War for the Stars- forum Roleplay

[Composite Armour]

"You want a warning shot?"

 

The admiral talked into his radio.

 

"Do it, show these tin cans what's happening."

 

A brilliant blue streak could be seen off in the distance, followed by a deafing roar seconds later.

A voice came over the radio.

 

"Target confirmed hit sir, engines blown clean off, it's drifting."

 

"Hear that, sounds like your toy can't handle 2 tonnes at 1.2 times the speed of light. Now unless you want to see chunks of it raining down, I suggest you leave now and wait for us. 8 minutes left."

[D-38 Boss]

Jozef and K'dal sat in Jozef's office. Jozef poured another glass of whiskey.

 

"Seriously, It's like these fricken' Insurrectionists, want us to kill them..." Jozef slurred

 

K'dal replied calmly, The alcohol affecting him differently. "Most of them are not trained to fight, they simply do."

 

"Yeah, but what are they fighting? The'same people who fought for them when the original Covenant came around."

 

"They fight because they feel as though they are being treated unfairly."

 

"Free housing, Protection, healthcare. All in exchange for a share of your production and a small tax. Real unfair."

 

"Not everyone finds that tax to be small."

 

"What is this? The Boston Tea party? Is it better to die then pay taxes? seriously...." Jozef gulped down the whiskey. "It's like they want us to kill them."

 

"you said that already."

 

"s'true."

 

"Sure."

 

Jozef slammed down his glass.

 

"Don't patronize me damn it!"

 

"You're drunk Jozef."

 

Jozef laughed. "Yesh. yesh I am."

 

They talked and drank until late at night, when they parted for bed.

[Surveillance]

"You underestimate us. Your pitiful human toys are nothing. That ship is already fully repaired and good as knew. But I guess you don't want the weapons I could have offered you. However, I'll make a deal. You get the weapons, and we get to study these artefacts. If not, we will leave, and you can still use your regular weapons. I bring no harm. We have come here only to claim what is ours. That is all we want." Nova said.

 

With a flash of light, a forerunner women appeared to float. "Humans. Trust them. You can win your war with things these A.I.s will provide you. It will be your downfall if you don't accept. Trust me. Master Chief did, he saved the galaxy." The women finished, and disappeared. Nova's photo-receptor turned green again and his voice became normal.

 

"Please, we urge you to accept." Nova said calmly. "If you don't, we WILL leave. Trust us on that."

[Composite Armour]

"Master who? It doesn't matter, nothing will be decided here. You can wait until were danm well ready to decide anything."

 

"That goes for you too fleetmaster."

 

Their transports opened the doors, waiting to take the 'guests' back to their ships.

[Surveillance]

"Very well. We wasted our time here. Come on." Nova said to the Enforcers. The 3 A.I.s vanished back to their ships and the fleet left the planet. They traveled space until the found a fleet of ships, both Covenant and Human. ((Where Jozef is))

 

"Let's see if these people are less dimwitted." Nova said.

[BaconShelf]

The Fleet Master pulled his energy sword.

 

"Do not underestimate us Fresident." The Assault Carrier appeared above the clouds."we will be back. And I do hope we can find some way of reaching a deal, but otherwise...) he put the tips of the sword to her throat, millimetres away, "we will return in one week." He motioned for one of the shipmasters forward.

"One Sanghelios week approximately 8.53 days on Citadel V"

"You have until then to prepare terms of access. And next time, our fleet will be much larger, insurance in case of... Hostilities." He finished with. The Prowler disengaged her cloak behind them, released the dropships used to bring them here which landed behind them. The parties boarded their respective ships which extorted into the bays of the prowler.

 

In orbit, the CCS battlecruisers docked inside the Carrier. The Prowler cane inside the bay and shut down. A hole was ripped into the fabric of space. Then all ships were gone.

[SykoWolf]

"This is unacceptable!" Zax slammed his armoured fists onto the desk as the soldier reported to him about the day's training simulations.

 

"My Soldiers need to be atleast in the 5th Percentile.... Not the 10th...Major, your going to run double tests tomorrow, I want them up to shape, no slackers on my fleet, am i understood?!" Zax shouted

 

"Yes sir, I'll run triple test's if they dont shape up, and keep going if they still aren't after that sir" The Major saluted

 

"Good.... We need to be prepared, apparently command wants us to scout out several systems nearby, and keep that message on loop. Id rather have every man and woman up to shape and combat ready incase things dont go as planned"

 

"Sir if i may ask..what is our objective?"

 

"We need to find an acceptable ally out here, someone to provide us with information about the surrounding systems, That's why they sent our fleet out here, to recon and perhaps even set up a forward operating station"

 

"Understood sir, I believe i need to get back to the training deck, I have another test scheduled soon" The Major Saluted

 

"OF course, your dismissed" Zax saluted and the Major left.

 

The commander went back to his datapad, searching for suitable planets to send recon groups too....

