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The Ground war
Massive flashes of blue and red pulsed through space as Imitra Renix Destri flew the large troop carrier into the planets atmosphere. She was one of the five in the flight crew of the Troop carrier, affectionately named the Legio drop ship because of its use as the main deployment ship for ground forces, and one of the 5000 in the fleet. The Legio drop ship carried full 6000 soldiers, 250 Augusta class Heavy Armored Fighting Vehicles, which the humans referred to as tanks, and 250 LRVs at full capacity. It was heavily armed, with twin tactical cutting lasers on either side, 4 Air-to-Air Missile batteries, 4 Air-to-Surface Missile batteries, and a pulse laser. It had a full 4 cms of Trilinium armor, which the Serians used on all capital ships, covering every part of it. It had no external engines though, since it used a graviton vibration engine that was capable of being incased in armor, though the armor had a blue tint to it caused by the graviton generator.
Imitra new she was flying into an extremely dangerous environment since the Protoss had already deployed thousands of soldiers and probes to the surface. The probes would warp in buildings, up to 30 a minute per probe though the buildings took a full 5 five minutes to warp in completely. And after five minutes they would begin making zealots, the Protoss main infantry soldier carrying twin energy spikes powered by his own psychic, or as the Protoss referred to it, psionic energy. They were also equipped with powerful armor that was about 3cms thick and could withstand Serian infantry weapons from a single soldier for a full 15 seconds, which was sufficient time to rush in and hit the soldier for several seconds should they be with 100 meters of each other. These weren't her worry though, since they couldn't attack any aerial targets, the dragoons were. They used a phase disruption cannon that was almost as powerful as the arbiters. Imitra had lost many friends to Arbiters, and just as many to Dragoons. Another problem was if they decided to warp in the High Templar. They wore the same armor, but had much more powerful shields. Using they're advanced psychic abilities, they had the ability to create fields of pure psychic energy heavily damaging anything near it. An even worse problem was the Archons. If the Executor, the equivalent of a Serian Fleet Admiral, declared it an emergency the high templar might combine to create a being of pure psychic energy, held together by its psychic shielding, which was unrefined and only as powerful as one High Templar's shield.
"Alright, boys, we're going in!" ~~~~~~~
Major Sergeant Edwin Jones fired his last assault rifle clip down at an elite spraying 40 low caliber explosive rounds into its head. His company had only 35 men and women left. ODST's had been immediately deployed to compliment the SPARTAN 2.2s, which were station on REACH, while the SPARTAN 2.3s made their way from Earth.
He glanced around in curiosity of all the different creatures and machines that had landed. They had proved themselves hostile, VERY hostile. They had slaughtered nearly 20 of his soldiers in 5 seconds, and their guns were useless. It took 10 soldiers firing full auto empting their entire clips to bring one down.
"600 rounds . . . My God. Might as well bring in some nukes to stop these thing," the sergeant said under his breath.
"No kidding, Sarge! Those things just keep coming and we've lost most of our ammo to them already! It's a good thing we secured this high ground, they're blade things can't reach us, unless they can climb the walls, since we blew the elevator shafts and stairwells." A young PFC said to him. The company had secured a 12 story building on the outskirts of town and was using it as a base of operations. From here they could see the ongoing space battle, and the only sign of hope they had, the Serian Legion Droppers. The Serians called it something else, but their weird Latinish language was beyond him.
Several floating robotic sentinels followed the ships in. He had first seen them in the Threshold 3 campaign, and they were devastating. Massive energy beams fired from a focal point incinerating anything for 2.5 KMs in its path. Thousands of Covenant, and several inattentive humans had fallen pray to them. They were also insanely hard to destroy. He had seen one take a wraith mortar, and still fly, though severally damaged.
