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"Alright, you know the drill. I want more boots on the ground capturing the territory to our east. Weed out the insurrectionists and begin establishing Imperium bases to ensure continued control, is that clear?"

"Of course general. If that is what the Imperator wishes, then that's what will happen. What will I be given for the operation?"

"You will have 40,000 infantry, 2,000 Barecks, 1,500 scorpion tanks, 12,000 warthogs, 50 longsword, and 11 B-65s. That should more than suffice for the parameters of the operation. After all, you're only taking 4 provinces. They have a combined force of 12,000 men and a few hundred out dated tanks. It'll be a quick fight, I expect."

"Very well general, it will be done."

-The transmission would end, and the green major would immediately begin issuing his orders. To launch his assault, he would use the special Drop pods to launch 300 spec ops forces behind enemy lines. They would begin disrupting supplies, transportation, and using compact communications jamming devices to sow chaos, while the main force would use an aggressive blitzkrieg strategy to rapidly dominate their enemy. In theory, this would end the regions forces within a weeks time.

But not everything follows its design. The insurrectionists utilized their equipment to monitor the amount of comma traffic on the border. Though they could not decrypt it, the amount of discussion alerted them that there was a problem. They began setting up barricades and mines around key locations, to slow them down.

The spec ops forces successfully deployed, activated the jamming, and began targeting supplies. Upon seeing the enemies movements. Most stopped their initial mission and began logging the mine drop locations. 2 teams, however, progress with their attempts to detonate opposition supplies. The first group successfully laid C4 on 3 major armories in the northern region, while the second group managed to lay it on an arsenal in the southern region, before being ambushed by an insurrectionist force.

When the main Resorian force moved in to assault the disorganized force, the insurrectionists were shocked to find that only a few vehicles were effectively destroyed by their mines. The insurrectionists began to ambush in a sporadic and impatient manner, attempting to repel the Imperium's force through sheer aggression. The Imperium utilizes their lack of strategy to bait out and crush their forces steadily. Within the first 6 days of the conflict, the first region had been taken by the Imperium's forces, and the losses amounted to 32 warthogs, 2 scorpion tanks, and 340 dead for the Imperium. For the Insurrectionists, they had lost 340 warthogs, 400 Challenger-I tanks, and 2,400 men. 

 

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Resorian forces continued go push forward with the main force. Realizing they didn't have a chance after losing another province, they withdrew from the remaining 6 surrounding the region to a stronghold further east. After having lost half of their initial force defending the province, they realized they couldn't win.

And yet, a small group remained to bomb Resorian supplies, and hinder troop movements. Knowing that this was going to happen, the Resorian stopped their advanced at the 4 provinces and immediately began to hunt down remaining insurrectionists and eliminate them. Utilizing the brain scanning technology and a complete decryption of the regions communication, they were able to effectively thwart major attacks. Or so they thought.

It was 9 am, it had been 3 days since the withdraw of rebel forces. Using actual notes on paper, a group of insurrectionists had gathered 30kgs of C4, and plotted to assault the Transcendence temple in the center of the Lopar province, the western most province that was recently captured. Using suicide vests, the targets entered the temple unimpeded, and detonated. The building crumbled to the ground, and killed 311 people, injuring 62. 

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"Sir, we have news. We've lost contact with station Delphi. We have a few images from before the station went dark."

Cait Mendez pushes a file containing a series of documents and images towards the Imperator.

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"So what exactly is it that I'm looking at here Cait?"

"Well, we know the insurrectionists don't have the numbers or weaponry to take Delphi. We believe... That a potential hostile alien force has arrived in the system. We're sending in a frigate to investigate the area. "

"I don't want to lose those colonies Cait. More than 30% of the Imperium's food is produced there. We can't afford to lose them."

"We can't afford to blindly engage an enemy either. Especially one who's strength we don't even have a reference for. You need to let us gather information before we decide to act. Alright?"

"Fine, but you need to get it done ASAP."

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"Today marks a tragic day in the history of our nation. Approximately 13 hours ago, we lost contact with Station Delphi. Our reports indicate a group of insurrectionists snuck onto the station and made the core go critical. The death toll has been estimated at 132,600. We have had to estimate it, because the station itself was destroyed completely, and very little is left to sort through. Rest assured, the insurrectionists will pay tenfold for their murder, I promise you that."

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In orbit around the planet ChuRoh, a fleet of unidentified ships came out of slipspace, a total of 30 ships. The planet had no defensive fleet, and relied on a militia force with a network of aerial defenses(110 mm autocanons) and a series of archer missile pods. When the ships arrived, a transmission was sent out, attempting to peacefully communicate with the species.

The ships moved into low orbit, the entire time, not sending out a response transmission. A bright light flashed, and a beam of plasma hit the planets surface. Once this occurred, the planetary commander ordered the firing of all weapons. The beam of plasma was steadily turning the ground into glass, as more of these unidentified ships began to take positions around the planet and subsequently fired the same beams. As the weapons sailed towards the ships, they were intercepted by some form of shield.

