Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"Don't be too pessimistic, maybe it's not that bad?" said Emile, Noble 4 (A239).

"If nothing else, these five ships can destroy Reach if they hit it."

With the help of a UNCS frigate, Team Noble escorted a senior officer to the target ship for a meeting. During this time, four giant ships of the same level as the Long Night appeared over Reach.

Then the appearance of giant ships stopped, and they were replaced by various "smaller" ships, well, "smaller" ships.

The Pelican, carrying Noble's team, arrived at the landing and take-off platform of the Pathfinder flagship, the Endless Expedition, under the escort of several Thunderhawk gunboats. Several Space Marines from the Salamanders had been waiting here for a long time.

"Is this a group of Jiralhanae?"

"Shut your mouth, Noble 5!"

Led by these salamanders, Team Noble and the UNSC officer entered the cabin and arrived at a huge conference hall after a while.

Here they saw...

A giant of extraordinary beauty (Fulgrim)

A red-skinned giant (Magnus)

A bald giant (Lorgar)

A dark-skinned, bald giant (Vulcan)

An ordinary person whose helmet makes his head look a bit too big (Zhang Yi)

(Zhang Yi: Did someone say that I have a big head?)

The man sitting in the main seat motioned for the UNSC officers to sit down, and then the meeting began.

The escorted UNSC official first expressed his gratitude to Zhang Yi and others for destroying the Covenant fleet, then asked Zhang Yi and others' fleet to leave the orbit of Reach, and repeatedly emphasized that Reach belongs to the UNSC human government.

As soon as he finished speaking, he was laughed at by Magrus. In the eyes of this Primarch who had lived for more than 10,000 years, this UNSC officer was just like the planetary warlords they encountered during the Great Crusade, and he had no idea of ​​the current situation.

It was they who destroyed the Covenant fleet, it was they who captured the Long Night, and it was they who protected Reach, not them.

If they had not appeared, Reach would have been glassed by the fanatical and stupid believers of the Covenant in less than a month.

And now, these humans from another world actually asked them to leave?

To be honest, Magrus really wanted to follow the UNSC officer's words, leave Reach and watch the planet being glassed by the Covenant as he knew the future would be, and then find him, laugh at him and ask him if he regretted it.

But it did not go as it wished. Zhang Yi directly rejected the officer's request and pointed out that more Covenant fleets would come to Reach, and Reach would not be able to resist them.

"So what do you want?" the officer asked. "You captured a Covenant CSO-class supercarrier, and transported four ships of the same class to Reach orbit by unknown means, and you are still going strong."

"I admit that we cannot stop the attack of the Covenant, but Reach belongs to us no matter what, and this will never change!"

"Your troops are entering our territory!"

"Why do you think we are targeting you?" Zhang Yi suddenly asked. "Do you have anything worth our attention?"

Zhang Yi's two sentences confused the UNSC officer. Wasn't the target them? Then why were so many ships and troops coming here? Were they here to check in at the scenic spot? (The Pathfinder was really taking photos and checking in 2333)

"You have nothing worth our attention. Our goal is the same as the Covenant, the Forerunner relics." Zhang Yi said. "If I must say, the only thing you have that is of some use to us is the legendary Spartan warrior, John-117. He is more important than you think."

"We are not enemies, but we have a common enemy - the Covenant."

"As we are all human beings, we can help you resist the attack of the Covenant, but not for free. We need the various Forerunner artifacts and relics under your control."

"Wait! You're human too?"

Although Zhang Yi and his group called themselves the Human Empire, Reach was certain that they had never heard of this name, and the technology they possessed was not what humans have today (with military power they would have already conquered High Charity). Besides, those giants did not look like humans at all. They just thought that they were aliens that looked very similar to humans.

Hearing this, Zhang Yi was silent for a while, then took off his helmet in front of them.

"This is the first time that people have suspected whether I am human or not?"

545. The Star Alliance was stunned

When the UNSC officer reported the content of the meeting to Reach's commander-in-chief Admiral Roland Filimont and other senior officials, they were all stunned.

A human army from another world? If you write this in a report, people will question whether you drank fake alcohol when you wrote it.

Compared to this news, the matter of the Forerunner ruins that ONI had been hiding seemed somewhat insignificant.

The good news is that this alien human fleet is indeed willing to help them fight against the Covenant, which wants to exterminate them for unknown reasons. This will greatly alleviate the pressure on the current UNSC human government.

The bad news is that these humans from another world said that they have the ability to make the Covenant no longer a threat in a very short time.

Does this sound like good news? If other factors are not taken into account, it is true, but an unknown organization that can easily deal with the Star Alliance can also easily deal with them.

Moreover, they don't know whether this is true or not at this stage, and they can't take any action yet. What if the other party doesn't help defend Reach? What if they get mad and they blow up Reach?

Reach is extremely important to the entire UNSC human government. Once something happens to it, the entire human race will be put in a passive position, and the safety of the human home planet Earth will be in jeopardy.

