I would like to apologize for long wait, I have finals coming and I had very limited free time to write this. I hope that this chapter will be god enough to make up for long wait. Also I added a small "spoiler/trailer" for what will happen in chapter 7, it will be probably marked so you will be able to skip it if you don't want to know what happens until you read full chapter 7.
Q&A
Will the enemy in halo 4 appear in your story?
Probably not, depends on who exactly what or who is the enemy in H4, is it the Didact or a precursor, we would need to wait and see.
What is the type of government UNSC follows?
They will follow democratic government. The military side of UNSC won't be able to start a full scale war without the approval of the UEG president. Recon however is approved by the fleet admiral in charge.
What about the systems alliance?
System Alliance in peace time follows democratic order as well, with president. In war time however the government is replaced with defense committee composed of high ranking officers, usually fleet admirals
How is the Jiralhanae Empire keep its technological aspects going without the engineers?
The Jiralhanae won't be having many engineers; however they will be able to receive technology through the use of "trader guild"
Why are the brutes allied with the elites/UNSC?
Simple question and a simple answer. ONI set a puppet chieftain on Jiralhanae throne.
I'm confused are the elites going with the dawn?
Yes, yes they are.
Will UNSC Dawn of War be in Mass Effect universe a overpower ship that will be able to take out a fully shielded dreadnought in a single shot?
No, Dawn will not be able to take out a dreadnought in one shot. In fact I plan to weaken her main MAC gun, you will see exactly how in chapter 7. I know that most of "hardcore" halo fans like to see that happen, however this is crossover, so I am giving something that mass effect fans should also enjoy.
Those are all A&Q I got (If I missed any please inform me)
Thank you!
Date: July 21, 2582
Location: UNSC controlled space, Planet Reach
The planet Reach, once a mankind fortress in the stars has been ravaged and partially glassed by the covenant in the 2552. Now, almost 30 years later the UNSC have rebuild most of Reach facilities and cities. Now, in 2582 planet Reach is a still a UNSC world, but it's also considered to be a neutral planet, where representatives of both the alien races and the UNSC gather. Right now there are several ships belonging to the Sangheili Empire have arrived on reach. A small group of ships, three CCS battlecruisers and an assault carrier Shadow of Intent. The shadow of intent, one of the Sangheili empire navy flagships carried the arbiter, Thel 'Vadamee who is to meet with a UNSC reprehensive, Fleet Admiral Lord Terrence Hood. Shadow of Intent dock with a valiant class super heavy cruiser, once rare ship in the UNSC fleet, but now a class of warship that is slowly replacing Marathon class as front line warship. Lord Hood flagship is called "Pride of mankind". As the two ships dock together, the representatives of both races meet onboard the Pride of mankind.
Lord Hood, a man of almost 90 years old was flanked by a pair of spartan IVs, a new generation of Spartans, who wore a hybrid version between a MJOLNIR mark VI used by Spartan II and Semi-Powered Infiltration armor used spartan III. The resulting combination gave the IVs an advantage of both armors, thus making the more effective than either IIs or IIIs. They were armed with M7 sub machinegun and a UNSC made point defense gauntlets.
The arbiter escort is composed of three zealot class Sangheili. They are armed with type-1 energy swords and plasma rifles. The arbiter himself if also armed with type-1 energy sword and a needler pistol.
