Why use Spartans when you have Tactical Dolls?
-A Girls Frontline & Halo Crossover Story-
Set 10 years before the fall of Reach, and before the L Virus almost wiped humanity.
A Prelude to War
I was asked how GFL tech has affected HALO tech, so here are some answers:
-There are five ranks called 'Stars' for all tech, of which each has its own purpose.
1 STAR is for civilians, and it means 2020 era tech found in our world up to pre-insurgency tech from HALO. 2 STAR is civilan tech found in HALO, which include hunting weapons that can be modified to military weapons. 3 STAR is UNSC tech, which includes magnetic gauss rifles.
4 STAR is ONI tech, which include gravity accelerated mass drivers. 5 STAR tech is straight from GFL, SF and Paradeus leading this compartment of plasma weapons and energy fields.
Collapse bombs are virtually non existent after the rainforest wars, there are three left and all are under ONI surveillance.
1 STAR Dolls are automatons that barely resemble humans, usually they work in industrial zones.
2 STAR Dolls are usually civilian use dolls, working in shops or even as bodyguards for civilians.
3 STAR Dolls are used by the Police and even Planetary Defence Forces.
4 STAR Dolls are all used by the UNSC.
5 STAR Dolls are all used by ONI.
And then the part that will forever confuse HALO fans that do not know anything about GFL:
ORION I = 1 STAR SPARTAN, these are augmented Humans capable of surviving extreme environments like nul G or even some High G.
ORION II = 2 STAR SPARTAN, these are the cybernetically modified augmented Humans that you see in HALO.
ORION III = 3 STAR SPARTAN, these are genetically engineered clone bodies with all the ORION II benefits at lower weight.
ORION IV = 4 STAR SPARTAN, the THERA program pioneered by the Three Goddesses. All female ORION III's with a Neural Cloud.
ORION V = 5 STAR SPARTAN, the SIRIUS program pioneered by Halsey. ORION II with Black Box and Neural Cloud.
With Avery Johnson & John Forge as a 1 Star Spartan, Blue Team as a 2 Star Spartans and Noble Six as a 3 Star Spartan we have interesting changes to classic HALO.
The MJOLNIR program also has the STAR system:
Mjolnir IV = 1 STAR MJOLNIR Mjolnir IV E & G = 2 STAR MJOLNIR Mjolnir V & VG = 3 STAR MJOLNIR Gungnir = 4 STAR MJOLNIR Fafnir = 5 STAR MJOLNIR
And there are a lot of variants of the five Stars, including mixed models.
I tweaked the ODST armors to be power-assisted where the Mjolnir is a full power armor. Also, the ODST armor is way lighter.
And now back to the story itself:
2531
As the Covenant surrounded the few UNSC ships still defending Harvest, Admiral Preston Cole decided on an unorthodox plan.
-COLE SIDE-
UNSC Battlecruiser "Say my name" - Marathon class
"Sir, we have multiple contacts appearing" Said the Sensor Operator, and Admiral Preston Cole knew that this was it. Will the gamble he had with ELISA pay off, or will they both die in the attempt?
14 dark purple mile long ships appeared out of slipspace, and all while the rest of his fleet was engaged with the remaining Covenant forces. "Elisa, can we do this?" He asked the super A.I. [The hull will take some damage, otherwise we should have no problems as long as you give me the helm and follow my targeting solutions. The boarding and other parts of the OP are up to you Preston] she said. "You heard her, let's do this!" said Cole as he gave the order to captain of his Ship "The rest of the Ship is yours, ELISA will handle targeting solutions and the helm" The Captain replied "Yes Sir!" saluted and then moved to command 'Say my Name'
Seraphs and Wraiths flew out of the Sinaris pattern Heavy Destroyers, and the Marathon replied in kind with Shortswords and Longswords. Then the energy readings coming from the front of the Marathon showed on every sensor no matter which side you were on, and the four Jupiter Cannons fired.
Vermillion beams struck at four of the CPVs as the super heated plasma blew straight through their shields and deep inside the guts of the ships themselves. And as if waiting for a breather, the Covenant forces thought that this was it. They tried to fire their own main weapons, but then the MAC fired a shot, another and a third. Each to different ships, blasting their shields away as Shivas flew toward the three targets. The ships tried their best to fire on the salvo of nuclear death flying towards them but only managed to hit a mere three of the Shivas, the rest hit their mark and took out five more ships.
