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May 23, 2657/2157
Outside of Turian Space
Second Fleet
UNSC Kilimanjaro-Class Dreadnought "Kilimanjaro"
The second fleet dropped out of slip space after going through six Mass Relays just outside of the Turian sensor range so as to not be detected by the fleet guarding the colony. In the debriefing room, the Spartans were reading on the successful defense of Shanxi against the Turian invaders, now they along with Admiral Kastanie Drescher were planning the retaliation for the attack on Shanxi.
"The Shanxi defense fleet has managed to keep a single Turian ship from landing on the colony," said Kelly impressed with Admiral Grissom's Strategy and tactics when defending the colony, "impressive indeed…but I wonder how long that'll last…"
"Yes! Now it's our turn to strike back at the Turians," said Drescher while pulling up a holo-image of the Turian systems on the holo-table, "As you can see, there are minimal defenses in the system. Our long-range scanners have detected a patrol fleet of five ships circling the system for possible intruders, while the Turian colony Bostra has a defense fleet of fifteen ships and orbital defenses around the planet."
Kurt could not help but be surprised at the situation. It all seemed too easy. "That's all? From what I read about them in the codex this seems a bit light in regards to Turian standards"
Linda was busy reloading her sniper rifle, but one could not help that there was a bit of hope in her voice. "Maybe they think no one's insane enough to ever attack the peacekeeping military force of the citadel council."
"Well it's a good thing we're a lot crazier than the other species in the galaxy." said Williams in his usual joking way.
"No Will, we're not the crazy ones," said John, the confidence clear in his voice, "their first moment of insanity came when they started this war in the first place—and now we get to put them in their place."
As every Spartan in the room took in what the Master Chief said, Admiral Drescher begins the attack plan "Now that we've gotten that out of the way I have a plan."
She began pushing buttons on the hole table to zoom in on the Turian colony Bostra. "Now that we know that by changing the frequency of our shields to match Turian disruptor torpedoes, our shields won't collapse as easily when we attack them…this means we'll be able to take more punishment, and deal even more of it back to the Turians."
Gabriel then appeared as a warrior angel to everyone "Admiral, I have new instructions and information for you and the Spartans from High command." said Gabriel
The admiral could not help but let out a sigh of frustration. Last-minute orders were definitely not her cup of tea. "What is it?"
"When the Turians were stopped at Shanxi and the defense fleet began capturing survivors in escape pods, ONI agents and AI's began searching for information on what their mission objectives were."
"What did the agents find?" asked Kelly, hoping that her prediction on the matter wasn't true.
"The Turians were uncooperative, but the AI's discover something interesting," said Gabriel looking at everyone "the AI's discovered that the Turian Hierarchy were very interested in our weapons and technology, and wanted to get their claws on it to increase their authority in citadel space."
Upon hearing this, everyone in the room clenched their fists together so hard that if they were holding an apple it would break from the pressure, before Gabriel continued. "For that reason, High Command wants you to acquire any information and samples on Turian technologies and weapons as well."
A look of amusement had crossed Drescher's delicate features. "So it's come to an eye for an eye has it? I think our enemies would appreciate the irony in the long-run. Was that everything ONI and the AI's discovered?"
Gabriel shook his head…the way he did it was a very good sign. "There is one important thing the AI's discovered while searching through the Turians' battle network; they found out that while they have decent defenses, the Turians don't have strong defense to prevent UNSC AI's from hacking into their systems and shutting down their ships weapons and shields."
Her eyebrow had been raised in curiosity—this was definitely not what Drescher was expecting. "I thought the Citadel species have defenses to protect them from that kind of attack; the codex clearly stated that they faced a race of rampant AI's called the Geth that are capable of just that."
"I have read the Codex on the Geth admiral they are not truly AI's. UNSC AI's are far more advanced."
Kastanie just smiled at this bit of new information—not only did they have better defenses against the Turians' disruptor torpedoes, but can also hack their systems "Good, then let's begin the mission: Spartans, you know what your missions are—get to your stations, we move out in thirty minutes."
