Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:00 pm
Part II: A new age
2503
- The Original Free Gelida Coalition is stamped out.
- The Rift is opened. The Disiran Wave begins to spread.
- The neutron star in Cygna cluster system 398502718 starts broadcasting a unknown signal.
2506
- A new generation
- Project ORION (AKA the Spartan-1 program) is deactivated. Though the subjects are effective, their abilities fall short of original expectations, and they are far too expensive to develop and field. The surviving soldiers are reassigned to various special operations units.
2517
- The Spartan-2 program is initiated, with 75 carefully selected children being conscripted (abducted) and forced into training.
2523
- A UNSC command base is established on the seventh planet in the newly-discovered Gelida system, under the guise of providing support for the colony being established there. In truth, the base's actual purpose was to keep UNSC personnel in close proximity to enable easy investigation of the forerunner installation - The Apocryphal Hoard - in the system's outer orbit.
2524
- A human freighter is stranded after a slipspace malfunction, and its distress beacon leads to it being discovered by a Covenant ship, who capture the ship and use its navigation box to locate its point of origin.
2525
- Official first contact is made between Humanity and the Covenant on Harvest, the resulting hostilities leading to the commencement of the First Battle of Harvest (which the Covenant win), and the dawn of the Human-Covenant war.
- The Spartan-2s undergo rigorous chemical, physical and biological augmentations. Thirty-three Spartans successfully pass the alterations. Thirty subjects die, and twelve are permanently disabled. Following this, they are introduced to project MJOLNIR.
- The UNSC war aginsted the Insurgency escalates with the arrival of the Covenant Empire. Fighting intensifies, the more radical insurgents start making rash decisions swaying there support in the outer UNSC colony's. The UNSC calls forth ONI to finish the development of there new warship, the Nataoss.
- The UNSC military is kicked into full gear, with the military leaders seeking a quick and decisive victory over the Insurgency.
2526
- The UNSC routs its forces, and prepares a counter offensive aginsted the Covenant.
- Ross starts to see visions of a ship set between two mountains in a frozen world of sorrow.
- Rocar Enpara, a rising Sangheili commander in the grand Covenant army sees the same visions.
- The UNSC strikes a decisive blow aginsted the Insurgency's leadership. Unable to operate there forces scatter and the UNSC picks them off one by one.
- The remaining Insurgency leaders regain control of there remaining forces and suggest a cease fire with the UNSC considering the alien invasion force.
- There is a temporary cease fire, the UNSC redirect there attention to harvest.
- The UNSC sends a fleet to retake Harvest, and though they suffer heavy losses, humanity wins this Second Battle of Harvest. However, the Covenant return to the planet later in the year, prompting a similar military response from the UNSC, leading to a five-year series of engagement that would collectively come to be known as the Harvest Campaign.
- During this time, several other human planets are located and glassed by Covenant forces.
2527
- The Temporary cease fire between the UNSC and Insurgency doesn't hold. With the complete annihilation of multiple outer UNSC colonies the Insurgency is able to rally the broken survivors to there cause. They sortie all there forces and storm the UNSC system of Regulus. UNSC solders and personnel defect to the Insurgency in droves. With the subsequent loss of the system within twenty four hours.
- Irel 'Nercazd commands a Covenant battlegroup designed to capture terrain ships intact. Irel is able to capture a derelict Insurgency vessel and drags it back to Covenant controlled space to study it.
- The ONI Juggernaut Nataoss Captained by Admiral Ivictus finally clears production and spear heads a small armada with the objective of stamping out the uprising entirely.
- The insurgents spread into Sirius, Vega and Deneb.
- The UNSC fleet lead by the Nataoss clashes aginsted the Insurgents in Regulus. After three weeks of fighting the UNSC is able to retake Regulus.
- Splitting there forces in their campaign aginsted the Insurgents, the UNSC conducts a three pronged attack on Vega, Sirius and Deneb. With there forces split the Insurgents are able to gain the upper hand in Sirius and Vega, however with the Nataoss in play they are unable to hold Deneb.
- The Insurgents forces are quadrupled in Vega do to the arrival of previously missing insurgency vessels and defectors, subsequently forcing a UNSC retreat.
- The Insurgency abandons Vega and pools there forces in Sirius. With there forces together and now strengthened more then when they invaded Regulus the Insurgency flee the Sirius system and invade Alpha Centauri.
- The UNSC forces sweep Sirius and follows the Insurgency fleet.
- The Insurgency fleet is resupplied by hidden caches in Alpha Centauri. A small force remains behind wile the bulk of there fleet attacks Aldebarran. The UNSC Third Fleet clashes aginsted the Insurgents wile the Nataoss and her fleet deal with the forces in Alpha Centauri. The Insurgency forces wile unable to make any major gains in Aldebarran manage to raid a massive UNSC supply cache in the system. The Insurgents gather there forces and now full resupplied and armed send out a rally call too any allies they may have to be ready to strike. The remaining Insurgents flee into dead space. The Nataoss and her forces are put on stand by for the inevitable resurgence for supply's.
- A Covenant fleet, captained by the brute Shipmaster Ormentus, uncover the colony on Gelida VII, and the settlement is glassed.
2528
- On January second, without warning the Insurgency fleet emerges within the Sol system. The Insurgency catches the UNSC First Defense Fleet off guard and is able to cripple there forces in system. With the first fleet pacified the Insurgents launch a full scale invasion on humanity's home worlds. Invading Earth, Luna, Mars, and the moons of Jupiter. The Sol system is wretched into war. With the UNSC capital now directly threatened the UNSC scurry's to defend itself.
- Multiple UNSC reserves are pushed into service to hold there worlds.
- Full scale war erupts on the surface of Mars and Earth, as the Insurgents are joined by allies and Insurgency cells on the planets.
- General Octavious Grant is killed in a fire fight within New Harmony. The city is almost lost within the first hours of fighting. Octaviou's Son Lieutenant Christian Grant is pressed out of officer training school and into service to defend the city. Enraged by the death of his father he and Lieutenant Bradford Branson jump into a tank and lead a counter offensive aginsted the Insurgents in the city. Control of the city wavers back and forth before falling into a stalemate.
