The Battle of Jericho III

Major Rawne 001 03:46, August 9, 2010 (UTC)  First Contact 

On August 28th 3 Covenant ships came into the low atmosphe of Jericho III. The three ships immediatly glassed a 14 mile radius of the planet killing thousands of civilians. The ships docked at the center of the scorched land and began deploying the thousands of troops onto the surface. After seeing this an unknow UNSC army Colonel ordered his division to molbalise. He sent a quarter of his units to the local population centers and begin evacutating the civlilians. The rest of his division led by the colonel himself launched a ground attack on the covenant troops. Having 200 peices of heavy armour and hundreds of Warthogs,trucks,Pelicans,and Falcons the armoured vehicles deployed the other 11,250 troops just outside of the covenant deployment area. The division immediatly came under attack as they landed and disembarked. The covenant launched close to 150 wraiths with scores of spectre transporrts to the UNSC deployment zone. Thankfully the Army's scorpians and cobras kept the covenant at bay long enough for the infanry to disembark and help hold off the covenant. After the first waves of attack were held off the Army began digging in. Making a formidiable position. The colonel set up a base to the rear of the defense line. To the covenant this was an outrage and they immediatly launched all their units in to attack. The colonel reported his progress to the 2 other UNSC Army divisions on the planet and the UNSC Marine forces stationed further back.