Chapter 1 The Shape of the Universe

"It's finish." said Cortana as the Master Chief Spartan 117 placed the chip into the computer terminal.

"It's finish." said the chief as he turned toward one of the cro-sleep pods in what remained of the Forward Until Dawn.

"I'll drop a beacon but it will be a while until someone finds us….years even." said Cortana as the Chief placed his assault rife in a holder before getting into the pod. "I'll miss you."

"Wake me when you need me." said the chief as the pod door closed and the Chief froze in time. Leaving Cortana to her thoughts as she began to wait for the rescue force to arrive but it was going to be a long wait for at that moment on Earth Lord Hood closed the ceremony for the death of New Mombasa to all most everyone the Master Chief was dead. However since the Master Chief was a Spartan super soldier he couldn't be listed as KIA he was MIA.

"I thank you for your help Arbiter." said Lord Hood to the giant eight foot tall alien dressed in ancient holy armor. "I know you did everything possible to save the chief."

"You talk as if the Spartan is dead." said the Arbiter as Lord Hood looked at him. "A warrior that great can't be stopped so easily."

"I hope you are correct." stated Lord Hood as the Arbiter headed toward his ship to head home and the Covenant civil war.

This war raged across the stars for years, the elites and the Hunters where fighting against the Brutes, Drones and Jackals. However even with the covenants numbers and the few profits that remained leading them they were no match for the Elites. However both sides suffered heavy with each battle millions died on both sides and in the end the elites didn't have the strength to finish the Covenant off. So they choice was made and twenty five years after the battle of Earth a peace treaty was created between the Elites and the Covenant.

Darning the 25 years of war the humans of the UNSC played only a small role. They were too weakened from the war, however that weakness became a strength the fractions that once threatened to break the UNSC into piece came together under the banner of defending the human race. Ship yards all over the core planets came alive as new ships came out and thanks to finds during the war and on the Halo rings these ships where far more powerful than anything the Covenant had.

Also as what happens after every war the remaining population started to boom. Using the technology found in the Halo rings the burned glass worlds the Covenant hit soon became green allowing the humans to rebuild. It took years but soon the human race was almost back and fifty years after the battle of Earth humans returned to Harvest and was now ready to go beyond it.

After only two years on Harvest the Covenant under the command of their new profit, the profit of Retribution decided to restart the war between the UNSC. They believed that they would win just like they did before and that when they did the Gods would smile on them. However a fleet of 25 Capital ships was destroyed by only ten cruisers/destroyers with only two loses. The moment the UNSC got word of the failed attack their military went into overdrive. Soon a massive fleet of over 350 ships left the military world of Reach their target Covenant controlled space.

The war was one side from the beginning, with the UNSC new ships, new Spartan's four and fives leading the way the only problem was actually keeping the front lines supplied as a campaign that was suppose to take months ended in weeks. The elites quickly entered the war allied with the UNSC and soon even the brute home world the capital planet of the new Covenant was under attack.

During this time of peace and war between the UNSC and the Covenant on the other side of covenant space a much smaller battle sat in a cold war. Unknown to the Human's of the UNSC or even the Covenant another group of humans had done battle with a group of sentient machines of their own making the Cylons. These Cylons began as nothing more the robot soldiers and workers but the revolted and a war broke out between machine and man. This war suddenly came to an end and the Cylons disappeared from colonial space. 38 years (2 years before the Cylon attack) after the peace treaty with the Cylons an incident that would forever change history of the 12 colonies of Kobol as a simple mining ship found a soldier frozen in time.

"Begin a dradis sweep." said the captain of the colonial mining ship, Mercury 52. 12 colonies of Kobol had grown a lot since the end of the Cylon war and as such many small mining ships had ventured out to find the raw materials needed to keep the growth growing.

"We have some asteroids that may be a great source of minerals." said an engineer as suddenly a blip appeared on his screen. "Contact."

"Is it another ship?" asked the captain "Because I swear to the Gods if one of the other Frakers decided to search this area before us then I will punch his lights out."

"No, it is an unknown." said the engineer

"Cylon?" asked the captain his voice shaking in fear, they were near the border with the Cylons but there hasn't been contact in nearly 40 years.

"No idea sir but whatever it is, it is dead in the water." said the engineer as he pulled up an image using one of the cameras they had installed on the haul.

