There are a few things I need to mention before the comments or chapter starting with a common message and comment I get saying that Star Wars do you use plasma when I said they don't what I meant was that they utilise it in very different ways, Halo plasma weapons magnetically contain it to weaponize it whereas in star wars it is ionized. Secondly, I'll try and respond to all the reviews which are a lot more than I thought but some of them are hard to do without spoilers. Thirdly since there is not much information on a lot of the events I am writing in either Canon or Legends you;l have to bear with me.
The first chapter is changed/Remastered so that first note doesn't really count but I am leaving it up to avoid any more comments about it.
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Chapter Four: Coruscant
Honor Salima, Commanding officer of the extraordinarily large and capable Coruscant Home defence fleet consisting of over two hundred Galactic Republic Captial ships including Venator Destroyers, Accelerator Assultships, Arquitens-class light cruiser and many others were tasked with defending the Home and Capital of the Republic. The fleet had recently lost a high number of ships due to the losses in the war and now concerningly high amounts of the fleet were being sacrificed to support the front lines.
Politics had never been Salima's interest yet she still failed to see how leaving the Heart of the Republic less protected was a favoured idea in the senate. Even though the military force around her was without a doubt a massive fleet, it was always concerning how much of it was being siphoned off. Earlier in the day she had received word that some military diplomats would be arriving and that Jedi Generals Obi-One Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker would be accompanying them. Confusingly the only information that she had been given on the arrivals is that their ships were unusual and much different from any the Republic was aware of.
Having received little more knowledge about the mysterious arrivals the commander had ordered the long-range sensors officers to pay close attention to their monitors, not knowing what to expect but not worried, having served on many different kinds of ships throughout her career in the Republic Navy she thought that she had seen everything and all ship so how much different could these ones be.
Stood right in the middle of the bridge watching over all the crew and making sure operations were running smoothly Commander Salima was called over by a navigation officer, "Commander we're getting some strange gravitational activity in sector 7" the clone officer said as they both looked out through the protective glass at the sector he was referring to, However just like Admiral Yalareun at the battle of Kamino nothing could have prepared any of them for what accrued next.
From the sector opened one insanely large circular rift of blue, black and white almost rotating in a soft clockwise way and then from within it came a formation of ships that none of the crew on the bridge had ever witnessed and didn't know what to think of them, they had sleek almost rectangular hulls and engines that emitted bright blue lights. Warning sirens automatically but faintly activated signalling the detection of unknown vessels. "Commander, should we go to Battlestations?" One of the clone weapons officers asked.
The experienced fleet commander knew that engaging these unknown ships head first without thinking would be foolish for a countless number of reasons especially including that these may very well be the foreign arrivals that she had been advised about from high command, only now though did she understand what they meant when they informed her of the bizarre nature of the ships these people would be arriving in, another fact she remembered was that two Republic Generals and Clone troopers were also arriving with them and so made a decision.
"Negative, remain at your posts, Open a hailing channel" She ordered. After the hailing request was sent only moments later she got a response through video and audio communication, onscreen was a Human in a white clearly military uniform with many people walking in the background and what looked like a small golden figure emitting from a blue like a table. Many highly detailed holograms and designs can be seen in the transmission behind the man who spoke first".
"This is Admiral Thomas J Lasky of the UNSC ship Infinity, I believe you were expecting us," Lasky said confidently with a clear and open face. The commander who was surprised that someone who seemed so young held the position of Admiral, However her assumptions that these were the expected arrivals were now confirmed, she regained herself as she answered quietly clearing her throat.
