Author note: Alright so this is my first story here on Fanfiction but please don't go easy on me just because I am new at this stuff, all criticism is appreciated. English is not my native language. I have tried to gather as much information on the Prehistoric Human Empire as I can from Halo wiki so if any of you find something that doesn't fit in please tell me and I will look into it (Since I haven't read any of the novels of the Forerunner saga I look past them, sorry). Now I hope you all enjoy the ride. ;)

The new home

Around the year of 109.300 B.C.E

Yprin Yprikushma walked through one of the great halls in the government palace on the planet of Charum Hakkor, heading to one of the many meeting rooms to meet with three admirals, the female Admiral Torres Talma and her two male colleagues Admiral Kullar Valdema and Admiral Legimol Tasmor.

She walked into the meeting hall through the automated door, which silently closed behind her. She was the first to arrive. She looked around and took in the surroundings of the meeting hall. The room was circular and made entirely out of metal, in the center of the room was a large dent in the floor, revealing it as a large hologram projector, right now it was offline. To the left were a lot of computer terminals showing all kind of date on their holographic screens. A great section of the wall to the right was replaced by a glass like material, giving a great view over the capital city on the planet. Yprin Yprikushma walked over to the window and looked out over the city with the setting sun in the horizon, deep in her own thoughts.

"It truly is a beautiful view isn't it, Empress Yprikushma?" A deep male voice came from the entrance. Yprin Yprikushma turned slowly on the spot and was greeted by the three admirals as they entered the meeting room, all of them wearing their extremely maneuverable yet strong and thick dark military armor.

"You are completely right Admiral Valdama, especially at this hour of the day." Yprin said, with a bit of sorrow in her voice, as she turned to look out of the window one last time.

"But it's not the time to be looking at setting suns. We are gathered here today to put our plans into action. Is the fleets ready to depart, admirals?" she asked the three high ranking officers as she turned around yet again and shifted her gaze between them.

"Yes, your highness. All ships are in position and await our orders." Said the female admiral, her voice somehow singing but still had the brutality of a person constantly giving sharp orders and had seen way to many battles.

"And we have the coordinates for the meeting point and to our targets location." The last of the admirals finished.

"Very good, the plan is running smoothly so far. Then there is only one thing left to do before the meeting is over. Admiral Torres Talma please step forward." Yprin said while making a gesture for the female admiral to stand in front of her.

Torres complied a bit surprised." This was not a part of the meeting." She thought to herself. She looked back at her colleagues; they looked just as surprised as her.

Yprin put her hands on Torres' shoulders and said "Congratulation you have just been promoted to Lord of admirals"

The three admirals could do nothing but stare at the Empress in utterly surprise.

"B-but Your highness there can only be one Lord of Admirals at the same time!" Admiral Tasmor protested looking from the empress to the newly promoted Lord of admirals and back again, trying to understand what was going on.

"I am aware of the law, thank you. And she will only officially be promoted when you three leave with your fleets."

"I Know we are losing the war against the Forerunners, but isn't this a little extreme? They haven't even made it to the nearby systems yet" Admiral Tasmor kept protesting.

"I know, but it is just a matter of time of before they do and I have to make sure you three don't fight for command over the fleets when you leave. Remember you are our race last hope for survival." Yprin replied with a gentle and understanding tone as Torres stepped back between the two Admirals.

"I'm honored that you choose me as the new Lord of Admirals, your highness." Torres said as she bowed before her ruler.

"Just make sure that everyone makes it to safety to your new home." Yprin told her in a joyful mood as she dismissed them to do their jobs.

_Ω_

Lord of Admirals Torres Talma stood in front of the blast windows in the far end of her command bridge on her 7.5 kilometer long Armageddon-class Dreadnought*. All around the massive warship were dozens of other types of warships and civilian transport ships, ranking from small repair ships to the gigantic fleet carriers, which were 5 times bigger than the Armageddon-class Dreadnought. Torres dreadnought was making its way slowly to the front of the fleet through the tens of thousands of ships surrounding it. It was an impressive sight to say the least.

