User:Bobzombie/Battle for New Manhattan

The Battle for New Manhattan took place durring 2551. The battle was to claim the inner colony of New Manhattan. Multiple opperations were launched here, including Operation Black Death, and Operation Constriction. Both Operations took place in the capital of New Manhattan, Zentena. The planet was lost, however Operation Black Death was classified as successful, even with it's immense loss of troops.

Operation Black Death
''"I watched as men were killed behind me. I took a Beam Rifle to the back, all for one corrupt AI. I lost everything that day, my team, my love, and my sanity, and it only got worse..." ~''Oregon S. Hawkins

This operation was an assault upon the New Manhattan Bacterial and Viral Institute of Research. A facility that tested and worked with contaminants discovered by colonists. The operation was to enter the facility, retrieve the AI that contained all the data that had been worked on, sterilize, and destroy. An entire division was deployed to the zone, however, turbulance in the atmosphere destroyed communications and forced many of the pods off course. This was a stroke of luck for some ODST who landed on the outskirts of the landing zone. The covenant had set up a trap, and the entire division, discluding two squads who landed outside of covenant controlled area, were either obliterated or forced to retreat. These two squads were lead by Oregon Hawkins, and Katrina Kay. Both of them met at a rondevous point and all other units met their. At this point, they decided to attack the facility through stealth. The two teams chose alternate routes and moved through the city, attempting to keep themselves well hidden from any enemies. In the end Alpha team, lead by Hawkins reached the facility. Kay's team was not to be sean. Suspecting they had been killed, Alpha went ahead with the operation. They secured the AI, which was found to have gone rougue, having killed all research staff in the building, suspecting them to be spies. Oregon plugged the AI into his suit, and in the time he was conected to the AI, his mental state degenerated. As his team was placing the charges, Bravo team, missing half it's members, reached Alpha and assissted with the work. Both teams escaped the facility and made it to the escape point, however were ambushed as the pelican drop ships reached them. The entire team was taken out by light infantry and snipers. Four members made it to the ships, and three died in flight to UNSC: Sleeping Titan. Oregon Hawkins was the soul survivor.

Operation Constriction
''"Imagine it. A tidal wave of Covies just billowing out. I was down and out. Rifle out of ammo, sidearm out of ammo. And I couldn't get close enough to a plasma pistol without taking a hit to the face. She gave me that last clip. And all I found was a helmet." ''~ James Perez

Operation Constriction was meant to force all Covenant reinforcements into a tight zone, where they could be bombed and eliminated with ease. However, an unexpected hurricane caused the loss of many ODST before they had even touched down, and the loss of a large portion of the ODST made it so that the mission had been jeporadized. However, the troops were ordered to move out with the mission as planned. The few units that had made it through the drop regrouped and began pushing Covenant forces back away from the city, into the bomb zone. However, the covenant soon began to overrun the forces, until only Drop Group 12 was left to make a last stand. Evacuation pelicans were ordered to land and get the troops out before heavy artillery or airial forces arrived. Drop Group 12 fell back to a square where they defended their possition. However ammunition began to run dry, and the covenant were coming too quickly to retrieve any hostile weapons. In the end only two units were left standing, James Perez, and Sarah Hawkins. Sarah Hawkins gave her last clip to Perez, and began setting a bomb to wipe out the covenant in the area, by the time the Pelican arrived, Sarah had vanished into a building and Perez was forced to enter the Pelican alone. Fourteen hours later the covenant had retreated without glassing the planet, teams were sent to find survivors or retrieve dog tags. Perez found a shattered helmet and the dog tags of Sarah Hawkins two stories up in a building on the north side of the plaza.