Tale of an Imperium
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Chapter 5 - Fortune Favours the Bold
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"I've lived a long, long life youngling, yet I dare not claim responsibility nor dominion for any but my own, it is a principle you would do well to adapt" Overseer to *Redacted*
Chapter 5 - Fortune Favours the Bold
INS Pride of Terra, Three months after the Charrum Hakkor's reintegration into the Human Space
Once more the Overseer found himself around a map of the Galaxy and looking the flood infection spots, Lutetia was finally coming out of the dockyards, three months of constant repair had fixed the Battlegroup that carried with it, it's Super Dreadnought, A personal request from the Overseer did much to get the supply lines changed, he supposed. It wasn't surprising that at the last moment Constantia and Valencia were reassigned, it was obvious the Grand Admiral was reassigning battlegroups as old ones finally came became space worthy once more. Much to his evil cackling, he thought before snorting at the image.
The Overseer looked into the eyes of his Admirals, "The job of isolating these systems has been done with grace, a job well done" Both Admirals looked relieved at the praise, The Overseer was no Tubrek, "Maintain the perimeter for the next two years and start setting up a sectoral sensor array to scan for the Flood once that's done start glassing and then rescan, eradicate the Flood planet by planet admirals, I presume it'll be much faster once we have the locations of the filth down" Both the admirals voiced their agreements before falling silent as he turned his gaze at Admiral Dorsey.
Admiral Dorsey was grinning his usual confident grin, with his Fleet and the USNC Reorganised fleet (s) being refitted and repaired the Allied fleet could do something they had only ever done once, that too for an operation that was cut short- The time had come for the Allied fleets to commit to an offensive, he was thankful his clone army would finally be used somewhere, "Admiral Dorsey you'll be leading the first Allied Fleet to directly attack Sanghelios, according to our information the system should be under Covenant rule, despite the recent civil war. Admiral Cole will lead the second Allied Fleet to attack a wide variety of planets, merely skirmishes- go in shoot at them and jump to designated safe systems".
Admiral Dorsey just gave a confident smile to the Overseer, "As you say my lord, what do we do about the captured fanatic planets? The barbarians won't even take food from us" That was a major concern, after they took Heian half the fanatics had refused to even eat anything given to them, though the population of Heian was small enough they managed to find appropriate distributors the same could hardly be done for a planet of billions, he sighed, "The line between disorder and order lies in logistics".
The Overseer looked less concerned about it, "Just dump rations at their law enforcement and medical facilities, we only need to occupy one planet, after we enforce treaties on the Covenant we would still have a lot of clearing up to do".
Josephine looked intrigued here, "They would honour any treaty my lord?".
The Overseer snorted, "Never. We'll just scrap enough of their navy and ability to make anything taller than 2km for reparations they'll find it hard to actually violate the treaty" Before chortling, "That is if they manage to recover from having most of their brass be accessory to genocide and hanged".
Admiral Dorsey looked as if he was going to interject with another question before shrugging, "Fair by me, blockades are easier to do than honest to god occupation anyways".
"That's all for this month Admirals, nice to see you again Admiral Anderson" With that the Overseer ended their call and moved back to his own deck whilst the Three Fleets were doing their jobs the expeditionary fleet was preparing to take leave for Requiem, it was about time that they dispose of the last threat to Humanity, properly of course. The Didact was in violation of many crimes by their law, easily enough to get an execution signed off for even a near extinct species.
"Captain, we make for Requiem, time to meet the last Forerunners and kill him" thought the last part was merely thought rather than spoken out loud.
The Captain snapped to attention, "At once my lord" before relaying commands to the Fleet, soon enough they were on their merry way, once more separate from the general Allied force moving for individual targets.
Requiem, Former Ecumene Space,
The Overseer moved forward swiftly, they were allowed entrance easily due to the presence of the Spartans, guarded by 20 PA Infantry they were prepared to capture the Didact, and execute him after his conviction was announced- his trial was already over, done in Absentia, an exception for the Didact.
Going to the core of the Shield World the fleet had followed them deploying troops, clone vats were one of the new features of the Aquilae-Class Super Dreadnought, already a carrier version dedicated to hosting fabricators and near infinite waves of strike craft was in development. With their clone vats it was entirely possible given two months an army could be made on the ship.
Three such armies were already there and would be needed to make sure of the halt of a Promethean attack on them.
The Overseer was the one to release the Didact, and as soon as he opened his mouth to speak he was slammed back nearly 8 metres before he caught himself and with a golden flash of his eyes the Didact's psionic push was halted, "Cease and desist Didact" but the Didact had already taken his pressure off, even at the height of Forerunner-Human war only the Forerunners had Psionics, those were limited too just lifting and pushing things, recognising him as something inhuman the Didact stopped his attack.
The Didact removed his helm and looked rockily at his liberator, "And what might you be? Never have I encountered a species in my entire life with a mind such as yours"
The Overseer just bulldozed on, "And you never will, I'm here to relay to you the sentence of your trial, you are convicted of multiple counts of genocide, multiple acts of terrorism and violation of the Frankian Accords (1), you are sentenced to death, your rights have been suspended after observation of your misdeed".
The Didact looked stunned for a moment, before snarling as he swiped physically throwing the Overseer into the walls, "A new recruit for my army then, I should have known none who bare the face of a Human could ever begin to understand my grand plan".
The PA Soldiers accompanying the Overseer served as a better method of resistance, nineteen of them managing to flank the Didact, the remaining one went to check on the Overseer.
He found the Overseer groaning as he picked himself out of the wall, "This is what I get for not wearing armour" he sighed as he beckoned the soldier to update him on the situation.
"Our fleet is under attack, though we have managed to fend of the first wave of attack" A grin passed through his face, "Their fleet was already depleted, though our land forces are barely clinging on, not for long though, the battle in Space was already decided. The fleet remains protected from the shield world's outer weapons by fact of being inside the world. We have lost men- four now" Ending the last part quietly, "The remaining are already battered".
The Overseers eyes flickered gold again, "Should have started with that" He said as the Didact flew right next to him into the wall, "I wanted to do this properly but" he sighed with a gesture the Didact was pinned to the wall.(2)
The Didact furiously attempted to struggle against the restraint forced upon him by the Overseer before attempting to play on the sympathy of humanity one last time, "You would kill me? And with me the last of my species?"
"You lot? I hold no love for you, did you expect any different for someone so inclined to genocide?" He raised an eyebrow at the attempts to expand his suit to kick him away, "A word of advice, try wearing helmets unless you are certain of victory" With a last remorseless gesture of his hand the Didact was beheaded cleanly by the Overseer.
"You are not wearing a helm either my lord".
The Overseer rolled his eyes, "Certain victory soldier. Gather the dead, we should head back now".
Battle outside the Didact's Chambers,
The forces of the Imperium were already deployed, with each army taking one flank outside the Chambers the Overseer went into, preparing for combat- and being rewarded for it as within a moment they and the fleet above them were under attack by the Prometheans.
The Prometheans ripped through the first line of the army, not without casualties of their own- not that they cared. The Second line was better prepared and managed to with the help of the remaining lines halt the offensive, space was traded for lives.
The Forerunner ships maneuvered to face the enemy- including the Didact's ship, a behemoth of hundreds of kilometres. Facing it was the Super-Dreadnought of the Fleet, whilst the rest of the ships took care of the ragged Forerunner fleet.
The Super Dreadnought quickly fired off the first volley after making a hole in the opposing ship's shields by using their planet-breaker class laser. The return fire nearly disabled their own ship but they managed to duke it out with only their armour being damaged and shields going offline for the time being, it was here the second volley was fired disabling the Didact's ship but the Super Dreadnought was also damaged quite heavily, having 46 percent of their weapons disabled and shields only charging back to half their former power, seeing the report the Captain winced, "The Overseer won't like this".