The Spartans did as they were told and began running out of the room and to their stations.
Turian Colony
Bostra
Turian Colonial Defense Fleet
The captain of the fleet was extremely bored protecting Bostra; a colony in Turian space for training recruits in the Turian army and navy. He heard a rumor that the hierarchy was gathering a fleet of ships to subdue a new race that attempted to reactivate a dormant Mass Relay which is against council law. He laughs at the idea of how the mighty Turian fleet was probably already crushing the new species.
The sensors officer then interrupted his train of thought upon seeing a strange anomaly. "Captain I'm detecting spatial ruptures ahead of us!"
Before the captain could response three groups of unidentified ships lead by three 3.5 kilometer long ships around the planet. The only thing that came to mind in the captain's head was that they were under attack! He moved into action by screaming out orders. "Get our weapons online and kinetic barriers up! Warn the generals on the planet we are unde..." Before he could finish that sentence, the entire ship lost power as all systems shut off. "What in the name of the Spirits just happened?"
The communications officer could only look dumbfounded at the situation they found themselves in. "I think they hacked our systems and have shut down everything except for communications."
Before the captain could think of why they would leave the communications online he opened a line to the patrol fleet in the system. "Attention patrol fleet; Bostra is under attack from unknown enemy ships. They have crippled the fleet with hacking capabilities; orders are to leave the system and report to the hierarchy." As he finished, he hoped the patrol would be able to escape to warn the hierarchy about this attack.
Turian Colony
Bostra
Second Fleet
UNSC Kilimajaro-Class Dreadnought "Kilimanjaro"
Main Bridge
When the second fleet came out of slip space the AI's began hacking the Turian defense fleet shutting down everything except for communications as per admiral Drescher's orders. Drescher is sitting in her chair looking at the successful hacking and shutting down of every Turian ship guarding Bostra.
The sensors officer could only grin in triumph to himself at the situation. "Admiral, the Turian patrol has left the system via Mass Relay."
"Good, now they can warn the hierarchy about the new race they tried to subdue and steal technology from—now they will know just who it is they're messing with!" said Drescher, looking forward to the attack, "Begin bombardment of the planet—destroy all means of communications and planetary defenses, and then launch our ground forces; we need to take control of all military bases on the planet."
As Drescher finished giving out commands, the second fleet moved into position around the planet, targeting facilities and any other defenses and fires Missiles, targeting radar towers and communications buildings, in addition to anti-ship turrets. Now their opponents would be in the dark groundside.
Serpent Nebula
Widow System
CitadelCouncil Chambers
About one solar day ago a Turian frigate docked with the citadel as it limped all the way from the failed attack by the Turians to try and subdue a species that tried to reactivate a dormant Relay. The Citadel Council was reading the reports about what happened and are shocked to learn about a race that not only they have never encountered, but how advanced they were, building large ships that didn't have any element zero as the base material, weapons that are on the same level as a dreadnought, and for the Turians to hide this from the rest of the council.
The look of disappointment and anger was very much clear on Asari Councilor Tevos' face. No, she was not pleased at all. "Sparatus, can you please explain why the hierarchy would not tell us about this new race before attacking them?"
Sparatus the Turian councilor looks to his fellow councilors "I am just in the dark about this as you two are, but if I had to guess the hierarchy was trying to prevent history from repeating itself like the Rachni wars! Am I right Valern?"
Valern the Salarian councilor knew all too well about the Rachni since it was Salarian explorers opening dormant Mass Relays that unleash them unto the galaxy "Yes I am well aware of the history of the Citadel Sparatus; my kind have been here longer, but that doesn't excuse the Turians attacking a race that did not know the dangers of reopening dormant Relays."
Before the Council could debate any further on the matter a message came to them from the Turian Hierarchy—one of their colonies, Bostra, was under attack from the new race they tried to subdue. Tevos could only look at Sparatus with what could be considered a dirty look in her eyes—one that said 'you brought this upon yourself'. "Well it would seem the Turians have awakened a sleeping giant, and now they're paying the price for it."