The defenses continued to fire upon the ships, but were unable to break through as the glassing of the planet covered more and more territory. Within hours, the entire surface of the planet was encased in a morbidly beautiful glass, reflecting the light of the atmosphere that was now on fire. The ozone and oxygen in the air burned, and would keep burning for the next 3 days. A colony of over 350,000 people was wiped out, in the span of a few hours. The network of intelligence satellites recording the event, however, were left intact, and seemed to be undetected as this force began landing transport vessels on the now desolate planet. The Imperator looked on in a mixture of terror and horror.

Within the next few days, an up and coming general pushed forward a new operating procedure, dubbed the Cole Protocol. The objective of this protocol is to wipe the navigational data residing on RNC vessels, to hopefully prevent these new enemies from discovering the other colonies, or even the homeland. They would be able to retrieve the navigational data again through the onboard AI communicating with homeland HQ, should the vessels survive the encounter. 

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Above the planet Euro, a covenant fleet comes out of slipspace, a few thousand kilometers from the planet. The 30 ships begin to take up positions around the planet, when the 9MAC platforms fire towards the ships. Hitting the largest one, seemingly a carrier, with 6 rounds, the ships shields remain intact, while the other one, seemingly a heavy cruiser, took the remaining 3. After taking the 3 rounds the shield falters and the hull becomes exposed.

Despite this, the heavy cruiser continues to moved forward. Making it 230 kms, before another round is fires. The heavy cruiser is shredded by 2 rounds, while the carriers shield goes down after 4 more, taking a shit to its hull. A destroyer takes a round to its shield and pushes forward.

Losing ship after ship, the alien fleet continues to to push. By the time they take up positions around orbit, there are 12 ships left. Before firing their plasma beam, they fire targeting plasma torpedoes at every MAC platform. Within minutes, the planetary defenses fall silent. In a last ditched effort, Euro fires its nuclear arsenal, followed by 3/4s of the planets archer missiles. The nukes explode in the shield, with less than half of the missiles. The nukes, releasing an emp, render the ships immobile and defenseless. This would be followed up by the last of the remaining missiles. 7 of the 12 would be destroyed, while 3 would see heavy to moderate damage. After a communication from Euro's commander, the entire RNC fleet would travel to the planet to take possession if the captured fleet, while 12 Spartan teams would be sent in to clear all hostiles as needed.

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The entire RNC fleet slow trickles into the system, surrounding the covenant ships.

"Blue team, checking in"

"Red Tram, checking in"

"Grey Team, checking in"

"Echo Team, checking in"

"Fire Team Apex, checking in"

"Fire Team Apollo, checking in"

"Fire Team Avalanche, checking in"

"Fire Team Bailey, checking in"

"Fire Team Castle, checking in"

"Fire Team Crimson, checking in"

"Fire Team Domino, checking in"

"Fire Team Forest, operation leader, checking in"

 

"Alright, Spartan squads. Your objective is to enter the ships one by one, and clear them of hostiles. You will get onto the ship through boarding craft, with your load out. Once you are on the ship, you group up and clear the ship steadily. Do not rush, we cannot afford to lose men on this unnecessarily, but it is imperative that we that these ships get in our possession. Their weapons should be out of commission, but you are to assume their weapons are live. Any questions, Spartans?"

"Just one, commander. Do we have any Intel on how many hostiles will be inside of these vessels?" The leader of Fire team Forest asked.

"According to our readings, there should be around 2,300 hostiles in each ship."

"Our squads only have 15 people in each. Do you think we can clear all 3 ships?"

"You are the best of the best. Hand picked and augmented to be the strongest of us all. On top of that, these things have no more comms network and possibly no weapons. They will be spread out through the ship while your teams will be together. You have every advantage possible. If you need additional reinforcements, we will send 1,500 marines to board and help with fire support."

"Then we're ready to go, Commander."

"Grab your weapons and get into your assigned boarding craft. When all squads are ready, the operation will commence"

 

When the last Spartan team gets onto their boarding craft fully armed, the call goes out. The ships leave the hanger, and latch onto the nearest ship. It pierces a hole into it and pressurises, and the Spartans flood out. A group of three 4 jawed creatures and 8 knee high ones with breathing tubes are caught off gaurd, and met with a hail of bullets.

The Spartans steadily moved towards the bridge, killing every alien in their path. The plasma weapons hit the prototype shield equipped to their armor, without piercing. After several hours, they made it to the bridge. When they stormed the bridge, they were met with 6 fuel rod cannons firing at once. The initial explosion killed 3 Spartans and the rest fled back to the hall. A spartan from blue team, Spartan-117, threw 8 frags into the room at once. After the explosion happened, him and a Spartan-121 rushed in with 2 SMGs in both hands, firing constantly. Two of the knee high creatures fired their fuel rod launchers, both hitting Spartan-121 directly in the chest, shattering his armor and burning through his chest. After the shots fired, the other Spartans rushed in, aiming at the knee high creatures first, then killing the rest. After several hours more, the remaining signs of life were extinguished, and the Spartan teams left to clear the remaining ships.

