"it's a covenant CSO Super Carrier Captain!."

Solar:" WHAT!" Solar looks around the mess hall to see that everyone is calm and happy, no one knows about the CSO because parallax has told no one but the captain Via the earwig.

Solar stood up from is table and yelled as loud as he could, making sure everyone in the mess hall could hear him "Combat Stations People, We have a CSO super capital covenant ship in the system and the chances of us surviving decrease drastically every second you are not at your combat stations! NOW MOVE CREWMEN!"

Catherine stands up and slams her hands down on to the table "Sir, whats is our cause of action?"
Solar:" Lets get to the bridge before we decide anything, i want all my facts and tactical data before i try anything."

They both rush towards the bridge, only being around fifteen to twenty meters away, they get there in a matter of seconds
As solar enters the Bridge, everyone salutes.

Solar:" Parallax, what are we up against?"

Parallax:" One CSO class covenant super carrier.
Length 28.960 kilometers ,Width 11.447 kilometers ,Height/depth 3.563 kilometers and comes with its standard Nano laminate hull as well as its standard weaponry which are seven energy projectors and a couple hundred Plasma turrets, Pulse laser turrets, Plasma Torpedoes. Nothing out of the usual for a CSO to have for decimating an entire fleet of UNSC ships."

Solar:" I know that, but i wanted specifics! why are they here and are they carrying prototype covenant technology that warrants them to dive right into UNSC territory!"

Parallax:" nothing else but that sir, i am currently scanning them but nothing strange is coming up, i don- Sir i just was analyzing and cross referencing their there slip space rupture energy with other covenant ships signatures as well as doing hull scans to detect anything strange on the surface of the CSO, the slip space rupture was different from any other covenant ship, I'm guessing the CSO has a prototype slip space generator and as for the hull, i think its equipped with prototype shields! Sir, we all know one normal CSO on its own can take out entire UNSC fleet consisting of multiple top of the range battle clusters and groups with the best captains there are at their helms but we are just a halcyon light cruiser and a crew with almost no combat experience and still are patching up holes in the hull and fixing faulty systems sir!"

Solar:"Parallax, i don't care if we are against the entire damn covenant fleet, i don't care if one hundred thousand CSO super capitals were engaging us right now! because either way we will win against the odds. Bring the ship up to Combat Alert Alpha! I want everyone at their stations and Give me a run down on best case scenario with the ONI prototypes and using the fact that we are up to Autumn standards." he spoke with the uttermost confidence as he walked up to the tactical display screen, which was showing him an overview of the system and the two locations of his ship and the covenants.

Parallax:" even though We are up against a CSO class with prototype systems which means our chances of survival are slim even if we run, and we are currently alone and you want to do battle with it making our chances of survival even lower than ever but i will start running best case scenario battle calculations"

Ensign:" Sir, the CSO class are doing a in system jump. Their calculate exit point, it's way to close the the star!"

Cathrine:" That will cause the star to go super nova! are they insane? unless they want to destroy the system and possibly themselves, what could their motive be?

Parallax:" I Don't Know! But i do know that they are testing a new slip space drive so maybe apart of testing the prototype has something to do with solar activity captain"

Solar:" well what ever it is lets try to avoid being seen, i want to get the jump on that ship rather than face in in pure 1-1 combat. Parallax i want to know how you identified it, and ensign, take us to an asteroid that the last light can hide behind. I'd rather not engage that ship unless we have too right now!"

