Captain's logbook, February 4, 2531. Five years, five long years, it took us five full years to reclaim the Fertility Star. ”

"In the beginning, it was fine."

"And then there was rout after rout."

"Increasingly heavy casualties."

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

"The lack has become a five-year-long hell."

"That's the current state of Fertility, there's hell down there."

"But now, he's ours again."

The captain of the USS Vulner, James Carter, updated a captain's journal out of boredom when the fleet was in a jump space, reviewing the battle history of the Abundant Star.

At this time, the reinforcement fleet, including 4 Phoenix-class support ships including the Fireling, fifteen Paris-class frigates and twenty-two Kingfisher-class cruisers, which were still in the transition space, did not receive a battle report from the Abundant Star.

"Captain, we're about to arrive at Abundance."

The ship's mother...... I'm talking about the figure of Serena, the shipboard AI, appearing on the holographic platform behind Captain Carter.

"Well, what about the landing force?"

"According to the plan, the armored forces and marines are already on board the Heron and Pelican, and the Stiletto is already waiting in the hangar for takeoff."

"Good." Captain Carter nodded.

It didn't take long for the fleet to come out of hyperspace.

"Serena, report now...... WHAT THE HELL？ Captain Carter nearly snapped his tongue and stared at the fleet in the distance with wide eyes as he clung to the bridge glass in disbelief. Serena, tell me, I'm hallucinating. ”

"Unfortunately, Captain, what you see is real. It seems that a lot has happened in our five-day jump. Intelligence is being downloaded from the fleet data network. Serena shook her head.

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

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"But as far as I know, John-117 didn't need to be rescued, and ...... The armor on your body is not the same as the Spartan armor we have installed. ”

"Admiral, Spartan 117 has come to report for duty."

"But, in terms of your military strength, you have no need to deceive us."

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

"Huh? What do you mean? Admiral Cole said that the question was out of the way.

"You're trying to say that the two of them are people from different timelines? This...... It has gone beyond our existing system of space-time theory, different timelines...... We now only have hypotheses and no concrete theoretical support. Behind Admiral Cole, a female scientist stepped forward.

"No, at this stage we can't tell if they're from a different timeline or a parallel plane, the only thing we know for sure is that Dr. Anderson is from 2359 and Master Chief is from 2552. As for which plane...... We haven't found the mark of each world for its members, so there's no way to tell. ”

"Wow...... Wait a minute...... Every world? Do planets label the creatures on it? ”

"No, I'm not talking about the world."

"Then you mean ......"

"This vast but finite universe."

“WOW……”

"Very well, your conversation succeeded in complicating my report." Admiral Cole rubbed his temples. "Suddenly I feel like the war between us and the Covenant isn't that important."

"No, the war between humanity and the Covenant is still important. Humans, the Covenant, and the AI left behind by the Forerunners all hold a key that is crucial. ”

"Keys? What is a forerunner? ”

"The prehistoric civilization, the one that left ruins all over the world, the Earth's abundant star Zhiyuanxing, these planets should have excavated alien ruins, right? Most of those were made by the forerunners. Your world is very deep, those ancient civilizations you thought he was dead, but in fact he is still alive, and because he has not been active for tens of thousands of years, one by one has a tendency to go crazy.

As for the crucial keys...... The Star Alliance has intelligence, humans have permission, the guide can operate, and there is an introduction on the ring...... As long as the Covenant takes the humans to the ring and releases the flood demons to meet the guide...... A superweapon that activates in minutes and can destroy almost four galactic space lifeforms. Ian spread his hands.

But...... It seems that the ring belt is still very fragile, and the self-detonation of a Kingfisher-class cruiser can blow the ring apart.

It doesn't seem too difficult to stop the rings from firing without considering archaeology......

Then Ian remembered the Templar defenders who were more swarms than the swarm...... That thing can even hit and decapitate him with a CAS-class aircraft carrier.

If you really want to get tough, I'm afraid you will have to lose a few ships......

Plus clean up the flood demons in the debris that were blown up......

Just thinking about the workload explodes......

It's still a halo of rules and regulations, and an aura of looking for the past......

"Sir, IO reaction has been detected, and the Covenant ship is coming." Elizabeth, the AI of the Everest, jumped onto the holographic platform next to the crowd.

"Kamikaze martyrs?"

"It's not our ship, the brilliant fruit fleet has been out of hyperspace three light-years away."

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

"Who's closest to there?"

"The Marines released by the UNSC Fire are operating in the vicinity, and there is also the Alpha base that confronts the Covenant forward base."

"The UNSC Fire Spirit reported that its own reconnaissance team and the Star Alliance had encountered and were completely destroyed. Coordinates, XXX.XX, XXX.XX. ”

"Don't look at me, I'm a kamikaze martyr...... Not the troops of this kamikaze martyr, but the one named Lipa. Morami's troops, they almost never follow our orders. ”

"I remember him." Old Thier. Vadami nodded. "Commander of the Glory Interception Fleet, search for the Holy Relic for the Prophet of Sorrow...... The secret fleet of the Precursor Ruins. In the end, he died at the hands of a human soldier who did not wear Toray armor, and he was one of the most popular kamikaze martyrs in the past. ”

I said...... I think if Fudge survives, he can at least be an elite ...... in Sparta Phase 4" Dr. Anderson talked a lot with AI Isabel in District 00, and also learned a lot about what happened when the Fire Spirit was drifting.

The rest...

It's from the inside... The game Dr. Anderson said he couldn't play it.

"Call the Vulner."

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

"Captain Carter, send your men over there to reconnoitre, and I'll send you some reinforcements."

