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It is the 26th century, and humanity is dying.
Twenty years ago, the backwater colony world of harvest went silent. At first, a single scout ship was dispatched to check up on the colony. Attacks from terrorist groups were not uncommon, and an FTL communications system was a juicy target for such groups. The scout ship arrived, sent a single message to confirm that it was in the system, and then promptly disappeared. Following that, a nearby battlegroup of three warships was dispatched to the planet. A single destroyer and a pair of escorting frigates, a force that was more than enough to find out just what had happened to the planet. Almost two months passed before the fleet returned, when the sole surviving destroyer limped back to the stronghold world of Reach and reported what it had found.
The fleet had dropped out of FTL travel right above the planet. Or what remained of it. The world had been turned from a paradise of green grasslands and blue oceans, to an inhospitable ball of glass and ice. A single ship of alien origin sat in orbit and send only a single message to the human vessels.
"Your destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument."
The resulting battle lasted all of 30 seconds and resulted in the unprepared fleet being decimated. The sole surviving vessel, the destroyer Hercules, only survived the engagement as it's slipspace drive was still spooled up and ready to go. And even then, the battle had crippled it, forcing it to use its backup reactor in order to return to Reach.
This first engagement would set the general trend for naval battles throughout the war. Trial and error would lead to tactics that would give humanity better odds in battle, and the genius of officers like the great Admiral Cole could even achieve a positive kill/loss ratio in certain battles. Massive shipyards mass-produced warships around the clock, and all of humanity's military might was consolidated under the command of the UNSC.
Anonymous
>>5950972 See
>>5950971 and
>>5926854 And notice how not once has his ID changed in the whole thread
Anonymous
>spook's first day on the job at oni black site >navy drops off a fucking covenant battlecruiser
Anonymous
>>5950976 I am giving him a critique, a critique to not namefag like this is twitter or reddit.
Anonymous
>>5950977 I mean you called me a discord nigger and I'm not even on any discords... like seriously.
Yeah no shit other quests like AI 40k guess what we have several namefags. Which I believe fleet anon is from if I remember correctly. Nobody has flamed anyone there for doing it. I doubt fleet anon even knew it was so looked down upon. Since it literally has never come up there once.
I said there's other reasons to do it. Not that, that was his reason for doing it.
Anonymous
>>5950981 >I doubt fleet anon even knew it was so looked down upon. Which is why I'm notifying him now
>Which I believe fleet anon is from if I remember correctly. Retard-kun, I......
>I mean you called me a discord nigger and I'm not even on any discords... like seriously. >@fleetanon. Really_bro.png
Anonymous
>>5950979 Bro and you made your fucking point. But guess what you're not his dad he doesn't have to listen to you. So stop kvetching about it. You don't have to spazz out like a retard and keep repeating yourself about it then fucking samefag to make it seem like multiple people dislike it.
You can easily not read his shit or respond to it. But kvetching about it just shits up the thread. And makes it so nobody wants to participate in the thread.
Anonymous
>>5950984 You know that shit is from fucking Facebook to you fucking retarded goober.
Like how braindead are you
Maybe I don't like writing "at <insert name here>"
Anonymous
>>5950985 Obviously I haven't made it enough if he's still doing it. And for the record I haven't samefagged once.
Anonymous
>>5950970 >People forget for multi-votes and muh phoneposting. Or you triple nigger can just link your posts and say who you are.
you newfags are the fucking problem.
This quest wasn't about 'namefags' until you started running them. Go to the other quests if you wanna larp with them.
Yall dumb niggers tongue my asshole
Yall dumb niggers tongue my asshole ID:n6nLk5lp Wed 13 Mar 2024 23:43:01 No. 5950992 Report >>5950988 Bro I'm an oldfag
>>5950987 Fucking dumb nigger
Anonymous
>>5950986 Nah, it's from discord
t. used discord when I was a teenager
Anonymous
>>5950992 Any retard can say they're an oldfag it doesn't make them one
I bet you think being here for a year makes you an oldfag doesn't it
Yall dumb niggers tongue my asshole
Yall dumb niggers tongue my asshole ID:n6nLk5lp Wed 13 Mar 2024 23:44:32 No. 5950996 Report >>5950988 Like I'm name fag just to fuck with you dumb cunts at this point. I hope other anons start too. Maybe that'll push you to fix the gene pool by killing yourself.
TKD
>>5950995 2006
You know when moot was still around.
Anonymous
Tourist or fleet-anon samefagging, call it I say both
Nigger tongue my anus
>>5950993 Uh Facebook BTW child came out before discord. How do you hyperlink a Facebook friend in a post... mmmmmm I wonder.