However just when the fighting on the surface got desperate with the Imperial Clone Armies barely holding the line after the Prometheans continued assault of them, suddenly the Prometheans fell silent and the doors of the chambers opened as theEMPRAH Overseer arrived his eyes blazing golden but turning back to their natural green once he noticed his involvement would not be needed, before he turned to look at his Super Dreadnought, and the even larger Forerunner ship, "Bloody Trolls" with that muttered he continued onwards to his ship only stopping to check on the Clone Army.
INS Pride of Terra,
The Overlord grimaced as he saw the bridge, the primary one was absolutely trashed but it seemed like the one located inside the ship was still able to operate at full capacity, "Well done Captain, for a fight between a ship more than 6 times larger than her the ship looks pretty well, considering the other ship has two holes in it" Henry seemed to sag in relief, "Yet, your rank no longer serves you right" The Overseer seemed to hum in though as the Captain once more gained a stiff back.
"You are promoted to Commodore, Captain" He gave him a gentle smile, "Set course for Heian, we'll be absorbing some allied ships and" he looked around, "repairing before heading to Napret System".
"I- Yes sir!" Before the commodore could be on his way the Overseer flashed him a grin, "I'll be in my chambers, Commodore".
As soon as he reached his own chambers he swiftly fell down in his bed softly groaning at the slight hangover like effect due to using his powers so extensively, truly he must not delay training anymore, the stronger he gets the better he'll be prepared for the eventual mess that'll be his own to solve.
It was sad, that the in the two universe' he had seen had one very striking similarity, both required a sensible force in the shadow to help them. Gentle nudges here and there, or in his Imperium's case making sure that they abandoned their old xenophobic days. He wondered sometimes, did his Imperium even remember the time when they hated all aliens, or had they forgotten? He sighed, so many things he wished he had not done but changing his Imperium before they had a chance to go down the deep end. A nudge here, a nudge there and a couple of disappearances and appearance of a new scientific faction replaced the old nepotism, within a century not even the scars remained of their dar past, he had to rewrite history itself to protect humanity from itself. Even now he saw the dangers of Utopia on the Imperium, some tried to seek that what was forbidden, but they were stopped. He finally gave in to slumber and let his mind once more fully rove the Imperium as it was, letting go of what it could have been or would be, come what may his Utopia would survive- or he would perish trying.
Somewhere in the silent slipspace of the Halo universe a golden blaze of fire illuminated the hearts of men for the briefest of moments.
UNSC Infinity, Infinity-Class Carrier, Operation Charybdis,
As usual commanding the second allied fleet was Preston Cole, one of the legendary genius' fielded by the UNSC, already he had launched many daring probes into the Covenant territory, using such tactics they had a semi-accurate location of the remaining Covenant leadership- Sanghelios.
So they attacked everything but Sanghelios- they mustered a fleet of 5000 UNSC vessels (of which nearly 2000 were built in Imperial dockyards) and 3000 Allied screens that were originally produced to act as patrol fleets, divided into 4 Flotillas he was prepared to assault the Covenant at Saepon'kal, Te, Doisak, Ealen IV and Balaho, a blitz followed by heavy bombardments of industrial locations and then retreat once Covenant reinforcements showed themselves.
"Admiral Cole to the second Allied fleet, today we embark on this Operation, to finally strike back at our enemies, once more human ships powered by our industry, and that of our allies, have shown resilience and strength in the face of unending atrocities, so I say to you, goodbye, good luck and godspeed".
Cutting the coms he looked at his xo, "Time to go son", soon enough the first flotilla of the second allied fleet was off to assault Te, the homeworld of the space bugs, the first of the covenant to perish to them.
Te, Lekgolo Homeworld
As the homeworld of one of the main Covenant infantry units the system and one of the hotspots of the Covenant civil war, the Covenant had garrisoned 2 Fleets and one of their CSO-Class carriers, vigilant and ready for an assault. Thus when an allied fleet showed up unlike the surprise at reach the Covenant only displayed disdain and opened fire the moment the fleet made their exit from their slipspace, they were not ready for the other half ot the Flotilla to arrive at their back shooting them in the back.
Despite this the Covenant finally displayed that it did take some coherent competence to actually govern an Empire on the Galactic space and they rallied around their CSO Carrier that already had sent three ships into early deduction.
It was like this the Covenant and Allies traded blows, eventually the Allies slowly fell back under pressure from superior firepower of the Covenant.
Here came Admiral Cole's mad dash to victory, in the chaotic fray of battle the Allies slowly falling back and forming a thin circle it went unnoticed by the Covenant as another detachment of allies entered below them using the third direction smash into the Covenant underbelly, soon it was the Covenant that had to fall back under their encirclement, once the situation looked dire (Losses: A/C 600/1106) the Admiral of the Covenant forces called for a retreat due to losses, here the Lekgolo almost mutinied in the face of Covenant cowardice but stayed true due to the Sangheili presence, and common sense of course.
So the Covenant force limbered out of the system with a decimated fleet, yet with their CSO-Class still safe the losses would quite easily be refurbished by the mothballed ships of the Covenant, and so they left to Malurok- a major Covenant mothballed ship centre and a new dockyard centre for the Covenant.
Soon the allied fleet had gathered near the rings of Te, they had blasted the rings down in nuclear hellfire as it could be dubiously counted in the likes of a military base (despite it not being so), and soon Preston Cole stared at the planet of Te, home to Trillions of Covenant members (civilians being somewhat dubious, a treacherous thought argued for him to destroy the planet like they had done to their planets, his people, it was then he received a call from Commodore Lucian, his Imperial junior attached with him, "Don't even think about it Admiral" He looked stressed, no doubt about the action of that he would chose.
"They destroyed so much, why can we not do it as well?" He voiced his concerns openly, let the synth listen to him, what does it matter at the end?
The Commodore looked as if he grew older the moment he uttered those words, "They are monsters, their entire military and naval officer staff will be entirely decimated by war tribunal executions and life imprisonments and genocide is a war crime!" The Commodore seemed to stretch his last words out, "Humanity is not part of the Covenant, we do not do war crimes, are we on the same page, Admiral?".
He sighed before nodding, "Right you are young friend, regular rations and establish a blockade, they won't be under blockade for a long time anyhow, Covenant leadership should be just about done for by Admiral Dorsey" a look of silent understanding passed between his imperial adjutant, they both knew the regular rations would not feed a planet of metal eating bugs, regular iron ore was something they had aplenty but at the thought of diverting their merchant fleet, whatever remained of it, for the Covenant made the usually stoic Admiral snort in disbelief, if they starve they starve. It was their fault for being unrepentant genocidal pricks in the first place.
He looked at the planet, Te was a gas giant, they had already bombed any infrastructure that looked like military buildings. Five times he had ignored the Te surrender as he bombed their installations across the system, "This is Admiral Cole of the 2nd Allied Fleet, as the highest ranking officer of the Allies present I accept the surrender of Svir System, hereby onwards this system is under the unconditional authority of the Allied Occupational Department of the War committee of the Allied nations".
Urs System, Beginning of Operation Vindicta, One hour after the fall of Te,
Just like that the domino had begun falling, Sanghelios was sending out response fleets as the first allied fleet flashed into the system, "This is Admiral Dorsey of the first Allied Fleet, I'll be collecting your surrenders now" The battle of the Covenant had begun.
(1)Successor to the Geneva Conventions, expanded a lot to cover warfare in Space.
(2)The Didact is hardly hurt due to his armour but is pinned down.
