I am not dead! (yet atleast) before you read this, read ch1 since I replaced it with a timeline.
"speech"
"radio/hologram/etc. communication"
Ship Names
'thoughts'
You get the point.
Dragonslayer337: That was an error at my part, the wiki states that the SMAC fires at 40%(four tenth)of light speed, I went and changed that value. Thank you for pointing it out
Carlosxvx: I had to buff the Star Wars factions a bit cuz the UNSC would roll over everyone tbh and I didn't want to make it a one sided fight(for the most part at least) the UNSC and SoS have amazing weaponry that can wipe the floor with the CIS and Republic, the Nova bomb is one such example. But I am getting side tracked here, point is I needed to buff the Star Wars galaxy a bit but not too much.
VGBlackwing: Slugthrowers are a perfect weapon against Jedi and Sith actually since they can't be deflected using Lightsabers, the slug would go through it (smaller caliber going at slower speeds would probably melt) and that's not to mention to speed at which they are going as you said and Halo has much more advanced slugthrowers then the star wars galaxy.
Robot Reader 21: I am aware that the CIS had good reasons to want to leave the republic and I do know that the republic was very corrupt, but the CIS for the most part was just a puppet show for Palpatin to gain more power. I do plan on not making the CIS the "bad" guys. And the only diplomatic talks that happened were between Military personal the actual politics will happen later.
14.03.2020: Well since my school closed due to corona till the 20th of April, I decided to write in that 1 month.
I do not own Halo or Star Wars; each franchise is owned by their respective owners.
now that that is out of the way let us begin
Reach, HIGHCOM, August 18th 2583
"Let us begin" said Lord Hood, to the rest of HIGHCOM who were either there in person or through Video communication. The head of MIO, Admiral Jack Harper took the stage, and began "Ladies and Gentlemen, from the Report that Admiral Laskey has provided us with, I have to inform you that MIO believes we might be in danger"
General Edwards head of the Marines asked her "And why would that be Admiral?" Harper showed a hologram of the Galaxy "The war is right at our doorstep, and if it is in any way like the Admiral has described it, then we might be dragged into it, both the Republic and CIS have a history of ignoring the Neutrality of systems"
"But we are not a single system Admiral, we have a powerful fleet defending us, and if they chose to ignore our neutrality, we and the Sangheili Empire will fight back" said Lord Hood. Harper defended her case "I understand admiral, but this whole war looks fishy from a mile away, this so called 'Clone Army' was kept a secret from everyone in the Republic government and was magically ready for when the War began"
General Kirisaki head of the Army said "That is a matter for concern, keeping an army hidden like that is close to impossible, may I ask what actions MIO is planning to undertake?" Harpe answered "During the talks, Infinity's AI, managed to hack into the Republics systems and steal a copy of their star charts. I have already sent out 3 Prowlers into Republic space, one will monitor the capital, one will monitor the world of 'Kamino' where the clones are being produced and the third will be monitoring the World of 'Kuat' and its shipyards"
Hood said "That's reasonable, but I want you to send further Prowlers into Republic space, and I can assume you did the same to the CIS" Harper nodded and said "I am preparing to send out 8 further Prowlers". Edwards asked "What does the President want to do about the invitation we received from these 'Jedi'?"
"Madam president held an emergency meeting with the senate yesterday and they voted unanimously in remaining neutral, and not joining either the CIS or the Republic, they also decided to try and open embassies on both the Republic and CIS capitals to try and establish trade with both of them. With that I am placing the fleets on Defcon 3 and increasing patrols on our Republic border" said Hood
Kirisaki asked "What is the Sangheili stand on this situation?" Harper answered "The Arbiter has expressed support for our action and will be joining our Delegation to represent his people to the Republic and CIS" the up till now quite General Petrenko head of the Airforce asked "Who are we sending as escort for the Delegation?"
"Vice-Admiral Cutter and the recently finished UNSC Jeanne D'Arc along with her escort, the Arbiter is going with his ship the Shadow of Intent and her escort ships" answered Hood and turned to Harper "Co-ordinate with the Jeanne to get as much information on the republic as you can, use the delegation as a coverup to send your agents to the capital grounds and find me a terminal for a AI, I want to know everything there is to know in case we have to fight any of them"
Harper nodded and said "UNSC Shadow Dagger is deploying to Coruscant and will await the arrival of the Jeanne from there they will get the information, that I can assure you" Hood nodded and accepted the answer he was given by Harper and turned to the Army Head.
