694Thanks to everyone who reviewed and made several suggestions on my first chapter. First of all the reason this chapter was up rather quick was because I had it finish when I uploaded the first on, so chapter 3 might not be as quick has I'm about a ¼ of the way through it.
Anyway as most Halo/ME fic's like this, Chapter 2 is when the Turians smartly decide to fire on the UNSC (or in this case the OSA).
Edit 04/04/13: Again I wish to thank xpredatorx and Mistasilentkiller, this chapter is template on Halo: A New Age's chapter 2. I would also like to thank them for the use of some of their terms in Halo: A New Age such as the OSA. I also believe a few ship names in this chapter are taken from Halo: A New Age's chapter 2 though I can't remember.
Update 22/05/2012: Hopefully fixed all spelling, grammar and punctuation errors for this chapter. If you see any please let me know.
Update 27/07/2012: Revamped some spelling, capitalization and grammar.
May 19, 2657
Shanxi system
UNSC Cruiser Budapest
Main Bridge
Admiral Jon Grissom, a man at the age of 46 with dark brown hair and height of 6'2 was standing in the coms room staring at the holographic images of the OSA council. He knew however that it was not only them that were watching him. It was likely the Council (also known as the Senate) chambers were filled with Senators, Ambassadors and any kind of leader of the OSA races were watching his holographic image back at High Charity. At the sides of the Councillors' images were also the images of Arbiter Thel'Vadam, his son Jedi Rada'Vadam; wearing armour similar to that of his father, and Jiralhanae Chieftain Martin.
About a month ago one of the UNSC's deep space probes that was launched from Shanxi; the newest colony to be developed, was searching the asteroid field for possible mining; instead they found a strange artefact that had two long, curved ''arms'' with what they believed to be a set of revolving rings in between them, covered in ice. The Admiral was assigned to protect the civilian workers charged with digging the artefact out of the ice and science teams charged with studying it.
''What is the status of the workers and scientists?'' Asked the San 'Shyuum councillor; her clothing similar to that of what the traitorous Prophets used to wear.
''The workers are finished cleaning the ice off the artefact," reported Grissom.
The Sangheili councillor then asked. "Have our scientists found out what it is and its purpose."
"As far as they can tell it is not a weapon like the Halo's, they have been asking permission to activate it; I thought I'd better wait for your permission."
''Permission granted just… tell them to be careful, the last thing we need is for this device to blow up in our faces," said the Human councillor.
"We await the next report," said the San 'Shyuum councillor and at that the link to high charity cut off. Martin, Thel and Rada remained.
"I hope our scientists are right," said Martin. "Since when were our scientist wrong," asked Thel.
"Hugh a fair point."
"I also believe a common saying from professor Anders is nothing ventured nothing gained, "added Rada.
"Martin makes a fair point though," said Grissom. "Over a hundred years ago we first encounter each other which resulted in a five year war, I thank god that it didn't drag out longer like many thought it would."
"Yes," said Thel, "If Remorse hadn't found out the truth, goodness knows how long we would have remained under the lies of Truth, Mercy and Regret".
"There is also classified information we can't tell to anyone under the rank of admiral, but they were worst thing any of us have ever encountered, (All four of them thought of the Xenomorphs, the Halos and the Flood) so forgive me that I'm not jumping either".
''We have all had a bumpy ride," said Rada," but look at the accomplishment each of us has made. Your race, Humanity; survived the covenant war. Then helped reconstruct the Covenant to form the Orion Systems Alliance; the centre of galactic government of the Orion arm. Then each of us have uncovering Forerunnerknowledge and technology that lead to amazing advancements to not only our military but our species as a whole. We have made cures to many diseases that plague each race and more than doubled our life expectancies. And both the relationship between species and their nature have improve, just look at the Sangheili and the Jiralhanae," He gestured to Martin. Grissom sighed, he was right.
"If trouble occurs, I believe Captain Cutter has the Spirit of fire and a small fleet ready to jump at a moment's notice," said Thel.
"I still don't understand him," said Martin. "He's an admiral, yet he wishes people still refer to him as captain."
"Yes well, that brings me to why we are still here, "Said Thel.
