Here it is guys and gals the ground confrontation between council and commonwealth ground forces. Plus whatever else I decide to write in today, or don't and make you wait for more BWAHAHAHAHA
Disclaimers: (Sigh) I give up
Rise of the commonwealth
Chapter 6
Commonwealth space
Star date: 26th December 2157
CWS Human Last resort
Fleet admiral Hackett looked at the smoldering wrecks of the Council fleet as it orbited around the planet Ares he smirked at the thought that the poor suckers had fallen for the trap humanity had lain hook, line and sinker. A few ships had managed to get past the human line but they didn't get to the relay before they were swarmed and destroyed by a mass of fighter drones, shocking the crews of said ships. He heard his name being called and turned his attention to the young ensign to his right.
"What is it son."
"Sir Brigadier general Williams is on the Holo coms for you" Hackett nodded his thanks and turned his attention to holo interface as Williams' image came to form.
"Well you space boys did a half decent job, now it's the real soldiers turn."
"Please your girl scouts wouldn't hold up to my lot."
"Without having that massive ship backing you up my lot would eat you for breakfast."
"Well from what I've heard cannibalism isn't beyond your lot." Williams let out a bark of laughter.
There was a running joke between the two branches of the military, to the navy the army was a band of psychos who thought being shot at was a fun idea, to the army the navy were a bunch of pampered snot nosed brats who hid behind big guns and thick armor.
"All joking aside, are your lot ready Jack I'm looking forward to showing these councils ass holes why you don't piss of humans."
"Oh they are ready and eager all right some had friends on the mothball fleet and they're looking for pay back"
"Good because I got new orders from command, they want the commanders alive everyone else is to be shown no mercy" Brigadier General Jack Williams gave a feral smile before his hologram disappeared, Hackett heard the bridge door open and everyone on the bridge stand to attention, turning round he was greeted by the Blacklight director Alexander Anderson and his second in command Colonel Jaime Carpenter.
"Good to see you Hackett, I was hoping to catch you here"
"Why what's up"
"I just came to tell you that a squad of my operators have captured the admiral in charge of the council space forces, now all we need to do is capture the ground forces commander"
"Who is?"
"General Desolas Arterius" answered Jaime
"Ah, should have guessed, poor bastard"
"We are going to drop in from orbit at his current location and capture him, which would be a devastating blow for their moral"
"Right when you see him tell him Hackett said hi."
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Commonwealth space
Star date: 26th December 2157
Planet-Ares
Desolas and his multi species squad rushed out of the building to see a scene of chaos, Human reinforcements had flooded down from orbit and were currently annihilating his forces, their mechs and tanks were blasting apart their council counterparts like it was going out of style, and their infantry were slaughtering his forces, he needed to get to the FOB and rally his forces before the situation deteriorated even further. Making his way into the once beautiful city he and his squad were making their way cautiously forward when they noticed a trio of human orbital insertion drop from orbit and land near the building they had been at, not giving it a second thought they continued through the city, the sounds of battle coming from every direction.
Desolas held his weapon tightly as he rounded a corner and immediately ducked behind cover as a commonwealth fire team supported by one of their IFVs laid down a blistering wave of fire on his squads' current position. His back placed firmly against the wall he began barking out orders.
"Artheria, Tulipsis put up a barrier Brinthus, Hirchus use the barrier to cross the street and provide covering fire" as soon as he finished giving orders his squad sprang into action following his instructions, and the human forces began to take cover as fire started coming in from both sides of the cross roads the IFV began to blitz the pairs position, at which point one of the Turian blackwatch members fired a trio of rockets from his ML-77 at it the first two brought it's shields down the last caused it to explode in flash of burning plasma.
The humans took cover immediately, using this to his advantage Desolas ordered his squad forward his squad opened fire on the humans suppressing them, one of them rose up suddenly a rocket launcher on his shoulder and fired the rocket soared forward missing Desolas narrowly and slamming into the ground next to the STG operatives, The plasma warhead turning their bodies to mush. At this point the other human soldiers charged forward and met Desolas and his squad in a vicious melee battle, Desolas was fighting a human female, she had drawn a vicious looking knife and was currently trying to push it into his chest, Desolas tried to keep the blade away from his chest, putting his foot to her stomach he kicked pushing her off him. He got to his feet and tackled the woman to the ground knocking her helmet off, he tried to punch her in the face but she sent a elbow into his Jaw she then got up and kicked him in the ribs winding him. She grabbed his neck and was intending to snap it but was stopped when warp slammed into her side. She was sent flying into a nearby wall head first and was instantly killed.
"Sir get out of here go you need to reach the FOB!" Desolas nodded, grabbed his weapon and took off running in the direction of the FOB, completely missing the arrival of the Blacklight operators.
