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The UNSC Rebirth jumped out of slip space into orbit of Reach. David-841 looked down from an observation deck. David scanned the landscape, he couldn't see any signs of life, not that he expected to.
The planet's surface had been razed 14 years earlier in covenant plasma bombardments, turning the immediate area to glass, and blasting dust over the rest of the planet. It had been confirmed that castle base had been destroyed. Now that the war was over the UNSC could now return they're efforts to reach.
Despite the glassed surface, ONI seemed to think there was something worth having down on the surface. The Rebirth's mission was to begin the restoration process, and deal with recovery. Only the captain and the staff involved where made aware of the missions content. The security detail- a team of Spartans IV's (which David was part of) - where left in the dark to the mission itself only that they were to protect the scientists and ONI officials whilst on the surface.
As David watched the still surface, most of the rest of the ship was working. equipment is removed from storage and checked, Spartan's train, and the ONI officers read over all of they're notes. the ship launched probes into orbit searching for anything of use on the surface, meanwhile officers on the bridge attempted to connect to any of the old satellites that where still intact. The ship was gathering as much data about what was left bellow as possible.
A small blue image of a woman appeared on the rail in front of him. It was Vic the ships AI. "Spartan 841, you are required in training now. please go to the training floor, I can see you are not busy." David watched the figure for a minute, he then turned and headed away from the rail. He didn't like being bossed about by an AI. Vic took the form of a Victorian woman, David wasn't sure why, AI choose they're own form.
Spartan training aboard the Rebirth consists of virtual "War games", and also combat training on the Training floor. in simulation the Spartans will usually work in they're 6 man teams. in a "war game" two 6 man teams, who fight in simulation, a certain objective usually kills of opponent team, or capture the objective type. Spartans have access to equipment that may normally be found on the battle field. generally each teams training is based around the weaknesses in earlier games.
David belongs to Able (vanguard) squad. Able is one of the top squads aboard the Rebirth, consisting of E-452, F-841,F-910 K-459, O-534, and R-436. as David approached the training Area he found Rex-910, and Kieron-459 waiting for him, Rex wore his Gungnir helmet on whilst Kieron carried his helmet under his arm. Rex was the squads sniper, he generally preferred to keep his helmet on. Kieron was basically a commando, he preferred assault weapons and was a brilliant shot with them.
"where are the rest of the squad?" David asked as he saw the others. Rex turned "they're already inside" his voice-muffled by the helmet- boomed through his helmets speakers.
on the bridge of the Rebirth the captain and bridge staff, stood by making checks. The ONI officer stood by waiting for the captain. He had a body-guard; an ONI Trojan. after they're success in the human-covenant war, ONI had decided to use they're own Spartan teams, at this point the Spartan-IV's where already in production and the ONI Trojans where largely influence by Spartan-IV program. the Trojan Program took a separate direction from the S-IV's focusing on stealth purposes, as agents apposed to soldiers. the armor of Trojans Armor is also quite different to that of the Spartans, much lighter, though similar in respect to the Gungnir and Recon models.
The officer was leaning over a data pad reading through data. his eyes scanned through all the information on all the Spartans aboard the Rebirth. Examining each squad in turn in Alphabetic order. he noted individual units on details not on rankings. His eyes flickered across the pages of information. he looked up occasionally checking on the captain, who was still giving orders to navigators and discussing events with Lieutenants. the officer uninterested in the activity of the captain continued to wait patiently.
eventually the captain untangled himself from subordinates and the ONI officer headed over to talk to him. "captain, How long till we'll be able to get to the surface?" the officer asks curtly. the captain glared at him not being a big fan of ONI secrets," a day or so. what will you be doing on the surface anyway?". the officer grinned a little "that as I'm sure your aware is classified", the officer turned and left the bridge. unlike most ONI officers this one was not a high ranking military personnel, or a Military scientist, he was a Operative.
ONI operatives never had a military role. they where usually used as clean up, sent out to retrieve classified information which had not been destroyed by the Cole protocol.
This is the first thing I've written in a long time... so it might be a little rusty, but i felt the need to write this up when I had this idea, ideas In this are mostly concepts from me real aside the obvious (Cole protocol for example is cannon) I've tried to make this tie in to the universe where plausible hence the time stamp (reach is a thriving colony again by about 2584, through cannon literature) I had originally planned to set it later, as a result Some of the ideas i had i may not use, as i had planned future tech into the plot (spartan V's etc) this is kind of where the Trojan idea came from.
as I said I haven't written anything for a while so I'd appreciate feed back. I'm honestly unsure how long this'll be but, we'll see I guess.