"It does not matter now Tevos! We must send the citadel fleet to retake Bostra from this enemy!"
"Are you insane!" shouted Tevos, obviously not happy with Sparatus' heavy-handed actions against this new race, "what we should be doing now is to send diplomats in order to negotiate a ceasefire before this goes too far."
Sparatus and Tevos never did see eye-to-eye, and as he gnashed his teeth at the Asari Councilor, his displeasure at her decision was known. "It already has gone too far when they attacked a Turian colony."
Before Tevos could shout back at his claims the Salarian councilor interrupted them "I agree with Sparatus."
The Asari and Turian councilors were shocked to hear their fellow councilor in favor for retaking back Bostra seeing as how Salarians preferred to avoid war before it even starts. It was here that Valern began to explain himself. "We cannot allow another Rachni War, Tevos—it is better to stop this race now then we can ask for peace later."
Tevos was upset that not only was she outvoted, but the Salarian councilor would side with the Turians instead of their oldest allies the Asari. After the discussion was over the Turian councilor began getting the citadel fleet ready for retaking back Bostra and to teach this new race what happens when you mess with a species who has a council seat on the Citadel.
Turian Colony
BostraOrbit
UNSC Kilimanjaro-Class Dreadnought "Kilimanjaro"
Main Bridge
It had been over ten hours since the second fleet capture the colony and began destroying all Turian planetary defenses on the planet. After the bombardment was over the Fleet began launching ODST's to secure an LZ so that they could start landing the marines along with the vehicles they brought with them on the planet and begin teaching these Turians what it means to fight a real war; but as expected from a militaristic species, the Turians were dug in deep for defense, and were holding the bases from soldiers that were assign to capture and acquire any information on Turian technologies.
Admiral Kastanie Drescher is looking over the reports of high ranking officers on the ground about the Turian resistance. She was not surprised by the casualties on both sides; Human-200 Turian-250. After all, the Turians were the bulk of military force for the Citadel, and they were prepared to fight them the moment they started landing troops. She then called upon Gabriel "Gabriel is there any sign of ships coming from the Relay or in the system."
Gabriel appeared next to the admiral. "Negative Admiral, there are no signs of Turian ships coming in the system and the only vessels I detect are the ones we already captured."
"I thought the Turians would mobilize by now and want to take their colony back," said Drescher as she thought about it to herself, realization had popped into her head, "the Turians must be calling for reinforcements from the Citadel council."
"There is a 99% chance the Turians would call upon the other council races to help them."
Drescher turned to face Gabriel "Are the WASP mines we set up around the relay ready?"
"Yes admiral, they are." The WASP mines successor to the HORNET mines. While the HORNET mines are a prewar era space mine used during the Insurrection and Covenant Wars, they were stealthy nuclear devices with a nominal yield of 30 megatons from their plutonium cores. The WASP was undetectable on any form of sensors, and had a yield of 60 megatons—able to destroy or cripple any OSA ship foolish enough to wander into their path.
Serpent Nebula
Widow System
Citadel Fleet
Outside of the citadel the most powerful fleet known to everyone in citadel space is gathering to retake back the Turian colony Bostra from the unknown species. The fleet is a mix of Asari cruisers and a dreadnought, Salarian frigates and cruisers, and the majority of the fleet is Turian dreadnoughts and frigates. The one leading the fleet was decided on the insistence of the Asari to let Matriarch Lidanya in control.
Lidanya was onboard her dreadnought "Athame", is currently looking over the enemy strengths along with a Turian General and a Salarian STG operative. Lidanya was amazed by what they were capable of; she was worried that the fleet might not come out of this without shedding a lot of blood. She then stopped what she was doing and went over the plan her colleagues had come up with. "All right then, the plan is to keep the enemy ships over Bostra busy while we land Citadel forces on the ground. Gelbin, your operatives' job is to acquire as much information about the unknown species as possible, but that's not all were going to throw at them: the Council has given the fleet fifty of their best SPECTRE's to help us win this fight. Let's just finish this so that it won't turn into a massacre."
