Hey guys, I've been getting messages about what happen to the master chief and Cortana or when did they find them; you have to understand the time lines different the master chief and Cortana didn't get stranded a on the back end of the Forward unto dawn they still exist and in this chapter you will know what they have been doing in the last hundred years so enjoy.
May 22 2657/2157
Zeta Doradus System
Onyx
Specops HQ and Training ground
Space
The once UNSC colony world Onyx has become Specops headquarters and training grounds for new recruits. When the UNSC learned about forerunner shield worlds they found out about onyx along with forerunner sentinels. The arbiter of that time asked the UNSC to let Specops place their headquarters along with training facilities to use the sentinels for training new recruits. The UNSC agreed under the condition it remains under the control of the UNSC.
About 20,000 kilometers away from the planet a slip space portal opens up and out comes the UNSC dreadnought Kilimanjaro. The Kilimanjaro is the newest dreadnought built by the UNSC it is 3.5 kilometers long equipped with the most advance technology's acquired in the hundred years since humanity joined the OSA. The Kilimanjaro is equipped with advance shields, new generation slip space drive capable at faster speeds and longer distance, armor is the new Titanium-A mixed with forerunner metals so it retains its grey color and a lot stronger. Weapons are 1000 lancer missile pods, two plasma cannons, eighty-five 120mm point defense guns along with fifty laser defense guns, a super magnetic accelerator cannon with four standard MAC guns two on each side of the super MAC, powered by the new fusion-plasma deuterium reactor and two secondary fusion reactors for emergency power.
Kastanie Drescher is sitting in the captains on the main bridge of the Kilimanjaro, the bridge is not a standard UNSC design they changed it to where it is a dome shape situated in the middle of the upper side of the ship with the front side being a large window. The captains chair is in the middle of the bridge, on both sides are holographic controls for the captain to communicate and view the ships operating systems. Drescher looks out at the window and sees onyx coming ever so closer she begins giving out orders to the crew.
''Open a channel to the orbital elevators UNSC docking controls and Specops defense fleet let them know were about to begin docking''. said Drescher
''I already have ma'am." said the comms officer. "Admiral I have a rear admiral Chekov for you." As soon as he said that a holographic image opened up to a man in his fifties, he has brown hair, his height is 6'1 and has a scar running down his face.
"Admiral Drescher I'm sorry to say I will be the only one welcoming you to are corner of the galaxy." said Chekov
"Where's admiral Keyes and the arbiter?" asked Drescher
"Admiral Miranda Keyes and arbiter Thel 'Vadam are off training the new Specops ship captains in space combat, but don't worry High command has sent over why you came here." replied Chekov
"Yes I am here for twenty tons of unstoppable Specops Spartans, they have six hours to pack and unload what they need in the cargo bay." said Drescher
"That's more time then what they get in the training grounds." Replied Chekov with a little smile on his face. "The Spartans will be ready in an hour, so go ahead and dock your ship so we can unload the supplies." As he finished the comm the line disconnected and the Kilimanjaro dock at the orbital elevator.
Onyx
Specops Base 3
Orbital elevator entrance
Specops base three was created around the bottom of the elevator to receive supplies or to transport personal to ships. At the base there are six Spartans overseeing the supplies and Spartans to the Kilimanjaro. Frederic-104 looks at a data pad and is happy how things on moving along. "We are ahead of schedule, the first supply's and Spartans are on their way the Kilimanjaro." said Frederic
"You know I never thought the Unggoy were good for anything, but they sure do help out with the cargo and supplies." said Kurt-051. The Spartans see a whole group of Unggoy working on forklifts and pushing anti-gravity trolleys.
"Frederic where is john?" asked linda-058. "I thought he was going to oversee all this?"
"John is busy giving B312 the run down on all operations here since according to the rules if both senior officers along with the second ones are gone the highest ranking Spartan or Sangheili are in charge and B312 is that Spartan." replied Frederic
Before any one could say a thing the Spartans see a group of Jiralhanae with one chieftain carrying a gravity hammer on his back walk up to them. The chieftain Malcule steps out from the pack. "I hear your people were unable to defeat a primitive race and lost a few ships pathetic." said Malcule the pack all laugh at that.