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Chapter 5 - Fortune Favours the Bold
INS Pride of Terra, Three months after the Charrum Hakkor's reintegration into the Human Space
Once more the Overseer found himself around a map of the Galaxy and looking the flood infection spots, Lutetia was finally coming out of the dockyards, three months of constant repair had fixed the Battlegroup that carried with it, it's Super Dreadnought, A personal request from the Overseer did much to get the supply lines changed, he supposed. It wasn't surprising that at the last moment Constantia and Valencia were reassigned, it was obvious the Grand Admiral was reassigning battlegroups as old ones finally came became space worthy once more. Much to his evil cackling, he thought before snorting at the image.
The Overseer looked into the eyes of his Admirals, "The job of isolating these systems has been done with grace, a job well done" Both Admirals looked relieved at the praise, The Overseer was no Tubrek, "Maintain the perimeter for the next two years and start setting up a sectoral sensor array to scan for the Flood once that's done start glassing and then rescan, eradicate the Flood planet by planet admirals, I presume it'll be much faster once we have the locations of the filth down" Both the admirals voiced their agreements before falling silent as he turned his gaze at Admiral Dorsey.
Admiral Dorsey was grinning his usual confident grin, with his Fleet and the USNC Reorganised fleet (s) being refitted and repaired the Allied fleet could do something they had only ever done once, that too for an operation that was cut short- The time had come for the Allied fleets to commit to an offensive, he was thankful his clone army would finally be used somewhere, "Admiral Dorsey you'll be leading the first Allied Fleet to directly attack Sanghelios, according to our information the system should be under Covenant rule, despite the recent civil war. Admiral Cole will lead the second Allied Fleet to attack a wide variety of planets, merely skirmishes- go in shoot at them and jump to designated safe systems".
Admiral Dorsey just gave a confident smile to the Overseer, "As you say my lord, what do we do about the captured fanatic planets? The barbarians won't even take food from us" That was a major concern, after they took Heian half the fanatics had refused to even eat anything given to them, though the population of Heian was small enough they managed to find appropriate distributors the same could hardly be done for a planet of billions, he sighed, "The line between disorder and order lies in logistics".
The Overseer looked less concerned about it, "Just dump rations at their law enforcement and medical facilities, we only need to occupy one planet, after we enforce treaties on the Covenant we would still have a lot of clearing up to do".
Josephine looked intrigued here, "They would honour any treaty my lord?".
The Overseer snorted, "Never. We'll just scrap enough of their navy and ability to make anything taller than 2km for reparations they'll find it hard to actually violate the treaty" Before chortling, "That is if they manage to recover from having most of their brass be accessory to genocide and hanged".
Admiral Dorsey looked as if he was going to interject with another question before shrugging, "Fair by me, blockades are easier to do than honest to god occupation anyways".
"That's all for this month Admirals, nice to see you again Admiral Anderson" With that the Overseer ended their call and moved back to his own deck whilst the Three Fleets were doing their jobs the expeditionary fleet was preparing to take leave for Requiem, it was about time that they dispose of the last threat to Humanity, properly of course. The Didact was in violation of many crimes by their law, easily enough to get an execution signed off for even a near extinct species.
"Captain, we make for Requiem, time to meet the last Forerunners and kill him" thought the last part was merely thought rather than spoken out loud.
The Captain snapped to attention, "At once my lord" before relaying commands to the Fleet, soon enough they were on their merry way, once more separate from the general Allied force moving for individual targets.
Requiem, Former Ecumene Space,
The Overseer moved forward swiftly, they were allowed entrance easily due to the presence of the Spartans, guarded by 20 PA Infantry they were prepared to capture the Didact, and execute him after his conviction was announced- his trial was already over, done in Absentia, an exception for the Didact.
Going to the core of the Shield World the fleet had followed them deploying troops, clone vats were one of the new features of the Aquilae-Class Super Dreadnought, already a carrier version dedicated to hosting fabricators and near infinite waves of strike craft was in development. With their clone vats it was entirely possible given two months an army could be made on the ship.
Three such armies were already there and would be needed to make sure of the halt of a Promethean attack on them.
The Overseer was the one to release the Didact, and as soon as he opened his mouth to speak he was slammed back nearly 8 metres before he caught himself and with a golden flash of his eyes the Didact's psionic push was halted, "Cease and desist Didact" but the Didact had already taken his pressure off, even at the height of Forerunner-Human war only the Forerunners had Psionics, those were limited too just lifting and pushing things, recognising him as something inhuman the Didact stopped his attack.
The Didact removed his helm and looked rockily at his liberator, "And what might you be? Never have I encountered a species in my entire life with a mind such as yours"
The Overseer just bulldozed on, "And you never will, I'm here to relay to you the sentence of your trial, you are convicted of multiple counts of genocide, multiple acts of terrorism and violation of the Frankian Accords (1), you are sentenced to death, your rights have been suspended after observation of your misdeed".
The Didact looked stunned for a moment, before snarling as he swiped physically throwing the Overseer into the walls, "A new recruit for my army then, I should have known none who bare the face of a Human could ever begin to understand my grand plan".
The PA Soldiers accompanying the Overseer served as a better method of resistance, nineteen of them managing to flank the Didact, the remaining one went to check on the Overseer.
He found the Overseer groaning as he picked himself out of the wall, "This is what I get for not wearing armour" he sighed as he beckoned the soldier to update him on the situation.
"Our fleet is under attack, though we have managed to fend of the first wave of attack" A grin passed through his face, "Their fleet was already depleted, though our land forces are barely clinging on, not for long though, the battle in Space was already decided. The fleet remains protected from the shield world's outer weapons by fact of being inside the world. We have lost men- four now" Ending the last part quietly, "The remaining are already battered".
The Overseers eyes flickered gold again, "Should have started with that" He said as the Didact flew right next to him into the wall, "I wanted to do this properly but" he sighed with a gesture the Didact was pinned to the wall.(2)
The Didact furiously attempted to struggle against the restraint forced upon him by the Overseer before attempting to play on the sympathy of humanity one last time, "You would kill me? And with me the last of my species?"
"You lot? I hold no love for you, did you expect any different for someone so inclined to genocide?" He raised an eyebrow at the attempts to expand his suit to kick him away, "A word of advice, try wearing helmets unless you are certain of victory" With a last remorseless gesture of his hand the Didact was beheaded cleanly by the Overseer.
"You are not wearing a helm either my lord".
The Overseer rolled his eyes, "Certain victory soldier. Gather the dead, we should head back now".
Battle outside the Didact's Chambers,
The forces of the Imperium were already deployed, with each army taking one flank outside the Chambers the Overseer went into, preparing for combat- and being rewarded for it as within a moment they and the fleet above them were under attack by the Prometheans.
The Prometheans ripped through the first line of the army, not without casualties of their own- not that they cared. The Second line was better prepared and managed to with the help of the remaining lines halt the offensive, space was traded for lives.
The Forerunner ships maneuvered to face the enemy- including the Didact's ship, a behemoth of hundreds of kilometres. Facing it was the Super-Dreadnought of the Fleet, whilst the rest of the ships took care of the ragged Forerunner fleet.
The Super Dreadnought quickly fired off the first volley after making a hole in the opposing ship's shields by using their planet-breaker class laser. The return fire nearly disabled their own ship but they managed to duke it out with only their armour being damaged and shields going offline for the time being, it was here the second volley was fired disabling the Didact's ship but the Super Dreadnought was also damaged quite heavily, having 46 percent of their weapons disabled and shields only charging back to half their former power, seeing the report the Captain winced, "The Overseer won't like this".
However just when the fighting on the surface got desperate with the Imperial Clone Armies barely holding the line after the Prometheans continued assault of them, suddenly the Prometheans fell silent and the doors of the chambers opened as the
INS Pride of Terra,
The Overlord grimaced as he saw the bridge, the primary one was absolutely trashed but it seemed like the one located inside the ship was still able to operate at full capacity, "Well done Captain, for a fight between a ship more than 6 times larger than her the ship looks pretty well, considering the other ship has two holes in it" Henry seemed to sag in relief, "Yet, your rank no longer serves you right" The Overseer seemed to hum in though as the Captain once more gained a stiff back.
