An Unscientific Mechanic

"The vanguard fleet meets the enemy, and the fleet battle begins."

"What about the actions of the Star Alliance fleet?"

"No action."

"……ha?"

"The Covenant fleet maintained the formation that jumped over. Only the secondary guns and plasma torpedoes were fighting. There was no turning around to use the main guns."

"What a strange thing... what about the ground troops?"

"The Star Alliance has invested a large number of marines and many elites, all veterans. However, under the leadership of Sparta and the support of friendly forces, the ground battle is advancing smoothly.

Eleven Paris-class ships are now providing anti-aircraft fire support at low altitudes, suppressing the Covenant Enchantress troops. "

"Friendly troops? The ground combat regiment of the Consolidation Department that uses a lot of heavy cold weapons?"

"Yes, the Chapter. ONI suggested that we capture a friendly soldier to analyze their..."

"Let them go, isn't that group of bastards cheating us enough?" There are only a few rebels on Harvest Planet? "Where's the Rebels?" The five-year tug-of-war had left Admiral Cole with a fair amount of anger with the Office of Naval Intelligence group.

Especially this group of people often make all kinds of show operations in the rear. If the second part of ONI is not strong enough, part of ONI's actions are enough to collapse the United Nations Council...

Originally, the United Nations Council has been entrenched on remote colonial planets, in the large asteroid belt, and even the separatists and opportunists in the council have been overwhelmed.

Then ONI made a show... the external front temporarily stabilized or left a stable seed for the future, and internally... the exposure was over.

For example, the "bang recruiter" in the second phase of Sparta.

As far as Cole knows, on a remote colonial planet, the leader of a rebel organization discovered that his daughter was kidnapped by the UNSC and transformed into Sparta.

How could the frail and sickly daughter whom I had raised for several years be a clone?

This wave of blood loss... reversed and reversed...

But the cheating thing is that there are many things that have not been exposed in this part to ensure that the UNSC was not destroyed by the Star Alliance...

For example, the second phase of Sparta took to the battlefield as an organic system, winning local ground battles again and again, constantly boosting the morale of the UNSC.

Such as the "Spartan Never Sacrifice Just Disappear" propaganda policy.

Such as exaggerating or even fabricating intelligence to keep the morale of the people up.

For example, when it was discovered that a Covenant spacecraft was heading for Earth, it released wrong information, causing several frontier colonies to be mistaken for Earth and bloodbathed and vitrified.

Wait for a bunch of things that are enough to put the whole ONI on the gallows and enough to lift them off the gallows and award a lot of medals.

Therefore, Admiral Cole, who knew part of the matter, only hated ONI, but he had to admit that without this group of people wandering between the darkness-the gallows-the platform of honor, the earth would not even last for five years. not come down.

"Let's ignore ONI's crap and tell me what's on the ground."

"The Spartans, ODSTs and Phoenix Chapters have broken through the enemy lines and cut them off. Now the lines are being consolidated, the follow-on armor is being consolidated.

The ODST and Marines risked a forced airdrop behind enemy lines, and now the enemy was flanked on three sides and was breaking apart. "

"Spartan 117 to Everest."

"This is Cole, please speak."

"General, something is not right."

"What's wrong?"

"The ratio of the enemy's troops is wrong. The ratio of Grunts and Jackals is too high. Only a few elites are still there, and the rest are gone." The 18-year-old Master Chief, still wearing MKIV armor, reported to Cole.

"Huo...there must be something wrong...Elizabeth, give me a copy of the race statistics on the battlefield, which is more intuitive."

"Admiral, I don't think you need this." The AI ​​of the Himalaya looked up in the direction of the Covenant Glory intercepting fleet.

"reason?"

"The Covenant fleet is charging their jump engines."

"This is not good news. The FTL engine is fully charged, and we are ready to catch up." Admiral Cole clicked on the control panel, and the holographic image of the Star Alliance fleet appeared on the holographic image platform. "The Protoss stays to clean up the battlefield, and the rest of the fleet recovers the combat troops and prepares to pursue."

"By the way, how is the investigation of the ruins going?" Cole turned his head and asked the young Master Chief.