As the citadel fleet gathered their full strength they begin heading to the Widow Relay and from there, five more Relays before they reached Bostra.
Bostra
Ground side
UNSC pelican
The UNSC forces on Bostra were pushing the Turians back to their most secure base of operations where UNSC soldiers couldn't breach unless the fleet bombarded the area—it was risky because while they would kill the Turians and make their jobs easier, it would destroy any information contained in it. It was the job of Demon squad to sneak in the facility and shut down their main defenses in order to allow soldiers to move in and secure the base and capture any prisoners.
The six Spartans of Demon squad are en-route to the base in a pelican. Frederic was in command of the mission as John was busy helping out the other soldiers on Bostra.
"So what's the Intel on this base?" asked Kurt
"The base we're heading to is the most heavily guarded base on the planet," said Frederic "according to the intel our AI's have, this base is their R&D department where they build and test new weapons. Our mission is to sneak into the base, cripple their defenses, and then open the doors for our soldiers to take control of it."
The pelican began its descent about a mile away from the bases missile turrets. The Spartans began walking down the ramp and on the ground, before the Pelican dropped off a Warthog. Good, now they had support, and because this was the infamous "Gauss Hog", this also meant even better firepower.
Bostra
Turian R&D Base
A Turian patrol was out on shift to keep an eye out for any possible intruders from the unidentified alien forces. "I can't believe we're being pushed back by this new species! When's the Hierarchy's going to be here and liberate us?"
Just before anyone could reply the six Spartans jumped the patrol and knocked the guards out. Will grinned at the ease of this job as he stood atop the guard he had knocked out. "Well that was easy!"
Fred promptly hit his fellow Spartan from behind the head lightly. "Tie them up and gag them we need to keep moving."
After the Turian patrol was dealt with, Demon squad moved to the back entrance of the base. James used his AI to hack the doors and went to a nearby console to get a layout of the building; when the second the information was downloaded, he uploaded the base's schematics to the HUDs of Demon squad's helmets and decided to split up into teams of three. Frederic and Kelly would head to the control room to shut down the bases defenses, Linda and James were to head for the labs where they built weapons and other information that is stored there, and for Kurt and Will they were to create a distraction for the Turians to buy the other teams time to complete their objectives.
The Spartans were known for being a lot of things—the one thing they were known for was the fact that they wore advanced green armor. The MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor was a technologically advanced combat exoskeleton system designed to vastly improve the strength, speed, agility, reflexes and durability of a Spartan-II super soldier. The MJOLNIR Mark XIV was capable of enhancing the Spartans' already-augmented physical abilities past the limit of what a Spartan can really do; it allowed the super-soldiers to carry four weapons into battle, and it could be equipped with two armor abilities like camouflage, armor lock, drop shield, hologram, and a jetpack.
Frederic and Kelly had their camouflage on sneaking past or killing Turian guards on their way to the control room. When they reached their destination, they found out there were more than thirty Turians guarding the control room. Frederic pulled out a flashbang grenade and rolled it into the room. When the grenade went off, the room became a big bright light blinding and deafening the Turians for a few seconds—more than enough time for Frederic and Kelly to barge in and shoot the Turians with accurate precision. When it was over Frederic hooked up his AI to the Turian controls, but waited for the others' to signal before shutting down the base's defenses.
Linda and James were already at the labs where new weapons were being built. James was uploading all their information on their technology when he was finished he reported to Frederic that they had finished their objective.
Kurt and William were planting explosives around the base to distract the Turians away from the shutdown of the base's defenses. When they were finished, they reported in and were far away from getting caught in the explosion. Will held the detonator in his hand, and his thumb ready to press the red button. "Alright then, time to give these Turians a show."
It wasn't long before the explosives lit the base up like fireworks on the fourth of July-alerting the Turians. At the same time Frederic shutdown the defenses and alerted UNSC forces of the shutdown. Outside, one could see Pelicans and Hornet helicopters swarming the base with Falcons for support. The UNSC soldiers moved in on the base and took control of it; there were fire fights across the base, but in the end the Turians surrendered and were put in the base's holding cells.
