User:Rollersox/Halo: Zarnoss

Prologue
977 flocks, 111 units, Second Age - Zarnoss Calendar

High Caeldar of Zarnoss Ep'lagi Shashaka sat as his desk, shaking his vaguely human head. "This won't do," he groaned in a reptilian-like language. The High Commander looked up, surprised.

"Why, sir? Everything's laid out perfectly for you."

"It's not that," the Caeldar grunted. "You wouldn't understand - after all you aren't the High Caeldar." The lower-ranking Caeldars were "insects," basic workhorses to listen to the three High Caeldars. Then Ep'lagi stood up, his quivering hair shaking from side to side. "I've got it, Hakrthaan! We simply"--here, Ep'lagi stood promptly--"put this"--he inserted a small diamond coin into a slot--"into here, correct?"

Commander Hakr-thaan nodded, slowly understanding. "Yes, sir."

Ep'lagi smiled wickedly. "We don't need a peace treaty. We can fight them off on our own! Prepare the weaponry," Ep'lagi ordered to the eight high-ranking Zarnosus military officers.

"And just in case of possible extermination, we go to the Kattha system for futher breeding. We are ready."

Chapter 1
1.15 flocks, 055 units, Fifth Age - Zarnoss Calendar

The Zarnoss mega-supercity sat gleaming, but hidden, inside the Katshatha-4 asteroid in the Kattha system. Since the last Covenant attack, the Zarnossus bureaucrats had declared all Zarnossians to fly to the Kattha star system.

There, they had created an artificial asteroid with their extremely powerful technology. That was only a few years ago.

"Incoming spacecraft," a Zarnoss non-com manning one of the artificial's asteroids' many controls reported. "Suspected to be human, but the craft is strangely...shadowed. Our radars cannot bounce through the craft, instead they bounce back."

Flight Commander Tonr-thaan nodded, satisfied. His father, Hakr, had told him that humans were not to be underestimated.

He told the truth.