"It didn't go well. We were ambushed in the ruins. An invisible Covenant force attacked us when Dr. Anderson from the Spirit of Fire was studying the ruins. Now the ruins system has been blocked, and Professor Anderson can't access it again. .But the ruins make it clear that we need to go to Arcadia."

"So, everyone spent a lot of time fighting for a map?" Admiral Cole still found it difficult to accept even if he was mentally prepared.

"Strictly speaking, it's actually using several methods including the four-corner positioning method and the legend demonstration method to simply mark Arcadia in the South Milky Way Samsung Galaxy." Dr. Anderson of this time and space stood Next to the Master Chief, report to Admiral Cole.

"I always feel that we have paid a lot for the information we have obtained...You guys return to the Spirit of Fire as soon as possible. We still have a lot of work to do." Admiral Cole stood up straight, turned off the holographic image, and returned to the ship Long seats.

"Understood, the Spartans will escort Dr. Anderson to the Spirit of Fire. Spartan 117 ends the call."

"Doctor, let's go."

"Okay, but I have been holding back a question for a long time. Are you the latest Spartan? Although your armor style is very similar to this one, there are obvious signs of iteration. UNSC has developed the next generation of Thor. Hammer armor?" Dr. Anderson walked out of the ruins along with two chiefs, a sergeant, and a dozen marines.

"As far as I know, the new Thor's Hammer armor is still in the data collection stage. The current Thor's Hammer MKV has a lot of Covenant equipment that has not yet been analyzed, and the next-generation Spartan armor has not even been approved." The old master chief I briefly recalled the origin of my armor. "It should be in 2542 that ONI established a project to study the next-generation MKV armor, which is the set on me, and then it was fully installed in 2551."

"Wait...the establishment of the project in 2542?" Dr. Anderson didn't understand. "Isn't this year 2531?"

"About this, you'll understand after a while..." The Master Chief said inwardly, explaining that this thing is troublesome, you'd better compete with yourself. "Someone will tell you about a little incident that happened recently."

"Ha... alright." Dr. Anderson, who had just been absorbed into ONI, couldn't figure it out, thinking how you, a Spartan, talk like a god.

"WAGHHHHHHHH!" Two grunts rushed out of the corner, holding activated grenades in their hands.

"Be careful!" The two Master Chiefs aimed at the rushing Grunts at the same time, and then fired at the same time.

The difference is that the young Master Chief shot the Grunt in the head. And the elder Master Chief shot and blew up the methane tank behind the Grunt.

The explosion instantly engulfed the two Grunts, and the gust of wind generated by the explosion made Dr. Anderson's clothes rattle.

"I remember that when this group of Grunts encountered this kind of battle, they either fled or surrendered. Why did this happen?" The young sergeant carefully observed the surroundings to prevent this from happening again.

Fortunately, the Grunt was holding a grenade just now. Holding a rifle may threaten the safety of Dr. Anderson.

"There's something wrong with this Covenant trooper, let's evacuate as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, the Grunts will of course surrender and flee in battle, but there are those wearing purple armor, that is, the kind of Grunts we saw just now. They are not afraid of death, and their fighting will is stronger than that of the jackals... Probably the elite troops trained by the Star Alliance." The old Master Chief spread his hands. "That is to say, there are fewer contacts between humans and the Star Alliance now. You must know that before I came, ONI even had a well-organized Gnoll troop and Sangheili agents, and established a stable channel for information exchange with the Gnoll. There are a lot of messy things in the Star Alliance."

"Sounds interesting." The young Master Chief nodded.

"The fun is yet to come." The old Master Chief was thinking about the plot of Halo 456 that he had just played not long ago.

Compared with the subsequent AI rebellion, the revival of the Flood, and the revival of missionaries, the war with the Star Alliance is really drizzle...

In those few crises, a large number of forces, such as humans, Sangheili, and the chief think tank, were really desperate to survive.

"Pilot, let's go to the Spirit of Fire." A group of people walked out of the ruins, and now the fire outside the ruins has basically ceased, and a large number of abandoned Grunts and Jackals have surrendered sincerely, especially when another Covenant force issued a truce. After the order, the group put down their weapons very quickly.

