An Unscientific Mechanic

February 4, 531. Five years, five long years, it took us five full years to regain the Harvest Star. "

"In the beginning, things were fine."

"And then it's just another rout after another."

"Increasingly high casualties."

"It was supposed to be a quick and unquestionable victory."

"It turned into a five-year hell."

"This is the status quo of Harvest Star, and there is hell below."

"But now, he's ours again."

The captain of the Spirit of Fire, James Carter, updated a captain's diary out of boredom when the fleet was in the transition space, reviewing the battle history of Harvest Star.

At this time, the 4 Phoenix-class support ships including the Spirit of Fire, the 15 Paris-class frigates and the 22 Kingfisher-class cruisers that were still in the transition space had not received the Harvest star's support fleet. battle report.

"Captain, we are about to arrive at Harvest Star."

The ship's wife of the Spirit of Fire...I mean the figure of the ship's AI Serena appeared on the holographic platform behind Captain Carter.

"Well, what about the landing force?"

"According to the plan, the Armored Forces and the Marine Corps have boarded the Heron and Pelican, and the Dagger is already waiting to take off in the hangar."

"Very good." Captain Carter nodded.

Not long after, the fleet emerged from hyperspace.

"Serena, report now... WHAT THE HELL?" Captain Carter almost bit off his tongue, held on to the bridge glass in disbelief, and stared wide-eyed at the fleet in the distance. "Serena, tell me I'm hallucinating."

"Unfortunately, Captain, what you saw is real. It seems that a lot of things happened during our five-day transition. Information is being downloaded from the fleet data network." Serena shook her head.

In front of the reinforcement fleet was seventeen large warships that had never been seen before. The UNSC battle group led by Admiral Cole and the large fleet of the Star Alliance were confronting each other.

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"But as far as I know, John-117 doesn't need rescue, and...the armor on you is not the same as the Spartan armor we have equipped."

"Admiral, Spartan 117 is here to report."

"However, as far as your military strength is concerned, there is no need for you to deceive us."

"We didn't lie to you, it's just that this rescue was 28 years too early for Dr. Anderson, and 21 years too early for the Master Chief."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Admiral Cole said that this question was beyond the outline.

"Are you trying to say that the two of them are people from different timelines? This...has gone beyond our existing space-time theory system, different timelines...we only have hypotheses but no specific theoretical support." Cole Behind the general, a female researcher stepped forward.

"No, at this stage we can't tell whether they come from different timelines or parallel time and space. The only thing we can be sure of is that Dr. Anderson is from 2359, and the Master Chief is from 2552. As for which time and space...we haven't found every The world marks its members, so there is no way of judging."

"Whoa...wait...every world? Does the planet label the creatures on it?"

"No, when I say world I don't mean planet."

"Then you mean..."

"This vast, yet finite universe."

"WOW..."

"Very well, your conversation successfully made my report more complicated." Admiral Cole rubbed his temples. "Suddenly the war between us and the Covenant doesn't feel so important."

"No, the war between humans and the Covenant is still very important. Humans, the Covenant, and the AI ​​left behind by the forerunners hold a key together, and this key is very important."

"The key? What is the forerunner?"

"Prehistoric civilization, the one that left ruins all over the world, the earth's rich star and Zhiyuan star, these planets should have found alien ruins, right? Most of them were made by the forerunners. Your world is very deep, what do you think of those ancient civilizations? He is dead, but in fact he is still alive, and because he has not fished for tens of thousands of years, everyone has a tendency to go crazy.

As for the crucial key... The Star Alliance has information, humans have authority, the guide can operate it, and the ring has an introduction... As long as the Star Alliance brings humans to the ring and releases the flood demon to see the guide... every minute Give you a super weapon that can destroy almost four galactic volumes of space life when activated. "Ian spread his hands.

But...it seems that the belt is still very fragile, and the self-destruction of a Kingfisher-class cruiser can disintegrate the belt.

It doesn't seem too difficult if you don't consider archaeology and only consider preventing the launch of the ring...

Then Ian remembered the Templar Defender, who was even more swarm than the swarm... That thing could even hit a CAS-class aircraft carrier and behead him.

If you really want to go hard, I'm afraid you still have to damage a few ships...