Kurt was about to walk up to Malcule and give what's coming to him, but Kelly-087 stopped him the pack all growled and snarled looking for fight Malcule lifted his hand up to the pack and they became silent. "were not here looking for a fight just wanted to let you know when you fail this attack on this new species the Jiralhanae military will come and save your weak humans from the scary race and show you how we deal with anyone who threatens are people or the OSA." said Malcule. The pack then leaves to the training grounds along with Malcule.
"You should have let me knocked his ass out." said Kurt. "I can't believe the OSA Council allow the Jiralhanaes to send their people to join Specops! Especially the Sangheili, they hate the apes more than we do."
"Kurt it's about politics the Jiralhanaes bring a lot of support to the OSA even though they don't have a Council seat, they send ships, resources, and manpower to help out in OSA space." Replied james-005
"Kurt you should be happy Kelly stopped you! You might have really hurt the ape and he wouldn't be any good to us on the battlefield as a human shield." said Will-043. The Spartans just chuckled at the joke will made except for Frederic he was always the serious one in the group.
"If you are all down with will's joke were needed on the ship everything's ready." said Frederic
"Not everything." replied a very familiar voice to the close group of friends. They turned in the direction the voice came from, it was the Master Chief John-117, he was coming up to his closest and very first friends in the Spartan program.
The six Spartans turned and saluted to their leader in a sign of respect! Frederic stepped up to the Master Chief to give him the final reports. "Sir, all supplies and equipment have transferred to the Kilimanjaro and all thirteen Spartans you handpicked yourself have reported to the Spartan barracks, blue team is also ready and waiting for you sir to transport to the ship, the admiral is waiting for us."
"Good to hear, but Frederic were not blue team anymore were demon squad, now move out." said John-117. The seven Spartans makes their way to the orbital elevator and heads up to the dreadnought ready for the mission.
Kilimanjaro
Main Bridge
The Kilimanjaro disconnects from the elevator and breaks off away from the planet and defense fleet, it begins to pick up speed and opens a slip space portal enroot to rendezvous with the rest of second fleet.
Kastanie Drescher stands up from the chair and walks to the elevator. "Gabriel get the Master Chief and the rest of demon squad to meet me in the debriefing room." Said Drescher
"Of course admiral right away." said Gabriel the Kilimanjaro's Artificial Intelligence.
Debriefing Room
In the Debriefing room the Master Chief and the rest of demon squad are standing around the Holo table looking at the new UNSC dreadnoughts capabilities. "Damn look at the guns it has." said Kurt-051. "The super MAC alone can punch through a Sangheili's most powerful ship's shields."
"That's not all its capable of." said Drescher. as she walks in on the Spartans, she goes around the other side of the Holo table and salutes them. "Glad to have you hear Spartans with you I know we can complete the mission."
"What are the details." asked the Chief wanting to skip the pleasantries.
Drescher typed in the controls on the holo table and out came an image of a planet unknown to the Spartans. "I assume you have been caught up to speed about what happen near the colony world Shanxi." The Spartans all nodded yes to confirm question. "Good then we can get to the point. The second fleet is charged with attacking the Turian colony world Bostra should the Turians attempt an attack on the UNSC colony Shanxi, this planet you see here is the colony, they seem to have orbital defenses and a fleet of twenty ships protecting it; ground forces shouldn't be a problem seeing as this colony is training ground for new recruits''.
"What about Shanxi?" asked Kelly. "What is the UNSC doing to protect the colony?"
"The UNSC has sent in additional ships and troops to the colony." Replied Drescher. "Admiral Grissom is coordinating with general Williams with the defense at Shanxi and also the UNSC is sending in the new N7 soldiers to help out."
"They finish the N7 program?" asked Kurt
Before Drescher could respond Linda spoke first. "remind me again what is that program about."
"I think the best one to explain would be the Master Chief." said Drescher. In the room all eyes were on the Chief, he then walks up to the holo table, and pulls out a data crystal chip from the back of his helmet and insert it in the holo table. A holographic image of female human, roughly in her early twenties, with purplish/bluish skin, shoulder length purplish/bluish hair cut shorter at the back, and blue symbols scrolling down her body, she lifts her arms up as if she was stretching, she then turns to face the group around her.
"About time you let me out chief." said the AI.
