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I decided to re-upload story cause the first one got a bugged/glitches after I removed chapter 4. Also I updated it a little so I hope you will forgive me for a new upload.
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Captain's log: 08:45 Earth time September 3, 2163.
"4 years of war we fight against the Turians and now the Batarians.
It's actually ironic, after the Citadel intervened and forced peace between us and Turians during the so called "First contact war", which lost its purpose now.
The peace only lasted 3 years, this was because one of Turian specters discovered that we use an A.I. Ironically, as far as I know, it's not an A.I. of our making.
The point is that since now "we" as a whole human race know of Citadel law, and one of those laws is the prohibit AI use. And as soon as the Turians learned that, the attack on us started once again, only that now "the gloves are off" as Turians ignored the damage done on our planets during their assaults. As such, civilian casualties are high. The surviving military is horded on Turian ships and transported to either labor camps on Turian camps build on colony they occupy or orbital/asteroid/meteor mines while colonist are under strict curfew law.
Our fleet is decimated in the battles against our enemies. I would never have thought that the Turians would employ such aggressive admirals against us. The Batarians on other hand were expected to do just that. After all the council, gave us permission to colonize "Skyllian Verge". Now they have a chance to pay us back, and they do that with the destruction of every Human ship or station they found. For colonies, we received reports that human colonists are either sold as slaves, while those who resist are executed mercilessly.
For now, our only hope is to hold against Turians and Batarians long enough to either get the Citadel to pardon us for the use of A.I. or to force both races into retreat from our offensive after our fleet, with the use of guerilla tactics, weakens theirs.
However, our admirals want my ship to go into a previously restricted mass relay. The Normandy will transport a squad of heavily armed soldiers and a System Alliance representative. The reason why is unknown to me, as all details are classified. However there is a rumor spreading around the admirals, I quote "It's time to ask our 'forgotten' brothers for help"
I don't know what this means, but if nothing else, it will be interesting and a good distraction from the war we are losing at the moment."
Captain of the Normandy: David Edward Anderson.
On 2424 Insurrection constructs massive colony ships and armed ships. Their objective is to flee UNSC controlled space. This fleet soon counted 30 colony and 16 military ships and it went on its journey in 2426. The journey lasted for almost a 100 years. When they arrive at their destination they settled on a planet that can support human life. In 2534 the insurrections build their home on planet they now call New Earth.
In 2541 they are officially renamed into System Alliance and they develop their own ships and technology, however they still use A.I.s that they brought with them. In 2542 they discover a mass relay, something they call "the greatest discovery in mankind history". As they made this discovery, the first generation from colony ships decided to change their time-line into the one before mankind went into space, thus into 2000. During the time of First contact war, only the high admirals know of UNSC while the rest of System Alliance knows nothing about their long lost relatives due to cover story the insurrection leaders come up. By the time of first contact they had 42 colonies under their control with 12 more in development.
In 2157, the System Alliance newest colony Shanxi makes first contact with alien force shortly after they send a 3 ship expedition through a dormant mass relay. This started the 3 month war between the aliens known as Turian Hierarchy and the human System Alliance. The war ended when a group of aliens known as "Citadel Council" intervened and brokered peace. While First contact war had no official winner, its publicly believed its the System Alliance, as it did suffer fewer losses than the Turians did. Alliance is favored by the council due to their military strength and with its permission they now spread their colonies by using "citadel" mass relays. This led them into "Skyllian Verge", where another alien species, known as Batarians wanted to settle their colonies, thus spreading mistrust among the Alliance and the Batarians.
In 2158 Alliance begins their project of constructing carrier class ships and stealth ships. Other races are impressed by the humans "thinking outside the box" and begin to duplicate alliance carriers into their forces while stealth ship is kept a secret from them. Alliance starts N7 programs, in short Alliance wanted to train super soldiers compared to normal marines.
In 2159 shocking news about the Alliance is revealed to the Citadel council by one of their top specter agents Saren Arterius. This news was about Alliance using A.I. which is prohibited by Citadel laws. Council demands that the Alliance facility on Sidon which is researching and developing A.I. , decommission all existing A.I.s, while Alliance faced heavy fines and censure as a result. Alliance refuses to decommission all A.I. pointing out that their A.I.s are different than the Geth. As a response to Alliance refusal, Turians deploy additional forces on Alliance borders.
