2755: July 11th: Alliance Space: Shanxi System: Bridge of Relentless Victory: 20:10
As I looked on at the fore runner construction drones using scrap metal and spare parts to forge a basic airtight conference room, neutral ground- of a sort, I remembered the first contact with the forerunner exploration party.
*flashback*
2557: July 15th: Edge of the Orion Arm: Uninhabited System: Bridge of the Infinity: 12:51
"What is that thing?" Captain Del Rio muttered.
I looked at him. "Obviously not the Chief. It looks Forerunner."
"I agree with our friend." Commander Sarah Palmer said.
Lasky smirked. "Try contacting it."
Del Rio raised his eyebrow. "Who put you in charge?"
I smiled behind my helmet. "I believe I did Captain."
"You can't order me around Spartan. This is my ship."
I responded with. "Actually Captain, if had you checked who I was when I came aboard you would have seen that I was promoted to Admiral so I could over rule any order on the battlefield. So for carelessness and insubordination I demote you to commander and make Lasky the Captain of the Infinity."
Lasky looked shocked as he watched Del Rio storm out of the bridge. "Well then, try contacting the vessel."
"Yes, Captain." The comms officer responded.
Within seconds one of the screens around the viewport changed to show a Forerunner Monitor with that was a shifting selection of colours instead of being white/blue like 343 Guilty Spark. "Greetings Reclaimers! I am 05-032 Mendicant Bias I am now in command of this Forerunner exploration fleet. Reclaimers, is there anything I may do for you before I continue with my previous objective?"
I shared a look with Lasky. "Well for one I would like to offer you a place in an alliance with the UNSC, we would greatly benefit from your assistance. Also we came here hoping to locate a damaged vessel that had succeeded in defeating the flood on installation 00. We are sending the appropriate data for analyse."
"Oh my! That's not good." Mendicant Bias muttered. "I have found it. It is heading for Requiem."
Lasky now spoke his mind. "Requiem? Can you send us the co-ordinates for it?"
"Oh no, I couldn't do that. You might wake him up. You see Requiem is officially a shield world but truthfully it is more of a… prison world. I contains the Forerunners greatest general, warrior and war criminal."
"You say that we might risk waking him? Well there is a Reclaimer on that ship that could easily wake him." I pointed out.
"That's not good at all. I believe I can access the Requiem controls and initiate a self-destruct sequence, but I can only do that on orders of a Reclaimer."
I nodded and Mendicant paused for a moment and then looked at me. "It is done."
"Now how about we talk about that alliance?"
"What a splendid idea Reclaimer! I am honoured that we still have a use all these years later."
I smiled. "Well Mendicant I can tell you one thing we are no way near as technologically advanced as the Forerunners."
*end of flashback*
2755: July 11th: Alliance Space: Shanxi System: Bridge of Relentless Victory: 20:10
"Sir!" Trib called from beside me.
I glanced over at her. "Yes Trib?"
"There is a cloaked ship hailing us. It is another species who only refer to themselves as the Geth. They are a synthetic species originally a workforce but when their creators attempted to kill them they fought back."
"Invite one on board Trib. They obviously want to remain hidden from our organic friends over there."
"Yes, sir."