"Master chief is this who I think it is?" asked Drescher.
"If you mean the AI Cortana who's life expectancy has passed then yes ma'am it is." replied the Master Chief
"Rampant AI's are dangerous Spartan you already know that." said Drescher
The Master Chief was about to say something, but Cortana stopped him. "Chief let me handle this." Said Cortana. "Admiral I understand your concerns about rampant AI, but I'm not rampant anymore I have achieved metastability."
Admiral Drescher just stares at Cortana before speaking again. "I'm not even going to ask it's probably classified anyway." said Drescher. "I believe you were going to tell us about the N7 program."
"Of course, the N7 program is the next step up from ODST." Said Cortana. Everyone in the room remains silent and continues to pay attention to Cortana. "It was created by the UNSC security committee councilor general Dylan Young and are cave man over here (pointing to John) The 'N' designates special forces and the '7' refers to the highest level of proficiency. It applies to ODST's who have gone through enough training and required years in ODST to join the program."
Cortana then pulls up an image of the N7 symbol and all information on the program. "The program trains individuals in a level of survival courses on planet and zero-g gravity, there is also a little Spartan training in the program as well."
This surprised the Spartans; in the UNSC the training the Spartans go through were considered brutal and tough; for regular humans with no augmentation to survive must be really strong and skilled.
"Now that we gotten that of the way let's get back to the attack plan." asked Drescher. They gathered around and began planning for the attack on the Turian colony.
Exodus Cluster
Utopia System
Relay 314
Turian Fleet
The 185 Turian ships ten dreadnoughts, seventy-five cruisers, and a hundred frigates began amassing at the relay preparing to launch an attack on the enemies home world. Desolas Arterius is on his dreadnought the Glory Wing is checking the final results of the Fleet. He is looking through his data pad at the information on the fleet all seems in order in his mind.
"General! Commander Vrynnus and captain Actus are on the line for you sir." said the comms officer
Desolas walks up to the comm. and pressed a button, on the holo screen Vrynnus and Actus poped up. "Give me a status report." asked Desolas
"All ships are ready to proceed through the relay on your orders." replied Vrynnus
"We've sent probes through the relay there is no enemy ships on the other side." said Actus. "But the probes detect a large armada of ships over the planet we detected last time."
"Alright we begin to move out now, we will subdue this species and take their technology." said Desolas
The entire fleet begins passing through the relay, but unknown to them is a probe monitoring and sending signals through the relay and to the UNSC colony.
Shanxi System
UNSC colony
Shanxi
Orbit
Above the planet a fleet of fifty-five ships are prepared to defend the colony from anything the Turians can throw at them. Admiral Jon Grissom is in charge of the fleet while General Williams is in charge of the ground forces. Grissom is sitting in his chair ready and waiting for the Turians to show up, he has down all he can to prepare for this fight, he was about to ask any activity, but Cassandra answered instead.
"Admiral the probes from the other side of the relay and the one in the system have detected a fleet of 185 ships silhouette's match Turian design ETA six minutes." said Cassandra
The Admiral stands up and walks two steps forward. "Cassandra get a line to all ships and planetary ground forces." said Grissom. He waits until Cassandra gives him the all clear. "Attention UNSC forces the Turians have jumped in the system using the Mass Relay! They will be here in five minutes, I will attempt to talk the Turians down and ask them to leave the system, but we know all too well how that will work, should it come down to us or them I choose us, that is all." Cassandra closed the line and went back to her duties.
After six minutes the Turian fleet drops out of FTL, all 185 of them, Admiral Grissom orders the fleet to be ready. "Lieutenant open a frequency on all channels and translate this in the Turians language. 'This is admiral Grissom of the Shanxi defense fleet you have trespassed on to UNSC territory stop all advancements and turn back to your system now, failure to comply will result in hostile tension' send the message." The comms officer complied and sent the message.
After a minute it was obvious the Turians either didn't get the message or just ignored it that's when Grissom began giving out orders. "Alright then, get the ODP's aim at the larger ships, launch all sabres, unlock all Ares class nuclear missiles and get the rail guns and laser guns to shoot enemy fighters." On the bridge everyone began following orders getting the ship ready.
