Okay this is set to be a cross over with Mass Effect and Halo, while taking concepts from Star Wars, and weapons from other shows and games.
The Technological leaps the UNSC makes isn't really that hard to believe, I mean with a captured Covenant ship its just a matter of running various electronic pulses through most of the systems, and copying them. with AI's its really not that hard to run a dozen different tests on the same vessel in conjunction, and really most of the Covenant technology is that much of a leap from the UNSC, all the UNSC is really missing is the leap from theoretical to practical.
Okay, I'm going through and fixing the mistakes I've wrote, I can't believe I spelt Mjolnar wrong.
Navigator: woops, Hardlight shielding was something I added at the end when I read another thick and thought. "Oh that'd be cool," looking back at it now I can say that it was a stupid dicision. I looked on the wiki, and Hardlight Shielding is the combination of Light and an unknown gas, probably a mix of them, to create a solid object, that glows. So its completely useless for stealth ops, and I think they'd have problems when they try and get it to work as a moving and adjusting peronsal shield anyway.
Hunter 63: I'm sorry you don't like it, but no I'm not going to say that an extra thirty percent of our brain makes us smarter. I've decided to give them Force like powers from Starwars with that.
As for Subject Jesus, what else am I supposed to liken a guy who can move shit with his mind too, and Anakin's already taken.
Developing too fast, dude its an interstellar war, Earth has at least five hundred planets under their control, and your telling me there exploiting that to develop technology.
Sgt. Rill: I completely agree.
Hornet07: good point on the Mjolnar, and the Midgard. and High Charity, fixing it. i thought, the more the better.
Hardlight shields, already explained.
I read somewhere that at Harvest Cole's fleet was constantly badgered by enemy AI attacks and the covenant turning their own AI's against them. I wanted to exploit that, but you make a valid point.
Because Cole's basically in charge of the War effort in the outer colonies, and while he's not in total command of the military he does have a very heavy hand at the moment with fund allocations.
From the Spartan II 1st class they learn't a great deal about the augmentation process, and while not perfect, the volunteer ODST augmentations are a way to experiment legally before they use it on the Spartans.
Alec McDowell: if you've read the story info recently, then you'll see i've changed it to a star wars cross over, but I'm not sure if I'm going to mix in Mass Affect with it or have a spin off from chapter four depicting two different cross overs. Dr. Halsey, yeah, when you put it like that it's a stupid decision, I just wanted to give her the moment for a cool quote, I'll fix it when I update those chapters. Midgard, fixed.
Chapter One: the first Decade
"When the skies are set alight, and storm clouds fill the sky,
The Snakemen, Jackels, Beasts and Goblins walk the Earth,
They butcher, massacre, murder and burn,
But instead of cowering and running like their other victims,
they've awakened our Demons, and now they want to come out to play."
2525
UNSC vessel on transit from Chi Ceti IV carrying Spartan II 1st Class encounter and disable a Covenant Frigate, Vessel of Truth. The vessel is stripped of equipment, personnel and software before it is transported to Harmony for long term Study.
ONI Section Three declare the captured ship as a Covenant Pirate vessel, and the chances of further investigations by the Covenant, who ONI has determined as a hostile force that should be avoided at all cost, are low.
Project Unveiling the Truth begins with the study and the eventual reverse engineering the Vessel of Truth's technologies on Harmony.
Almost eight months later a minor Human-Covenant Skirmish takes place on and over Harvest, the garrison UNSC ground forces losing the engagement, but evacuating several thousand survivors from the planet before the Covenant begin "Glassing."
Two months later a ONI Prowler vessel arrives at Harvest, inserting a Red and Blue Spartan teams who retrieve the experimental dual core AI MACK and LOKI. However upon retrieving the dual core AI, Spartan teams discover that MACK deleted LOKI, saving the civilian AI SIF from destruction by housing her inside the second core.
Upon return, Captain Jacob Keyes recommends the widespread implementation of similar AI's too the dual core AI containing a Military and Civilian personality. Citing the possibilities of such a technology implemented in widespread UNSC space during the predicted and fast approaching war.
Miranda Keyes, famed for her later campaign on the Forerunner instillations 004 and The Ark, is born to Jacob Keyes and Catharine Halsey.
2526
Catharine Halsey has a minor mental breakdown by conflicting interests from her heightened maternal hormones from her recent pregnancy and her long term work as the founder of the Spartan Program.
Spartan Mark V armour is created, with Shields and Dumb AI capabilities from new crystal circuit technologies.