Cole was pleased to see that what was once considered impossible was now more than just possible, it was inevitable: Humanity would win this war! "Elisa, have you found out which one is their lead ship yet?" ELISA had two guesses, and she never said anything about her guesses. After all, she should always maintain A.I. level efficiency when dealing with intel. [Not yet, Preston.] Cole watched as the Covenant fighters and dropships fought his Swords "When you do, take it out at once!" ELISA's avatar smiled [With pleasure, Preston dear].
ELISA searched for clues, and then noticed that one ship sent more messages than any other ship in the fleet. It also sent and received messages from slipspace,
ELISA had found her prey. She armed the Shivas and prepared the Jupiters to fire just before the MACs, so she could pierce the shields of that ship and three of its sister ships. But fate had other plans for the battle of Harvest.
With the loss of half of his forces, the Shipmaster did not like his odds and ordered the remaining fleet to abandon the Seraphs and Wraiths as they jumped to the other side of the planet where the rest of the battle was being fought.
Without the support of their fleet, the Seraphs were unlucky to be blown by the Marathons anti fighter screen, or by the Swords themselves. The Wraiths tried to board the Marathon, and fared even worse. Still some thirty managed to land troops on the Marathon, of which some ten squads even managed to get to the airlocks. Then they faced the Dolls, which were waiting to settle a score with the Covenant Forces.
Five mixed ODST-DOLL squads with Five Dragoon squads emerged from within the Marathon, the Dragoons took point and did what looked like a cavalry charge on top of the Battlecruiser. The Jiralhanae took the challenge and charged against the Dragoons,
with their Hammers ready to crush the puny human girls on top of tiny mechs.
The the Dragoons fired their plasma cannons at the Covenant forces cutting their numbers by half, one Dragoon passed the wounded Jiralhanae Warchief and shot him in the head with her plasma smg. He did not fall from that shot, instead in a rage he grabbed the Doll by the ankle and ripped her off her mount. She did not fly to the ground as he thought, but kicked him in the face with the full power of an SF Doll, breaking his jaw. She then twisted her leg to apply her full weight on his one good arm, and pressed her knee on his arm with full force breaking bone and muscle alike. The Warchief screamed as his mask was broken along with his jaw and air escaped his armor, then all he saw was plasma being fired at his already damaged face as the Dragoon fired her plasma smg at him.
The Sangheili fared better as they took cover and fired at the charging Dragoons that had decimated the Jiralhanae, out of the 24 charging Dragoons only 12 still had their mounts. But loosing their rides was not the end of the Dragoons as they too took cover and fired back at the Sangheili. The remaining Dragoons that still had their rides fired their cannons as they rode back to their airlock, passing by their Commander that had just killed the Jiralhanae Warchief. She held her arm and one of the riders grabbed her and she landed behind the rider on top of the Dragoon ride.
As the Sangheili started to move around the landed Dragoons, two of them suddenly seemed to have lost their heads as Jaegers and ODST snipers took shots at them. But the ODST-DOLL squads were very quiet and fired only a few shots here and there, it was as if they were waiting for something. And then A plasma sword ignited and a Sangheili decloaked behind the ODST Commander, only to find out that a brute -class DOLL did the same at his side plunging her plasma heated short sword inside his neck.
[Two can play this game, Covenant. And we have played it for far longer than you have.] said the voice of ELISA on open channel so that the Covenant could hear it as well. Then the Dolls fired on seven other cloaked targets, killing four of them. The remaining three were now decloaked, and the ODST shot everything at them, ending their day in a blast.
As for the teams that got past the Airlocks before the ODST-DOLL teams intercepted them? Well, let's just say that the drones and everything ELISA had under her command took care of them as she had ordered all of them to guard the Airlocks.
Cole was not exactly pleased with the outcome, they had lost nearly half of their fighters and bombers. And the enemy flagship had jumped away, but at least they had won and his ship was still in a condition capable of fighting the Covenant.
ELISA on the other hand was pissed, her prey had gotten away and so did her chance to show off to Preston. But at least she had the coordinates where the enemy flagship and the remnant fleet had come out of slipspace.
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