"Arbiter" spoke Lord Hood and offered his hand to the Sangheili "It's good to see you well". Thel made a face that was equivalent to a smile by human standards "All things considered, I would have to say I am pretty well"
"Yes, I heard that there is some unrest among the Sangheili people"
"Sadly my friend, it's more than a simple unrest, I fear that we will face a civil war, one that may lead to our extinction if the Jiralhanae intervene" spoke Thel with concern. "I know this feeling, the fear of a civil war made the Spartans, or "The demons" as your kind refers to them" replied Lord Hood and added "Perhaps you will make something similar"
"I would prefer more, peaceful resolution I have seen enough bloodshed under the prophet rule" said Thel as he and Lord Hood, plus their escort, walked towards the meeting chamber of the Pride of mankind. Thel relinquished his weapons to guards waiting outside the chamber and then both Lord Hood and Thel 'Vadamee walked inside. Inside were only a simple table and a pair of chairs. "Your ship doesn't seem to enjoy the luxury of our ships" commented Thel on the commendation, to which Lord Hood only shrug with his shoulders "The Pride of mankind is a warship about all else"
Thel nod with his head as he sit down on the chair that was designed for the Sangheili physiology while Lord Hood sat down on the other chair "Be it as it may, this not something that we are to discuss" Lord Hood had a concerned look on his face as he spoke "Yes, the rising concern about possibility of the Sangheili civil war and the consequences it might have on the know galaxy"
"I want know, if the UNSC would interfere, if the war comes to be?"
"Arbiter, I have my belief that the UNSC would support you and your faction in the civil war, but I cannot tell if this support will be a open, or covert support"
"I would be grateful for either support you can provide me, now we still have to discuss the matter of Jiralhanae and, the samurai project"
"Intelligence reports from ONI prowlers indicate that there are three powerful chieftains who managed to gather a sizable Jiralhanae army. What is surprising about those armies is the fact they seem to posses much more weapons then we believed possible. The majority of those weapons do seem to be human based, however ONI was unable to discover if they have been provided by rouge sections within the UNSC, or if someone is supplying them with our weapons"
"It has been almost 30 years since I killed the Jiralhanae war chieftain. Death of which then began this war amongst the tribes, we knew that someone would rise eventually. What we don't know is how this Jirlahane will act"
"This is why ONI suggest we either launch a killing blow against the Jiralhanae and exterminate them before they regain their starships and once again spread war in the galaxy" said Lord Hood with a sigh as he look onto the surface of planet Reach, the planet they were orbiting "Personally, I would be able to condemn an entire specie into extinction, not when we have a alternative" Thel look at the human with curios gaze in his eyes and asked "Alternative?"
"ONI spooks managed to learn of a forth chieftain who managed to gather an army of his own. Its much smaller, and mostly made out of Kig-yar and Unggoy mercenaries, but e has something that Jiralhanae aren't exactly known for, he knows patience" As he said the word patience, Lord Hood brought out a datapad and show it to Thel who read the report of a ONI operative "This chieftain performs a guerilla tactics against his foes, Unggoy suicide bombers and Kig-yar sniping. A coward tactic by Jiralhanae standards, but ONI thinks we can exploit this"
"ONI suggests you assist this chieftain to achieve his rise to power, doesn't it?" said Thel, now understanding ONI suggestion and Lord Hood nod "They suggest we supply him with weapons and information he would need to win, in return he, once he achieves control of the Jiralhanae tribes, wont launch a war against either the UNSC, or the Sangheili empire" Thel was clearly amused with is plan, so he hardly bother to laugh as he heard it "And you honestly believe that this chieftain would agree to that?"
"We learned much of Jiralhanae during Great War and afterwards, ONI would eliminate this chieftain a year after he achieves control and install a puppet chieftain on the throne. This puppet would be chosen by both us and the Sangheili Empire"
"This plan sounds like something the prophets might do, it's possible it might word, but now I have a question of my own to ask you" spoke Thel as he stand up, walked to the human he is having conversation with and place his left hand firmly onto human shoulder. He know that the Spartan guards outside have cameras trained on him just in case of an assassination attempt. He was sure that this is just what it looked like to them. Lord Hood didn't flinch as Thel strong arm grip his shoulder; instead he only looked up to the alien eyes. "Ask then Arbiter" Thel look at Lord Hood eyes as he spoke. "This plan your ONI had suggested for the Jiralhanae, tell me, is it possible that ONI orchestrated chaos that threatens Sangheili race with a civil war?"