Plus cleaning up the Flood from the blown debris...

Just thinking about the workload will explode...

Let's look for it in a well-behaved halo after halo...

"Sir, the IO response was detected, and the Star Alliance ship is coming." Everest's AI Elizabeth jumped onto the holographic platform next to everyone.

"Kamikaze Martyr?"

"Not our ship, the Splendid Fruit Fleet has escaped hyperspace three light-years away."

"Who else could it be?" The three waves looked at each other.

"Who's the closest there?"

"The marines released by the UNSC Spirit of Fire are operating nearby, and there is also Alpha Base, which is confronting the Covenant Advance Base, nearby."

"The UNSC Spirit of Fire reported that our reconnaissance force and the Star Alliance encountered each other and were completely wiped out. Coordinates, XXX.XX, XXX.XX."

"Don't look at me, it's the kamikaze warrior...not the kamikaze warrior's army, but the Lipa Morami army. They almost never obey our orders."

"I remember him." Old Tyr Vadami nodded. "The Commander of the Glory Interception Fleet, looking for the holy relic for the Prophet of Sorrow... the secret fleet of the forerunner ruins. In the end, he died at the hands of a human soldier who did not wear Toray armor. He was the worst kamikaze warrior in history."

"I said... I think that if Fudge survives, he can at least be an elite in the fourth phase of Sparta..." Dr. Anderson had a lot of chats with AI Isabel in Special Zone 00, and he also knew about the Spirit of Fire There are many things that happen while rafting.

leftover…

I read it from a novel... Dr. Anderson said that the game is really impossible to play.

"Call the Spirit of Fire."

"This is the Spirit of Fire, please tell me."

"Captain Carter, send your people to scout over there, and I will send you some support troops."

"Understood. Sergeant Fudge is already on his way. The Spirit of Fire ended the call."

"Look, this is fate..." Dr. Anderson spread his hands.

"Fate has already changed." The Master Chief, wearing Thor's Hammer MKV, looked down at Dr. Anderson.

"That's right, destiny has changed. But what remains the same is that we need people from the Star Alliance to guide us. I don't have the coordinates of that shield world."

"Ma'am, do you have additional requirements for this operation?" Admiral Cole overheard the conversation.

"According to the plot, now that the Star Alliance has found a map, they will go to the Arcadia colony, and then go to a wandering planet outside the map.

The structure of that wandering planet is very wonderful, it is a Dyson sphere, and a small sun is anchored in the center of the planet. The artificial intelligence I met later called it the shield world.

A safe for the Precursors to preserve equipment and species. But the surface of the earth has been occupied by the Flood, and it has formed a corpse brain beast, which will spread at any time.

We must go and destroy the Flood there, and take down the hundreds of dreadnoughts left behind by the Forerunners. "

"But you don't know the coordinates for this place yet, do you, Dr. Anderson. We need the Covenant to show us the way."

"Exactly."

"This will be a very careful battle. We should discuss a plan. How did you get the coordinates before?"

"We repelled the Covenant in the glacier ruins, but were ambushed by the remnants of the Covenant while investigating the ruins. According to the collected information, we arrived at the Arcadia colony.

There is a Forerunner relic in the Arcadia colony, and the Covenant got the location of the shield world from that relic. perhaps. "

"perhaps?"

"I have no way of judging when the Covenant acquired the coordinates of the shield world. I can only infer that the Covenant has just obtained this coordinate. Because the Covenant has not even experienced cleaning up the nearby Flood pollution."

"I understand. Notify the Arcadia colony to increase its combat readiness level, deploy the Spartan Omega team, the red team and the blue team. Send the third fleet to the Arcadia colony for reinforcements,"

"Commander, in my time there were originally only four Kingfishers there."

"I know, professor, but history will always change due to some small factors. You should also understand the reason why a butterfly flapping its wings in South America caused a hurricane in North America." General Cole put his hands behind his back. "I think, in your time, there is no extraterrestrial friend to help you, right?

How did we win that time? "

"The siege with more than five times the number of troops, and three times the number of deaths on the opposite side barely won the third battle of Harvest Star." Serena logged into the shipboard computer of the Everest by herself.

"Who are you?"

