Alternate Realities -Prologue-
Posted By: Guardian<thehawaiiandude01@yahoo.com>
Date: 25 June 2004, 10:04 PM
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Authors Note: just wanted to give a brief idea of this background for the story. The Abrupt cut off of the data stream is there for a reason and will appear later on in the story, Otherwise i hope you guys like it, and if you do find some problems please post them in the comments, they'll be appreciated greatly to improve my writing.
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On the outer edges of the Outer Colonies of Earth's fledgin empire remained a planet, different from any other encountered. The star system it self was a puzzlement to human science. Many ships have passed that region only to make a quick jump out of that area for what they see. Through the data collected by one Science vessel are these the facts of the Planet that has been named Omega Zion VIII. Others refer to it as Sanctuary.
November 25, 2658
Outer Colony Region - Planet Omega Zion VIII
Planetary Discription and other data collected
Data Gathered:
Planet:
78% Nitrogen
22% Oxygen
Earth related atmopshere with unknown composition of rings
Eminating radiation and Neutrinos of high levels
8 Class 4 Type Moons containing massive deposits of Titanium and Tungsten Ore
Binary Star System with two Class 2 Stars in midphases of their lives.
Phenomenons Detected Surrounding the System:
Class 2 Black Hole roughly seven hundred billion kilometers from the outer edje of the system.
Twelve Gaseos Nebulae surround the system creating a sensor block.
Disappearence and Appearance of Human and Alien Ships also found phasing in and out of this Dimension
Data Log Closed
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Aboard Soverign Class Cruiser- U.N.C.S Remora
April 15, 2662
Outer Colony Region - Colonized Planet Sanctuary
Status - Under Covenant Attack
The ship reverberated as a MAC round was fired towards the targeted cruiser. The first out of 1750 ships that had jumped into this system. Thankful that this ship had a great captain with brilliant tactical ideas and the defense system of this planet. 5 years ago this system was desolate but 3 years ago the UNCS government had decided to colonize this planet and make it a second Fortress World such as Reach, but this time it would not be allowed to fall to the Covenant.
"Luitenant Haverson, whats the status of our MAC gun?"called out the captain.
"MAC capacitors are charged at 36% sir! A richocet archer missile impacted second ago near our MAC gun damaging a Super-conducting magnet dispersing some of our charged energy.
Captain Mathew Preston thought for a moment before coming up with a tactical solution to the situation. He called out to the ship's AI "Perry, get me a firing solution to all starboard Archer Missle Pods and lock onto the nearest Cruiser, then allocate any two other Covenant Ships of any kind nearing the size of the cruiser or larger and lock onto them aswell. Once you have completed that create a full spread formation for the missiles and Perry" said the captain.
"Yes captain" said the AI. "Warm up the Photon Torpedoes and the launchers, lets give the Covenant a taste of their own bitter medicine!". "Aye Sir".
"Sir the MAC capacitors are charged to 93% awaiting your command to open fire" replied Luitenant Haverson.
The Captain waited and looked at his Holographic display screen and watched as 2113 other remaining human ships fired upon the advancing Covenant ship. Just before he gave the order he saw a few hundred more ships jump into the system, all of them Covenant.
"Fire the MAC and the Photon Torpedoes!" replied the captain with cold hatred of the Covenant.
As a six hundred ton depleted Uranium projectile left the MAC barrel of the ship. Following that 50 other six thousand ton depleted Uranium Super-MAC rounds sped past the Remora.
"About damn time they got those up and running" the captain murmered to himself.
As the combined mass of over 2164 MAC rounds impacted upon the Covenant ships, out of the 1750 and rising ships 400 fell upon the barage of MAC and Super-MAC rounds. At that moment 6 yellow orbs left the Remora speeding their way towards any of the remaining super carriers, cruisers and frigates left in the Covenant Fleet. Upon impact, the torpedoes detonated releasing their Anti-Matter payload upon the shields of the ships. When the anti-matter came in contact they equalled themselves out with an explosive manner. The Covenant Shields flared and then subsided as another torpedo impacted the weakened shield and took it down. The final 4 four torpedoes impacted the, bridge, and engineering. Destroying those area immediately and instantly in a brilliant flash of blue and white light.
Four Hours Ago
April 15, 2662
Outer Colony Region - Colonized Planet Sanctuary
Aboard Sensor Station - Autumn
Private Archer was looking at his screen and then at the holographic display of the Planet Sanctuary. His Familiy Lived there including a population of three billion on the planet itself and atleast one to three billion for each of the 8 moons that had become Titanium/Tungsten Resource Area's where the ore was bieng mined and converted into whatever required, bullets armor, battle plates, and some moons even had a Super MAC/MAC facility which created the rounds for the MAC and Super MAC cannons, for the ships gaurding this planet and Earth. With this new resource found the security around Earth had become much tighter. Earth now had over a hundred Super MAC Orbital Battle Platforms protecting it and a massive fleet of over five thousand ships.