Acting like discord did it first reveals you're underage
Anonymous
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>>5950998 Reread my post and for the record, link me a post from back then that you remember.
Anonymous
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>>5951000 Never used it so I wouldn't know. And stop putting words in my mouth, I never said they did it first.
Yall Trannies
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>>5950999 Your retardation is showing you can check my ID number.
BTW I love fucking with people so enjoy.
Anonymous
Underaged, AND a tourist? Impressive.....
Anonymous
KYS
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>>5951005 What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Also I don't need to prove shit to ya.
Fleet-anon
HOLY SHIT. WHAT DID I END MY LAST MESSAGE ON? Brown id guy. I appriciate you talking for a different perspective at first. But holy shit. What was my last point? my point was i didn’t want to shit up the thread. And you/other people also throwing shit. STOP NOW. And act like What thunderhead deserves for making a Good thread. A thread which is just one in a Line of several. This isn’t just a first thread and nobody here want’s it to be the last. So instead of going back and fourth shittalking each other. DO IT IN THE GENERAL THREAD. Or somewhere Else. Im not even asking you to stop specifically. I just want people to realize the only one here currently being disrespected is thunderhead since this will probably be fuckin archived. So SHUP THE FUCK UP. Now Im gonna go sleep. It’s 00:57 here…
Anonymous
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>>5951009 >namefag >I-I don't want to shit up the thread guise! Totally! But I'm gonan keep namefagging for no reason even when I know people dislike it! Anonymous
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>>5951009 "I wont' shit it up, But I'm gonna keep going like the other guy" .t Namefag.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
>>5950304 Going into it? Not good. But getting a 100 on your EW attack gave you one hell of a leg up. And then the rolls that I did for the cruiser's electronic defense failed and things started to snowball.
>>5950347 If you'd used the nuke round, you would have been able to weaken the shields of both ships, or completely strip them from one. Keep in mind that your nuke shells are essentially a half a shiva nuke sailing at near MAC round velocity.
You'll get a full list of skills and available special ordinance by the next thread. Probably in a pastebin link to include the descriptions.
>>5950539 >I am guessing the aftermath of the battle will be sizeably about what to do with this victory in the wolfpack command ? Basically. The other anons in the thread have pointed out already that this is gonna have an effect on not only your flotilla, but potentially the entire squadron. But past the obvious, there's gonna be stuff like forming the prize crew, going over the spoils, the inevitable bloodlust option because you <span class="mu-i">still</span> have that shotgun after all.
Anonymous
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>>5951044 Ah ya, Time to take old Shotty out again. What about his brother, Swishy Mc-Stabby?
Anonymous
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>>5950541 thats nice
>>5950606 the scouting mission can still be done, but this is very important needs to go home.
>>5951044 okay sound good
fleet-anon
Looking it over. We could potentially get a lot of interesting and critical knowledge depending on what we find inside the ship. Since after all they likely weren't ready for an ambush. Much less one so sudden and brutally one sided. We could potentially find out about the covenants use of spy drones before the battle of Sigma Octanus happens. Which might possibly prevent or at least stall the Covenant's discovery of Reach. Maybe there is a map of planned locations they are going to attack which shows that Meridian is in danger? Serious implications story wise if we find any of that on board. Of course it all depends on what we find aboard. But it is making me giddy to think about the possibilities.
Anonymous
>>5951615 Beta Eridani is another vector to Reach. Rho Barutamee (SupCom of the Long Night of Solace and it's support fleet) found some relics there that pointed him in Reach's direction before Key's got baited with the tracker at Sigma Octanus.
Fleet-anon
>>5951660 Thanks for pointing that out. I was not aware. I still Think there is large potential though. Especially when it comes to the data which still on their nav computers.
Anonymous
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>>5951694 No problem. And It'd be nice to get some big strategic info out of the battlecruiser but with how top down the Covenant are as an organization we shouldn't expect much. Whatever's relevant to the ship and it's immediate command structure.
Anonymous
>>5950295 Don't forget to archive.
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>>5950978 >"How is our dear Commander Wells doing on his new assignment?" >"The fuck do you mean he's captured a cruiser?" Anonymous
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>>5954156 Grow us some sideburns and call us Hazard Perry.
>"I have met the enemy and they are ours." Anonymous
When we hand over the cruiser we should defiantly demand a group of 6 engineers to be personally stationed on whatever ship we are on in the future. Just being able to use them in post battle repairs would be invaluable never to mention how much neat stuff we could get if we just started ripping out Covi tech and putting it and human tech side by side. Say jackal shields and ODST armor then getting armor with light shielding or hard light gauntlets or something
Anonymous
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>>5954263 >6 engineers That's a tall order considering the UNSC's only seen a handful of them by this point. How about some Watershed pocket lint and pat on the head from auntie Parangosky?
