RP:Old Problems Renewed

Summary
''The Brute Enclaves, small fiefdoms formed from the Loyalists after the Human-Covenant War, have recently begun colonizing planets in Yanme'e Emirates territory. The Yanme'e landed Fireteams for rapid assaults, but they became entrenched. Hiring some of the most feared warriors in the galaxy, the Hai, the Yanme'e are now mounting a full offensive campaign to push the Brutes packing. But strange events will occurr on the uncharted planet Masaba III, where a horrendous species lurk in the shadows, preying on the lonely and afraid, and a malevolent force will return after the UNSC pitchs in to help its ally.''

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 * Kebath 'Holoree
 * ODST Joshie

Yanme'e Emirates
NOTE:SheWhoKnows is in complete control of the Yanme'e. Dont ask to use them unless you prove you can be trusted.

Status:Active
 * Yanme'e Armada
 * Yanme'e Beast Riders
 * Hundreds of thousands of Yanme'e soldiers

Characters

 * Yen'Jarl
 * Pel'Hik (deceased)
 * Nik'Flo

Alliance of Tribes
Feel free to make a Hai character, just follow the info on their pages and ask Actene if you need help. Status:Active
 * Hai Expedition Fleet (10 Fury-Class Battleships, 4 Bow-Class Carriers, Unknown amount of Cruisers and Destroyers)
 * Unknown number of Hai ground forces

Characters

 * Gahn Rahkt (EliteMaster117)

United Nexus Nations
Don't make a Nexus character as they are My babies >:D. Status:Active
 * Nexus Fleet of Intriging Curiousty. (8 Apocolyptic-Class Frigates, 3 Imperial-class Destroyers, 1 Purifier-Class Dreadnought and 2 Aquilus-class Destroyers)
 * 2 Nexus Infantry Regiments (The 2nd Ferox Armoured Regiment; The 3rd Nessus Infantry Regiment and the Imperial Calculus Regiment.)

UNSC
NOTE:Please use Halo 3 era weapons or new ones from the After War Era. (Link Below) Status:Active
 * UNSC Expeditionary Task Forces Alpha, and Beta. Each is composed of 50 Frigates and 75 Marathon cruisers.
 * ODST's and UNSC Army soldiers.

Characters

 * Commander Fade

Masaban's

 * Masaban Loyalists- bad, fighting everybody in an all out brawl. Status:Active
 * Masaban Rebels- Allied with the Yanme'e Emirates, UNSC, and Hai. Status:Killing everyone they come across.

Brute Colonials

 * Unknown amount of ground forces.
 * 567 Scarabs, Locusts, and Wraiths.

Status:Killing everyone they come across.

ACT 1:Landing Force
Commander Pel'Hik stepped down from his landing parties T.I.P, feet sinking into the muck of the jungle. Unholstering his Type-26 Directed Energy Pistol while glancing at his plasma cell, he smirked as a large butterfly flew in range. He shot it, watching it smolder to bits and flutter to the ground. "Come on. We have orders to scout this area for anything hostile to the fleet." "Yes Commander." squealed his troops as they took flight, buzzing off in groups of 4 all around him. Pel walked back to the T.I.P, and called in for the fleet. Looking up, he saw as the Yanme'e Armada entered orbit from SlipSpace. "Beautiful." he said, before a harpoon entered his head, and he collapsed in a pool of his blood and died.

Yen'Jarl heard gunfire. Turning around, she buzzed back to the insertion pod. Seeing her commander dead scared the crap out of her. "Guys, Commander Hik is dead !" she sreamed. The other Yanme'e flew in quick, landing around her. "Guess your in charge, your the 2nd highest rank hear." said a Drone. She looked up at the fleet, reassuring herself everything would be fine. Bending down simultaneously, she pulled out the long, sharp harpoon and lifted it up for the other Yanme'e to see. "Lets give this back." she said with a smirk. She made sure her gun was loaded, and struck off in the direction of the shot. Stalking through the humid and wet jungle, the group found what appeared to be footprints. "That isnt a Brute footprint, aint our allies the Hai either." said Yen. Suddenly, strange eel-like creatures hopped from the brush, firing their harpoon weapons with deadly accuracy. Yen got hit in the side of the head, but others were'nt so lucky. Yen saw a Drone get shot against a tree, pinned there by harpoons. "STOP!!!" Yen screamed, and the starnge creatures did. "What are you alien creatures." said the one apparently in charge. "You have translators too ? We are the Yanme'e, hailing from the Yanme'e Emirates. Why did you attack us." she asked, excited she was making first contact with an alien species. "We are the Masaban rebels, and we attacked you because you seemed threatening, like those hairy alien things." he said. "Those are called Brutes. We are here to send them back to their homeworld by any means neccesary, and liberate your world." said Yen gleaming. "If you want to help us.",he said "Then supply us so we can destroy our wretched government before they kill you. By the way, my name is Ulur." said Ulur, saluting the Yanme'e like his soldiers were.