In 2160 a human survivalist paramilitary group known as Cerberus launches a preemptive strike against Turian fleet massing at Shanxi relay. Cerberus deployed 9 freighters, each carrying several megaton yield warheads. This resulted in massive casualties for the Turians as 6 of their 37 dreadnoughts were destroyed along with currently unknown number of cruisers and frigates. Council is shocked by humans possessing forbidden weapons while Turians launch a full scale invasion as a retaliation, as the result Shanxi defense fleet was destroyed and Shanxi was lost once again. Now a full scaled war has begun and Batarians joined the Turians in their "just crusade against the rouge Humans"
Date: January 9, 2164
Location: frontline around Eden Prime, SSV Leonardo da Vinci
Admiral Hackett stood on top of his new flagship on the war scarred 8th fleet. The last one, a dreadnought class was destroyed in the last massive engagement against the Turian 4th legion. SSV Fuji was destroyed when it rammed one of the Turian dreadnoughts and destroyed both of them along with several Batarian cruisers in the resulting explosion. The battle was eventually lost, but the Alliance navy managed to delay the Batarian and Turian ground forces long enough for most of Alliance civilians to be evacuated from Elysium.
"Admiral, we're detecting a relay activation, frigates SSV Bulge, Stalingrad, Midway, Okinawa, Neretva and Sutjeska are moving in to inspect incoming" spoke Leonardo da Vinci navigator "Cruisers SSV Washington and Berlin are moving in to support them in case of hostile forces"
"Man, I sure hope that they aren't hostiles, we don't have any dreadnoughts to support us "spoke one of the Vinci com officers.
"Deploy our fighters and interceptors, then send word to Eden to prepare for a possible ground attack" spoke Admiral Hackett as he observed the map of system and continued "Arm nuclear warheads on our heavy fighters, we will need them if enemy has dreadnoughts too"
"Aye aye sir" was heard from various personnel on da Vinci CIC.
"Admiral, our advance forces near the relay report that they engaged Turian forces. Stalingrad and Midway are destroyed, Washington is crippled. I'm receiving report from Berlin about the size of the Turian forces: 12 frigates, 8 cruisers and a dreadnought. No report on any carrier's sir" spoke the Da Vinci com officer
"I can confirm that information sir, no Turian carriers are present in battle, however it's possible that it's just an advance party admiral" an officer spoke over the com from CIC "Admiral I request that you join us in the CIC, Turian formation is… different than what they normally use"
"Admiral, Washington was destroyed by Turian fighters, their GARDIANs were overwhelmed" spoke one of CIC officers over the com in a quiet voice "Have the remains of the advance forces to retreat towards our position to reinforce us" ordered admiral Hackett as he entered the CIC "When will our reinforces arrive?"
As he said that the advance forces have joined SSV Leonardo da Vinci and its escort fleet of several cruisers and frigates. Combined the System Alliance had 15 frigates, 12 cruisers and a carrier, thus having larger fleet then Turians, but Hackett knows that the main problem is their dreadnought with its massive firepower. The only way that he could now win, is by taking out that monster first and then focuses on driving the remains of Turian force away from Eden Prime.
"Divert our fighters, armed with nuclear warheads, to attack the dreadnought, have them fire their nuclear warheads as soon as they are in range, and have the remaining fighters provide torpedoes to swarm their GARDIANs along with our interceptors." ordered Hackett as he drew their route against the capital ship. A few moments later the entire fighter and Interceptor load was deployed from SSV Leonardo da Vinci and raced against the Turian fleet.
"Have 6 frigates and 4 cruisers to escort them and provide extra support against Turian interceptors" added one of CIC officers. Hackett nod and approved this order.
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SSV Berlin is leading the charge against Turian fleet. Luckily for it, it only received limited damage during knife fight at the relay. Now Berlin is once again on the offensive, leading strike force against Turians. This is exactly why Berlin was build with additional armor and additional disruptor torpedo launchers. This come at the price however, as its maneuverability was decreased by the additional weapons and armor.
"This is captain of SSV Berlin to all frigates in our group, use your GARDIAN lasers to deal with incoming one-man crafts, leave enemy ships to us" ordered captain of SSV Berlin as it maneuvered towards one of Turian cruisers and fired its mass accelerators at it. 4 rounds flew at fraction of light speed and impacted on cruiser kinetic barrier. The barrier held, but it bought time for the Human flotilla to get past it and engage dreadnought. Just to be sure about cruiser The Berlin fired its broadside mass accelerators at it, each of its 22 guns fired 3 rounds, the resulting barrage collapsed the Turian cruiser's kinetic barrier, allowing SSV Neretva to destroy it using their disruptor torpedoes.