Torres and her part of the fleet had been the first to arrive at the meeting point; the other two had yet to show up with their respective parts of the fleet. She turned around and faced the crew member on the bridge. Everyone was working hard but she managed to the attention of one of the crew members working with the ships sensors.

"How long will it take before Admiral Tasmor and Valdema arrives?" Torres asked the officer with an emotionless voice. The sensor officer turned to his holographic screen and typing and moving around with different data a few times until he turned and face Torres again.

"Admiral Valdema should be here in 5 minutes and it has been reported that Admiral Tasmor has been delayed by a malfunction in the engines onboard one of his heavy transport ships, me lady." The officer answered calmly. Torres nodded her thanks and returned to command seat in the back of the bridge right behind the great hologram projector. She took her seat and waited for her ship to make it to the front of her fleet while she observed her crew and a few reports that required her attention.

It wasn't long after they had made it to the front when Admiral Valdemas fleet came out of slipspace and join her part. Valdemas flagship, another Armageddon-class Dreadnought, made its way up to the right side of Torres' and hailed her. The conversation was brief and was an exchange of status reports and the likes.

1 hour went by after the exchange of reports had ended before Admiral Tasmor showed up with the last part of the fleet.

"Sorry for the delay but the malfunction proved to be harder than the technicians thought it would be." Tasmor told them with a mix of embarrassment for being late on such an important mission and irritated at the technicians for doing their job faster and effective.

"What done is done, we can't alter the past. Let's just get on with the mission." Said Torres over the com-link as she ordered her crew to prepare for slipspace jump and pass the order to the rest of the fleet.

Within minutes the fleet and its 1.5 billion passengers were ready the jump of their lives. All wait in almost painful silence as they waited for the Lord of Admirals to give the green light. On Torres' command were all on their post, all looking at their Captain and Lord of Admirals as she was sitting in her chair, looking at a holographic display of the entire fleet with her ship forming the tip of the spearhead looking formation. She then turned her grace to the crew in front of her.

"Take us into slipspace, please." She almost whispered but in the silence it came out loud and clear. The crew compiled and soon thousands upon thousands of slipspace jumps could be seen as the entire fleet went into slipspace.

_Ω_

Even with all the newest technology of the Empire it still took them 6 months to get to their destination deep inside of the Perseus arm, far away from the wars, but now they had finally arrived. As one the thousands of ship exited slipspace at the same time. In front of them was a massive metal planet that was easily 2 times bigger than the gas giant Jupiter in their home system. The star system they found themselves in had a white star in the middle and 4 planets orbiting around it, one of them the giant metal planet.

Once again was Torres standing in front of the blast windows looking at the planet her ship orbited.

"So this is the planet Empress Yprin was talking about. This planet should keep us safe from both the Flood and the Forerunner. The so called shield world." Torres thought to herself as more ship vent into orbit and the planets sensors registered the friendly fleets' presence and opened it massive gates so the fleet could get in behind its protective shell and land at the many docking stations. Her dreadnaught moved through the gate with many of the other ships. The shell was thick and docking stations was between the protecting layers and the artificial sky on the other side of the hollow shell. Great lifts for both personal and heavy material connected with the surface of the "inner planet" to the sky and the lowest parts of the docking stations.

Torres as the rest of the 1.5 billion passengers was eager to get off their ships and see their new home. Outside the ship on the docking stations were people in the thousands trying to get to the lifts all trying to call out over the shouting to their families and friends. There was literally chaos everywhere and Torres came to the conclusion that she had seen more order on a fucked up battlefield where friend and foe didn't know which way to charge. It took hours before she and her lieutenants got on a lift and descended to the surface. Though the windows of the lift they could see farmland, military facilities, industrial areas, harbors and massive cities in the distance. A small smile found its way on Torres' lips as she made her way out of the tower which contained the lift and into the street where dozens of transport vehicles and aircrafts were being loaded with people, food, medicine and other kinds of critical materials that were needed in the massive cities around the globe.