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Commonwealth space
Star date: 26th December 2157
Planet-Ares
Colonel Jaime carpenter groaned slightly as his pod crashed into the concrete streets of the once proud capital city, he pulled a lever and the pod door opened up he stepped out and stretched his muscles feeling the creak and crack he then grabbed his gear from the pod and made his way down the stairs to where his squad mates were waiting.
He got down the stairs just as his squad mates, Major Larissa Kinley, and Sergeant Marcus Shepard jogged up from where their pods had landed, once they had met up they made their way deep into the ruined city.
As they walked they came by piles of dead alien and human bodies, evidence of the brutal combat that had swept through the once idyllic city, now it was little more than burning ruble with a vicious battle being waged in it.
As the Blacklight operators made their way further in the city they heard a firefight in the next street hurrying forward they came across a pair of Asari commandos and several Turians fighting a fire team with a burning IFV behind them, the Fire team had several casualties but the council group had some as well but the council forces were starting to take the upper hand in the fight, or they were until Jaime charged forward and slammed a fist into the side of one of the Asari's face caving in that side of her skull, the other turned around and was met with a shotgun blast to the face courtesy of Larissa, the commando was sent flying back bits of skull, brains and blood spraying everywhere. The Turians turned around in shock before two of them were mowed down by rifle fire from Marcus, the fire team having recovered immediately opened fire on the distracted Turians, and they were slaughtered jogging up to the fire team it was clear to see it had been a tough fight.
"Are you guys okay now?"
"Yes sir we were doing well until our IFV was smashed the when we tried engaging in CQC we were outclassed we would be dead if not for your arrival."
"You're welcome" said Larissa a smile in her voice at having saved her comrades in arms but
took on a more neutral edge when she asked "We are looking for a Turian General, we believe he fled in this direction."
"General hey… now that you mention it one of the Turians took off running in the direction of what was the council FOB."
"You mean the council FOB that has been converted into a commonwealth strong point… poor bastard."
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Commonwealth space
Star date: 26th December 2157
Planet-Ares
Desolas had been running for what felt like ages he didn't want to stop to catch his breath lest a commonwealth patrol come across him, he came to the intersection that would take him to the FOB but he stopped when he heard someone cry his name in Turian.
Stopping and looking around he saw a group of Turian Legionnaires with an Asari commando, he jogged over to the small group who were taking cover in a bombed out shop.
"What's the situation?"
"Bad, commonwealth space forces have annihilated our fleet in orbit."
"What about Oraka, he said he was going to get help"
"He tried from what we heard sir, but one of those 5 kilometer ships blasted his ship to space dust before he could even get past the planets moon." Desolas felt despair writhe in his stomach, and an icy chill crawl up his spine, with the fleet dead the Humans have orbital superiority, but as far as Desolas knew they were supposed to have no ships at all, with their navy being blasted to smithereens over Khar'shan, he then realized what was going on, the humans had deceived the council into thinking they had deployed their real fleet to aid them then when the council tried to betray them the humans had slammed them to the ground with their actual fleet, crafty bastards.
"What about the situation on the ground, how are our forces doing?"
"What forces sir?, from we have gathered there are no longer any functioning units on the ground there are small groups like us and maybe some larger groups but apart from that all other forces have either died or surrendered." Desolas's feeling of despair grew even larger, the commonwealth had successfully pulled the wool over the council during the Batarian Relay war, and now with 1/4 of the councils surviving strength destroyed over this world the humans will now have an easier time invading council space.
He was interrupted from his musing by a deliberate cough, the kind used to get attention, when the group turned round to see who it was they were met with the grey uniform and crimson visors of a Blacklight operator, before they could react several flood lights were turned on outside and when Desolas looked outside, he could see dozens of commonwealth troops and several vehicles and mechs. Then the Blacklight operator spoke
"Good evening, my name is Colonel Jaime Carpenter second in command of the Blacklight divison, I would like to 'ask' for your surrender, if you resist you will be dead before you can ready those pathetic weapons of yours.
Desolas growled but knew he had no choice, even if they could take on the operator, which he doubted, they had the troops and vehicles to deal with and they had next to no cover. Desolas hung his head in resignation and held his talons above his head.
"I General Desolas Arterius do herby surrender to the Terran Commonwealth."
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Codex: Human FTL
The human FTL drive was created and designed by physicist Richard Shilling, he was working on a way to move an object faster than light when he discovered the hyperspace theory, the engine which he helped to design and create, which is now called the shilling drive, opened a hyperspace corridor between the set off point and the destination, the way the ship travels faster than light is inside hyper space the ship is encased in bubble this bubble then turns the ship into a type of energy which has an even smaller mass than light, as in compared to this energy light would weigh tons more, this allowed the ship to travel at speeds which are literally fatser than light, the ship and crew inside the ship are unaware of this effect, to them they are just traveling faster to their destination.
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Hey Guys and Gals, this is the next chapter up, I'm going to be co-authoring a story with L4 of the west so I may be unable to update the story as often but I will still be working on it so please don't kill me.