Chapter 1 forerunner ruins
In orbit around Epsilon Eridani ll the CSO-class supercarrier Solace in the night, the sister ship of the more famous Long Night Of Solace, was preparing to send a small scouting force to check if there was anything left on the planet.
"I still do not believe our plasma bombardment would have left anything but 'glass' " a sangheili zealot said while walking through the ships giant hanger toward a pelican dropship.
"Well if there's nothing left down their then why the hell is there a signal coming from down there?"asked the spartan beside said sangheili, helmetless.
"A fake by pirates?"the sangheili replied back.
"A never before seen encryption scheme that we easily cracked. You think pirates came up with that?" The spartan replied earning him a glare from the sangheili. They continued walking to the pelican in silence or as silent as a hangar bay can get.
An hour later a team of 5 zealots, a spartan and 4 ODST'S were walking around near a forerunner ruin unearthed thanks to the planet being glassed, trying to find the entrance without blowing a hole in the wall. It took another hour but they managed to find it and entered into a small chamber, with a brown helmet in the middle of the room and a pair of dogtags. When the spartan got close enough to read them they read: Joerge-052 next to them carved in the metal was: tell em to make it count as well as a large kukri knife. Walking away from the strange looking memorial and following the rest of his team the spartan walked into the next room where there was a large control panel. Going up to said control panel it... activated? After the panels activation a moniter floated into the room "another reclaimer wonderful you can activate the portal" it chirped happily while hovering next to the spartan.
"What do you mean another reclaimer? I though we were the only people who had been to this planet since its fall" the spartan asked confused why it had said there was another spartan here.
"Another reclaimer in brown armour went through the portal, though they were wounded. Now you should activate the portal allowing you and you're comrades access to the planet beyond." It replied slightly confused itself. While the spartan activated his radio.
"Captain we have found a moniter that wants us to... open a portal to a planet, orders?"he asked
"I would suggest waiting until we can get reinforcements but we don't have enough time with that pirate force on our tail so try activating the portal and we'll head through."
"Roger that" the spartan said before cutting the connection "moniter how do we activate your portal?" He asked.
"Simply press the largest button the the control panel and I can do the rest, I suggest heading back to your ship" the moniter replied already launching sentinels.
"Ok, back to the pelican then the carrier" the spartan said over team-com as they ran back to the pelican. Just as they made it to the pelican the forerunner device began... moving? Or more accurately reconfiguring itself.
Just as the pelican landed back into the main hanger a massive slipspace portal opened, "good god, a halo would fit through that" one of the ODST'S gasped when they saw the size of it. Soon after the portal opened the supercarrier began getting pulled into the portal, though they began to willingly go through instead of being pulled, ending up in low orbit above a planet similair to reach before it was glassed.
Meanwhile in a small farming village a women was tending to her field when a strange feeling overtook her causing her to look up. What she saw was the massive silhouette of a covenant supercarrier in low orbit emerging from a massive slipspace portal, a terrified look creeper onto her face, quickly recovering and sprinting into her farm house. For the next few minutes that village heard the whir of machinery come from her house until a figure in faded brown armour, minus the helmet, walked out with a strange looking gun on her back and what looked like a sword hilt on her thigh next to an equally strange pistol...