2nd chapter is here please R&R this is my first fan fic and I can use all the advice I can get, but be civil. Also FIRST CODEX!
Rise of the commonwealth
Chapter 2
UNKNOWN SPACE
Star date: 22nd June 2157 (council standard time)
THS: Spirits Honour
"ADMIRAL THEY ARE POWERING UP WEAPONS"
Admrial Oraka felt the blood run hot in her veins, these primitives had the audacity to demand the surrender of a Turian Admiral, she would put them in their place and make their race a client race of the Hierarchy, for their own good of course.
"Weapons free all ships fire at will!"
"Aye Ma'm" chorused the bridge staff. In almost perfect union the Turian fleet uleashed a hail of slugs that rocketed towards the human fleet, when the smoke cleared 20 human ships were destroyed a further 10 damaged.
The Alien reply was devastating
Space seemed to come alive as the dreadnoughts and super dreadnoughts fired at the Turian line gutting many ships and damaging others, the Turians lost 60 ships in total double the human losses. After the Initial volley Oraka saw the strangest thing happen, the smallest alien ships broke away from their formation flying over or under their larger counterparts, too late did she realize why the alien ships took position above and below her fleet and began to fire into the tops of her ships, she was about to give the order to deal with them when the enemy dreadnoughts (destroyers and cruisers by human standards) split off from their larger counterparts and performed a flanking maneuver against her fleet they then let off with broadsides of DEW's less powerful than their spinal mounted ones but they still did noticeable damage. She was pondering how to deal with the situation when the largest ships in the Alien came directly at her fleet blasting ships and in some cases ramming them into pieces. Now she was worried in one move the enemy had outmaneuvered her fleet in all possible ways, but she had a plan now.
Commonwealth space: Shanxi system
Star date: 22nd June 2196 (commonwealth standard time)
CWS: Human spirit
Roger looked at the hologram he had to admit the plan worked beautifully, the Turians were unprepared for the unorthodox maneuver, that's when things went to hell.
"Admiral Hostile Frigates are starting to swarm our frigates we are losing the topside force" roger cursed, the enemy had the numbers to turn the initiative around they had used a mass of frigates, half their frigate force, to swarm his and the tactic was working his frigates were having their shields drained by their frigates and then being gutted by the dreadnoughts or cruisers coordinating them, as for his cruisers and destroyers while they had outflanked the enemy few shots were hitting because the enemy was too fast, but his dreadnoughts and super dreadnoughts were smashing the ships they faced, but they were too few and the enemy was too many.
"SIR TOP SIDE FORCE IS LOST HOSTILE FORCES DEPLOYING TO SHANXI" all he could say was "nuts".
UNKOWN SPACE
Star date: 22nd June 2157 (council standard time)
THS: Spirits Honour
Oraka smiled the enemy admiral had her respect for his daring move but now she and her force of 20 frigates and 5 cruisers along with her dreadnought and the Palavens Might, had a clear path to deal with the Alien home world, The Alien super dreadnoughts were tied up trying to defeat most of the remainder of her fleet while their outflanking forces were being harassed by frigate wolf packs. She looked at her comms officer.
"Tell Desolas to begin ground operations Immediately
Commonwealth space: shanxi system
Star date: 22nd June 2196 (commonwealth standard time)
Shanxi Command And Control (CAC)
She looked at the swarms of hostile transports decending to Shanxi, HER HOME, she was seething with barely concealed rage, she looked at her troop arrangements, she had sniper units in the woods around likely landing zones to assassinate VIPs and call in artillery on the hostiles while they had their pants down. Also to ensure they were isolated she began to activate the ground to space sites and the SAM missiles. Turning away from the 3D projection on the holo table, she made her way to the bases armory where the men of the 33rd shanxi defense regiment were gearing up for combat with an alien species, she wanted to give some words of encouragement, entering the armory she bellowed.
"TROOPERS ATTENTION" in perfect unison befitting the professionalism of the commonwealth armed forces the troopers snapped to attention.
