User:Justanothergrunt/Battle of Nlok' Rika

The Battle Of Nlok 'Rika was a major battle in the Absorbtion of the Jiralhanae into the Covenant. Haggath, later to be renamed Nlok 'Rika by the Covenant, was the 3rd largest city on the Jiralhanae homeworld, Doisac, and was of grave strategical importance for taking the capital.

The Taking of Nlok 'Rika
The battle was originally intended to be a brief skirmish to devise the size and defensive structure of the Brute's forces. Wyrda 'Itamee divided the Elites, from the main force, that he left outside a narrow ravine, for what was deemed a brief scouting expedition. Wyrda, unwittingly led his forces to the walls of city itself. The Brutes soon caught their scent however, and the Elites were surrounded by more than ten times their own numbers, and of their battalions 900, 212 escaped through the slaughter, to the waiting Grunt forces.

The Jiralhanae followed the fleeing Elites in hot pursuit, but the narrow cliff walls, forced the unorganised Brutes into a confused bottle formation, allowing the lines of Grunts to fire on the Brutes, and the few that got through were mowed down by the Ghosts and Hunters, who would speed out at the oncoming Brutes before hastily retreating to wait for another oncoming surge.

Eventually the Brutes fled back to the "safety" of their city. The Covenant Ghosts killed many who were retreating, and managed to speed into the city, and destroy the gate controls, leaving the city permanantly open.

The Grunt, Rima 'Imree, being the next highest ranking officer, after the death of the majority of the Elites, took control of the situatation. They set up turrets on at the gates, stopping any fleeing Brutes. Then the Grunts mostly using plasma grenades, slowly scraped the city clean, "smoking" out Brutes from buildings using grenades, then shooting them before thhey could successfully amount a defense of attack structure. This worked well as amazingly few Grunts were lost. By the end of the day the city had been wiped clean of Brute forces, with the Brutes having only 72 documented survivors of these fights.

Jiralhanae Retaliation
By night another Brute force, led by Lokstok attacked the city in an attempt to retrieve it. Though this force was roughly half the size of the previous, it was far more organised and had the advantage of easy access to the previously mentioned open city.

However, the Covenant still had far greater weaponry than the Brutes, who fell in large numbers to the constant bombardment of plasma grenades from the high walls of the city. However it wasn't long before the Brutes succeeded in entering the city, though the only real blow they gave was the destruction of the building in which the wounded were kept, and soon afterwards long awaited Covenant reinforcements arrived and the remaining Jiralhanae fled.