The cleared ship had a cable attached to it, connecting to a heavy cruiser, then subsequently jumping into slipspace to Station Luna.

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Officials in the SoE and France were contacted as Imperium officials put together a vast research team to be dispatched to Station Luna, to begin dissecting the covenant ships, small arms, and armor. The intent was to find weaknesses to exploit while simultaneously improving their own technology by adapting the alien tech into there.

The teams included quantum physicists, linguists, engineers, and a myriad of other scientists.

 

Towards the Tantalus system, the RNC forces had finally recovered the last ship, the total casualties coming out to 18 Spartans MIA and 632 Marines dead. After the last two ships were connected through the cable, all but a single carrier group fled the system, taking up their positions around Reach and Mars.

The carrier group that stayed behind began sifting through the wrecked alien ships, salvaging what they could from the wreckage. Believing that this alien threat would not realize one of their fleets had stopped their communication.

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The towed ship would be hooked up to the station, where a clean up crew would move in and take the corpses, putting them on transports and taking them down to a covert medical facility to be dissected.

Linguists would begin searching through the computers, inspecting the various characters that popped up. Engineers and scientists would begin studying the shield technology, attempting to integrate it into RNC vessels.

Finally, in orbit around Euro, a spider-like machine was fished out of the wreckage of one of the carriers. The vehicle was mostly intact, aside from a number of scratches. It would be scanned for life, and then loaded into the Orion-class carrier.

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All is quiet in the Tantalus system, as the RNC fleet continues to salvage the wreckage of the alien ships the spider-like machine having been carried off to Station Luna to be investigated. The Fleet had taken position around the Tantalus System to defend local assets against potential assault. Out if nowhere, slipspace activity was detected 3,200 kilometers from orbit around Euro. A fleet of alien ships amassed, coming to over 80 strong.

(1 CSO-Class super carrier, 7 CAS class assault carriers, 14 CCS-Class battle cruisers, 14 CPV-Class heavy destroyers, 16 CRS-Class light cruisers, 22 CAR-class frigates, 21 DAV-Class light corvettes and 4 CPV-Class super destroyers)

After grouping up, the fleet fired at the RNC vessels with their plasma based cannons. The RNC fleet attempted to charge the unidentified force, launching their MAC rounds at max capacity, and firing all of their archer missile pods. The 6,000 missiles launched towards the ship, and the alien ballistic defenses targeted and destroyed 3,400 of them before they could make it to their target. As the archer pods took down the shields of an assault carrier and 2 destroyers, while eliminating 8 frigates, the MAC rounds would hit the assault carrier in 3 different areas. Ripping the ship apart.

After a clear desperate assault, where RNC forces expended their missile stockpile, they had already lost RNC designations: Bunker hill, Acadia, Bellerophen, Journeyman, and Aladin. The remaining RNC ships fired their stockpiles of SHIVA missiles, attempting to launch an EMP to disable the opposing ships. While launching them, the Orion class carrier Atlas, was obliterated by 6 individual plasma blasts. Of the 33 SHIVA nukes fired, only 2 would successfully go off. The results were half the remaining alien fleet being disabled, while the now defenseless RNC vessels were blasted to pieces.

 

The alien forces boarded their allied vessels and repaired them within the span of a few hours. Afterwards, the alien fleet would take orbit around the planet, with its exhausted defenses from the previous battle, and incinerate the planet below. The ground would be converted to glass, and the atmosphere would be caught ablaze.

 

The images of the alien corpses that were captured from the wrecked vessel, were labeled classified at the highest authority to prevent widespread panic.

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"The heretics must be purified, for they have defiled the remains of the Great Ones. We cannot transcend in the Great Journey until all of the heretics have been purged. It is the new directive of the Covenant to hunt down and eradicate these primitives before they can do harm to any more relics from the Great Ones." -A Missive from the Prophet of Truth

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A ringing starts, low st first but gradually getting louder. An annoyed Cait Mendez picks up the holovid, irritation saturating her voice.

"I'm in the middle of a meeting with the deputy director, this had better be good."

"Ma'am, we have a report that the linguists have managed to translate much of the language with the help of our advanced AIs."

"Wait, have you been able to translate the navigational data on their systems? What about the system functions?" Cait Mendez lost herself, the excitement in her voice showing.

"Cait, perhaps this meeting can wait. I imagine the Imperator would want to know immeadietely." The deputy director chimed in.

"He doesn't need to know. This is an ONI matter, and ONI supersedes the Imperator except in the most extreme circumstances. However, I will head to Luna and check this myself. We've kept it out if the hands of SoE and French officials, correct?" Cait Mendez inquired, a stern tone permeating through the holovid.

"Yes ma'am. Despite it being against the Imperator's directive, we've had then go using on some of the platform guns in the hanger bay. Only ONI approved linguists and our AI Cortana, were permitted access to the systems."

"I will be there in the next 48 hours, compile your notes and be ready when I get there."

"Of course."

