AN: You know the drill, Halo meets and clashes with Mass Effect, but with a twist. You see unlike everyone else who had, *gag*...compassion and merciful kindness for the Mass Effect universe, I am an advocate for justly representing universes and characters as they truly are in their canon. So no buffing ME or nerfing Halo, if you have complaints keep them to yourself, hundreds of Halo v Mass Effect fanfics are the same regurgitated shit with some variation here and there, at least I'm being more original by making it realistic to how it actually goes instead of using the stupid 30km/s calculation to make it "fair" and "more interesting" as if watching filthy Xenos getting stomped never was.
Also to everyone that is done with lazy timelines, I'm sorry but I got three other projects I'm doing simultaneously, can't be creative right now and I'd like to get to the point quickly. Also, there will be lots of AU edits done by me since I find it hard to believe that across over 800 colonies only thirty-nine billion humans were alive and the Covenant killed twenty-three billion when they should have killed more because that would mean that a majority of humans live on Earth and NOT the billions of square kilometres of free real estate waiting to be claimed by a few billion opportunistic humans. Seriously, Reach is bigger than Earth and it has only one to two billion? There are at least a dozen or so million square kilometres of more space than Earth and ONLY that many live there?
I call bollocks.
And can someone please give me Sangheili, Jiralhanae and Kig-Yar to work with? I have no idea how to name any of them, I need someone who knows the naming process of these Alligators, Apes and Birds. Also, I need someone who knows the personality of the Council races and people in them, like Tele Vasir, Sparatus, Tevos and all the other Xeno scum.
Now sit back, relax, grab some holy Coke blessed by the MAN Emperor himself and enjoy the slaughter.
March 3rd, 2553: The Human-Covenant war officially ends, however, when estimates on the damage inflicted by the aliens have been revealed the logic and rationale of returning to a civilian-run government are questioned. Pre-war the population of UEG/UNSC space was 157.3 billion across 813 colonies, of which 301 of the 384 Inner colonies remain and all but 23 of the Outer colonies are left, taking 99.793 billion lives, which puts the current population across all 324 colonies, including the 27.69 billion that we're born during the war, at 87.197 billion. Less than half of the population before and during the war combined. This has caused massive and overwhelming support in favour of a military "dictatorship", with the UEG being relegated to overseeing the civilian population and its problems whilst the UNSC is the face of humanity. However, The President remains the highest seat of power in Human space, and terms have been expanded to last eight years to "milk the good ones", though after four years if the current president is deemed unfit for duty then an election will be held for a new one.
This sudden change caused outrage among many politicians before they were promptly executed under 'treason' for seeking to weaken humanity to a civilian state. In a never-before thought possible event, the polls came with a 99.99% majority in favour of this change and a 00.01% minority against the change. Most shipyards are repurposed for the construction of warships with few left for merchant and civilian ships.
In May, over a dozen billion people volunteer to colonise lost worlds, most being survivors seeking to reclaim their homes and others seeking to be part of the effort to help humanity get back on its feet.
June 2553: The Insurrection has resurged against the UNSC however, many within the rebels have become disillusioned with the movement, with some even going as far as stating and believing that the Insurrection was only good for getting humanity to prepare itself against the Covenant with some "target practice" and nothing else. Public Opinion of the Insurrection is even worse, with many calling the rebellion ungrateful and traitors that would rather fight against humanity than the aliens that nearly wiped it out. This hatred and scorn for the Insurrection would become larger when leaked files, audio and video of all the Insurrection leaders discussing and deciding on selling The Covenant information on the whereabouts of UNSC colonies in exchange for sparing the rebels.
With this, the already abysmal recruitment rate of the rebels would drop to zero and most Insurgents would mutiny against their leaders, capturing and selling them to UNSC to be pardoned for their crimes and violent protests and riots calling for blood. On August 27, the public execution of most Insurrection leaders was carried out, ending the sixty-year-long war against them.