Not moving his gaze away from the alien, Lord Hood spoke "I can understand why you think this, but I can reassure you Arbiter that we did not orchestrated the civil unrest. I would bet my life on it" Thel smiled as he loosen his grip on human shoulder and walked back to his char "Don't throw your life away so easily admiral, UNSC, whole human race might still require your aid" Thel then sat down and he too looked outside onto planet Reach space as he added "I will know the truth soon enough human, I would hate to start another war with your kind"
"This time arbiter, the UNSC would be ready for you" spoke Lord Hood in serious tone. The two, despite sharing some sort of a friendship bound together, never really forgot the horrors of the Great War. Thel, before he walked out as the meeting was over offered a handshake to Lord Hood, who accepts it and shake it. "Until we meet again" said Thel and waited for Lord Hood reply who gave it a few seconds later "I hope that next time we meet, we will be closer friends and not enemies" Thel nod and after he and his escort left the UNSC ship he mumbled to himself "Would it be that easy"
Date: January 21, 2588
Location: UNSC patrol feet, Admiral Marshall Flagship the Avenging Shadow.
"Admiral, fleet reports that sensor sweep is complete, nothing to report" spoke the AI on bard the Avenging shadow. Admiral Marshall is a next generation of admirals, who saw some battle against the covenant during close to the end of the war. Marshall at the time was a captain of a Paris class heavy frigate and one off a few ships that survived covenant attack on Earth. After receiving a promotion to the admiral in rather short time, she was assigned to command the ninthouter colony patrol fleet and received a new flagship an upgraded marathon class cruiser The Avenging shadow. Upgraded included a covenant energy shield and slipspace engine along with new type of the MAC cannon and a number of experimental archer mark II missiles.
The ninth patrol fleet consists only of four ships and two destroyers, seven ships totally plus the Avenging shadow. These ships were commissioned by the surviving outer colonies as a means of patrolling the trade routes with the inner colonies after the war. After the war ended and the UNSC begun to rebuild, several surviving insurrection factions began raiding the UNSC convoys heading to the outer colonies. Because of these raiding actions, the surviving governments of outer colonies, afraid that they would lose support of UNSC, denied any warship without UNSC logo to land on their planets. In addition they have begun to publicly supporting the UNSC in hunting the pirates. This is where the patrol fleets come in place.
"Plan the coordinates for next sector and jump when ready" spoke admiral with a small trace of boredom in her voice "Understood admiral" replied shadow navigation officer and together with ship AI planed the necessary calculation in order to plan a successful slipspace jump. A swirling blue and white light appeared in front the ship as the jump was finalized and the fleet disappeared into it. An hour later, the fleet emerged at their next destination, the planet harvest. Harvest was once known as agricultural planet that was capable of supporting three planets on its own with the food it could produce on its soil. However in 2525 it was glassed by the Covenant, which started the human-covenant war. Now it's once rich soil is glass, however in 2565 a UNSC scientists begun a deglassing project on it. Being an experiment, it still remains to be seen if the project would work at all. The ninth fleet had orders to check harvest for any sign of progress.
"Admiral" spoke the ship AI and appeared on projector. The AI chose his image to look like a male navy officer. "Yes, what is it"
"I thought you should know. I detected a signal coming from the Harvest orbit. It matches a covenant distress signal used during the war. Admiral, I believe that there is a covenant escape pod, I suggest we recover it"
"Elite, Prophet or Brute?" asked Admiral Marshall as she looked down onto Harvest "Ma'am?" asked the AI confused, as it wasn't a smart AI, rather a new generation of a "dumb" AI capable of performing greatly multiple assignments unlike the previous generation. They are still inferior to the smart AI, both of previous and the new generation AI. The one on the ninth fleet flagship however, appears to be a faulty or simply overwhelmed by information provided by seven ships under his "protection". Admiral inhaled once and then repeats her question "Is the signal of Sangheili, Jiralhanae or of the San'Shyum origin?"
