The Gate of Reach
Chapter Three
Between Old and New
Welcome to the Third Chapter, where the Old meets the new! I hope you guys enjoy! This chapter might be longer idk.
Thank you for the kind reviews! I am planning for some other fanfics, so stay tuned!
-Simply
Disclaimer- I do not own either GATE or HALO, only the story.
23'th March, 2853
Unknown Planet / Japanese-Claimed Special Region
USSC To The Unknown
Washington-Class Exploratory Dreadnought
09:30 Standard Military Time
Admiral William Adama walked along the corridors of his flagship, the 50-Kilometre Long Washington-Class Exploratory Dreadnought USSC To The Unknown. The journey was short, yet as they were staying in the region for some time, the USSC Decided to send a Washington-Class. Sure, the Washington class is far from the largest ship in the fleet, with the newest Preemptive-Class Super Dreadnoughts, or the Sol-Class Supercarriers being over 500 Kilometres long, or even the Constructor-Class MCD's being over a thousand kilometres long, even larger than most stations.
The 22'nd Expeditionary fleet is commanded by him, yet also a very infamous person, Doctor Catherine Halsey, the mastermind behind the SPARTAN Program, which ultimately saved the Galaxy.
A lieutenant, what was his name… Cozo 'Suvam? A Sangheili spoke.
" Admiral, Fleet is exiting slipspace in A mintute."
Over the unknown Planet, 50 Huge holes were torn in the very fabric of Reality, as the 22'nd Explorationary fleet came out of slipspace.
As scientific personnel ran, two Mary Curie Class Scientific frigates began to decent to the Planet, with Curiousity-Class Exploration Cruisers mapping the planet.
Meanwhile, on the Scientific Frigate USSC Alan Turing, Doctor Catherine Halsey and her research crew descended into the Atmosphere. Sleekly, the two destroyers, modelled after old Halberd-Class destroyers touchdowned on a empty piece of grassland.
23'th March, 2853
Unknown Planet / Japanese-claimed Special Region
UNSC Temporary Scientific Outpost
11:00 Standard Military Time
" Doctor Halsey? You…. Got to see this. I do not understand what is happening.", a Lieutenant , her name Halsey thought was… Kara Thrace? Who is manning the Communications Console spoke.
Doctor Halsey sprinted towards the communications console. " What's wrong, lieutenant?"
The Lieutenant responded, " I…. I am picking up radio signals? Cross-reference seems to have it similar to a.. Twenty-first century United Nations Peacekeepers frequencies? I am going to patch us in."
Halsey listened.
" This is Lieutenant Itami, UN Command, we have succesfully passed through the gate, and destroyed a small imperial force. We are scouting the area now.
Halsey spoke into her radio, " Air ops chief, this is Halsey, I need you to scramble several UCAVs, sending coordinates now."
Then, she picked up the Radio, and motioned to the Communications officer to patch her in.
Several minutes later, she was at the command centre. Looking at the footage from the UAV's, her and the rest of the team was shocked.
" Old T-72 Tanks… M1 Abrams… M3 Braleys…. Leopard 2's… Dang… Even MPF-A Light Tanks?" Senior Researcher Gaius Baltar, a well-known history nerd said. " These are from the Twenty-First Century!"
Halsey said, " We should observe them for a bit… to see what they are planning to do. Meanwhile, issue a directive to all field units to conceal themselves while on the field.
18'th May, 2853 / 18'th May, 2025
Unknown Planet / Japanese-Claimed Special Region
USSC Foward Observation and Operations Base
13:45 Standard Military Time / Special Region time
The situation was quite weird. The so-called Empire tried a scorched-earth policy, causing the USSC to step in and evacuate some civillans. The civillans were overall welcome for that, yet they wasn't that happy of them being restricted in the USSC Civillan district.
The USSC Found it weird that Magic seems to exist here, yet investigations did not reveal anything, The USF Senate have voted to make contact with the seemingly armed forces from the past, in order to investigate the circumstances of these…. Gates.
The USSC Presence on this world is growing day-by-day, with small-scaled Prefab refugee camps, and airfields.
The Past's armies' radars were easily blocked, yet, eventually field units might stumble into each other, therefore, the USF Senate voted to contact the armies, seemingly from the past.
The USFDS Envoy, a Ambassador-Class Diplomatic Frigate arrived at the orbit of the planet, carrying a diplomatic team including several humans, Sangeheili, and a huragok.
Ambassador Dominic Richards stood at the wide bridge of the diplomatic ship. He spoke to the communications officer, " Open a hail on their frequencies."
After a nod from the Communications officer, he said,
" This is Ambassador Dominic Richards on the USFDS Envoy, representing the United Species Federation and it's multiple species, to the unknown United Nations task force, we come in peace."
