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HALO: Evolution of Darkness Chapter One
Posted By: Commander Demitri Wolf<evoisthegreatest@hotmail.com>
Date: 8 October 2004, 12:53 AM
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Chapter 1: The Threat of Invasion
The idea of the Covenant invading Earth would once have been thought crazy, but ever since the fall of Reach to Covenant forces, humans have become more awear to the threat of a Covenant Invasion. Since the day that Reach was destroyed, human governments have worried about the Covenant, and what they will do to Earth, and the other human collonies throughout the Galaxy. And although the human produced starships and battlecruisers were equipt with the latest advances in Military technology, the Covenant's weaponary and star fleets, which included Troopships, Seraphs and Banshees, were still far more powerful.
In the year 2589, all Governments on Earth combined to become a World Government, capable of better protecting the Earth from the threat of Invasion. A new branch of the Military was created and divisions were set up in every country on Earth, inside the Pentagon in Washington, in place of the old MI6 building in London as well as in a large skyscraper in Sydney and dozens of other places around the Earth. The Covenant Defence initiave or CDi as it came to be know, was responsible for all intelligance relating to the Covenant and any hostile action they could be planning, as well as developing more Hi-Tech weaponary to combat the Covenant and producing the human starships and the most powerful human weapon of all, the Spartans. The Spartans are an elite unit of Super Commandos and are equipt with the powerful suit of powered-armor: the MJOLNIR, Mark V. Mjolnr armor is constructed in overlapping layers. It is a sealed system, capable of extravehicular activity or operations in toxic atmosphere. It is hardened against EMP and radiation and has environmental filters that can remove toxins and bacteria from local atmospmere. The armor's shell is a multilayer alloy of remarkable strength and has been augmented with a refractive coating capable of dispersing a limited number of Covenant energy weapon attacks. It has many other functions as well and is designed to be the most devastating weapon ever created.
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0857 Hours, Covenant Command Ship The Beacon of Power
en route to settlement in sector Gamma 0B9 Omega
March 23rd 2643
The Elite tapped the holographic keypad in front of him and an evil smirk appeared on his face, he pressed a button on his control pannel and a flickering projection of another Elite appeared. He was obviously a high ranking one as he was wearing gold armor.
"What do you want?" snapped the second Elite.
"Admiral Quelian," replied the first one, with a tone of respect in his voice "Just now a human Destroyer ship has shown up on the radar, it appears to be orbiting a fairly large planet and seems to be unawear of our presence due to the stealth cloaking system. Its current possition is about 7 minutes north of where we are now, what do you want us to do?"
The Admiral pondered the question for a second and then the same smirk came over his face. "Excelent work Lieutenant, get us up close to the Destroyer and then fire the MAC cannons, I want to see the carnage that they cause." he ordered.
"Im sorry Sir the Main Accelerator Cannons haven't been fitted yet and the Nuke guidance system is still in repair but we have the Small Accelerator Cannon system comming online in three minutes, should I get the Grunts down in the weapons room to prepare them?" the Lieutenant replied appologeticaly.
"Yes get the SAC's ready to fire, be sure your watching we are going to blow them out of the sky and it will be quite a show.
0900 Hours, CDi Destroyer Cusamano VII
In orbital patrol over Planet Earth
March 23rd 2643
Aboard the newly commisioned CDi Destroyer Ship, Cusamano Seven, Private Corbett walked quickly towards the Commander's room. There was not much noise except for the tapping of the Private's shoes against the cold metal floor and the sound of the small ship's engines as they propelled it across space. He came to the Commander's room and inserted his ID card into the card reader at the door and the small light next to it flashed green for a second and then went off as a buzz sounded inside the room.
"Come in Private" came the Commander's voice from the speaker outside the room, and then there was a small click as the door unlocked and Private Corbett opened it and walked inside, shutting the door again behind him.
"Commander Wolf, we have a large unidentified ship approaching from the South," Corbett told the Commander as he walked in. "they will pass they will pass us in four minutes. The appear to have SAC's fitted and there is a plasma laser defence system in place. Though they are in close proximity they have only showed up on radar about a minute ago, and are still invisible to the human eye, which has lead us to beleive that they have implemented some sort of stealth system. We have CDi satelites sending them messages, we have warned them that if they don't identify themselves we will fire."
Spartan Commander Demitri Wolf was in his late thirties and worked his was up through the ranks in the Army before being selected five years ago to command the Australian Space Defence section of the CDi. He was a tall man and was experienced in combat with the Covenant, having faced them in combat both on the ground and in the air in his Destroyer. He has a permenant reminder of one incounter with the Covenant in the form of the large scar down his chest and a deep gash across his right cheek, which he received when the rest of his platoon was destroyed ten years ago on HALO 03. He was captured and tortured by a ruthless Elite, and has never really got over it. He managed to overpower the Jackal guard that was stationed at his cell and take his plasma pistol and energy sword and escape. Apart from the visable scars, he had received many blows to the chest and face, leaving him hanging on to life by a thread, and once he returned to the base that had been set up on the ring, he had to undergo the Spartan/MJOLNIR program, his only hope for survival. Since the day he escaped from the Covenant prison he vowed to avenge his friends deaths, and kill the one that caused him so much pain all those years ago. The elite he knew as Quelian.
He stood up from behind his desk, where he was working on some complex problems, and walked over to the large window that took up a whole wall of his room. As he stared out into the blank void that is space, his mind wandered back to that time on HALO 03.
"Um, Sir?" said Corbett, and the Commander suddenly became remembered that he was there.
"Sorry Corbett, just fazed out for a minute then. Yes make sure they know that we will not hesitate to attack if they continue our way without identifying themselves. Lets go down to the Control Room, I will try to contact them from there, just let me relay the message to CDi Headquarters." he replied, going back over to his desk and turning on the Holographic projector. The AI appeared, it was in the form of the Spartan John-117, the legendary warrior who single handedly wiped out a vast amount of the Covenant army. "Hello Commander Wolf, Private Corbett, what is it that you need?"
"Hello John, I need to be put through to CDi Australian Division, and there is a large suspected Covenant ship approaching from the south, I want a three dimentional scan of the whole ship and all statistics, how many aboard, what their weapon system is, what it's doing here and who is in command of it."
"Now connecting you through to CDi Australian Division, will have all the information ready for you once you are finished." the AI replied as he dissapeared and the CDi crest appeared, floating in the air projected up from the hologram system on the desk.
Next Chapter: CDi
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