specialist, "We are being hailed by them." "Communications, excellent put them on screen perhaps we can find new members to join our holy covenant."

What appeared next on the screen somewhat startled the shipmaster for before him on the screen was a human officer. "Greetings new alien race I am a commander of the Republic star cruiser Adamant. As per Republic laws you are accompany us to the capital of Coursant, please respond within the next thirty mintues so that we may know when you are ready to depart" Atem could not believe his eyes for on the screen was a human, a member of a species the holy prophets of the covenant declared heretics and a blight upon the galaxy and the covenants grand design. Yet after fighting these heretics for nearly twenty years now these humans dare to say that they should come with them. "Our response towards you has been the same as it has for the last twenty years 'Your destruction is the will of the gods and we are their instrument." Atem said to the human on screen.

"Heat up the plasma cannons and prepare all laser cannon defenses." Atem ordered the crew . "Shipmaster, the enemy fleets ships seem more advanced than the other ships of our enemies have used in the past." Arum said. "Then I suppose we shall find out if the humans new ships are capable of standing up to our fleets righteous fury, FIRE ALL CANNONS THE MOMENT THEY ARE PREPARED AND READY!"

Back on the Adamant the clone commander returned to General Argerin to tell her the bad news. "General it would seem that these aliens are hostile towards us should we arm ourselves?" "No we can't cause an incident perhaps you should let me talk to-." "General they unknown ships have fired against us!" the General turned and looked out the view ports on the bridge to see the enemy ships fire blue and purple fire balls out at her fleet. "Raise the shields and prepare the guns." Argerin ordered. The clones raced to activate their ships. "Ships systems shields are charged at 60% percent for all ships secondary laser systems online." "Brace for impact enemy missiles about to hit."

The plasma torpedos hit there targets head on and the republic ships rocked from the force of the blasts. Warning lights flared across the bridge "Damage report commander." Argerin demanded. "Those missiles were made of plasma it melted through our ships shields and ripped into our hull we have hull breaches on all ships." "Where?" "The Brusier has suffered power loss ship wide and is suffering atomespehric decompression on decks five through nine, the Corulag has lost power to primary weapons and is breached on decks two through ten and the Adamant has been breached on decks one through seven and atomospheric decompression is on decks four, five, and six." "Casulaties?" "Numbering in the hundreds already miss."

The battle had been thrust forward instantly and in less than a minute these aliens had ripped open her fleet. "Miss fighter squadrons are reading green and ready to move at your order shall I send them out?" The commander said. "Yes, yes send them out order them to fly interference so that we can get the guns online." Argerin said. "Yes sir." "And commander," "Miss?" "Tell all ships to keep their hyperdrives primed and ready I think were going to need the exit plan soon."

Back on the Righteous Clarity Shipmaster Atem smiled as well as his sangheli mandibles could allow him to at the damage the first volley had caused to the ships but these ships had been different many degrees, but that would come for a later time for now the humans would perish here and now.

"Shipmaster we've detected several enemy fighter squadrons on our scopes." Arum informed. "Ready the seraph squardrons but don't launch them yet let the laser defense systems will take care of these heathins ." Atem commanded. "But shipmaster what if one of the fighters has a nuclear device onboard it." "Your fears our understandable Arum but I most seriously doubt that the humans will have one if they did we would have detected it long ago, no these heretics are hoping their 'advanced' technology will be able to hold against our forces how wrong they will be." "Very well shipmaster."

The clone pilot known as Crackshot was hoping that his assignment here in the outer rim would have been a quiet mission but these newcomers had made things interesting looks like I'll be able to get some practice after all he thought to himself.

All wings had checked in and now the pilots stood ready to fight these new aliens. "Get ready boys were going in hot and were going in quick."

The unknown ships seemed to have defenses of their own prepared for all over the ships were what looked like laser defense systems. They cannons fired and the clone V-19 torrents tried to dodge the laser fire but even they couldn't dodge the laser defence systems.

By the time that they had made it through the fire the clones had lost a third of their force. Crackshot activated his comm. Net device so as to confirm how many the team had lost. "Casualty lists have gold five, nine and six as destroyed, red four through seven destroyed as well, blues three through eight a gone as well as captain smoke." Crackshot reported.