18'th May, 2025
Alnus Hill United Nations Military Base
Japanese-Claimed Special Region
14:30 Special Region Time
Lieutenant General Kouichirou Hazama was having a average day, well, as average as a day could be in this place.
Suddenly, First Lieutenant Akira Yanagida ran into the room, and panting, he yelled, " Sir, there is a situation."
Confused, the Lieutenant General ran after the First lieutenant, to the Communications Room nearby.
The Sergeant at the station saluted, and said, " Sir, you will want to hear this."
Tapping his computer, a male voice rang out.
" Repeat, to the unknown United Nations Task Force. This is Ambassador Dominic Richards aboard the United Species Federation Diplomatic Ship Envoy, representing the United Species Federation, we come in peace."
Hazama responded, " To the person claiming themselves as the United Species Federation, we do not know who you are. Please identify yourselves. What is this… United Species Federation?"
Ambassador Richards replied. " The United Species Federation is the largest known power in the Milky Way galaxy. The United Species Federation consists of the Human Race, the Sangheili race, the…"
Hazama listened, shocked. Yes, he came to make contact with new races, but contact with a interstellar human civilisation? He was not expecting that.
Ambassador Richards, finally ended, " We occupy approximately Seventy to Seventy-five percent of the known galaxy."
Hazama thought, " Seventy-five percent of the known galaxy…"
Responding, he said, " I am Lieutenant General Kouichirou Hazama of the Japanese Self Defence Force, well… We welcome you to the Special Region of Japan I guess. May you… Send a diplomatic team to our base? It is located on what the locals call Alnus hill."
Ambassador Richards replied, " Yes, we will. We will dispatch a aircraft. Transmitting IFF signals now."
LTG Hazama's aide nodded, and everyone now awaited for the diplomatic team from this alternate mankind.
Meanwhile at the Foward Operation Base, now named Operations Command Compound Wizard, the Diplomatic team boarded a Pelican, and with two escorting Type 302-F Banshee's, slowly lifted off, and flew away gracefully.
30 Minutes Later
The pelican pilot spoke. " Alnus Airfield, this is Envoy Two-Niner-One, requesting permission to land, over."
The Alnus Airfield Traffic Control spoke shakily, " Envoy Two-Niner-One, Cleared to land, helipad 2. A reception team will be there. Alnus out."
As the UN Forces look on in shock and awe, the two escorting banshees broke off, and in a fan formation, went hypersonic over the base, causing a sonic boom.
To the shock of the occupants of the base, and amazement and giddiness of the HALO fans in the camp who instantly recognised the iconic Pelican dropship, the Pelican smoothly touched down on the landing pad.
Troops from around the world surrounded the helipad, taking pictures and such.
The ramp fell, as two figures came out, which some instantly recognised as
"Elites" or the Sangheili, and behind, at their flank, were some people who made a lot of troops shocked. Two SPARTAN-VII's, donning MJOLNIR Armour. After that, four marines in a Spear formation escorted a man in a business suit out of the pelican, as the Lieutenant General walked up.
Sergeant Kuribayashi stood there, shocked. Since childhood, she has been a large HALO fan, joining the JSDF as she was inspired by the UNSC Marines, who defied all odds, and giving up their lives for mankind. And now, they are real, and just in front of her, were her heroes. Then suddenly, she felt light-headed, and everything went black.
It was a hot day, as Private Jonathan Koriane escorted Ambassador Richards out of the Pelican. He was glad that a Suit cooling system exists, and as he lazily gazed towards the crowd of UN troops, he saw a Japanese soldier just falling unconscious, probably a heat stroke, he thought, as two Japanese troops instantly caught her, and took her away, as two what seemed like corpsmen ran to help.
Everything went past in a blur. Private Koriane just followed the ambassador around. He is a military nerd, and utilising a neural link and his helmet cam, he took a lot of photos.
He thought that it was weird. The Japanese claimed this place, yet American, Chinese, Russian, even Ukrainian, Korean, Arabian, Australian, these troops all coexisted peacefully in the camp,, but it seemed like that the Russian Federation turned out different.
Both sides eventually agreed to send diplomatic teams to both sides.
Yet, it was weird. The UN Troops looked at them in jealousity. His friend, Vasa looked around, and remarked, " Weird. Why do these humans seem to look at me with hate?" Jonathan replied, " Yeah, kinda weird…. As if they know what happened during the Great War. I guess ignore it for now."
" They seem to be excessively friendly, and taking a lot of selfies too! They even asked one of the SPARTAN's for autographs. Heh, what will happen when Halsey got here? She is definitely gonna get weirded out. She has been analysing what the fuck happened anyways."
Another marine simply added, " Hoo-rah."