- On Earth Captain Robin running a ONI training OP in the arctic took his recruits into combat and joined the UNSC in defense of there home. The Insurgency fights the UNSC across the planet, assaulting there city's. There end-game, to topple the UEG and snuff out all hostile resistance on the planet. The Insurgents target HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6 and the Insurgency warship Homebound drops from orbit to personally attack the facility.
- Insurgency forces attempt to storm HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6. Sargent James Sanders and his men hold back the Insurgency for the time being.
- Captain Robin rallies up with Sargent Sanders at HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6 and helps reinforce there position. More Insurgents are sent planet side.
- Initiate Lougin peels off from the defense of the HIGHCOM Facility with Initiate Ross. They sneak aboard an Insurgency supply vessel and steal there uninforms. Taking the ship up and infiltrating the Homebound.
- At this point the Insurgency has blockaded the planets and are swatting off all attackers. The Nataoss and its fleet enter the system and focus there attentions on Liberating Earth. The UNSC and Insurgency fleets engage one another above the planets.
- On mars New Haven is taken taken back by Grant and Branson. Grant and Branson split up and lead separate offensives aginsted the Insurgency's holding. Grant assaulting the Olympus Highlands with Branson blocking there forces in Valles Marineris. ODST forces successfully take back Syrtis.
- The UNSC's Second Defense Fleet arrives in Sol.
- With the arrival of Second, the UNSC is able to break through the blockade of Mars and land forces on the ground. With entire UNSC battalions now planeside, the Insurgents are pushed back to there initial invasion point of the planet. Grant and Branson's forces both link up with there reinforcements and proceed to New Manila.
- On Earth the UNSC is loosing ground. The Capital has fallen into the Insurgency's hands and there forces are doubling back to triple there efforts on taking the Bravo-6. Lougin and Ross sabotage the Homebound's engines sending it careening into the Atlantic. They escape the ship aboard an escape pod.
- In Orbit the UNSC Nataoss splits the Insurgents blockade above Earth. With the Insurgents blockade broken the UNSC scurry's to retake the Capital. Spartan II are deployed along with entire battalions of Armor and infantry. Bravo-6 is reinforced by ODST.
- Sargent Sanders and Captain Robin direct UNSC forces to outmaneuver and surround the remaining Insurgents assaulting HIGHCOM and force them to surrender.
- On Mars New Manila is taken back swiftly and decisively as the Insurgents holding the city surrender.
- The UNSC is able to take back the Capital of the UEG and drive the Insurgents out. Completely defeated the remaining Insurgency vessels flee the SoL system. All active Insurgency ground forces surrender to the UNSC.
- Admiral Ivictus, not satisfied that the Insurgency is finished takes his task force to hunt down the remaining warships and either capture or destroy them.
- Lougin and Ross, for there outstanding decisiveness in bringing down the Homebound are inducted into the Black Ops branch.
- Grant and Branson are promoted for the heroic efforts in defending mars and leave Officer Training as Lieutenant Commanders.
- Sargent Sanders transfers out to the Second Defense Fleet.
- On February seventeenth the Insurgency is officially declared defeated by UNSC High Command that now believes they lack the support and backing to pose any real threat.
- Throughout the rest of the year Admiral Ivictus and his task force hunt down and remove what remaining Insurgency vessels they encounter. They eventually track down there remaining vessels and the last of there leadership. Evidently Held up in the ruins of an Ancient Warship. Ivictus checks in with ONI on what to do about the ancient warship.
2529
- ONI assaults the remaining Insurgents at there home bass. Storming the ancient derelict. The remaining Insurgents once again scatter. This time Invictus is finally content with letting them run.
- ONI tows the ancient warship, now revealed to be of forerunner construct. It is used to further research and development within the UNSC.
- Lougin ascends through the ranks swiftly. His brutal tactics are effective. He quells riots in the outer systems.
- Ross finds it difficult to disern reality. He finds himself lost in a field of endless snow. He has seen this place before, in his dreams.
- Ross, distressed by his visions, searches for answers.
- Ross receives the Green Light by ONI to investigate ancient ruins discovered throughout UNSC Space.
- Irel 'Nercazd of the Covenant Empire is struck down by his son in honorable battle, Nrtak 'Nercazd by right takes the place as ship master of Irel's vessel.
- Nrtak takes great interest in Forrunner technology. Electing to return to Covenant Space to study there technology further.
2530
- The Rift expands
- The Disiran Wave spreads causing slight distortions in time.
- The Narcano Wave begins to spread
- Grant trys to help Ross, he searches for this place Ross describes to him. He discovers that others have seen these visions as well. They recollect something far beyound understanding.
- Grant recalls something like this when he was younger. He shut it out as childish fear. Now he is uncertain.
- Major lougin encounters a device in the Procyon system. This device is like nothing he has ever encountered before. It is crystalline in nature, ONI orders its immediate recovery.
- ONI keeps the discover of this unknown device a secret.
- Initial presumptions assumed the device discovered on Procyon VIII was of forerunner design, however further analysis revealed that the device exceeds the creation of the fabled Halo installations.
- ONI belives the forerunners have encountered something similar to the unknown device, believing it to be a storage device. ONI uncovered possible information that revealed the forerunners worked to develop some sort of decryption device but died out before its completion.
- ONI tasks Lougin with finding this decryption at all costs.
2531
- ODST Trooper “Green” is assigned to UNSC SOF (Spirit of Fire) to a team of elite troopers. During the final months of the Harvest Campaign.
- Spirit of Fire leaves for Arcadia.
- A large contingent of ODST are dropped onto Arcadia. Including Bravo 21, which consists of 7 troopers including SGT Charlie “The Bucket”, LT Sabree, PVT CC “Browning” and Trooper “Green”
- Events of Feet First take place.
- Professor Anders is captured by Arbiter Ripa Moramee. Bravo 21 is left behind in the resulting pursuit.
- Bravo 21 Evacuate aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn.
- The final battle of Harvest takes place, resulting in a full UNSC victory, but at an immense cost.
2532
- ONI finds a lead regarding information linked to the forerunner decryption device. However due to corruption the information falls into the hands of an Insurgency cell, the New Earth Dominion.