 

The Deputy Director begins to sort through files. These files include a number of assets in insurrectionist strongholds, 2 in France, 1 in SoE, 3 Rokkenjima, 2 in the USSR, 1 in MoG[corp], 8 in the US, 3 in First Order, 2 in the Republic, 4 in the Regime, and 2 in Germany. The operational procedure for assets is to find individuals in low to moderate levels of government who are discontent with how things operate, and to exploit that with promise of funds or political support.

ONI officials even went so far as to make connections with criminal groups to secure channels into the country to ensure flow of information. This was all done via third party corporations so it could not be directly connected back to ONI or the Imperium itself.

 

 

The intelligence report in assets is heavily encrypted an on an offline server that only the director and deputy director can access. Different departments manage each nations ONI assets. The compartmentalization was intended to keep leaks from being severe or catastrophic.

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Cait Mendez, director of ONI boarded station Luna with Spartan-Blue team. As she moved toward the enclosed location where the 3 alien ships were stashed, she drummed her fingers impatiently on her hip. When she finally arrived, she quickly took up her position on the raised platform looking down in the researchers as they worked. What was a light jig for her, was a simple stride for the hulking Spartans.

 

"Someone give me a sitrep on the progress." Cait called out below.

"Yes ma'am. We've found out this alien force is called the Covenant. There are the sangheili; a warrior caste of the covenant. There are the unggoy, which are a slave/servant caste. There are the Kig-Yar, which we've got conflicting information calling them mercenaries and warriors, but still worship the covenant ideology. There are the Mgalekgolo, which is another warrior caste said to be shock troopers. There are the Jiralhanae, who also appear to be shick troops. There are the San'Shyuum, which appear to be the leadership class with a triumvirate leading it known as the Prophets of Truth, Regret, and Reconciliation. As far as we know, this is effectively an alien cult that has grown unchallenged in strength long enough that they've amassed a huge force. They speak of a Great Journey, which seems to center around Sacred Rings. Intelligence suggest that these Sacred Rings are superstructures built by an extremely advanced race. Odds are, if they can capture them, that this alien race is dead." The linguist diligently informed the Director.

"Very good. Is there anything else?" Cait inquired one last time.

"Not yet, we've only translated a sixth of the database."

"Continue your work." Cait called back as she headed towards the exit and towards the conference room.

When she arrived, she booted up the console, and sent a message towards the unidentified medical facility tasked with dissecting the aliens.

"Hello Ben. I need to know what progress you've made." Cait said in a gentle voice of familiarity.

"Of course, Cait. So far, they seem to have the same vulnerabilities that we do. The small ones, known as Unggoy, breathe me than instead of oxygen, and have to use a tank. Shooting them in the head or abdomen is going to kill them. The larger ones with 4 jaws are a lot like us internally. They have different skin tones, 4 jaws, and extra muscular tissue; but their heart, brain, and arteries are extremely similar to ours. The linguists tell me they're called Sangheili. What's truly interesting, is the shields embedded into their armor. I think we can integrate it into the SPARTAN MJOLNIR armor to give their shields a booste.  But getting back to the aliens, the King Yar seem to lack a great deal of muscular tissue, but they have similiar traits to avians, with hollowed bones and such. This makes them fragile and yet fast, and we believe this is why they use the circular shield instead of a personal shield. " Ben told her, smiling fondly into the holovid.

"Hurry and finish your work so you can return to me. I have to compile this information into a report and sent it to Spyre and the UNSC groups." Cait told him before reluctantly ending the holovid call.

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A large vehicle, similar to the shape of and APC, rolls through the deserts of the recently captured provinces. The vehicle, paired with a convoy of 16 warthogs and 4 Scorpion tanks, rolled onward towards and insurrectionist hideout that had been conducting sabotage operations since their retreat. 

As the M510 Mammoth rolled up to the secluded, rundown outpost, the insurrectionists fired their mounted weapons towards the larger target. Where the bullets would normally hit metal, they were stopped by an opaque field of shimmering light. The warthogs began surrounding the building as the tanks took up position on elevated areas surrounding the shack. Within minutes all avenues of retreat were cut off. The M510 fired its mini MAC, and leveled over half of the facility. A shocked fireteam of innies began to resume their fire on the massive vehicle. Intent on measuring the ability of the shields capabilities, the Imperium forces held their fire, so long as the innies remained inside of the building. After nearly a half hour of continuous fire, and several frags, bullets could be heard hitting metal as the shimmering field vanished. As the shield fell, 4 Mantis' broke out from the rear and began firing their rickets in unison with the Mammoth's MLRS'. Finally, the mini MAC would be fired again, leveling the rest of the outpost. The 3 men who ran out were gunned down by the surrounding warthogs.

 

After the project was labeled a success, progress was made towards having Acheron Security manufacture 3,000 over the course of the next 2 years.

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A UNSC headquarters would be constructed on the Fortress World of Reach, crown jewel of the Imperium.