Citadel Fleet
1 Mass relay jumpfrom Bostra
As the Citadel Fleet prepares their last jump through the Relay Matriarch Lidanya is trying to convince the Turian General and Salarian STG to allow her to communicate with this race before more bloodshed is spilled, but her words fell on the deaf ears as both Salarians and Turians wanted to stop this threat before it spreads.
"Matriarch, the probe detects no ships or anything on the other side of the relay," said the sensors officer, keeping an eye on the radar, "shall I send the STG scouting ship through?"
As if on cue Lidanya ordered the STG ship to proceed through the relay and scout out enemy forces.
STG Ship
A Salarian STG pilot began moving the ship to the relay and as they reached a certain distance, the Relay shot out a blue light onto the ship and propelled them through instantaneously on the other side. When the Salarians made it they were instantly hit by the WASP mines the 60-megaton force was too much for the ship's kinetic barriers as it was promptly destroyed.
Asari Dreadnought
Athame
CIC
Lidanya saw the whole thing on the holo screen just before the probe was hit by an EMP. The probe's readings suggested nuclear space mines—something the Council outlawed the use of. Lidanya ordered the fleet to harvest the asteroids in the system and send them through the Relay to destroy the space mines.
It took only a few minutes to get the asteroids before sending them through the Relay.
Bostra Orbit
After ten minutes the entire Citadel fleet of 250 vessels came out of FTL near Bostra and began their attack on UNSC ships. The "Kilimanjaro" along with "Logan" and "Orizaba" fired their standard MACs and Their super MACs; a combination altogether fifteen MAC rounds, destroying more than twenty Citadel ships in one volley. The frigates of Salarian and Turians moved in close to fire their disruptor torpedoes at UNSC cruisers; its effects caused their shields to weaken allowing three Turian dreadnought and two cruisers to destroy four of them. The battle raged on for both sides, the citadel drop ships took advantage of the chaos and started to enter Bostra's atmosphere to begin landing troops.
Bostra Ground Side
UNSC soldiers began fighting Citadel forces on the ground. Asari commandos, Salarian STGs, Turian soldiers, and Council spectre's are giving the UNSC soldiers, and ODST a run for their money as platoons of both sides got into sporadic firefights.
A group of ODSTs moved through the remains of buildings to get to a platoon of UNSC soldiers pinned down by blue female aliens known as Asari. The reports they were receiving told that these aliens had some kind of telekinetic powers when a blue aura surrounded their bodies. Once he ODST team arrived at the scene above one of the buildings they saw the soldiers getting brutalized by the Asari commandos. They got their best snipers to begin picking them off until one of the Asari set up what looked like bubble shield to them. It was actually a biotic field that protected them from enemy weapons. The ODST's were about to get another volley through when the other Asari inside the barrier pulled out a missile launcher…she was about to finish them off until she was shot in the head by a plasma sniper rifle. The ODST's look to where the shot came from and were glad to see a group of Spartans.
The Asari commando that created the barrier was shocked beyond belief that a weapon was capable of passing through her barriers and killed her fellow commandos, she was about to turn around and retreat, but was shot down by the same Spartan.
Bostra Orbit
Space Battle
UNSC Kilimanjaro-Class Dreadnought "Kilimanjaro"
While the battle on the ground raged on, the UNSC Second Fleet had lost eleven ships while Citadel fleet lost over thirty. Onboard the Kilimanjaro admiral Kastanie Drescher was looking over the battle; there were cruisers and frigates that were being overwhelmed while their YSS-100 Sabers were holding their own in the dog fights.
Gabriel appeared in a damage holo-projector from the damage caused by enemy disruptor torpedoes "Admiral, I believe we should call in the cavalry before we lose any more ships."
"And here I was hoping to win this on my own," said Drescher bitterly, "well we wanted to let the Citadel Council know they're not the only ones around, call in the OSA fleet."
