Hello everyone!
Here is the next story idea that I think is really great, but will probably never type it. So if anyone wants to use this themselves, feel free to do so.
And without any further ado, let's get started.
Story Idea 2: Halo x Stargate SG-1 crossover
Untold Billions of Years Ago: Precursors evolve and begin seeding the universe with life, eventually they meet the Alterrans. The Alterrans are the first evolution of human life who evolved an unknown amount of time ago and they too have begun seeding the universe with life. Just like the Precursors, the Alterrans are a society that has managed to reach the pinnacle of evolution, being capable of warping reality and building structures beyond the ability of lesser beings to understand. The Precursors and Alterrans quickly become allies and work together to create life. Together, they created the Mantle of Responsibility, the Domain, along with a massive network of interconnected wormholes called the Stargate network, which allows lesser beings to travel from worlds and even galaxies in seconds.
However, one of their greatest constructions is their capital city of Atlantis, a massive city around 150 kilometers in diameter where their greatest technologies and advancements where placed upon. This city became revered as a city of the gods by the civilizations they created.
15,000,000 BCE: Alterrans and Precursors have created many different species, greatest among them are the Forerunners and the direct descendants of the Alterrans, called the Lanteans. The Lanteans were called so because they managed to create a weaker, lesser version of Atlantis that they called Avalon as a way to show their creators what they were capable of. Both the Precursors and the Alterrans praised the Lanteans for their work with Avalon, it was nothing even close to Atlantis, but Avalon showed that the Lanteans were growing and would eventually be capable of rivaling both the Precursors and the Alterrans.
This enraged the Forerunners, who had just been deemed unworthy of inheriting the Mantel of Responsibility.
It was around this time that a few of the Alterrans began to achieve a state that they and the Precursors had long sought out. They began to Ascend, leaving behind their physical forms and becoming pure energy. Inspired by the Alterrans and the Precursors, the Lanteans begin to devote a significant amount of time and resources to finding a way to Ascend without having to evolve to the absolute limit.
10,000,000 BCE: A unnamed Lantean managed to Ascend by letting go of his burden and setting his soul free. The Alterrans and Precursors are shocked by this event, but then begin to praise the Lanteans and at last, they declare that the Lanteans are now the inheritors of the Mantel of Responsibility.
The Forerunners grow furious by this and launch a quick and brutal war that nearly wipes out the Precursors and Alterrans quickly, however a significant portion of the Precursors and the Alterrans Ascend to escape the Forerunners. Those that remain flee too Path Kethora, however the Forerunners follow and quickly destroy those that remain. Only a few Precursors managed to escape the Forerunners and those that do either place themselves into suspended animation or turn themselves into molecular dust to reincarnate their forms at a later time.
The Lanteans learn of the Forerunners betrayal and grow enraged, however they know they have no chance at victory due to their limited military. So they begin to try and find allies in which they can ask for help against the Forerunners.
Tensions between the two empires will continue to simmer for the next ten millions years.
145,000 BCE: The Lanteans come into contact with the San'Shyuum empire and the two quickly become allies. However, the Lanteans are aware that the San'Shyuum are not warriors and will be of no aid against the Forerunners when the inevitable war breaks out.
115,890 BCE: The Lanteans meet with the Asgard, the Nox and the Furlings and quickly establish the Alliance of Four Great Races. Technology is traded, knowledge is shared and the four agree to defeat the Forerunners as they have becoming extremely militaristic lately and a war will most definitely occur soon.
107,445 BCE: The Lanteans encounter the Flood for the first time as it has mutated lower animals into monstrous forms. The Lanteans, Nox, Asgard and Furlings and the San'Shyuum begin to retreat from many systems, cleansing entire worlds from the creatures in an effort to get ride of the abomination, however a number of Forerunner worlds and ships are destroyed before they have a chance to tell the Forerunners about the Flood. And thus the Forerunner-Lantean war begins.
107,400 BCE: The Flood is now an overwhelming wave and so the Lanteans construct a device known simply as the Dakara Superweapon. The device is capable of targeting the Flood Super Cell and obliterating it, this energy wave leaves none Flood infected organisms alone and by using the Stargate network, the energy wave will propagate throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The device is fired and at long last the Flood infection of the Milky Way galaxy is ended and the device is then destroyed to make sure the Forerunners can not turn it against the Lanteans or the alliance. A side effect of the weapons activation is that countless worlds are vastly altered with large amounts of new elements known as Naquada and Trinium can be found.
