User:Phalanx Actual/Battle group ALPHA ROMEO

Battle group Alpha Romeo was assembled By Lord hood while preparing what was left of the UNSC fleet for a Major Assault by the Flood

Team 1
UNSC FFG-82 Patriot (DESTROYED)

UNSC FFG-22 To live till Dark (RETIRED)

UNSC FFGH-09 Sledgehammer (DESTROYED, HALF OF ITS REMAINING CREW PERISHED DURING A FAILED EVAC)

UNSC CR777 Relentless Fight (DESTROYED)

Team 2
UNSC C201 Memory of Harvest

UNSC SCR008 "Mothership"

UNSC DD92 Striking Sword (DESTROYED)

UNSC M002 God Blade

UNSC CR103 Desolate (DESTROYED)

Defensive Formation
Because of the flood risk, all ships had at least one Shiva Nuclear Warhead ready for Detonation, to eliminate the flood boarding it, The remaining UNSC DP's were rotated to face down, to prepare for EOB (Emergency Orbital Bombardments), the DP's also had armed Shiva nuclear warheads primed to fire.

Losses
While The flood presence that arrived at Earth was much smaller than anticipated, most of Battle group ALPHA ROMEO, which was also the largest battle group assembled in the flood invasion of Earth, all the Cruisers were lost, including the last Halcyon in Earth's Home fleet. the Carrier "Relentless fight" was split in half by repeated Archer missile strikes from a friendly UNSC carrier to avoid contamination of the other half of the ship, but it also left the remaining half without an instant self destruct system, and with its one remaining engine its crew attempted to evade the flood dispersal pods, but it was eventually lost to the flood, the flood, in its hightened consciousness dismantled some of the archer missiles, and instead filled them with carrier forms, serving as a more rapid, and dangerous form of dispersal pod, what was left of the carrier infected several of the 29 remaining UNSC ships, causing them to self detonate at the command of their CO's.

The striking sword's nuclear device failed to detonate as it was contaminated by the flood, and its crew was overrun - many more Archer missiles were dissasembled to be converted into dispersal pods. At the last second, it's crew was locked in the bridge, warning the UNSC forces surrounding it that it could not self terminate, and because of what happened to the Relentless fight, they knew what would happen. The To Live Till Dark instantly fired a MAC round through the center of the destroyer's front, tearing an even bigger hole from the front to the back of the ship through its second MAC cannon, the Sledgehammer immediately responded by firing 3 salvos of Archer missiles at the heavilly armored destroyer (It's final missiles). Left defenceless, the crew evacuated from the doomed heavy frigate and attempted to land on Earth, but due to the thickened atmosphere from the pollution and the panic of the pilots, half the Life Pods sped down too fast, vaporizing the Life pod and the crew inside it, killing most of the Sledgehammer's team including the captain.

The UNSC Carrier "Desolate" expended the last of its armaments on a flood controlled ship and subsequently prepared a detonation, and the lifeboats repeated the actions of the Sledgehammer's crew due to absolute fear. The Patriot was hit by a flood dispersal pod, and attempted to self destruct, its warhead was disarmed by the flood and quickly launched flood infected archer missiles at surrounding UNSC ships, the Flood this time broke into the bridge and killed all of its crew, its AI already knew what it had to do - as the Desolate's countdown got closer and closer to zero, the Patriot sped at maximum speed toward the Desolate - Colliding and causing heavy damage to both ships. The Heavy damage, that wouldn't matter as both ships were caught in the mushroom cloud from the desolate's SHIVA warhead.

The Super Carrier "Mother Ship was Also caught in Desolate's Self Destruction, rendering it disabled from the Nuclear Explosions EMP effect, it's crew in the dark - they fought valiantly until the end, where it was destroyed by friendly UNSC ships to avoid contamination. As the Flood's numbers dwindled like Battle Group Alpha Romeo's Did, The flood forcefully landed on Earth as the defenses above Canada fell UNSC DEFENSE PLATFORM "TORONTO" Fired direcly onto Canadian soil to avoid losing everyone that lived on Earth, Killing hundreds of humans due to its repeated strikes, but saved millions, but only to be infected by the flood soon later and destroyed.

Finally the Marathon Class ship, the most powerful of all Battle Group ALPHA ROMEO "God Blade" was infected, just as the flood disarmed the Nuclear warhead, and its thick as hell modified and thickened armor preventing the UNSC from destroying it, some of the the Sangehilli arrived from Delta Halo as they heard of Earth's peril, knowing that the Arbiter restricted them from glassing Earth due to the alliance, they heard the distress messages from the crew begging the Sangehilli to destroy their ship before it was too late, even though the crew would not be able to evacuate either, the Shipmaster leading the formation of the 3 ships that had arrived was shocked at the selflessness of the crew, and solemnly destroyed the God Blade.

The Sangeheilli fleet assisted the UNSC wipe out the flood from orbit, eventually proving successful, but with the UNSC losing many of its few remaining ships, and the Sangheilli losing 1, the UNSC was now TRULY on its last legs, as the human population dropped from 1 billion on earth, to 200 million.