November 2553: ONI, seeking to undermine the UNSC, attempts to destroy Section 0 with agents they had inserted into the 'secret' division. Several hours later many of Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 have been detained, the rest killed in the ensuing firefights and most proving loyal, with the Commander in Chief Margaret Parangosky, herself being tried and executed for her crimes. Serin Osman would later become Commander in Chief, having realised decades ago that Parangosky and ONI were becoming threats to the security of humanity, she has been turning ONI's sleeper agents against it until many agents have also come to realise the threat to human safety and security ONI has become. Especially the withholding of information that would've been vital to the war effort, such as the knowledge of the luminaries.
She also releases Dr Halsey from her incarceration with full a pardon, for while she certainly holds no love for Halsey it would be more blind stupidity than the entire Covenant to not admit that she has created the very soldiers that have saved humanity countless times, and is simply too brilliant to keep even house arrested for a year.
December 16th, 2553: As a gift, Arbiter Thel'Vadam gifts Humanity with designs for better, faster and more efficient communication satellites designs, work on reverse engineering them reveals methods and configurations that have only existed as theory and barely working prototypes, now Humanity can reliably communicate across Interstellar distances with ease.
January 25th, 2554: All satellites and Waypoint servers have been replaced with the new Covenant-based designs that allow for communication measured at a mind-boggling 5,876.4 Lightyears per minute, making communication with the farthest colonies and ships quicker than ever before. Improvements to the designs are constantly researched.
February 20th, 2554: The civil war between the separatists and loyalists Covenants and the various splinter factions of the old empire has spilt into human space when the Servants of Abiding Truth invade the Outer colony of Mazraea, in response, Lord Hood on behalf of the Security Council issued a declaration of war on the Covenant remnants, allying with the Sword of Sangheilios, marking the entrance of humanity in The Covenant civil war fought between the Separatists Sangheili, Unggoy, Lekgolo, Kig-Yar, Yanme'e, Jiralhanae and humans against the Covenant Loyalist Sangheili, Unggoy, Kig-Yar, Jiralhanae and Lekgolo.
May 5th, 2555: The Infinity Class-SuperCarrier UNSCN Infinity and its fleet under Rear Admiral Del Rio and Captain Laskey find the Forward Unto Dawn and its shipwrecked inhabitants inside Shield World Requiem, leading a day-long battle against a fleet of Covenant remnant ships in orbit of the planet, and a six-day-long battle against the insane Forerunner known as the Didact, where unfortunately Del Rio would be KIA'd protecting his crew from enemy forces. The battle would end with the death of the Didact by the hand of The Master Chief, pacifying the Prometheans and allowing humanity to seize control of the army. The Covenant Remnants now fearfully know him as a 'God killer', demoralizing many loyalists and emboldening Separatist forces.
As per an agreement with its allies, the UNSC allow its fellow Separatists to participate in the exploration and reverse engineering of Forerunner tech. Several state-of-the-art Forerunner fleets, vehicles, armament and armour are found and become the bulk of Separatist efforts on Requiem, several dozen facilities are found, reactivated and later sold to all major weapons companies and assemblies with the express goal of building and retrofitting warships, vehicles and armament for the war effort, allowing hundreds of facilities and shipyards in human space alone to be relieved and able to serve the needs of the public once again, though the majority of shipyards across Separatist space are still reserved for the war against the Loyalists.
June 7th, 2555: Admiral George Denzel Davis of the Logistical Operations Command under Naval Command proposes a new operation called Operation Ascending Phoenix. The operation plans for the UNSC Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines to be heavily upgraded, it specifies that ALL Naval ships are to be retrofitted to become exactly 2.65 times larger, be outfitted with Directed Energy Weapons and Hardlight weapons only, except for MAC cannons which will have Solid Slugs, Hollow Points that can be filled with either a nuke, EMP device or depleted uranium to simulate HEATs, Shredder and Hollow Point rounds used by small arms and armour replaced by a Nanolaminated Titanuim superalloy, Plasma and Hardlight rounds. Warships must also have their engines switched with upgraded Repulsor Engines used by The Covenant.