1.1
Walking down the metallic hall of the UNSC Infinity; a Marathon Cruiser, Commander Fade glances out a large window at Earth. He only catches a small sight of it as the Ares MAC Station obscured the rest. As he continued down the large halls and corridors he passes marines and ODST’s alike. Each one of them proudly talking to another. Some have even broken into a form of dancing which Fade had never seen before. One ODST, sat alone on a bench which was partially dented from the marines who had slammed into it during the last ship battle with a brute cruiser.

This lone trooper was cleaning their BR56, his hands gliding across the barrel ever so gently. As Fade neared the trooper, without looking up stood and saluted the commander. A grin came across the commanders face as he returned the salute and continued on his way. Slowly turning his head to look behind him, he watched as the trooper sat back down and spun the rifle to clear any dirt or liquid which may have accumulated in its crevices. Entering the Bridge, Fade told a communications engineer to activate the speakers. A flicker on the speakers signaled him to begin speaking. Across the entirety of the ship, his voice was clear and distinguishable. “Soldiers of the UNSC Infinity; we have been called upon by the Yanme’e Emirate to assist them in defending their borders. Now I know most of you don’t exactly get along with the idea, but keep this in mind. One more ally is one less enemy. While we were off fighting brutes across the galaxy, our brethren had been assisting the Drones in an all-out war. It is our turn to aid them, and so we shall meet them on the world of Masaba III. I want everyone prep’d for drop when we enter Mas’s orbit. Tac-Team One will meet their Commander ‘Hik at this location here,” Fade announced. Screens all over the ship lit up showing a map of the planet and tactical layouts. A red circle began large and in rows of seven became small indicating the rendezvous point. The Circle continued as the Marines began talking to each other, topic set on the mission. Vibrations began to occur all around the ship, indicating it was leaving dock. “We are joining Expeditionary Task Force Alpha. Beta will arrive sometime after. This is not a combat operation, so dress light. Good luck, Fade out.” Fade said before turning off the comms. The ship pulled away from the MAC station and slowly headed towards the stars, and soon jumped into slipspace. --

1.2
After speaking about the Masaban government with Urul, Yen decided to have a small lunch so she could see how her troops interacted with the Masaban rebels. Most of them were looking at each others weapons, asking questions about basic inter-species stuff. Yen handed a piece of meat to Urul, who seemed to sniff it and then take a huge bite. He forcefully swallowed it, judging by the large knot in his throat. "Good." he said, his voice raspy. "You dont have to lie." said Yen. Urul acknowledged her, then threw up all over the ground. With not much else to do, Yen got up and checked her COM back at the T.I.P. It confirmed sightings of other Yanme'e in the area, but also showed a bulky craft flying through the atmosphere. Looking up, Yen was relieved when a large UNSC Marathon Cruiser flew over, hovering in the atmosphere. Movement occured behind her. Turning around, several harpoons fired into the company, killing both Rebels and and Drones. Yen fired her rifle at the enemy, unsure what she was fighting. She thought the Masabans were on their side. Taking down another, she ran up to Urul. "Tell your men to stand down !" she yelled in his face. "Their not mine, they are despot loving Loyalist fools. Plus, they have blue armor, we have camoflauge." he fired his Masaban Assault Rifle, blowing a Loyalists head off with precision accuracy. "Just like the Commander..." she thought. Continuing the fight, Yen yanked the plasma grenade from her guns handle and tossed it towards a group of Loyalist scum. They exploded into smithereens, spraying blood everywhere and burning Yen's eyes. Plunging her face in a pool of water, she whipped her head back out and shot a Loyalist wielding a knife. The direction they were coming from was surrounded by trees. "Dead trees. Yen told herself. She wasted a clip into the bas of a large brown tree, causing it to collpase and block the path, while simultaneously crushing dozens of enemy troops. They Drones and Rebels ran back to the T.I.P, and radioed new coordinates to the UNSC Marathon Cruiser in orbit. "Lets get out of here." said Yen, and the Yanme'e fluttered around the Rebels and picked them up, flying them to a nearby hill, the best defensive position.

1.3
Nacalla Three walked to the view port of his sweet. The UNN Calculus' Blessing. He had redemed himself many times since his humaliaing Defeat, all those years ago. He always enjoyed slipspace traval. It was Lupus' blessing. The Fleet quickly dropped out of slipspace. And hid on the edge of the system.

"Sir," a metallic voice rang out.

"What is it?" Nacalla rang back.

"Human and Yanme'e ships in the Area."

"Good," Nacalla said with one of the only pieces of emotion the Nexus knew. Anticipation.

"Sir, the Ferox Anger is hailing us. Wanting to know if we should go to battle stations."

"Tell Kiwinda Four, to wait for now. I want to see how this pans out."

All the bridge crew looked at Nacalla; with shock in their eyes. Very few Nexus Commanders refused to go into battle.

"We shall engage them soon," He said now smiling. "And with the Nine's blessing. We shall destroy them!."