He really hoped the Serians could pull off a defense of the planet. These creatures were somewhat stupid charging at a soldier with a ranged weapon to try and hit with a melee weapon, but they seemed nearly invulnerable to standard issue MA5B assault rifles, SSRM sniper rifles, and unreachable with shotguns, it took two M19 SSM, or Jackhammer, rockets to stop one of these guys. He prayed that reinforcements would arrive soon with a full company of M808B Scorpion MBTs and those beautiful HE rounds that stopped Wraiths, Banshees, Shadows, and Covie Dropships in their tracks. Those might help even the odds a little bit.
"Sir, the Serians are requesting cover fire for their Dropships," a voice crackled over the disrupted COM channels. It was General Jorge Moreno, a close friend of his.
"Okay you Human-Grunts, lets cover the Serian deployments! Shoot any non- human or Serian creature down there!" Edwin knew that it was just to distract the creatures long enough for the Serians to deploy from the Dropships, which was about 15 seconds. It amazed him that 6000 soldiers, 250 Serian MBTs, and 250 Serian LRVs or 125 Serian heavy artillery could deploy so fast, but it was true, he'd seen it on Threshold, and was about to see it again.
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Field Master Resbrin 'Gortuma was in charge of defending the angels from the Serian overlords, and infidels. He was in charge of a small army: 25,000 Grunts, 25,000 Jackals, 2500 Elites, and 1000 Hunters. This was an unbelievably large force to deploy considering most invasions had 50,000 or so soldiers TOTAL. He was in charge 53,500 soldiers. He also had 5000 Seraphs, and 2500 wraiths complimenting his forces though not under his direct command.
'Gortuma had never been blessed with the honor of defending angels, since the Overlords held some uneasy peace with them. The angels' golden armor shone bright under the shadow of the massive Overlord transports.
"All units, open fire on the Overlords! Sub-Field Master 'Partamay, have your soldiers fire upon the Dropships. Then, once the Overlords themselves are out, switch bombardment to them! Have your Seraphs destroy the robotic craft, and bombers! We must succeed for the Savior! He will soon be unveiling his plan to over throw the Overlords!" Every Covenant knew of the "Savior". He was the leader of the Covenant even above the Prophets, maybe even above the Angels and Arc-Angels, which his kind fought so often. He was an Overlord himself, though he too wanted freedom for the Covenant. 'Gortuma prayed every day that he could help in the revolution instead of just fighting infidels, and today was his chance. The Prophets on Haven thought knew that the Overlord would assist again, so they sent in nearly half a million soldiers to the 10 most crucial areas on the planet. What they hadn't expected was a force this size, or the angels, and arc-angels plan to help invade. This would surely be a glorious day for the Covenant and the revolution!
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Imitra brought the dropship down to 1 meter when the ramps deployed and the Serian infantry hurried out, the Serian MBTs rolled out, and the 250 LRVs here ship was carrying deployed. 15 seconds to deploy, 5 to clear, then Imitra, the flight crew, and the dropship took off.
Imitra fired a photon charge in the Covenant grouping up ahead, they looked like they overestimated the time it took to deploy and were just now targeting the dropships. The charge decimated ten wraith tanks, and two lines of jackals trying to deflect the Serian infantries pulse laser blasts. Imitra wondered how the Emperor could be so concerned about a weak opponent such as that. Imitra had little time to think though as her ship took a direct hit from a rebel fuel rod cannon. It startled her and the gunners, but the Seraph was quickly destroyed. Had that been an Arbiter or a Dragoon, the gunners probably wouldn't have been able to respond in time, and Imitra would be another name on the Great Monument of Seri, not that it wasn't an honor to be placed their.
Imitra had one more stop before returning to the relative safety of the Fleet in space. Her stop was a small city named New Washington, the capitol of this settlement they called a world. The scale of human architecture and colonization was pitiful. Supposedly massive buildings a mere kilometer tall, and 30 million people on such a beautiful world, one that rivaled possibly Inipa Debin Oribia, her home world. Her mission in the city was to pick up survivors of a recent rebel and Protoss assault that had been fought back by fast reaction Serian spec ops, the Dark Legionnaires. That reminded Imitra that she would be graced by the presence of the Dark Legionnaires as well as the petty human civilians. That almost made the danger worthwhile, almost.
