Chapter 1 : Prologue
The war between the Serans , the lambent and the locust ended in minutes after the anti-lambent generator bomb active but sparked a turning point in the war.
It all started when Marcus Fenix lead a group of ragtag gears on a journey across the lambent infested and war torn world of Sera to save his father from the Locust Queen Myyrah and the locust horde on Azura , the last Coalition of Ordered Governments stronghold. Delta squad founded out why Adam was kidnapped by Prescott and they discovered a weapon in Azura build to destroy the lambent and the locust. Found their hope in ending the war, Marcus and the gears deactivate the maelstrom barrier allowing combined forces of the COG and the UIR to assault the island stronghold
After Marcus and the gears saved Adam Fenix from the clutches of the locust horde .The gears active the machine that shots out a beam of magnetic energy into the atmosphere of Sera. Adam was humanity's last hope for survival and he was so close to sacrificing himself to save Sera. But they unaware the machine has created a distress beacon to a mysterious fleet from outer space.
The mysterious fleet launched a full invasion of Sera and deployed their forces to the Second Battle of Azura and this new enemy destroyed the generator; shattering humanity's hope for survival. The invaders were the helghast and the helghast were a race of gas masked humanoid soldiers with their fiery hatred of humanity.
A new war erupted on Sera as a unexpected invasion happen, the helghast attack was swift, brutal and decisive; the helghast threw the COG forces and their allies into confusion and chaos . The Helghast invasion fleet deployed thousands of red eyed gasmasked soldiers , robots and vehicles with weapons and terrifying technologies the COG or the locust had never seen.
The Helghast war machines spread across Sera killing everything standing in their way.
With Azura captured and the lambent generator was destroyed which resulted in Marcus , Adam and the other gears were captured by the helghast soldiers while the reminding COG forces were crushed brutally by the helghast army. The helghast were beginning to occupy the planet and began further plans for colonizing Sera and taking control of the imulsion .
Sera wasn't the only planet in the universe, there was a war between the Helghast Empire and the Interplanetary Strategic alliance in other galaxy. It turns out Adam's device intercepted both nations and catching their attention as the distress signal interrupted the Second Extrasolar war causing the helghast and the ISA to turned their attention on the war torn planet Sera but it only brings their war on Sera.
Meanwhile the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) from another star system responded to the distress signal send a large battle group of ISA Cruisers to investigate. The ISA battle fleet arrived and found the planet of Sera only to discover Sera was at the brink of destruction with most of it's civilization in ruins and billions dead .
The ISA forces found out there was a horrible war between the locust horde a race of reptile humanoid creatures and the Coalition of Ordered Governments human military. ISA forces only to find out the planet was inflected with some sort of organic liquid parasitic .
Shocked and horrified by the destruction and carnage of the locust war, the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance immediately evacuated and rescue as many surviving Serans as they can while the ISA put up the offensive with the locust and the lambent inflected locust along with the helghast.
Marcus and Delta squad escaped from the helghast cruiser after staging a jail break, they high jacking one of the dropships and held for Avail Gate under ISA marine corp.'s control where Marcus and the rest of the gears met Captain Jason Narville , Corporal Thomas Sevchenko Corporal Jammer and Sergeant Rico Velasquez from the ISA exploration force .
However the alliance between the ISA marines and the COG gears weren't that easy since the ISA discovered the Coalition of Ordered Government's military deployed and unleashed their orbital weaponry on the entire planet killing their own people to prevent the locust from advancing.
A strike team made out of ISA marines and Delta-one (Gears) began their journey back to Azura . After obtaining a sub and infiltrate Azura .The strike team discovered the helghast were after the imulsion and the COG's secret weapons .
Marcus , Anya , Sev , Narville and the rest of the strike team fought their way fought the island battling large amounts of helghast and lambent locust. The gears and the marines spilt up into teams ; the gears are going to find Adam Fenix while the marines were tasked in sabotaging the COG's secret weapons ; the lightmass missile.
The ISA marines managed to savage the surviving anti lambent generator after the helghast obtained the generator from the wreckage after their invasion. They managed to prim the generator into missile and convert it into an anti lambent missile before the marines set up the launch count down on the missile.
The strike team raced towards the Pinnacle Hotel where Adam Fenix was located. However, Anya and captain Narville were separated from the strike team and only to found Adam Fenix dying after the helghast shot him but nearly executed him.
Marcus founded his father dead and then his father death drove Marcus into rage and insanity , after suffering the lost of his best friend Dominic Santiago along with his father. Marcus snapped and turned against Narville , Sev , Anya , Rico and Jammer and the entire strike team then Marcus attempted to kill Narville for revenge.