It was then that the Turian dreadnought opened fire with its 4 mass accelerators and destroyed SSV Kursk with its barrage. Remaining 5 frigates split and attacked at knife range where dreadnoughts were defenseless and had to rely on its escort for protection. The purpose behind the knife attack however, was more of a distraction while remaining pairs of fighters fired their nuclear missiles against dreadnought. In order to provide confusion for Turian GARDIAN lasers those fighters who survived, launch their disruptor torpedoes. System Alliance nuclear weapons explode, creating several smaller suns in middle of Turian fleet. Nuclear radiation simply bypasses dreadnought kinetic barriers, killing its crew, while at the same time EMP unleashed from nuclear impact caused dreadnought systems to go crazy and shut down, rendering it dead in space.
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"Lieutenant, what's the status on our assault?"
"Sir, we lost 4 frigates and a cruiser, 76% of single manned ships are lost."
"And status on Turian fleet?"
"Our assault disabled their dreadnought and destroyed 3 frigates and 2 cruisers while nuclear explosions destroyed almost 89% of Turian single manned ships"
"So in overall we still have advantage compared to Turians"
"Admiral I suggest that we try to evacuate our population from the planet before Turian reinforcements arrive" spoke one of CIC officers "Our forces have gathered at the mass relay leading to the Turian world Magna, they will be unable to provide support for Eden Prime at this time."
"So this is how it will be then" spoke Hackett and sighed as he sat down on his chair "Very well then, launch all Kodiaks from Da Vinci and our escort. Have our frigates pull back from Turian fleet while cruisers provide covering fire"
"Yes sir!"
"Admiral, Turian fleet is retreating through the relay, I...I think we won!" spoke navigation officer.
"I can confirm that, all Turian ships except dreadnought have disengaged from fighting and retreated" addressed CIC officer to admiral Hackett
"That's good news, but I doubt, that they retreated for good. In any case, this gives us time to evacuate civilians" Hackett addressed the CIC crew.
Alliance fleet regrouped and in next couple hours managed to evacuate almost 80% of Eden Prime population. Due to the carrier's large size most of Eden's colonists have been moved to Da Vinci. As Kodiak shuttles continue to transporting colonists, admiral Hackett was in the communication room, reporting to Alliance HQ.
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"So, the initial assault on Eden Prime has been repelled, and Turians have lost one of their dreadnoughts thanks to nuclear missiles. Tell me admiral, is there any chance we could salvage it? It would be good to get another heavy hitter and perhaps some, intelligence on enemy movement." Spoke one of fleet admirals
"Sadly, it's impossible at the moment, our scanning shows that level of radiation will be lethal for any human without hazard suit, which we don't have any available at the moment" replied Hackett and show them the needed information. Another fleet admiral waved his hand and ordered "In that case you should do your best to destroy it before Turians can recover it" Hackett nodded to show that he understands the order "Tell me admiral, how is the colony evacuation that you issued?"
"Last Kodiaks are just approaching us, we will be ready to evacuate them in about 10 minutes. May I ask why you ask this sir?"
"We are preparing to attack Turian world Magna, where, as you know, Turians build, re-arm and re-fit stations for their fleets and the information provided by Cerberus suggests, that the Turian fleet there is small in size." Hackett took all this in consideration and after a while he spoke "Is this information reliable? This war did start because Cerberus used freighters loaded with nukes against Turian 3rd legion"
It was an old male voice that replied to this "Cerberus methods may be, "cowardly and dishonored" as Turian propaganda proclaims it to be, but their spy network rivals, if not even surpass, that of the Salarian Special Tasks Group. Therefor, I am personally confident about their information" same voice then coughed and continued "I will personally lead this operation with 5th scout fleet with support from 3 Cerberus cruisers." Before Hackett could respond, he noticed a flashing light on his data pad. "If you excuse me, admirals" he turned his back to HQ and check recently received data. After reviewing it he then once again faced them
"I just received report that combined force of Turians and Batarians just arrived, please excuse me" was last thing he said to the gathering admirals and walked outside of communication room. The moment he walked in CIC he was greeted by one of CIC officers who said "Admiral, were facing a force made out of 34 frigates, 8 cruisers and 3 dreadnoughts, but once again, no carriers detected."
