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Might of the Republic by Echo630
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Might of the Republic-Chapter One
Date: 21 August 2004, 4:25 PM
CHAPTER ONE-Republican Training
Yr.3023:Tm.0300 Hours-Loc.Planet Steppe,Training Grounds
Private First-Class Murphy switched the battery pack in his Training Rifle so the settings changed from "Standard" to "Sniper". A Night-Scope popped out of the top of the convertable rifle and the gun's barrel lengthened. He spied the Tango stronghold from only ninety feet away, hidden in a giant oak tree.
"Blue-Three, this is Red-One. Red-Two and I are in formation. Over." Murphy waited for a response from the comm.
"Red-One, this is Blue-Two. Blue-Three is a little busy with some Tangos, but he heard you. Over."
Murphy turned towards the markers on his HUD that indicated his team. He zoomed in to 10x.
He could see three men. One had a green marker hovering right above his head. The others were tagged as "T".
He aligned his rifle's reticle with the mans chect, and fired. A crimson plasma bolt shot forwards at fifteen feet per second and hit the man square in the chest, stunning him. He would be knocked out for twenty minutes. It would have been worse if the rifle's power frequency wasn't as squelched as it was.
He turned to fire at the other man first hiding behind a tree, but he was already out of the game.
Corporal Mathers crouched just as the enemy's rifle's bolt wizzed over his head, and just in time to see another bolt hit the Tange square in the chest. Private Murphy was doing his job then.
He didn't wait a second more. He switched his rifle's battery pack to "Shotgun" and stepped around the tree he was behind. The enemy was right in front of him.
As quick as lightning, he raised the rifle to his shoulder, squelched down the power, and fired into the man's thigh. He was out for an hour.
CPO Rogers jogged up behind the corporal, followed be Privates Roy and Shindoa. "Good Hussle, Coporal," said the Chief banishing his rifle for good emphasis.
He looked over to the trees where the other bolt had came from and said through his comm,"Good shot, Private."
He looked back at the rest or Red team. Okay. Now we've cleared out the outer perimeter, and its time to plant the flag. Red Team (Private Murphy and Austin) will be giving us support from the treeline." He turned towards the base.
It was a three meter high circular hole in a five meter high square fort. Flood lights searched the area around it.
"Red-One, I need you to power up your rifle and take out those lights for us. Over." The CPO listened to the comm, and got his answer.
]"Red-One, I need you to power up your rifle and take out those lights for us. Over."
Murphy replied, "Can-do, sir. Taking out those lights now."
He increased the power in his gun and looked at Blue-Two. "Austin, can you watch for enemies around the structure? If you see one, tell me and I'll tackle 'em."
"Sure can brotha'," he said. The spotter scanned the are while Murphy got ready to take out the lights.
"Taking out the lights now, Sir." He fired a quartet of plasma bolts at the two flood lights. The light-rounds hit and the lights busted, spraying the area around the bunker with sparks.
Murphy looked back at Blue Team. He found them running towards the bunker. A quick search of the surrounding are for enemies and weapons concluded Blue team's stay outside, and they entered the bunker.
Both Privates looked at each other. "Well, Austin, it looks like ours jobs done. C'mon, lets get to the evac zone and start celebrating graduation early."
Blue team entered the structure cautiously. The two Privates took the teams six, and the CPO and Corporal Mathers took point.
Rogers looked at Private Shindoa, "Private! The flag?"
"Yes, Sir!" The Private reached into his pack and pulled out a black flag with a multicolored galxy in the middle: The Republic's flag. He handed it over to the CPO.
After a half-minute of walking through the bunkers hall, they made it to a slinder, titanium, delta shaped pedastal. He inserted the flag into it. Speakers situated around the room let out a buzzing noise and a voice came in through his comm. It was his Drill Instructor, Seargent Cortez. "Good job team. You finally finished years of training. Congradulations, schools over."
Rogers looked around and smiled at his team. They smiled back. The Drill Instructors voice piped up again, "You'll be on your own now. No more help from me. You'll finally be getting off this planet...Your going Alto Bravo."
Continued......
Might of the Republic - Chapter Two
Date: 24 August 2004, 3:35 PM
CHAPTER TWO-Dark Wishes
Yr.3024: Tm.1350 Hours-Loc.Outside Planet Alto Bravo, in Orbit
Zamma Company waited around the docking bay aboard the the Republican Cruiser Vertigox. They were told that they would be briefed by the Vice Admiral of Alto Charlie himself about a war currently going on at Alto Bravo. Along for the briefing was CPO Rogers and his boys, too.