The Army would be retrofitted with Plasma, Hardlight, Rail and Coilguns, augmented to be able to wear MJOLNIR MK IV armour with energy shields proficiently and all their armour be equipped with a cheaper variant of the armour for starships as listed above and anti-gravity propulsion drives, this also applies to the Marines though they are to be equipped with MK V MJOLNIR. ODSTs are to be given MK VI MJOLNIR as well. Spartans are to receive new augmentations to be able to wear Class 3 Combat skins, as even the MJOLNIR MK VII falls under Class 2 despite making the MK VI obsolete in every way.
Airforce is to be equipped with the best anti-gravity propulsion drives and personnel augmented and outfitted with MJOLNIR armour designed to be as light as possible and give airmen much faster reactions and reflexes comparable to Spartans outfitted with MJOLNIR MK VI.
After four days of intensive and harsh reviews by HIGH COM and UNICOM Davis's proposal was approved and executed immediately. Though it was the most expensive plan ever, with estimates putting it in the hundreds of quadrillions of credits bankrupting the entire UNSC, it was decided that a "blank check" will be given to all Forerunner facilities owned by the UNSC, however, estimates still put the date the operation would be fulfilled at 2613 at the current speed, several scientific teams are put to the task of rummaging through all Forerunner databases to find a Forerunner world dedicated to the construction of weapons.
December 17th, 2555: Through the Janus Key, gifted to the esteemed Dr Katherine Halsey by the Forerunner known as The Liberian, the real-time location of every piece of Forerunner tech in the galaxy is now known to The Separatist Alliance. Including terraforming and planetary engineering technology, a much sought-after science by The Separatists and a nearby "Forge world" known as Telum Smith 2,173 lightyears away from Earth to the east of the galaxy.
An ONI Prowler discovers Venezia, the staging ground of an Assualt on the Inner Colonies consisting of over twelve hundred and thirty-two ships, including a hundred and thirty CAS-Assualt Carriers and two CSO Class-Super Carrier, confirmation was received that the Insurgents were harbouring the Loyalists, effectively making them traitors to all of Mankind. A low-tier NOVA bomb was detonated between the Planet and its Moon, destroying one thousand ships and decimating the populations on the planet and moon. The destruction of one CSO was confirmed.
December 28th, 2555: Telum Smith is fully activated, analysis from several hundred of the best Sangheili, Human and Unggoy experts put the production capabilities of the planet into perspective, it being capable of manufacturing 67% of ALL production for the Separatist Alliance militaries, from Warships, munitions, armour and so on, reliving tens of thousands of shipyards and facilities across Separatist Space to be repurposed for the construction of civilian craft and the recolonisation efforts.
January 23rd, 2556: The Loyalists launch a simultaneous assault upon Requiem and Telum Smith, invading the worlds with 673 ships each, many being survivors from the Venezia genocide. The defence fleet at Requiem is put through a gruelling week-long battle until both forces retreat to recover, on the ground the Loyalists have taken 3 shipyards that belong to the Sangheili and put them to use for repairing their fleets.
The Fleets at Telum Smith are forced to retreat after two days, leaving the Sentinels and ground forces to fend off the assault from the millions of Loyalists soldiers deployed from the hundreds of Carriers and single CSO of the attacking armada. On January 27th, reinforcement in the form of the UNSCN Eternity and its fleet of Punic Class-Battle Carriers, Autumn Class-Heavy Cruisers, Valourous Class Super-Heavy Crusier, Reveangeance Class-Heavy Battleship, Crucible Class-Super Destroyers and Strident Class-Heavy Frigates commanded by Admiral Roland Freemont and a CSO Class-Super Carrier and it's fleet of CAS Assualt Carriers, ORS-Class Heavy Cruisers, CCS Battleships, CPV-Class Heavy, Destroyers CAR-Class Armoured Frigates and Ceudar-pattern heavy Corvettes commanded by Supreme Commander Jul'Mdama.
The Requiem and Telum Smith Campaigns would last until March 3rd and 1st respectively.
The location of both facilities is heavily classified, with all civilian personnel being forced to go into Cryo for the trip and Navigation data erased by an onboard agent deployed by ONI, the organization launches an investigation for the traitor(s) that leaked the data.