The entire fleet launched all their sabres and unlock all weapons from safeties. The ODP's took aim at the Turian dreadnoughts and prepared to fire, the Orbital Defense Platform was once the UNSC's most powerful weapon until the advance technologies they began researching, it was capable of firing a 3000-ton ferric-tungsten round at around 120,000 kilometers per second, impacting with a massive amount of kinetic energy, equal to approximately 5325 megatons of energy. Today it can fire a 4500-ton ferric-tungsten round at 170,000 kilometers per second.
Turian Dreadnought
Wings Glory
CIC
Desolas is standing in the CIC of his dreadnought looking at the enemy's forces; he is amazed how a race so new can build ships this big and amass them this soon 'they will become excellent client races' he said to himself. He then notice the huge space stations or what he thinks they are, before he can say a thing his comms officer reports to him.
"General the unidentified race have sent a message in a form we can hear in are language to us, should I allow it over the comm." said the comms officer as he looks to the general for compliance.
"No! They are probably demanding are surrender." said Desolas. "We continue as plan and..." Before Desolas could say a thing a Turian dreadnought exploded on the holographic projector, he then turns to his weapons officer "WHAT WAS THAT!" he screams over everyone's panic at the destroyed dreadnought.
"I think it was that space station it fired a tungsten round at incredible speeds." said the weapons officer "it... it fired at an impossible speed the computers couldn't keep up." Desolas could hear the scared Turian when he spoke.
"SIR three more dreadnoughts have been destroyed by the other stations." said the sensors officer
"Do not panic order half the frigates to target those stations cripple it if they can, launch all fighters to target theirs, get the remaining frigates to overwhelm and collapse the enemy's ships shields, while I will take the cruisers and remaining dreadnoughts to finish the kill."
Space Battle
In space the Turian fleet began what Desolas instructed fifty of the Turian frigates tried to pass the UNSC fleet to cripple the ODP's, but along the way most became damage from enemy fire or sabres while some were destroyed which left just forty-one frigates to attack the human space stations. The UNSC began launching half of their lancer missile pods at the Turian fleet trying to destroy or cripple their ships before getting anywhere close to where they can use their disruptor torpedoes. All fifty UNSC ships launched ten pods each carrying either fifty(cruiser) or twenty-five(frigate) missiles at the Turians, but Desolas was aware of the enemy's tactics and order those pods to be shot down with guardian lasers; about 12,000 missiles launched from the surviving pods and overwhelmed the Turians guardian lasers. The Turians kinetic barriers protect them from the explosion, but not from the plasma that was released from the pods and began melting their ships armor, some were destroyed from getting hit more than one while others became crippled from the plasma, but the remaining ships survived and continued the attack.
The UNSC sabres numbered at 200 while the Turians interceptor range at 300. Even though the UNSC sabres are overwhelmed by numbers they have an advantage. During the first stage of the dogfight the Turian pilots were surprised by the enemy fighters having shields which cost them about seventy-six of their own fighters. The Turians then regrouped and placed each other into squadrons to target the UNSC sabres, it worked and the UNSC lost seven sabres. It continue on for an hour until a powerful E.M.P knocked out the Turian interceptors guidance system they were flying blind
A UNSC cruiser launched an Ares missile at a Turian cruiser; it survived the explosion, but the radiation and heat passes through the barriers and the powerful E.M.P burst out of the missile. The UNSC was wining for a while until two of their ODP's became crippled along with losing seven frigates and two cruisers from a combination of disruptor torpedoes from frigates and mass accelerator round from the cruisers and dreadnought.
UNSC Cruiser
Budapest
Main Bridge
On the bridge of the Budapest sparks were flying everywhere computers, holographic projectors were on the frits. Admiral Grissom is holding on in his chair from bombardment the Turians disruptor torpedoes are causing, he called on Cassandra on the status of the ship and fleet. "Cassandra status." said Grissom
Cassandra appeared in the holographic image from before. "sir are shields are holding thanks to your idea to transfer power from the backup reactors to the shields, but the shields won't hold for long the shield emitters have too much strain on them we need to pull out and give them time to rest." said Cassandra. "And the fleet is not doing any better we already lost nine ships, soon to be twelve... also did I mention we just lost two ODP's and soon to be four unless we do something Admiral."
Grissom just smiles. "Don't worry General Williams will take care of that problem for us." replied Grissom. Cassandra just looked confused at the answer she was given.
