Chapter 1: The first contact
Before the chapter starts I want to point out this is a star wars AU where the rebels fail the attack on the death star, luke dies and the remaining rebels are swiftly crushed making the imperial Empire the main and completely uncontested force in the star wars galaxy.
As the combined forces of the UNSC and Covenant scout force moved across a gas giant the captain of the UNSC Dawn could not find anything to quell his boredom, but then again none of his crew could either.
Ever Since the discovery of the portal that led to another galaxy nothing interesting, there had been no signs of life or anything else worth more than a glance, infact now that the captain thought about it nothing major had really had happened back home either, with the help of the covenant most of the insurrectionist groups had been crushed and so nothing interesting seemed to happen anymore.
The relatively small fleet of 3 Paris-class heavy frigates (the captains ship included) and 4 SDV-class heavy corvettes had been set out further into the yet unexplored galaxy than ever before and at first the crew had been excited but now 13 hours in and nothing!
Just as the captain of the UNSC Dawn was about to order the rest of the fleet to slipspace to the next system the ship's onboard scanners picked up the signal of a spacecraft of some kind entering the system a couple kilometers to their right.
Ordering his fleet to hold their position the captain ordered his ship alone to move to intercept the 63 metre long vessel and then to open communications, he did however order the UNSC Dawn's weapons to be readied in case the contact turned out to be hostile, He was upon sending a greeting message met with an unpleasant surprise when the tiny vessel's captain, a man wearing a grey uniform, instead demanded to know who they were and then proceeded to demand their surrender to the Empire immediately after, the UNSC Dawns captain seemingly not threatened by the man's words laughed before asking what such a puny vessel as there's could do, the unknown vessel response was to open fire upon the UNSC Dawn with it's single laser turret.
The plasma rounds did little to the 2 metre thick titanium-A armour of the UNSC Dawn and at once the Captain ordered for a small volley of archer missiles to be fired at the small ship, the archer missiles proved to be overkill as the first missile incinerated the small vessel and all it's crew.
The command deck soon calmed once again as the scanners confirmed no other hostile ships in the area however it held a grim atmosphere at the possibility of a new foe.
"We got a problem on our hands don't we, Gregory" the ship's onboard A.I said to the captain.
"Indeed we do Daniel, Indeed we do" was Gregory's reply to the A.I.
And that's a rap! Took a surprising amount of time to write that and I am still sure there is some improvements to be made.
On a side note I need more character names to be used later in the story as I am not an amazing person when coming up with names so if anyone has a name for a character or even a ship that is relevant to the story please send them to me.
Thank you for reading!