"Understood, Sergeant Fudge is already on his way, and the Fire Spirit ends the call."

"Look, that's fate," Dr. Anderson said.

"Fate has long since changed." The Master Chief, dressed in the Mjolnir MKV, looked down at Dr. Anderson.

"That's right, fate has long since changed. But what remains constant is that we need someone from the Covenant to show us the way, and 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 Covenant has found a map information, they will go to the Acadia colony, and then 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.

It is a safe deposit box for the forerunners to hold equipment and species. But the surface of the earth has been occupied by the flood demons, and it has formed a corpse brain beast, which will spread at any time.

We must destroy the Flood there and detain the hundreds of dreadnoughts left behind by the Precursors. ”

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

"Exactly."

"It's going to be a very careful battle, we should discuss a plan, how did you get the coordinates before?"

"We repelled the Covenant of the Glacier Ruins, but were ambushed by the remnants of the Covenant while scouting the ruins. Based on the information gathered, we arrived in the Acadia colony.

There is a Precursor relic in the Arcadia colony, and the Covenant of Relic has been given the location of the shield world. Probably. ”

"Probably?"

"I have no way of judging when the Star Alliance obtained the coordinates of the shield world, I can only infer that the Star Alliance has just obtained this coordinate. Because the Covenant didn't even experience cleaning up the nearby Flood Pollution. ”

"I understood, informed the Acadia colonies to raise their readiness level and deploy the Spartan Omega, Red and Blue teams. Send the Third Fleet to the Acadia colonies for reinforcements,"

"Commander, in my time, there were originally only four Kingfisher-class ships there."

"I know, Professor, but history always changes due to small factors, and you should know the reason why a butterfly in South America instigated its wings and caused a hurricane to blow in North America." General Cole put his hands behind his back. "I suppose in your time, Abundance doesn't have any extraterrestrial friends to help, right?

How did we win that time? ”

"With more than five times the number of troops, I barely won the third Battle of Fertile Stars by killing three times the number of people on the opposite side." Serena logged into the ship's computer on the Everest.

"Who are you?"

"Serena, Intelligent Super Artificial Intelligence, Number CTN 0452-9." Serena saluted frivolously. "Long time no see, Admiral. Also, long time no see, Dr. Halsie. You're all so young now. ”

"Super AI?"

"That's right, based on Dr. Halsie's cloned brain, a super AI customized for Operation Red Flag. At least until I got here, UNSC hadn't developed a stronger AI than me. ”

"Look, that's fate," Dr. Anderson said. Fate has long since changed. The Master Chief, dressed in Thor's Hammer MKV, looked down at Dr. Anderson.

"That's right, fate has long since changed. But what remains constant is that we need someone from the Covenant to show us the way, and 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 Covenant has found a map information, they will go to the Acadia colony, and then 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.

It is a safe deposit box for the forerunners to hold equipment and species. But the surface of the earth has been occupied by the flood demons, and it has formed a corpse brain beast, which will spread at any time.

We must destroy the Flood there and detain the hundreds of dreadnoughts left behind by the Precursors. ”

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

"Exactly."

"It's going to be a very careful battle, we should discuss a plan, how did you get the coordinates before?"

"We repelled the Covenant of the Glacier Ruins, but were ambushed by the remnants of the Covenant while scouting the ruins. Based on the information gathered, we arrived in the Acadia colony.

There is a Precursor relic in the Arcadia colony, and the Covenant of Relic has been given the location of the shield world. Probably. ”

"Probably?"

"I have no way of judging when the Star Alliance obtained the coordinates of the shield world, I can only infer that the Star Alliance has just obtained this coordinate. Because the Covenant didn't even experience cleaning up the nearby Flood Pollution. ”

"I understood, informed the Acadia colonies to raise their readiness level and deploy the Spartan Omega, Red and Blue teams. Send the Third Fleet to the Acadia colonies for reinforcements,"

"Commander, in my time, there were originally only four Kingfisher-class ships there."

"I know, Professor, but history always changes due to small factors, and you should know the reason why a butterfly in South America instigated its wings and caused a hurricane to blow in North America." General Cole put his hands behind his back. "I suppose in your time, Abundance doesn't have any extraterrestrial friends to help, right?

How did we win that time? ”

"With more than five times the number of troops, I barely won the third Battle of Fertile Stars by killing three times the number of people on the opposite side." Serena logged into the ship's computer on the Everest.

"Who are you?"

"Serena, Intelligent Super Artificial Intelligence, Number CTN 0452-9." Serena saluted frivolously. "Long time no see, Admiral. Also, long time no see, Dr. Halsie. You're all so young now. ”

"Super AI?"

"That's right, based on Dr. Halsie's cloned brain, a super AI customized for Operation Red Flag. At least until I got here, UNSC hadn't developed a stronger AI than me. ”

"Serena, Intelligent Super Artificial Intelligence, Number CTN 0452-9." Serena saluted frivolously. "Long time no see, Admiral. Also, long time no see, Dr. Halsie. You're all so young now. "Super AI?"

"That's right, based on Dr. Halsie's cloned brain, a super AI customized for Operation Red Flag. At least until I got here, UNSC hadn't developed a stronger AI than me. ”

"Serena, Intelligent Super Artificial Intelligence, Number CTN 0452-9." Serena saluted frivolously. "Long time no see, Admiral. Also, long time no see, Dr. Halsie. You're all so young now. "Super AI?" "That's right, based on Dr. Halsie's cloned brain, a super AI customized for Operation Red Flag. At least until I got here, UNSC hadn't developed a stronger AI than me. ”