"You are promoted to Commodore, Captain" He gave him a gentle smile, "Set course for Heian, we'll be absorbing some allied ships and" he looked around, "repairing before heading to Napret System".
"I- Yes sir!" Before the commodore could be on his way the Overseer flashed him a grin, "I'll be in my chambers, Commodore".
As soon as he reached his own chambers he swiftly fell down in his bed softly groaning at the slight hangover like effect due to using his powers so extensively, truly he must not delay training anymore, the stronger he gets the better he'll be prepared for the eventual mess that'll be his own to solve.
It was sad, that the in the two universe' he had seen had one very striking similarity, both required a sensible force in the shadow to help them. Gentle nudges here and there, or in his Imperium's case making sure that they abandoned their old xenophobic days. He wondered sometimes, did his Imperium even remember the time when they hated all aliens, or had they forgotten? He sighed, so many things he wished he had not done but changing his Imperium before they had a chance to go down the deep end. A nudge here, a nudge there and a couple of disappearances and appearance of a new scientific faction replaced the old nepotism, within a century not even the scars remained of their dar past, he had to rewrite history itself to protect humanity from itself. Even now he saw the dangers of Utopia on the Imperium, some tried to seek that what was forbidden, but they were stopped. He finally gave in to slumber and let his mind once more fully rove the Imperium as it was, letting go of what it could have been or would be, come what may his Utopia would survive- or he would perish trying.
Somewhere in the silent slipspace of the Halo universe a golden blaze of fire illuminated the hearts of men for the briefest of moments.
UNSC Infinity, Infinity-Class Carrier, Operation Charybdis,
As usual commanding the second allied fleet was Preston Cole, one of the legendary genius' fielded by the UNSC, already he had launched many daring probes into the Covenant territory, using such tactics they had a semi-accurate location of the remaining Covenant leadership- Sanghelios.
So they attacked everything but Sanghelios- they mustered a fleet of 5000 UNSC vessels (of which nearly 2000 were built in Imperial dockyards) and 3000 Allied screens that were originally produced to act as patrol fleets, divided into 4 Flotillas he was prepared to assault the Covenant at Saepon'kal, Te, Doisak, Ealen IV and Balaho, a blitz followed by heavy bombardments of industrial locations and then retreat once Covenant reinforcements showed themselves.
"Admiral Cole to the second Allied fleet, today we embark on this Operation, to finally strike back at our enemies, once more human ships powered by our industry, and that of our allies, have shown resilience and strength in the face of unending atrocities, so I say to you, goodbye, good luck and godspeed".
Cutting the coms he looked at his xo, "Time to go son", soon enough the first flotilla of the second allied fleet was off to assault Te, the homeworld of the space bugs, the first of the covenant to perish to them.
Te, Lekgolo Homeworld
As the homeworld of one of the main Covenant infantry units the system and one of the hotspots of the Covenant civil war, the Covenant had garrisoned 2 Fleets and one of their CSO-Class carriers, vigilant and ready for an assault. Thus when an allied fleet showed up unlike the surprise at reach the Covenant only displayed disdain and opened fire the moment the fleet made their exit from their slipspace, they were not ready for the other half ot the Flotilla to arrive at their back shooting them in the back.
Despite this the Covenant finally displayed that it did take some coherent competence to actually govern an Empire on the Galactic space and they rallied around their CSO Carrier that already had sent three ships into early deduction.
It was like this the Covenant and Allies traded blows, eventually the Allies slowly fell back under pressure from superior firepower of the Covenant.
Here came Admiral Cole's mad dash to victory, in the chaotic fray of battle the Allies slowly falling back and forming a thin circle it went unnoticed by the Covenant as another detachment of allies entered below them using the third direction smash into the Covenant underbelly, soon it was the Covenant that had to fall back under their encirclement, once the situation looked dire (Losses: A/C 600/1106) the Admiral of the Covenant forces called for a retreat due to losses, here the Lekgolo almost mutinied in the face of Covenant cowardice but stayed true due to the Sangheili presence, and common sense of course.
So the Covenant force limbered out of the system with a decimated fleet, yet with their CSO-Class still safe the losses would quite easily be refurbished by the mothballed ships of the Covenant, and so they left to Malurok- a major Covenant mothballed ship centre and a new dockyard centre for the Covenant.
Soon the allied fleet had gathered near the rings of Te, they had blasted the rings down in nuclear hellfire as it could be dubiously counted in the likes of a military base (despite it not being so), and soon Preston Cole stared at the planet of Te, home to Trillions of Covenant members (civilians being somewhat dubious, a treacherous thought argued for him to destroy the planet like they had done to their planets, his people, it was then he received a call from Commodore Lucian, his Imperial junior attached with him, "Don't even think about it Admiral" He looked stressed, no doubt about the action of that he would chose.
"They destroyed so much, why can we not do it as well?" He voiced his concerns openly, let the synth listen to him, what does it matter at the end?
The Commodore looked as if he grew older the moment he uttered those words, "They are monsters, their entire military and naval officer staff will be entirely decimated by war tribunal executions and life imprisonments and genocide is a war crime!" The Commodore seemed to stretch his last words out, "Humanity is not part of the Covenant, we do not do war crimes, are we on the same page, Admiral?".
He sighed before nodding, "Right you are young friend, regular rations and establish a blockade, they won't be under blockade for a long time anyhow, Covenant leadership should be just about done for by Admiral Dorsey" a look of silent understanding passed between his imperial adjutant, they both knew the regular rations would not feed a planet of metal eating bugs, regular iron ore was something they had aplenty but at the thought of diverting their merchant fleet, whatever remained of it, for the Covenant made the usually stoic Admiral snort in disbelief, if they starve they starve. It was their fault for being unrepentant genocidal pricks in the first place.
He looked at the planet, Te was a gas giant, they had already bombed any infrastructure that looked like military buildings. Five times he had ignored the Te surrender as he bombed their installations across the system, "This is Admiral Cole of the 2nd Allied Fleet, as the highest ranking officer of the Allies present I accept the surrender of Svir System, hereby onwards this system is under the unconditional authority of the Allied Occupational Department of the War committee of the Allied nations".
Urs System, Beginning of Operation Vindicta, One hour after the fall of Te,
Just like that the domino had begun falling, Sanghelios was sending out response fleets as the first allied fleet flashed into the system, "This is Admiral Dorsey of the first Allied Fleet, I'll be collecting your surrenders now" The battle of the Covenant had begun.
(1)Successor to the Geneva Conventions, expanded a lot to cover warfare in Space.
(2)The Didact is hardly hurt due to his armour but is pinned down.
Next Update: 8th June
Two more chapters in the Halo ARC I think before we move on, now would be a good time to pitch in where and when would you like the Imperium to visit next.
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Changed the title, do feel free to tell which one was better
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Good chapter.
Um, what is the legal status of A.I./robots in the Imperium?
Um, what is the legal status of A.I./robots in the Imperium?
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A.I are considers synthetic versions of whichever population made them, inheriting the ethics of their parent population, as others they are afforded the same Utopian abundance given to every other race in the Imperium.
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Have you played Detroit Become Human?
Lot of androids there would join your Imperium in mass.
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They would, but fitting in would be relatively hard, I'm thinking short one chapters for non-space faring verses that sound interesting.
Chapter 6 - Victory, at last
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"Nulla tenaci invia est via" - Overseer to Admiral Cole after the end of the Allied-Covenant war.
Chapter Six - Victory, at last
Urs System, Beginning of Operation Vindicta,
The Allied ships were outnumbered by nearly 2000 ships despite the various reinforcements sent by the Loyalists to their strongholds under attack or occupation, such a difference was made us by the presence of the Super Dreadnought Nikaea, the massive ship of the Imperium felled more than a lion's share of enemies making sure the numerical superiority did not mean much.
