User:Major Rawne 001/The War for the Jericho System

Major Rawne 001 19:07, August 8, 2010 (UTC)

 The Rally  After the loss of the Epsilon System and the recorded size of the fleet in the sector Navy Admiral Darneth knew he had to put together a fleet to crush the covenant. Not only is the Epsilon,Jericho sectors threatened but two other large fleets are atacking two other systems as well.Darneth quickly mobilised all the forces he could muster. Dispatching the remains of Battlefleet Epsilon to rendevous with the Jericho defense fleet and a quarter of the Reach battlefleet. The commanders where shocked to see such numbers. Over 300 ships with almost 10 Super-MAC Platforms moved into the system. The command went to sector Admiral Yurich. By August 19th the 4 fleets were split up amongst the 4 planets drawing a line in space ordered to hold the Covenant back. With close to 1 million troops on the surface of the planets ready to figth back any covenant invader to set foot on the ground. Then on August 21st the full Covenant fleet arrived in the outer edge of the system. About 2 days from the planets and the fleet.

 The Covenant Attack 

After the Covnant fleet was formed they saw the imposing defense line of ships standing in front of them. The Prophet of Regret wanted to take the system quickly. He ordered his to form around his Assault carrier and the fleet made their way towards Jericho VII. However once they broke through Regrets ground forces would take the other three planets as well. A day later the Covenant fleet took their first losses when they ran into a minefield made up of 900 Nuclear mines placed five days before by Admiral Yurich. The mines destroyed 30 light and medium ships and damaged 2 battleships and an Assault carrier.

As soon as Sector Admiral Yurich saw that the entire covenant fleet was moving towards Jericho VII he ordered the entire UNSC fleet to rally around the planet. Within 24 hours the entire battle fleet was besides the planet.

 The Covenant Come Within Range 

With the fleet from Reach came the A.I Cortana. Sector Admiral Yurich gave her controll on all the MAC gun Platforms. When the Fleet came withing range Cortana had all the Super-MACs open fire. The other 300 ships soon opened fire as well following the MAC Platforms. The opening barrage destroyed scores of light ships but also took out 6 Capital ships. The UNSC got off 2 more salvo's before the covenant where almost withing firing range. Once the covenant where able to fire back Sector Admiral Yurich knew scores of ships would be lost. The two fleets went head to head in the biggest and longest single ship to ship battle in the entire war in a two day consistent ship battle.On the third day 29 Covenant Ships broke through the UNSC defense line and began deploying all 2.3 Million covenant ground troops on the planets of the Jericho system. With the space battle wrapping up the fate of the Jericho system rests on the shoulders of the UNSC Marines.

The UNSC Counter Attack

With over 3/4th of Regrets fleet destroyed the UNSC began their offensive. With the last 160 ships left in the fleet Sector Admiral Yurich launched a counter attack on the remaining 26 Covenant ships in space. The Covenant surrounding the last supercarrier prepared to make a stiff defense against the human fleet. In the final attack the last covenant ships fell in a 13 hour battle. The supercarrier was the last to be destroyed,but under consistent and concentrated MAC fire from the ships and the last Super-MAC Gun Platforms the ship finally fell. But the fleet didn't go down without a fight taking 21 UNSC ships with them including Sector Admiral Yurich's flagship. Command went to Fleet Admiral Vor, Yurich's second in command. With the last of the covenant destroyed and over a 100 ships at his command Vor rounded up a battle plan. Admiral Vor split the fleet up into 3 battlefleets. Fleet commander Santh would merge with the dead Fleet Captain Weston's ships. They would go to Jericho III. The Sector Admirals's former fleet under command of Captain Oshola would assist the ground forces at Jericho VII. Fleet Admiral Vor's ships would go to Sigma Octanus VI and support the ground forces there. The war for the Jericho system just began.