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SoE would've given the Red(Western Section); While France would be given Blue(Eastern Section). The nations would have free reign in their respective sections, while the circular building in the upper middle portion is the meeting room for the unsc officials.

As Reach was being readied for the UNSC presence, the Imperium dispatched 2 of their carrier groups to crush the remains of the insurrectionists on Tribute.

 

Deployment:

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(The black squares are a battalion, the circle is an armoured division, and the stars are ODST platoons. The red squares are a battalion, the circle is an armoured division, and the triangle is an artillery division.

 

Resorian forces deployed on the planet rapidly, surprising the insurrectionist forces planet side. As the troops began landing in mass and the fleet taking up orbital position, the innies scrambled to set up their defenses against the surprise assault. 

"Alright Marines! You know the drill against the innies. Your job is to go down there and shut that shit down. Capture officers where you can. Living officers are better than dead ones; the brain deteriorates after death and the information could be lost. Attempt to avoid civilian casualties where possible, but the priority is your survival. Get down there and tare it up, Marines!"

"Yes, Colonel, Sir!"

The marines were then deployed through a series of pelicans, while the ODSTs awaited the battle for their deployment. Their priority was to pincer the enemy artillery and eliminate it to make way for their infantry and armor unimpeded. The MAC cannons would provide bombard meant against the insurrectionist artillery and fortifications.

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The stockpile of missiles, the orbital defense network, and the EMP shell around mars would be verified and prepared, as more and more nations began bumbling through space. The order was to shoot down any vessel that did not identify and request sock ng permission.

 

Likewise, Station Luna would ready its forces and missile stockpiles against any incoming threat which does not identify before landing.

 

(A reminder to China that there are fortifications in place on Mars that have been there since I formed. Your ship cannot enter mars without you eliminating the satellites that produce the EMP shell. Your exploratory vessel would also have to evade thousands of defense cannons, missiles, and several ships. Station Luna also has 2 entire carrier groups surrounding and defending it. I would strongly advise you be wary when sending vessels to these military installations.)

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The Forces on Tribute continued pushed forward over the course of the past few months, and it has been a series of incredibly bloody battles as Imperium forces steadily root out the Insurrectionist forces inhabiting the north eastern section of the continent. The forces moved to the front to engage the insurrectionist forces, believed to be remnants of the former CIF. as the troops went to engage, the 200 ODST troops deployed behind enemy lines dismantled and sabatoged the majority of the innie artillery. The remaining artillery was targetted by the RNC cruiser, the autumn class heavy cruiser Endeavor. Using a salvo of Archer missile pods to bombard the the artillery, the MAC rounds were used to target and eliminate known innie nests with specialised hollow rounds filled with white phospherous. These rounds would scatter the white phosphorous for nearly 5 miles, and then a lone missile would be launched to ignite it. These rounds completely halted enemy movements in the area, and forced them to move in the direction the Imperium chose. The automated F-99s were scrambled, and 350 were released with  25 B-65 bombers; the goal of these aircraft were to limit enemy troop movements while Resorian armored and infantry divisions pushed into the enemy lines and crushed the innie forces in a conventional battle.

 

Unbeknownst to Fleet captainThomas Laskey, ONI had authorised a SPARTAN strike force of 2 fireteams to invade the innie stronghold of Hyperion. The force in question was lead by fireteam Osiris, and supported by Red Team. The force snuck into the main camp through a cargo freighter, which carrier a large amount of arms and explosives to the innie bunker hidden under the capital building. The SPARTANs snuck out of the freighter after night fell, killed the guards protecting the entrance to the bunker. Once inside, the team embeded their AI, Corvis, into the computer network. Corvis then initiated a lockdown, ensuring that the SPARTANs had free range of movement. They then manuvered through the bunker, with Corvis opening up the doors they needed, and killing any innie forces in their path. The innie forces, unlike the SPARTANs, did not possess night vision equipment. Since the bunker was on lockdown, and the lights were off, fireteam Osiris and Red team were able to reach their destination without trouble. There, they used Corvis to access the primary systems, which were then copied and sent to the regional ONI branch. Finally, they moved to the conference room where they discovered the innsurrectionist command center. Once they entered the room, they immediately opened fire on the men in the room, killing the military minds behind the CIF, as they attempted to recoperate from the new tactics being employed by the RNC forces. The SPARTAN teams stayed in the bunker, and slowly began to clear it out while the innie forces were powerless to enter the facility. The 40 feet thick concrete structure located 200 feet underground, and accessible only from an elevator which was controlled from inside the bunker itself, was powerless to receive innie reinforcements. Corvis, the AI which had control of the system, shut off the elevator mid-way up, and locked all outside access.

 

The innie forces tried desparately to retreat from the advancing Imperium soldiers, and found themselves in a last ditched defense of Hyperion. The losses thus far consisted of nearly 72% of the Innie forces, and only 23% of the Imperium's force. The larger Imperium force having lost such a small percent of their overall force, was in high spirits as they crushed the innie forces.