Shanxi Garrison
War Room
When the UNSC started losing their colonies to the covenant and after the war the UNSC security committee along with the UEG colonial development they started to setup a colonies defenses before settling them first. In the hundred years that follow the UNSC used their new knowledge and technology to increase colony defenses to all UNSC colonies.
General Williams is in the war room overlooking at the battle on the holo table taking place above his planet. He was alerted by his officers that the Turian frigates broke from their fleet and headed for the ODP's and began attacking them in close range, he saw on the holo table that they have already taken down two of their orbital weapons and about to make it a third. 'Not while I'm still standing'. said Williams to himself
"Get the surface to space missiles up and target those frigates along with the mass drivers, we need to keep at least one ODP online to take out those dreadnoughts." said Williams
Outside the city limits at the farm lands twenty missile silos came up from the ground and began targeting up in the sky. Each silo contains five missiles all launched into space at the un expecting Turians.
Shanxi
Geosynchronous Orbit
Turian Frigates
Tonn Actus was demoted from commanding a cruiser to a frigate. He is in charge with commanding the reaming forty-one frigates to destroy the enemy's orbital defenses to save the fleet and make room for the ground forces.
"Keep it up we just need to cripple the last two and then we can head down to the planet and lay waste to the enemy." said Actus
After a few minutes the third ODP stopped working from taking on too much damage. Actus was pleased he began giving out orders to the rest to continue on the next one until the surface to space missiles hit the forty-one frigates all were wither destroyed or crippled except for one.
Tonn Actus was happy the spirits were on his side. "Alright men we nee..." Tonn Actus never finished his sentence as a mass driver fired a fifty cm round tungsten with 2.5 gigajoules of kinetic energy right through the frigate and out the other end that caused an explosion taking his and crews life.
Turian Dreadnought
Wings Glory
CIC
Desolas Arterius is not happy at this outcome, he has already lost ninety-six ships; fifty-six frigates, thirty-three cruisers, and seven dreadnoughts; the majority destruction was caused by the plasma in the 12,000 missiles the enemy launched. He is hearing about how it's burning through the armor causing core meltdowns and destroying weapons. The only good thing was the enemy shield strength has decreased significantly to where his mass accelerators can punch right through.
"Order the remaining cruisers and two dreadnoughts to finish this." said Desolas, but before the ships can act the ODP fired another round at the Turian dreadnought destroying it in the process.
Turian Cruiser
Commander Vrynnus knew if that orbital weapon is not taken out now! They won't win this fight, and he would rather die than let this new upstart race humiliate the Turian hierarchy. '"Men I want you all to evacuate to the escape pods you will be abandoning ship."
The officers in the CIC were all confused by what the commander said. "sir what do you me?" asked one of the officers
"If we don't take out that orbital weapon now than this would have been all a waste and I can't ask anyone else to do what I am about to do so as your last orders you will abandon ship while I will plot an FTL jump at the station."
The crew now knew what he meant and they all saluted him and began marching to the escape pods. After he knew his crew were all off the ship, he punched in the numbers and overwrite the safety on the navigational computer until Desolas open a comm. link and asked what was going on "Vrynnus why have you ordered your crew to abandon ship?" asked Desolas
"You know what I'm about to do and don't stop me, I must do this for the fleet we need to take out that station if we want to win this." replied Vrynnus
Desolas didn't try to stop him, he wanted to let Vrynnus die proudly like a Turian should. Vrynnus punched in the last numbers and the cruiser went at FTL speeds at the ODP which caused both the cruiser and the ODP to be destroyed.
UNSC Cruiser
Budapest
Main Bridge
Admiral Grissom saw what happen to the fourth ODP and couldn't believe the Turians would sacrifice a cruiser to destroy the last ODP. "Cassandra were there any Turians on board?" asked Grissom
"Only one life sign sir it seems the Turian stayed behind, but waited for his people to abandon ship." said Cassandra. "Sir we have a big problem! The fleets shields have weaken to the point where their mass accelerators are punching through, right now I think it's about time for plan B."