- Ross searches for answers, he sees vivid visions of the snow plains. He hears a voice calling to him. Telling him of a future where all things could be different.
- Ross is conflicted by these voices.
- Rocar Enpara hears the voices as well. In his visions he follows them, they lead him through the snow.
2533
- The now Colonel Grant, is sent with a UNSC task force behind enemy line to capture a Covenant Command Vessel. (add more to this later)
- ONI thanks to the diligence of Admiral Wolf ONI is able to track down the New Earth Dominion however, due to Insurgency sympathizers, the Insurgents are able to out maneuver them and escape.
2534
- Grant marries the love of his life, Nataly Walker.
- Major Lougin building off of the information provided via Admiral Wolf tracks the Dominion down to there current base of operations. In haste Lougin launches an assault on the base. In response the Insurgency cell calls for help drawing multiple previously dormant Cells out of hiding to assist in there escape. Thanks to there intervention the New Earth Dominion is able to escape and take the Decryption device with them.
- Ross's vissions grow worse, he suffers from delusions. He is torn between both visions of an endless plain and reality.
- While recovering from a battlefield injury, Bradford Branson falls in love with his nurse, and the two journey to Bradford's home planet to be married in a quiet, private ceremony.
2535
- Grant try's desperately to help his friend Ross find what he's searching for.
- 1 February, Anya Branson is born.
- Grant congratulates Bradford on the birth of his daughter and updates him on the state of affairs.
- Lougin is eager to get back on the New Earth Dominions tail but is blocked by Oversight. Thanks to his rash actions multiple Insurgency Cell that were previously dormant have now resumed hostiles and they are content with ensuring he deals with them personally before they disrupt the UNSC's war effort aginsted the Covenant.
- ONI moved the crystalline device from Procyon to there main command center for safe keeping.
- Ross barly holds his career togeather, Grant calls in some favors to cover for him wile he works through his issues.
- November 9, Tayler Grant, and Damion Grant are born.
- At this point in the Human-Covenant war, most of the major Outer Colonies had been destroyed. In order to protect Earth and the remaining colonies, the Cole Protocol was established by military order. According to this protocol: All human ships must, when forced to withdraw, not move on to a colony-bound vector, even if that means jumping without proper navigational calculations. If blind jumps are not possible, the ship's Captain must order a self-destruction sequence if capture is imminent. In addition, it is also imperative that the powerful ship AI data cores not fall into Covenant hands, so part of this protocol involves either the removal or destruction of the ship's A.I. in extreme situations. Additionally, no captured Covenant ships or technology may be brought back to a human planet without being checked extensively for surveillance devices.
2536
- Covenant forces begin to swarm into the Inner colonies. For several years the war falls into a pattern: Humans win isolated battles, typically during ground operations, but at a horrible cost. In space, the Humans are losing at a precipitous rate, and one by one, the Inner colonies fall.
- A week Prior to the Battle of Gorna Pass, Nrtak 'Nercazd returns to the war front and brings with him a specially augmented Covent Scarab, The Matreyark. Nercazd commands the Matreyark and with it breaks through the UNSC's defenses leading to Gorna Pass.
- Four days prior to the Battle of Gorna Pass, Bradford Branson and Julien Vex infiltrate the Covenant cruiser Beacon of Faith, destroying the ship, and disrupting the experiments being conducted by Yhil 'Gzared. During the conflict, a bomb of unknown design was prematurely detonated, but the humans caught in the blast radius seemingly suffered no ill effects.
- Yhil 'Gzared survives the destruction of his ship, and manages to preserve a core component of the bomb. His lieutenant Varn 'Doram also survives, but not uninjured.
- Vex, Bradford, Bradford's brother Rodrick, and Lucio Giuseppe, regroup on the surface of Antares Prime and become The Vanguard, serving as bait to lure the Covenant advance directly into the trap being prepared at Gorna Pass.
- The Battle of Gorna Pass - UNSC solders hold a pass leading to UNSC command base Telfa. Branson, Ross, Lougin, and Grant are in charge of the defense. Spartan Zachary-019 and the original fire team crimson parish in the battle bringing down a Covenant Scarab, helping to secure victory.
- Covenant and UNSC forces start to stand down, the Covenant retreats fleeing from UNSC controlled space.
- Nrtak, disgraced by the destruction of his masterpiece returns to Covenant space and disappears for most of the war.
- Grant is awarded with a Medal of Galatea and promoted to the rank of Brigadier General
- We Stand Together - Memorial held after The Battle of Antares
- Rocar Enpara returns to the covenant empire humiliated by his defeat at Gorna Pass. He vows to restore his honor. The visions grow stronger.
- Reconstruction/ militarization era begins.
- The UNSC holds onto a fragile peace, knowing full well the Covenant will return.
- Having recovered from his injuries, Varn 'Doram adopts a new title: The Blackhand. Feeling undervalued by what remains of the Covenant Empire, he strikes off on his own.
- Branson is placed in command of small UNSC outpost within the Polaris System. He trains new UNSC forces sent to the installation and directs the reconstruction efforts in the system.
- The Spartan-3 program is introduced.
- ONI conducts multiple operations aginsted the resurfaced Insurgents. Eliminating and forcing the others back into dormancy.
- Ross was fading, he was lossing himself inside his own mind.
- Grant tried to talk to Ross. He wanted him to know, that no matter what, he shouldn't loose sight of what matters the most to him.
- Auriel D Koinsky Director of UNSC communications was conscripted by General Grant to create a special team of operatives dubbed the Oxolin project.
Special Operations Command (SOC) is formed, Koinsky adopts the call sign Fennec.
- Ethan Mark lives in a run down area on earth, He was one of the solders that participated in The Battle of Gorna Pass. Now discharged for behavioral problems he drowns his sorrows in a bar every night.
- Fennic recruits him as a first trial by fire operative, not expecting him to last very long in the project. He assumes the name Kestral and his past is buried. He is given Omega Red Zero clearance and he is trained by the ODST. It appeared that he is far more capable then he had previously lead on to be.
- 13 July, Marco Giuseppe is born.
2537
- The Outer and Inner Rims are defined by the UNSC.
- Commander Allen returns to Gelidea and extracts surviving UNSC personnel from the planet.