The Super Carriers of the Covenant managed to be the pillars of an organised defense for the fleet but it soon became clear they were being pushed back near the atmosphere of Sanghelios- which was a death as certain as the Allied ships.
Admiral Dorsey was a shrewd man who had thought of many scenarios, in all the current situation was a certainty in was the invasion of the planet he was vary of, the knowledge of Charrum Hakkor weighed heavily on his, a fifty year siege was not something that he was allowed to do. Or had the capacity to do, most of their fleet was busy scouring the Flood planet by planet, infection by infection, so he finally ordered the Fleet to jump into knife fighting range.
Decimated by the Allied fleet already the Defence fleet was caught unaware by the sudden transition, nearly instantly the allied fleet exited into the midst of the Enemy fleet.
Flashes of bright light and explosions making Nuclear bombs shy commenced as the allies viciously tore into the Covenant fleet, and was similarly treated by the Covenant ships, heavy fighting commenced and in plenty even boarding actions commenced, Covenant ships rammed into larger ones committing to Kamikaze maneuvers hoping to disrupt the Allied chain of command of the allied fleet.
The Combat continued late into the ninth hour, when after hours of firing and countless explosions and debris now orbiting the planet of Sanghelios, the ships fell silent- for a time as within moments orbital structure of the planet underwent boarding actions, they could only helplessly watch as the opposing fleet used massive amounts laser armaments to blast their defences into smithereens.
Imperial armies dropped en masse of their favoured landing spots- heavily countered by the Sangheili as the planet was well suited for defence.
Imperial armies underwent more than a million men in casualties within the first hour of establishing a beachhead, undeterred they kept marching on carrying out a relentless assault. The PA Infantry was sent in soon after to act as a fast response unit of the Imperial forces, yet the Sangheili found themselves vastly superior to the rank and file of the clone armies of the Imperium, yet it was near the true rank and file they found their match- Assault Android armies were present in small numbers and could not truly be the pillar they usually behaved as in actual Imperial doctrine, yet they managed to turn the tide and steeply decrease the rate of casualties.
It took 8 hours for the Naval victory to be won, in contrast by the 21st hour into battle they had only control of the rural areas of the planet despite pumping nearly 20 million allied troops into the effort, the defending Sangheili were outnumbered nearly a 100 to 1 yet they managed to retain near flawless control of the Cities.
INS Nikaea, Operational HQ,
Adrian took another swig of his caffeinated drink, "We need to move faster, our fleet might have to pull back entirely for repairs, General you'll be leading our Android reserves alongside the PA Infantry on an assault on Vadam, you'll be dragging those friggin Covvie leaders by the scruff of their necks if you have to, Get Them." He gave General Maximus a severe look the bloody combat had rendered nearly the entire Chain of Command sleepless for nearly 30 hours.
The General saluted sharply before nodding, "By your leave Admiral" He was soon off to gather his armies and donn his armour, the time had come for a dedicated attack on the Sangheili capital and end the damn war for once and all.
33 Hours into the operation the Imperial army made their strongest attack on Vadam, masses of elite infantry of the Imperium, ODSTs and armies fought their way into the city, suffering a sizable amount of casualties.
The Imperial armies had so far restrained themselves from launching orbital strikes to crack the Covenant defences as unfortunately the Imperium was absolutely determined to avoid breaching the Frankian accords themselves, the same accords the UEG had was also a signatory of, by insistence of the Imperium. Despite this had the gates been cracked one hour later than the 34 hour mark they did the Admiral was ready to launch a full air raid regardless of civilian casualties.
The Allied armies found themselves less opposed as they travelled further into Vadam, as a general rulet the Covenant had noted that the Allies treated PoWs and Occupied civilians with actual restraint unlike themselves and thus was never afraid to abandon civilians to undergo a siege, blatantly abusing the Frankian accords and the self imposed limitations on themselves.
41 Hours into the operation the final gate of the innermost sanctum of the Covenant was broken, and in stormed the PA Infantry.
At the 4200 Hour mark the last defending Sangheili of Vadam fell onto the ground, life finally fleeing from the body of the once mighty Arbiter.
Allied troops set up recording instrument and settled outside the recording, once the Prophets were captured only a fraction of the original Covenant forces continued resisting.
At 0100 hours on the fifth day of May of 2554, the Covenant unconditionally surrendered to the Allied powers.
Erde-Tyrene, Presidential Chambers,
Lord Hood continued watching the news, as per the agreement they made with the allied fleets they had taken news crews with them- to relay information about the war to the populace, more importantly it's end, Cole had long since returned to his side victorious, he had led the Second Fleet into three major engagements to destroy vital Covenant fleets, only he and his old friend were in his chambers- looking at the news eagerly- like the last 40 hours.
He was drowsy with sleep when the information flashed on the news, The Anchor yelling amongst the cheers that had gone crazy in the background, "I can confirm! The Covenant forces, which have been at been at war nearly three decades for has UNCONDITIONALLY Surrendered!".
Admiral Cole let out a joyous laugh, before finally slumping to his seat, sleep finally catching up to the tired Admiral, "Don't sleep just yet".
Cole looked accusingly at his friend, "We just won, you don't need me for the next eight hours".
For the first time in his life it was Lord Hood who had a cheshire grin on his face, "Oh but if you'll sleep you'll miss the greatest celebrations of the Human race".
Just as he had finished his thoughts the news had finally caught up with the sleeping populace, wild cheers of immense cheer filled the air. Even the Government complexes was filled with celebrating personal.
The Overseer smiled as the he felt the joy reburvitating in the air around him, walking the streets of what was once London with his trusty Commodore they were watching as people roamed the street cheering, for the first time in more than two centuries such a celebration took place with so much unity by Humanity, most Imperials also choosing to partake in the celebrations themselves, for the first time since the end of the second world war was Humanity so unitedly happy.
The Overseer laughed as well, he wasn't alone in it this time though, many laughs- of Triumph or of Recreation could be heard throughout the streets, "Come Commodore!" He dictated, some people briefly giving pause to give him and the now announced Commodore nods of respect, accepting them as war heroes, "Let us celebrate the victory of our brethren tonight! The tribunal can be arranged tomorrow!" he took a look at the amount of alcohol being passed around, "Maybe in a week would me more accurate" Before shrugging and dragging his companion into the nearest bar, after putting certain bars for displaying their rank.
Marcellius just smiled, he too felt slightly overwhelmed by the intense joy radiating throughout the streets, "As you say my lord".
The Flood still existed in the Galactic north and the revolutionaries of Covenant still required pacification, but from that day, every fifth of May would be remembered as the Victory Day, celebrated for as long as the UEG or any of their successors yet remained in the material world.
3 Months after Victory Day, Paris IV,
On the scorched surface of the once viridian planet stood half of the Allied forces that finally defeated the Covenant, the remaining half engaging in the First Eastern Pacification campaign that would be entertained by the UNSC to get rid of the Covenant revolutionaries who were still technically at war with them, as well as guilty of many, many crimes, The Overseer snorted derisively, a mere rebellion did not cleanse them of their crimes.
It was on Paris IV the final treaty between the new Arbiter of the Covenant- chosen from their rank and file and the Allied nations.
The naval capacity of the Covenant was firmly reduced to one ship for every seven ships possessed by the UNSC, they were forced to pay nearly 10% worth minerals of their annual fiscal budget to the UNSC. The Treaty had many subclauses and clause but the primary ones remained the same:
Treaty of Paris IV
Signatories: Imperium of Man, United Earth Government, Former Empire of Covenant
Primary clauses:
1. Covenant is reduced to 1 ship for every 7 ships in the UNSC Navy.
2. Covenant is to pay minerals worth 10% of their Annual Fiscal revenue for 20 years as Reparations.
3. Any and all inspections of the Covenant naval tonnage will be allowed at any point during the thirty years of the treaty's lifetime.