"So it's confirmed? Peter Bonifacio has, in fact, been continueing to build up the remnants of the CIF?" Cait Mendez asked the Eradian-branch regional director.
"Yes, ma'am. According to the intelligence gathered by Fireteam Osiris, he and the former cabinet of the CIG has been secretly ignoring the conditions of the peace agreement. We know they've been gathering supplies, and intended to begin building the Orbital Defense Network on Tribute, but we didn't actually think that the original CIF force was apart of this." The director told her, a stressed expression on his face.
"Well, we're eliminating their main force, and we just killed their middle leadership. Send in the other teams to eliminate the govenor and his cabinet. Anyone who's shown loyalty to him is to be shot. I'd prefer we make it sublte and blame it on the innsurrectionist force, but it's fine if we can't. What matters is that they have to die, no matter what." Cait ordered him, her face never flenching as she wrote down the kill orders.
"Very well, ma'am. We'll have it done."

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As the last holdouts in Hyperion were being rooted out, the fire teams left the bunker, and were exfiltrated out by Pelican. The Spartans were being redeployed per order by the Colonial Affairs division. The task they were assigned? Assassinate the former CIF echelon, and make it appear as murder by insurrectionist forces.

The first target, was the head of the CIF and the glue that bound the movement together. Peter Bonifacio was killed by a car bomb outside of his home, with two security guards. His Finance advisor was gunned down by three unidentified men in an unregistered vehicle. The vehicle was then traced to a radical CIF faction that had intended to break off. Despite denying any involvement, the main CIF faction disowned them and sent the location of their assets to RNC forces. Finally, the Interior Advisor, as well as the Head Justice of Tribute, were found dead in their home. The married couple are believed to have died of a heart attack. The individuals were cremated before any autopsy or tests could be run. 

Additionally, the UNSC facility in Reach would be officially considered to be completed, as the insurrectionist stronghold in the system was extinguished.

"Excellent job, SPARTANs. The assassinations were executed flawlessly. Many have their suspicions, but no proof. I'm sending you now to guard the new station were constructing outside of Imperium space. The facility will be classified GAMMA-2, and used exclusively for ONI missions." Cait Mendez began telling the SPARTANs.

"Yes ma'am. Is there anything specific we need to do there? Or is it a standard guard detail?" Spartan Locke inquired, formally.

"No, this is a reprieve mission for a successful tour. Take a breather, we may call on you again." Cait instructed them with a soft smile.

"Ma'am... Since when does a branch reserve a station exclusively for their own? Not even the RNC is permitted to do that." Buck asked her, genuinely puzzled.

"Were ONI. We do what we want because they all know were necessary for their functionality. Besides, we have projects classified at the highest level. Even beyond the Imperator." Cait told him, bemused.

"I see. Well, we'll get going." Buck told her as he moved toward the door. Cait ended the call, and swiveled her chair.

 

"How's the progress on the Reach stockpile? I know the Imperator wanted to double it in the next 4 years in preparation for a covenant assault." Cait asked her deputy director, clearly exhausted with the Imperator.

"Hes pushing it for 3 years. It'll be tight, but we can manage it. I'm more concerned with installing the shield prototype on the new ships. They'll be ready in a few months now, and equipping 4 fleets with it will be expensive." He told her, his mind wandering.

"We will likely only equip it to a single carrier group. We don't have the resources for all of them. Regardless, we haven't seen the covenant since they assaulted the Tantalus system. It could be decades before we see them again" she told him skeptically.

"Yes, but we must prepare for it as if we will encounter then tomorrow. Better to be Pre-" he began

"Yes, I know. But with the amount of tension on earth makes it hard to split our attention. If we focus too much on our colonies and neglect the politics here, we might find it just as destructive." She explained to him.

"Aye, but we've always had that headache. We'll persevere; we always do."

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With the fall of the insurgents at Tribute, the ONI forces prepared a massive operation. As the fleet began its movements to land, ONI director Cait Mendez sat in a conference with the Imperator, Alexander Spyre.

"We can't afford to appear weak right now, with the covenant forces being a prevalent threat to our forces." The imperator insisted.

"I don't disagree, but we can't find them. What we can find, are the insurrectionist forces hiding out at key locations. What we know, is that a rogue faction of the CIF I'd currently trying to take over the government of Madagascar. That makes them the more real threat to us and our investments." Cait retorted, an air if irritation seeking into her voice.

"I understand, but we can ill afford to pick unnecessary fights. I'll authorize this op, but afterwards I want our focus in tracking down these alien threats." Alexander told her firmly. 

"We will continue to try and locate the covenant threat, but until then we will also continue to crush insurrectionist strongholds. I will not allow them to fester." Cait told him, and then moved to the door.

"You haven't changed, Cait. Fine, do as you like, you always have." Alexander told her, surrendering.

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As an unknown fleet of alien vessels began moving towards orbital positions, the RNC First fleet would retreat to surround the half-built Cairo station. The platform began generating massive amounts of heat while the Super MAC began to charge up, preparing to fire. A heavily encrypted burst was sent to Station Luna, to recall the 2 fleets stationed there, while another was sent to Mars, to recall the 2 fleets that had finished construction. Finally, the fleet admiral Jacob Keyes, would send a communication to the ships.