SPARTAN -G024 (The Unsung Hero) 17:35, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

1.4
Not far away, a well known Hai Clan Chieftain stepped up and pulled his helmet off, his brown crest gleamed in the small rays of light shining in, he walked over, and took a large bite of a Bomba Bug, it was delicious to him! He grabbed three more pieces and walked over to a Masaban, it was examining his helmet, he stepped over and rudely interrupted the Masaban by saying, "What do we have here? What is your name I see you take interest in my helmet..." The Masaban looked up and replied "Oh, oh I'm sorry, I thought his was a weapon of some sorts..." Rahkt smiled and just walked off, leaving the Masaban with his helmet.

1.5
From the bridge of the Righteous Fury, Engagement-Master Vern Ukrat gazed through the viewport at his fleet as it arrayed itself before him. The triangular base of his flagship spread out away from the bridge in its distinctive triangular wedge, jutting into the darkness of space. Its pale gray surface was dotted with missile pods, deck guns, and point defense emplacements, all primed and ready to inflict a firestorm of destruction upon any opponent that presented itself. Around the Righteous Fury floated dozens of other ships, all equally prepared and eager to go to war.

Ukrat turned to his second in command, Vern Endog. Endog was of the Vern tribe like Ukrat, and while it was now a policy throughout the Alliance of Tribes military that the ancient customs of tribal favoritism be abandoned Ukrat still felt more comfortable knowing that more than just one high ranking officer could emerge from a lowly tribe such as Vern. In the days before and during the Milky Way War (or the "Great Incident" as those who stubbornly refused to acknowledge it as a true war called it) ones such as himself and Endog would have been consigned to lower roles while less-capable warriors from such giants like the Mahr tribe were given the command of fleets. But defeat had taught the Hai a painful lesson, and it was one that had not been taken lightly.

"Are all battle groups prepared to depart?" he asked the smaller Hai.

"Patching the Group-Masters in now," Endog replied.

From the Fury's communications station came the enhanced voices of the nine Group-Masters that would sail under Ukrat's command for the entirety of the battle.

"Righteous Indignation and escort ready."

"Righteous Destruction and escort ready"

"Glorious Assault and escort ready."

Glorious Death'' and escort ready."

"Righteous Quest and escort ready."

"Victorious Undertaking and escort ready."

"Glorious Worship and escort ready."

"Glorious Conflict and escort ready."

"Victorious Endeavor and escort ready."

Ukrat nodded with satisfaction. Each battle group was composed of a single Fury-Class Battleship with an escort of four cruisers and ten destroyers. The escort ships would, in accordance with standard Hai naval doctrine, act as a screening force for the battleships as they poured fire into the primary enemy targets.

"Are the carriers ready?" he asked as Endog knelt over his station to check the fleet's status. The carriers were protected by double the escort that was given the battleships and would act as a formidable rearguard for the fleet while sending out fighters to aid in the offense.

"Both the Divine Haven and the Steady Haven are ready, sir."

"Then move the fleet in position to make the jump to slipspace."

As the battleship maneuvered along with the ships around it, Ukrat turned to see Mahr Verto standing at his side. The head of the Righteous Fury's complement of marines, he was in charge of both the onboard defenses and any boarding actions that would be made during the battle. Many members of the Mahr tribe faced scorn and ridicule for the special treatment that their tribe had received in the past, but Verto never seemed to allow this to bother him. He was a model officer, gifted with the right blend of cunning and battle-fever that were needed to get by in the AOT military.

"So the bugs couldn't handle the Covenant on their own," Verto murmured to his leader. "The greasy little insects needed us to come help them out, eh?"

Ukrat smiled. "You sound rather scornful, Verto," he commented. "Have something against our new allies?"

"Those weak little runts are just a load of weakling cannon fodder, just like the Unggoy," replied Verto. "Most of their warriors are barely as strong as a human grub, much less one of us. It just doesn't seem right, risking this many ships to help them sort out their problems for them."

Ukrat nodded to himself. Verto's opinions were fairly common throughout the fleet, but he wasn't concerned about their overall affect on morale. "Bear in mind that they'll be bankrolling the next wave of Furies, Bows, and (here he lowered his voice) the next two Wraths."

Out of the corner of his eye, Ukrat saw one of Verto's brows raise. The Wrath-Class Superbattleship was the AOT's ace in the hole, a massive class of warship that was by far larger than any other ship in the known galaxy. It was also the AOT's biggest secret, something that was unknown even to its Nexus allies. Only two had been made, but there were rumors that work had begun on another pair.

"The insects aside, I don't feel right about fighting alongside the Metal-Heads," continued Verto, using a derogatory term for the Nexus that had emerged during the Hai-Nexus War. "I lost too many comrades to those grey-skinned bastards during the war."

"And yet you managed to deal out much more damage than you received," mused Ukrat. Verto had fought with the regular legions on the ground during the Battle of Natulla, a protracted stalemate that had claimed many lives on both sides of the conflict. It was there that he had commanded a unit that had distinguished itself time and time again during attacks on Nexus positions. "Will your personal feelings become a problem, Verto?"