"This is Honor Salima, Commander of the Republic defence fleet and yes I was given notification of your arrival as well as some indication as to the unfamiliar nature of your ships but I must say admiral Lasky I was not prepared for such a flamboyant entrance or a diplomat that arrives with a battle capable fleet" The commander replied receiving a smile and light chuckle from Admiral Lasky
"Well we tried to make a good first impression, I don't mind leaving my capital ships in orbit commander but do I have your permission to approach and head down to the planet via drop ship" the Admiral requested
"I'll confirm the arrival with the chancellor and then if the all-clear is given we'll provide the coordinates for the senate building, an assembly has been called although while we are waiting I was informed that four Republic assets would be arriving with you, forgive my lack of total trust in people who arrived in ships I have never seen two of which seem to be bigger than anything the Republic currently has". Salima said
"I understand completely, commander" he then clearly motioned to somebody out of view of the transmission until two new figures approached that the commander did recognise. One of which spoke when in view
"This is Jedi General Obi-One Kenobi and General Anakin Skywalker. Commander your cautions through suitable will not be needed, I can confirm that these men and women are no threat to your fleet or to the Republic for that matter" Kenobi told the fleet Commander who was given the confirmation signal by a clone on the bridge.
"Admiral Lasky, you are clear to proceed to the given coordinates and your ships have been permitted to remain in Coruscant space as long as they remain in front of the fleet," the Commander told Lasky while still seeing some of the clones on her bridge staring in bewilderment at the marvel of engineering that was the ships in front of them and no doubt the soldiers on the other ships were doing the same.
"Very Well" He then ended the transmission
On the Infinity, Lasky turned towards the Jedi. "Generals would you mind accompanying me to the senate, I believe your assistance will prove valuable when I address them."
"Of course Admiral, seeing as Captain Rex and Commander Cody will be no doubt temporally be stationed on Coruscant until the repairs to both mine and Anakin's fleets are completed do you have any objections to them heading down with us" Kenobi requested
"I have no problems with that as long as they don't mind heading in on the honour guards Pelican," Lasky said
"Honour Guard Sir?" Commander Cody questioned as Lasky began to explain
"Usually reserved for diplomats and individuals of high importance I deemed it necessary since I do not know what the thoughts of the people I'll be addressing will be so I thought it would be best to have a UNSC honour guard in place," Lasky explained
"Don't mind at all Sir," Rex said
They then left the bridge and headed for the hanger, even when not in a state of emergency the hangers on the Infinity were always an extremely busy place with soldiers marching and crates being moved around the ship. The two Pelicans waited in the hanger and were a different type than the one the Jedi had seen at the battle of Kamino, They were longer, slightly wider and the engine placement was also altered for better comfort when performing maneuvres.
Rex and Cody boarded the same Pelican as the honour guard and the Jedi Generals boarded Lasky's. The pelicans left the Infinity hanger and entered the vacuum of space before making the descent towards the massive city-planet that lit the sky above it in space with a dark golden glow. When they finally arrived and the Pelicans ramp lowered, they were met with the grand and glorious city with skyscrapers thousands of metres tall and countless numbers of ships flying through the air in lanes. In front of them was the giant senate building.
As they walked out Lasky momentarily shielding his eyes from the bright light began walking past the Honour guard which had landed and assembled first in-front of the Pelican carrying Lasky and the Jedi, It consisted of Two Spartans and three ODST troopers on each side of the Pelican, between the two of these lines ran parallel with the Pelican exit all of the guards had customised weapons and white capes with the UNSC eagle of the back. At the end were the clones.
By the time Lasky had reached the end, he was approached by troopers in full blue armour similar to the clones and long rifles. "Admiral Lasky I presume, you are clear for entry sir but I'm afraid your droid soldiers will have to remain outside," the senate guard commander said gesturing to the Spartans who looked at each other clearly offended being assumed as droids.
"Spartan would you like to remove your helmet," Lasky said to the Spartan who did so revealing that they were not droids but humans catching some glances from the other senate guards who thought that they were droids, the commander clearly shocked at the supersoldiers responded to Lasky, "My apologies sir, if you would like to follow me I can show you to the senate room were the hearing will be held."
Admiral Lasky, Jedi and Honour guards followed the commander until he stopped in front of one of the many entrances to the seating of the senate floor. "General Kenobi if you and General Skywalker are also attending I'm sure you would not mind assisting the senates guests with the controls" The clone assumed. "One more thing, while there are no rules against guards in the senate chambers it is uncommon so you may get a few looks." the guard cautioned
"Appreciated" Lasky thanked. Lasky and the Jedi then entered taking their seats in the currently debating senate. The Six ODST's remained on guard duty as well as two of the Spartans while the remaining two entered to act as bodyguards for the Admiral. The arrival of unrecognised armed personal in the senate chambers did not go unnoticed as some of the debating factions had stopped, this attracted the attention of the chancellor who was seated in the centre of the room on a raised platform.