- UNSC forces expand there control and reach out to planets that were lost during the war.
- Harvest is taken back by the UNSC and re-colonization efforts are started again.
- Grant finds a lead matching the descriptions given to him from Ross about the visions he's been experiencing. This leads to the discover of multiple ancient scrolls hidden by the High Elves during the First Time War.
- The scrolls detail a darkness on the horizon, of a great beast. They foretell the coming of something from an unknown past. They prophesied the future, a recreation that could be stoped. Lastly of a city with spires that reached towards the stars. Among the scrolls there were inscriptions of unknown technology, ranting of a mad man about a place covered in snow .
- Lougin finally; after dealing with the majority of the insurgency cells is able to get rid of Oversight and resume his search for the decryption device.
- Starting his search anew he tracks the New Earth Dominion to the Harvest system. He is surprised to discover that the insurgents are planning an attack on the planets re-terra-formation project. They plan to levy the planet aginsted the UNSC and usurp there control in the system.
- Ross regains control of himself and reality. Wile he still appears off. He seems to be able to tell the difference between the visions and reality.
- Grant sets out to undertrack a special operation.
- New technologies allow the UNSC and civilian contractors to push further into unknown space.
- UNSC systems are gobbled up by major corporations who strong arm civilians trying to colonize in multiple regions.
- Thanks to his minor, but integral role during the Battle of Gorna Pass, Lucio Giuseppe gain favour among the officials of the UNSC. He expands his business, evolving from a simple middle-man weapons contractor to the head of a thriving weapons production company all of his own: G-Corp.
- New infrastructure is built for a super installation above Earth. The station is being called Arcadia
- The Outer Rim becomes the new frontier
- Heavy militarization beings. The UNSC's Inner Rim devout half there resources to building new warships and defenses.
- New warship Combat frames are produced with varying roles. Ships are specifically build and adapted to be resistant to Covenant weaponry. With anti Cap ship Mac's spread across the hulls of vessels, along with secondary and tertiary control decks.
2538
- Colonists have had enough. The Outer Rim is launched into chaos as civilians riot planet side, and aboard installations, the corporations come down with a iron fist and attempt to quell the riots. Civilians enraged take to there vessels and blockade multiple major hub word Installations. A crisis rises as provisions become scares across multiple systems and installations, employees are no longer getting paid. The economy in the Outer Rim is stretched thin. The outer system of Capella is receiving the brunt of the civil unrest and has nearly collapsed entirely.
- Colonel Branson is tasked with ending the crisis. He is placed temporarily in charge of the exploratory fleet, and granted his own vessel The Spire. He is sent in along with Admiral Noah Smith of ONI.
- The Civilian blockade in the Cappella system falls apart with the arrival of the UNSC. Presumed Civilian targets, using a high jacked UNSC frigate open fire on the fleet.
- During the skirmish multiple unknown capture craft along with advanced fighters attack and disable the UNSC carrier Zeul, they successful board and capture the vessel during the Riot.
- It is later revealed that a band or rouges and mercenaries were hired to insight hostilities between the populace and the UNSC once the fleet arrived, allowing there benefactor to make an attempt on the carrier.
- Admiral Smith commits his forces to restoring order in the system. Branson is tasked with hunting down the Zeul and identifying the mercenaries employers.
- Multiple operations are carried out aginsted the UNSC Fleet, Branson continues to gather intel to track down the Mercenaries responsible for inciting the Riot. After tracking movments throughout the system he was able to locate there base of operations, an asteroid made installation. However during the subsequent operation to capture the station a unidentified warship of Terran design silenced the mercenaries before turning on and pursuing the Spire.
- Branson attempted to raise communications with Admiral Smith and his fleet, along with the rest of the Exploratory fleet. His attempts were in vain.
- Branson, hunted by this unknown vessel reached out to his is personal friend Grant. Grant informed Branson that he and his crew had been condemned as traitors. He warned him that there was enough circumstantial evidence to warrant blowing his warship to dust. Grant however trusting Bradford believed he had been set up. Grant promised to send reinforcements to aid him.
- Branson continued to flee from the unknown warship, fleeing into the Nebula system Er-47. Within the nebula the missing Zeul was there to greet them. Regardless of the circumstances that lead to the warships disappearance and subsequent appearance here, it seemed the crew of the ship was perfectly fine and in control of there vessel. He attempted to question them about the attack and subsequent assumed hijacking. Admiral Cordoni simply told him that it was bigger then them all. She told Branson that it would be ok. That they would be waiting for him. With that the ship disappeared into the nebula.
- Unsure of what to do next Branson ordered his ship further into the nebula. Deeper in they encounter a massive vessel of unknown design. This ship did not attack them but instead sent them two encoded data strings. As quickly as the vessel appeared, it vanished. The crew on the Spire were able to decode one of the strings with relative ease thanks to the onboard AI, however the other string was beyond anything they could understand.
- The code he was able to decode revealed the culprit of the riots, and the systems plight. Admiral Smith and multiple other ship captains were being paid off by the Super Cooperation Immodata to assisted them in usurping UNSC control within the Capella System.
- The revelation couldn't have come sooner, as Branson was ambushed by a ONI battle-group shortly afterward. He used his command skills to out maneuver the overwhelming enemy in the nebula. At this time Grant Arrived in system with his own fleet and came to Branson's aid driving off the attackers.
- It was revealed that Immodata was building a juggernaut of which they planned to enforce there new rule. The very same one that obliterated the mercenary station and hunted the Spire. Branson thanks to the help of Grant, plus the information he was gifted from his own unknown benefactor, was able to prove his innocence and revealed the true master minds orchestrating recent event. With the truth out in the open the Capella system devolved into a full scale war turning the non defectors against Smith and his rouge operation.
- Branson and Grant reunited with there allied warships in Capella and launched an assault on Immodatas main ship yard within the system. Admiral Smith and his defectors launched a brutal counter strike to stall the UNSC, temporarily preventing them from reaching the shipyard. The spire with help from the destroyers Marcon, and Arckain disabled Smith's ship. The Traitors were finally out gunned, some fled, others fought till there last breath. Smith and his officers killed themselves rather then be taken into custody and questioned.