"Yes," said Martin, "Admiral as you may know last week a Mon-Calamari cruiser entered a system home to a Robotic alien race". Grissom nodded, he had heard about that; he believed they had been called Transformers.
"The home world of the Transformers, Cybertron is caught in a brutal civil war between two factions called the Autobots and Decepticons. The Decepticons attacked the cruiser but thanks to the actions of the Autobots, most personnel survived. Using one of their own star ships they brought the survivors back to High Charity."
Thel took over from Martin. "The leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime has accepted our invite to join the OSA and we have organised a fleet to take back Cybertron from the Decepticons. If all goes well with this device we would like Captain Cutter join us at Cybertron".
"If we don't need him, I'll send him your way" said Grissom.
"Good," Said Thel turning to his son, their holograms disappeared.
Grissom exited the com room and sat down in the captain's chair. The coms officer alerted him of the activation of the artefact. ''Admiral the scientists are ready''.
''Very well, tell the Captains of the Hydra, Anubis and Thor to stand by," he replied.
'' You would think the UNSC would send us another cruiser than just three frigates," asked the weapons officer.
'' Lieutenant the one thing the UNSC has learned from all our past experiences is we are always prepared. You don't know it but there are ships ready to jump in at a moment's notice if things go south for us, "said Grissom recanting what the arbiter had said.
Exodus Cluster
Utopia system
Turian Patrol fleet
Tonn Actuss, a Turian captain in the Turian hierarchy sat in his chair, staring out the bridge window into the void of space. His patrol fleet of three cruisers and six frigates had been searching the cluster for the past month. They had been assigned this job to find any pirates that might be hiding in the unclaimed cluster. So far they had found no sign of pirate activity.
Actuss was a proud Turian; the military life runs in his family, he was very serious when it came to upholding the law in Council space and will do just about anything to make sure everyone follows it. Despite that though he was bored, several times they had been up and down the cluster and there had been no sign of pirate activity. He was thankful they only had a week left.
The sensors operator was looking at his console, he too was getting bored, he prayed something would appear. As if his wish had been answered he noticed strange readings coming from the inactive relay known as relay 314. He checked to make sure this wasn't a glitch; it wasn't the Relay had been activated.
"Eh sir, I think you'll want to see this," he called to Actuss.
Actuss raised from his seat and walked towards the operator, ''What is it"
"Sir, relay 314 just activated."
"Impossible relay 314 is a dead relay; it leads to nowhere,'' Actuss responded.
''Sir, I am positive, I checked to make sure it wasn't a glitch and… sir something just came out of the relay, "Said the operator
''What is it?" Asked Actuss
The operator turned back to his console to check, '' I think it's a probe, we may be dealing with first contact Captain,'' reported the operator.
Actuss just stood there thinking. "This is obviously a new immature race, it was foolish of them to activate a relay and worse a dormant one, that's against Citadel law, we'd better deal with this foolish race."
He headed back to his chair and sat down, he began giving out orders, ''Tell the patrol to head for relay 314 we must deal with this new incompetent race," said Actuss
"With all due respect sir," said one Turian. "If this is first contact, this new race doesn't know the danger of the relays and they don't know Citadel…" Actuss cut him off.
"Not another word!" he snapped. "They have broken Citadel law and must be taught a lesson". Most Turians on the bridge agreed with Actuss; the others remained silent, they knew when a good Turian is given an order he follows it, no objections.
The patrol started heading towards the mass relay, hoping to put down the law breakers.
UNSC crusier Budapest
Main Bridge
Admiral Grissom was just finishing reading the reports the scientists had sent him on the artefact. The report indicated it was a transportation device capable of sending an object a thousand light years instantaneously to another star system. ''Are these reports accurate,'' he asked.
The Budapest's AI Athena appeared at his side in full size holographic form. Like the rest of the UNSC AI her avatar was that of a human. She appeared as a woman in her late twenties, wearing armour and clothing akin to that of ancient Greeks.
"Yes they are sir, the scientist assure me that they are accurate. This is an interesting device; it will improve much for OSA."