Around the battle slip space portals opened up and out came a mixture of all OSA member species ships. When the Citadel fleet detected the slip space portals they were shock to see different designs of ships than the ones they were fighting. As soon as the last OSA ship came out of the portal, they began firing their plasma weapons at the Citadel fleet. The citadel fleet did not stand a chance at the firepower of the OSA fleet some ships were destroyed the majority of them were crippled.
Bostra Ground Side
Saren Arterius, along with a platoon of Turian soldiers were moving through the rubble to get to one of the enemy's base of operations, his mission was to destroy the base and capture prisoners. Across the battlefield he was hearing reports of seven-foot-tall creatures wearing green armor taking down Asari commandos and Council SPECTREs. He had not come into contact with any of these creatures, dismissing them as mere fantasies and excuses for failure, but the reports stated that if you saw one, to not engage and retreat. "Turians don't retreat! You will only see a Turian's back once he's dead…that's our motto in Hierarchy," said Saren to himself, "and if I see one of those creatures, I'm taking him down first!"
The platoon came upon the UNSC base behind the rubble of Turian buildings, Saren ordered the platoon to pull out their missile launchers and get into position. When Saren got into position, he waited five minutes for his team to alert him when they were ready, but it was past the time and he began to worry then all of a sudden something dropped behind Saren about thirty feet away. Saren aims his missile launcher and fired, scoring a direct hit as it was blown back against the wall where debris fell upon him. He could only grin in satisfaction. "These green armor giants are not so tough after all."
As he was walking away before enemy forces moved in on the explosion, he heard rumbling sounds coming from the debris that fell on the green-armored giant, Saren turned around with his eyes wide. He was surprised to see the green-armored monster lifting a ton of debris off of him like it was nothing. Saren lifted his missile launcher and fired again, but the missile was shot down with incredible speed and accuracy by the monster as he pulled out his pistol and shot the missile; the explosion caused dust to spread causing blindness for Saren. As the dust settled, the green-armored behemoth was gone as Saren frantically looked around until the it appeared in front of him.
Saren tried to fire another missile, but the trigger was jammed—he then reached out for his gun with his left arm; but at the same time, the creature ran closed the distance toward Saren at high speed, as he reached behind his back and pulled out a combat plasma knife and sliced Sarens left arm clear off of him.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH" screamed Saren as he was holding were his left arm was with his right. He then looks at the green-armored monster as he lifted his pistol up to Saren's head until he lifted his left arm up to his helmet as if he was listening to someone "Well, it seems you're in luck," said the creature, "your fleets in orbit have lost this battle, and all ground forces have surrendered I'm taking you to one of our prison camps."
Saren looked up at the creature. He could not believe it…the Turian Hierarchy had lost. "What are you?"
"My species is called 'human'. And I am a Demon."
Bostra Orbit
As the OSA and UNSC second fleet cleaned up the destroyed UNSC ships and gathered the remaining Citadel fleet, a Salarian probe recorded the entire battle and sent it to a Salarian STG ship on the other side of the Relay. They began to plot a course back to the Citadel to show the Council the footage that had been recorded. They prayed that they would return in time to stop this madness before it escalated…
In the next chapter the OSA will finaly confront the Citadel Council and we will see who is truly the center of Galactic Government.
CODEX-Kilimanjaro-class Dreadnought
Kilimanjaro-Class Dreadnought—the Kilimanjaro-Class Dreadnought is a UNSC ship design that had been through many trials before the formula for its creation was finally perfected. Thanks to Huragok assistance, and Human engineers, the result was a ship that was 1km larger than the Phoenix-Class Colony Ship. Although it is not designed for work as a carrier, the Kilimanjaro-Class Dreadnought still has a small contingent of fighters, can carry many squadrons of troopers, and still have enough firepower to practically maul any ship that stands in its way. Standard armaments include 5 nose-mounted MAC guns (1 Super, 4 Standard), an unspecified number of Point-Defense plasma turrets, and six broadside railgun turrets on each side. Coupled in with extremely durable armor and shields powered by a plasma-fusion hybrid core; the result would be an unstoppable juggernaut more a fortress than a ship by any standard.