Wait and see what happens. This is the only thing they can do. At this stage, the most important thing for them is to defend Reach, a strong military location. The rest...

We'll talk about it later.

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2552 December 8

Two days later than the original plot, after the battle group led by the Long Night arrived at Reach, another huge Covenant fleet broke through the defense line of the Celestial Galaxy and appeared near Reach.

Obviously, the Covenant had already known about the appearance of the Human Empire fleet and the capture of the Long Night, so they slowed down the fleet's advance and assembled more fleets before heading towards Reach.

The Covenant obviously understood that they had to pick on the weak. After arriving, they did not go directly to find the unfamiliar unknown fleet, but chose to attack the UNSC battle group that had arrived at Reach not long ago.

The UNSC fleet is usually unable to compete with the Covenant fleet. In terms of defense, the Covenant's energy shield technology can block most missile attacks for them, and their own nano armor can resist and repair the shooting of those electromagnetic cannons.

(So ​​when the UNSC deals with the Covenant warships, they will first use the high-penetration electromagnetic gun to pinpoint overload the shield, and then use nuclear missiles to destroy the nano armor and hull structure)

Unlike the human fleet, which had to go through a lot of trouble to destroy the Covenant ships, the Covenant ships only needed to use their lances and ion beams to deal with the UNSC ships that only had armor resistance. Human ships were completely unable to resist, even if they were coated with special heat-resistant coatings.

The Covenant fleet, which was far larger than originally expected, caused huge damage to the UNSC human support fleet that had just arrived at Reach. With the help of Reach's orbital defense facilities, they were able to barely stabilize their defense line.

But even so, several Covenant light ships bypassed the UNSC's defenses and reached the surface of the planet Reach, and now the humans of Reach can only watch them leave.

At this moment, the command ship of the Covenant fleet suddenly detected an unknown energy source coming towards them at high speed, and the next moment a huge explosion resounded throughout the command room.

The flagship of the Salamanders, the Flame Forge, led several ships of the Human Empire and activated the jump engine in a very 40K manner, smashing several small Covenant ships on the periphery and directly breaking into the vicinity of the command room.

The specially reinforced ship's bow and adamantium ram, as well as the disposable head energy shield, ensured that the giant ship suffered only minor damage after completing the raid.

Not only that, after exiting the jump state, the [Flame Forge] ran at full speed and rushed towards the command ship not far away, bearing the wreckage of the ship.

Once again, it can be said that 40K's unique way of fighting between space battleships brought a "surprise" to the existence of other universes. The adamantium ramming horns overloaded the shield in an instant and penetrated deeply into the command ship, followed by a salvo of light spear arrays.

The scorching beam melted through the nano-armor plate, splitting the ship in two. It took only a few minutes from the appearance of this ship to the destruction of the command ship, and it was these few minutes that completely destroyed the command system of the Covenant fleet.

At this time, some nearby Covenant ships began to fire at the Flameforged, but all were blocked by its energy shield, and then the macro cannons fired back.

As long as the huge macro-cannon shells hit those small ships, they would instantly overload the opponent's shields and destroy the opponent's nano-armor. Some unlucky Covenant ships were even blown in two.

[This is Vulkan, the Primarch of the Salamanders Chapter of the Human Empire. I need you to surround the Covenant Fleet.]

[The follow-up fleet is about to arrive. We are going to annihilate this alien fleet]

[Don't worry about the Covenant ships that reach the surface of Reach, someone will deal with them]

． ． ． The surface of Reach ． ． ．

Several Covenant light ships used their high-tech jump engines to accurately reach the inner atmosphere of Reach, and began to deploy troops and clear the UNSC forces on the ground.

A small number of Thousand Sons wearing red power armor looked at the Covenant ships that appeared in the sky, and then continued to install devices that stored huge amounts of pure liquid subspace energy.

On the other side, their Primarch Magrus was repeatedly confirming the status of the device to prevent any accidents - if any accidents happened again, O'Neill would have to skin him alive.

Finally, after everything was confirmed to be correct, Magrus came into the device and started it up.

The vast energy of the Warp was controlled by Magnus, and with a wave of his hand, this force locked onto the Covenant light ship in the air.

It was visible to the naked eye that the Covenant ship, which was originally deploying troops and clearing out enemies on the ground, suddenly stopped. The light emitted from the surface of the hull began to flicker, and the entire hull began to gradually tilt.

At this moment, Magnus clenched his right fist, then pulled it down suddenly, and the Covenant ship fell uncontrollably to the ground.

Boom--!

The Covenant ship crashed to the ground with a loud noise and a lot of dust was stirred up.

The Covenant ground forces and the UNSC soldiers who witnessed all this couldn't believe what they saw - a Covenant ship just crashed for no apparent reason? !

"Confirmed." Magnus looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction, walked out of the device and said.

"The escaping subspace energy is disappearing. There are no abnormalities."