107,295 BCE: The Lanteans, Asgard, Furlings, Nox and San'Shyuum fight as best as they can, however they are unable to fight the Forerunners any long as their fleets have been decimated by the Flood. The allied forces all make a last stand at Charum Hakkor, however they are too vastly outgunned and cannot win. The Furlings sacrifice their fleets to give the Lanteans, the Asgard and the Nox time to flee, while the San'Shyuum surrender to the Forerunners.
107,294 BCE: The Nox finally leave the Alliance, tired of the many years of fighting and so return to their homeworld of Gaia and become pacifists. The Forerunners disregard them as a threat, but leave a few warships to ensure they are indeed out of the war.
107,293 BCE: The Asgard are forced to head to the Ida galaxy after the Forerunners manage to unleash a genetic plague that turns them sterile and so they are forced to use cloning as a means to keep their civilization going.
107,290 BCE: The Lanteans enact a project called "Project Arcturus", a project to create a device with more power then 27 ZPM's are capable of generating. With the help of Precursor and Alterran science and technology, they manage to complete the project successfully and now their warships can each take down many Forerunner vessels before being destroyed.
107,289 BCE: The Lanteans create the Replicators, a race of self replicating nanite bodies controlled by AI's who become their soldiers. With the Replicators help, the Lanteans launch a new wave of offensive campaigns against the Forerunners, who are unable to handle so many advanced Lantean warships attacking them at the same time and are forced back in many engagements.
107,285 BCE: The Ur-Didact manages to hack into the Replicator main computer core and has a vast majority of them self destruct themselves and their ships and those that manage to rewrite their codes are subsequently destroyed and turned into primitive, technology searching parasites that flee the galaxy, leaving the Lanteans without the vast majority of their army.
107,280 BCE: All Lantean territory swiftly falls to the Forerunners until only Atlantis herself is left in their control. The Lanteans, seeing their defeat, work to spite the Forerunners one last time. They alter all Alterran and Precursor technology in existence so that the technology will only accept those with Lanteans DNA in them and if the Forerunners attempt to use the technology, it will defend itself and cause the Forerunners DNA to deconstruct, killing them. After this is done, they send Atlantis away to the planet that will be one-day known as Earth and have her lay underneath the ice of Antarctica, awaiting the day their descendants will find the city. They also lock down the Stargate network, with the Gate's being sent into a Slipspace storage system until a time they are needed once more.
After that, Avalon herself is destroyed by the Lanteans to spite the Forerunners one last time, unbowed and full of pride the Lanteans are Ascended by the Alterrans and Precursors.
Those that remain are captured by the Forerunners and are swiftly devolved into primitive, tribal hunter societies.
107,000 BCE: After the war with the Lanteans concluded, the Forerunners turned their attention back to the Flood and their inevitable return. The council convenes to find a means to defeat them, with the Builders wanting to build a series of super-weapons known as Halos, while the Prometheans, under the Ur-Didact want to use Shield Worlds to defeat the Flood. However, the Prometheans lost the fight and were exiled while the Builders would then begin construction on the Halos.
The Librarian and other Lifeworkers, began the arduous task of catalog every living being in the galaxy and then placing their DNA on the Arks so that life could be rebuilt if the Halos were used.
98,000 BCE: The Flood return and begins the Flood-Forerunner war. At first, the Forerunners immense technological advantage allows them to keep the Flood back, however due to inaction in part by incompetent leadership, the Flood pushes back hard.
97,790 BCE: The Contender class AI, Mendicant Bias is constructed to help fight the Flood to try and buy time until the Halos are finished. A ancient entity known as the Primordial is unearthed and taken to Charum Hakkor for study. Mendicant and the Primordial enter a 40 year long conversation.
97,750 BCE: Due to the Primordial being a Precursor and thus has access to the Mantel, Mendicant Bias is persuaded into aiding the Flood and betraying the Forerunners. The war effort against the Flood falters as thousands of worlds start falling due to Mendicant helping the Flood.
97,700 BCE: The final year of the war and the activation of the Halo array. The Halo's are fired, wiping out the Flood Bio-mass, along with all life in the galaxy, thus starving the Flood out, leaving a pyrrhic victory for the Forerunners.