"Oh, I'm sorry that I did not understand what you meant" Apologized the AI. It took him a few seconds before he respond "The signal is of Sangheili origin Admiral"
"Very well, have a pelican recover the pod"
"Understood admiral" said the AI as he relayed the order. It took pelican pilot a minute to prepare his bird, then about a five minute to reach and recover the pod. Once the pod was onboard the flagship, a team of marines was on standby, in case if the pod occupant is hostile. Each of five marines in team was armed with MA5B assault rifle, preferable for boarding actions due to its 60 round magazine and reduced accuracy compared to MA5C and MA37 rifles used by Army troopers and navy troopers. Admiral was in hangar herself, armed with a M6 SMG "Officer on deck!" yelled a marine officer as she had seen her walk in and saluted her along with everyone else present in the hangar "At ease" said admiral as she returned the salute "What do we have here sergeant?"
"Standard elite escape pod ma'am, whoever or whatever is inside is injured but alive, according to readings…or so we think at least, we can hardly make out anything" spoke marine sergeant. He then shows the admiral the panel she was talking about.
"Open in"
"Yes ma'am" said marine sergeant and waved to one of the marines "You heard the admiral marine, open it up" as she said that she removed the safety lock from her MA5B rifle and added "Look alive marines, sleeping beauty inside this thing could be hostile" one of the marines holster his weapon and walked towards the pod to open it. Inside of the pod, lay a Sangheili in a minor rank armor. This unknown Sangheili was holding its shoulder, from which a small amount of purple blood was pouring out. "Well, what do we have here?" Spoke admiral Marshall as she walked towards the pod. "What is a Sangheili doing in UNSC space?"
The alien let out a small grunt as it exit the pod and look at Marshall as marines raised their assault rifles and aim them at the Sangheili in case if it turns out to be hostile. "UNSC lost this world when the followers of the prophets turned it into glass decades ago, now it belongs to no one"
"That is not what I asked Sangheili, tell me who you are and what is you doing here"
"I am Voro' Chonchiyo, one of the Arbiters zealots"
"No ee at the end? Oh right, I forgot that you removed those since you rebel against prophets" spoke one of the marines in the hangar and slowly lower his rifle. However he was the only one who did that. Admiral Marshall continues with her…interrogation… "That doesn't explain why you are here Voro, or why you wear a blue armor; you do know those armors signify a rank of minor, not zealot"
"I have been sent by the arbiter on a mission against the rebels in these sectors."
"And"
"And I have attained information that would be useful for your kind. I will reveal it to you if you grant me safe transport to the Sanghelios"
"I would offer medical assistance, but that would be dishonorable to you. So chough up your information, now"
"Fine, the rebel ship I was station on, was on its way to rendezvous with a sizable fleet, around sixty warships. And from the information I was able to download, before I had to escape, indicates that this fleet intents on glassing several UNSC colonies, as a way to provoke war between our species"
"And since you can't contact your own forces, you're hoping that we will destroy this fleet for you"
"The destruction of the rebel fleet would both protect your colonies and cripple the rebel forces. The blow to the rebellion could even be enough to completely decimate it, preventing civil war at all"
"Just give us the coordinates" spoke admiral Marshall and extended her hand towards the Voro, who in turn hand her a datapad. Marshall closed her hand after receiving the datapad. Then she turned to the marines and spoke "Heal his shoulder wound, and then throw him to the brig until we deal with that fleet"
"Yes ma'am!" replied the marines as they took the Sangheili to the brig where he would be treated by a ship doctor. Marshal had more important business to take care to bother with him anymore. She went to the bridge of The Avenging Shadow. She then had the ship AI analyze the datapad for information of the Sangheili rebellion fleet.
