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Chapter 5 – New Hope

 

Orbital MAC Platform “Paragon”, March 27, 2883, 3:35 A.M.

 

 

“You wanted to see me sir?”  Captain Brandon Harper said as he entered the briefing room.

“Commander, the unthinkable has happened.  Remember the Areklecko? Well they aren’t dead.  They are FAR from dead.  They just hijacked the super carrier New Hope at a ground based ship yard in Germany.”  Lord Victor Hood said with an edge in his voice.

He turned around and a holo-monitor popped up with a video transmission that was taken in the aftermath. 

The renegade ship had torn off the couplings and had taken out half a warehouse before taking a sharp turn and accelerating into space, and on the ground was another one of those tunnels.  The weird part was that their were only twenty one reported casualties out of the seventy six crew that were on board at the time and the reason those twenty one were killed was because they were armed.  The rest of the survivors reported that the aliens let them escape.

The Lord Victor was just about to say something when their footage was cut off and a live transmission from New Hope was being broadcasted.  On the screen was the face of an alien that neither of them had ever seen before and it spoke in a warped equivalent of human speech,

“Leave us….”

Then it cut out.

“Like hell we will!!” Victor snapped,

“Commander get to your ship, pursue and destroy the sons of b*tches!”

“Yes sir.”

 

When Harper entered the bridge of the battle cruiser Final Sight, and by now his crew was in the process of preparing for take off,

“We goin after that thing sir?” Lieutenant Parker asked

“You bet we are.” Harper answered

There was a slight lurch as they exited the magnetic grappling of the station and they were off. 

Before long they got a lock onto the enemy ship as it moved towards the edge of the battle cluster and just past the UNSC dreadnought Aegis Fury.  

“Slip space rupture off the front of the target.” Parker said.

“Ahh dammit! How the hell do they know these things?  Track their coordinates and follow them through” Harper ordered.

 

The New Hope was probably making a random jump, hoping to find a habitable planet for the aliens to colonize but no one on the bridge was sure about how they knew to use human technology in such a short time. 

 

It was a mystery that earth’s best scientists were trying to figure out but for now the crew of the Final Sight was hoping that the enemy ship didn’t decide to attack them.  But what they were about to find next was truly shocking. 

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End Chapter – Forward Unto Dawn

 

UNSC Battle Cruiser “Final Sight”, Unknown Solar System March 27, 2883, 4:45 A.M.

 

Mission Objective:  In pursuit of Areklecko captured super carrier “New Hope”.

The captured ship made a blind jump hoping to find a new home world for their species.

Destroy the ship before it can land on a habitable world.

 

Lieutenant Parker engaged the Cruiser’s secondary thrusters after they had exited slip space and accelerated in full pursuit of the overrun ship. 

“Do I have permission to fire Captain?” Lieutenant Pikral asked in anticipation.

“Not yet.  Wait till the enemy ship steadies itself into a straight line then fire the rail guns” replied captain Harper.

The Final Sight was one of the newest and first of a long line of warships to be outfitted with the recently developed type 10 rail gun.

 “Captain, Im picking up a UNSC distress beacon in the opposite direction from where the New Hope is heading, what should I do? Investigate the beacon or continue pursuit?” Parker said with much confusion in her voice.

She turned and noticed the captain was standing over her shoulder simply staring at the beacon’s transmission.

“Captain?” Parker questioned again.

“Head for the beacon” He finally replied.

Harper couldn’t help but wonder who set the beacon and when.  Was it during the Human Covenant war? Had the overrun ship dropped it by some miracle in an attempt to fool them?  Either way he was going to see what it was.

They powered down the secondary thrusters and glided towards the beacon, just then a blue sun came into view from behind what he could only assume to be a massive gas giant and the glare of a former UNSC battle plate presented itself not far from where the beacon was transmitting from.

“What is it sir?” Parker questioned

“It’s a UNSC ship alright” the Captain replied almost instantly.

Upon getting closer the Holo Screen picked up the image of…well…half of a UNSC ship.  The front half must half been melted away by something and all that was left was the shuttle bay, possibly the engine room and maybe even the cryo storage. 

“This is weird” Parker said. “The ship is sending us information on it from an unknown computerized source”

Suddenly on the holo screen, serial numbers, weapon and troop load outs, and the ship’s logs were being broadcasted across it, then it froze and the captain read off of the screen: 

UNSC Warship…

Classification…

Attack Frigate…

Name…Forward Unto Dawn……

Decommissioned in March of 2553

Spartan 117 in stasis  

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