The marine's back stiffened. "You know that I would never allow my own misgivings to interfere with my duty," he assured Ukrat. "There are many who feel the same as I do, and I can assure you that they would answer your question in the same manner that I have."

Before them, the Fury 's nose began to push into Slipspace. It was time to go to war.

1.6
Yen slumped on the ground, beat tired after the long flight holding Urul. She stood up after regaining her strength, and tossed her empty Drone Personal Defense Weapon aside. Drawing Hik's Type-26 Directed Energy Pistol, she checked the charge and scanned the area. A large hill with a few large rocks and fallen trees for cover. Also, a brick hut with smoke coming from the chimney. Urul walked up and opened the door, motioning for Yen to come inside. As she entered, she saw a Covenant transmition tower and then its owner, tyed up against the wall in rusted chains, with a gag of dirty underwear in his mouth. "Caught him earlier, right before you arrived in your pod thing. We saw your commander, and I shot him without thinking. I am sorry for that. I saw the way you looked at me in battle." Yen nodded, then went up to the transmition tower and turned it on. Homing in on the Righteous Fury, she sent the new coordinates, and slumped against the wall, quickly falling asleep.

1.7
Above Masaba III, a slipspace ripple appeared. From it the UNSC Infinity soared through. Its engines dimmed as it slowed to a near stop just outside the atmospheres rim. Along its starboard bow, red lights lit up, each spinning to indicate an outer door opening. Sure enough a large door designated V23 slowly opened. As the light from inside the vessel spilled out into the emptiness of space, two objects could easily be seen. At first they appeared as dark shadows but soon lit up with their own lights. Two pelican dropships lifted off of the deck and one after the other flew out of the bay and soared down to the planet.

As they flew further away the Infinity began showing flames coming from one of the engines. The flame grew larger and larger.

Five Minutes Prior

On the bridge of Infinity Commander Fade looks over the map of the planet they received from the rest of the Alpha fleet. This map was well detailed, but was incomplete. Most of the planet lay uncharted for the UNSC. A crewman spoke as the screen in front of them began showing the pelicans being raised on platforms from a holding bay. "Sir, pelicans are ready for launch." Fade looked over his shoulder at the screen showing the pelicans. On a screen beside it, a group of 14 marines were walking towards the hangar.

Fade was about to speak when he was cut off by yet another of his crew; the defensive coordinator Miranda Frost. "Sir, I have unknowns on my screen. They seem to be holding position." Miranda announced. Fade looked out the window to where the screen showed the unknowns to be. "I don't see anything. Reset the system. It could be damaged from our last battle." Miranda spoke as she flipped several switches. "Yes sir."

Turning his attention back to the marines who were climbing into the pelicans, Fade activated the communications line with them. "Alright soldiers, remember that we are here for support. Don't expect heavy resistance. The drones will be doing most of the work." One of the marines aboard a pelican put his hand to his helmet and spoke, "Sir, do you have any suggestions for the operation?" Fade grinned. "Yeah, don't get shot" he replied.

The marines on both pelicans started laughing heavily as the airtight hatches closed. The pilots sat in their seats as the Infinities outer bay doors opened. The pilot in the first pelican grabbed his flight sticks and began pushing several buttons on the dash in front of him. "Victor 9-3-0, this is Victor 8-1-1, how do you read over" The pilot said through his helmet. A female voice replied, "Victor 8-1-1, I read you loud and clear. Over." The pilot of 811 looked out his right window at the pelican beside his. "Ready to spread your wings Amy?" he said. Amy looked out her window back at the pilot. "You know it baby" she replied. Amy began pushing her pelicans buttons in the same order the first pilot had. "Hey Dax" Amee said over her speaker. "Yeah" he replied. Amy chuckled as she began to speak. "Last one to drop their load buys the next round!" she said gleefully. "Your on!" Dax replied as his pelican lifted off the deck, followed by Amy's.

The two pelicans raced towards the planet as the bay doors closed behind them. Back on the bridge of the Infinity, a crew yelled out "Fire in engine 3!". Fade quickly walked over to his station. "Kill the engines and send a team out for repairs." Fade ordered. Fade shook his head. "Maybe that rush wasn't such a good idea" he thought to himself remembering the last battle. Fade walked over to his view port and looked out at the planet. The two pelicans were entering the atmosphere now. --

1.8
Urul sat on a bench, sipping tea in front of the captive Brute. He glanced at Yen, who was sleeping curled up on the floor. He sat up and placed a blanket over her shoulders. Walking back over to the Brute, he punched him in the face. "Give me answers to where your pals are." he said, rubbing his squishy knuckles before picking up his Masaban Assault Rifle and shooting the uncooperative Brute in the heart.

Yen awoke at the loud noise as her troops stormed the house, rifles up. Yen grasped her pistol and looked at the dead Brute, then Urul. She shook her head then walked outside into the quaint night, breathing in the fresh air.

A massive Brute fleet appeared in orbit behind Masaba III's moon, weapons charging. A large Hai fleet was in range of fire. The Brute Fleetmaster Ilikus laughed at the glory he will soon hold. "We will destroy those Hai scum and open up a new chapter in Brute history:Galactic Domination!!!" Unknown to him, these were his last words, as the Hai Engagement Master knew he was there.