"Today is a day that will live forever in living history, our first fight against an extraterrestrial species, today we fight not our fellow men, but something unfamiliar, with unknown motives, the one thing that is certain is that we cannot lose, if we do it will be our families, our husbands, wives… children, that will be enslaved or worse exterminated like the tribals back on earth, but we will not lose, not today. Today we show them the beast they have awakened" a small cheer arose from the gathered men and women "Today we show them the error of their ways" a louder cheer and muttering "Today we kick their arses BACK TO THE SHIT HOLE THEY CAME FROM" the armory erupted with the cheers and shouts of troopers. Deep down though Brigadier General Hilary Williams commander of the Shanxi defense forces had a small sense of doubt, she knew they were in for a bloody fight, she only hoped they ended up winning, for all their sakes.
UNKNOWN SPACE
Star date: 22nd June 2157 (council standard)
Alien planet: 2nd Morthis Legion-22nd regiment-1st platoon
Private Marthus Grindus looked through the scope of his assault rifle into the alien woods, Turian patrols were wary of snipers ever since they started ambushing Turian patrols and killing commanding officers in bases, Marthus looked behind him towards the FOB as the sounds of another artillery strike howled through the air, and flashes of plasma and ordinary explosives could be seen back at base, every artillery strike meant more casualties, they were frequent and accurate called in by the illusive alien sniper teams on key installations before they were even fully completed. He hated these aliens. He had already lost three friends on this world, one had his head blown off, another lost his leg to a mine and died of blood loss before medics could get to him, the last one was flash fried in his armor when a plasma shell exploded near him. He turned his attention back to patrol duty, he and his platoon were on patrol duty outside the FOB, if the primarch had allowed orbital strikes they could have probably captured the alien city by now but as it was they were stuck with their supply lines cut and their numbers being thinned by artillery and snipers, the situation was looking grim for the Turian forces surely it couldn't get worse.
The Turians never learnt the human lesson of don't tempt fate
As if punishing the insolent Turian for having the thought, the sides of the track erupted in automatic weapons fire.
"GET TO COV-" the sergeant yelled just as a sniper round blew his brains out the back of his head in an eruption of gore, the platoon dove into any cover they could but flanked on both sides they were sitting ducks Marthus looked around as his platoon died, most died immediately others suffered injuries but died within seconds for reasons he couldn't explain, then the firing stopped he started shaking he was the only survivor he stood up to run when the hill side moved, alien soldiers materialized out of thin air. Scared he made to ran down the road looking behind him he turned around and ran face first into a rifle butt and the world went black.
UNKNOWN SPACE
Star date: 22nd June 2157 (council standard time)
Alien planet: Turian command post
General Desolas Arterius observed the holographic map in front of him most of the outlying FOBs were being constantly harassed by enemy sniper and artillery fire, he had already narrowly survived a sniper ambush when a round had drilled a hole in the tank he was in front of, the only reason they weren't getting blasted by hostile artillery was because the command post was out of range. The battle in space was slowly turning in favor of the Turians the enemy space forces were being ripped apart but they had yet to deal with the contingent of enemy super dreadnoughts that were plowing through the bulk of Oraka's fleet they had destroyed 9 of the smaller ones but there was still at least 40 of them left plus the 3 mammoth ships which were larger than the destiny ascension by at least a kilometer, but apart from that, the enemy's forces which had attacked the fleet from above and below had been destroyed and the outflanking forces were beginning to suffer severe casualties.
On the ground however that was a different story.
His forces had yet to make a move on the city and already they were hitting obstacles, primary among them was that they were being harassed by the enemy artillery and it was beginning to punish their forces and good Turians were dying left right and centre as enemy snipers continued to take potshots at his men, then there disconcerting reports that patrols were going dark at the very edge of Turian controlled territory, he was beginning to grow frustrated. "Why can't these primitives just lay down their arms and surrender surely they cannot hope to fend us off with the forces they have" he thought to himself while pacing up and down the control room trying to think of a strategy when he noticed that the FOB sign on the map that represented the FOB which was furthest into enemy territory had disappeared he looked at the display. There were no hostile forces indicated on the display could it be a glitch, his train of thought was interrupted by a call from the comms officer
"General it's Captain Brutus of the 22nd regiment from FOB Bravo he is saying it is urgent sir" he strode over to the comms officer and took the spoke to the captain.
