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Emperors Palace.
They will most likely start their attack at the Capitol.
They either hover above the city, and deploy troops beneath it and expand out ward, also while deploying drop pods to key points around the city, to keep the defenders from massing their forces; or they sit up in orbit, and glass the city."
"Glass?"
They have a powerful energy weapon that is used to burn the surface of a planet until the surface is a layer of melted glass, a mile deep. But they usually only do that in a fleet. And with only one ship, they won't do that, probably."
"What about those drop pods you spoke about?"
"Small, single occupant, they drop from the ship, and deploy troops, usually Elites."
"Elites?"
"Yeah… I think that now would be a good time to tell you what exactly we are up against." The AI Cortana said.
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Bridge of Covenant Cruiser 'Unrelenting'
"Is everything set?"
"Yes shipmaster"
Good-
"Shipmaster, incoming message from the surface."
Put it on.
The holoscreen on the command deck lit up.
On it was an image of a lizard creature, covered in elaborate paint.
It spoke off to the side, just hisses and pops.
Then the lizard's speech became understandable.
"I am Supreme Fleet lord Atvar, of the 3rd conquest fleet of the Race, can you identify you self, your ship, your purpose and your intentions for being in this orbit?"
Shipmaster Kantus 'Morom'ee, thought about this for a moment.
This lizard had not threatened him or his ship. He had merely named himself, his title, and asked for Kantus's reason for being here.
"I am Shipmaster Kantus, of the House of 'Morom. I am the Shipmaster of the Stealth Cruiser 'Unrelenting'. Our mission is to recover the Demon, a super soldier of the filthy human race, one that has killed millions of our people. We have been tasked with taking him to the Holy City of Joyous Exultation, for justice."
Now he waited.
The alien's reaction would determine if the covenant ship attacked or not.
Though, the shipmaster realized that the lizard did not have facial expressions, like humans.
So the answer would be in words.
"So, this 'Hoou-mainn', would it have anything to do with that wreck in orbit, would it?
Because, we of the Race sighted it, and thought it was an asteroid. We fired a nuclear rocket at it. The ships defense system shot it down.
After we approached the ship, sending soldiers, our team got in.
They found a terminal, and the data specialist, discovered that, there were many programs that were doing nothing. I am no expert, but the Male said that the programs were an advanced form of automation. After finding that we could not adapt the programs to do anything, we promptly deleted them.
The team also found an armored being. It was dead. The Male said that the program that was assigned to regulate the cold sleep tube became erratic and shut down the unit.
"We could not gleam anything from it, so we sent it to be burned in the atmosphere."
"You did what? Why, if it was advanced technology would you not keep it for study?" Kantus had him now. All he had to wait for was a slip of the tongue.
"No the Emperor deemed it too advanced for us. We are a very cautious species, shipmaster.
We spend hundreds of years developing things so that the disruptions in our society are minimal. Otherwise, our empire would not have lasted over 100,000 of our planets revelations, years the humans call them, and we have managed to extract some data from the wrecks computers."
'So, they are not hiding the Demon.' The shipmaster thought sourly.
"May I send a team to be sure? I was tasked with this objective, and I must see it finished."
By all means, then maybe we can work out a peace so that the Empire and the Covenant will never have to fight."
"Yes…" the shipmaster ended the message, not realizing that he had not even mentioned the word 'Covenant'.
On Hangers upper level, overlooking the main hanger.
"So that is a phantom?" One of the Males charged with the security of the human ship asked the Male beside him.
"I guess so."
"May be these are friendly covenant?"
"I hope so."
On Phantom T 3-4-0. From Unyielding.
'The lizards got busy fast' R'nas N'three Major Domo, the Leader of the Search team, thought.
What looked like shuttles had been welded to the Human ship's hull, and the giant hull breach that had cut the ship in half, had been mostly welded over.
'Had the lizards mad it air tight?'
'What were the lizards doing with it, making it into a station?'
Well that may not be a bad idea. It was already as big as their tiny ships, and it armor, and it had a reactor.
R'nas started to go over it in his head. He'd been starting a career in orbital engineering before the start of the war.
Shuttlecraft designation 3-4-0; this is docking master for the wrecked ship, we are currently trying to fix a problem concerning maintaining this things orbit. You may NOT dock your Shuttle craft onto the wreck. We have assembled an airlock in the hanger. Drop off you passengers, and get out, we can't have any major increase in mass. Proceed with given instructions.
"Hmph."
At air lock.
The Elites held their breath as the phantoms doors swung open.
After the first rush of explosive decompression, the Elites jumped into the opened air-lock. In less than 10 seconds, the entire squad -one major, four minors (one red, and four blues) was inside.
R'nas banged his fist against the inner door.
Immediately, that outer door was closed.
Air rushed into the small space. The Elites new, partially vacuum tight suites worked great.
The Elites got out their guns, a precaution.
The red light in the human door (the air lock was an extension of the human hallway.) flashed green.
The doors opened. Standing with automatic rifles aimed, were twelve lizard infantry Males in full gear, body armor and all.
The Squad Leader stepped forward. State you intentions Aliens."
R'nas was taken back 'This much hostility and we haven't even started killing them.'
"We are here to confirm that the ships computers are safe, and that the demon is dead."
"Safe?"
"You wouldn't understand."
"I know why you're, Alien, you're here to make sure that the ships computers are wiped clean."
R'nas took a step back."How do-"
"Don't act stupid alien, I know that with the level of technology in the vehicles here, means that there is bound to be even more technology locked away in the computers."
"And of your level of technology just above this ship's, it is to be expected that you want to keep us primitive."
'I hardly open my mouth and they already know what our plans are? What else do they know?'