[Composite Armour]

"Why did you hold us back ma'am? We could have shoved a shell so ******* far down his throat....."

 

"Enough, escort the president back to the capital and get me a transport back to the fleet."

 

The Soldiers began immeadiatly to clean up, taking back wreckage of the sentinels for study. A memorial was held for the two soldiers that died.

 

The admiral approached the last of the party, who was wearing a heavy suit of armour with various decorations on it.

 

"General, can you investigate these sites please? Alot happened in the past hour and these danm sites are the cause of it. Who knows what could be there."

 

"I'm on it Admiral, but I need you to alert the Armed forces. We're going to alert condition 1."

 

"I understand General."

[BaconShelf]

The Carrier appeared back in the Sanghelios system. It made a heading straight for 'Voteamee keep, and shot down one or two ships the Arbiter had sent to stop them. Zhak walked up to the Council Chambers. Inside were high Generals and Fleetmasters of every species; Unggoy to Sangheili. He walked up to a podium, which rose into the sir on gravity lifts as hovering cameras recorded his report and broadcast it across the temple.

"High Fleetmaster, I return with news and a report." He began. "When we exited slipstream, our Luminaries showed hundreds of sites, all Forerunner." A whisper swept through the crowd."as we approached, we found a colony of Humans there, they were not the UNSC, for their flag, arms and designs were different. They have... 'Declined' our offer to study these sites without hostilities, when a Forerunner Sentinel fleet engaged combat." The whispering was now outright shouting, some praising the discoveries, others baying for blood at the news of destroying the machines.'"They have one week, as requested, to make an offer that can please both sides. Our threat assessment has conducted a four- should they decline all negotians, we have no choice but to wipe them clear from this world."

He finished with. He backed out of the chamber, to let the council decide what course of action they would take. It was already decided of course, but not formalised. He collected his weapons from the Lekgolo guards and left the site.

 

((Threat levels, 1 being absurdly no danger of harming relics, 4 being must be destroyed.))

[SykoWolf]

"This is commander Zax to the Navigation Officer...set course for the planet at the following co ordinates and get us there at max speed"

 

"Understood sir" Replied the Navigation officer over the comms

 

The small Fleet shot off towards the planet titled Curd Dzaal , the ship had picked up traces of Forerunner architecture on the planet and command had sent secondary objectives to recover such Technology for study.

 

The Darku Zad lead the fleet as it came out of slip space orbiting the planet and began conducting sweeps.

 

"Send out research teams, i want the place locked down and fortified" Commander Zax ordered... and soon enough 3 teams of troops were heading down to the Forerunner site to gain control.

[Surveillance]

"Those 3 Sentinels that died weren't needed. We are mass producing Sentinels, Constructors, Sentinel Majors, and Enforcers every day. It is hardly a problem." Said 646 Eternal Nova, talking to the Council of Oracles who were displayed as holograms. "We have harnessed the power of stars!"

 

575 Dissolved Fate spoke. "Our mission is to make galactic and universal peace. So far they don't accept that. But perhaps we can work with the Covenant that were conversing with those humans."

 

"Very true. I suppose we can find them in the Sanghelios System. We will meet again once I have proposed the offer to the Covenant." Nova said. The holograms disappeared, and Nova turned to a Sentinel General. "We go for Sanghelios. Slipspace."

 

"Yes sir!" The General responded. There was a flash of light, and Nova's fleet came to the edge of the system.

 

"Now to meet with the High Council." Nova laughed as they approached Sanghelios. The ships sent in a message that they come only to talk, and in peace to do so.

[Composite Armour]

The transport descended into a cold polar region.

Several troops moved to secure the site.

They began excavating with explosives and soon found themselves in the uncovered site.

 

"Alright boys, follow me. Nice and slow."

 

They all proceeded inside. It was a small passage way towards a circular chamber. There was a small terminal and several doors.

 

"Get to that terminal and see what you can find."

 

"Yes sir!"

 

The trooper began to touch the holographic simulation and various symbols came up.

 

"I can't read it sir! Wait, it's changing into...I can read it now."

 

"Well don't keep us in the dark, what is it?"

 

"Weapons data, shield tech, slipspace drives, my god it's a treasure trove!"

 

"Can we use it?"

 

"No, we would need a vast amount of materials that we don't have."

 

"I see, clever ********. Still, we have this as a bargaing chip."

 

"Sir?"

 

"Send a message to the Admiral, tell him to tell those aliens we'll talk."

[BaconShelf]

"Fleetmaster, we are having reports of several Forerunner vessels matching the specifications of the ones described on Citadel approaching the planet!"

"Retrieve them, we can not let them fall into the Arbiters, or Juls, or any other Kaidons hands." Ordered Kjal.

 

Some Banshees and Shortswords swept into low orbit and guided the ships to a designated landing area. Kjal, Zhak and some Human Shimasters walked to greet them.