''Yes it will, a device capable of sending you instantaneously to another system. I know the shaw-fujikawa drive has advanced ever since we came into contact with the Covenant and Forerunner knowledge, but it still takes at least one or two days to get to a star system in our own space and there's no difference with the hyperdrives used by the Mon-Calamari, Twi'lek and Yautja, but this could help us fix that," said Grissom
As everyone started to celebrate the success of the mission the artefacts inner rings started moving rapidly and out came nine unidentified ships.
As the Turian ships exited transit, they came face to face with several small ships of the new race. Immediately Tonn Actuss ordered his ships to open fire. The ships of the unidentified race were hit by a salvo of Disruptor torpedoes from the Turian patrol. Almost instantly the vessels were destroyed.
UNSC crusier Budapest
Main Bridge
"'WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED," shouted Grissom, screaming at the top of his lungs
The sensors operator turned to face the admiral, ''Admiral nine unidentified contacts have come out of the artefact, they have destroyed the civilian and science team's ships, I believe this is first contact with a new alien race."
Grissom was in rage; they had just attacked and killed innocent civilians. He took a deep breath, "They will pay for that!" he thought to himself. He turned to the coms officer, "Tell the Captains of the three frigates that came with us to get their weapons online." The Lieutenant did what he was told and began sending the message to the ships.
''Athena charge the Mac and get one through four Archer missile pods ready,'' said Grissom.
"No need sir I, have the Mac already charged, readying Archer missiles."
Grissom smiled, Athena must have taken his concern into account and charged the mac before the device was activated in case it was needed. The mac gun was one of the UNSC's primary weapons on ships. A hundred years ago the mac gun was capable of firing a 600-ton ferric-tungsten projectile with a depleted uranium core at 30,000 meters per second it had a standard destructive output of 64.53 kilotons (TNT-equivalent)! today the standard mac gun on ships has 750-ton tungsten round firing at 75,000 meters per second with a destructive force of 86.73 kilotons, but requires a five minute charge for every fire.
"FIRE!"
Turian crusier The Hammer
CIC
Captain Actuss watched as the last of the unidentified race ships had been destroyed. "Don't even have shields" he thought to himself, "this is going to be easy".
The sensor operator called over to him, "Sir I am detecting four other unidentife…." Was as far as he got before the space outside was filled with fire as one of the Turian cruiser, The Spartus was destroyed.
"WHAT JUST HAPPENED!" roared Actuss running to the Sensor operator.
"I don't know sir, there are four other unidentified vessels out there, bringing them up on the projector."
Actuss stood in front of the projector looking at the four vessels, "how can a race that don't use shields, build ships that large and be able to fly them" he thought to himself. One Turian estimated the frigates length was 438 meters, width 152 meters, and height was 112.3 meters; the cruiser's length 1,192 meters, width 300 meters, and height 450 meters.
Actuss turned and faced his coms officer, ''tell the frigates to swarm the three smaller vessels while we and the midnight shadow, handle the bigger one''. The Turian acknowledged this and sent the message to the other ships. "They will pay for destroying a ship of the hierarchy."
UNSC crusier Budapest
Main Bridge
The crew were celebrating the distinction of the Turian cruiser. That would teach the alien scum. Admrial Grissom had slightly calmed down with the cruisers destruction. "This didn't make sense," he thought. "Every other first contacted always started with communications before hostility's; heck even before the Covenant war, members of the Covenant went down to Horizon to discuss trade, something wasn't right here,"
Looking at the battle on the holo projector he noticed six of the smaller ships breaking off course heading towards the three frigates, the two bigger ones heading toward the Budapest.
"Athena are the Archer missiles ready," asked Grissom.
"Yes sir firing now".
Since the end of the Human-Covenent war the Archer missiles had underwent major changes. The size of the missiles had been reduced to allow more to fit in the pods, despite this though each missile pact more of a punch, three times of that of the Human-Covenant era Archers. On cruisers there were more than five hundred pods containing 75 missiles, each missile contained plasma that was designed to do damage on energy shields.
On the outside of the Budapest four hidden compartments opened up and out shot four pods racing to the alien ships, in the four pods contained over three hundred missiles.
Turian crusier The Hammer
CIC
The sensors operator detected what appeared to be missiles of some kind that had launched from the bigger vessel.
''Captain I am detecting what appears to be four large missiles heading to the cruiser midnight shadow," said the operator.