Parallax:"Well i can tell you it was not done via the use of covenant slip space emissions"

Cathrine:" How did you identify the CSO ship then?"
Parallax:"Visuals, the only way that it could be done at that point without using scanning methods that would immediately give us away"
Solar walks away from the tactical panel and over to one of the pilots on the bridge and starts to speak to everyone on the bridge.
Solar:" with that ship jumping that close to a celestial body, it should blind their sensors making it easier for us to hide behind an asteroid and possibly get up close and attack it with out them knowing whats hitting them"
The CSO exits near the Star, making it flare in activity and highly unstable. The Leviathan of a vessel floats dead in space for a few moments before beginning to open up another slip space portal in front of it

Ensign:" Sir there is no point in trying to hide anymore, they have detected us and are opening a slip space portal again with a exit point of only 30 Kilometers distance of us and the two slip space jumps made the star unstable. It's starting to go super Nova, i estimate 15 minutes before it explodes"

Parallax:" then we only have 14 minutes before slip space will no longer an option due to the shear gravitational forces that will fling us around sir, and we can't go anyway without that ship following us. I calculate a 0.02% chance of survival with a 0.12% chance of taking that ship with us sir!"

Solar:" I like those odds. Activate the Ablative energy Hull prototype Parallax"

Parallax:"Activated"

As the hull activated there was a noticeable change to the ships hull as a super thin layer spread out across most of the ship.
While this happened the CSO emerged from slip space 6 Kilometers in front of them, It's size making the last light seem tiny in comparison to the Leviathan.
Solar:"Prepare to fire the duel M.A.C cannons!"
Solar's horn lights up with a flash as an aura of magic envelops it. As he does this a crewman notices that the M.A.C's charge are exceeding their charge capacity.
Petty officer:" Sir the M.A.C's are at 150% capacity!"
Solar:" Crewman i want you to tell me when they reach 200% capacity! Parallax, when they do i want you to fire immediately
three seconds past before the M.A.C reached 200% then Parallax began the M.A.C Barrage

with that the Last light fired 12 shots simultaneously, 6 being that of stranded UNSC depleted uranium round and the other 6 being comprised of arcane energy's, otherwise known has giant magic bolts.
*Ba-Bang* *Ba-Bang* *Ba-Bang*...*Ba-Bang* *Ba-Bang* *Ba-Bang*
The firing was rhythmic, two shots a second for three seconds and then two seconds wait, followed by another three second barrage.

the first standard shots hit the shields and dissipated due to the prototype shielding, which was probably M.A.C proof. However the covenant had not designed a shield that was supposed to take on Magic bolts meaning that they passed right though the shields, unaffected and began to shred the hull of the CSO, 6 direct hits which completely destroyed all of the CSO front weaponry, leaving the last light a massive blind spot to exploit.

Parallax:" Direct hit the the Capital ship sir, all front energy projectors are down as well as 90% of other weaponry giving us a blind spot we could sit in sir, but that would mean we couldn't fire the M.A.C anymore."

Lieutenant:" Holy Shit, we can do this sir! We can do this!"

Warrant officer:" Sir, i am detecting boarding partys coming towards the ship as well as large amounts of escort fighters and bombers, we won't be able to engage them all even with long and short swords deployed!"

Solar:"Well they will help do the job, get those fighters out there and keeping the covenant ships at bay, Ensign, navigate us to the blind spot and keep us there for as long as you can, if we can keep poking the bear were it can't defend itself we could win this! and parallax..."

Parallax": yes sir?"

Solar:"...let's give our old friend a warm welcome"

Parallax:"I've already begun."
/

In the spartan armory
A Tech officer is operating a Console that controls a cryo pod inside the armory
on the Display:
X - Parallax 017 09 CRYOSTOR. 32.8.0
(Priority Alpha)

Begin Thawing Process
Tech Officer Brian:" Whoa. Sir"

Tech chief William:"Right! lets thaw him out"

Tech Officer Brian:"OK, bringing low level systems online, cracking the case in thirty seconds...
Hes hot, blowing the pins in 5."

Down in the spartan armory, away from the monitoring station above, there is a lone cryo casket in the middle of the armory attached to a central metal beam, facing towards the monitoring station.
As they begin the process the pod begins to vent gas from several different locations along the seal of the pod

"counting down from 5..." one of them says
"4...3...2...1"

As the officer counts down, a ordinance tech that was with them in the room makes his way down to help the spartan out while a marine enters the monitoring station up top.