After all, in a battle of this scale, the unintelligent and the unlucky will all die...

Three Pelican transport planes carrying three teams of Spartans and some ODSTs on the Spirit of Fire took off from the gate of the ruins and flew to the Spirit of Fire parked above the battlefield.

"Dr. Anderson, what did you find down there?" Captain Carter watched the two Spartans and Fergie return to the bridge with the dark-faced Dr. Anderson.

"A coordinate, the colony of Arcadia. Gone."

"Only this?" Captain Carter raised his eyebrows.

"About the 4-second exploration? That's right, I only discovered this." Dr. Anderson was sullen. He was interrupted by the attack of the Covenant after 4 seconds of his initial investigation, and now Dr. Anderson is very uncomfortable.

"This is the flagship Everest. The fleet, except for the designated ships, is ready to jump. The fleet has changed from a battle formation to a jump formation. The fleet has raised its altitude and entered a high orbit."

"It seems that we are still busy, Serena, how is the recovery of the troops?" Captain Carter looked at the AI ​​aside.

"The hangar reports that 93% of the troops have been recovered, and 7% of the seriously wounded are now unable to be moved and are now being treated in the temporary field hospital below. All the troops that can continue to fight have been recovered." Serena reported. "One Heron was destroyed, four sets of fire base components could not be recovered, four Pelicans were shot down, and eleven Hornets that had just been put into production were shot down."

"Get the factory ready to start. Follow the fleet and climb to the jump height." Captain Carter nodded.

"Follow the captain, the order is being executed."

About an hour later, the fleet was assembled.

"Target Arcadia, the fleet departs."

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"Elizabeth, report the latest information." After the jump, Admiral Cole returned to the bridge.

"Seven Covenant warships broke out of hyperspace near Arcadia, and the local fleet was engaged. Belfast, this side facing the enemy, and the front up, and the back and forth were sunk. The Pillar of Autumn , the Armstrong was severely damaged.

Two Covenant warships were sunk, one was active on the ground, and four came to meet the fleet. "

Everest's AI fast broadcast.

"According to the scans, Covenant forces are attacking the city."

"Wait a moment... Received an unencrypted message from the ground. It's a full-band broadcast."

"Come in." Admiral Cole walked behind the correspondent.

"...Zizi...We have been attacked...Zizi..."

"... Zizi... Xing broke through the city's shield and entered the city..."

"...Zizi...I...Zizi...we need help, the citizens have all evacuated, we are trying to detonate the city's reactor..."

"...we need reinforcements..."

"Understood, hold on, we're coming."

"...Sparta? Thank goodness..."

The only clear call in the middle is from the military communication channel, and the source shows that it is the Spartan Omega battle group.

"Captain, there are pictures."

One, probably used to be a traffic violation camera, is still taking pictures conscientiously.

The screen shows that a large number of Covenant soldiers are being chased by more than a dozen Spartan soldiers and more Marines behind them, and the Covenant soldiers are almost panicked.

In the distance, you can still see a Spartan standing on a demon girl ground support aircraft, shooting the cockpit with an MA5 rifle, and knocking down the fighter jet with the rifle...

"...The Spartans are having more and more fun..." Dr. Halsey chuckled when she saw this scene.

"That's right... ODST is dispatched in one row and two rows, and dropped into the airdrop pod." Admiral Cole took a deep look at the demon girl who had just been shot down with a rifle. The Spartans of the two enchantresses. "Quick battle."

"Admiral, I intercepted a very strange signal." Elizabeth tilted her head.

"what?"

"A protoss light cruiser seems to have removed her shield generator, and now there is a large space on the edge of Arcadia city that is closed." Elizabeth was a little puzzled.

"Can bombardment with a MAC cannon break the shield?"

"Yes, but the cavity effect when the shield collapses could destroy what they're digging below."

"Admiral, according to the data, the shields of the Covenant cannot resist the superthermal plasma cannon." Dr. Halsey opened his mouth and came.

"The information from the Pillar of Autumn shows that they have several experimental plasma rhino tanks in their warehouse."

"This is too coincidental... let the Fire Spirit deploy the fire base, send the plasma rhino tank down, and break the shield."

I fell asleep while writing... my head hurts...