Though Actuss was still angry about the loss of one of his cruisers he couldn't help but chuckle. "What do they hope to hit, a planet with those oversize things, just get our and the Midnight Shadow's gardian lasers to shoot them down.''
Just as the weapons officer was about to turn the gardian lasers on, the Turians were shocked to now see over three hundred missiles come out of the pods. The gardian lasers attempted to shoot down the missiles but were too over whelmed and only took down fifty-eight the other two hundred and forty-two slammed against the midnight shadow. The ships kinetic barriers protect it from most of the explosion but the hot plasma and number of missiles scorched their ablative armour that caused hull breaches and other damages to the ship. Several missiles successfully hit the stern as the Kinetic barriers went down causing a large hull breach but not destroying the midnight shadow.
If Captain Actuss was not furious before he was now, he was furious that one of his own ships had been destroyed and the other taken serious damages. ''It would seem we underestimated this new race,'' he said. ''Tell the frigates to continue as planed and target those three ships while we handle the bigger one! Fire disruptor torpedoes it's time to return the favour for what they did to my cruisers."
UNSC crusier Budapest
Main bridge
Admiral Grissom continued to follow the battle on the holo projector; he was examining the damage to the alien ship by the Archer missiles
''That's interesting," said Athena. ''By studying the impact of when the Archer missiles collided and after; it would seem their shields are not the same as ours as the plasma was able to pass right through them,''
The admiral turned his head and looked at Athena. ''So what you're saying is their shields protect them from kinetic weapons and not plasma," Asked Grissom
''Yes admiral but as we saw a mac round was able to take a ship down in one go, it was probably too much for their shields to handle."
Grissom did not share her optimism, "Or it was a critical area that the mac hit."
"Sir incoming fire from the larger vessels," shouted the sensors operator.
"Athena! Shields at maximum strength now, everyone brace for incoming fire," Grissom ordered.
The entire crew on the Budapest braced for impact as the disruptor torpedoes slammed against the shields. As soon as the bombardment was over the crew began assessing the damages, Athena however was already ahead of them. "We have hull breaches on decks four and seven, shield strength is down at 86%,''
''What the heck did they hit us with!" asked Grissom.
''From what I can tell from the sensors, they were missiles with some sort of warheads that when they impacted against our shields created random and unstable fields in a localized area," said Athena. "Those missiles put incredible strain on the shields, we were lucky there wasn't that many or they would have collapsed.''
''We can't let that happen again. Get the laser canons and rail guns online and target those missiles,'' said Grissom to the weapons officer. ''Athena is the mac gun ready to fire again," he asked.
"30 seconds before it can be fired again sir," she replied.
Grissom had, had enough he was going to call for reinforcements.
"Sir, the Hydra is being overwhelmed and their shields are about to collapse" shouted the coms officer.
Grissom acted fast, ''open up a line to the Captain of the Hydra.''
''Admiral this is Captain Littlefield we are being overwhelmed by the enemy; laser cannons are picking the missiles out of the sky, but there's too many, shields will soon collapse.''
''Captain, brake off retreat back to Shanxi, I'm calling in Captain Cutter, get your crew too transfer power from non-critical systems to the shields and try to get the Anubis to give you some covering fire, "said Grissom.
Upon hearing that the reinforcements were that of Captain James Cutter, the crew on the Bridge of the Budapest began to celebrate in advance. This quickly died though as a shot from a mass accelerator weapon from one of the Turian cruisers ripped through the Hydra. Silencing the line Littlefield was on.
Everyone on the bridge watched as the Hydra was destroyed. They could not believe it; Grissom however did not let this break his resolve.
"Sir message sent to Captain Cutter and mac gun is ready to fire" said Athena
"Destroy the one already damaged" Shouted Grissom
Athena maneuvered the Budapest's mac gun and aimed it at the Turian cruiser.
Turian cruiser The Hammer
CIC
Captain Actuss was smiling; they had taken down one of the enemy vessels. He listened as the weapons officer recanted of the successful direct hit on the large ship from the disruptor torpedoes and how the enemy's shields went down a notch from the warheads of the mass effect fields. Now we have a way to beat them he thought. ''Order every ship to use disruptor torpedoes on the enemy, they seem the most effective.''
