Rise of the commonwealth
Chapter 8
Here is chapter 8, this chapter is mainly detailing the battle for control of the citadel in particular Zakera ward
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Citadel space
Star date: 28th December 2157
Presidium
Garrus and the councilors ducked into an abandoned shop, feeling their breaths come in ragged bursts as they tried to slow their thundering hearts, after escaping the black clad soldier who had killed two specters with what seemed like no effort they had fled down into the presidium only to see hundreds of human soldiers fighting C-sec, despite having a slight numerical advantage over the commonwealth soldiers, the human soldiers were using from what they have been told magnetically accelerated slugs coated in searing hot plasma, their training was also far better than C-sec and from what they themselves had seen, there were apparently some veterans from the debacle over the human world, they knew because they were taking advantage of weaknesses that other human soldiers weren't. Garrus looked outside to check if there weren't any human soldiers nearby, especially any Blacklight soldiers or the soldiers clad all in black except their purple visors.
Sparatus looked at the spectre then to his wife as she watched a recording that had been taken earlier and sent to her omni-tool, it was of her friend on the citadel new net giving a report, from what he could see.
"…Still no news from the council about the attack on the human home world but we have received substantiated reports that they have lost their fleet and so will fall soon, so we can only assume…" she never finished the sentence because behind her outside the window the destiny ascension could be seen crashing into the citadel arm, shortly afterwards, with the people in the room still frozen with fear, a squad of human soldiers rushed into the room and subdued everybody who was not a threat and executed those who were, that was before one of the humans who could be seen on screen raised a pistol to the camera and fired, ending the recording immediately. She had tears running freely down her face, whether from anger or sadness was impossible to tell but she was crying, Sparatus moved closer and wrapped his arms around her and she nuzzled into his chest plate, he looked back at the spectre who was respectfully averting his gaze, then Valern spoke.
"From the reports we are getting most of the wards are under increasingly heavy assault, and more than a few have gone out of contact Zakera ward is relatively safe as no human soldiers have landed there yet" Sparatus gave the Turian equivalent of an expression of suspicion.
"That sounds too good to be true, almost everywhere is being assaulted by commonwealth forces except that one ward, they're up to something."
"Yes but most of our forces not engaged are moving to Zakera to regroup, so are the civilians what the humans are planning is beyond me, but if I had to guess they were waiting for most of our forces to gather in one place, then…"
"Whipe them out in one swoop." Valern was silent a moment before nodding
"Precisely."
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Citadel space
Star date: 28th December 2157
CWS Human last resort
Integra lit the cigar in her mouth, she looked at the vid screens displaying how her forces were progressing on the citadel, if she was honest she was underwhelmed at the resistance being put up by these council forces, already all of one arm of the citadel was under their control as was half of another, the others were all coming under heavy attack from her forces and reaping a devastating toll on the defenders, she looked at the screen showing her Zakera ward, the aliens were now all nicely packed into the ward and the trap was almost ready to be sprung, but first she was waiting on someone.
"Reporting as ordered" came a deep gruff voice with a slight accent, Integra turned to face the source of the voice and found herself looking into the emerald eyes of Director Alexander Anderson and his second in command newly promoted Commander Carpenter.
"Gentlemen I take it that your operations in the presidium are completed."
"Yes ma'm C-sec headquarters has been cleared and their communications network scrambled, we also destroyed their primary gunship depot, so their air support in the presidium will be severely hindered."
"Good, I've just received reports from the fleets in the other systems, three are under our complete control, 6 are falling quickly, 2 are heavily contested and one fleet has been forced to retreat, all in all we have made significant gains, we're also getting reports of scattered and unorganized fleets coming to aid the 11 colonies and from what we have been told there are no fleets at all coming to aid the citadel, so our coms jamming systems are working and our diversionary attacks are working brilliantly, reports on the citadel are just as promising but we hit a hitch." The two operators looked between each other then back to their commanding officer, "It would seem one of my blackguard operatives has lost the councilors, and is starting to come across increasingly heavy resistance, she has requested aid, my other Blackguards are either here protecting me or already deployed on the citadel, so I would like a Blacklight operator to help her."