"39% of pure liquid subspace energy remaining."

"The energy pipeline is intact."

"The radiator is operating normally and should be able to support one more use."

"Inject another 30% of pure liquid warp energy. I want to use it again." Magnus ordered, looking at another Covenant light ship that didn't know what happened yet. "They need to know the price of being malicious to humans!"

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The battle situation was beyond the UNSC's expectations. They had considered the possibility of the Human Empire beating up the Covenant, but a series of outrageous situations still exceeded their imagination.

Vulkan's charge basically destroyed the command system of the Covenant fleet, and Fulgrim's fleet, which arrived later, together with the UNSC fleet, dealt a devastating blow to the fleet attacking Reach - can you believe they actually played a role in a space battle?!

On the ground of Reach, the crash of two Covenant ships close to the surface brought the offensive of the Covenant ships on the planet to a halt. The remaining ships then raised their altitudes, fearing that they would become the third Covenant ship to crash inexplicably.

The hesitation of the Covenant ground forces undoubtedly greatly helped the UNSC ground forces, giving them more time to gather troops and complete the defense line.

"Are you sure?"

At this time, Zhang Yi asked the Neil robot in front of him on the flagship of [Pathfinder].

"Based on our current technological capabilities, we have not detected any signals that could be from the so-called 'pioneers'," the android said. "Either these powerful alien races are not paying attention here, or their technology has advanced to a point where we cannot detect it."

Everything about the Pioneers, a race that only exists in the background of the Halo world, is a mystery.

If you say they are strong, the Forerunners, whom they called failures, drove them out of the galaxy with a single surprise attack; if you say they are weak, they can create the Flood, which the Forerunners have no way to defend themselves against (because it is said that the Forerunners will not die, but only change their form).

When the ancient humans passed the Flood test, the Forerunners issued orders in time to stop the Flood from infecting and attacking the ancient humans. After that, they watched the Forerunners defeat and forcefully degenerate the ancient humans.

This doesn't make sense. You were defeated by what you called a failure, and the ancient humans who you called the successor were defeated by the forerunners. You still sit back and watch the "failure" destroy the "success". What are you doing? Are you watching cricket fights?

It is almost impossible to find any Forerunner creations now. The [Halo Array] activated by the Forerunners has killed most of the Flood and their food, and also destroyed most of the Forerunner creations with similar characteristics. It is now more likely to dig out a living Forerunner from the ground than to dig out a Forerunner creation.

"Forget it, let's ignore it for now."

"Notify the UNSC and ask them if they want to join us in dismantling the Covenant."

"It happened very quickly, just a whoosh."

546. The Power of Truth

John-117

A Spartan II warrior, the trump card of the UNSC human government, a legendary Spartan warrior, and the 'protagonist' of this world.

This legend participated in many battles, including the first contact between the Covenant and the UNSC human government. This legendary Spartan II warrior also directly contributed to the subsequent Covenant soldiers' fear of this kind of super soldier (so much so that they specially formed a force to hunt down Spartans).

During the Battle of Reach, the Master Chief from the Spartan Blue Team also participated in the war, but he did not directly participate in the ground war on Reach. Instead, he went to the far space to carry out the task of deleting data.

Afterwards, the Master Chief's ship, the Pillar of Autumn, landed on Reach to pick up Dr. Halsey and Cortana, the intelligent artificial intelligence prepared for the Master Chief.

In the original plot, all of this was accomplished under extremely extreme conditions. The Noble team was almost wiped out before completing this mission (it seemed that only one of them survived). The [Autumn Wind Pillar] also escaped from the fallen Reach after this, and after several random jumps, it arrived at [Ring 04] and encountered the Flood.

And that, is another story.

Now, due to the participation of the Human Empire, the battle situation on Reach is relatively good, and the above series of events do not need to be carried out under enemy fire and siege.

After becoming familiar with the cooperation with the intelligent artificial intelligence Cortana, the Master Chief took the entire Spartan Blue Team to the Endless Expedition to meet with the Human Empire and prepare to complete the so-called "destroy the Covenant in one sentence" plan.

． ． ．【Endless Expedition】． ． ．

Three Spartan warriors, led by several Astra Militarum soldiers, advanced in the wide corridor.

It was more like a road than a corridor, and even without Cortana's reminder, the Master Chief could feel that the interior of the ship was much larger than what appeared from the outside.

[This is most likely a space technology that we are not aware of. From this point alone, we can see that the so-called Human Empire is much stronger than the Star Alliance.] (Cortana)

[In addition, I also saw many obvious traces of technological splicing on this ship. It is very likely that their claim of coming from another world is not a joke, but the truth] (Cortana)

"But it could also be from outside the Milky Way, or from some unknown corner of the Milky Way." The Master Chief whispered. "It's too ridiculous to conclude that their fantastical words are true based on this alone."

【But...!】（Cortana）

Cortana, who was about to say something else, suddenly stopped because a message was forcibly transmitted at this time.