User:Ghost sangheili/Halo: Renewal

Prologue
It is the year 2741 Ano Domine, coming up on two hundred years after the great war. Shortly after the war's end, the humans and sangheili began a cooperative effort to develop and enhance preexisting weapon technology. While victory had been attained at Installation 00, an eventual organized retaliation from the San Shyuum and Jiralhanae was imminent. While raids began as early as 2600, none were well organized or did any significant damage.

In 2620 the Sangheili had mass produced CCS-Class Battlecruisers and Assault Carriers at a massive facility. These vessels now had modified hangars to carry UNSC Frigates and Destroyers. These crafts now had shielding, as well as improved Slipspace capabilities to match the precision of the Sangheili's ships. By using shared technology, the allied fleets of the Sangheili and Humanity were unimaginably strong, a small battlegroup of cruisers and carriers could deliver their own firepower as well as improved UNSC craft, about three UNSC vessels per Sangheili cruiser.

After long talks, the two races created URNF: United Races Naval Forces, combining their fleets as a single faction and continuing to improve technology. The Sangheili craft now had shielding three times as strong thanks to improvements with the help of UNSC scientists, their hangars expanded to hold UNSC craft. Longsword Interceptors now had shielding. In all spacecraft built by URNF, firepower, maneuverability, all aspects were dramatically improved.

In 2634, the Covenant, now comprised solely of the San Shyuum and Jirahanae, declared war on URNF, and attacked Sangheilios with a fleet one hundred fifty ships strong. However they were unaware of how effective these improvements would prove to be. The URNF countered with 40 Sangheili ships and 35 UNSC craft, along with almost 100 Longswords and another 300 Seraphs. The Covenant seraphs were three times stronger in number but lacked they strength of the URNF's improvements. The Covenant Seraph fleet was completely annihilated in minutes, the URNF suffering 25% losses.

The Sangheili cruisers grouped into pairs, rotating around one another to trade shield. If the lead cruiser lost it's shield, it would hide behind it's partner while it recharged. The UNSC fleet at the battle was comprised entirely of frigates, they stayed behind the sangheili battle groups and used their improved MAC cannons to take shots on the Covenant fleet.

The frigates concentrated their MAC fire on ships that had already lost shielding. Eventually this tactic became standard practice. A salvo of plasma torpedoes would be launched, and different torpedoes targeted different craft, only enough to take out the shielding. The frigates new exactly which ships would loose shielding and when, and planned their fire based on what they heard over FLEETCOM from the sangheili craft. Within seconds, a MAC round would tear through the core of the Covenant craft, causing it to explode. Using this tactic, four or five Covenant ships could be destroyed in a matter of seconds.

The Covenant fleet never got a single craft to the surface of Sangheilios. The battle lasted lass than an hour, not a single Covenant craft survived. The improvements made by URNF's cooperative projects proved to be lethal. Three Cruisers were lost along with twelve Frigates, making the kill ration ten to one.

But now it was time for retaliation, and to end the Covenant for once and for all. Doisac was to be the first target. The Hawk-class Corvette UNSC Ferrari was given the task of delivering two NOVA bombs on opposite sides of the planet. The Hawk-class Corvette was an experimental class of ships that could use active camouflage for about three hours.

The UNSC Ferrari slipped in the shadow of Doisac to make it even harder to detect. It released it's first of it's devastating payload. The bomb had been programmed to lock onto the greatest source of light on the surface of the planet. Because it was launched on the night side, it would make a direct hit on the largest possible city. It would detonate 5 miles above the surface to improve the cone of the blast and bring even more destruction. Ferrari released it's NOVA, the crew watched the surface of Doisac waiting, as well as their radar to make sure they remained undetected.

A point of light appeared just outside a city. It then began to expand at phenomenal speed, an expanding circle of fire was sweeping across the planet. On the surface, entire cities were wiped out in a second, oceans evaporated instantly. There was no warning for those on the surface of the planet, over the course of seconds, 7 billion were killed, and a third of the planet's atmosphere was disapated. The crew of the UNSC Ferrari watched as this ring of fire wrapped around half the planet, leaving nothing but a bright orange and yellow glow behind it.

The UNSC Ferrari used a moon of Doisac as a slingshot, and got around to the daytime side of the planet. This time there were no city to aim the bomb for, so it was aimed dead center of the planet. Again, a white point of light appeared over an ocean. For an instant it seemed motionless, then it fanned out rapidly. When the pressure wave