"Very well ma'm Commander Carpenter here would be more than capable in aiding your personal operative ma'm" Jaime for his part saluted before leaving to head down to the citadel.
"Thank you Director, now I would like to talk to you about the enemy at Zakera ward," Anderson nodded and moved over to the holographic table to hear the plan to break the false bastion of hope the aliens had created and their will to fight.
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Citadel space
Star date: 28th December 2157
Zakera Ward
Solona Vakarian ran towards the barricade that had been hastily erected from destroyed air cars and containers of various size, carrying a heavy MG on her shoulders, she made her way to where the tripod had been deployed and attached the gun to it before moving back behind the lines as a C-sec officer manned the weapon, she made her way back to the impromptu supply depot to get more supplies to bring to the front. She grabbed a crate of thermal clips was about to bring them to the front lines when an Asari C-sec officer walked up to her.
"Solona I'm sorry to ask this of you but everyone else is already carrying out a task, we're having trouble contacting the guards at the space dock, now I don't need to tell you what happens if the enemy breaches there, get over there and see what the hell is going on" Solona saluted and jogged of in the direction of the docking station
After a two minute jog she reached the entrance to the docking station but for some reason there was no one outside on duty and her coms were going haywire, she was getting wary and had readied her assault rifle in case, she opened the door to the docking station and found it to be full of corpses belonging to council races turning round to race back and warn the others she came face to face with a Purple visor.
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Citadel space
Star date: 28th December 2157
Zakera Ward- Docking station
Lieutenant commander Matoi looked at the broken and beaten example of the Turian species at her feet, she had followed the Turian all the way to the docking station entrance at which point she had viciously and ruthlessly assaulted and neutralized the Turian, she activated the com link imbedded in her helmet which connected directly to one person only.
"Sir Integra, the docking station is ours."
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Citadel space
Star date: 28th December 2157
En-route to Zakera ward docking station
Director Anderson sat in the Hades class Ultra heavy transport, carrying 120 battle hardened Blacklight operators all clad in their grey uniforms and trench coats , crimson visors lowered over their faces, they looked like death incarnate and for the citadel forces they might as well have been. Each operator was clad in the new type IX combat skin and was wielding a colossus assault rifle, some operators were even carrying the Titan Gatling gun but there was something special that connected all the weapons wielded by the operators.
They were directed energy weapons
Conventional weapons utilized by the ordinary soldier use magnetically accelerated slugs coated in plasma as their ammunition, these weapons used concentrated plasma accelerated by magnetic accelerators to near light speeds thanks to the near non-existent mass of the ammunition. They would prove to be very effective against council forces.
When the Dropship touched down the operators immediately exited the 500 meter vessel and moved to secure the immediate area, Anderson exited the craft his hand never moving to far from the handles of his bayonets he was almost immediately greeted by a trio of black clad figures de cloaking in front of him.
"I am Lieutenant commander Matoi of Sir Integra's personal Blackguards, under orders from sir Integra me and my companions have been placed under your command for the duration of this mission, orders sir?" Anderson hesitated only a millisecond.
"I would like you and your men divided up among the three teams on the mission, each team designated, sword, mace and hammer will be under yours and your men's command I will join which ever squad you take command of because that squad is going into the thickest of combat, we are going to assault the rear of the C-sec forces holding the barricade, while our regular forces assault the front." With the 120 men divided up between the three Blackguards the three groups of 40 operators dispersed, 1 group under the command of Major Turner made their way to the upper level his groups objective was the destruction of the main vehicle depot to cut off the enemies vehicular support, the Second group under the command of Captain Riley made their way to the lower level to destroy the enemies main supply depot and destroy the enemy command centre, the third group under the joint command of Director Anderson and Lieutenant Commander Matoi made their way to the middle level to aid their allies that would by now be assaulting the main enemy Barricade.