Unlike the older Origin ships from the years of 2500, these ships were based on the Extinct ships...the old enemy's ships.
The Republican ships were sleek and silve, and looked like a fish on its side. Each ship had room enough for three nuclear bombs, 1000 missles, and an atom blaster with the ability to destroy a large city.
Two blast doors at the top of the docks opened up to let entrance to the Vice Admiral and his body guards.
The entire Company saluted in unision. "At ease, soldiers," said the admiral. Zamma Company let down their hands and remained still, ready to hear the admiral's words.
"Ladies and gentlemen, as you all may know, we declared war on this planet, Alto Bravo, more than a year ago. We have lost thousands of lives...But now, we have the power to end this war, and the power to erase the enemy from history.
Half the Storm Troopers on the lower deck shuffled their feet uneasily. The enemy was strong and numerous, so being able to make them extinct would be an amazing feet for anything or anyone.
"I have withdrew all of our forces from the ground, so you all may see this and live to tell about it. The bad thing is, this may be the only time you get to see the Nightmare in action."
"Nightmare, eh?" asked one of the Troopers beside Corporal Mathers, "Sounds mean. I gotta see what it is."
"Pipe down!" commanded the corporal, looking straight into the marines eyes. "I want to hear what the admiral has to say."
The Vice Admiral kept on speaking, "None of you have ever heard of Nightmare. Or, at least, you shouldn't know about it. Its been a government and military secret project for the last three years, since the war on Ragnarok. It was designed to end wars immediatley, so it wouldn't grow into something that the Republic really just doesn't want..."
He watched the crowd watch him, and decided it was time to finish the briefing. "Tonight, I will be showing you the power of Nightmare, and Alto Bravo shall be our subject in mind." He gestured to the back ofof the bay, towards the windows on the blast doors. The soldiers turned to look.
What they saw was almost unbelievable...A ship had loomed into view half a klick away from the Vertogox. It consisted of what looked like nine different parts. The main part of the ship was a giant giant half ball, like it was based on a turtle shell. Then there was eight others linking off from it . Four on each side. Two going upwards, two going down.
The words nightmare were bolted on the side of the ship in large, bold letters. In orbited into position around the planet then stopped. It happened!
A giant hole on the bottom of the Nightmare opened up, iridescent blue lights hined through the vaccum of space until it was just a pointer targeting the planet itself. It began to charge. A blood curdling roar could be heard by everyone on the Vertigox. A blast from the Nightmare disrupted the ships electricity, and the lights went out. Now they could see the Nightmare perfectly. A second blast sent the Troopers closest to the blast doors flailing into the air, before falling just as the Nightmare somehow created actual authentic gravity in the ship. A few more blasts and he could tell the cannon was ready. It fired.
A thin, blue laser fired from the opening in the ship. It expanded. It kept expanding until it was al most ten meters wide, and it filled the entire wall. The laser strengthened and it became a darker blue. The windows on the blast doors tinted.
The laser hit. At first, it didnt seem as anything would happen. The projectile just stayed their, not moving an inch. Then the Zamma Company could see it. A giant crater, visible from space appeared where the laser struck.
The laser receaded, and the damage starting taking effect. The oceans on the planet began to freeze. Snow and ice created thousands of miles of glaciers across the surface of alto Bravo. He could see hundreds of miles of fissures in the planets crust, and tundra started spreading into the deep parts of the world.
The CPO and the rest of his team stood their in shock. It was amazing...impossible! The CPO looked at the Vice Admiral, and noticed everyone else looked at him too.
The Vice Admiral looked down at the men and women who had just witnessed the devastation of Nightmare. They were awestruck. Not that he wasn't. This had been the first time that he had seen it, too. He spoke, "The Nightmare is based on the weapon of choice used by the Extinct's long ago. There was some differences between our cannon and their's. Theirs would burn and destroy the whatever planet it hit. It was uncontrollable."
He stopped talking and looked back at everyone again. They were listening completely. He searched for the right words to say next, then finished his speech: "We will be using Nightmare again here in the the future. I only wish that none of you have to see this damage and devastation again, even thouugh I will have too. I only wish that as much of our enemies that we have will become allies with the Republic, so we dont have to destroy anymore of there lives. Now...I have nothing more to say."