1.9
The Hai armada exited slipspace in a sudden flurry of silver Slipspace portals that vanished as quickly as they had appeared. Within moments the entire fleet had recovered from a few minor deviations suffered from the jump and was back in formation.

"Status!" Ukrat barked. "What's happening here?"

"It seems we're late for the party," growled Verto from his position at the sensor station. He had insisted on remaining with the command crew during the jump and had taken over that position, a responsibility usually covered by Endog. "I'm picking up Nexus ships, a few bug ships, and one UNSC ship. We seem to have the biggest fleet so far, Engagement-Master."

Ukrat leaned forward in his command chair. "And the Covenant?"

"Plenty of signals, but nothing like the force we were lead to believe was here. I guess those bugs panicked and miscalculated... wait! One enemy cruiser and two destroyers are within range of our guns! They must have been scouts who just had the bad luck to be in the same spot we jumped to."

A cold smile played across Ukrat's face. "Let's begin this little excercise then, shall we?" He rounded on the weapons officer. "All long ranged weapons fire! Have our escort deal with those destroyers while we focus on the cruiser!"

The Fury shuddered as its dual MAC cannons fired one after the other, impacting on the cruiser's shields and causing them to flare and die. Sheets of plasma from the battleship's heavy plasma batteries burnt through the unprotected hull and left deep scars in its surface. The cruiser wavered and then vanished in a burst of blue fire. Its destroyer escorts met with similar fates.

"Prepare all ground forces for deployment!" Ukrat ordered. "I want the ground saturated with our troops within the hour!"

As his subordinates scrambled to obey, Ukrat smiled again, with warmth this time. It was a good start.

2.0
Nacalla Three -still staring out the Bridge window- noticed that the Hai, had dropped out of Slipspace. Well, Nessus be damned Nacalla muttered.

"Sir," the operations officer said. "The Hai have a new ship in their midst. I think it's the one the Lupus Intelligence Regiments have been reporting about."

"Interesting." Nacalla smiled. Just then; Ferox One came on the Line.

"I have the Calculus Regiment ready. Ferox Armoured Regiment is also ready."

"Understood, Lordship." Despite being incharge of the fleet, Nacalla was outranked by Ferox. Not by his rank. But; by his name. Ferox had the 2nd name One. Which meant he was of Royalty. While Nacalla was Three; he at best was a duke.

"Move the fleet into postion! You can fire on anything; bar the Monsters. When I give the order!" The nickname Monsters had been coined by Ferox. As he had watched the Hai, beat a defenseless child to death on Natulla.

The Calculus' Blessing moved at the head of the Fleet. Lupus' Wisdom and Ferox's Anger were on her flanks. The rest of the fleet moved at Attack Speed; waiting fot he order to fire.

"Sir, 3 insect ships in range. They are not even worth Nessus' Mercy!" the weapons Officer spat.

"All ships," Nacalla said. "Fire at will!"

Calculus' Blessing Shuddered as it's MAC Gun fired. The forward lasers burned through the incests armour with ease. The Nexus' presence was now known. SPARTAN -G024 (The Unsung Hero) 16:16, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

2.1
In orbit, Nik'Flo, Supreme Commander of the Yanme'e Armada, watched as one of his Kama-class Cruisers exploded. Angrily, he ordered all ships to fire their energy projectors at the Nexus, who were supposed to be helping them wipe out the Brute colonies. Behind his ship, Lok'Noks Blessing dozens of Assault Carriers pummeled the 8 Nexus ships, and Seraph fighters buzzed from the fleets Yanme'e Katana-class Carrier, destroying 2 Nexus ships on its own. Nexus fighters bombed the carrier, and the Kama's fired point defense plasma turrets to quell their ranks to near nothing. The Nexus seemed shocked, as they began to move into a defensive position, yet continued to fire on the Yanme'e ships. Nik'Flo laughed at their seeming plight, but was un aware that an engine failure had occured onboard his battleship.

2.2
Commander Fade looked out the window of the Infinity just in time to see the Yanme'e and Hai fleets engaged the Nexus. "Engine status?!" Fade yelled. "Still under repairs sir!" one of the crew announced. "How long?" Fade said getting uneasy. "Twenty minutes Commander!" the crewman replied. "Damn... Miranda?!" Miranda looked up. "Close enough sir!" Miranda replied. "Good. Open fire on the Nexus fleet." Fade said just as he returned to looking at the battle before him.

The Infinity fired a MAC round into the heart of the Nexus fleet. But because of the multiple explosions from the Drones and Hai ship attacking the fleet, he could not tell if he had hit anything. "We're sitting ducks if we don't get those engines up..." Fade thought to himself. The Infinity continued firing rounds into the Nexus, but just as the first, none could confirm impact.

