User:Useful Dave/Battle of Dynamo

November 29th, 2538
0007 Hours
 * Slipspace Sensor Station Hercules detects a light capital sized object on a course which will pass close by the planet of Dynamo.
 * UNSCDF units are alerted, Dynamo Orbital Defence Grid is moved to combat alert alpha.

0019 Hours
 * Civilian and CMA traffic has cleared the defence grid killzone, all three assigned frigates have formed up beside the orbital platforms.
 * Rear Admiral Michael Degan authorises use of nuclear weaponry upon possible Covenant forces if required.
 * Defence grid reactors are reinforced by local military units, civilian air traffic is grounded.

0026 Hours
 * Slipspace rupture detected just outside the killzone for Orbital Defence Platform Alternator, object is identified as a Covenant frigate and targeted for interception.
 * UNSC Frigates Sicily, Corfu and Crete move to the edge of the killzone in order to intercept the Covenant vessel.

0030 Hours
 * Covenant vessel holds just outside the killzone and fires upon the Corfu, inflicting major structural damage and forcing it to break off the attack.
 * Sicily and Crete break off their intercept course and divert further into the zone after firing a single MAC round each. Round from the Sicily misses by a kilometer, Crete manages to glance the vessel, yet it is undamaged thanks to it's shielding.
 * Covenant vessel persues the two frigates into the killzone, Alternator manages to service the target with a single round from it's SMAC.

0047 Hours
 * Dynamo Command sends a signal to UNSC HIGHCOM, Reach informing them of the probing attack, no reinforcements are reported by the Hercules as of that moment.