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"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
1627 Hours
November 27th, 2555 (Military Calendar)/
UNSC Infinity-Class Supercarrier Infinity, Slipspace, en route to Earth
Captain Lasky sat at the helm of the UNSC's pride and joy, the Infinity. She was a beauty. 5,694.2 meters and 907,000,000 metric tons of pure power. Infinity, along with the rest of battlegroup Dakota, was heading back to earth. The recent attack by 000 Tragic Solitude and the Sentinels of the Ark had left the Home Fleet extremely weakened. Brass wanted Lasky and his 50-sum odd battlegroup back in Sol space to ensure the safety of their homeworld until the could scrounge up ships from around the galaxy to fill the positions lost. "Lieutenant James," Lasky addressed the helmsman. "What's our eta?"
"About 35 more hours, Captain." The young lieutenant replied, tapping away at his station. "We are making good time."
The helmsman was cut off by the navigations officer, Lieutenant Ryder. "Sir, there seems to be a problem." He shouted. His voice nearly broke from the commanding monotone that was required of officers under duress. "Something's pulling us from our course in Slipstream Space." He continued worriedly. Suddenly, the ship lurched to port as it was dragged onto a different course.
"What the hell?" Lasky replied, concern evident in his reply. "What does that even mean?"
"We are being pulled into a different stream by an unknown force sir." Ryder replied.
"James, activate the gravity wells!" the Captain shouted. They could try an emergency exit of Slipspace before they were drawn wherever they were being pulled to.
"I'm trying captain, but they won't engage! I don't understand, they were in perfectly working order when we left Draco III!"
"Damn." Lasky muttered, gripping the sides of his captain's chair. This seemed like it was going to be a bumpy ride.
Imperial Relay Outpost V-798
Vaal, Gordian Reach, Outer Rim
0 BBY
Sargent Rybin of the Galactic Empire was bored out of his mind. Just another boring, uneventful day on this isolated monitoring station, only 2 other troopers for company. What was even the point of having a monitoring station here? The planet was an unpopulated dump, and there was nothing going on out here. He even despised the Empire a little. Had they forgotten about him and his men? He was listening to the sounds of his troopers shooting rocks outside when he heard an alarm go off on his console. Something was happening!? He shook his head, clearing it, and began to tap away at the console. He pulled up the sensory array and the deep space cameras. Foreign objects were appearing out of nowhere, and releasing strange, unknown radiations. 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, he stopped being able to keep track. He checked the video feed. Dozens of angular ships were plopping into their space out of nowhere. With slight hesitation, he began transmitting the data on emergency Imperial channels. He didn't know what else to do.
1700 Hours
Error-Unknown Date/
UNSC Infinity-Class Supercarrier Infinity, Error-Location Unknown
"Gravity wells engaged, sir!" James shouted.
"Fantastic!" Lasky cheered, whoops and hurrahs sounded across the bridge. 'Now Navigations, where are we?" He followed up.
"That can't be right." Ryder tapped the side of his console a few times. "I've got nothing sir." He replied sadly. "I've got no clue where we are. But there appears to be a decent sized planet right near us." He pointed out the viewport at the planet before them.
"Comms, how many of our ships made it through with us?" Lasky turned to the young Lieutenant Jespersen.
The young woman tapped with purpose at her station. "Sir, I'm getting reports from 8 of our Autumn-class heavy cruisers, 21 of our Paris-class heavy frigates, and one of our Vindication-class battleships. Adding to that, our 10 internally docked Strident-class heavy frigates are all intact." She reported proudly.
40 ships, Lasky thought to himself. About 30,000 men and women under his care. In unknown space. So, it must be Tuesday. "Any damage?" He asked.
"Everything's a little jostled about, but nothing too serious. Some minor repairs need to be made to the pelicans and warthogs, as a few were knocked clear when we were torn from Slipspace, but other than that, we are good to go." Lieutenant Jet, the Engineering officer replied.
"Good." Lasky replied, staring out into the foreign space.