Suddenly his station started to beep, for an incoming mass through slipspace. He checked and rechecked his calculations. Then as he looked at the mass his jaw dropped. Six hundred and fifty trillion metric tonnes. In his mind over and over he thought there is no possible way for a mass of this size to travel through slipspace unless it was...
"Colonel we have massive incoming a covenant fleet of unknown proportion, I'm guessing over two thousand ships." replied the private.
"Alright folks get everything up to battle readiness now, all weapons online. Also send a call to all ground forces to be ready to repell an invasion, send a signal to the fleet to tell them to be ready. Finally send a signal to the Fusion Generators of the Super MAC and tell them to scrap everything and bring them online, this is going to be one hellava fight!"
"Private, what is the closest ship near the exit point of the Covenant Fleet?" said the Colonel.
"Its the Remora sir." replied the private after a brief glance at his fleet chart placement on his holo-display.
"Hail them and tell them to get the fuck! out of there" said Colonel Jenkins.
"Aye sir, the message has been sent"
Aboard Soverign Class Cruiser- U.N.C.S Remora
April 15, 2662
Outer Colony Region - Colonized Planet Sanctuary
Status - Under Covenant Attack
Luitenant Haverson cried out "Sir aft sensors are detecting two slipspace exits!. Scannning, aft sensors now have a visual of oh my god!. Two Super Carriers fifty thousand kilometers from Sanctuary's orbit".
The captain thought over another quick plan over this situation, then called out to his communications officer and said "Get me in touch with 4 of the Super MAC platforms near the carriers and ask them to target those carriers and fire at will regardless at what distance, no covenant should get past to hurt or kill any innocent human living on the planet".
A Plasma torpedo impacted the starboard hull of the Remora, burning through 2 meters of Titanium-A battle Armor. The ship shook viloently as more and more ships appeared into this system. Four more cruisers moved towards the Remora and opened fire releasing a volley of Plasma before the ship could be consumed in the hail of plasma, a ship of unknown origin appeared in front of the Remora. Leaving a trail of ions. The plasma impacted the vessel and its shields flared tremendously but held. The Vessel of unknown origin was no bigger than the Remora, but through what the captain aboard saw, was stronger many times more. The Ship turned towards the five covenant cruisers that had fired upon it. It launched five white colored orbs at the five ships. Upon impact each orb or what appeared to be or assumed to be a torpedo, passed through the shielded layers of the cruiser. Upon impact it released its deadly payload and within second the cruiser was envoloped in a flash of blinding white light. As the light faded there was nothing left but 5 torn hunks of what were before this incident 5 majectic cruisers part of the deadly covenant fleet.
just as the battle between the five cruisers and the alien ship ended it slowly moved away upon its engines and then disappeared from sensors even though the ship was still within the maximum sensor range of all ships, and stations. The Covenant believing that it was the infidels that had did this, sent in more and more ships. The ship count on each side was dropping, so far of the seventeen-fifty ships though more and more ships came in, their fleet was decimated and had been brought down to three hundred ships, however the human side had taken tremedous losses. Of the twenty two hundred ships only five hundred remained, however thankful to the sacrifices of other ships and Mobile Repair ships the Super-MAC platforms, all fifty of them stood without much damage or very minimal damage. Finally with the amount of carnage seen by the Covenant fleet, all other ships started to fall back with a quick jump out of the system.
This had been a victory at a great cost of human life against the covenant. Humanity had lost seventeen hundred ships. A striking blow to human morale, but this victory kept the human morale above the signs of a hopeless war. As the surving ships returned for repair and refit, the Remora did so too. After making one last pass over the wreckage of the Covenant fleet in search of stragglers and if within its battle capacity to eliminate the threats. After a full sensor sweep to gather any other exceptional data regarding the mysterious ship, the Remora turned around and prepared for an Intra-system jump to get back to Sanctuary as fast as possible.
"Sir the slipspace capacitors are at 100%, awaiting your order to jump" said Ensign Weaving.
"I didn't order anyone to charge up the slipspace generators" said the captain with a certain smile.
"Well anyways since they are charged set a course for home" and then the captain relaxed.
The Remora jumped into slipspace and at that moment a reactor near the slipspace entrance exploded and severly distorted the slipspace field. The Remora entered the alternate dimension and disappeared from normal space never to be seen again...
to be continued...
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