"What's going on over their Brutus your FOB's signal has dropped off the map" there was silence for a few seconds making Desolas uncomfortable when a voice was heard on the other end of the line. Thankfully because of the translator he could understand it.
"Sergeant we have one alive over here" the voice was one of the aliens the staff in the command centre listened with bated breath
"Get away from me filthy primitive" Brutus was heard saying
"Not very pleasant is he sir" another voice this one female
"No he isn't command we have a prisoner what do we do with him" there was silence
"Yes Ma'm, we take him back to HQ" then there was a wet crunching sound followed by a thud as the line went dead.
"Sir?" a private said in a shaky voice Desolas looked around and saw all eyes were on him.
"FOB Bravo is lost tell all FOB's and outposts to shore up defenses and prepare to defend themselves"
"AYE SIR"
Commonwealth space
Star date: 22nd June
Shanxi command and control centre
Brigadier General Hilary Williams looked at the interrogation through a one way mirror; it was to say the least, Brutal.
"This could all end if you tell me what I want to know"
"Private Marthus Grindus, 2nd Morthis Legion-22nd regiment-1st platoon, 0579XFB7"a yelp of pain followed as the soldier interrogating the alien punched it in the face. This process had gone on for at least 12 minutes and the alien was showing no sign of breaking, she walked to the door and opened it and stepped inside.
"Ma'm I've tried everything"
"I know you have, go and get something to eat corporal I'll take it from here"
"Now I know who you are Turian, let me introduce myself, Brigadier General Hilary Williams commander of the shanxi defense forces." The alien stiffened slightly and she smiled but it wasn't warm and it made the alien shiver slightly. "Now you are going to answer my questions or something unpleasant will happen" the alien remained silent. "Who is your commanding officer?"
"Private Marthus Grindus, 2nd Morthis Legion-22nd regiment-1st platoon, 0579XFB7"
"Is it General Desolas Arterius" the alien hesitated slightly "gotcha" "so I'll take that as a yes now next question, you are currently operating out in the wilderness your scounts have tried many times to find away into the city which doesn't include them getting blasted to paste before they get there, that is some of the things we know" she lied, intelligence may have been good but the Turians were keeping any info close to their chest not even the MISB can get the info that the Brigadier General ultimately wants. "But what I want to know is how many men have landed on the planet"
"Private Marthus Grindus, 2nd Morthis Legion-" he got no further, in a blur of movement the Brigadier General reached across the table and slammed the Turians face into the table and removed a needle from her pocket before emptying the contents into the Turians blood stream. The Turian screamed and pulled away before looking at Hilary with wide eyes.
"What did you do to me"
"Poisoned you" the Turians eyes widened.
"YOU CAN'T-"
"I can and I did now you are going to answer my questions, answer them correctly and fully and I will give you the antidote" she said pulling out a second needle "Now answer my questions" in almost no time at all the Information was pouring out she got troop details, numbers and even some tactics she smiled and thanked the private before standing.
"Wait what about the antidote" the Turian said worried
"You don't need it I just injected you with harmless colored water." She laughed as she left and the Turian just sat their shame filling him at what had just happened.
Codex: Human government
The Human government is currently going under a reform; the military still hold most of the power with most of the members of the high parliament being former military service men and women. There are two levels to the Human government
High parliament: this is made up of five people the heads of the Navy, Army, Finances, Diplomatic affairs and the leader of Humanity the prime minister. Together they help deal with affairs that affect Humanity as a whole.
Lower Parliament: this is made of 1 MP from each colony and 2 from earth this means that there are currently 78 MPs currently in the lower parliament, their Job is to deal with affairs that either affect and certain number of colonies or to give advice to the high parliament
A/N okay that was the second chapter, and I would like to ask do you want long chapters which means longer updates or shorter chapters with quicker updates. Tell me in your reviews. Also all CIVIL advice is welcome