"Miranda, I want all marines on the ground. Launch the HEV's." Fade ordered. "Yes sir Commander." Miranda replied. On the speaker across the ship Miranda's voice was heard. "All marines and ODST units, go Combat Active and head planet-side. Marines and ODST began heading to their drop vehicles, marines to the pelicans and ODST's to the HEV's. They were all running past the lone ODST who was still cleaning their gun. A marine stopped in front of the ODST. "Didn't you hear?! Were outa here!" the marine said breathing heavily. The ODST looked up. As the marine stood there, the ODST took off their helmet. A beautiful blonde girl showed. "Oh wow..." The marine said suddenly. "Um..." he tried to say something more but nothing was coming to mind. The girl smiled and placed her helmet back on.

"My name is Sariah." the girl spoke. The marine stood there in silence unable to establish a reply. "it's ok, you don't need to say anything. Lets go." Sariah said as she began walking away. The marine followed closely behind. At the end of the hall the two separated, the marine going to the pelicans and Sariah to the HEV hold. As the Infinity continued firing several Longswords flew beside it and headed towards the Nexus fleet.

As a second group of Longswords passed, the HEV pods released and dropped into the atmosphere and then multiple pelicans launched. "Let me know as soon as the engines are online" Fade ordered.

--

2.3
"Ahhh!!!" Nik'Flo screamed in agony as the forward laser from the Nexus capital ship impacted Lok'Noks Blessing. "FIRE THE MAC NOW!!" he roared. Yanme'e sailors buzzed about, answering damage reports and sending orders. The MAC gun fired, and a Nexus capital ship engine exploded into fiery bits, blue light illuminating the ships around it. FleetMaster Nik'Flo then ordered the Galilean turrets to fire, and they tore apart 2 more Nexus ships. "Get a line to the Hai Engagement Master NOW." he said, as the screen sputtered to life. "Why in Lok'Nok are your allies trying to kill us ?" said Flo rather crankily.

2.4
"You can't expect us to know what the Nexus are up to," Ukrat told the flustered Yanme'e on the communications screen. "We merely have trade agreements and a mutual defense pact with them. Since neither of our territories has been attacked, neither the Alliance of Tribes nor the United Nexus Nations are obligated to provide any military support for the other in any way. Regardless, we will not be engaging them unless they have engaged us first. You hired us to kill Covenant, and that's what we're here to do."

He terminated the link before the Yanme'e could respond and rounded on the communications officer. "Get me a link to Warmaster Gren Fillur as soon as you can!" he barked. "He'll be able to get through to our territories and they can contact the Nexus and get this damned situation figured out."

Ukrat turned to Verto. "Now's your chance to shine. Signal all marines throughout the fleet to begin boarding actions against the Covenant." Boarding enemy vessels had been a staple of Hai naval doctrine for as long as there had been a Hai navy. Superior Hai warriors would overwhelm the Covenant crews and seize control of the enemy ships, turning them on their former masters.

"Give the order to launch all fighters!" Ukrat bellowed. "And have all ships move to engage the Covenant!"

Fighters and boarding craft disgorged themselves from the hangars of all ships large enough to carry them as the Hai and Covenant fleets traded fire. Flames filled the vacuum of space along with debris from damaged ships.

The front wave of Covenant ships began to crumple under the combined fire of the Hai armada, as plasma bursts took down shields and gave the cruisers and battleships an opening to devastate the targeted ship with their MAC cannons. Arrow-Class Fighters engaged in dogfights with Seraphs as the latter attempted to take shots at any vulnerable Hai ships. The battle had begun in earnest.

2.5
Nik'Flo smashed his spiky fist on the holoboard, and then calmed down. "COM:All fighters are to be launched from the carriers. All remaining ships fire on those Nexus fools. SHOW THEM WHO THEIR MESSING WITH!!!" he yelled into the comlink, and the sounds of cheering Yanme'e flooded the links of bothe Hai, Yanme'e, and Nexus links. Lok'Noks Blessing fired it Galilean turrets at Nexus bombers. They scrambled yet still took out 8 Cruisers. "Losses mounting." a sailor said. "Shut it and get back to your diagnostics." said Flo, firing 3 more MAC rounds at the Nexus.

2.6
"Get those filthy insects off the channel!" snarled Verto at his boarding craft's pilot. "I've got more important things to do than listen to their pathetic chittering!"

With him in the cramped ship were eleven other marines, all squeezed together as tightly as possible. It's always getting onto the ship that's most dangerous, Verto reflected. We're numerous and tough to kill on the ground, but in space... He shook his head. The Hai were meant for infantry combat, not space warfare, and while he could admire the crews of the ships and fighters he would never be able to understand them.

"We're closing on a Covenant cruiser," remarked the marine at the controls. "I'm counting twenty seven, no, thirty other boarding craft moving towards the same target."

Verto did the calculations in his head. 360 Hai marines against every Covenant soldier on the ship. It would be a good fight.

He felt the shudder as his craft attached to the side of the Covenant ship. He muscled his way to the front of the cabin and stood facing where the opening would emerge, his Shredder assault rifle cradled in his arms.