The pod opens
the spartan gets up and out before anyone says a word

ordinance tech:" whoa, take it easy. we just rushed your revive so don't rush yourself. Anyway, welcome back Sir, we will have you battle ready stat."

Archer:" well you wouldn't have to" he says in a deep rumbling voice, while geting out of the cryo pod.
"unless we are going into a fight" he steps out and looks around the room, then at his hands to quickly make sure everything is in working order

ordinance tech:" True sir, but we still have to give you a quick calibration to make sure everything is in order, we don't want you or your armor to fail in the middle of a fight due to the quick unseal"

Archer starts walking over to the gun racks, with each step making a heavy metallic thud.

ordinance tech:" sir, Calibrations is this way"

Archer:"I've done a calibration of my own. I'll tell you if there is something wrong"

When he reach the small weapons rack that contains his combo of weapons, he starts to collect his 'belongings' which are A MA5B assault rifle, M45E Tactical Shotgun and a M6D (Halo:CE magnum) to top it off, and then a M41 SPNKR (rocket launcher) for overkill.
ordinece tech:"Sir, you can't go into battle with out being checked up on. You haven't even had your shields activated yet"
Archer hits his chest piece with the one free hand he has, while the other is occupied with holding the rocket launcher that was over his shoulder, with enough force that it gets the personal shield generator to activate, with a crackle of light and bright yellow outlines of energy on the skin of his armor symbolizing it online.
Archer:" wheres the bridge?"

Tech chief William: Over intercom" there is a marine up here that will escort you to the bridge, Solar wants to give you a warm welcoming"
Archer jumps up half way up ladder due to his pure strength ,which allows him to jump quite high. He then proceds to quickly clime the rest of the way.

William: "Sir, you can't be doing things like that, damaging the ship and possibly yourself!"

Archer:"like hell i can't. The ship is under attack and i have to get to the captain as soon as possible" he gets up onto the cat walk and walks over to the door, hits the doors keypad to open it and walks inside "marine, lets go"

Marine:" Yes Sir! and Sir there are boarding party's coming towards the ship so we may-"
They hear explosions coming from the corridor.
Parallax then starts to talk "To All UNSC personal, We have engaged the enemy and boading partys have started to get in via the use of escape pod docking ports. lock down the nearest escape pods to minimise chances of the covenant getting a foothold in this ship!"

Archer:" Marine, Now!"

Archer and the marine begin to run towards the bridge via the corridor where plasma grenades, UNSC grenades and weapons fire from both sides could be heard.
after entering the corridor from all the sounds where coming from they come across a few marine behind some makeshift cover engaging a massive boarding party.
Marine 1:"WHERE ARE THEY ALL COMING FROM"
Marine 2:" JUST SHOOT AT THEM!"
Marine 3:" I'M RUNNING LOW!"

Archer runs past the marines with his shotgun drawn and jumps over the barricade they had made to hold against the massive wave of enemy forces.
He sprinted towards them and begun to dispatch them one by one. a shotgun to the face there and a triple take-down combo here and with-in thirty seconds his job was done. "Marines, lock down this section, if any more boarding craft try to use the escape pod docking bays, blow them to hell!"
"Sir yes Sir"
With that notion, Archer and his marine escort continue on their way to the bridge, while fighting off countless covenant boarding party's and coming to the rescue of many marine groups that are scattered across the interior of the last light.

/

On the bridge
"Sir, the star is going critical, its gravitational pulls are fluctuating and is sending debris from the shattered planets in the solar system towards us"
Solar was analyzing the whole tactical situation, so far they had not made a dent in the CSO's shields and the only reason they were still alive was because of Solar's magic going straight though the shields and destroying the energy projectors that were on the front of the ship.

A bridge officer behind the central command pillar yells out the prototype shields stats. "SIR, the ablative energy hull is at 30% shield power, i don't know how much longer the shield will last sir before it completely fails."