Hackett shake his head in dismay. "Why 3 of them?" He thought to himself "Eden Prime is agricultural world, it has no industry or anything of strategic value"
"Lieutenant, tell me, do Batarians have larger amount of ships in this fleet?" CIC Lieutenant went over the data provided by scanning and replied "Admiral, 2 dreadnoughts are indeed Batarian along with 20 frigates, the rest are Turian"
"I see, Batarians are hoping to gather slaves, if Intel is correct" was Hackett thought once again and replied "Thanks son". He then focused on the star map and evaluated his position and a possible course of action. It was almost a routine deployment for both of races. While Turians guarded the mass relay, thus preventing Alliance fleet from escaping through it, Batarians on launch attacks on the colony itself. It was in their nature to use frigates as troop transports as well as warships. For now it seems like both fleets are either ignoring or so far did not notice the Alliance fleet. And Hackett is now planning to make them regret that.
"Lieutenant, tell me that dreadnought is rigged to explode"
"Admiral?"
"Is the Turian dreadnought that we crippled in first battle rigged to explode or is it not?"
"Sir, hold on I need to check it"
"Then do so already!" ordered Hackett with slight trace of anger in his voice. It took lieutenant several minutes to respond to his order "Admiral, we managed to put a drone inside one of dreadnought hangars. It carries 4, 20 kiloton bombs, the same we put on heavy fighters,…"
"I assume it has remote detonation?"
"No admiral, it has a timer set to explode in about an hour or so, why?"
"Because lieutenant, that ship may actually help us escape now,…" begin Hackett to explain his plan when he was interrupted by CIC officer "Admiral, our Kodiaks are attacked by Batarian fighters, they are going down fast!"
"Send whatever fighters and interceptors we have left to save as many as we can!" ordered Hackett and turned back to the map. Several new blue dots appeared on tactical map and raced against Kodiaks and Batarians "Sir, we lost too many fighters in the first battle, we can't save them all!"
"I am aware of this lieutenant, now tell me, are Turians trying to salvage their crippled dreadnought?" asked Hackett almost annoyed. "And if they are, can we set the bomb to explode early?" CIC lieutenant, now getting general idea what admiral plan is replies "Sir, I think that we can change hour setting to 90 seconds" Hackett nodded in approval and turned to see what will happen. The dreadnought was relatively close to the mass relay, so now that the Turian forces have arrived they are relatively close to it. He grinned as he noticed the new dreadnought trying to dock with the other one. "Update timer on bombs"
"Admiral, what if they discover it before it detonates?" asked female CIC officer as she updated the timer on the drone carrying the nuclear weapons. "The radiation from the heavy fighter attack should scramble their scanners and given that its only 90 seconds before it blows up, they won't know about it until it's too late for them"
"Admiral, 60 seconds left" spoke the Lieutenant as he watched the time counting down and waiting nervously "Surviving Kodiaks have docked with the fleet, there is about 28% of local garrison trapped on planet surface, I'm sorry, we couldn't save more admiral"
"This is war, people die and we need to focus our attention to those we can save"
"30 seconds"
"Have the fleet ready to make a small FLT jump towards the mass relay and be ready to plot course out of the system"
"10 seconds"
"Fleet wide FTL jump calculated"
"5,...4,…3,…2,…1,…"
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As soon as the lieutenant said one, the crippled dreadnought exploded from the inside out. All 4 nuclear bombs exploded at once turning it into the biggest fragmentation grenade known to the Alliance military. Debris of the once proud and mighty ship hit its sister ship. Because they were docked together it was hit at high speed close enough for kinetic barriers not to activate. Multiple impacts forced the dreadnought's hull to fracture and collapse, venting artificial atmosphere along with Turian crew into cold vacuum of space.
Admiral Hackett counted on this and on that the Turians would focus on their damaged flagship and not on human fleet escaping.
"Fleet wide order, every alliance ship, jump on my signal... MARK!" ordered admiral Hackett to the ships under his command. A few moments later the entire surviving 8th fleet jumped into the middle of the Turian flotilla. Few moments after they jumped, a volley of disruptor torpedoes and broadside mass accelerators hit the stunned cruisers, destroying 6 of them. However this short FTL jumped caused frigates SSV Kursk to collide with cruiser SSV Berlin. The collision took out both ships, thus further weakening the already weakened 8th fleet. It took the Alliance V.I. few moments to register that, and only 12 seconds to make correction course on the mass relay and then with these corrections, they fled from the system towards the nearest Alliance controlled system.