4. After 30 Years the Allied legislature shall look upon the Treaty of Paris IV to make corrections with consideration of Covenant behaviour.
5. All of the Covenant high command are to be tried by the Paris War Tribunal, any convicted are to be disinherited by the state in an open and frank statement.
6. Covenant becomes signatory to the Frankian accords.
7. Covenant recognises the right to secede for their member states.
8. All rebelling states are granted full legitimacy.
The Paris War Tribunal went about as well one would expect war tribunals to go for a nation of genocide happy extremists, nearly all that were put on trial for genocide were convicted and executed, even more were accused of mass murder and terrorism and put away for 70 Years in prisons operated specially by combined Allied personal.
The Arbiter tried his best to reduce the sentence of the treaty but the UNSC would not move on that issue, neither would the Imperium who actually wanted the complete scrapping of any/all movable Covenant naval assets.
It took a further 6 Months for the Tribunals to finally end, during which even more Covenant criminals naval officials were captured from the Revolutionary Pacification, who were subjected to similar treaties by the UNSC.
The Imperium-UEG relations were formalised further with the UEG joining the Galactic Confederation as an observing power, with embassies established on Nova Terra.
The Overseer was finally content with his involvement and trusted the actual Imperial diplomats to take over his position, the Flood was reduced to a tenth of its former holdings and being continuously reduced, Battle Group Lutetia had been withdrawn to Germania where it was stationed as a fast reaction fleet- and a an awe tactic to be the first thing those who entered the Imperium saw.
Cairo Station, Sol System,
The Overseer looked over the small celebration that was being held before the real deal, the high command wanted to throw a small party at the retirement of Admiral Cole and his own departure, he had grown to like the stoic man, He smiled as he was engaged to by the aforementioned admiral, "Admiral, it has been a pleasure working with you".
Admiral Cole shook his hand, "All my pleasure my friend, where are you of to now?" Admiral Cole looked curiously at the Overseer.
"Who knows? Maybe a galaxy haunted by chaos deeper than any rational mind or maybe one where humanity has yet to breach the final frontier. So many worlds to visit Admiral, so many things to see and so much to admire and countless children to be guided onto a better future" He smiled at the Admiral, "All I know is fate leads me to wherever humanity needs me the most, it always has".
The Admiral looked intrigued by the meaning behind the words of the Overseer, "I wish you my best, Overseer, may you persevere in your goals, they more difficult than you would think".
The Overseer laughed, "Nulla tenaci invia est via Admiral, Nulla tenaci invia est via" before taking his leave.
Admiral Cole just looked on at his retreating back, "For the tenacious, no road is impassable" He snorted, "That sounds like something he'd say" he walked over to Lord Hood, "Maybe we'll meet again, godspeed Overseer".
3 Months Later, Germania Space Citadel,
A sigh escaped the body resting on the medical bed in the research and development wing of the gargantuan fortress built by the Imperium in the system.
"My lord if you will, please test the body properly" A voice, most likely belonging a scientist, rung out of a speaker.
The Overseer stood up donning his basic dress, and cloak, he mustn't forget his cloak, "Perfectly stable, muscles are doing fine Lucian".
"That is not why we spent enough resources to make a ship in your body my lord"
The Overseer snorted, his eyes flared golden a bright gold aura covering his entire body, "It works quite perfectly, does not strain under my mental strength at all Lucian" he marvelled at the body briefly flaring his powers to a level he had not dared to in his older body.
In the command room Lucian's eyes gazed unbelievingly at the Overseer's frame as it blazed golden light, "Phenomenal" He mumbled seeing the spike in the energy readings- prowess beyond that of an ordinary mortal, "My lord the body is strong but even it will get stressed after a while, please settle down".
The Overseer smiled sheepishly as his eyes dimmed back to their natural viridian colour, still glowing slightly from his exertion, "This is wonderful! Never have I felt this free, wonderful work Lucian, wonderful indeed now I have to be off, have a meeting with fate you see?" He laughed with far to much child like quality for it to be the laugh of a higher being.
He had already debriefed the President mentally and updated himself of the affairs of the Imperium, not that he had disconnected from them at any time, it seemed with their new Battlegroups and nothing to shoot at the Grand Admiral was staging an expedition to the nearest galaxy, whilst interesting he already knew how the expedition would go, they would meet some natives and they would integrate/conquer said natives. Of course they did not call conquering conquering anymore, not after the Confederation became a thing, by sheer technicality there still existed three nations in their galaxy, yet all depended on the Imperium for everything, for all purposes the other two republics were just autonomous outgrowths of the Imperium.
As he walked he once more put his mind to the various gateways, and which one to chose next, he would imagine that being deposited into another warzone was a distinct possibility, with their new technology their was little chance of them being caught off guard.
Though he still had his doubts about actually intersecting in another war, maybe a few years of peace would be good for the Imperium, especially considering they were just done fighting three wars.
INS Pride of Terra,
The Overseer let his power seep out as he reached for the gateways, feeling them one by one he stopped as he reached the second one, it felt pale yet deadly. So sterile, and uniform, unnaturally so.
"Commodore, we make for the Second Gateway" He smiled excitedly, "Once more we cross the final frontier".
The Commodore just tilted his head after relaying the commands, "We travel in space, we are always breaching the final frontier".
The Overseer looked pointedly at the Commodore who relented sheepishly, "Sorry".
As the ships entered the gateway it glowed it's usual hue before slinging the Fleet through dimensions into the next one to be discovered by the Overseer.
The XO gave his own report soon enough, "As per estimates, we're at Procyon sir!" before saying next part more hesitantly, "It has a continental world, it's empty though".
The Overseer hummed, then he hummed some more, before deciding on their next course of action, "Prepare a basic Starbase and Colony then a gateway, Pride of Terra will take some Destroyers and head for Sol".
His gaze fell on the empty viridian world, before shuddering as he heard the screams, "Something is wrong, very very wrong".
i'd say that wraps the HALO Arc, we might revisit it to see some action in the future, but for now HALO is about done.
Also try guessing the new universe we're in, a hint would be Procyon is not actually featured in the game.
Chapter Six - Victory, at last
Urs System, Beginning of Operation Vindicta,
The Allied ships were outnumbered by nearly 2000 ships despite the various reinforcements sent by the Loyalists to their strongholds under attack or occupation, such a difference was made us by the presence of the Super Dreadnought Nikaea, the massive ship of the Imperium felled more than a lion's share of enemies making sure the numerical superiority did not mean much.
The Super Carriers of the Covenant managed to be the pillars of an organised defense for the fleet but it soon became clear they were being pushed back near the atmosphere of Sanghelios- which was a death as certain as the Allied ships.
Admiral Dorsey was a shrewd man who had thought of many scenarios, in all the current situation was a certainty in was the invasion of the planet he was vary of, the knowledge of Charrum Hakkor weighed heavily on his, a fifty year siege was not something that he was allowed to do. Or had the capacity to do, most of their fleet was busy scouring the Flood planet by planet, infection by infection, so he finally ordered the Fleet to jump into knife fighting range.
Decimated by the Allied fleet already the Defence fleet was caught unaware by the sudden transition, nearly instantly the allied fleet exited into the midst of the Enemy fleet.
Flashes of bright light and explosions making Nuclear bombs shy commenced as the allies viciously tore into the Covenant fleet, and was similarly treated by the Covenant ships, heavy fighting commenced and in plenty even boarding actions commenced, Covenant ships rammed into larger ones committing to Kamikaze maneuvers hoping to disrupt the Allied chain of command of the allied fleet.