Solar had to take in so much information and then come up with tactical solutions to combat the enemy, normally this wouldn't be so hard because they would be engaging something that was NOT a CSO covenant super capital. under these circumstances he had to come up with a unconventional plan in a matter of minutes to destroy it or the UNSC will lose there best chance at winning the war. the ship violently shakes from a anti-matter charge hitting the ship
"Sir! Some of their weapons are starting to come back online and a second wave of fighters and boarding parties are heading our way!"

Parallax:" the first wave only had 200 fighters and bombers and they wreaked hell on us, but that second wave consists of over 30,000 fighters and bombers escorting around 10,000 boarding craft there is no way we can fight that"
Solar was deep in thought, he was against impossible odds. Even with the entire UNSC fleet, the odds still would have been greatly against him. 30,000 fighters and a covenant Super-Capital, something Solar's ship was not equipped to fight.

Solar:" what are the gravitational forces like 185,000,000 Kilometers towards the star"
Ensign at the helm:" its 800G and it's fluctuating in every direction from the star, a ship over 2 kilometers ship will be shredded in that kind of gravitational shear in under 5 minutes and they won't be able to get into any slipspace portals they open"

Catherine:" sir, are you going to do what i think you are going to do?"
Parallax:"what exactly?"
Solar:"Exactly that Catherine, All hands, prepare for a in system jump towards the star. Ensign, ease up on engine power and get close with the CSO, we are taking it for a ride"

Catherine:"What! Are you insane!?, I thought you wanted to get closer to the star so we would be safe from the CSO! But you want to attempt a in system jump into a area of space where the gravity forces will tear the ship apart and not only that! but you want to take the CSO along for the ride as well! What the hell kind of plan do you have in mind sir!"

Solar:"wheres the fun in running away Catherine? besides, The CSO can't jump in those kinds of gravitational forces, its 30X the size of us so there is a lot more mass that thing is carrying around, and it can be flung around, making near impossible for them to reach their slip space portal and hopefully they will be shredded before the Last light begins to show signs of hull stress! that is the idea anyway. Ensign, Plot a course directly to the CSO and charge the Slip space drive. Parallax i want you to calculate a slip space jump like you never have before. Take us 200,000,000 Kilometers closer to that star!"

Parallax:" Attempting the most bat-shit insane move attempted in the UNSC ever attempted ,Captain!"
The ships engines light dies off as the engines output lowers for a while, letting the CSO close the gap till their shields are mere meters away from hitting the Last Light.
Solar:" execute the jump!"
And with that command the UNSC last light opens up a slip space rupture in front of both ships, the Last Lights engines Blast alight and the ship goes speeding into the rupture with the CSO ship following closely behind, getting dragged in because of the proximity to the Last Light when the created the rupture and how close it was, as well as covenant tenacity making them was to destroy the ship. So they followed the Last Light in, which was a big mistake on there behalf.

Both ships entered and then the portal closed, and then 15 seconds later the ship merged with-in 450,000,000 of the stars surface. This was a hell of a lot closer than they planned, with the gravity shear being well over 3500G and the slip space portal opening so close to the star ,that it only caused it to become more unstable resulting in the star going super nova even quicker.
Solar:" NOT THAT CLOSE!"

Ensign:" SIR, THE ENERGY SHIELDS ARE RAPIDLY FAILING, 15%"
A Massive solar flare hits the ship

Ensign:"WE ARE SO SCREWED, SHIELDS AT 5% AND RAPIDLY FALLING"

Catherine:" WE ARE NOT GOING TO SURVIVE IF WE DON'T GET OUT OF HERE!"

SOLAR:" PARALLAX, PREPARE FOR ANOTHER SLIP SPACE JUMP"

the ship was violently shaking from side to side from the stars gravity, the crew falling on to the floor and scrambling about as they were thrown about. Solar was holding onto his chair, allowing him to not be thrown about.
Parallax:" i will need 3 warm up the drives and calculate a slip space trajectory, But we simply don't have the time!."