97,000 BCE: The Librarian grows found of humanity and sees their potential and so secretly begins altering the humans under her care. She alters their DNA in such a way that around 45% of all humanity will not only be capable of using Lantean and Alterran technology, but also Forerunner technology as well. She and the other Lifeworkers reseed life across the Milky Way galaxy and then the Librarian seals herself away on an unknown garden world, awaiting the day humanity will find her.
95,000 BCE: Life has finally been reseed across the galaxy and once that is complete, the Forerunners leave the Milky Way galaxy, exiling themselves for the failures and leaving the mantle for the humans to reclaim, as the Alterrans and the Precursors intended for them.
55,000 BCE: The Asgard return to the Milky Way galaxy and find a message from the Lanteans waiting for them. Playing the message, they learn they are the only race capable of guarding the galaxy now. The activation code of the Stargate network is given to the Asgard, who use it and the Gate's return from their Slipspace dimension and the Gate network is reactivated. The Asgard begin patrolling the Milky Way galaxy, intent on keeping it safe while also searching for a cure to their cellular degradation.
27,000 BCE: On a small, insignificant world, the Goa'uld race has evolved into a parasitic organism and begins taking control of the native Unas lifeforms and they quickly advance as a species.
15,000 BCE: The Goa'uld find a crashed Lantean cruiser and begin reverse engineering the technology to advance their race even further.
10,000 BCE: After millennia of reverse engineering, the Goa'uld finally have space ships and leave their homeworld and begin to conquer worlds.
8,000 BCE: After two millennia of exploring, conquering and enslaving races the Goa'uld are met by the Asgard. The Asgard demand that they cease their actions, but the Goa'uld refuse and open fire. The Asgard swiftly respond and the Goa'uld are soundly defeated. One of the few Goa'uld who survive to flee is Ra, who lands on Earth in Egypt and takes a human boy as his host. Ra is impressed by how compatible the human form is and swiftly conquers the planet and tells his brothers and sisters of his find. They begin taking and spreading humans all throughout their empire. They also begin experimenting on their human slaves and eventually they create the Jaffa race, humans who have been genetically altered to be faster, stronger and tougher. However, they lack a immune system at all, so the Jaffa shall always be forced to rely on the Goa'uld for life.
3,000 BCE: Elite Jaffa soldiers under the control of a Goa'uld by the name of Ishkur rebel and he orders their deaths, however they manage to flee to a world called Kheb and will one day become the Sodan.
It was at this time that the humans on Earth finally rose up against their oppressive overlords and overthrew them. Ra flees the planet with both Stargates in his motherships cargo hold.
2200 BCE: The War of Wills begins between the Reformist San'Shyuum and the Stoics. The Reformists wanted access to the ancient Forerunner Dreadnought that crash landed on the planet long ago, but the Stoics considered such an act heretical and would not allow the Reformists inside to desecrate the ship.
2100 BCE: Due to the Reformists having access and using Forerunner technology and weapons, they had the technological advantage over the Stoics and eventually, 1,000 Reformists managed to get onto the Dreadnought and commandeered it. The Stoics, unable to raise their weapons at the object of the reverence, where helpess to do anything and 40 days later, the Reformists took flight, breaking off a massive chunk of the planet.
1,000 BCE: The Goa'uld named Thanos experiments with Naquadria nearly causes the planet that will one day be called Langara to be destroyed.
938 BCE: The War of Beginnings is launched when the San'Shyuum found the Sangheili and tried talking with the, but the Sangheili revered Forerunner technology and saw the San'Shyuum as desecrating the Holy Relics and so decapitated the San'Shyuum delegation. This was the beginning of the war. Even with their technological advantages, the Sangheili had many more troops and so a stalemate was created that lasted for years.
852 BCE: Seeing as the war had become a stalemate, the San'Shyuum proposed the Write of Union to the Sangheili. They agreed and so the early Covenant was created, with the San'Shyuum acting as spiritual leaders and the Sangheili acting as protectors. The Forerunner dreadnought is decommissioned and turned into High Charity, mobile planetoid of the Covenant and their Holy City.
789-785 BCE: The Covenant find the Lekgolo species eating Forerunner artifacts, an act of grave heresy to the Covenant, who try to destroy them, but are beaten thanks to Lekgolo species extreme strength and versatility in combat. Eventually, the Covenant manage to tame the Lekgolo and they join the Covenant as a client race.
0 BC: Egeria breaks from the Goa'uld and begins creating the Tokra, splinter race of the Goa'uld that value a symbiotic relationship with their hosts. Ra finds out and imprisons her on Pangar.