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Grand Serian Infantry General or "Dux" (Dooks) Lucifer Reinfield Augusta IX commanded the entire 6,000,000 soldiers deploying from the Fleet including the 62,500 artillery units, the 250,000 Augusta HAFVs, or MBTs, the 125,000 LRVs, and the 5,675,000 infantry soldiers from the safety of the Lu Veii Seraphim, the same ship Marcus Aragus commanded from. It was the flagship of the Serian 2nd Grand Fleet and a pride of the Serian Empire. Modified to accommodate the Emperor himself, it had a smaller amount of rooms, because of the amount of the rooms that were for the officers. On board that ship were 10 rooms for the 100 soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, and barracks for the Dark Legionnaires, as well as the normal troop bunks and cryopods, though the cryopods were used only to transport the highly injured or, unofficially, troops when the cruiser carried more soldiers than beds per rotation. He usually let that regulation be infracted, though many of the other Generals and Duxes were much more strict.
"Yes, I want Naval Legion 73 To attack the rebel base at grid 75-43. Naval Legion 100 will fight back the Protoss forces at grid 332- 51 and secure the human capitol upon this world. Proceed with the invasion tactic since the Protoss and rebels have definitely ingrained themselves in the city. The rest of the forces will proceed with the plans they were given at their briefings," The Grand Dux rolled his neck as real time displays showed exactly what was going on down on the world. His neural uplink handled most of important information while the displays handled the rest. He issued some more orders as the Serian equivalent to the marines routed and was routed by the Protoss and Covenant. Half an hour into the fighting, 45,000 Serians, approximately 100,000 Protoss, and most of the Covenant were all dead. This was a horrible casualty rate for so early in the new war. The Ascension had started in a massacre by a Serian militia that had formed illegally and traveled to Neo Exructia and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Protoss before the Protoss army could reach and annihilate them. The killing of Serians caused great anger among the empire though it was provoked. The Asbrin and Org had nearly allied with the Protoss after the massacre. Had they, the Serian empire would no longer exist. Though the Serians could handle any one of them individually, that alliance would crush the Serians under the sheer amount of enemies.
The Grand Dux wondered where the Army of the Serian Empire was and why they weren't here. The several billion soldiers of the Army could easily rout the Protoss but a mere six million would have trouble fighting a nearly endless amount of opponents as the Protoss continued to warp in soldiers until they suffered enough losses to stop sending in soldiers.
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Master Sergeant Jones was beyond relieved as two Serian dropships unloaded soldiers into New London and evacuated the injured civilians, and soldiers. He was on board a transport heading for a Serian cruiser with a med bay, a mess hall, and a FTL engine with a course set to Earth. It was kinda scary though that the Serians new about Earth, pre-fourth century history, geography, and many other details of humanity. What was even more disturbing was that at the year 476 CE, back before humanities unification and the installation of the military calendar, which was the exact year of the Roman Empires fall. It was obvious that the Serians had played a role in humanities development by the fact that that Rome and Greece had such similar culture as to that of the Serians. Same, or nearly the same languages, the massive increase in philosophy and technology, much as the Serian fifth or so renaissance that occurred much earlier than humanities civilizations. Some suggested that the Serians played a role in civilization as early as the Sumerians, the Assyrians, or even the Neanderthals.
Soon he would board the Gamma Orion, a cruiser full of allies, and hopefully some of the ODST's from the human ship Albatross from which he was deployed. They split into three main assault groups and lost contact when the Covenant jammed the communication in New London. Soon, he would be truly happy for the first time in 29 years.
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Well that's the first half of "The Ground War" I'll try to update more often if any of you like this. If not, don't read it. I'll also try to put up more illustrations.