''Sir I'm detecting a build-up of energy that far exceeds anything that of a Turian dreadnought can put out from the larger vessel'' said the sensors operator. ''I believe they are planning to fire.''
''Get our shields at full strength and ready gardian lasers to shoot it down,'' said Actuss.
As the crew on the bridge worked to get everything ready the midnight shadow blew up in a gulf of fire. The entire crew looked out in shock as to what happen. Actuss ran towards the weapons officer. 'What just happen," He asked.
''I believe it was a mass accelerator that puts any of our dreadnoughts to shame,'' said the weapons officer. "That must have been what destroyed the Spartus."
Actuss wasn't happy about this, he had lost two cruisers, but he still believed he could win the fight. ''Have the frigates continue concentrating all their fire on those two ships while we take The Hammer and move back to get away from the range of that weapon," said Actuss
As The Hammer moved out of weapons range, the six frigates split into groups of three, each concentrated all their fire power on the Anubis and Thor. Around the battlefield appeared the spherical black hole appearance of several slip space portals. Five UNSC frigates exited first, close to the Anubis and Thor. Two Marathon-class heavy cruisers exited next followed by the two and a half kilometre long UNSC Spirit of Fire.
UNSC Spirit of Fire.
Bridge
Captian James Cutter was sitting in his chair; he watched the battle outside the window. Serena the spirit of fire's AI was in her holographic form beside the holo-projector.
Cutter observed the hostile alien ships as six of them swarmed the Anubis and Thor. He could see the remains of the Hydra and the alien cruiser Midnight Shadow, he noticed the alien Cruiser Hammer creating distance between it and the Budapest.
"Serena, tell all ships fire at will and fire the mac gun. Open a line to Admiral Grissom," he ordered.
"Aye, Aye sir, preparing to fire Mac round" said Serena.
Cutter watched as the fleet engaged the enemy.
Turian cruiser The Hammer
CIC
"Sir, I am detecting eight additional contacts," shouted the sensors operator.
"What?" before Actuss could say another thing, a Turian pointed out the window.
"Sir look."
Every Turian was shocked as out of nowhere had appeared five other frigates, two cruisers similar to the one they were already fight. But what held their attention was the Spirit of fire.
"Spirits," said the weapons officer, "that thing is bigger than the Destiny Ascension."
The new contacts opened fire on the Turian frigates; the mass accelerator from the large ship ripped through one and critically damaged another, it wasn't long before other ships finished it off. Actuss was not happy but like all military strategists he knew when to retreat.
"Order all ships to retreat back through the relay."
The four remaining frigates broke off their attack but before they started heading towards the relay one was destroyed by the UNSC ship, the other three continued their course.
UNSC Spirit of fire
Bridge
Captain Cutter was talking to Grissom as the Turian ships started to retreat.
"Looks like the enemy is retreating," said Cutter. "Everyone stand down, the Spirit of fire and the Budapest will take it from here," immediately all ships stopped firing.
"I take it you're thinking what I'm thinking James," said Grissom.
"I do indeed, Serena fire Ion-Cannons."
"Athena fire Ion-Cannons," said Grissom over the coms copying Cutters Idea.
After the Mon-Calamari joined the OSA, they shared this new piece of technology that allowed star ships and fighters to EMP other vessels leaving them dead in space with just live support remaining. Scientist were successful in getting both components of a Mac gun and Ion-cannon without waiting time for one after the other was fired, both could be fired simultaneously if needed.
The blue ionized particles travelled through space like some electrode spirit. The blast from The Budapest failed to hit its target but Spirit of fires was successful; hitting the last of the vessels before they entered the relay. As the Ion blast hit the frigate it caused the Turian vessel to light up with a shimmering blue array of sparks.
UNSC crusier Budapest
Main bridge
''Admiral, do you want us to finish the job,'' Asked the weapons officer.
Grissom looked at him and said, ''No we need answers on who they are and why they attacked us."
"Admiral Grissom, come over to the Spirit of Fire, I have a team ready to board the vessel" said Captain Cutter over the coms.
"Ok, get a pelican ready for transport to the Spirit."