750 AD: The Goa'uld return to Earth, abduct a large number of people and destroy Teotihuacan. The people who are taken will eventually become the Orbanians.
1000 AD: Anubis is banished by the System Lords for crimes that are unspeakable, even to the Goa'uld. Anubis journeys to Kheb, where the Ascended Ancient Oma Desala teaches him to Ascend. The other Ascended Beings see his evil and his treachery and try to push him out, but Anubis manages to remain as part Ascended and he departs the Milky Way galaxy with some Ascended knowledge. Oma is punished for her actions.
1112 AD: The Covenant discover the Yanme'e, an insectoid race with a interplanetary civilization. First contact is violent, with both sides taking heavy loses, but the Covenant suffer worse. However, Sangheili manage to communicate with the Yanme'e and eventually the Yanme'e are inducted into the Covenant.
1342 AD: The Covenant arrive at the Y'Deio system and engage with the Kig-Yar. The thick asteroid field surrounding their homeworld allow the Kig-Yar a significant advantage over the Covenant's larger warships. Eventually peace is established and the Kig-Yar are allowed into the Covenant as mercenaries.
1500 AD: The Goa'uld meet the Covenant over an unknown planet in the Orion Arm and within minutes, the two forces are fighting on another. The Goa'uld-Covenant war begins.
The Goa'uld may have slower FTL drives, but their Staff Cannons means they can dish out a larger amount of firepower and their shields are also much stronger then Covenant warships. However, the Covenant have a much larger amount of warships, they have better tactics for fighting in space and they have larger warships. This leads to a long series of defeats for their Goa'uld as they are forced out of the Orion arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
1550 AD: The Goa'uld head to Nexus Station, a large space station built by the Lanteans to disconnect the Stargate Network. The Goa'uld manage to deactivate all Gate's in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, and then flee to the Perseus Arm.
1551 AD: Once in the Perseus Arm, Ra kills all the System Lords, save Lord Yu and Ba'al. He then divides all Jaffa Forces between the three of them and tells Ba'al and Lord Yu that they will take vengeance against the Covenant. For, during their final retreat from the Covenant, they managed to capture a CAS-class Covenant Carrier. The crew has either been killed or taken captive thanks to Jaffa forces using Zat's.
1551 AD: Ra blends with a Covenant Shipmaster and so learns all there is to now about the Covenant, including the massive size of their fleet along with High Charity.
Ra exists the Shipmaster and then reblends with his original host and tells Ba'al and Lord Yu the Covenant have a force of almost a million warships. If they wish to win, they must upgrade and adapt, along with increasing the size of their forces.
1557 AD: Thanks to the knowledge gleamed from the captives, the Goa'uld manage to reverse engineer the Covenant technologies and then begin upgrading their own technology.
Naquada is a much better energy source, however the Goa'uld are not using it to it's fullest potential. Thanks to Covenant technology, Ha'tak class warships are capable of going 1,100 light years per day, a vast improvement from their earlier speeds of only 100 light years per day. Also, form fitting energy shields have been placed over all Goa'uld warships, along with their regular ovular shields, allowing for even more protection. Also, each warships has Plasma Lances along with Plasma Torpedoes that are much more powerful then their Covenant Counterparts.
Along with this, Death Gliders, Tel'taks, and Al'keshs all receive a myriad of upgrades. They not only have faster firing, heavier hitting weapons, but also form fitting energy shields, along with their regular bubble shields. However, the greatest improvements is in the computer systems as they now are now equal to the Covenant fighters and bombers, thus increasing their power and versatility, along with survivability.
Even the Jaffa have been given upgrades. For one, all Staff weapons have been destroyed and in their place, a new breed of Plasma Rifle has been created using Covenant infantry weapons as a basis for the design. The guns are now actually accurate, while also having less recharge time and larger firepower. All Jaffa now have improved armor that now covers their entire body, while their head pieces have shrunk in size to the point they are now the same size as the users head, however they still have their own distinct style based upon who the Jaffa serves. For instance, all Jaffa that serve Ra have a bird design with Ra's symbol on top of their foreheads.
The armor of the Jaffa has a Goa'uld version of the Elite shields. The Goa'uld version is very resistant to energy fire and can last a much long time, along with the fact that the armor of the Jaffa is now a mixture of Naquada and Trinium, increasing is protection while also have a lower weight.
Stealth however is not possible for the Jaffa just yet, as their armors cannot properly handle a stealth system at this time.