The Heracles, the Arabia and theVostok enter the Epsilon Indi system and make contact with a Covenant ship. The Covenant ship destroys the Vostokand the Arabiawith only the badly damaged Heracles escaping. Following the engagement the Covenant glass Espilon Alpha, Beta and Delta; resulting in UEG officially declaring war on the Covenant and the implementation of Martial Law in Human Colonies to begin transition to wartime economies.
ONI Section Three authorises Prowler Black Operations, realising from Project Unveiling the Truth that the Covenant cannot detect Prowler vessels. Spartan team Grey and Purple are selected for Black Operations on board Prowlers in the Outer Colonies and Covenant controlled space, one of their goals is to determine the viability of Cyber Warfare against the Covenant.
2527
Retired Vice Admiral Cole is briefed by ONI regarding Harvest, the Epsilon System and the captured covenant Frigate. As well as releasing him information on current projects of importance or with relation to the Covenant in an effort to convince the Vice Admiral to come back into active service.
Eventually ONI convinces the Vice Admiral to come out of retirement, immediately newly reinstated Admiral Preston Cole begins preparations to retake Harvest and the Epsilon System.
The fleet that Vice Admiral Cole commissions in the next three months would contain the most advanced ships currently in deployment. With over fifty Halycon Class Cruisers, six mobile repair stations, twenty Vigilant Class Carriers, eight Achilles Class Destroyers and eight Trafalgar Class Battleships fielded.
ONI determines that the Covenant is not capable of using AI technology of any level near or above the UNSC's.
Five more systems are lost to Covenant orbital attacks.
Following a briefing with ONI that validates several Admirals' concerns over system discovery via ship records, Vice Admiral Cole creates would become referred to as the Cole Protocol, a system designed to stop alien based AI attacks and the prevention of Data lifting on all UNSC technologies by destroying code and self-destructing captured AI's.
Vice Admiral Cole is briefed by Dr Halsey regarding the Spartan II's and Project Mjolnar in the hopes of requisitioning funding for expanding Shield Technology Development for Ships and ODST corps.
Dr Halsey is given a blank check for her research, on the one condition that she turns the Spartan Program into a feasible military branch.
Admiral Cole reshapes the recruitment parameters of the Spartan Program, changing the recruitment ages from six to ten – fourteen. However genetic marker requirements stay the same, along with allowing active ODST Spartan augmentations should they meet a 60% possibility of survival for the procedure. Although augmented ODST would return to their platoon, without Mjolnar Armour, as the armour was still too costly for widespread implementation.
2528
The First Fleet led by Vice Admiral Cole and his newly christened Trafalgar departs Reach for Harvest in a one hundred ship strong march.
Fleet Admiral Hood and the Rear Admiral's in charge of Second to Eleventh Fleet's (one fleet is approximately fifty ships in size) begin the development of Orbital Defence Platforms with built in reactor complexes. Research into Slipspace capable ODP begins on Harmony.
The Second Battle of Harvest begins, with One hundred UNSC vessels to approximately thirty Covenant vessels.
Sustaining approximately twenty eight ships in complete losses, however the First Fleet manage to remove the Covenant Fleet from orbit.
2529
The Covenant Fleet begin actively searching for Outer Colony Worlds, forcing the First Fleet to disperse into small groups and intercept attacking Covenant fleets.
On Reach, Dr Halsey develops the second dual core AI, ODIN and FRIGGA, military and civilian cores respectively are based on the brain scans of a husband and wife.
A total of twenty five worlds are lost, ten of them to abandonment, fifteen to the Covenant
Vice Admiral Cole commissions Operation Payback, a covert ONI Prowler operation tasked with finding and destroying Covenant Worlds by tracking Covenant ship's through Slipspace paths.
Spartan's earn the monocular 'Demon' when they successfully capture a Covenant ship.
UNSC Slipspace drives in the First Fleet are deemed too slow in comparison to Covenant FTL capabilities to affectively combat the Covenant Tactics.
Rear Admiral Piker begins to deploy nuclear mines around strategically important Colonies along with commissioning the development of FTL capable MAC Defence Stations.
Section Three prioritises the development of faster Slipspace technology and Early Warning Beacons.
Dr Halsey successfully augments two hundred and ten out of three hundred Spartan II candidates aged eighteen.
John – 117 is promoted to Commander.
At Chi Ceti IV research into decreasing cost of Mjolnar armour begins.
ODST squadron Whistle-blowers successfully capture a Covenant Frigate Class relatively undamaged in the Circinius System by bringing ONI Prowler, Knife of Pride alongside the vessel when it was scanning the Solar System for Human presence.
Vice Admiral Cole orders large payloads of Atomic weapons to be placed on Prowler Ships, and the ships to be stationed permanently over (hidden behind moons) Human Colonies within unprotected colonies within one hundred light-years of all known Covenant sightings.