A/N: For illustrations, visit my homepage and look under Photos.
The Ground war
Massive flashes of blue and red pulsed through space as Imitra Renix Destri flew the large troop carrier into the planets atmosphere. She was one of the five in the flight crew of the Troop carrier, affectionately named the Legio drop ship because of its use as the main deployment ship for ground forces, and one of the 5000 in the fleet. The Legio drop ship carried full 6000 soldiers, 250 Augusta class Heavy Armored Fighting Vehicles, which the humans referred to as tanks, and 250 LRVs at full capacity. It was heavily armed, with twin tactical cutting lasers on either side, 4 Air-to-Air Missile batteries, 4 Air-to-Surface Missile batteries, and a pulse laser. It had a full 4 cms of Trilinium armor, which the Serians used on all capital ships, covering every part of it. It had no external engines though, since it used a graviton vibration engine that was capable of being incased in armor, though the armor had a blue tint to it caused by the graviton generator.
Imitra new she was flying into an extremely dangerous environment since the Protoss had already deployed thousands of soldiers and probes to the surface. The probes would warp in buildings, up to 30 a minute per probe though the buildings took a full 5 five minutes to warp in completely. And after five minutes they would begin making zealots, the Protoss main infantry soldier carrying twin energy spikes powered by his own psychic, or as the Protoss referred to it, psionic energy. They were also equipped with powerful armor that was about 3cms thick and could withstand Serian infantry weapons from a single soldier for a full 15 seconds, which was sufficient time to rush in and hit the soldier for several seconds should they be with 100 meters of each other. These weren't her worry though, since they couldn't attack any aerial targets, the dragoons were. They used a phase disruption cannon that was almost as powerful as the arbiters. Imitra had lost many friends to Arbiters, and just as many to Dragoons. Another problem was if they decided to warp in the High Templar. They wore the same armor, but had much more powerful shields. Using they're advanced psychic abilities, they had the ability to create fields of pure psychic energy heavily damaging anything near it. An even worse problem was the Archons. If the Executor, the equivalent of a Serian Fleet Admiral, declared it an emergency the high templar might combine to create a being of pure psychic energy, held together by its psychic shielding, which was unrefined and only as powerful as one High Templar's shield.
"Alright, boys, we're going in!" ~~~~~~~
Major Sergeant Edwin Jones fired his last assault rifle clip down at an elite spraying 40 low caliber explosive rounds into its head. His company had only 35 men and women left. ODST's had been immediately deployed to compliment the SPARTAN 2.2s, which were station on REACH, while the SPARTAN 2.3s made their way from Earth.
He glanced around in curiosity of all the different creatures and machines that had landed. They had proved themselves hostile, VERY hostile. They had slaughtered nearly 20 of his soldiers in 5 seconds, and their guns were useless. It took 10 soldiers firing full auto empting their entire clips to bring one down.
"600 rounds . . . My God. Might as well bring in some nukes to stop these thing," the sergeant said under his breath.
"No kidding, Sarge! Those things just keep coming and we've lost most of our ammo to them already! It's a good thing we secured this high ground, they're blade things can't reach us, unless they can climb the walls, since we blew the elevator shafts and stairwells." A young PFC said to him. The company had secured a 12 story building on the outskirts of town and was using it as a base of operations. From here they could see the ongoing space battle, and the only sign of hope they had, the Serian Legion Droppers. The Serians called it something else, but their weird Latinish language was beyond him.
Several floating robotic sentinels followed the ships in. He had first seen them in the Threshold 3 campaign, and they were devastating. Massive energy beams fired from a focal point incinerating anything for 2.5 KMs in its path. Thousands of Covenant, and several inattentive humans had fallen pray to them. They were also insanely hard to destroy. He had seen one take a wraith mortar, and still fly, though severally damaged.