The Combat continued late into the ninth hour, when after hours of firing and countless explosions and debris now orbiting the planet of Sanghelios, the ships fell silent- for a time as within moments orbital structure of the planet underwent boarding actions, they could only helplessly watch as the opposing fleet used massive amounts laser armaments to blast their defences into smithereens.
Imperial armies dropped en masse of their favoured landing spots- heavily countered by the Sangheili as the planet was well suited for defence.
Imperial armies underwent more than a million men in casualties within the first hour of establishing a beachhead, undeterred they kept marching on carrying out a relentless assault. The PA Infantry was sent in soon after to act as a fast response unit of the Imperial forces, yet the Sangheili found themselves vastly superior to the rank and file of the clone armies of the Imperium, yet it was near the true rank and file they found their match- Assault Android armies were present in small numbers and could not truly be the pillar they usually behaved as in actual Imperial doctrine, yet they managed to turn the tide and steeply decrease the rate of casualties.
It took 8 hours for the Naval victory to be won, in contrast by the 21st hour into battle they had only control of the rural areas of the planet despite pumping nearly 20 million allied troops into the effort, the defending Sangheili were outnumbered nearly a 100 to 1 yet they managed to retain near flawless control of the Cities.
INS Nikaea, Operational HQ,
Adrian took another swig of his caffeinated drink, "We need to move faster, our fleet might have to pull back entirely for repairs, General you'll be leading our Android reserves alongside the PA Infantry on an assault on Vadam, you'll be dragging those friggin Covvie leaders by the scruff of their necks if you have to, Get Them." He gave General Maximus a severe look the bloody combat had rendered nearly the entire Chain of Command sleepless for nearly 30 hours.
The General saluted sharply before nodding, "By your leave Admiral" He was soon off to gather his armies and donn his armour, the time had come for a dedicated attack on the Sangheili capital and end the damn war for once and all.
33 Hours into the operation the Imperial army made their strongest attack on Vadam, masses of elite infantry of the Imperium, ODSTs and armies fought their way into the city, suffering a sizable amount of casualties.
The Imperial armies had so far restrained themselves from launching orbital strikes to crack the Covenant defences as unfortunately the Imperium was absolutely determined to avoid breaching the Frankian accords themselves, the same accords the UEG had was also a signatory of, by insistence of the Imperium. Despite this had the gates been cracked one hour later than the 34 hour mark they did the Admiral was ready to launch a full air raid regardless of civilian casualties.
The Allied armies found themselves less opposed as they travelled further into Vadam, as a general rulet the Covenant had noted that the Allies treated PoWs and Occupied civilians with actual restraint unlike themselves and thus was never afraid to abandon civilians to undergo a siege, blatantly abusing the Frankian accords and the self imposed limitations on themselves.
41 Hours into the operation the final gate of the innermost sanctum of the Covenant was broken, and in stormed the PA Infantry.
At the 4200 Hour mark the last defending Sangheili of Vadam fell onto the ground, life finally fleeing from the body of the once mighty Arbiter.
Allied troops set up recording instrument and settled outside the recording, once the Prophets were captured only a fraction of the original Covenant forces continued resisting.
At 0100 hours on the fifth day of May of 2554, the Covenant unconditionally surrendered to the Allied powers.
Erde-Tyrene, Presidential Chambers,
Lord Hood continued watching the news, as per the agreement they made with the allied fleets they had taken news crews with them- to relay information about the war to the populace, more importantly it's end, Cole had long since returned to his side victorious, he had led the Second Fleet into three major engagements to destroy vital Covenant fleets, only he and his old friend were in his chambers- looking at the news eagerly- like the last 40 hours.
He was drowsy with sleep when the information flashed on the news, The Anchor yelling amongst the cheers that had gone crazy in the background, "I can confirm! The Covenant forces, which have been at been at war nearly three decades for has UNCONDITIONALLY Surrendered!".
Admiral Cole let out a joyous laugh, before finally slumping to his seat, sleep finally catching up to the tired Admiral, "Don't sleep just yet".
Cole looked accusingly at his friend, "We just won, you don't need me for the next eight hours".
For the first time in his life it was Lord Hood who had a cheshire grin on his face, "Oh but if you'll sleep you'll miss the greatest celebrations of the Human race".
Just as he had finished his thoughts the news had finally caught up with the sleeping populace, wild cheers of immense cheer filled the air. Even the Government complexes was filled with celebrating personal.
The Overseer smiled as the he felt the joy reburvitating in the air around him, walking the streets of what was once London with his trusty Commodore they were watching as people roamed the street cheering, for the first time in more than two centuries such a celebration took place with so much unity by Humanity, most Imperials also choosing to partake in the celebrations themselves, for the first time since the end of the second world war was Humanity so unitedly happy.
The Overseer laughed as well, he wasn't alone in it this time though, many laughs- of Triumph or of Recreation could be heard throughout the streets, "Come Commodore!" He dictated, some people briefly giving pause to give him and the now announced Commodore nods of respect, accepting them as war heroes, "Let us celebrate the victory of our brethren tonight! The tribunal can be arranged tomorrow!" he took a look at the amount of alcohol being passed around, "Maybe in a week would me more accurate" Before shrugging and dragging his companion into the nearest bar, after putting certain bars for displaying their rank.
Marcellius just smiled, he too felt slightly overwhelmed by the intense joy radiating throughout the streets, "As you say my lord".
The Flood still existed in the Galactic north and the revolutionaries of Covenant still required pacification, but from that day, every fifth of May would be remembered as the Victory Day, celebrated for as long as the UEG or any of their successors yet remained in the material world.
3 Months after Victory Day, Paris IV,
On the scorched surface of the once viridian planet stood half of the Allied forces that finally defeated the Covenant, the remaining half engaging in the First Eastern Pacification campaign that would be entertained by the UNSC to get rid of the Covenant revolutionaries who were still technically at war with them, as well as guilty of many, many crimes, The Overseer snorted derisively, a mere rebellion did not cleanse them of their crimes.
It was on Paris IV the final treaty between the new Arbiter of the Covenant- chosen from their rank and file and the Allied nations.
The naval capacity of the Covenant was firmly reduced to one ship for every seven ships possessed by the UNSC, they were forced to pay nearly 10% worth minerals of their annual fiscal budget to the UNSC. The Treaty had many subclauses and clause but the primary ones remained the same:
Treaty of Paris IV
Signatories: Imperium of Man, United Earth Government, Former Empire of Covenant
Primary clauses:
1. Covenant is reduced to 1 ship for every 7 ships in the UNSC Navy.
2. Covenant is to pay minerals worth 10% of their Annual Fiscal revenue for 20 years as Reparations.
3. Any and all inspections of the Covenant naval tonnage will be allowed at any point during the thirty years of the treaty's lifetime.
4. After 30 Years the Allied legislature shall look upon the Treaty of Paris IV to make corrections with consideration of Covenant behaviour.
5. All of the Covenant high command are to be tried by the Paris War Tribunal, any convicted are to be disinherited by the state in an open and frank statement.
6. Covenant becomes signatory to the Frankian accords.
7. Covenant recognises the right to secede for their member states.
8. All rebelling states are granted full legitimacy.
The Paris War Tribunal went about as well one would expect war tribunals to go for a nation of genocide happy extremists, nearly all that were put on trial for genocide were convicted and executed, even more were accused of mass murder and terrorism and put away for 70 Years in prisons operated specially by combined Allied personal.
The Arbiter tried his best to reduce the sentence of the treaty but the UNSC would not move on that issue, neither would the Imperium who actually wanted the complete scrapping of any/all movable Covenant naval assets.
It took a further 6 Months for the Tribunals to finally end, during which even more Covenant criminals naval officials were captured from the Revolutionary Pacification, who were subjected to similar treaties by the UNSC.
The Imperium-UEG relations were formalised further with the UEG joining the Galactic Confederation as an observing power, with embassies established on Nova Terra.