Captain Jacob Keyes, captain of the ONI Section 3 deep space Prowler Long Solstice discovers a Covenant mixed species world.
December 25
Commander Jacob Keyes sends the Covenant a Christmas present.
2530
Research into Slipspace capable ODP's is completed and implemented, resulting in better defence capabilities for Outer Colony Planets.
Prototype Light SAS Armour is developed at CHI Ceti IV, the design incorporates nano-thread technology, something that has become easily accessible from the project The Truth Unveiled, and incorporates it into a light (similar to twentieth century military combat clothing) clothe. The combat uniform is fitted with weak Shields, make capable by developments in battery technology.
Prototype ODST shield armour is created at Chi Ceti IV, the armour is a hybrid metallic-kevlar-polymer hard suit designed with a HUD, tactical 'laptop' mounted on the wrist and a Jackal shield on the other.
ONI Prowler Army of the Night along with Spartan Grey team board and steal vital star chart information and the location of a popular staging area for the Covenant from a Space Station.
Captain Jacob Keyes, on board the Long Solstice destroys the Covenant station Unyielding Heirophant, along with three hundred and eighty of the five hundred surrounding ships using a combination of sabotage and SHIVA mines.
Rear Admiral Piker commissions Project Midgard, to create a line of planets between the inner and outer colonies that could serve as impregnable fall back positions for the First Fleet. Word leaks of Project Midgard, however it is widely accepted by UEG citizens and the planets are nicknamed Fortress Worlds.
Project Thunderclap is commissioned to design and creation of a Cruiser class capable of fighting a Covenant Cruiser without a tactical advantage using reengineered technologies.
Project Refit is commissioned; members of the project are tasked with turning the Halycon Class vessels into a Battleship Class vessel along with outfitting civilian ships for military use and to begin experimentation into design concepts that would provide advantages to the UNSC.
2531
Research into the development of long life dual core AI technology is completed and the integration of existing smart AI's into this system set up begins.
Three Fortress Worlds begin construction on Paris IV, Epsilon Delta, Sigma Octanus and Harmony
Breakthrough in ship-wide shield technology
By the end of the year, six more planets are selected for Project Midgard
Monitoring and early warning stations are deployed inside the Outer Colonies.
2532
Subject Jesus is born, one of the several thousand humans born that year that utilise 30% of their brain.
Vice Admiral Cole deems defending and retaking lost colonies as well as colonies of low population or importance too costly to the First Fleet. However Cole deploys unmanned monitoring stations above the planets, tasking with sending recordings to HIGHCOM if an unknown vessel enters the system.
Slipspace message drones are developed.
Human-Covenant war turns into a battle of attrition as a new generation flood the ranks, armed with new state of the art widespread shield technology and ship-wide Shielding technology. Along with many other improvements and modifications to existing technology to way the scales of the war.
Research is completed on ODST and SAS Shield technology, the mass distribution amongst the fleet evens the playing field between the ground forces of the Covenant and the UNSC.
A third of the Outer Colonies are lost, but the amount of Spartan II's on the battle field grows as augmentation procedures slowly recline in risk.
2533
Project Thunderclap is completed, the ship class, named the Thunderclap sports a MAC mounted on the nose, a thin fifty metres long and 360 degree rotational abilities.
Mjolinar Mark VI is released, this one sporting technological improvements, integrated AI and Cloaking Technology.
With two thirds of the Colonies left, and Project Midguard halfway complete, the UNCS begins to slowly integrate the Thunderclap series into the First Fleet, although because the Thunderclap is an entirely new ship the integration process is a slow and arduous one as assembly lines are refitted with new technologies to make the ship.
Midway through the year the UNSC Spirit of Fire along with five other Halycon Class vessels respond to an unmanned monitoring station over Harvest sending out a Fleet wide alert (a protocol designed to identify large numbers of incoming vessels) and respond. Arriving at Harvest, they discover the ruins of an unknown alien instillation unearthed by the Covenant. After a month long campaign and the discovery of the Forerunner Shield and the Flood, the three ship fleet returns home, the Shield World destroyed.
2534
Subject Mary is born on Earth.
New armour series is designed for ODST, including shields, cloaking, and DUMB AI integration.
ONI Section discover the existence of the Covenant Mothership,High Charity. Vice Admiral Cole and Lord Hood are briefed on it, along with its two hundred ship guard; though they still begin to plan its destruction by the First Fleet.
However HIGHCOM deny them the go ahead, stating that should the First Fleet be lost, the battle of attrition with the Covenant would be too.