February 20th-March 1st-3rd, 2556: Seeing an opportunity to greatly benefit from the war, Warmaster Atriox sends his fleets to assist the Separatists at Requiem and Telum Smith, turning the tide of the previously brutal stalemate, participating in Telum Smith himself his show of support further emboldened Separatists, turning what would've been four-month bloody and destructive campaigns into short and decisive thirty-nine and thirty-seven-day campaigns. In return, he was gifted three dozen Forerunner facilities and shipyards for him to do with as he pleases.
March 13th, 2556: With the battles over, analysts are finally able to provide conclusive estimates for when the Ascending Phoenix doctrine can be completed, before the battles estimates put the date at 2580 however, unless the damages are quickly repaired, estimates put the date at 2582. Considering how in less than three months The Covenant went from winning the war to being completely dissolved, Murphy's Law states that a seemingly minor setback could allow a catastrophe that has never been seen since the Day of Judgement to decimate Humanity and its allies. Repairs are a priority.
April 7th, 2556: Atriox Challenges Alpha Lydus to earn rule over the Clans of Doisac, the duel ended in a draw between the two titans of the Brute world though Atriox still surrenders to Lydus under the belief that the man's aged body is the only reason he did not win and that the elder is more wise and fit for the role than him. Lydus accepted, under the condition that Atriox keeps his and his Clan's independence and becomes his Warmaster of the now United Clans of Doisac(UCD) Navy.
May 11th, 2556: Repairs for both Requiem and Telum Smith are completed, analysts now put the date of completion of the Ascending Phoenix doctrine at late 2579 to early 2580, however, plans to find another world to repurpose for war production are drawn once again, nine viable facilities and locations are discovered with seven being claimed for the Sangheili, Jiralhanae, Unggoy, Kig-Yar, Yanme'e, Lekgolo and humans, the last two are once again shared by the alliance. New estimates put the date at late 2578 for the completion of the Phoenix doctrine.
March 17th, 2557: 68 out of the 83 glassed Inner colonies are completely recolonised with only a few million square kilometres of damaged land left on them, however, issues with eccentric and harsh weather changes have made any further terraforming and land repairs a low priority, efforts are now focused entirely on the construction of cities and taming the weather. Population analysis notes that a minor population spike or a baby boom has occurred, raising the population to 111.43 billion, conservative estimations put the expected population at 182.97 billion by 2566.
September 29th, 2557: The UNSC Spirt of Fire is found drifting near The Ark, the crew is taken to Earth where they are debriefed on the events of the past twenty-six years and the current situation. They are then sent off for Indefinite shore leave with a ceremony celebrating their return and their actions at Shield World 0459 Trove that saved humanity from certain extinction. One Rion Forge would join the Marines to properly honour the memory of her father, she would also give information on several illegal salvage rings and their buyers, allowing the UNSC to conduct a takedown operation of them.
November 16th, 2557: The truth of the Halo Array is leaked into Loyalist networks and Extranet, splintering them and causing many to defect to the Separatists and mass mutinies that decimate Loyalist forces, hundreds of star systems surrender to Separatist control. The end of the war draws nearer every day.
January 3rd, 2558: The traitors are discovered to be several generals and an Admiral within HIGH COM, Kaidons and the WarChieftan Council. Rear Admiral Mattius Drake would escape to Loyalist space, though not without serve wounds. Murok' Vadam and three other Generals of the Swords of Sangheilios, though Murok would be killed by a Kig-Yar sniper the remaining three Generals would escape. Chieftain Treturous would perish in a fight, taking dozens of Jiralhanae warriors with him to the grave.
Expecting an imminent Siege, fortification and reinforcement of worlds and colonies to commence, the production of ships is put on hold in favour of retrofits to current ships and armour. Two weeks later the entire Loyalist military force, every single Unggoy, Lekgolo and unmanned drone launches a massive assault that spreads across all of Separatist space, every single Colony is attacked. This would become known as The Seige of All, as none were spared.