"Kirisaki, I want all garrisons on our border worlds to be increased immediately, I don't want a single trooper or a 'droid' to be able to hold a square meter of soil, is that understood?" Kirisaki nodded and said "It will take time, give me a month and it will be done"
"What about the Forerunner instilations inside republic and CIS space?" asked Edwards, to which Harper answered "We contacted the science team responsible for the absolute record, they are looking into it, but from the looks of it we are looking at atleast a single dormant shipyard but we are already preparing for a possible Halo ring in Republic and CIS Space"
HIGHCOM went over a few other things before the meeting was ended and all participants went to do their respective tasks assigned to them.
UNSC Jeanne D'Arc, Slipspace enroute to Coruscant, September 3rd 2583, 09:42 Standard UNSC time
Cutter sat down in his captain's chair, he still couldn't believe it he received command of the Jeanne, one of the newer Battleships. Jeanne D'Arc was the 3rd ship in the new Preston Cole-Class of Battleships. Her main MAC which she had 3 of, could punch straight through a CAS-class assault carrier with her 1800-ton slug.
She suffered from having only 2 wings of fighters with her but that was fixed with having a light carrier in the fleet that a Preston Cole-class was leading. The Ships of the class were standing at 5225 meters long and were equipped with reverse engineered Forerunner shields and was protected by 5,5 Meters of Titanium-A3 plates. She was made to exchange blows with enemy fleets and could rival almost any Covenant vessel.
Cutter was stuck in thought, "A Battleship and its Taskforce does not scream 'we come in peace' to me admiral, the locals might think that we are trying to intimidate them" said a hologram of a beautiful blonde woman in medieval armor and a flagpole in her Hand, it snapped Cutter out of his thought and he said "I know Jeanne, I know, but HIGHCOM wants to show the Republic and CIS not to try and drag us into their war and that we are not to be trifled with".
Coincidentally the ships smart AI was based on the same Jeanne D'Arc that the ship was named after, the Maiden of Orleans. "Say Jeanne" said Cutter and continued "How long till we arrive at the co-ordinates?" she answered "30 minutes admiral" he asked "Is the Ambassador ready?" Jeanne answered "Yes captain, the ODST that will escort him is also reporting ready" "Good, Good, I hope this will turn out better than our 'talks' with the covenant" he said to which Jeanne simply said "As do all of us Admiral"
Cutter went over a few reports and talked a bit with Jeanne before the navigations officer announced "Dropping out in 1 minute" this got everyone on the bridge to work their best and the slow and laid-back atmosphere on the bridge turned into a very active scene.
The Navigations officer counted down "5…4…3…2…1…now!" and just as he said they exited Slipspace and before them was a planet covered by a gigantic city and a large fleet. Everyone on the bridge was stunned by the size of the city everyone stayed silent for a moment until Jeanne broke the silence and said "Scans say the entire planet is an empanoplies and has roughly 5000 levels"
Cutter stared in awe and asked "5000 levels?" Jeanne said "5127 levels to be exact. I should add that the Defense fleet is currently in disarray due to our Arrival" when she finished talking 5 Slipspace portals appeared and out came the Shadow of Intent alongside her 4 CSS-Class battlecruiser escorts.
Jeanne added "Now the fleet is panicking" which was to be expected to be honest, 2 small taskforces of rather large ships exited a blackhole portal, this was something that could scare anyone who witnessed it.
Cutter ordered "Jeanne get in contact with the UNSC Shadow Dagger and tell them that we are moving onto stage 2 of the plan, also open a comms channel to the Republic and try to talk them down from shooting at us" Jeanne nodded and said "On it captain" and a moment later the information was send away to the Shadow Dagger and Republic.
Senate building, Chancellors officer a few minutes prior
The Jedi and the chancellor were meeting today because today the so called 'UNSC' was supposed to arrive and enter political relations with the Republic and unfortunately also the CIS, to the dismay of the Chancellor and the Jedi alike. Palpatine asked "How should we go about meeting our guests?"
Master Yoda said "Welcome warmly, them we must." To which the other masters nodded and Palpating said "We should meet them in person first and then move to the senate to discuss matters of trade and membership in the republic" the masters once again nodded at what was said.
The conversation was prevented from continuing when a Human rushed into the office, "Chancellor, the UEG has arrived alongside their allies!" Both the Chancellor and the Jedi Masters didn't know why the Human was so scared, so the Chancellor inquired "Easy my friend, tell me what happened" the person answered "They jumped into the system without getting detected, a ship that dwarfs anything we have in storage came out. And then more of the white portals opened and out came more ships also dwarfing our own ships"
This was concerning information to Palpatine and the Jedi Masters, the Servant went ahead and showed them a recording from a Venator that has caught both factions exiting Portals, some stared in awe, some like Mace Windu stared at it with cold calculating eyes, already thinking of ways to counter these ships if they ever came to fighting them.
