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High Treason
Posted By: Commander Valois<porto516@yahoo.com>
Date: 24 October 2007, 2:42 am
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"Sir, Foward Unto Dawn is demanding our surrender, what is your reply?" The Commander took a long drag from his cigar, exhaled, then replied..."Lieutenant, tell them that I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike."
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Four Weeks earlier...
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With the end of the "Human-Covenant" war, Humanity was crippled. She had lost all her colonies, her ship-yards were destroyed, and her economy had jumped off a cliff.
Tensions grew when East Africa rebelled against the United Earth Government, and the UNSC was sent to quell the uprising. The rebels were poor soldiers, and the rebellion was put down within a week, but the incident showed what happens when we, as a species, fails to act civil. However small and insignificant, The East African Rebellion sparked something even greater, planetary civil war.
After the East African Rebellion, the UEG attempted to pass radical laws limiting the power of Earth's people. The purpose was to ensure that nothing like the Rebellion happened again, or so that was the plan. Many felt that the UEG had become corrupt, power hungry, and with the UNSC as their military arm, they could enforce any and every law passed. One high ranking military officer opposed this, she demanded that the new laws were to be amended, seeing as they were unfair to the loyal and law abiding citizens. The UEG ignored her time and time again until they forced her to take action. Commander Miranda Keyes, along with a small task force, stormed Washington D.C and executed the UEG council members. Absolute chaos followed, Commander Miranda Keyes, along with loyal officers, reformed the United Rebel Front, and took an oath to destroy the UEG. Her attacks were swift and effective, she knew where, when, and how to hit the loyalist military, who mind you was still unprepared. Within the first week of fighting, Keyes had inflicted over 60% casualties to the loyalist military defending towns, cities, and countries loyal to the UEG.
Keyes was an excellent strategist, inhereting most of her qualities from her father. Victory after victory she crushed any opposition she faced. Loyalist soldiers deserted their comrades hoping to find forgiveness, and offering service to the United Rebel Front. At first, Keyes accepted their plea for help, and offered them a chance to join the Rebel Front, but as time went on she became cruel, heartless. She tortured the deserters and interrogated them for information, and only when their cries of pain became so loud that your ear drums began to bleed, did she end their lives with a bullet to the head. This kind of cruelty gave doubts to her officers on whether or not they were fighting for a just cause. Keyes resented this, and even the slightest suggestion that you were a traitor, had you hanged.
The loyalist leader, Commander Valois, was a superior strategist to Keyes. He made a name for himself during the Human-Covenant war, when his ship took on three covenant cruisers buying enough time to evacuate the cities of Rome, Venice, and Naples. His strategic value to the loyalist government made him the next target of Keyes' uprising. Keyes became frustrated to the point where she no longer cared about the lives under her command, for every time she tried to capture the Loyalist leader alive, he fled, leaving behind a little surprise for the soldiers trying to capture him. Her efforts to take him alive on her own were futile, so she began to use other methods to find him. She gave a search order to locate any known relatives to him, and within a week, found the Commander's brother. She promised freedom to both he and his brother, and when that didnt work she tried a more "persuasive" approach. One night, she ordered that he be brought to her quarters, once there Keyes seduced him into talking, and upon learning the location of Commander Valois, executed him.
She then mobilized all the ships at her disposal, promising that the Loyalist government would be crushed by the end of the week. She did of course make one fatal flaw... Directly confronting Commander Valois in a Naval engagement. The Loyalist base was not on Earth, but instead on Mars, which explains why Keyes couldn't locate Valois' Fleet. Keyes' flag ship, Foward Unto Dawn, along with nineteen other vessels, engaged Valois' fleet of seven frigates in what would come to be known as "The first battle of Phobos." Keyes' had many ships, but the crews onboard were recruits and former prisoners of war. Valois' fleet however had superior leadership and experience aquired from the Human-Covenant war. Valois' flagship UNSC Bonhomme Richard, was the first to engage the approaching fleet.
Even as her ships were engulfed by fire, Keyes gave orders that caused the deaths of thousands of sailors at a time. Her poor leadership under pressure and self-control caused her fleet of twenty ships be reduced to only six. At this point, the two sides were even due to several MAC rounds fired from the Dawn that struck the hull of UNSC Serpent. Mutiny aboard three of Keyes' vessels also reduced the number of guns pointing at Valois, which in turn gave the chance for his badly damaged fleet to retreat. In an effort to draw Keyes' attention away from his retreating fleet, UNSC Bonhomme Richard remained. In terms of numbers, he was at a 3-1 disadvantage, but the poorly-trained crews of the URF(UNSC)Iroquois, and the URF(UNSC)Avenger, made the odds even...
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"Ma'am! Allied ships Royal Ark, Serapis, and Vanguard are fleeing the area!" The Commander took a long drag from her cigar, exhaled, then replied "These traitorous wretches, in time, will be dealt with accordingly, but now... Lieutenant, we must focus at the task at hand. Send Commander Valois a chance to surrender, I want him to die by MY hands...
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