"Serina, intelligent super artificial intelligence, number CTN 0452-9." Serena saluted frivolously. "Long time no see, Admiral. Also, long time no see, Dr. Halsey. You're all so young now."

"Super AI?"

"That's right, based on Dr. Halsey's cloned brain, a super AI customized for Operation Red Flag. At least before I came here, the UNSC hadn't developed an AI stronger than mine."

"Operation Red Flag? What are we going to do in the future..."

"Trust me, Admiral, it's going to be a long, wonderful story." Dr. Anderson's eyes met Cortana's.

"Then let's start." Admiral Cole came over. "Let's go to the cafeteria first, and I'm hungry at the end of the day. After the fight is over, we'll go to Arcadia."

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"Sergeant Fergie, report the situation." Captain Carter walked to the holographic platform and connected to Fergie's communication.

"There's a lot of bad guys here, they found something under the ice."

"The scan shows that there is a man-made structure in the target area that is difficult to scan comprehensively. If the Star Alliance is not active there, this structure cannot be found only by wide-area scanning." Serena added.

"Hell, this complicates our mission. What have you found, Anderson?"

"Their actions next to the ruins are very interesting. They seem to be looking for something."

"What do you think they're looking for?"

"I think this is the answer we're looking for. Sergeant Fergie, keep monitoring. The troops at the Alpha base have already left. They will give you support." Captain Carter pondered for a while looking at the communication message from the Everest. "Although I don't know if the headquarters has gone crazy, they said that a Star Alliance elite team will also go to support."

"...Wait, Captain, Covenant?"

"The situation is very complicated now, and I'm still digesting it. You just need to kill the Star Alliance who is attacking you, and there should be no friendly fire."

"...I see, Fergie ended the call."

"Dr. Anderson, after the battle is over, you go down with the pelican. I need to know what the ruins are."

"Understand the captain."

"Captain, two Covenant destroyers have arrived."

"Get ready to fight against the ship, fully armed." Carter frowned. "Let friendly warships assist us."

"Understood, Protoss, Water Spirit, and Light Spirit responded, and the friendly fleet responded. The battle formation was deployed, and the MAC guns began to recharge. The frigate group stepped forward, the cruiser group spread out to the two wings, and the aviation unit took off." Serena pressed the solar system. , to transfer a large number of computing threads to fleet joint operations.

"Synchronously launch the ground front and launch the Heron."

"Yes sir, Heron launches. Pelicans take off, bombers take off, ground forces deployed...Captain, friendly ships approaching from the rear...It is UNSC Everest, and behind her is the entire First and Second Fleets."

"I'm pretty sure now that the two Covenant ships will not escape."

"Let me see what I can do in the future."

"Happy to help." The two master chiefs looked at Admiral Cole.

"Go ahead and kick their asses hard. But remember to let the kamikaze go. We need the coordinates of the shield world."

"Yes, sir."

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Forty Heron heavy transport planes carrying fire base components landed at the North Pole of Harvest Star. Nearby tanks, fighter jets, bombers, heavy gunboats, armed helicopters, and fighter-bombers slowly advanced towards the ruins.

Not far from the ruins, four pelicans landed.

Spartan Alpha Team, K-5 Team and the two Master Chiefs step off the Pelican.

"Sir, Covenant reinforcements have arrived."

The Spartans looked up at the universe, and one after another Covenant warships broke out of hyperspace over the North Pole.

The first two Covenant destroyers to arrive began to have a large number of Banshee ground support aircraft, space banshee fighter jets, undead troop carriers, phantom troop carriers, and single-person airborne assault pods raining down on the ground.

On the ground, in front of the ruins, the Covenant's enchantress ground support aircraft and Sangheili soldiers lifted their invisibility one by one, and began to attack the human troops.

The first batch of Jupiter assault vehicles that came into contact with the Star Alliance were overturned by the demon girl's plasma bomb. The Marines used the overturned Jupiter as a cover and started shooting at the Star Alliance.

"Gentlemen, it seems that this can't be helped. Since they want war, we'll give them war."

The two Master Chiefs stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the front line where the exchange of fire had begun.

Directly above them, the four Phoenix-class support ships advancing side by side began to drop the ODST's drop pods, and the triple-mounted MAC guns began to fire on the Covenant warship.