UNSC Spirit of Fire
Armory
Sergeant John Forge was busy getting himself and a team of twenty ODST's ready to board the enemy ship. Opposite them the three famous Spartans of red team, Jerome-092, Douglas-042 and Alice-130 with a team of five Yautja Predators were also readying themselves.
The door to the armoury opened and Captain Cutter and Admiral Grissom walked in. Grissom was surprised when he noticed the Spartans.
"Spartans? I thought you'd all be in the battle to retake Cybertron." he asked.
"So did we sir," said Douglas.
"The senate wanted some Spartans and Predators in your back up, in case anything happened," added Alice.
"Right, everyone listen up," ordered Cutter. Immediately the ODST's, Predators, Spartans and Forge came close.
"Sergeant Forge we will be transporting your team via the teleportation grid to right outside what Serena believes is the bridge. Once we have conformation that all contacts are targeting you, the Spartans and Predators will be sent over to take them out from behind. You have all had training into the ways of the force either by the Jedi Academy or the SITH program. You all should have been taught how to read into the minds of people, so I don't want any that can be perceived to be innocent killed, is that understood".
Every one gave him a sir yes sir. As they exited the armoury, Grissom stopped Forge.
"Sergeant, once all contacts are down, place Athena in the ships computers, she will then upload information to the Spirits computers," said Grissom and he handed the chip storing Athena to Forge.
Turian Frigate
CIC
Captain Kahlus Satrx was giving out order to prepare for the Aliens race's boarding parties. He could see on the projector the enemy vessels closing in on the Frigate.
"Get teams to cover the airlocks!" He ordered his men.
"Damn Actuss," he thought, "He was a fool to open fire on a new race, he should have opened communications, warned them, instead he opens fire. Goodness knows what he has started."
Satrx hadn't agreed with Actuss when he ordered them through the relay. But like every good Turian he follows his orders without question. He started to wonder what would happen to his men, would the aliens torture them. It then came across his mind, the ships that they had first destroyed were different to the ones they had been fight.
"Spirits," he said softly, "We fired first on civilians" the realisation hitting him.
As two Turian soldiers were about to exit the CIC, there was a strong flash of bright light in the hallway. As it dissipated the Turian's were surprised to see twenty strange looking creatures in the hallway. The aliens got into cover as one that did not wear a helmet started speaking in a strange language. The appearance of the helmetless one reminded them of the Asari.
"Everyone surround the door don't let them get through," ordered Satrx as he grabbed his pistol and ducked behind the desk in front of the door. All the Turians in the CIC were focused on the new aliens that they didn't notice the flash that came from behind them. Two Turians furthest from the door felt something rub against them, followed by a sudden black out. Six other Turians furthest from the door suddenly collapsed as well.
Satrx looked around at his men, he was losing them fast. A Turian covering behind the door stepped out and was immediately shot by the aliens. Another opposite him took a shot to the head; he only had seven men left.
Then the aliens stopped firing. Wondering what was going on Satrx was about to have a look when he heard something like a socket blown out. As he turned to see where the noise had come from, he came face to face with the Gold visor of a large green, machine looking being.
The Juggernaut immediately grabbed his hand and tied his wrists. Two Turians were grabbed by beings similar to the one that had him. Before the five other Turians could open fire, out of nowhere five beings in black armour materialised behind them and restrained them. Satrx observed the black creatures; they were different from the others. Though they were the same size as the green ones the shape of their helmets suggested their head was bigger. Several of the Turians began to wonder if they were a different species.
Forge and his ODST's entered the CIC. "Good job people, not a single innocent killed," he said. The ODST, started going around unconscious bodies of the Turian to put restraints on. The conscious Turians were herded near to the door. Forge moved to the still active console.
Satrx wondered what they were going to do to them. A Turian attempted to head-butt one of the black creatures. He was shocked as out of its wrist came three blades; thinking it was going to strike his man. He was, and not the only one, surprised when one of the green creatures putted a hand on its shoulder and the creature retracted its blades.
As the Spartans and Predators exited the CIC to secure the rest of the crew, the predator the Turian hit began taking his helmet off. He wasn't going to kill the Turian, but he was going to give it a scare. There was no doubt now to the Turians it was another race. The creature had arthropod-like mandibles that created a sort of bag around its mouth. It had a large skull with long, hair-like appendages. The Predator roared at the Turian, its mandible extending as far out as they could go. The Turian immediately stood back.