- With allied forces poring into the system Grant and Branson left the crippled ship and its disorganized fleet to rally there forces and proceed to the shipyard. There assault began. The massive warship engaged there fleets, yet lucky for them the unknown vessels main weapons were non functional. During the skirmish the Juggernaut broke off from the fighting and fled from the installation. They attempted to stop the fleeing warship knowing all to well the damage a vessel of that caliber could cause. The Juggernaut however escaped the facility with only minor damages, there weapons being largely ineffective to it. With the escape of the enemy juggernaut the fleet was able to finish off the installation. They then set out to find the missing warship. With Immodata's assets ceased and there fleet crippled the crisis was pronounced over. Branson rallied his fleet for one last operation and attempted to locate the Juggernaut.
- The spire was able to track the enormous warship to the edges of the system. Branson commanded his fleet in an attempted to stop the massive warship. In his pursuit, everything seemed to freeze around him. For a moment no one else was with him on the bridge. The temperature dropped. He wasn't alone... something else was there. Then it was gone. There Branson and his fleet were unable to disable the juggernaut and it successfully slip-space jumped out of the system. Branson was ordered to give up the hunt and link back up with Grants forces.
- Branson returned to the fleet empty handed but a hero non the less.
- Dissatisfied with the admiralty after the events of his previous few missions, Bradford requested a transfer from the navy to the army.
- In light of these events the UNSC worked to establish a stronger commerce rout and now has officially posted UNSC warships in the Outer Rim with plans to build and station a fleet in the Capella system specifically.
- 10 February, Jim Branson is born.
- The birth of their second child places additional stress on the already-fraying relationship between Bradford and his wife, forcing him to begin considering career options outside of the military... though his promotion to General soon steals much of his focus.
- Bradford's friends get together to celebrate the birth of his son.
- 2 April, Carlos Giuseppe is born.
- ONI begins an undercover operation to steal the Decryption device from the Insurgents before they can launch there attack. A small team of specially trained agents, including Lougin himself are sent undercover as new UNSC defectors.
- In Light of the recent events involving the traitorous Admiral Smith, UNSC High Command overrides ONI's tactical authority and appoints Vice-Admiral Linteraa of the Six Defense Battlegroup in charge of the operation unaware that ONI has agents undercover. Thanks to rebel sympathizer ONI's operations are revealed, the insurgents drive ONI out of the system leaving Lougin and his men without support.
- The Insurgents are now on edge and suspect Lougin is a spy. He is forced to give up one of his Agents to protect himself. The Agent in question Private Eliana is taken into custody and tortured horrendously. Her entire upper arms are torn completely off during the Torture.
- Eliana thanks to the help of another agent blowing his cover is able to escape and steal vital information in revealing the insurgents spy network.
- With there Spy network dismantled and no longer able to monitor the UNSC within system the Insurgents accelerated there plans. On July thirteenth, the Insurgents launched an all out attack on the re-terra-formation operation above harvest. Capturing the main station running the operation along with 1,700 hostages.
- The UNSC attempts to negotiate. Lougin makes a move on the device and is able to recover it. However now trapped with his men on the installation he is unable to escape. As to not be discovered he plays the role of a fanatical. Executing hostages side by side with the Insurgents.
- Vice-Admiral Linteraa draws the conclusion that the hostages are already dead and orders her task force to wipe out the Insurgents and retake the station. In response the remaining hostages are vented out into space. Lougin realizing he has to get off the station or risk being killed in the cross fire orders his men to gather any spare oxygen tanks they can find and to prepare space suits. Shortly after they jump out into the open vacuum and hide amongst the bodies of the hostages.
- The UNSC fleet is able to wipe out the Insurgents minor warships and Linteraa orders the recapture of the instaltion. Before UNSC assets are able to board, the station is destroyed. The Insurgents would rather blow themselves up then be taken alive. Lougin and his men turn on there IFF transponders and are picked up by the Sixth. They assume they are insurgents who when given the choice to die or live, chose tholive. They are locked up in the brig and handed over to ONI for interrogation, unware that they are returning there assets to them. The device Lougin recovered is also handed over to ONI pending a brief overview of it by Oversight.
- The remainder of the New Earth Dominion falls apart and the remaining insurgents fall into other still active cells.
- Grant explores the systems far past the UNSC outer rim in search of the Carrier Zuel.
- Grant in his search for the Zuel entered the Paranath Nebula and encountered a massive installation. His ship was disabled by a massive EMP system that forced him to evacuate his ship, he managed to board the installation.
- The station opened up to him, as if it was waiting for him. In its center he found something unexpected.
- It was another data string that quickly paired with the one Bradford recovered during the Capella crisis. Just as the station unfolded, it pushed him back to his ship, however it was undamaged and now operational.
- As Grant left the station it disappeared off his radar and he was unable to locate it again. He drifted through the nebula. His ships scanner identified multiple phantoms but non yielded anything but more gas.
- Grant, confused returned to UNSC space with the new data string in tow but no words to describe what happened.
-The Rift expands
- The Disiran Wave spreads further its pull becoming stronger.
- The Narcano Wave spreads causing insanity to those exposed to it for more then 4 days.
- Thouse effected by the Narcano Wave will seek out the Allspire
- The Vercanasa Wave begins to spread
- 1 September, Amy Meridian is born.
- Eliana is initially discharged from the military. However she still wants to fight. Importing extremely expensive and painful prosthetics she becomes a mercenary contractor for the UNSC.
- The now Sargent Bavilian Holt, the man who helped her escape torture convinces Lougin that she is still a capable solder. Wile Lougin isn't one hundred percent on board he admires her strength and perseverance, personally allowing her to retake ONI's rigorous training course over again. He purposefully skews her training trying to force her out. She however not only excels despite the extra setbacks but outpaces the new initiates.
- Grant talked to Fennic about the strings of code. Fennic told him to hold onto them and keep them close.
- Rocar finally reaches the top of the mountain in the unknown plain. He finds nothing there, but a light in the distance.
- Lougin personally congratulates Private Eliana in her success re-joining ONI. He requests she and Holt be bumped over to the Black Ops Branch believing them both to make good assets.