"Good for that they took the time construct the cities and all the other facilities for us before we came here." Torres Thought as she looked at the artificial sun, rising in the horizon behind the nearest city. "This our new home, this world go under the name New Erde-Tyrene.**"

_Ω_

The year 100.000 B.C.E

It was a normal day like all the others for the last 1000 years, full of reports, speeches, meeting and list could go on for a few minutes, but Torres didn't really care anymore she adapted to the stress of being the new empress a long time ago. But unlike all the other days this one would be more special than she would ever imagine. It happened in the middle of a meeting where the politicians were discussing the idea of a new tax reform then the alarms suddenly went off. There was panic and confusion everywhere in the meeting room but Torres didn't have time to try to calm down the boring politicians and just made her way to the exit with fast and long steps.

Her two guards quickly took position a bit behind her on either side of her as she walk through the halls towards the command center. The palace halls were soon filled with soldiers in full body armor and energy based weaponry in their hands, all trying to get to their posts as fast as possible. They all made way for the empress and her two guards and gave them a quick salute as they passed by. The trio came to a heavy blast door which opened automatically with a quiet hiss and letting them enter the command center.

"Lord of Admirals Kullar Valdema What is going on!?" yelled Torres over the many voices the personal in the room, with a commanding and annoyed voice. The new Lord of Admirals turned around to face his empress on the podium in the middle of the command center.

"The alarms responded to an unknown energy wave that passed through the star system and we have lost contact with all ships outside the shield. We're currently trying to reestablish contact with them but with no luck so far." Answered Valdema with calm and collected voice. "One of the technicians is trying to hack his way through the firewalls to the surveillance databanks onboard a transport ship right now. " He continued in the same tone. It didn't take long before the technician got into the ships system and displayed the ships surveillance camera from its bridge on the great holographic screen at the end of the room.

The bridge perfectly fine but the entire crew was missing. Valdema ordered the technician to turn the tape 5 minutes back before the energy wave was registered so they all could what had happened onboard the ship. As some of them already had concluded it was the energy wave that somehow had obliterated the crew without damaging the ship the slightest.

"This, this is outrages! How many died in this attack!?" Torres shouted to no one in particular as high as her lungs allowed her. She looked around the room with eyes full of rage as she waited for an answer. An officer slowly lifted his hand to get her attention but coward a little when she made eye contact with him.

"Uhm… I-if everyone outside this planets shield died we would have suffered around 50.4 million casualties b-because of the new colonies on the other planet a-and the military patrols in the system, me lady." The poor officer answered. An awkward and painful silence dominated the room as the amount of the dead sank into everyone.

"The Forerunners must be behind this attack nor we or the San 'Shyuum have the technology to great such a weapon." Torres said to herself as she stared into the empty air. She straightened herself to her full height and at each person in the room with a dead serious expression and when talk again it was with an ice cold and reassuring voice.

"Hear me now, all of you as my witness one day we will return and reclaim our lost planets and we will rise from the ashes of our enemies cities, stronger than ever!" she finished with a roar as the personal roared their agreement and raised their hands. They would destroy all that dared stand in their way of reclaiming.

2. Author note: Alright I hoped you enjoyed the first chapter more will come. As the small * and ** they are just thing I will explain them down here.

* The Armageddon-class dreadnought is this ship . it's the main cannon that gives it its name. It is also armed with "normal" heavy and medium energy cannons (a lot like the plasma cannons the covenant uses just more powerful) it also carries 4 fighter squadrons (one squadron is 6 fighters) and 2 bomber squadrons (3 bomber in each squadron). A fully combat ready Armageddon-class dreadnought has a crew of 8000 to operate it and a ground invasion force of 1000 this include personal for tanks and other kinds of ground vehicles. More ships will be added to the list as we encounter them in the story.

** Erde-Tyrene, also known as Earth by the UNSC and Covenant, is the home world of the Prehistoric Human Empire. It's not the empires Capital or seat of power that would be the planet Charum Hakkor.