After a brutal fight with Narville , Marcus managed to wounded Narville badly but he nearly killed Anya and Narville before Rico and Sev were forced to gun him down only to wound the veteran sergeant. To make matters worse, when an explosion occur sending down flaming debris , crashing on top of Marcus and sending Marcus down to his death.
The lambent was attacking Azura in a full force forcing the helghast forces stationed on the island to flee . The assault causing what is left of the ISA and COG strike team to flee and end up rescued by ISA marine reinforcements. The missile was launch and the anti-lambent generator detonated in the atmosphere of Sera successfully killing the locust and the lambent bringing an end to the war forever.
The gears and the remaining ISA marines flee the island and joined up with the surviving Sereans on their battle fleet.
The helghast quickly withdrawal most of their invasion forces and left Sera along with the ISA . Since Sera was already a waste land of destruction, millions of lives lost and there was no point in continuing their war on the planet with the lambent infestation interrupting their war.
A uneasy statement was reached while both nations went in their separate ways ; the helghast went back to Helghan and the ISA and the surviving Sereans heading for Vekta. The ISA granted the survivors from Sera alyssum in Vekta and the rest of the survivors were given refuge on the ISA home planet. Sera was no longer their home for the surviving humans from Sera but their new home was Vekta
It was a turning point in the Locust lambent war and the Second Extrasolar War but the events occurred on Sera will never be the same.
Prejudge
ISA High Command and ISA Navy Command
To Admiral Alex Grey.
Interplanetary Strategic Alliance Intelligence Report
The Coalition of Ordered Governments was a supranational globe alliance on planet Sera . The COG is organized as a socialist political fraction theorized by human military leaders and politicians in beliefs of political concept : Order, Diligence, Purity, Labor, Honor, Loyalty, Faith, and Humility. The Coalition Government has a virility of rich cultural background in sociality with advance technology based on computers and high caliber weaponry. Their technology was outdated but advanced but much different than ISA or helghast technology. Not only was the Coalition only a superpower, the COG fought a 74 year war with the Union Independent Republics another globe superpower alliance after a grand discovery of a super raw material fuel known as the imulsion. Imulsion was more than a scientific efficient energy source , a fuel that was capable of multiple uses for fuel and advanced weaponry. Both superpowers relied on the imulsion to build weapons of mass destruction.
The Coalition was later involved in a brutal war with the locust horde , a race of underground hominid reptile abomination creatures for their undying thirst of genocide. The locust horde fought a senseless and bloody war with the COG ; a war that leaves millions died and creating endless destruction and chaos. But the Coalition did the most inhuman act of all ; using their own weapons of mass destruction and sacrificing their own civilians to stop the advance horde.
The VSA , UCN and ISA Intelligence will conduct an investigation in this unspeakable horrors from the locust war and the cause of the war . The Coalition of Ordered Governments survivors will be under investigation, the exact cause and facts from the locust or the COG were limited and more details will be updated to the military intelligence and the public. Vekta and her people must have the right to know about the war occurred on Sera. Humanitarian aid and support has been mobilized and will depart to Sera accompanied by UCN and ISA peacekeeping task forces in 0220 hours.
Vekta
The 60th ISA battle fleet were slowly entering atmosphere of Vekta, home of the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance. Finally, The fleet entered the volumes humble clouds gathering in the beautiful skies breaking free from the atmosphere , Vekta reminded the COG survivors about their planet Sera and Sera was nothing but an unstable wasteland of destruction and chaos.
Vekta was the perfect place to call home because of it's beauty of Vekta, a stable and healthy environment filled with a surface itself was a temperate green colour mixed with jungles and forest and fresh blue water. Across that environment was another surface of blue waves and sparks leading to a massive crowd of sparking buildings faraway , Vekta was now the planet of hope . A planet free of chaos and destruction away from the lambent or the locust , thankfully those genocidal creatures can't fly in space. Vekta is far away from Sera.
Sera will never be the same for the people of the COG because of countless years of war and the struggles of hardships and the fleet was slowly approaching a large military base. Massive metal crane structures , military style short and long buildings, steel bunkers and AA battery emplacements.
It was the Fort Fokker
Fort Fokker
Airfield landing platforms
008 hours later
Most of the ISA fleet was docked and locked before the ships had the chance to unload the refugees. The base was on high alert and mobilized for the new arrival of the refugees , The ISA marines or active military personal were setting up makeshift beds in the nearest hanger bays for the incoming refugees and the medical centre next to the Command and Control structure was turned into a makeshift hospital. The Interplanetary Strategic Alliance empties nearly most of their resources for the new coming refugees . Security teams and crew mobilized their vehicles and weapons for crowd control.