"This is the Resorian Imperium, one of the people residing from the planet below. We are preparing our weapons to fire if you do not respond or continue to advance without identifying. Given our previous experience with alien life forms, we can I'll afford to permit you to continue towards the planet unimpeded."

 

Finally, after a quick call from the ships captain to ONI, Cait Mendez sent an emergency message to UNSC triumvirates from reach, alerting them to ready their forces for a potential impending assault.

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The staff manning Mars watched as the space station got closer and closer to the planetary stronghold. As it got closer, a message was sent telling them not to enter Martian space. As the vessel continued to barrel forward, a series of 12 missiles were launched at the station.

"You are entering Resorian territory, turn around and leave, or your vessel will be destroyed."

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"Yes, that's correct. You are to begin the operation in 4 hours. The details lie within the folder. I've deployed 4 SPARTAN teams to aid your assault, but I'm afraid we have a situation in orbit, and fire support from the fleet is unavailable. Do what you need to in order to claim that island for the Imperium. Understood?" Cait told the man, clearly distracted.

"Yes ma'am. I will take care of things here, no need to worry. Good luck." The man replied, before curtly shutting off the feed.

 

"So these agents are going to assassinate the men stationed in the radar array? What of the comms towers around the island?" He asked towards the fairly young man standing before him.

"Well, Chief, it would appear that ODST troops are already in the area and have prepared the explosives to knock out their towers. From there, its a simple ground invasion. The SPARTANs are going to eliminate the higher up chain of command, so that they will have no one issuing orders, while the ODST forces eliminate their means of issuing orders. From there, it will be our veteran soldiers versus theirs, and their men have no recent combat history." The young man explained to him, as he read the vanilla folder.

"Are our forces ready, then?" The district chief probed the young man.

"For the most part. Were still waiting on the spartan teams before we begin."

 

"You have your orders, fleet Commander. You are to fire on the alien vessels when the other four fleets have regrouped with you. They have yet to respond to our communications, and yet have begun landing planetside. They represent a threat to all of humanity, and we will not ignore it." Cait told the old man, a deathly serious expression on her face.

"Very well, your éminence grise. We'll take care of things here. Whatever they are, they don't appear to be the covenant. Well make short work of them." Jacob Keyes responded with a confident smile, the cigar at the corner of his mouth exuding a mass of smoke.

"You should really stop smoking those things, they're bound to kill you before any bullets do." She said, in a light hearted nagging.

"I'm counting on it. After 35 years of service, if I can say I died to these instead of the innies or alien bastards, I'd say I had a good run." He chuckled, before giving a respectful nod and ending the communication. s

As he did so, 2 fleets came out of slipspace behind the first fleet, while 2 more came out of slip space a few kilometers to their left. The ships instantly began to take up formation.

 

A series of explosions began to take place around the harbors of western Madagascar. A force of ODSTs would take up positions on the highest point of Tsaratanana Massif, where 12 scorpion tanks and 3 mobile artillery pieces would be dropped in. 4,000 RNC marines would be deployed from the harbors, where they would begin hitting the militia in full force. As this occurred, the chain of command for the eastern region met inside Toliara, where they tried to gather motorcycles to send their orders, as well as a call for reinforcements from the east.

 

"Blue team is in position. We count 13 messengers. I strongly advise engaging before they receive messages. We can't take them all out." John-117 called to the District Chief.

"Very good SPARTAN. I want you to eliminate the source before they dispatch the info. We can't provide fire support, so you're on your own. Good luck." The man told him formally, before ending the call.

The SPARTANs used their infra red snipers to target and track the assets. 

"Alright blue team, all assets are in the top floor. Use your explosives and hit it. Well fall back to the outer section of the city, and exfil out by pelican. The exfil will be hot, so be ready." John-117 explained.

"Roger" was the response, coming from both members. They pulled out their rocket launchers, took aim, and fired on 117s signal. Being hit from all directions by rockets, the entire upper floor was engulfed in flames. Those who didn't die instantly, could be heard screaming in agony for nearly a minute. As the SPARTANs ran towards the slums, they were constantly forced into the shadows as trucks with mounted guns drove by. It took the team nearly 40 minutes to reach their destination and call for the pelican. By the time the force scrambled to find whatever vehicle was making the noise, the pelican was already out of the fire zone.

 

The ships in orbit would prepare their missile silos, and their MAC cannons. 2 fleets flank the unidentified fleet, while 3 others lay in front of it. The fleets would unload 1/4th of their archer missiles(2,300), with 15 Zues Bolts mixed in, and fire their MACs continuously until the vessels were obliterated(72 rounds per 90 seconds.), utilizing the regular rounds. Finally, they would send burst communications to overwhelm or disorientate their radar and standard communications.

 

An agreement with the SoE, would see a massive business deal in which Resoria would arm their soldiers over the course of the next 4 years. While pricing was being negotiated, the Imperator said it would likely be in the realm of 5 billion.