September 2558: Conclusive results on the combat effectiveness of 'Ascended' and 'non-Ascended' units are cross-referenced, the difference is astounding. Ascended ships need a 1.5 to 1 ratio of the equivalent enemy ship to be matched and the standard Marine and Amry squads suffer minimal casualties from enemy Lances, and in some cases, none at all, whilst non-Ascended squads suffer higher casualties and squads being wiped out are often. The new M880 Main Battle tank can endure four hits from the mortar of a Wraith before suffering a structural and mechanical failure, this is thanks to the powerful energy shield that can endure three hits before needing to recharge and the new Nanolaminate Titanium Carbon Super Alloy Ablative armoured hull, which can endure another four hits before being destroyed or a lucky shot to the plasma reactor, with the Hybrid Plasma 140mm cannon being able to punch through a Wraith's shields through the armour and explode within, making it effectively a one-shot kill by way of damaging the Wraith beyond repair and effective combat usage and killing the crew.
Aerospace superiority is now a certainty with the latest batch of Small Sword Air Superiority Fighter/Interceptor, Xiphos Aerospace Superiority Fighter and Multi-role strike craft, Greatsword Aerospace/Air support and Strategic bomber and countless more aircraft.
March 28th, 2559: The Covenant Civil War officially ends in a climatic battle over the Last Fortress World, a three-day-long battle that ended the planet's subsequent glassing, bringing an end to the Loyalists. Splinter Cells and stragglers are expected to remain for seventeen years but peace has effectively been achieved, at last, war production has been slowed to a more leisurely pace and recolonisation efforts are doubled and the production of colony ships is in full blast, by 2567 all of the Inner Colonies and two hundred Outer Colonies are expected to surpass their previous peak statuses, and by 2569 217 Outer Colonies are expected to become Inner Colonies.
May 12th, 2559: With the war over it is decided that The Separatists shall be officially known as The Wardens, each member would maintain full independence, however, any matter that concerns more than one species member is a matter that concerns all. Militaries will be merged to maximize interspecies relations though will maintain a degree of separate individuality, such as designs and rank systems. It is essentially a coalition created for the express purpose of handling the Mantle of Responsibility given by The Forerunners and an elaborate show of unity for everyone.
June 13th, 2559: A salvage operation to Trove finds that large quantities of the debris have become a new compound mineral, the mineral has an atomic mass of zero and when subjected to an electrical current produces a magnetic field made of dark energy that can manipulate mass, as of now the only known way to utilise its power is to subject it to a positive electron to increase mass and a negative electron to decrease mass, how it does this is that it manipulates the Higgs boson particles that give atoms mass by weakening or strengthing the field it emits. Research into the mineral is given further funding, it is named Bosonite(2).
July 8th, 2559: Bosonite is investigated for its potential as a substitute for many anti-gravity technologies, however, it is decided that it shall be mainly reserved for civilian uses. The possibility of being used in MACs is also explored, several companies are contracted to construct MAC guns that employ Bosonite to further enhance the already nigh-world-ending power of the Ultra-Heavy anti-ship weapons.
November 2560: All Inner Colonies are recolonised with 73 Outer Colonies being reclassified as Inner Colonies, the population grows near to pre-war numbers at 151.87 billion, and several dozen worlds vetted for colonisation are explored, besides dangerous fauna and megafauna that require military-grade weapons to deal with all are deemed suited for colonisation.
December 2560: The Arcturus system is discovered to be rich in Bosonite, and a large device the size of the revised Infinity Supercarriers is discovered in the Arcturus system, ONI science teams are immediately set upon the device to discover its purpose. Designs for a new class of ship are devised and, in honour of the Forerunner that saved the galaxy are named Bornstellar Class-Dreadnought. Due to its massive size and mass of it as well as the fact that its entire surface is covered in guns, the first three ships would not be completed until 2571, 2574 and 2577, with them being the only ships of the Bornstellar class.
2563: The first MAC guns that make use of Bosonite are field tested, produced by Shepard Industries the results are promising however concerns over the "Mass Effect" fields of Bosonite interfering and "talking over" the Hyper-dense and intense fields of MACs are raised after an incident where the gun malfunctioned when fired at full power, heavily damaging it and launching the round at a tenth of the velocity projected velocity. With further funding of two hundred million credits, Shepard weapons tech R&D are pressured to find a solution.