"This is lieutant Ct-1745 reporting in to all remaining pilots; forget about the fallen we have to buy the fleet time so they can get the big guns online. All fighters prepare all torpedoes and fire at will."

As they were told the fighters entered attack formation and prepared to attack. "Steady, steady," the lieutenant said, "Now fire at will." With that order all remaining clone ships fired.

The torpedoes streaked toward the unknown enemy fleet. They detonated in firey explosions, however when the smoke cleared it looked as though the torpedoes had little to no effect. "Someone give me a karking damage report." The lieutenant demanded. "It looks like we managed to get through their shields but we hardly did any devastating damage sir."

"Fergultz all right everyone ready yourselves," "Lieutenant the unknown ships are firing up their laser cannons and enemy fighters are incoming!" "What? Everyone take evasive action now."

Following his orders all the fighters spread out to try and dodge the lasers. Despite their best efforts however the clone pilots could not dodge the laser defense systems and if they weren't being shot down by the lasers they were being blasted to dust by the enemy fighters.

"This lieutenant CT-1745 we have failed in our assault the enemy has powerful shields recommend immediate retreat." The lieutenant said over the comm. Channels. He felt his ship rock as it took a hit and then looked forward as he saw a ball of fire rocket toward him.

"General their gone, all the fighter squadrons are gone." The commander said. "Our heavy guns are they online?" Argerin asked. "Yes but only Brusier is within range and the Corulag is still suffering weapons failure."

"Tell the Brusier open fire with everything they've got and tell the Corulag to link up with us and get ready to jump to hyperspace." The commandeered stared at her in confusion. "Miss?" "This is a battle that I do not believe we can win commander we will have to retreat." "But general what about the Bruiser?" "The ships loss is lamentable but we must escape and tell the Republic of this new enemy." "Yes sir will have the ships move out."

"Shipmaster, one of the ships is moving into an attack position." Arum informed. "What of the other two?" Atem questioned. "They appear to be veering off, they maybe getting ready to retreat into slipspace." "These cowards think that they are safe by running we shall show them how wrong they are send in a stealth fighter to attach a tracer device to one." "Which one should we place the tracer shipmaster?" "The ship called Adamant seems most stable and ordering the other two it must be the command ship." "Yes shipmaster, it shall be done." "In the meantime prepare all ships and burn the incoming enemy ship." "Yes shipmaster."

On board the Brusier the captain of the ship stood in front of the bridge as his ship moved toward certain doom. "Captain the rest of the fleet is moving into position for hyperspace." The captains second hand said. "I know." The captain replied. "Why are they doing that sir?" "The Republic needs to know of this new enemy and having everyone die here won't alert the Republic. We go forward into death not because we are ordered to but because we must do so, so the boys back home know what their dealing with." The captain said. "Is that understood soldiers?" All the men on the bridge turned and smiled and all said in unison, "Sir, yes sir!" The captain smiled and turned back to the window as he prepared to face his death.

The Brusier moved in and began to fire on the enemy armada. The turbolasers seemed to have been having a much better effect at destroying the enemy shields and shooting up the enemy fleet. But just when it seemed that things were turning the covenant ships fired their plasma torpedoes at the Republic crusier. The ship's shields bubbled and popped and then the ships armor began to melt. The Brusier still fought to the bitterest of ends. Another wave of plasma torpedoes fired past the ship but then turned around and hit the engines. The ship finally stopped firing and all together stopped moving leaving it a huge target for the covenant armada. The Bruiser was finally destroyed in a flash of fire.

"Enemy vessel has been defeated." Arum informed. "Has the stealth ship placed a tracker on the command ship?" Atem asked. After a minute of quick conformation Arum replied by saying, "Yes sir the device has been placed and is transmitting on our frequency." Atem smiled with smug satisfaction. "Excellent."

Atem' Radumee stared at the view screen of the other two ships leaving the space in front of his fleet. "Set a course for High Charity we need to speak the prophets about this battle these new ships could be important." "Yes shipmaster." Arum said.