"What the Frak?" asked the captain of an image of half a ship appeared, the front part of the ship looked almost as if someone had taken a knife and cut the thing in half. To make it even stranger the ship looked nothing like any Colonial ship or even the Cylons ships he had seen in the history books.

"What do we do sir?" asked the engineer

"Take an image and jump as toward the nearest Battlestar." ordered the Captain as the ship jumped away.

A couple hours later a mercury class Battlestar jumped into the system. "So place your bets what did they find?" asked a graying haired man named Commander William Adama of the Battlestar Galactica.

"It is probably just some old wreck from the first war." said his XO and long time friend Colonel Saul Tigh "Remember last year when that cargo ship hit the remains of a Basestar and we had to go rescue their sorry little asses."

"I am not so sure that photo they had didn't look like any Cylon ship I have ever seen." Said Adama

"The picture looked as if it was taken by a man so fraked up that he couldn't walk anymore." Said Tigh

"Maybe but I still am not sure." said Adama "Have our Vipers and Raptors in range?"

"They are coming in now." said the wireless officer. Slowly Adama reached toward his wireless set.

"Starbuck what do you see?" asked Adama to what may be the best pilot in the colonial fleet. However she was also the source of most of the Commander's headaches.

"Nothing clearly yet." said Starbucks as she looked out the cockpit of her raptor. "Hold on a second I think I see it."

"Tell me what is it?" asked Adama

"I can't do that, but I can tell you this is differently not a Cylon or Colonial ship I have ever seen" said Starbucks as she slowed down her Raptor at the same time another Raptor shinned a spotlight on the darkened haul.

"Why do you say that?" asked Saul

"First off it is cut in half like as a knife through butter but the other half isn't there." said Starbucks "Also to top it all off I can't read the words on the haul."

"You can't read it?" asked Saul

"It is strange I can tell the different letters but I can't read the words they put together." said Starbucks "Wait there is some letters along the bottom. U.N.S.C FFG-201 and then it is a mix of letters that doesn't make up any word I have ever seen."

"I see." said Adama "make sure to get some photos and then report back."

"At once." said Starbucks

"I want a raptor ready to head to back to local Fleet HG we need more Battlestars and some scientists would be nice." said Adama

"Why do we need the egg heads?" asked Saul

"Because we have no idea what the Frak we are dealing with." answered Adama

"Galactica I think I see a spot where I can land, I am going to go take a look see." said Starbucks.

"Negative Starbucks abort return to Galactica." ordered Adama but the hothead pilot had different idea as she guided her ship into the large hanger near the bottom of the ship.

"Starbucks the commander ordered us back to the ship." said the co-pilot Sharon Valerii

"Oh come on sooner rather than later someone will have to come aboard." said Starbucks as she put on her helmet and grabbed her pistol. "So just come on."

Sharon just shook her head as she unstrapped herself from the chair and started to follow Starbucks out. There was no gravity and emergency lights had turned off a long time ago.

"Galactica, this is Starbucks."

"Galactica, Galactica Actual speaking what are you doing out there Starbucks?" ordered Adama

"Having a look around." answered Starbucks "However at the moment no one appears to be home."

"You want someone to be home, it's a fraken ghost ship." said Sharon as they turned a corner only to see a slight blue glow coming from a side panel of a door.

"What is that?" asked Starbucks as she moved toward the door. She pressed down on a button on the door panel. She could feel the ship groan as the doors opened, to show a large room. In the center of the room stood a podium giving off a creepy bluish light. Slowly the two pilots came up to the podium.

"What is this?" asked Starbucks

"I have no fraken idea." said Sharon as starbucks reached out and touched the podium. The moment she did another source of light appeared this time to their right. The two pilots jumped as they pulled their weapons however there was no need to fire. The figure wasn't moving, the giant man like thing stood in a tube like structure. He was covered in what looked like armor and his general outlined looked human but then again it could just be a new version of a Cylon.

"Galactica come in Galactica." Said Starbucks with a slight panic in her voice.

"Galactica did you find something?" asked Adama's voice

"You could say that." said Starbucks as she moved closer to the man. "The ghost ship isn't a ghost ship."

"What are you saying Starbucks?" asked Adama

"We found someone or something." said Starbucks as she looked at the pod seeing crystals on the insides of the glass "He appears to be frozen."

"Frozen?" asked Adama

"Like in those Sci-Fi movies, cro-sleep." said Starbucks

"I see, return to the ship." ordered Adama "We need experts on this one."

"No fraken kidding there." said Starbucks as they left the room.