He really hoped the Serians could pull off a defense of the planet. These creatures were somewhat stupid charging at a soldier with a ranged weapon to try and hit with a melee weapon, but they seemed nearly invulnerable to standard issue MA5B assault rifles, SSRM sniper rifles, and unreachable with shotguns, it took two M19 SSM, or Jackhammer, rockets to stop one of these guys. He prayed that reinforcements would arrive soon with a full company of M808B Scorpion MBTs and those beautiful HE rounds that stopped Wraiths, Banshees, Shadows, and Covie Dropships in their tracks. Those might help even the odds a little bit.
"Sir, the Serians are requesting cover fire for their Dropships," a voice crackled over the disrupted COM channels. It was General Jorge Moreno, a close friend of his.
"Okay you Human-Grunts, lets cover the Serian deployments! Shoot any non- human or Serian creature down there!" Edwin knew that it was just to distract the creatures long enough for the Serians to deploy from the Dropships, which was about 15 seconds. It amazed him that 6000 soldiers, 250 Serian MBTs, and 250 Serian LRVs or 125 Serian heavy artillery could deploy so fast, but it was true, he'd seen it on Threshold, and was about to see it again.
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Field Master Resbrin 'Gortuma was in charge of defending the angels from the Serian overlords, and infidels. He was in charge of a small army: 25,000 Grunts, 25,000 Jackals, 2500 Elites, and 1000 Hunters. This was an unbelievably large force to deploy considering most invasions had 50,000 or so soldiers TOTAL. He was in charge 53,500 soldiers. He also had 5000 Seraphs, and 2500 wraiths complimenting his forces though not under his direct command.
'Gortuma had never been blessed with the honor of defending angels, since the Overlords held some uneasy peace with them. The angels' golden armor shone bright under the shadow of the massive Overlord transports.
"All units, open fire on the Overlords! Sub-Field Master 'Partamay, have your soldiers fire upon the Dropships. Then, once the Overlords themselves are out, switch bombardment to them! Have your Seraphs destroy the robotic craft, and bombers! We must succeed for the Savior! He will soon be unveiling his plan to over throw the Overlords!" Every Covenant knew of the "Savior". He was the leader of the Covenant even above the Prophets, maybe even above the Angels and Arc-Angels, which his kind fought so often. He was an Overlord himself, though he too wanted freedom for the Covenant. 'Gortuma prayed every day that he could help in the revolution instead of just fighting infidels, and today was his chance. The Prophets on Haven thought knew that the Overlord would assist again, so they sent in nearly half a million soldiers to the 10 most crucial areas on the planet. What they hadn't expected was a force this size, or the angels, and arc-angels plan to help invade. This would surely be a glorious day for the Covenant and the revolution!
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Imitra brought the dropship down to 1 meter when the ramps deployed and the Serian infantry hurried out, the Serian MBTs rolled out, and the 250 LRVs here ship was carrying deployed. 15 seconds to deploy, 5 to clear, then Imitra, the flight crew, and the dropship took off.
Imitra fired a photon charge in the Covenant grouping up ahead, they looked like they overestimated the time it took to deploy and were just now targeting the dropships. The charge decimated ten wraith tanks, and two lines of jackals trying to deflect the Serian infantries pulse laser blasts. Imitra wondered how the Emperor could be so concerned about a weak opponent such as that. Imitra had little time to think though as her ship took a direct hit from a rebel fuel rod cannon. It startled her and the gunners, but the Seraph was quickly destroyed. Had that been an Arbiter or a Dragoon, the gunners probably wouldn't have been able to respond in time, and Imitra would be another name on the Great Monument of Seri, not that it wasn't an honor to be placed their.
Imitra had one more stop before returning to the relative safety of the Fleet in space. Her stop was a small city named New Washington, the capitol of this settlement they called a world. The scale of human architecture and colonization was pitiful. Supposedly massive buildings a mere kilometer tall, and 30 million people on such a beautiful world, one that rivaled possibly Inipa Debin Oribia, her home world. Her mission in the city was to pick up survivors of a recent rebel and Protoss assault that had been fought back by fast reaction Serian spec ops, the Dark Legionnaires. That reminded Imitra that she would be graced by the presence of the Dark Legionnaires as well as the petty human civilians. That almost made the danger worthwhile, almost.