The elevator ride from the docked ISA cruiser locked by the crane structure tower was 5 minutes short before the elevator touch down on the cement ground and it unloaded all of its cargo of Coalition civilians and gears down to the landing pads . The first wave of refugees were given a friendly warm welcome from the ISA marines directing them to the hanger structures before a security detail of Vekta security troopers escorted them to one of hangers where the refugees were given medical attention and food .
The interplanetary Strategic Alliance forces were everywhere with vehicles and technology the COG had never seen; ISA mobile battle exoskeletons and armored vehicles securing a perimeter for the refugees and they were on guard for any suspicious activities while the ISA marines in full body armor and helmets with blue visors were standing on guard waiting for someone to shoot at them
A squad of ambulances were waiting near the landing pads where a group of ISA marines pushing stretchers filled with wounded civilians or gears . ISA marines everywhere on the ground shouting out for orders as ISA gunships hovered over the base keeping an eye on any suspicious activities. The Vektans were doing as much as they can to help the refugees since they had no idea these newcomers been though a hell lot of trouble from a war the vektans had never seen.
" Welcome to Vekta , please make your way to hanger 18H and wait there for further instruction , a supervisor or an officer will require your name and nationality . Those in combat form , please put your armor and weapons to the armory." Called a PA announcement " On behalf of the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance , the ISA would like to express our thoughts and prays to those lost in this horrible conflict."
A long quiet stream of gears and civilians walking aimless into a large structure hangers escorted by ISA security troopers. The place was packed with a mixture of ISA marines and refugees coming in and out of the hanger structure . The structures were made out of metal and cement making the base free of diseases and germs
The gears had to strip off their armor and weapons and turned them to the ISA personal on guard stationed at the metal barricades on their left . Medics and doctors were treating the refugees who were injured or traumatized as much as they can at the medical centre . Other refugees were escorted to the waiting shuttles or army trucks only to be send to another refugee camp set up near ISA army base.
A group of ISA officers or volunteering marines were managing a list of names that had just arrived at the base. More people in ISA uniforms or fatigues rushing out of the buildings to offer any assistances to the newfound refugees by escorting them to the medical centres or passing water bottles or snacks to the frighten refugees. Almost many of the ISA troopers felt deeply sorry for those people wishing they could do something and also they were anger wondering why would god do something terrible to the COG for something the COG never done .
But the people of Vekta could see these refugees had been thought more than anyone can imaged and they were not like the helghast , the ISA had to respect that . They had no idea how a war in Sera traumatized these people and how a war would scar them for the rest of their lives; so many people lost everything from their homes , friends , family and their planet and everything they care about has been robbed by the war.
These refugees from Sera will never be the same and all of them vow never to come back to Sera forever before accepting Vetka was their home at last .
But the COG survivors will never forget the kindness of the ISA and the people of Vekta who given them a new home and treating them as one of their own. But the damage has been done to these people.
Fort Fokker Hanger 18H
The hanger was packed with so many anxious quiet and nervously people who had just arrived from the ISA cruisers.
A squad ISA marines were giving water bottles and snack to the tired refugees while a pair of ISA officers were asking for names as they recorded them down on a Ipad tablet . People were sitting on the bunks with what's left of their families and their bags put to the side while the other refugees were continuing to thank the ISA troopers for saving them from 17 years of hell.
A small team of ISA troopers were channeling the stream of refugees to the waiting immigrant representative staff waiting at the Barracks on the west section of the fort before directing them to their assigned hangers.
A lone woman sitting alone in a corner with a blanket on her shoulders watching others sitting in their makeshift bunks in silent or hugging their love ones together. bandages covered her nose and her eye along with her forehead
how many people have to die this way ? she thought to herself while a sole tear poured down her face. " Name ? Rank ? please ? " asked a officer in ISA fatigues interrupting her thoughts standing next to her spot. " Anya Stroud, Lieutenant " Anya said softly to the officer
The officer nodded politely and left before First Class Sergeant Thomas Sevchenkoarrived at her bunk with a cup of fresh water in his hands .
" Here you go." Said Sev " The others will be meeting with you soon. Now they are getting medical attention first but they will join you as soon as possible."
Sev paused and let out a sign then continued " I just got word from the doctor , Narville in surgery and I not sure what his condition is but I hope he can make it . Is there anything I do just tell me now. I keep my word that I been there -"
" Lieutenant Stroud ? " asked a voice behind Sev interrupting Sev's sentence , the two turned to see two male agents in suits approaching them ; one of them was holding a badge representing a eagle symbol hold the flag of the ISA.
" My name is agent Victor Collins from Interplanetary Strategic Alliance Intelligence Agency . This is my partner Johnson Richardson. We would like to ask a few questions about the events occurring on your planet." said the Agent . " It wouldn't take long."