2539
- The UNSC Washington is sent on a expedition into the Cygna cluster to locate and discover new worlds for the UNSC Colonization effort. The Washington's expedition turns up nothing. A log is recorded about a unknown signal emitting from a quasar star, the crew write it off as a bust.
- The Washington dose not report in after the expedition. Reports follow the warship to the system Cyan-129.
- Pending the unknown circumstances of events ONI sends in Strike team Raven to secure the planet and the vessel.
- All logs pertaining to the events within the Cyan-129 system are Sealed.
- Major Brown leads and excavation on Geldiea VII.
- Phantom Ships are noted being found in the Geldiea system. They appear harmless and are ignored.
- The super installation above Earth, Arcadia is finally completed.
- UNSC R&D creates a new Capital ship weapon. The Gauss Cannon. The weapon operates much akin to the small turret weapon however it has been upscaled greatly and has much higher efficiency. The Cannon is particularly good at dealing with shields.
- While leading a UNSC unit in a minor skirmish against an insurrectionist cell, Bradford loses half of his squad to hidden bombs in the combat zone. While Bradford himself escapes the battle unharmed, the losses weigh heavily on his conscience.
- Reminded of how close he comes to death with every deployment, Bradford hands in his resignation and leaves to support his family.
- Bradford passes the unknown decryption key to Grant and asks him to hold onto it for him. Grant warns him of something unusual and notes that there have been potential appearances of the zuel.
- Normal trade routes are reestablished, interstellar Iridium begins to reinforce trade routes. Business continues as normal. (Faction created in interlude? Check faction notes)
- Lougin is Promoted to Major General thanks in large part to his success with eliminating The New Earth Dominion and recovering the Key Cyper.
- After rigorous experimentation ONI is able to unlock the forerunner cyper.
- The Initiative uses the cyper to crack into the crystalline device from Procyon and they begin to decode the forbidden information it holds.
2540
- ONI enacts a full scale operation, sorting all its fleets, spreading them out past the outer-rim. UNSC Command is not privy to what is happening.
- By the request of UNSC High Command, Oversight is dispatched to look into the affairs of ONI.
- Project Oxolin reaches official completion, SOC begins operating as a fully autonomies entity.
- 18 December, Angi Meridian is born.
- As quickly as ONIs fleets dispersed they return, towing something along with them. What they found is classified Level Upsilon
- Oversight attempted to uncover what they brought back but were unable to find out exactly what ONI found.
- Grant continues his research on ancient civilizations. He requests a inquiry into the faction called Atlas and begins to sift through there past. He searches for more information on the Elves and Forerunners.
- Grant uncovers a hidden stash of Elvin scrolls. Pages of a tome, inscribed as the Tales of Yore. Through them he encounters more foretelling's of a beast, and something about a city.
- New Ship to Ship artillery weapons are developed. These new Cannons blast massive submunitions at enemy warships. They are able to blanket cover an enemy vessel either cutting off its sight lines if shielded or obliterating the hull of the vessel if not.
- Grants determination and focus on his career begins to strain his marriage.
2541
- Project Phoenix is born under ONI, it is classified Level Omega.
- The UNSC officially expands the inner and outer rims.
- Ross takes a smaller UNSC supply ship and disappears past the outer rim with a group of colonists.
- Grant tried to contact Ross, Yet he found himself unsuccessful.
- Kestral, on the behest of Grant was sent out to track down Ross.
- The Rift expands enough to allow the pinch to occur.
- The Disiran Wave expands further into space.
- The Narcano Wave expands further into space
- The Vercanasa wave expands creating major time distortions, rippling's from other universes, dimensions, and times happen on a large scale.
- Ross has official crossed the line. He is lost in his own guilt, his disillusions driving him closer to insanity. He is taken by the faces of those who were lost. He searches within himself and makes a choice.
- A phantom, A visage of the past. A echo of the future. Ross sees how everything could have been different. He understands that his choices will one day set the course of something greater then himself.
- A unknown signal grows stronger, calling people to it.
- The UNSC Zuel reappears in the Gelida system. It sends an encrypted data package to anything that will take it and leaves just as quickly as it appeared.
- Grant acquires a copy of the data package sent out by the Zuel through strenuous measures, with further investigation he discovers uncovered that I was in fact another data string of the unknown code.
- Just as before Grant combined the new data string with the two previous strings and they synced together creating a more complex code.
- Time and space is torn apart. A star golden with 3 planets appears where the neutron star once was. The planets sit in a synced orbit perfectly aliened 120 degrees around the planet. The main planet becomes a beacon. Rocar Empara hears its call but cant act on it.
- Green Spartan learns about Jeff
2542
- Grant, suspicious of activates back at home ask Koinsky to investigate. She learns and passes on that his wife has been cheating on him.
- Ross , reaches out to Grant and thanks him for not giving up on him.
- Grant, heart broken files for divorce. He blames himself for the failure of his marriage; that he didn't do enough for his wife or kids. Due to his high taxing career he willingly comes away with zero custody of his children.
- Contractor Giant G-Corp produces a new weapon system. The M841D Flak Cannon. Designed to mimic ancient World War II anti air. The cannon fires explosive payloads designed to detonate in proximity to enemy fighters, bombers, and warheads.
- Damien Werth, recently graduated from university, leads an archaeological expedition to a decrepit Forerunner research installation - The Apocryphal Hoard - near the Gelida system.
- Varn 'Doram, having roamed the galaxy in search of a new purpose in life, crosses paths with Damien. While the pair are initially wary of one another, they soon find themselves united by their interest in the research they find on the station - the prophecies of the Ancient Races on Gelida, transcripts relating to the legends of earth's High Elves, tales of an impossible place shrouded in snow, and foreboding warnings about winged wraiths unbound by the laws of time and space.
- Inspired by these legends, Varn strikes off on his own again, determined to find the source of these ancient powers, and seize them for himself.
- Green Spartan forms ATLAS
2543
- The Initiative establishes a new ONI operations branch to carry out advanced research experiments.
- New weapon munitions are pushed into general development. Sporting higher yield and payload.
- R&D Project Mechanica Begins. A bold scientist races against time to create a cure for his wife who works with him from a deadly disease.
- ONI wants to weaponize the advancements being made. Project Rapier, Project Archangel, Project Nightstalker, and Project Rebirth are created.