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Grand Serian Infantry General or "Dux" (Dooks) Lucifer Reinfield Augusta IX commanded the entire 6,000,000 soldiers deploying from the Fleet including the 62,500 artillery units, the 250,000 Augusta HAFVs, or MBTs, the 125,000 LRVs, and the 5,675,000 infantry soldiers from the safety of the Lu Veii Seraphim, the same ship Marcus Aragus commanded from. It was the flagship of the Serian 2nd Grand Fleet and a pride of the Serian Empire. Modified to accommodate the Emperor himself, it had a smaller amount of rooms, because of the amount of the rooms that were for the officers. On board that ship were 10 rooms for the 100 soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, and barracks for the Dark Legionnaires, as well as the normal troop bunks and cryopods, though the cryopods were used only to transport the highly injured or, unofficially, troops when the cruiser carried more soldiers than beds per rotation. He usually let that regulation be infracted, though many of the other Generals and Duxes were much more strict.
"Yes, I want Naval Legion 73 To attack the rebel base at grid 75-43. Naval Legion 100 will fight back the Protoss forces at grid 332- 51 and secure the human capitol upon this world. Proceed with the invasion tactic since the Protoss and rebels have definitely ingrained themselves in the city. The rest of the forces will proceed with the plans they were given at their briefings," The Grand Dux rolled his neck as real time displays showed exactly what was going on down on the world. His neural uplink handled most of important information while the displays handled the rest. He issued some more orders as the Serian equivalent to the marines routed and was routed by the Protoss and Covenant. Half an hour into the fighting, 45,000 Serians, approximately 100,000 Protoss, and most of the Covenant were all dead. This was a horrible casualty rate for so early in the new war. The Ascension had started in a massacre by a Serian militia that had formed illegally and traveled to Neo Exructia and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Protoss before the Protoss army could reach and annihilate them. The killing of Serians caused great anger among the empire though it was provoked. The Asbrin and Org had nearly allied with the Protoss after the massacre. Had they, the Serian empire would no longer exist. Though the Serians could handle any one of them individually, that alliance would crush the Serians under the sheer amount of enemies.
The Grand Dux wondered where the Army of the Serian Empire was and why they weren't here. The several billion soldiers of the Army could easily rout the Protoss but a mere six million would have trouble fighting a nearly endless amount of opponents as the Protoss continued to warp in soldiers until they suffered enough losses to stop sending in soldiers.
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Master Sergeant Jones was beyond relieved as two Serian dropships unloaded soldiers into New London and evacuated the injured civilians, and soldiers. He was on board a transport heading for a Serian cruiser with a med bay, a mess hall, and a FTL engine with a course set to Earth. It was kinda scary though that the Serians new about Earth, pre-fourth century history, geography, and many other details of humanity. What was even more disturbing was that at the year 476 CE, back before humanities unification and the installation of the military calendar, which was the exact year of the Roman Empires fall. It was obvious that the Serians had played a role in humanities development by the fact that that Rome and Greece had such similar culture as to that of the Serians. Same, or nearly the same languages, the massive increase in philosophy and technology, much as the Serian fifth or so renaissance that occurred much earlier than humanities civilizations. Some suggested that the Serians played a role in civilization as early as the Sumerians, the Assyrians, or even the Neanderthals.
Soon he would board the Gamma Orion, a cruiser full of allies, and hopefully some of the ODST's from the human ship Albatross from which he was deployed. They split into three main assault groups and lost contact when the Covenant jammed the communication in New London. Soon, he would be truly happy for the first time in 29 years.
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Well that's the first half of "The Ground War" I'll try to update more often if any of you like this. If not, don't read it. I'll also try to put up more illustrations.