1560 AD: Ra, Ba'al and Lord Yu immediately begin construction of as many Naquada and Trinium mines as possible, as well as increasing their total amount of Jaffa as possible. All Jaffa are to try and sire at last six children, if not more. If they do this, they earn a few privileges normally not allowed to them. This has caused a massive explosion in the populations of Jaffa, who in tern are going to need their equipment, causing a need for better production facilities.
Eight large factories are built where the armor and weapons of the Jaffa are created with great speed, vastly eclipsing the old factories easily. These factories also produce Death Glider and other auxiliary craft for the Goa'uld, while the massive shipyards under construction will create the newest generation of Goa'uld warships.
Ba'al, Lord Yu and Ra create a Goa'uld queen who gives birth to a unique strain of Goa'uld. These Goa'uld, once they are inside of a Jaffa, will never leave and they also give the Jaffa greater strength, speed and toughness. After their many loses against the Covenant, the Goa'uld have seen the need to increase the Jaffa's effectiveness. To ensure they will still have control over the Jaffa, they manage to link the Goa'uld inside the Jaffa thorough a mental link, allowing Ra, Ba'al and Yu to control their Jaffa like puppet masters.
Military training in tactics is given to the Jaffa using the data acquired from the Covenant.
1570 AD: The first Sokar class warship is built and launched. As the first warship to have Covenant reverse engineered technology built into the design from the ground up, she is vastly more power and dangerous then any other Goa'uld warship ever built.
Newer Ha'tak class warships are also being built as well to help augment the Goa'uld's military might.
The Tokra have seen this rapid increase in technological power and have made very subtle moves to acquire the technology for themselves.
1700 AD: The Tollan Narim has seen signs of increased Goa'uld presence along the borders of Tollana territory. However, all of his concerns are laughed away as the Councilor Travell tells him their Ion Cannons are undefeatable. However, Narim believes otherwise and so gathers a small group of the best scientists together and tells them to improve and upgrade the Ion Cannons, as well as develop other methods for defending Tollana. They are at first unwilling to do so, as they believe Tollana is safe, but they are intrigued at the prospect of becoming well regarded as the scientists that finally improved the Ion Cannons, so they get down and begin developing improved weapons.
1721 AD: The result of 21 years of development is the Ion Beam cannon, a weapon vastly more powerful than anything the regular Ion Cannon can hope to match. They also create Phase-Shifting missiles, which are capable of phase through energy shields and then detonating inside energy warships.
Just in time too as a massive fleet of Sokar and Ha'tak warships appear over Tollana and demand their surrender.
Travell laughs and the Ion Cannons fire, however to her horror the cannons are ineffective and do absolutely nothing. The Goa'uld laughs and says they have been secretly monitoring the Tollan for some time now and have finally figured out a way to render their Ion Cannons useless and then he orders a planetary bombardment.
However, a single pale energy beams pierces the main Sokar warship and causes the entire thing to explode. Narim joins in and tells them Tollana will never fall, just as a large amount of Phase warships then detonate inside seven Ha'tak warships.
The remaining six Ha'taks and two Sokar try to find the energy beam, but the beam cannon is well hidden and so the remaining two Sokar warships are destroyed, as well as five other Ha'tak class ships. The last two Goa'uld warships flee the system, leaving Tollana untouched.
Narim is brought before the Council where Travell demands to now what he did. He then tells them he did what he had to save Tollana, create better weapons then the Ion Cannons and so he did.
Travell tries to have Narim arrested for going against her will, but the rest of the Council instead arrest Travell and place Narim as the head of the Council. Narim's first order is to begin designing and then constructing a fleet for warships to defend their world against the Goa'uld. Also, mass production of the Ion Beam Cannons, as well as the Phase-shift warheads.
1778 AD: Tollana now has a massive fleet of warships guarding her. Narim has ordered a massive amount of colonization, increasing the number of worlds under Tollan control to 25. The Goa'uld have launched a few probing attacks, but have been repelled each time.
Narim has made upgrading and updating Tollan technology number one priority for the Tollan scientists. The Goa'uld finally becoming resistant to the Ion Cannons shows that their enemy is always updating and therefor so must they if they wish to survive.
1800 AD: The Tokra find the Sodan and although the two groups are hostile to one another at first, they quickly put aside their animosity and join together so that they might one day get rid of the Goa'uld once and for all.
1900 AD: Egeria's prison is unburied on Pangar.
1950 AD: Orbanians experiment with Nanotechnology.
Egeria is used in Pangar's medical experiments.