- The Initiative continues the decryption of the data crystal, Scientist are astounded by the sheer amount of raw information hidden in the crystal, a second encryption is discovered on deeper files, they are unable to crack it.
- Thanks to the Data Crystal ONI is able to produce an advanced clocking device for capital warships.
- The Phoenix Project proceeds. ONI keeps a tight lid on all operations involving Project Phoenix. SOC is only able to uncover the name.
- The newly established sub-branch of the Initiative is named Section Zero.
- ONI Identifies Kestral and SOC as a enemy of ONI, he is marked down as extremely dangerous and to be eliminated on sight, if hostiles are presented.
- Cygna Prime is discovered by the UNSC colonization effort, it is a golden world and those almost immediately colonized
- Ross has horrible flashbacks to the Battle of Gorna Pass. He has faint visions that whisper of a future, one future. He keeps a journal and records all his visions so he can interpret them with a clear head.
- Grant disheveled falls back on his work devoting all his efforts into it, burring himself in it as a form of coping with the loss of his wife and family.
- After several years of restless peace in retirement, word reaches Bradford of insurrectionist activity growing on his home planet. Against the wishes of his wife, he offers his services to help the local UNSC garrison in rooting out the would-be revolutionaries.
- The rebel cell is located, and their bunker destroyed with minimal UNSC casualties. Though Bradford is unharmed, his wife still takes issue with his involvement in the battle, and leaves to stay with her family off-world for a while.
2544
- ONI Project X Begins. They use the remains of a deceased solder and attempt to revive them with Bio-machinery. There first attempt is a total failure.
- Johnson Frank Begins Project Reclamation. A project to clone the greatest war hero's of history. They start with the famous Spartan-117, the Master Chief.
- S.A.M. and advanced Ai using the mind of a leaving being is created to help the UNSC control major systems throughout allied space.
- Sigma-Bravo is discovered by the UNSC.
- A team of Spartan 3 Headhunters codename Alpha-Foxtrot-310 scout the planet. They report unusual artifacts.
- ONI deems the covenant war a failure of the UNSC's highest command, major steps are taken to fortify and separate ONI Central Command from the UNSC Command structure.
- The now General Ross, proceeding the green light from Command follows the voices and goes to Cygna Prime.
- Grant devotes more time into studying the ancient scriptures. Uncovering other races that have come through there galaxy.
- Kestral performs a series of operations aginsted rouge ONI operatives in Theta Aquileia. He is joined by ONI's Oversight, and they are forced to work together.
2545
- Project X continues. ONI's second and third attempts both fail.
- Alpha-Foxtrot-310 disappear.
- Project Nightstalker, Proves somewhat successful resulting in the creation of three chimera. They are not human and are terminated due to control and safety issues.
- Project Rapier creates horrendous machines that lack self sustainability and break down within a few hours.
- Project Hyperion is started, with the intention of creating new reactors and improving on the UNSC's main Slip-space drives.
- Project Reclamation is successful to a extent. It Creates 8 identical clones to Spartan-117. They all prohibit slight personality differences. ONI learns immediately that they cant control them. UNSC Command learns of them before ONI has a chance to do anything. They recommend ONI let the Chief clones go and do what Chief dose. ONI sees this as a way to gather trust and dose as requested. One of the Chiefs stays behinds and takes charge of Section Zero.
- Project Reclamation moves to another Hero and creates control chips that can be infused with the clones. They gather the remains of Spartan-019.
- The bold scientist is pressured to produce results and fast. He is transferred to Project X and put in charge as the main researcher.
- Kestral recruits Captain Ericson of Apocalypse as the fifth operative of SOC. Ericson assumes the call sign Stalker but maintains Apocalypse and his actual identity.
- The massive Phantom ship above Gelidea VII is designated Darielkara by Kestral. Although nothing else changes in the system.
2546
- The scientists wife dies from her disease. He is launched into a spiral of grief.
- ONI makes waves on Project Hyperion. Nothing is developed yet
- Project Rapier produces successful human machine abominations. They are not responsive to orders and attack on sight. They are terminated for safety reasons.
- Project Archangel is successful in creating new advanced craft designs that can greatly improve military equipment and render the concept of Fighter and bombers viable for the UNSc.
- In response to the success of Project Archangel, Project Pulsar is started.
- Project Nightstalker produces four more Chimera, they are more responsive and easier to control but lack human traits related to actual human beings. They are too primal and thouse terminated.
- Project Rebirth is somewhat successful. S.A.M. is enhanced with a deceased human being and there vitals are restored. This human now has a neural connection to the AI but the AI shows signs of aggression to the host. The AI is restricted.
- Project Reclamation is once again successful, producing thirty-seven clones with somewhat varying personality's. Three of the clones in particular are very close to the original Spartan and are unaffected by the control chips, however all the others can be activated and ordered around like drones. Two of the unaffected show interest in ONI, all three are pitted towards one another, one comes out victories.
- Project X continues. In his grief the bold scientist falters. Tests four through twelve fail. The scientist begins to restructure his research in hopes of using it on his wife.
- The Kig-Yar Zhix is born near the end of the Solar Cycle.
- Project Harckon is created.
- Project Genesis is created.
- UNSC R&D produces new jamming and control technology's for military use.
2547
- ONI publicly unveils the SPARTAN-II Program in order to boost morale during the Human-Covenant war, with the stipulation that any Spartan who dies is to be listed as ether MIA or WIA, to give the illusion that Spartans never die. The existence of the SPARTAN-III Program remains confidential.
- Project Rapier is somewhat successful, it creates multiple machine human abominations. They are short lived easy to create and follow orders exactly. Problems result from them following any orders until termination.
- Project Nightstalker Produces two more Chimera. They have clear human traits and think and act sort of human. They are deemed a success but ONI acknowledges that there test subjects would not be willing to follow order just because they wanted them too. Project Nightstalker is signed off as a failure. The two surviving test subjects are set to be terminated.
- Project archangel is accelerated and early production models are integrated onto the ONI Flagship for of Black Operations, Nataoss.
- Project Reclamation moves to start cloning other Spartans, massing an army of highly skilled combat capable solders to face the return of the Covenant.