Might of the Republic- Things to Know
Date: 28 August 2004, 7:41 PM
Refering to my fanfic 'Might of the Republic', there is alot of things that people might want to know about the Republic and the so-called 'Extincts' and 'Origins'. So, in this sub-story, I will fill you in with as much info on the years of the Republic as I can.
NEW MILITARY ALPHABET
A = Alto
B = Bravo
C = Chiron
D = Dragon
E = Echo
F = Fowl
G = Golden
H = Hotel
I = Indigo
J = Jeer
K = Kilo
L = Llama
M = Morris
N = Nikita
O = Oscar
P = Papa
Q = Quebec
R = Romeo
S = Spear
T = Tango
U = Ultra
V = Victor
W = Whip
X = X-Ray
Y = Yankee
Z = Zamma
Terms to Remember
The Origins- In the first years of man to the last colony of man in 2894, a race known as the Humans had a homeworls known as Earth. All races, ideas, and Leaderships were said to have been the forerunner ideas of the Republic.
The Extinct- During the years of the Origin, the Extincts were bent on nothing more than destroying the humans and all their life. For what? Complete power. They knew that if they didn't do something, the humans would one day rule the galaxies, and the Extincts, known before as the Covenant, would lie at the bottom of the deepest ocean, meaning they would never rise to power again. Though this is true, the Republic still ragards the Extincts as highly as they do the Origins because of all the technology they had gainged from them.
The Enemies- Even though the Republic is the strongest force known in the galaxy, it still has its large number of enemies hoping to kill as much of the Republics forces that they can. The Enemies are rebels strewn all across different systems around the universe. The Enemies believe that leadership of more than a thousand different planets, and killing the peasants and oligarchies living their is unconstitutional. so, to this day, they fight back in numbers beyond the millions, hoping to ward back the Republic from their main base of operations...
Nightmare- When the war upon Ragnarok started, the Republic knew at once that there own casualties would be in the hundreds or thousands. Those numbers were completely unacceptable. But they were completely irrelavant, also. Ever since the war had started, the ROI (Republican Office of Intelligence) had been working on a weapon that they would use for ending wars before they got out of hand. ROI knew that the casualties from Nightmare would be extremely high, but if they didnt embrace those deaths now, they may never live to regret it later on in life. The Nigh mare was finally completed in the year 3024. It proved to be extremely effective. It became known as the War-Ender.
Planets of the Republic
Earth- To us, Earth is home. Its the only place we've ever known. To them, however, its almost unknown. Now uninhabited, Earth is just giant rock of water and dirt, to the Republic. What they don't know is that Earth also houses many great mysteries. Most of them which should never be found again...
Ragnarok- In the 3022, war broke over the planet of Ragnarok after Republic military forces claimed the planet as their own, and threatened anybody who opposed them to step-up. Many did, and many died. The military forces that currently occupied the planet were outraged at the act of the Republic. So, They faught back. The forces of Ragnarok were some of the best. Elite and strong, they used guerilla tactics and ambushed the Republic troopers. More than a thousand lives were lost on the Republics side. More were lost on Ragnaroks. The Republic won over Ragnarok in the year 3023.
Festung Welt- This is the Republic's main planet-in-command. An artificial planet made out of ten-trillion pounds of steel, titanium, ans some copper, this planet was created in the year 3011 as housing for prototype weapons, ships, and training grounds for Spec Ops teams. In the year 3024, Festung Welt is now base operations of Nightmare improvements, atomic weapons testing, and new slip-stream testing.
Rebellisches Recht- This is the Rebel's main planet-in-command. Established in the year 2300, this planet has been home to almost 14,000,000,000 Rebels soldiers and citizens. Said to be the Republic,s kryptonite, Rebellisches Recht sends almost ten- thousand soldiers to fight the Republic on all fronts every year. The Rebel empire has gone unfounded by the UNSC, UESC, and the Republic for almost a millineum. It plans to stay unfounded, too, until the government Heirachies are done for, and the Rebels own space.
Authors Notes*- This list that I've put together is based entirely on my own fanfic, Might of the Republic. Others wanting to use any of these planets, races, terms or military alphabets are free to do so. All I ask of those people is to include something about the origin of these terms in a future Authors Note or somewhere in the the fanfictions Reader's Comments page.
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