"Excuse me but I am not familiar with you and I ask why have you brought armed personal into the senate chambers." the chancellor requested Lasky then rose and began to speak after Kenobi had activated the pod's microphone.
"I am Admiral Thomas J Lasky, here to represent the UNSC of the United Earth Government and if the guards are making anybody uncomfortable I have no issues having them remain outside," Lasky responded to the chancellor."
"Ahh our new arrivals, yes I was told about your actions over Kamino and I believe you are here to explain your intentions with the war" Palpatine expressed with even more of those in the senate to become curious as to what Palpatine was referring to the attack on Kamino was not public knowledge as of yet. The floor began to murmur with chatter and questions about these people until they were silenced by the order of the senate officiator.
"I am sure we will come to understand everything but as of right now the senate recognises the representative of the United Earth Government If you would like to come forward". With some assistance from Kenobi, the pod hovered further to the middle of the senate.
"Thank you, Chancellor, I am sure that you all have questions and I will attempt to answer them but to help limit some of them I will present the circumstances of the UEG as we are not of this galaxy and I will tell you why we have come here, Forty Years ago a group of aliens known as the covenant discovered Humanity, I say alien and Humanity because this was the first time that we had come into contact with another sentient space-faring species. They believed we were heretics to there religion and that we were to be terminated by the will of their gods."
As Lasky begin the explanation of the beginnings of the Human-Covenant war he displayed images and video footage of the covenant slaughtering and burning entire cities till they turned to glass and battles in space where the Covenant ships shot right through some UNSC ships. As he went on more and more gasps and shocks could be heard.
"Our technology is not what it is now and for thirty years we were losing a war which seemed every day like we may all die and in too many cases did, However, the leaders of the covenant were finally revealed to be liars and a Civil war erupted between the various species and factions of the covenant, one of which was the Sangheili who not only turned against the covenant after they discovered that they had murdered hundreds of billions of innocent beings at the orders of liars but committed to helping humanity recover and assisted in developing our technology and very much more, now our alliance is a decade old which brings us to how we entered this vast galaxy you all inhabit".
Many that listened and witnessed what Lasky was talking about distressed them and some even thought that the clone wars must look like child's play to a people that fought for thirty years not for land, power or expansion but for their very survival. A lot actually felt privileged that the clone wars, while it was a brutal conflict, did not involve the near the amount of pain and suffering that these people had gone through.
"Due to the conditions that started the Human-Covenant war we decided to produce and send many probes into the vastness of space in hopes that the next first contact scenario we encountered was more civil and did not lead to war. What we discovered was proof of life in another galaxy and when we came here, at first it was to study the people and planets to see if it was a threat to our existence such as was the covenant".
A few faces turned sour as they realised that an entire government may have been spying on them, "What gives you people the right to spy on our people?" one of the dignitaries demanded before the court official demanded silence, "It is an understandable question, we did it because we felt we had no choice, last time we did not even have a chance to discover these new people before we were dragged into a war for survival. We didn't want to risk it all over again after having so recently healed and recovered. I am sure if you had been through what we had you would understand our approach". Lasky explained
"Admiral might I enquire as to what this Kamino incident is?" Senator Padme of Naboo asked
"The Senate recognises Senator Padme of Naboo and though it is not public information as of yet I know keeping secrets in a democracy is not favoured so, Admiral you may explain and present the same footage I was shown".