The Overseer was finally content with his involvement and trusted the actual Imperial diplomats to take over his position, the Flood was reduced to a tenth of its former holdings and being continuously reduced, Battle Group Lutetia had been withdrawn to Germania where it was stationed as a fast reaction fleet- and a an awe tactic to be the first thing those who entered the Imperium saw.
Cairo Station, Sol System,
The Overseer looked over the small celebration that was being held before the real deal, the high command wanted to throw a small party at the retirement of Admiral Cole and his own departure, he had grown to like the stoic man, He smiled as he was engaged to by the aforementioned admiral, "Admiral, it has been a pleasure working with you".
Admiral Cole shook his hand, "All my pleasure my friend, where are you of to now?" Admiral Cole looked curiously at the Overseer.
"Who knows? Maybe a galaxy haunted by chaos deeper than any rational mind or maybe one where humanity has yet to breach the final frontier. So many worlds to visit Admiral, so many things to see and so much to admire and countless children to be guided onto a better future" He smiled at the Admiral, "All I know is fate leads me to wherever humanity needs me the most, it always has".
The Admiral looked intrigued by the meaning behind the words of the Overseer, "I wish you my best, Overseer, may you persevere in your goals, they more difficult than you would think".
The Overseer laughed, "Nulla tenaci invia est via Admiral, Nulla tenaci invia est via" before taking his leave.
Admiral Cole just looked on at his retreating back, "For the tenacious, no road is impassable" He snorted, "That sounds like something he'd say" he walked over to Lord Hood, "Maybe we'll meet again, godspeed Overseer".
3 Months Later, Germania Space Citadel,
A sigh escaped the body resting on the medical bed in the research and development wing of the gargantuan fortress built by the Imperium in the system.
"My lord if you will, please test the body properly" A voice, most likely belonging a scientist, rung out of a speaker.
The Overseer stood up donning his basic dress, and cloak, he mustn't forget his cloak, "Perfectly stable, muscles are doing fine Lucian".
"That is not why we spent enough resources to make a ship in your body my lord"
The Overseer snorted, his eyes flared golden a bright gold aura covering his entire body, "It works quite perfectly, does not strain under my mental strength at all Lucian" he marvelled at the body briefly flaring his powers to a level he had not dared to in his older body.
In the command room Lucian's eyes gazed unbelievingly at the Overseer's frame as it blazed golden light, "Phenomenal" He mumbled seeing the spike in the energy readings- prowess beyond that of an ordinary mortal, "My lord the body is strong but even it will get stressed after a while, please settle down".
The Overseer smiled sheepishly as his eyes dimmed back to their natural viridian colour, still glowing slightly from his exertion, "This is wonderful! Never have I felt this free, wonderful work Lucian, wonderful indeed now I have to be off, have a meeting with fate you see?" He laughed with far to much child like quality for it to be the laugh of a higher being.
He had already debriefed the President mentally and updated himself of the affairs of the Imperium, not that he had disconnected from them at any time, it seemed with their new Battlegroups and nothing to shoot at the Grand Admiral was staging an expedition to the nearest galaxy, whilst interesting he already knew how the expedition would go, they would meet some natives and they would integrate/conquer said natives. Of course they did not call conquering conquering anymore, not after the Confederation became a thing, by sheer technicality there still existed three nations in their galaxy, yet all depended on the Imperium for everything, for all purposes the other two republics were just autonomous outgrowths of the Imperium.
As he walked he once more put his mind to the various gateways, and which one to chose next, he would imagine that being deposited into another warzone was a distinct possibility, with their new technology their was little chance of them being caught off guard.
Though he still had his doubts about actually intersecting in another war, maybe a few years of peace would be good for the Imperium, especially considering they were just done fighting three wars.
INS Pride of Terra,
The Overseer let his power seep out as he reached for the gateways, feeling them one by one he stopped as he reached the second one, it felt pale yet deadly. So sterile, and uniform, unnaturally so.
"Commodore, we make for the Second Gateway" He smiled excitedly, "Once more we cross the final frontier".
The Commodore just tilted his head after relaying the commands, "We travel in space, we are always breaching the final frontier".
The Overseer looked pointedly at the Commodore who relented sheepishly, "Sorry".
As the ships entered the gateway it glowed it's usual hue before slinging the Fleet through dimensions into the next one to be discovered by the Overseer.
The XO gave his own report soon enough, "As per estimates, we're at Procyon sir!" before saying next part more hesitantly, "It has a continental world, it's empty though".
The Overseer hummed, then he hummed some more, before deciding on their next course of action, "Prepare a basic Starbase and Colony then a gateway, Pride of Terra will take some Destroyers and head for Sol".
His gaze fell on the empty viridian world, before shuddering as he heard the screams, "Something is wrong, very very wrong".
i'd say that wraps the HALO Arc, we might revisit it to see some action in the future, but for now HALO is about done.
Also try guessing the new universe we're in, a hint would be Procyon is not actually featured in the game.
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- Australia
I'm Going With Supreme Commander Is This Right
Map of Milky Way post Treaty of Paris IV
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- Minas Tirith
The New Covenant was a more moderate theocratical covenant revolution.
The Old Covenant is now just a republic with most of the Covenant leadership dead, really dead.
White would be the Imperial blockade/campaign against the Flood.
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- Minas Tirith
I'm sorry but that's wrong, the universe is a game. It is Sterile. It is also very oddly uniform in technology.
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- Puerto Rico
I'm sorry but that's wrong, the universe is a game. It is Sterile. It is also very oddly uniform in technology.
Well at first I though it was Firefly, mostly due to your comment on the screams.
But if it's a game, the only one that comes to mind currently is Dead Space.
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- Minas Tirith
Firefly makes sense, but the slaughter that has happened in this universe has been happening every once in a while to all of life
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- Puerto Rico
To the entire universe or just one galaxy?
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- Minas Tirith
Just the Milky Way
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- Puerto Rico
The only bloody setting that remains on my list that is a game, kill just one galaxy is bloody Mass Effect.
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- Minas Tirith
That's right, but we're before Shanxi here, so the third game will never be a reality if it's any comfort.
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- Puerto Rico
I feel pity for the Turians. Or maybe your arrival will butterfly them and replace them with the Batarians (which in this case, no problem with going full conquest on their asses)
The Krogan will probably joins us by curing them.
But the Quarians will be maybe best case scenario 50/50; joining a civilization that would allow them to colonize a planet but also maybe cure them but that allows A.I. civil rights is the issue for them.
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- North America
Ah fuck it i gave up. just give me the damn answer.
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- Australia
Its Mass Effect, The Answer Is Mass Effect
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- North America
OOO I hope it is that Mass Effect timeline where Humanity is betrayed by those FILTLY XENO SCUM after the battle of the citadel.
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- North America
Fuck the Quarians. Geth all the way!
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- Minas Tirith
I'm fairly sure we can split the Quarians into three primary factions - The Good ones, who're all dead cause they sided with the 'Uh, guys let's not genocide' - The Radicals, which is majority of their race - The Moderates, a minority that hates the a.i but are not as rigid as the majority.
Updates and writing will come easier in Mass effect cause, well the plot is much lesser than Halo, I am planning to change the First Contact Scenario a fair bit but the Turians will still come to have their collective arses whooped- I mean they call their 1.2km ships dreadnoughts, that's what you get for using the tech of an extinct species.
Seriously who thought instead of developing our own tech lets try to copy these folks who somehow died- most probably horribly.
Updates and writing will come easier in Mass effect cause, well the plot is much lesser than Halo, I am planning to change the First Contact Scenario a fair bit but the Turians will still come to have their collective arses whooped- I mean they call their 1.2km ships dreadnoughts, that's what you get for using the tech of an extinct species.
Seriously who thought instead of developing our own tech lets try to copy these folks who somehow died- most probably horribly.