through ice and snow

by coldastheancientirons

between the Humans and the Elites and other Covenant species, howevera loyalist faction remains to finish their mission to destroy humanity. On the frozen world of Argentate the UNSC has staked a claim but so have the loyalists and both have been drawn by the obvious forerunner influence on this world. now spartan Frost investigates the ruins and to stop the loyalists.

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S-146

Call sign: [Frost]

fire team: [Virgo]

name: [Redacted]

spartan gen:S-4

Gender: male

associated fire team role: [Tracking/Wet work]

load out: [SRS 99-S5 Anti-Material sniper rifle]/[2x M7S Sub machine Gun ]/[5x std flash-bang grenade]/[2x C-7 foam explosive canisters]

AI equipment: [ONI gen 2 AI designate "Thea"]

armor series: [gen-2]

armor classification: [raider]

visor: [4.06]

current objective: Reconnaissance of possible covenant loyalists base at the southern pole of colony world [Argentate]

secondary objective: locate and secure possible forerunner installation at southern pole of colony world [Argentate]

tertiary objective: [classified]

ship deployed: UNSC heavy cruiser [Ambassador]

ship commanding officer: CPN Jason Graye

Oni attache: [Redacted]/ S-302/ Colonel Gail whyte

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deep in space near a warm and radiant sun the UNSC ambassador gently glides to a silvery Sphere in orbit around the sun but despite the suns warm caress this world was cold and unforgiving but after months of colonization efforts a human settlement finally took root. now that settlement was at risk from loyalist covenant and possibly an even more catastrophic flood infestation. at the helm of the heavy cruiser Ambassador captain Jason Graye lamented his close associations with oni that led to him having to act as a courier for the strike team assigned to deal with these threats.

"Five months...five long months to reach this snowball world, and for what? to find some ancient relics and fight covenant?", He mused, remembering an age gone by.
His only real regret here was that he was simply used as a transport for a, "covert strike team" to handle the, "potential threat" to the colony. those assholes probably where just getting high and saw some giant lizards, he questioned the idea of lizards on an ice world but quickly remembered the briefing colonel Gail gave to the crew about Argentate wildlife.

"giant lizards that ran down prey, massive herbivores the size of an elephant troop carrier with tusks harder than titanium-a, flying bat like mammals that are drawn to and fed off of electrical current, and a possible sapient species of bipedal amphibians that inhabited the sea at the equator, the only place to warm for ice to form, they rarely exited the waters due to the predatory lizards designated as, "ice runners" and to the fact that the only thing on the surface they needed was the atmospheric gases to breath despite a noticeable gill system.

Graye however, had slept through most of it, "not that it mattered" he breathed quietly to himself he wasn't going surface side anyway. "hope the strike team has fun" he snickered.

-in the cryo bay-