"Analysis is complete. The coordinates have revealed that the fleet is stationed around the former colony world known as Arcadia" spoke the A.I. after it had finish its analysis of the datapad. "Send a message to the Fleetcom at Earth, explain them everything that we leaned and send all relatable data"
"Understood admiral. I have also learned that the fleet is there for a supply and refit itself. Most of the ships are operating with skeleton crew. If we perform a surgical strike with smaller ships, arm with nuclear devices we would effectively limited the rebel fleet odds of mounting a successful counter attack"
"You are thinking of a battle of Pearl harbor" Admiral Marshal scratched her chin as she thought this throe. "We only have nine ships at our disposal nine ships against 60 ships won't hold out for long, our nuclear weapons simply aren't strong enough to destroy such a large fleet"
"If I may captain, the Avenging shadow has a single NOVA bomb on board, I believe that this weapon would be more than enough to take care of the rebel fleet."
"We have that onboard? Why was I not aware of that?"
"I'm sorry admiral; I didn't see the need to inform you of its presence on board. And in this case it will turn into an asset in this mission."
"Very well, set it on a remote controlled longsword fighter and be prepared to use it as soon as we jump into sector."
"Yes admiral"
March 3, 2553 The Human Covenant war is declared over, and the UNSC begins to rebuild, although the Great Schism rages on, whit Sangheili gaining upper hand in civil war quickly.
March 14, 2553 UNSC finish contact with military bases around Earth and the surviving Inner colonies, revealing that the casualties from the war were not as high as once thought, although still high. Billions died in the war, but it was confirmed that the majority of the Inner Colonies were not glassed, and many left completely untouched, as apparently they were "skipped" as they Covenant found Earth before them. Around 200 planets are confirmed to have survived the war and Humanity's population stands at 62 billion, where it was once 255 billion before the war.
January 17, 2558 Covenant Separatists bring an end to the Great Schism, due to so many Loyalist planets being glassed that they were unable to continue the war. The San'Shyuum is believed to be extinct after to the battle of Delta Halo, and the lack of Jiralhanae tactical knowledge contributed to their downfall.
January 28, 2558 The Sangheili, enter in an era of political disaster, with multiple factions emerging to challenge the arbiter government and his alliance with the human kind. Many factions begin openly arm themselves, but only the faction "True Sanghelli" who still believes that the forerunners are their gods' appears to posse's starships.
December 12, 2561 UNSC scientist discover how to reverse the glass on glassed planets back into fertile and habitable planets however process is extremely long and its believed that a entire millennia may pass before a planet can fully recover, or at all. Admiral Hood manages to approve this theory in action and several ships are dispatched to declass those planets with minority of glassed surface, Reach being one of them.
September 27, 2566 UNSC receives report of a military colony that went silent after Earth was hit are still active. However they are now actively hostile towards the UNSC and aliens, seeing to them that they betrayed the dead humans by ally themselves with the Sangheili. ONI is told to keep close watch on them. This colony become known as the "forgotten ones"
August 9, 2576 UNSC begins operation "Salvaging the dead" The purpose of this is to salvage ship debris in order to convert them into material needed to construct new ships. The true Sangheili who believe that the UNSC will gain covenant technology by scavenging the destroyed covenant ships had begun destroying as many of those as they could with their limited amount of ships. This nearly led them into conflict with UNSC escorts that provided protection to the scavenger ship.
January 16, 2588 UNSC recover impressive amount of forerunner technology on several of their colonies that had remain hidden to both them and the covenant during the war. Now whit the UNSC knowing what to look for they with the assistance of "wild" Huragok have begun reverse engineer actual forerunner technology. Most notable discovery is the ability to extent human life. An adult life can be extended to 500 years (due to genetic problems it can't be extended further) while a child could live up to 2000 years. Some people may complain the reduction at aging, as a theory exist that a 100 year old man would actually look like a 10 year old boy, however this had not been yet conformed.
February 13, 2588 Acting on the information recovered from arbiter spy, a UNSC admiral Julia Marshall and her ninth fleet with assistance of seventh and eleventh fleet destroy a large fleet belonging to the "true Sangheili" inside the UNSC border. The attack achieved complete surprise and in resulting battle not a single Sangheili was spared. This action had a mix result for Admiral Marshall. The Arbiter privately congratulates her on her victory, while publicly his faction condemns her attack. However popularity among UNSC colonies arose, as this attack demonstrate that the UNSC is now strong enough to defend their worlds.