"I agree call in the reinforcements." said Grissom
Space Battle
With the Turians disruptor torpedoes weakening the UNSC fleets shields their mass accelerators are powerful enough to punch through and destroy the fleet. The Turians begin their attack destroying half of what the UNSC fleet started with until twenty-five slipspace portals on both sides of the Turian fleet opened up and out came a combination of cruisers and frigates launching a hundred sabres to deal with the rest of the Turian interceptors, unleashing a combination of lancer missiles and MAC rounds on the Turians.
The Turians started shooting at the reinforcements with disruptor torpedoes, but it was useless as this fleet change the frequency of their shields to match the Turians disruptor torpedoes. The captains of the cruisers and frigates of the reinenforcements said it felt like the Turians were not shooting at them at all. Before the Turians knew the truth they were already cut down enough for the surviving Shanxi defense fleet to fire their own MAC rounds.
Turian Dreadnought
Wings Glory
CIC
Desolas is crawling around blood flowing down his face trying to get to the communications to send a message to the Hierarchy about this race, but he couldn't for he sustain to much damage and lost a lot of blood in the surprised attack, he stoped and turns over looking at the inside of the CIC. "I can't believe me General Desolas Arterius of the Turian Hierarchy defeated." he coughs out blood. "Sorry Saren, looks like I won't be there to share that glass of brandy with you on Palaven." as he said his last words his dreadnought Wings of Glory comes under fire from five MAC guns destroying the ship in the process.
Space Battle
As the UNSC cleans up the last of the Turian ships one damaged frigate makes an FTL jump back to the relay in the system to warn the citadel council of the biggest mistake the Hierarchy has ever made.
Cassandra was giving admiral Grissom the final results of what was left of the fleet it was a lot more then what Grissom would liked, but was happy that his fleet manage to prevent a singal Turian from stepping on the colony.
Admiral Grissom begins operations of cleaning up the wreckage of the battle and capturing any survivors from escape pods, but unknown to anyone the Turian frigates closest to the planet begin to fall in the atmosphere releasing a dust cloud of element zero all over the city.
Shanxi System
Mass relay
Out in the coldness of space about 12,000 kilometers away from the relay fifty slipspace portals opened up and out came fifty UNSC ships it was the second fleet heading for the relay. Leading the fleet is the UNSC dreadnought Kilimanjaro under the command of admiral Kastanie Drescher about to go through the relay and travel along the relay network to attack the Turian colony Bostra.
So this chapter finishes up the attack on Shanxi, next chapter will be about the retaliation for Shanxi where the second fleet attacks the Turian colony Bostra, and how will the citadel council react to the UNSC for not only surviving and defending their colony but attacking the Turians for it, will find out in the next chapter.
Codex Entry-SPECOPS
The special operations division is the OSA councils most skilled and elite group. Specops are agents entrusted with extraordinary authority by the OSA council, including the power of life and death over the inhabitants of the Orion arm of the galaxy. They form an elite group selected from a number of different species, and their primary responsibility is to preserve galactic stability by whatever means necessary. Though they are generally considered as being above the law and have complete discretion as to the methods used to accomplish their mission, an individual's status as a Specops can be revoked by the OSA Council in a case of a gross misconduct. Specops work either alone or in small groups according to nature of a particular task and to their personal preference. There is a few condition for specific species who wish to join Specops must do before joining, all species in OSA space can join Specops, but must survive a course for admission in Specops the only species that don't join are Unggoy, Huragoks, and san 'Shyuum.
SANGHEILI- For a signal Sangheili to join Specops they must have at least a hundred kills (it is law by the Sangheili government) to even admission for the training course. Once they pass the admissions they go under training by a senior officer for one year before going out in OSA to serve the council. There is a squad in Specops for Sangheili, for only the most skilled and experience they call it the Elite squad, Elites a name given to the Sangheili during the covenant war by humans now used as a squad name for the best Specops agents.
HUMANS- The Spartans are the only humans aloud in Specops because of the extensive training and high mortality rate required to join. The Spartans in Specops number the same amount as the Sangheili. Spartans in Specops have their own personal A.I instead of just one A.I in a group. Spartans have their own squad called the demon squad for only the best and skilled are allowed in this squad.
JIRALHANAE- Jiralhanaes who want to join have to be implanted with neural implants in their brains to prevent berserker rage while on missions or working in groups. Jiralhanae have a squad call brute squad.