Then a communicator sounded from the Chancellors desk, "Chancellor, the UEG Ship is hailing us" Palpatine replied "Put them through" and the person on the other hand complied. "I am Vice-Admiral James Cutter of the UNSC Jeanne D'arc, it's a pleasure meeting you" Palpatine said "I am Supreme Chancellor of the Republic Shive Palpatine, it's a pleasure welcoming you to our Capital"
"Chancellor, you don't have to be afraid, we will enter low orbit to allow our Diplomats to descend onto the Surface and then we will move into High Orbit as to not trouble the Population or your Military" Palpatine and the Jedi Relaxed knowing that these new arrivals had Diplomacy in mind "Thank you Vice-Admiral for showing understanding, when can we expect the Diplomats to arrive?" asked Palpatine and Cutter answered "15 minutes from now" Palpatine thanked Cutter and then the Call ended.
"Move we should, meet the diplomats we must" said Yoda to which the Masters and Palpatine left to meet the Diplomats that would be arriving shortly. The Walk was quite uneventful until they spotted 2 crafts descending onto the Platform they were standing at. The first was a bulky olive green colored craft with thruster engines, something not seen in the galaxy for a very, very long time, with a white logo of a bird with the body of a shield clenching a Planet and letters UNSC in the shield and the words United Nations Space Command written under the Planet.
The Other was a more exotic design with what looked like Repulsorlift projectors, it was a Shade of Orange leaning a bit on the Red side, it had the logo off 2 Swords going behind a planet. It was Escorted by 2 tear like ships also of a shade of orange, while the UNSC was escorted by 2 Fighters that would put an Arc-170 to shame.
When the 2 craft arrived over the platform the UNSC one touched down and let out a Male with greying hair escorted by a 5-man team of soldiers clad in Black armor completely covering them. The other hovered over the platform with a hatch opening on its belly and a Creature as described by Anakin, Yularen and Obi-Wan to be a Sangheili followed by 5 other Sangheili in orange red Armor with pikes. Both groups approached the Republic officials who were a bit taken aback by the 2 factions.
The Human spoke first "Greetings, I am Donel Udina, representative of the UEG" then the Sangheili spoke "I am Rtas 'Vadum, Representative of the Sangheili Empire" Palpatine greeted them "I am Sheev Palpatine, Chancellore of the Republic, it's a pleasure and an honor meeting you" the Representatives shook the hand of Palpatine. The 2 important jedi masters went ahead and introduced themselves too "Jedi Grandmaster Yoda, I am" "I am Jedi Master Mace Windu" windu eyed them with a bit of distrust but didn't let it show.
Palpatine said "If you could follow us we would like to talk before we head to the senate" the Representatives complied and followed Palpatine who was annoyed at their existence that put his plans at jeopardy, but soon he would deal with them.
September 3rd 2583: The UEG and the Sangheili Empire announce that they do not wish to join the republic, something that was unheard off and many feared would be a prelude to them joining the CIS.
September 6th 2583: The UEG and Sangheili arrive at the CIS capital and announce the same thing they did too the Republic, they do not wish to join them and would remain neutral in the War. Requests are made to both the Republic and CIS to allow the UEG and Sangheili to build Embassies on the Capital worlds
September 10th 2583: Both the Republic and the CIS agree to allowing the UEG and Sangheili to build an Embassy, both governments build their Embassy as one building.
MIO note: with the building of an embassy building, MIO agents will be able to access both Republic and CIS networks with the help of AI.
September 12th 2583: UNSC Jeanne D'arc and her escort fleet and the Shadow of Intent return to the UEG and Sangheili Space, ambassadors to the CIS and Republic are supposed to arrive in a week.
UNSC Jeanne D'arc end her Support fleet aka. Taskforce 58
1 Preston Cole-class Battleship – UNSC Jeanne D'arc
1 Tiger Shark-class Light Carrier – UNSC Tiger Shark
2 Autumn-class Heavy Cruisers – UNSC Unyielding and UNSC Bastion
3 Medusa-class Destroyers – UNSC Zero, UNSC Spartacus and UNSC Wildcat
6 Moscow-class Frigates – UNSC Sacrifice, UNSC Elisa, UNSC Nachtmusik, UNSC Turkish Mach, UNSC Valkyrie and UNSC Deus Vult
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