In a brief flash of light that was dimmed by the shaders in Verto's helmet, the wall vanished to reveal the inside of the cruiser... and a very surprised Brute. With a grin of anticipation, Verto leapt from the craft, pinned the Brute against the wall with his Shredder, and revved its chainsaw bayonet. Gouts of purple blood went everywhere as the brutal weapon cut the helpless soldier in half.

All around Verto, his fellow marines were in the corridor, their weapons blazing as they engaged numerous Covenant troops. A few took direct hits from Brute Shots or plasma grenades, but other than that it was the Hai that dealt out the most casualties. Verto ducked to avoid a burst of Spiker fire before pouring an entire clip into the Brute that had fired them.

It was going to be an excellent fight.

Mahr Erkun closed the canopy of his fighter and ran the pre-flight checks and prepared to launch with the rest of his squadron. He craned his neck to look back at his rear gunner. "Ready to fly?"

"You know it!" chuckled the gunner."

Turning to face the front again, Erkun began to recite one of the innumerable Hai military prayers. "Across the stars, corpses floating in the vacuum. Across the planets, corpses heaped upon the ground. I will die by the side of my brethren. I will never look back."

His fighter lifted from the hangar's floor and thundered out into space.

2.7
Nik'Flo fired another MAC round, sending the final Nexus ship on a collision course with a Brute Frigate. "Excellent." he muttered to himself. He walked back to his command chair, watching as the last visible Nexus ships disappeared. Sipping some water, he then ordered his fleet to help the Hai engage the large Brute fleet. "COM:Engagement Master, are you there ? If your receiving this the visible Nexus ships have been defeated, with some minor casualties. We will destroy the final Brute ships then eliminate ground forces. Over and out." Thinking to himself, "They sure know how to fight. Maybe after this we could become allies ?"

2.8
Ukrat frowned. "Remain on your guard," he warned the Yanme'e. "I have fought the Nexus in the past and have never known them to be defeated that easily." He was suddenly hopeful that there were more Nexus ships lying in wait. Otherwise he would have disturbed the Warmaster for nothing.

"Our frontal attack is overwhelming the Brutes," he continued. "If your ships move in to flank them then their entire formation will crumble." Already several Covenant ships had broken away from their brethren and moved peacefully amongst the Hai ships, signaling that the marines who had boarded them had been successful.

This entire engagement has been too easy, he thought to himself with a sense of foreboding.

2.9
"We detect reinforcements hidden behind Masaba III's moon. They are doing something, so they should be preoccupied for now." said Nik'Flo to the Hai, confident he will become even more of a hero. Walking into the hallway, he saw the devastation the Nexus caused. Charred Yanme'e were everywhere, and the damage was irrepairable in most places. "COM:Get the Huragok up here. We need some fixing done if we're going to engage the rest of their fleet." Suddenly over 30 Huragok flew from the airvents, and began fixing the deck with help from their assistants.

Yen loaded a Masaban Assault Rifle, looking over it for defects. "This is a pretty sound weapon for a Tier 4 race." she said, staring at Urul. Walking outside, she hopped onto the strange Masaban vehicle, with Urul in front. It reminded her of the Human Mongoose. Yen and Urul sped off down a muck filled road. Staring at the countryside, she saw several black banners with a blue circle in the middle, attached to large poles. "Hmm." she said, unsure what they mean. "In case your wondering, those are their flags. The despot's favorite colors. We've hated him so long, we dont even remember his name." Urul stepped on the gas, propelling them down the road faster then a Mongoose ever could. All around the convot people cheered for the Rebels, holding up flags with a long red paint smear down the middle of the circle. The convoy pulled up into a large plaza, where 4 battalions of Masaban Loyalists were in wait, with tanks and gunships. However, just as they arrived, Brute Phantoms appeared from the thick jungle, and Wraiths fired into the plaza. Jumping form his motorcycle, Urul rolled behind a thick stone statue. Yen quickly followed. Plasma scorched the stone behind Yen, and she turned and shot the a Wraith gunner, choosing her becuase of her easily identifiable command rank.

Chapter 3:Forgotten Principles
"Dammit!" Nacalla cursed. They had lost 3 ships. To bugs. Nacalla needed to redeem himself again. "Any word on our reinforcements?"

"Yessir. The Fleet of Destructive Glory is 30 minutes out." the Operations Officer reported.

"Good, tell Ferox to get ready. I want you to make an intrasystem jump. Deploy the Army and then jump us back out? Got it?"

"Yes Lordship." the Navagational Officer Replied.

The Calculus' Blessing quickly moved into postion. It jumped. 10 seconds later it was above the planets surface. Firing it's lasers and dropping of the troops. When the troops had been dropped off; it quickly jumped back. Waiting on the reinforcements to arrive.