"Actuss what have you done," was all Satrx could say.
Forge took the chip containing Athena from his pocket and placed it next to the console. Her avatar then appeared and jumped of the chip into the console.
"Spirit of Fire this is Forge, we have captured the ship and are sending the Predators and Spartans to round the rest of the crew, Athena is in their mainframe information should be over shortly."
"Very good Sergeant, we will be docking with the frigate shortly" said Cutter.
UNSC Spirit of Fire
Bridge
As Serena examined the information, Athena was feeding her, Captain Cutter and Admiral Grissom were both have a cup of nice hot tea. Cutter sat in his Captain chair while Grissom sight beside a console across from him. To Cutter, Grissom looked slightly depressed. After taking a sip from his cup he spoke to Grissom.
"You calmed down yet."
"Yeah kind of," he replied.
"Don't blame yourself, from what I heard they opened fire as soon as they exited the device," said Cutter trying to make him feel better.
Grissom knew he was right, though there had always been trouble with the xenomorphs attacking colonies, not since the Twi'Lek Slave War had innocent civilians lost their live in a battle. The fact that this had been the first since then made it difficult on him.
"I know your angry but don't jump to conclusions, from what Forge told me over the coms, several of the crew, including the Captian of that vessel did not agree with the one who gave the orders," Said Cutter.
Had it been a hundred years ago, Grissom would have not believed it and his angry would have still been the same. But after the discovery of the Force, those trained how to use it could to supernatural things. Though not all militants received total training a large number were taught how to read into the minds of others. To pry into the deepest crevasse of memory, so when it came to battle those who could be considered innocent, were saved. Of course they were only taught that; the OSA didn't want people running around using it to reveal secrets or bank details, only those most trusted were given that.
As she continued to sieve through the information, Serena found something surprising.
"Admiral, Captain," She said to them both, "you need to see this." As she said that the information Athena was feeding her stopped and Athena transited from the Alien frigate to Spirit of Fire, her holographic form appearing not far from Serena.
Serena set up a link between her and Grissom's and Cutter's neural implants. They began looking at the information which had been translated into English thanks to the translation program. They were rather shocked by what they were reading.
"Another alien alliance," said Cutter.
''I have to tell you when we started this fight I thought we were dealing with a hostile race I didn't expect this,'' Said Grissom. Just then sergeant Forge entered the bridge and handed Athena's chip to Grissom. He walked over to Athena's avatar; she placed her hand on the chip and disappeared.
"I'll head back to the Budapest and make my report" said Grissom to Cutter.
"We'll tow the Frigate back to Shanxi and drop the prisoners off with General Williams. Serena get this Intel to him and the OSA they'll all want to see it," Said Cutter.
As both men parted ways they both wondered what the future might hold.
So I hope you enjoyed that update and I'll try to update before the weeks end, Sorry if I caused any mess to your emails/ alerts I'm still trying to get the hang of this. Bet you didn't expect me to have the transformers. I've also created a poll regarding the gender of noble 6, will still be a few chapters before I use noble. Update: 22/05/2012 Poll is closed Female chosen
I'm just going to point out to people regarding the fleets of star wars, I have not decided for the Predators (may just go with they use their cloaked ships and join/ command ships of the other OSA species) or Twi'leks what I said in the last chapter were just examples, But the Mon-Calamari definitely have the Rebel fleet OK. Also the Na'vi will not have fleets or vehicles, they will relay on others.
A few have pointed out this story is ambitious, the things is with stories I'm like that. Go back a decade to when I was very young, I had an idea for a novel, a crossover of all the films, games etc I liked then I discovered copy right.
Someone pointed out about canon (I won't mention them in case they don't want it) and how all the different universes and series could cause problems, I am striving to keep things similar but like all fic thins change but they will be explained. However I may take weapons, Characters, races etc from one universe and add them but they have nothing to do with their own universe. Here's an example of something I might do ( the orcs and Uruk-hai under the command of sauron use the weapons and fleets of the orks of warhammer 40k).