1984 AD: The Asgard ban Loki for experimenting on humans anymore. Asgard forces are being pushed back by attacks by a series of self replicating spider looking beings. This is what has become of the Replicators, nothing more then a plague. The Asgard are forced to adapt and upgrade all their technology relentlessly as they try to find a way to destroy the Replicators once and for all.
2142 AD: The Covenant find the Unggoy homeworld of Balaho and the Unggoy surrender almost immediately after seeing the Sangheili and are inducted into the Covenant.
2164-2170 AD: The Interplanetary Wars erupt between the nations of Earth and once the violent conflict is over with, the UEG is the true government of humanity. The UNSC is soon made the military branch of the UEG.
2291 AD: Dr. Wallace Fujikawa and Dr. Tobias Fleming Shaw create of the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine. allowing humanity to finally leave the Sol system and colonize other planets. This marks the beginning of Humanities Space Colonization Era.
2292 AD: Humanity finds Naquada and Trinium sources, but they determine these elements are useless due to Trinium being so brittle and Naquadria being so volatile, so research into these resources in negligible.
2300 AD: The Tollan now control 35% of the Perseus Arm, with the Goa'uld controlling 60% of the Perseus Arm and the Asgard controlling 5% of the Perseus Arm.
2379 AD: Sodan and Tokra forces stage a assault against Pangar and manage to retrieve Egeria and bring her back with them. Once back in Tokra controlled forces, she is placed inside a host and sent to be healed inside a sarcophagus.
2491 AD: With the Insurrection forces fighting against the UNSC, Project Orion is initiated to try and combat the Insurrectionists.
2506 AD: The Orion Project is scrapped after Operation: Kaleidoscope fails to pacify the colonies.
2511 AD: Orion Project II is initiated.
2517 AD: 150 candidates for the newly named Spartan II project are found and are kidnapped, the children having flashed clones used to replace them as they are taken to be trained.
2525 AD: The 150 Spartan II's are given their augmentations, of which amazingly only 45 die and a further 15 suffer being crippled, leaving 100 super augmented Spartan II's ready for combat. They soon receive their MJOLNIR Mk. IV armors, just in time, because as of February 11, 2525, the Covenant launch a genocidal war of extinction against Humanity.
2525-2548 AD: The Human-Covenant war wages on, with Humanity losing badly. Only a few space battles are won and a majority of those are won due to Admiral Preston Cole and his brilliance. The Spartans fight with everything they have, but they are just not enough. So, in 2531, the Spartan III Program was initiated by Colonel James Ackerson. Alpha Company was created and then sent to go destroy a Covenant Shipyard at asteroid K7-49. However, if it wasn't for the crew of the UNSC Daedalus under the command of Captain Colonel Steven Caldwell, Alpha Company would have been lost. As it is, out of the 300 Spartans, only 104 were rescued from the facility.
After that, Ackerson was taken out of control of the Spartan III program and General George Hammond was brought in to manage the Project. At first he was not happy that the UNSC was taking orphans and turning them into weapons, but in such a time, he put aside his morals and moved to turn the program into a workable and viable option. Alpha Company was brought into to help train Beta Company and in 2539, Beta Company was activated. Due to their better training and better augmentation, over 450 Spartans were inside this Company, having taken the remnants of Alpha Company and combined them with the 346 new members who survived the augmentation process.
Beta Company preformed exceptionally well, with Hammond's brilliant mind able to use them in ways much better then Ackerson ever could and so Gamma and Delta Company's were ordered to be created and trained. In 2546, both Gamma and Delta Company's were activated and sent out into the field. They preformed a little worse then Beta Company, but by this point in the war, Beta Company was filled with veterans of the war who knew what they are doing.
As of June 12, 2548, there is a grant total of 72 Spartan II's left in service, with over 820 Spartan III's left in combat as well. The war is still going poorly, but thanks to Hammond and the Spartan III's, the Covenant have been slowed down significantly since a large portion of their shipyards and refueling stations have been utterly obliterated.
The date is January 25, 2550 AD and right now, the UNSC has found Nexus station. The station was found by the UNSC Daedalus, who has Dr, Daniel Jackson, a expert in alien technology, Dr. Samantha Cater, a scientist who's only equal is Dr. Halsey herself and Jack O'Neill, one of only solo Spartan III's. What happened next will shake the UNSC-Covenant war.