Solar knew what he had to do, to save his ship and crew.
Solar:" forget it, initiate the Cole protocol, wipe all ship navigation data and prepare for a random slip space jump."
Crew members:" Sir, yes Sir"
Suddenly some explosions as well as plasma and gun fire is heard coming from the corridor that connects to the bridge. After a minute Archer comes running in with his magnum in hand, missing his assault rifle, shotgun and rocket launcher. Most likely because he ran out of ammo from all the fighting.
Archer:" Good to see you sir."
Parallax:" sleep well?"
Archer:"I went to bed with an itchy trigger finger. So no"
Parallax:" so my driving wasn't that bad then huh..." she crosses her arms
Solar:" Archer, i know this isn't exactly the nice welcome party you expected but i want you to go from section to section and get the covenant off my damn ship."
Archer:" By all means sir?"
Solar:" Just don't blow a hole in my ship. That is all"
With that brief chat, archer departs the bridge as quickly as he entered and begins his mission of clearing the Last Light.

Solar:" how long till we can make a uncalculated slip space rupture?"
Another massive gravity force ripples though both ships, the CSO gets almost completely torn in half and its core goes super critical, cutting power to the shields meaning the ship was completely vulnerable but the last light is with-in 200 meters of it meaning it would get destroyed along with the CSO
Solar:" GET US OUT OF HERE NOW, I DON'T CARE"
An ensign yells out that someone needs to talk to solar over the intercom and it was from engineering. Solar nods to the crewman and he enables the intercom. on the intercom was solar's chief of engineering who was only a few weeks into the job and was still getting over the idea of solar, meaning they fought a bit.
Engineering Chief officer Alexander:" SIR, WE CAN'T CREATE A SLIP SPACE RUPTURE,THE POWER DRAW WOULD OVERHEAT THE FUSION CORES THEN WE WOULD END UP WITH A WILDCAT DESTABILIZATION OF THE CORES!"
Solar:" WHAT!, whats going on down there!"
Engineering Chief officer Alexander:" The primary fusion reactor heat sinks are almost all gone, we are operating on 5 out of 16 here, and the Tri-fusion core is working at over 480% its maximum to support that damned Ablative Hull on the ship as well as your slip space rupture habits! Its taxing the fusion cores and if we try to open a slip space portal, we could potently shatter Containment and end up in a wild Cat Destabilization of the core, like i said before!"
Solar looked around his bridge, the ship shaking about every 3 seconds as it took hits from the still kicking CSO as well as the ever increasing gravity forces from the sun let him to his conclusion

"We have to, if we don't we are guaranteed to blow up. We are creating a slip space rupture And that the end of it!"
Solar then turns off the comms before the officer could argue anymore
Solar:" Ensign... Punch it! Get us out of here and prepare to activ-"
*Boom* A massive explosion is heard as the CSO manages to activate one of its Energy projectors in one last attempt to destroy them ship, blowing itself up further in the attempt and badly damaging the Last Light.
Navigation Ensign:" Captain! That Attempt destroyed most of the CSO in the process but blew out all of our engines, we only have maneuvering thrusters left!"

Solar only had to think for a few seconds before he knew what he had to do, what his only choice was now.
Solar:" Create the damn slip space rupture, NOW!"
Navigation Ensign:" Engaging the slip space drives... Rupture is open and we are being pushed in by the gravitational forces"
Solar:" give me comms. 'To all hands this is the captain, Prepare for an immediate uncalculated slip space jump, be ready for anything, Captain out' Now we hope we don't end up near some other dangerous celestial object"
Marine:" like a planet!"

The ship is pushed towards and into the slip space rupture. The ship entering the rupture slowly as they have nothing than maneuvering thrusters which would not work in a situation like this, it takes the ship a few minutes to reach rupture as they are thrown about by the gravitational forces.
After a few minutes and some payers, the ship finally enter the portal and it closes behind them, leaving behind the remnants of a CSO ship and a star that went super nova just as the rupture collapsed, sending through a energy pulse which changed the exit point drastically...
to where is currently unknown

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