Lasky continued "During our time watching this Galaxy and learning more about the people, Jedi and many more we also looked at the currently ensuing Civil War at first not dealing in it openly and publically since not only did we still want to remain hidden but also because we didn't believe involving ourselves with the Republic would be a good idea, At least until we discovered the despicable war crimes that the CIS was committing, for the sake of the senate I won't relay what we discovered but I will say it was enough for me to initiate the M.O.R act which is quite possibly the single most important protocol in the UNSC and Sangheili alliance,"
More questions were beginning to be raised, "M.O.R act?" Senator Armidala asked
"Mantle Of Responsibility, Senator, It declares that bodies of power that abuse, slave or cause mass suffering amongst the galaxies populace are justified in declaring war on it has become a way of life to our people in the last decade, especially in the military. The atrocities that the Separatist forces have frequently committed have proven more than enough but as you asked, the event over Kamino. After several months of surveillance and tests to estimate our effectiveness against CIS droids we decided it was finally time that the galaxy knew about us and while searching and discussing ways of introducing ourselves, we intercepted a top-secret transmission between two higher-ups in the CIS discussing plans to attack the Republics cloning facilities on Kamino, the home of all the Republic clone troopers". Lasky said
The revealing of such information sparked outrage in the hall and again had to be silenced by the senate officials before Admiral Lasky could continue.
"Though we only had limited knowledge of the Republic defences and possible attacking forces we determined that there was a low chance the forces stationed there and the reinforcements would be able to hold out against a well planned and carried out the attack, we decided this would be our first official act in stopping the Separatists, I took my Task Force and arrived at Kamino immediately contacting the Admiral in charge of the fleet and informing him that we were there to help before sending troops down to help the Republic forces and dealing with the enemy fleet."
During his explanation, he revealed two sets of footage, the helmet cameras of the troops sent down to the planet which was clearly impressive as the senate had never seen troops like Spartans in action and the Second piece which left everyone in the senate speechless was the combined salvo of dozens of MAC shots from the huge UNSC fleet which in a few minutes had absolutely decimated a large section of the CIS fleet that had broken off to attack them except for a few lucky ships that managed to escape, included in the footage was the view of hundreds of UNSC interceptors saving the overrun Republic fighters and Bombers. It was an intimidating but amazing show of heroism.
"A truly impressive display of your peoples' power and Nobility Admiral, The decision on whether or not to forge an alliance with the UEG will be put to a vote of course but I believe I speak for the Republic when I say that we would be glad to have you fighting alongside our loyal clone troopers. Do you have any terms you wish to make clear before the Vote?" One of the representatives from the inner colonies asked
"Only two spring to mind, Firstly the UNSC is to work with the Republic to liberate those under the tyranny of the Separatists and will not take any orders from it in the same way that we have no right to order your troops into battle, Secondly, torture, murdering or any other forms of cruel or unusual punishment against civilian, innocent or POW's will be strictly prohibited and any evidence of it occurring intentionally or with orders from the Republic will end any and all cooperation between our two governments and I will not lie could have regrettable results for both sides.
The senate felt the terms in a very different way, some were intimidated taking the second as a threat almost and some found them noble that a people would be willing to go to war and possibly die for others.
"Your terms while unheard of are noble and will be respected should this vote be accepted in favour. We shall now begin the voting, will all delegations please cast their vote!". Palpatine announced. There are several minutes of voting through the pannels before the final vote is counted and the results are brought and displayed to the chancellor who steps forth to announce the result. "The vote is 75% for cooperation with the UNSC and 15% against, I have no doubt that the war has just been shortened" Palpatine announced
"And so it begins," Admiral Lasky says surrounded by thunderous applause.
"Not many people would be willing to fight for others in the way that you have clearly dedicated yourselves to, your people should be very proud, I only wish that all governments could be so considerate," Kenobi said
"While I am glad about the position we are in and that we are set in our ways of helping people it was mostly the war that made us see clearly how the war of insignificant matters would only weaken us all, but I would never wish upon even the Separatists what Humanity went through during those dark times." Admiral Lasky replied.
And Thus ends another chapter, I really enjoy writing these as I'm sure you all love reading them. If you missed or didn't see them not at the top please read it especially before commenting, reviewing and messaging as I do respond to some very common and frequency comments involving the current chapters. One of the main things people keep asking me is while the UNSC turn on the Republic and or Palpatine and as much as I want to answer it would ruin it for everybody else which is no longer just a few people as more and more people are following and favouriting the story which makes me very happy to see.