Troop Leader Najulla Two; loaded his Stalker Rifle and waited for the droppod to land. He was a member of the Imperial Calculus Regiment; and so was full machine. As were all it's members. Despite his body being metal; he still had his mind and could think like a normal Nexus. The pod landed on the planet. As Troop Leader he opened the door. The insects were swarming the pod. He fired a quick burst into the group. They dropped. He walked out quickly; plasma brushing passed his head. He dropped to one knee and signaled his team to move out. He tossed a grenade into a group of Masabans; they flew into the air. He quickly cleared landing zones for the rest of the Nexus Ground forces. For once he was thankful that intial resistence was light. SPARTAN -G024 (The Unsung Hero) 19:09, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

3.1
Yen heard the pod before she saw it. Nexus came out, and threw grenades at her troops. They exploded in fiery death. Yen was pissed. Firing her Type-26 Directed Energy Pistol in overcharge, a Nexus lost his shielding, and was gunned down by the combined fire of Brutes, Masabans, and Yanme'e. "Good. They are occupied." she said, shooting at a Brute pack. When she turned around Urul was missing. Glancing at the palace, she saw Urul and some Rebels charging up the steps. Eyes widening, she grabbed a dead Brutes red plasma rifle and flew up to Urul. "Now is our chance. It may be our only one." he said to her. Several more Yanme'e followed her. Entering the palace, several Loyalists fired their guns, and Yen fell to the ground, with a harpoon in one of her legs. She tore it out, ignoring the pain, and fired back. Having no shielding, the eel-like creatures boiled like clams under the intense plasma heat, and they died. The Despot was trying to open a door on the far side. It led onto a balcony. Yen, Urul, and their troops charged at him, smashing through the glass door and flyingoff the balcony. On the ground, Yen saw Urul smashing in the Despots face with the butt of his rifle. He took his crown, and placed it on his head. The Masaban Rebels cheered, and the Loyalists bowed down to their new ruler. It was an amazing sight, until battle engulfed the moment. A Scarab smashed its way through the trees, and fired down on the Nexus and Masabans. Yen and her troops buzzed onboard, and clawed at the Brutes. Vicious fighting sent Yen to the ground, but she flew right back up and re-engaged the Brute Chieftain. Tossing a plasma grenade on his crotch, Yen laughed in triumph as he squealed before exploding in red bloody bits. The Scarab then collapsed after 4 more grenades blew up its core. It littered the battlefield with wreckage, and the Brutes retreated. Now it was just the Masabans and Yanme'e versus the Nexus. Yen was ready for a fight.

3.2
"Sir," Endog announced, interrupting Ukrat's conversation. "Almost all Brute forces on the planet have been annihilated, and the Masabans and Yanme'e are fighting the Nexus exclusively now."

Holding up his hand to the enormous holoprojection of Warmaster Gren Fillur, Ukrat surveyed the reports in regard to the dwindling space battle against the Brutes. What was left of the Brute fleet was in full retreat, with Hai and Yanme'e ships harrying them all the way out of the system. No Furies had been lost, but several cruisers and destroyers had been completely destroyed. A few more were crippled but still salvageable, as was the battleship Righteous Indignation, and had been towed to the edge of the system, where newly arrived repair ships had set to work patching up their hull breaches and engines. The rest of the fleet, along with the eight Covenant ships that had been captured by Verto's marines, was deployed in a loose formation just outside the system, observing the ongoing space battle between the Yanme'e and Nexus.

"If the Brutes are defeated then pull our ground forces off the planet and have them rejoin the fleet. A light fighter escort for the transports and dropships will be all that's needed for protection; the Nexus won't dare fire on them."

As Endog hurried to comply, Ukrat turned back to the Warmaster. "Well, I suppose the crisis is over," he told his superior. "We no longer have any reason to remain within the system."

"Unfortunately." replied Fillur, "we do."

"Sir?"

"If the Yanme'e lose this system to the Nexus then they'll undoubtedly find some excuse in order to not pay us. So long as the Nexus are here then our chances of collecting what we are owed are in as much danger as the planet itself. Your fleet must remain there until the Yanme'e pay up."

"And if they don't?"

"Then they will discover just how frightening an angry Hai can be. But until then, we must be more concerned with... convincing the Nexus to leave. We have yet to make any headway in this matter through diplomacy, so I have taken it upon myself to provide us with a more direct approach."

"But Warmaster, you aren't considering breaking the treaty are you?"

"You sound so uncertain that we could withstand a war with the Nexus. Our fleet has more than doubled since the last war and they have yet to even begin to imagine the power of our Wrath Superbattleships... but the solution I am speaking of is the result of my attempts at thinking like a human. And the UNSC would do something underhanded, like sending in an unaffiliated operative to infiltrate the enemy fleet and cause as much internal damage as possible. The human I have chosen for this task has something in the way of experience with such an operation."

"A human? Who are you talking about?"

Fillur motioned to someone off screen, and moments later an armored human appeared beside him in the holoprojection.

"Engagement-Master Ukrat, it is my pleasure to introduce David Wellesley..."

3.3
Yen charged the Nexus, firing her red plasma rifle in bursts. Another's shields went down before a harpoon entered his heart. Instead of red blood, as Yen expected, grey oily stuff gushed out instead. "What in gods name are you things ?" said Yen, stopping her troops at head level with their weapons. "Explain. NOW!!!" she yelled at the Nexus commander.