Halo: Into the Howling Dark V

“Sitrep. We’re here. What awaits us?” Catina asked The Darkstar II’s bridge over the coms.

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“Pelican is ready to drop us off.” Leo said.
Hermes held a thumbs up.

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Kay’s fleet had been in combat positions, they had been waiting for anything to show up. The fleet quickly established communications with the Darkstar II “identify yourselves” a voice said.

The large shield around Sotuv had regained it’s strength, as the hole in it repaired itself the shield sent out a small emp blast. Sotuv forces took count of the losses they had taken, they still remained strong, having lost 30,000 of the massive swarm that was within their skies. The swarm began patrolling the entire state, looking for stragglers, and preparing for another encounter.

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“This is the Dark Star II, we are here to make contact with Borli Keep. This is Kay Star Malleum, right? I have this woman aboard who doesn’t know how to not talk about you.” Tom said.

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“this fleet is run by Kay Nar Vallium, and he would advise against approaching Gahlogali, the planet is enduring its bloodiest conflict… A large covenant force consisting of 47 ships patrols the planet, destroying anything in its path, the black moon, another large enemy force, also destroys anything in their path and has over half of the planet within its control, at the same time Damo Borli is at the brink of starting a civil war with the surviving states of this conflict, while also fighting off the black moons and this new covenant, the planet has been engulfed by chaos, you cannot hope to get close to Borli keep now” the voice from Kay’s fleet said.

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“We just need to get in and out quickly. Can you provide us an opening?” Tom asked. “Sounds really peachy down there.”

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there was a pause for almost a minute before a reply finally came “we can provide you with an opening, our Corvette will distract them and draw their attention and lead their forces to an ambush.” the speaker said

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Catina, ever the spy, was listening in on Tom’s conversation. “New Covenant?” she asked as she broke radio silence.
“Was this cruiser one of theirs?” Catina also asked as she sent the Sangheil on the other end of the com a picture of the disabled cruiser, after the attack on Highland Station.

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“Sounds great… But wait… I have someone who’d like to talk.” Tom said.

Saham saw a ship approach, one of Tarion’s vessels. All the guns directed at the sea now looked skyward, and fired into the vessel. It tore through it, causing it to crash into the surrounding ocean.

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“Showing us a picture of a crashed ship does nothing, we cannot know if it is from the same foe” the speaker said

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“Eh, f*ckit” Catina said. “I have a feeling we will know soon enough. And if it is them, we can continue to teach them a lesson.”

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“be prepared to make your move” The speaker said as Kay’s fleet began moving towards the planet.

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“Shall we go say hello to Borli Keep, and both these forces threatening Gahlogali?” Catina asked out loud.

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Kay’s corvette cloaked and made its approach towards Borli Keep, the rest of Kay’s fleet found a blind spot in the covenant assault and descended their ships into the ocean to mask their location.

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“Yup! Let’s go, Leo!” Sky said.

The Dark Star soared over Borli, however many of the Covenant ships were gone, looking to fight with Kay. A couple dozen Pelicans left the Dark Star, and descended to Borli, including Daylight. Meanwhile, it turned and sought out its former position behind the moon.

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Catina was the last one the Pelican, and the first to exit. She stood before Borli Keep, Scattershot in hand and waiting for the others to exit the Pelican behind her.

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Tallium and Stalrus stood before them. “What is your business here!?” Tallium pointed his sword at Leo.

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as the corvette lead the covenant away, Kay’s fleet ambushed them, they flew out of the ocean as fast as they could and focused fire on the command ship of this section of the fleet.

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Urze knew he would lose, so he ordered his vessels to slippage away, which they did.

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Kay seemed confused at first, his fleet stopped firing and one of his bridge crew looked to him. “what now fleetmaster?” they asked.

“set up a defensive perimeter around Borli Keep, if the enemies numbers are too great when they come to attack again we will flee back behind the moon, otherwise we will fight them off.” Kay ordered.

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