- Project Harckon creates a new super weapon, designed to disable massive warships in one shot. It is tested extensively.
- Project X is somewhat successful. The distraught scientist successfully resurrects a deceased solder with machinery. The person however appears to be a lifeless husk.
- ONI has had enough and writes Project X and the rest of the Project Board for Mechanica off as a failure. The scientist snaps as he wished to use the technology on his deceased wife and he believes he's close. General Lougin personally tells him that it is over.
- The scientist decides to give ONI what they wanted, a weapon to wipe out there enemy's. He orders the only semi successful subject of Project X to destroy everything. It complies without thought. ONI is in a state of shock. The scientist releases Project Rapier and orders it to seek and destroy all ONI officials in the base. They wreak havoc. He then released Project Nightstalker, the subjects however stole a pelican and fled the system. Lastly the scientist orders Project X to end him. It sliced off his right arm, wile doing so it looked into his eyes and something changed in it.
- Project X and the scientist escaped leaving ONI in confusion to lick its wounds.
- Project Hyperion produces a new wave of Generators cutting energy consumption by seventy-five percent. Increasing power reserves dramatically. Production is pushed for these new reactors.
- Project Genesis is successful, creating a new line of advanced military suits capable of being donned by regular solders. General lougin is given the first prototype armor and he ascends to the head of ONI's Black Operations branch killing the man formerly in charge and taking the position. ONI adapts less effective but much cheaper versions of the armor and distributes it throughout the UNSC. ONI Black Ops Elite solders are equipped with the more powerful versions of the armor.
- SOC records the events that unfolded, within ONIs research facility and works together with Commander Johnson Frank to hunt down and eliminate some of the escaped abominations.
- SOC recruits Sargent Crag Andrew, a highly skilled ODST. He assumes the call sign Rouge and becomes Sargent Rouge in the UNSC Military.
- UNSC begins mass production of new fighter and bomber frames.
2548
- Attacks on a ONI research system in Alpha Draconis catches Kestrals eye. He goes to the system seeking out the culprit of the attacks. Kestral begins to track down the assailants discovering they are the two survivors of Project Nightsalker. He encounters one of the two subjects, after a brief encounter he is forced to eliminate it. He is disgusted with what ONI has done to there own people. He tracked down the other subject. This time however the subject out smarted him. He out maneuvered and pinned him, yet Instead of killing him it left.
- Project Hyperion reaches completion with the development of a new type of Slip-space drive. Building on other forms of deeper space travel using pre established gravity wells.
- Morgan Technologys is created out of the ruins of Ikeya. They begin to challenge ONI technology wise almost immediately, somehow producing advanced technology at an alarming rate for fairly low prices considering the technology's.
- Kestral follows a lead that takes him to an abandoned UNSC outpost in the outer rim. He is set up and trapped on the deserted planet. Trying to escape the planet he is assisted by an old, battered Sangheili. He had been cast out by all who knew him for his failure as an Honor guard.
- Kestral was impressed by the Sangheili's ability to survive in the arid landscape and offered him a purpose. Wile the Sangheili was hesitant he joined and toke on the call sign NX5 in honor of his former squad.
- Project Corviks, the production of a Hyper Advanced Artificial Super Intelligence begins. There goal with Corviks is to cure AI rampancy by syncing Corviks with living biological counterparts.
- Project Pulsar is Completed, ending with the Pulse cannon. An advanced anti fighter/ general purpose multi cannon.
- The UNSC's R&D teams were able to create a new adaptive hull plating, allowing there ships to survive plasma blasts much more effectively in combat. New Warships are now built with the new platting wile older models are retrofitted when able.
- The UNSC Ship yards push forward new designs of UNSC warships with even more specializations to use the new technology's.
- Section Zero begins research on adapting and creating plasma based weapons for there capital warship. Improving on the old and in-efficient weapon systems of the Covenant. This endeavor is dubbed Project Armament.
- Johnson Frank is promoted to director for his success with Porject Zero.
2549
- Civil unrest grows with the resuming of the UNSC-Covenant War. In the system of Sirius tensions are high. A Covenant incursion into the system kicks off a full scale engagement between UNSC and Covenant forces. The UNSC forces in system are turned on by the Militia forces kicking off the Sirius Rebellion.
- The Covenant forces in Sirius continue to duel the UNSC unaware of the divide between there forces. The Sirius rebellion escalates, with the unveiling of a Rebel flagship the SRD Anubis, it is revealed that the Sirius uprising had been mounting for years. The Government in the system declared themselves the Sirius Republic and demanded all UNSC warship surrender unconditionally or flee the system. The UNSC flagship in system is destroyed between an engagement aginsted the Covenant Cruiser Halinkov and the SRD Anubis.
- UNSC forces flee the system, the Anubus turns its attention on the Covenant Warships granting them a twenty four hour permissions to disengage and flee the system.
- The UNSC Sorties the 4th Fleet take the system back by brute force and end the rebellion.
- The UNSC 4th fleet is confronted by a fleet representing Morgan Technologies greeting them in the system of Sirius. Morgan Technology's threatens hostilities aginsted the UNSC if they carry on with there course of action. Meanwhile Morgan Technology's offers to assist the UNSC in defending its few remaining outer colony's if they disengage from the system.
- The UNSC unable to fight a war on multiple fronts concedes with Morgan Technology's. Wile they do not acknowledge the legitimacy of the Sirius Republic, the system is forfeited to them for the time being.
- Ironically the events at Sirius strengthens the uneasy trust between the UNSC and Morgan Technology's in the Ribose System. Morgan Technology's holds up there end of the bargain and takes actions to help fortify the UNSC's fledgling colony's.
- In light of recent events ONI commissions a new flag ship for there Intelligence Branch. The ship yards of Sol begin construction of the Dimata.
- Kestral managed to track down the last subject of Project Nightstalker to the now remote system of Gelida.
- Kestral confronts the Subject who presents a ultimatum. Kestral however presents his own ultimatum. He takes a huge risk and brings the subject into SOC, the subject assumes the call sign Wolf based off of project Nightstalker.
- With the help of Morgan Technologies the Sirius Republic is able to establish itself and sustain its new independent government.