October 30, 2592 Contact with "the forgotten" colony is lost. ONI, along with Sangheili intelligence manages to create a puppet chieftain on Jiralhanae homeworld Doisac. They provide him with weapons and training, so that "their" chieftain would win in civil war.
July 20 2593 UNSC discovers the reason for "the forgotten" silence. Their worlds have fallen to the parasite known as the flood. UNSC immediately scrambles a large task force to rescue survivors and make sure that no flood infested ship escapes. Upon arrival they learn that colony garrison destroyed the ships when flood infestation had overwhelmed them. Survivors were hidden in shelters where the UNSC marines rescued them after which UNSC fleet fired MAC rounds into the planet to neutralize the flood.
November 5, 2593. Flood existence spreads into general public, but instead of panic, the mankind unites under UNSC banner, thus ending any mistrust between the UNSC and the surviving insurrection worlds, as they are both human faction trying to survive in hostile universe.
December 28, 2623 The puppet chieftain achieves total dominance on Doisac. Because this chieftain begun to show signs of building a massive fleet to burn UNSC and Sanghelli worlds he was assassinated and his son had taken the throne. He proved to be more cooperative.
January 12, 2625 The Treaty of Reach is signed. This treaty officially ends all hostilities between the UNSC, Sanghelli and the Jirllahaine Empire. UNSC is forbidden to create offensive plasma weapons; however pulse lasers are allowed to be mounted on ships for defensive purposes. UNSC must also limit training of the Spartan IVs to only a company per planet, thus allowing them to have, give or take, roughly around 50'000 Spartans IV (ONI secretly begun gathering kids from orphanages, to train them in Spartan 2, their numbers so far are in hundreds) and severely reduce production of NOVA bombs. The Sangheili and Jiralhanae must limit production of assault carriers and other ships that are larger than three kilometers as well as stop any research to the AI. The treaty also allows the creation of trader guild, a neutral organization tasked with trading between the races. The crew for theses trader ships can be composed of any alien race (majority of them are humans and the Kig-yar) and can use any ship that is smaller than one kilometer, although some actually use a CSS battlecruisers and CAS carriers. They are however striped of their offensive weapons and only have defensive weapons.
August 23 2626 ONI reveals (no publicly) the Viking and the Samurai project. Both of which simply putted to be Sangheili and Jiralhanae codeword for their own "Spartan" project. Samurai was introduced first and Sangheili subjects have been trained for the arbiter in case of Sangheili civil war. The Viking is Jiralhanae whose production was limited and only a few were trained for puppet chieftain during Jiralhanae civil war. ONI also revealed that both "super aliens" have been booby trapped. Each subject is implanted a pod with lethal poison in their hearth to quickly terminate them as well as a small chip in their brain that allows ONI to brainwash them over large distance in case if UNSC ever has to fight another war against the Sangheili and Jiralhanae.
Present day, 2706 UNSC now has total of 245 colonies under their control with 70% of them having their own defensive force of at least 20 ships. Those ships however do not have slipspace engine on them so they are purely defensive. UNSC plans to make every colony as self sufficient in time of war as possible, so that starvation does not spread like it did in Great War. The Unggoy, are now a client race of the UNSC, thus meaning they are protected by them. In return the Unggoy mine resources on methane worlds where they thrive. Talks are in motion between the "big three" super powers about forming a galactic union where all alien races (human included) would unite under single banner. While similar to the Covenant the main difference would be that there would be no ruling caste instead there would be a senate like leadership.
Once again, I would like to appologize again if the chapter 6 was not worth the wait.
**SPOILER! **
Further look in Alliance admiral politics and explained "alliance" flood.
UNSC Dawn of War refits and follows SSV Normandy into mass Relay, with a surprise
Sangheili versus Batarian space battle!
Master Chief and his Cerberus team raids Turian target.
Council learns the hospitality of the Halo Rings first hand.