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The Final Battle by SlimJim27
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The Final Battle:Part 1-the San Jose
Date: 28 September 2003, 10:40 PM
UNSC Frigate San Jose
10/2/2558
Covenant Space
"Sir, we will arrive in 30 seconds", said the Slipstream Officer. Captain John Grisson nooded his head. "Power up Particle cannons and laser batteries", he said. The San Jose frigate was a Medusa-class frigate. It still had the traditional UNSC type design, with large metal plates. It was slightly shorter than a Marathon-class cruiser. It had a 10 meter thick hull, made out of nanometal, a metal made of tungsten and titanium made in superfluid reactors, having a darker yet grey color. It was armed with particle cannons, six in all, capable of vaporizing a Covenant ship in one shot and 30 Point Defence Particle Batteries. It also had 10 antimatter cahrges in it. There wheren't any single ships, but a single military flyer, heavily armed with particle beams and the same sheilding as the San Jose. The San Jose is essentially slightly higher of the equivalent of a Covenant ship. It's reactor and computers where superior to a Covenant ship, same as weaponry. But the San Jose had something the Covenant wouldn't have in a very long time. It was a sheilding system light years ahead of the Covenant's. It took Covenant plasma and pulse weaponry, and used it as energy. The San Jose would never take any damage. The San Jose's mission was to destroy a Covenant planet and the fleet guarding it. After humans learned to hack Covenant systems, they immediatelly found out that Covenant space was large, composing of thousands of worlds, across nearly half the galaxy. The Prophets homeworld, the nerve of the Covenant, was some where in the vast area of empty space.
"Sir, we are exiting slipstream", said the comm officer. "Sheilds to full, arm particle cannons, ready flyer", Grisson said. The sheilds brimmed with energy, and the particle beam cannons hummed. The flyer left the hanger bay and flew in front of the San Jose. When they got out, there was a green planet, with wide oceans. There were two moons around it. On the night side of the planet, Grisson could see lights of Covenant cities. The San Jose was armed with antimatter charges, five could cover a planet in blue fire. "Flyer ready, weapons charging and sheilds on", said the Gunnery. "How many Covenant ships are there?", asked Grisson. "53 ships. There are 23 corvettes, 10 destroyers, 5 cruisers and 15 frigates", said the scanning officer. It was a light force. Covenant heavy ships are assault carriers, destroyers, and dreadnaughts, but there were only the small amount of destroyers. The San Jose and the flyer also had those sheilds, so they had the upper hand. "Covenant ships slipstreaming in", said the scanning officer.
53 points of space boiled, and 53 blue and purple, curvy ships came out, their lights off, but then came back on, and there weapons were charging. The flyer charged it's weapons and flew into the group of ships, and fired a cherry-red proton beam at a destroyer. The destroyer erupted in flames, and the flyer dodged the shockwave, and flew out, as pulse weapons fired at it. "Fire at these ships", said Grisson, as holographic spheres went around the figures of three destroyers and three corvettes on his holoPanel. The particle cannons fired, and the six ships were vaporized. The flyer circled around the group and hit two frigates, which went down in flames.
The 44 ships began to glow with energy, as their weapons charged. Five frigates fired plasma torpedoes at the San Jose, and 23 other ships fired simple plasma charges at it. They hit the sheild, but then dissapated. "Reactor up 130%", he said, as the weapons charged faster. "How are sheilds?", asked Grisson. "At 100% and ready", he said. The Covenant immediatelly recognized this. "Sir, proton beam cannons ready", said the gunnery officer. Grisson selected 2 destroyers and 4 cruisers. On the veiw screen, he saw the cherry-red beams strike the ships, and they erupted in explosions.
More plasma shots came from the angry Covenant ships, but the energy was absorbed by the sheilding. "Flyer charging weapons", said the scanning officer. The tiny flyer, a small delta wing like ship with a dark grey hull like the San Jose, and armed with a proton beam cannon, fired again at a frigate. The flyer flew into the center of the Covenant formations, but was immediatelly under fire. The sheilds of the flyer tingled, as it absorbed all of the energy. It gathered enough energy that it fired again at the last cruiser, and vaporized it. The flyer flew around and charged it's weapons, targetting a frigate. Two destroyers flew along the frigate and targeted the flyer with their pulse turrets. The flyer darted in and fired, the frigate erupting in flames. The destroyers charged their weapons and fired. Of course, the flyer absorbed the energy, and a cherry-red beam came from the front of the flyer and hit a destroyer, exterminating it. "Proton beams ready", said the gunnery officer. Grisson saw a group of 10 or so corvettes trieing to flank the San Jose. "Target these six with the particle cannons, these four with the point defence turrets", he said. The six were struck by the thick red beams and exploded, but the four other corvettes where struck repeatedly and repeatly by the short and small point defence beams. Their sheilds flickered, and went out, and they where consumed by explosions. The corvettes, the smallest Covenant ships with two bulging sections and three lateral lines along it, charged their weapons. The flyer, with it's proton beam ready, darted to a group of three destroyers and fired at the central one.
Covenant Destroyer Talon Of Righteousness
Gold Elite Ghemmor'Orroh slammed his thick fist on the display board. The human frigate came in, and it was eliminating his fleet, because of their sheilding. The tiny flyer came along and destroyed a good number of ships too. This wasn't supposed to happen. He pressed a holographic symbol for a plasma torpedoes. The purple lighting flickered as the ship gathered enough energy, and then a giant blue discharge came from the destroyer and followed the human frigate. It hit its sheilds, which flickered. "Impossible!', he shouted. "Sir, I am picking up power fluctuations across the human sheilding", said a red elite. Ghemmor'Orroh looked with dismay as the flyer went in and fired at a frigate, killing it like the rest of the others. "Apparently, the sheilds absorbs our weapons energy, and is using it against us", said a red elite. "Warn the rest of the fleet not to fire-", said Ghemmor'Orroh, but couldn't finish because the flyer fired its red proton beam, and the destroyer disintegrated into subatomic particles.
5 hours later...
The tiny flyer went to the last remaining frigate. Grisson remembered that the Covenant fight to the last person, as was the case here. The frigate went up in flames. "Move to the Covenant planet", he said. The San Jose and the flyer went to the flyer. "No sign of planetary sheilding or orbital batteries", said the gunnery officer. This was only a backwater planet. "Vaporize the planet", said Grisson. The San Jose shot a blue dart at the planet, which hit the surface, and a massive blue explosion covered a face of the planet. The flyer fired another dart, which also resulted in the same fate. The San Jose fired another dart, which struck the middle of the ocean. The explosion threw up steam clouds miles high, as the antimatter charges combined with matter and released their deadly energy. After six of the antimatter charges, the planet was glowing white from the heat, and then went to a bright red after some of the energy subsided. The planet was covered in radiation.
"Our first Covenant planet destroyed", said Grisson. That day was the turning point in the war, as the final battle would happen 2,430 years later...
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