18'th May, 2853
Faragut Orbit
USSC To The Unknown
Doctor Halsey, formally known as Fleet Admiral Catherine Elizabth Halsey, the head of the Office of Military Intelligence sat in the research bay of the Washington-Class Dreadnought. Testing blood samples taken from " Mages" from the planet, now christened as Faragut, she discovered something strange. A map. Getting a email, she checked it. The Forerunner and Ancient Human Database Research Team discovered something.
She skimmed the contents, and immediately started a call.
" Fleet Admiral Hood, I suspect this planet, Faragut, was forged by Ancient Humanity. It is well known that ancient Humanity had forged planets, yet this planet may be one of them. This might be a hidden planet, designed to be a vault for ancient humanity, to eventually return one day. I am going to send research teams to have a look. According to this ancient humanity map,it seems like this planet is marked as… Artificially made. As to why it is not known to the forerunners, perhaps the same reason why we don't pick anything up, this place is a massive faraday cage.
In other news, about the offer from the past Earth to send a diplomatic team, I volunteer to lead the team. This might be an oppurtunity for…"
153682 Years After the Fall of the Ancient Human, San'Shyuum and Forerunner civilisations
Farugut-Shyumm
The Vault of the Remnants
The Hour of Waking
The final 25 Humans, from before the devolving of the Human Race laid in their life-preserving chambers, out of 250 of them.
Many left the chambers, settling on the surface. Eventually, they devolved, and interbred with the locals.
This, is the final database, one of the two that remains,
The old Artificial Intelligence detected signals of the reclaimers. The new humanity. Knowing this, it released a clue of the survivors of the old Humanity, and finishing it's job, it finally shut down.
The end of The Gate of Reach Chapter 3: Between Old and New
Hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter! I think that it is known that ancient humanity could forge worlds. So, what if they made a planet with their final people, technology, and database?
More in the next chapter of
The Gate of Reach!
Written by Simply
CODEX TIME BOIIIIIIIIIS
Roosevelt-Class Modular Auxiliary Frigate
Length: 500 Metres
Width: 155 Metres
Height: 145 Metres
Weapons-
4x Hardlight Point Defence Turrets
Anti-Air Plasma Lance Grid
4x 50mm Anti-Air High Explosive Autocannons
Complement-
25 Crew Members
275 Attatched Personnel
200 Passengers
10 Marines
2x Pelican Dropships
3x Modular Auxiliary Vehicles
2x All-Terrain Modular Vehicles
Armouring-
Titanium C-2 Hull
Mitibushi Heavy Industries Type 7825-B Hardlight Shielding Grid
Rolls Royce M-2512415-Au Cold Plasma Shielding Emitter
Variants-
Ambassador Class Diplomatic Ship
Marie Curie Class Science Frigate
Deprived from-
Halberd-Class Destroyer
MA302B Modular Multi-Usage Standard Rife ( MA302B MMUSR)
Caliber: Interchangable Hardlight Emitter | M21028 Plasma Emitter | 20mm High-Intensity Pulse Laser Emitter
M5025-X Eagle
Caliber: 12.7x51mm High Explosive Semi Armour Piercing Round
AT-125 LMUML Launcher
Caliber: FIM-901 Anti-Aircraft Missle / FGM-2155 Anti-Vehicle Lock-on Missile / MK-25 Standard Multi-Use Missle
RVO Class Examiner Cruiser
Length: 1750 metres
Width: 750 Metres
Height: 500 Metres
Weapons-
SPARTAN Laser Grid
Anti-Air Plasma Lance Grid
2x Energy Projectors
6x Plasma Lances
4x Heavy Plasma Lances / Plasma Torpedoes
6x Hardlight turrets
8x Onager MK-25 Plasma-Coated Coilguns
25x Missle Pod Mounts
Armour:
Unity Forges Type 225 Hardlight/Cold Plasma Fusion Shielding
Carbon-Titanium C-512 Hull
Titanium A-5 Armour Plating
Complement-
2500 Crew Members
350 Marines
150 ODST's
25 Pelican Drop/Gunships
1x YS-2500 Katana Squadron
YS-2500 Katana Space Supeority Fighter
Dimensions:
Same as YS-1000 Sabre
Weapons-
1x 35mm Rotary Autocannon ( Twin Linked to Plasma Lance)
1x Fighter-Calibre Plasma Lance ( Twin Linked to 35mm Rotary Autocannon)
1x Double-Barrel Heavy Hardlight Cannon
2x SSM-520-MU Standard Missle Pods ( 14 Missles)
1x Heavy Weapon Mount
4x Standard Weapon Mount
Titanium F3 Hull
Mk.251 Spacecraft Shielding (Rapid Regeneration Mod)
Emergency Hardlight Projection System
Standard Light Spacecraft Electronic Warfare Kit
End of Codex!
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