Anonymous
Does the Longinus have a motto by the way? Like how most modern navy ships have them. We even have a few canon UNSC ones: UNSC Spirit of Fire ("Exita Actus Probat" - the end justifies the means) UNSC Iroquois ("Alea Iacta Est" - the die is cast) UNSC Pillar of Autumn ("Ad Arcendam Hostium" - to repel the enemy) UNSC Infinity ("Audere Est Facere" - to dare is to do)
Anonymous
>>5954330 UNSC Longinus (Ego transforo/perforo Prophetas - I stab/perforate Prophets)
Would be fitting for both reasons.
Anonymous
>>5954263 How about we finally get some ODSTs on board instead?
Anonymous
>>5954263 >6 Engineers My Brother in christ, we were the one who captured the first enginner ever found by the UNSC. If we capture the engineers currently on the cruiser, the UNSC would only have three. They will likely be used on the construction of the Infinity. Not on the frontline.
If i want to be ""Reasonable"" about our request, i would say we should ask for that Stealth cruiser. Since i want to see where this hacking warfare style goes. And maybe have the Engineers be let onto the ship and fuck around with the parts on it before the ONIggers take them away. It is a big request. But we might have just given them the fucking golden ticket to warping a Nova bomb directly to high Charity like a pipebomb. I would say that's more than most ONI captains have done to get their positions.
Anonymous
>>5954263 No, anything covenant is sent to ONI for the war effort and research, nothing remains personally stationed on anything we have. Especially alive covenant aliens, actual insane talk. On top of that with Wells being from the outer colonies i really doubt he would even think of this option, there was some good amount of hatred in killing those covenant when deployed on ground.
>defiantly hahaha you are so funny, everyone would probably go "Wells you are such a funny commander ! How about a one way trip to this new ONI facility instead for reeducation :) ? You can't say no !"
>>5954334 good motto
>>5954361 >>5954411 far more reasonable and possible, even if that modification for the stealth cruiser is kind of big
Anonymous
>>5954411 >Since i want to see where this hacking warfare style goes. We can just upgrade our EWAR gear with stuff from ONI without changing out hulls again. We're just going to keep losing more experienced crew if we keep bouncing around new ships.
>>5954418 >even if that modification for the stealth cruiser is kind of big Point Blanks are slightly shorter than Charons. Or if you meant getting a stealth cruiser hull is a big ask, then yeah that's pushing the envelope a little bit.
fleet-anon
I am happy to see there being an interest in the Point-blank as well from others. Personally, I think it's not out of the possibilities. But it definitely isn't a guarantee either. on top of that, I think that the request for the Engineers to tinker with the ship could leave us critically unable to repair the ship afterward. Since our technicians suddenly will have no clue how the hell the new Engineer designs work. So i don't support that.
I will still say we should at the least ask if we could get a bigger ship. But we can't expect everything to just be given to us either. We will just have to see what our options are.
>>5954529 Also on the point-blank being shorter than a Charon. I wanted to find out more about halo ships and how they work. So I got into talking with one of the Devs for sins of the prophets. he said the reason the loadout for the point-blank is so unrealistic for its stated size is because when they made it for the mod, they were doing so with the measurement of it being 1,3km long. Making it meant to be shorter than an autumn class, but longer than a Marathon class. The confusion is because the wiki authors choose to still keep the length from the original (Ghosts of Onyx) book.
Anonymous
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>>5954558 >I will still say we should at the least ask if we could get a bigger ship. Ables are just about the largest ships available to us at the moment until we get promoted to Captain and can command a Cruiser. Limited run refits like the Phoenix-class not withstanding.
>The confusion is because the wiki authors choose to still keep the length from the original (Ghosts of Onyx) book. Ah, that makes sense. I remember seeing it bounce around over the last few years.
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>>5954263 anon if anything we would only need 2 as with enough materials they can build another one as they don't breed they create more of their kind, same for the one we already gave Oni they only need another one to basically gain as many as they want should they give the engineers more building supplies
fleet-anon
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As it is right now, I could imagine that if we capture two Huragok and ONI quickly finds out how they "Breed" we would likely see a pipeline of their use. From more costly projects to less costly projects. At least after they have been cleared for use. They are basically just forerunner relics after all. For example. I think pipeline would likely go as follows: Infinity construction>Mjolnir research and construction>General R&D>Ship construction>Active repair crew. We could probably see them come onto our ships again in a few years in universe. But first and foremost, I think they will likely be used to make the most expensive projects much more reasonably affordable.