When we started to expand past the Orin Arm of the Milkyway, we didn't know what to expect. Once we were out there though, things changed big time. For those brief 30 years we were the top dogs of the galaxy in all powers but like always when humanity reaches a higher seat of power, something always comes to make us fall... This time however the fall will cost our entire race.

The UNSC dispatches a small task force to investigate an artefact with origins not of the Orion Arm. The Citadel Races, including the Systems Alliance, are in for an eye opener when two new players in galactic prowess are not only technologically superior but also not bound by the Element Zero and its constraints. Rated T for reasons. AU in both Halo and ME events.

In the year of 2581 the UNSC stumbles across a discovery hidden beneath their noses and now a new gateway to life outside of the Forerunner space is opened and with it comes all new challenges and rewards. Its time for First Contact. OC centric, some world building as needed and war. Lots and lots of war. Rated T for blood, language, violence and gore.

In the 26th century humanity along with the sangheili, san'shyuum formed the Orion Systems Alliance the center of galactic government in the orion arm of the galaxy, soon the OSA will meet the citadel council and discover a billion year old secret.