[SykoWolf]

The ground teams arrived at the planets Forerunner structures and spread out, setting up defence turrets and setting up research stations.

Several troops transports dropped off additional troops and they began to form patrols and start dismantling Forerunner tech.

 

"This is commander Zax to Ground team 1, is the site operational?"

 

"Yes sir, all defences up and research teams in place"

 

"Good, keep me informed" The commander said as he sat back in his seat, looking out over the vast expense of space

[Surveillance]

Nova flew out with two Sentinel Generals and three Enforcers. "Hello. I am 646 Eternal Nova. Chairman of the Council of Oracles and leader of the Forerunner Artificial Intelligence Society. I would like to talk to the Council about various things."

[BaconShelf]

"What sort of, 'Various things' would you mean? Various things can mean many things, War, Alliances, the food I ate for nouishment this morning. You will have to be more specific, I am afraid"

[Surveillance]

"First off these dimwitted humans are trying to claim our creators' tech. I was thinking we could form an alliance for some heavy trade and exchange. Our goal was to get Galactic and Universal peace, but nobody accepts. You are obviously smarter than the humans, so perhaps you can see reason. And some other races hat just want to study it, we will let them as long as we oversee it." Nova said.

[BaconShelf]

"Of course, our group merely wishes to study and protect these artefacts, learning the secrets of the Forerunners and keeping others away from those deemed to dangerous for ordinaries to hav, such as the Halo's"

[SykoWolf]

The ground teams began to ship parts of Forerunner tech back to the Darku Zad for Research.

 

Two Transport ships carrying Forerunner power cores and weapons entered the sixth hanger and were quickly unloaded and sent to research labs all over the ship.

 

"Doctor Skafg report to my briefing room immediatly" The Commander spoke through the comms before heading into his briefing room , tapping through his datapad, looking through the recently aquired tech.

[Composite Armour]

"Admiral on deck!"

 

"At ease."

 

The Admiral moved towards the captain on the bridge of the Unforgiving, handing him a datapad and leaving with nothing but a salute.

The captain studied the datapad.

 

"Ensign, fire up the drive, set a course for Earth."

 

"Sir?"

 

"Now!"

 

"Yes sir."

 

The ship broke away from the battlegroup and tore the hole in slipspace. It would be a mission that would decide the fate of Citadel V.

[Surveillance]

"Our first stop is Curd Dzaal. Some humanoid creatures are setting up research bases on the planet. We need to speak to them. Bring half of your fleet." Nova said.

[SykoWolf]

The Doctor entered the Briefing room and sat across from the Fleet Commander Zax.

 

"Finally... Doctor, i need to know the status of the Forerunner Artifacts... and what exactly we can learn from them"

 

"Of course Commander..so far we have found plenty of weapons and have begun to study the Hard Light cores and the materials they are made of. But we also discovered several power cores and we believe we can attach them to the ship to increase power to weapons and the slip space drive..however it could be risky and i believe we should keep some to take back to the Main Fleet station"

 

"Understood Doctor....continue what you believe is the correct course of action..dismissed" responded the commander.

 

The Doctor stood up and left the briefing room while the Commander walked back onto the bridge, sitting on his chair and began looking through training reports.

[Surveillance]

The half fleet of Sangheili and Nova's fleet took off towards Curd Dzaal, entering the portal and coming close to the planet. They took small ships to travel inside the planet and landed 3 kilometres from the supposed research bases.

 

"And now we find them. Fleetmaster, shall we?" Nova asked as he was followed out of the small ship by four Enforcers and two Sentinel Generals.

[Composite Armour]

"Major, why the hell have we stopped?"

 

"Unknown sir, I'm trying to get us moving, the engines are shut down!"

 

"What the hell is going on? Get me a status report from the engine room!"

 

"Sir, three ships just appeard out of nowhere. It's the covenant sir! Corvette class."

 

"They're launching craft!"

 

"So this is the real covenant eh? Turn all guns and target the rear vessal, launch the fighters and intercept them."

 

"Sir, Plasma torpedo just hit our engines, we're drifting."

 

"Reporting effective fire, one enemy vessal down."

 

"Boarders have broken to the deck two hangers, marines are engaging."

 

"Engines and weapons of the lead vessal offline, last one is bugging out."

 

"We can't let it esacpe, fire at will!"

 

"Reported hits, it's going down."

 

"Give me a report once all hostiles are terminated, send out a geral distress call. Prepare a boarding team."

 

"Yes sir."

[SykoWolf]

"Keep those Research teams informed of our position, and make sure they do the same with us..any requests to scout the surrounding area Id like to know in advance" The Commander Zax told his Comm's officer.

 

"Keep that message replaying too, I need to make sure there are some people out there willing to ally"

 

The commander paced to the front of the Bridge and looked out to the planet....

 

"I want 2 more teams sent down for added security"