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As the missiles fired, and the MAC cannons were preparing to fire, the communication was received.

"Abort the assault! Those are ROK vessels!" Jacob Keyes bellowed across the comes.

But it was already too late to stop the Archer missiles from firing, and 3 Zues boots sailed down to the planet below. The MAC canons were halted from firing, as the captains frantically halted the firing matrix. Finally, Keyes would send a communication below, despite knowing that most ships wouldn't be able to maneuver fast enough.

"To those below, you must prepare yourself. We were unable to stop the salvo of missiles in time. There are thousands headed your way."

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After the assassination of the major faction leaders, the divided and ultimately leaderless Madagascar government, ceded the territory to the Imperium force. The Imperium immeadietely began establishing fortifications and defenses from aerial and orbital threats, while using the telecommunications systems to identify where insurrectionist forces were established. Through constant operations, the Imperium steadily began eliminating the innie presence on the island. Additionally, a section to the south of the Imperium, formerly of the Congo Republic, held a referendum to join Resoria.

Though the Congo has continued to claim it was a thug-like tactic where Resorian bullied local officials. The Congo did not have the military or clout to force Resorian away from the territory. The Imperator made a public statement towards these accusations.

 

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"It has come to our attention, that the government residing in the Congo Republic, is claiming we stole their territory. On the contrary; The Congo is a republic, and should accept the results of an election held in the form of this referendum. We did not force them to hold it, and we certainly did not corrupt the votes. The citizens simply wanted to join a note prosperous union."

 

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Additionally, the ship manufacturing facilities on Venus would be diverted towards the French Space Force program, to aide Resoria's allies in developing a capable fleet.

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ONI Intelligence base on Titan...

"Um, Director... We've got something.it looks like an encrypted signal coming out of the asteroid belt." The green analyst told her superior.

"What's the signal strength? And have the AI start decrypting." The man said as he leaned over her monitor.

"Strong enough to leave the system, sir. And Boulder has already begun decrypting." She told him, as she began typing away at her keyboard.

"Very well, alert ONI high command. If its leaving the system, it could be covenant in origin." As the Dire for said this, the systems began speaking.

"The odds of that are remote. Though interaction with covenant has been minimal, their systems do not match the reading we received. Further investigation is encouraged before further hypothesis is made."

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"816 days ago, contact was made with an unidentified alien force, known as the Covenant. The resulting contact ended with 3 planets and over 11 million lives lost. Since then, a directive has been issued that requires all navigational data be wiped in the event that anyone comes into contact with the covenant. Our priority must be to secure the Han race. Additionally, vessels are forbidden from jumping straight into a settled system, to ensure the covenant do not trace you back to our worlds.

Why am I telling you this? Because as of 2 weeks ago, an unidentified group of vessels of unknown origin sent signals from the Sol System, and a number of the vessels are in the asteroid belt. Two fleets have been recalled from both Reach and Harmony. We will take a stand against this threat, and fight for the survival of humanity. The UNSC stands strong in the face of annihilation, and we will be victorious in this war. The Imperium Perseveres. Today. Tomorrow. Forever!"

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3 hours prior to the broadcast...

"The Second and Fourth fleets are in position, Admiral." A young man said nervously to the older gentleman.

"Send the signal, and prepare the MAC rounds. The covenant ships tend to be durable." Admiral Jacob Keyes relayed to the young man. "Let's show these ugly bastards what they get for messing with the human race. Mess em up good boys."

A solitary beep went out upon the assigned frequency. Not a single word was uttered on the comms, to mask it as a rogue transmission. The crew waited with baited breath, as a dual beep was sounded in response. Then, the fleets sprung to life, launching a salvo of 250 missiles, 28 MAC rounds, 2 Shiva nuclear missiles, and then immediately followed by 300 F-99 Drones. 

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"It's time we have a live fire test of the sentinel forces. We've run millions of simulations as to their effectiveness, and given were mass producing them, we need to ensure there are no flaws. As such, we will be deploying 40,000 on Troy in the Luytan system. The inteded object is to eliminate the criminal presence on the planet." Can't Mendez explained to the current Section Three Director.

"Very well. We have the militia forces to provide auxillary support in emergency circumstances. We can scrounge up an additional 80,000 boots if we require it." The section three Director of colonial affairs informed her. 

"Should we need to, we also have the defense contractors Cerberus that we can request assisstance with. The op will begin in 1 month. We're using civilian aquired freighters to move the forces. When we begin, all communications will be cut off on Troy, and witnesses will be kept to a minimum. Should be relatively easy since Troy is a farming planet, but the criminal forces are rpimarily in the 3 major cities. The Navy will not play any part in this op." Can't told him before dismissing him.

 

Cait booted up a screen as she began ringing the French intelligence Agency, the DGSE.

"We have a directorate from the Imperator telling us we are to begin a series of joint ops and asset development missions with you. So tell us, where would you like to begin?" Cait probed the DGSE director, her poker face unreadable.

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