2565: Five years of research and development of attempting to rip data out of the device with compatible computer soft and hardware finally bear fruit. The device is what's called a 'Mass Relay', it utilises a Bosonite core to launch objects, primarily ships, through a near-zero mass corridor across large distances, it is currently connected to five other relays that lead to habitable systems with large quantities of Bosonite, small fleets of varying amount of Corvettes and Frigates are sent through each Relay to scout ahead. Reports state that all possess planets with no intelligent life and some have another relay that leads to a different system. Slip space routes to these systems are chartered and render the Arcturus Relay worthless. The Relay is to be further researched and once all knowledge is gained from it is to be then decommissioned and scrapped for its Bosonite and resilient metal comparable to the best armour The Covenant used during the war.
2566: the first MACs to make use of Bosonite are devised, results of the second testing are phenomenal, by making MAC rounds lighter the same amount of energy can be used with less mass to launch. The new Cole Class-ODP had been fitted with the first proper Bosonite Super MAC, the solution was a basic 3,000-ton depleted Uranium Plasma hybrid projectile accelerated to 15.80% the speed of light, Bosonite was used to make the round 600 tons lighter. The result was the round velocity jumping to 16.79% SOL and the cracking of a moon a third the size and mass of Luna, more than enough firepower to destroy the old war-era CSO-Super Carrier and deplete the shields of the newer SHD-Dreadnought. However, the MAC was unable to fire for over 30 seconds afterwards and dozens of minor damages to the barrel were discovered.
2567: All 813 of the original colonies have become Inner colonies, with over two hundred new Outer colonies established. The population has surpassed previous expectations at 204.64 billion, concerns of overpopulation are raised but are put at rest with the reassurance that food production will be able to keep up with demands with even some extra food in stock, housing is also not a problem as there are tens of billions of square kilometres across all colonies, more than enough room for the masses to occupy. Bosonite mining becomes a lucrative business, turning the Bosonite-rich systems into the fastest-growing new colonies in human history.
2569: Telum Smith and Requiem become open to colonisation efforts, opening countless millions of job opportunities and bolstering the production of warships and retrofits of older ships. Economic analysis shows that the economy has recovered and is expected to boom even further. A new defence plan for outer colonies is devised, each colony will have a small fleet consisting of an Autumn Class-Heavy Cruiser, two Poleaxe Class-Destroyers, three Valkeryie Class-Light Frigate and five Cutlass Class-Heavy Corvette. The Autumn is to be deployed in orbit of the colony, the primary colony if there is more than one in the system, the destroyers are to patrol around the inner part of the system, the frigates the outer part of the system and two Corvettes are to accompany each of them, with one to follow the Autumn or orbit the secondary colony.
2571: The commissioning ceremony for the UNSCN Bornstellar is interrupted by a terrorist attack by the new Loyalist organization the Seekers of Divine Truth, killing thousands in the process, including hundreds of Sangheili, Unggoy, Kig-Yar and Jiralanae citizens, sparking outrage across Warden space. Counter-terrorism operations are executed, with varying levels of success as they prove apt at guerilla warfare and evading capture, nonetheless, the campaign against these dissents is unfortunately expected to last for five years until it can be stomped out.
2574: Shanxi is evaluated for possible SDT activity when a strange First Contact is made...
1. Can someone tell me if doctrine is the right word for this?
2. Yes I named Eezo something else, why? Because Element Zero and Eezo are fucking stupid names for what's a compound mineral. Seriously why couldn't they just give it a proper name and say Element Zero and Eezo are the improper inaccurate names used by the Idiots downstairs known as people?
Again sorry for the bloody timeline of all things, couldn't think of anything better to do. But don't worry I left out a shit ton of details, so now I have to expand the story through proper world-building! I also need help devising new vehicles, aircraft, armour, weapons and Battleships because that class of ship doesn't exist in Halo. Again someone who knows the Mass Effect character's personalities please help, I don't understand RPGs.
I hope you find this satisfactory, next chapter will be a little different from the canon of Shanxi, and not in how humanity deals with the alien invader.
Chapter one is not far behind.
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