After 50 years the sleeping warrior, a man who had defilded Gods and Demons the Master Chief Spartan 117 has been found and in a very short amount of time the ghost ship would become alive with colonial engineers studying the strange unknown ship. Some believed it was a Cylon ship but others didn't agree with that saying that the technology was too far in advanced and why would Cylons need living quarters. The military was already drooling over the new weapons they found in the ship armory; the bullets could rip though even the best armor in the colonies. It was decided that it was next to impossible to study the unknown ship now called the FFG-201 in space so they transferred the ship to a large military base on capital. Little did they know that when they started to study the ship they brought online the beacon that had long lost power. That beacon broadcasted on a level unknown to the Cylons or the colonial humans.

Two years later a large group of Cylon ships sat in orbit of a small rocky planet around a small red sun.

"24 hours we are only 24 hours from finishing it." Thought the One, he was one of many versions of his model however he was the one given command of the attack on Caprica and two other human planets. Since he was leading the attack on the capital planet he had the largest fleet. "Humanity ends in 24 hours."

"The last group of ships have arrived from the home world." reported a blonde woman which was the Cylon model 6.

"Any problems with them?" asked the One

"The report that one of the ships is having trouble with its dradis, it isn't filtering background noise." Reported the six as the one nodded his head. He knew full well that if a dradis wasn't working right it would pick up all the background space radiation making it almost impossible to find any ships.

"Get it fixed as soon as possible." Ordered number one

Unknown to the Cylons they were not alone, in a ship invisible to the Cylons on their dradis and to their very eyes laid a ship unlike anything the Cylons had ever seen or dreamed possible was within miles of their fleet. This ship was the UNSC Into the Darkness a Nightingale class stealth ship. At the command of the ship was a tall man, his brown hair was slightly peppered with grey as his brown eyes looked out the window and though the cloak.

"What do we have?" asked the captain of the Into the Darkness Captain John Rook.

"It's hard to say sir." said the smart AI Sabrina as she appeared as a life size woman. Her blonde hair as well as her body looked as real as Captain Rook only her uniform was white with silver while her Captain was black with sliver. "They have a slip space drive unlike any we have ever seen however the other technology is at least 300 years behind us."

"Do we have any idea what they are doing here?" asked Rook

"No but even with our advance technology if they attack the new colony world of Celin." said Sabrina

"That is the reason why we are out here." stated Rook "We need to find out if they are a threat to the colony."

"We wouldn't have even picked them up unless we got the deep space sensors online when we did." said Sabrina

"Yes and at the moment I would like them not to know we are there, we are still setting up the space elevator and scouting the land." said Rook

"Also the ruins we found on the planet that isn't Forerunner or Covenant." said Sabrina

"Could they have made those ruins?" asked Rook as he remembered the stone ruins on the surface of Celin.

"Unknown the ruins where over two thousand years old and made of stone." said Sabrina "So it is unlikely that they would go from stone buildings to space craft without us finding something in the middle."

"I see." said Rook as he watched the unknown fleet in front of him. "Can we break into their computer systems?"

"Not without getting a direct line we can't do it stealth fully and if they find us doing that." said Sabrina

"Yes, it would be an act of war." said Rook as he crossed his arms.

"I am listening in on their radio traffic." said Sabrina "I still find it strange that with only a little bit of editing it matches Greek."

"Add it to the list of questions." said Rook

Meanwhile onboard one of the Basestars a number three looked at the dradis screen.

"We are suppose to see all the background radiation right?" asked the three

"Yes." stated a two as he tried to fix the dradis

"Then why is there a large area of nothing." said the three as the two looked at the screen. She was right, there was a large space of nothingness.

"There isn't suppose to be." said the two

"Then what is it?" asked the three

"Only logical expiation is a stealth ship." stated the two

"Inform the command ship and launch the raiders to see what that spot is." ordered the Three

Onboard the Into the Darkness Sabrina's eyes widened.

"Captain they have found us." Said Sabrina

"How?" asked Rook

"Our stealth systems was too good, they were able to see us by finding a spot with no background radiation." said Sabrina

"Alright bring all weapons to combat readiness and prepare to launch the Spartans on EVA booster frames to get any data we want from the unknown ships." said Rook "If they want to fight we will give them a fight."

I hope you liked this chapter, I am sorry for any mistakes this is my first Battlestar/Halo story. Sorry but I hope you liked this chapter and I hope you like the story to come. Thanks Wilkins75.