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Citadel space
Star date: 28th December 2157
Zakera Ward
Alona T'Varis fired another burst of mass accelerated rounds from her assault rifle she ducked behind the barricade as another burst of plasma coated slugs slammed into the sky car she was taking behind, she looked over the barricade and felt the pit of fear in her stomach widen, the enemy was moving forward relentlessly, their rounds caused severe damage to kinetic barriers and the plasma went through in a molten hot jet that went nearly straight through armor in some cases melting it to the wearers skin. Then she noticed the enemy tanks moving forward, there were three two were moderately sized tanks, a double barreled gun on a rotating turret mounted on a chassis that slopped at the front before coming into a rectangular shape, grafted on the side of the tanks and on its front was packets of explosive which can only be detonated by a rocket impact, and when they do detonate they destroy the projectile but leave the armor unscathed. This on top of the astonishingly strong armor and the shields that were absurdly powerful meant these tanks were extremely hard to destroy but dealt huge amounts of damage with plasma war heads and triple barreled machine guns mounted on top of the turret letting loose with withering barrages of fire. The third tank was quite frankly huge, the size of a small house it had the same basic shape as its smaller companions, but it had a double barreled main cannon sticking out the slopped chassis and a triple barreled main cannon on its turret, and built into its back was a rocket launching system that was capable of launching over twenty rockets in a rain of death that would rain searing death on all its path. These tanks were now advancing on their position and they were slaughtering the council forces, she looked to her left as someone let fly with a rocket launcher, it slammed into the shield of the large tank and did nothing, the tank returned the gesture with a barrage of massive magnetically accelerated slugs coated in plasma, the barrage reduced the man to burnt bloody ribbons and the squad he was with didn't fare any better. Alona ducked down as a shell flew over head and blew open the impromptu supply depot raining debris and on the defenders, the enemy was making quick work of their resistance. Alona raised her rifle to fire when a scream emerged from behind her she turned around and felt her blood run cold, a force of Blacklight operators was rampaging through the forces in the rear and slaughtering anybody from C-sec who crossed their path, but none compared to the hurricane of death and destruction that was the black clad soldier in their midst, she moved to aid but felt something pierce her abdomen, she looked down and saw a plasma coated blade sticking out of her stomach she looked behind her and found herself looking at a large human with piercing emerald eyes, the human removed his blade from her abdomen and sliced off her head. As she died she saw the barricade give way and human soldiers pore through, the last bastion of hope on the citadel was lost, the humans had all but won.
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Codex- Blacklight and Blackguard equipment
Colossus assault rifle- developed in 2154 the colossus assault rifle in one of the most deadly weapons in the human arsenal, its overall shape is blocky and is the length of a human leg, it has a cryo coolant system built into the rifle and uses a micro antimatter cell to power the rifle, it is capable of firing over 6000 bolts of plasma before the cell needs replacing and can fire 150 bolts a minute, it also has a charge setting where it can charge a shot to deal extra damage to the target but will be unable to fire for a few seconds afterwards as the barrel cools down.
Titan Gatling gun- the Titan Gatling gun was developed near the same time as the colossus assault rifle, it has a rotating barrel system that when it spins the plasma is accelerated down a different barrel at a time meaning the barrel that previously fired has cooled down by the time it comes round to fire again, this means that the Gatling gun can fire at a much faster rate than the colossus meaning more rounds go down range, it too is powered by a micro antimatter cell and as stated has a cryo coolant system, however it also has a built in single shot missile launcher in the middle of the 6 barrels that requires reloading from the rear of the weapon, this weapon cannot be wielded by an un augmented individual.
Type IX Combat skin- a variation on the uniform worn by regular commonwealth soldiers, the combat skin is essentially power armor, but more streamlined It has a built in shielding system and tactical heads up display with an interfacing AI that helps keep the soldier up to date with everything happening on the battlefield, it is made from a titanium-adamantium alloy that makes the wearer invulnerable to most small arms fire, however the weight of the armor means that only augmented individuals can wear it.
Blacklight and Blackguard Augments- the augments that these forces both receive are designed to help boost their speed, strength reaction time and intelligence, however Blackguards also receive experimental augments which help boost the existing augments to almost unrealistic levels, making them so fast, so strong and so intelligent that one Blackguard was reported to have been able to singlehandedly destroy a heavily funded and organized terrorist organization called Cerberus.
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Wow probably the longest chapter of the story so far, and just so you know Cerberus will not be making an appearance as you can probably tell because they were destroyed by one of the Blackguards, and anyone who catches my Kill la Kill reference congrats… that's it.