Imperial Star Destroyer Defender
Vaal, Gordian Reach, Outer Rim
0 BBY
Captain Groh of the ISD Defender was very displeased. He had been minding his own business orbiting Jovan III when he received orders to investigate an anomaly reported by a relay outpost on Vaal. Nothing ever happened out here. That was why he liked it. No rebel insurgencies, no messes, nothing to muck up his work. It was an easy life. They had been assigned a second star destroyer, the Ascending Might, as well. Groh knew nothing of it or its captain, but apparently, they had seen many battles with the so called 'rebellion.'
Groh was lazily staring out the viewport of the triangle-shaped behemoth as they exited hyperspace. What he saw when they re-entered normal space nearly made him choke. Were they rebels? No, they couldn't be. They were to formidable. What he assumed was their capital ship was nearly 5 times the length of his own destroyer. "Ready Ion Cannons!" He shouted into the command well to his left. Imperial officers hurriedly tapped away at their controls. "I want firing solutions yesterday!"
1715 Hours
Error-Unknown Date/
UNSC Infinity-Class Supercarrier Infinity, Error-Location Unknown
Captain Lasky was more than surprised when 2 triangle-shaped ships appeared out of nowhere to their port. They seemed to be about the size of an Autumn class heavy cruiser. "Jespersen, you got anything on comms?" He barked, going into commander mode.
"Trying to hail them sir, but I'm not getting anything. I'm not even sure if they are receiving our messages." The Lieutenant replied worriedly. These ships were foreign, perhaps they sent messages differently?
The weapons officer, Austen, whom had been silent up until now, piped up. "Sir, we have inbound."
"What?" Lasky asked, before looking out the viewport. Coming at them from the strange ships were green lances of energy, on a direct course for them and several of their ships. "Shields to full!" He ordered. "Brace!"
The Infinity took several of the hits, and was shoved to port a few meters. "Any damage?" Lasky barked.
"No sir!" Jet replied. "Shields took the brunt of it."
Jespersen gasped, spoke up. "Sir, 2 of our Autumn's, Eternal Spring and Last Hope took hits from their attack. Their shields were not able to sustain the damage. They've both been gutted sir. Survivors unknown." She finished sadly.
Lasky's heart skipped a beat, thinking of all those dead, in almost seconds. They hadn't had this much surprise since the covenant first attacked. "Roland!" Lasky shouted to the shipboard A.I. "I want the primary MAC ready to fire on the closest of their ships, now!"
"Right away sir." The yellow projection replied. "Ready Sir."
"Fire!"
The Magnetic coil located near the front of the ship charged up as it prepared to launch its projectile. Then, with a bang, 3,000 tons of depleted uranium was fired at 30,000 meters per second. The projectile streaked through the starry space and impacted at the port of the enemy ship, barreling straight through it. It seemed to Lasky as if the ship had no shields at all. It reminded him again of the UNSC's first contacts with the Covenant. "Target the other one." Lasky ordered, impressed with the results. The second coil heated up and launched another slug at the remaining ship. But this time, something different happened. The projectile neared the ship, but before it could impact, energy flared around the projectile and it was destroyed. But the kinetic energy still went through. The ship began to spin around its rear end.
"Again!" Lasky barked. For a third time, the magnetic coil warmed up and threw a chunk of depleted uranium at the enemy. This time, the shields flared, but the MAC round tore through the enemy ship, separating the T shaped bit from the rest. Lasky smiled. "Good work everyone." He applauded, and stepped over to the battle table, examining the digital recreation of their current situation.
"Sir?" Jespersen spoke up. "I'm getting a garbled signal, trying to get a lock on it.
"Put it on over the speakers." Lasky replied, and the sound of static mixed with odd noises filled the bridge. The noises seemed to get clearer as the officer tried her best to triangulate the signal. Finally, the static cleared, and the audio was understandable.
"Hello? Can anybody hear me?" a grizzled male voice echoed out of the speakers. "My name is captain Rex of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, can you hear me?" The voice continued.