At eight o'clock in the morning on August 31, 2552 AD...
As of today, if we count from July 23, when the Brave and Prudent Fleet arrived at Reach and began preparations for the arrival of the Covenant's main fleet, this battle lasted for nearly forty days and took place on The war on the star field near Tianyuan Four and on the planet Reach, which was very important to the UNSC and mankind, and the "Battle of Reach" that affected people's hearts, was finally declared officially over.
From 07:28 on the morning of July 24, Team Noble, under the order of Colonel Holland, went to the paralyzed Visgrad Relay Station to investigate possible rebel activities and found traces of the Covenant and issued a 'Winter Emergency' The alarm went off until the 'Pillar of Autumn' successfully took off from the Asa shipbreaking yard at around 17:05 on August 30 and escaped from Reach. As the defending and defeated side, the humans of the UNSC paid an extremely heavy and heavy price. sacrifice!
According to incomplete statistics based on data compiled by the stupid AI in the castle base that has not yet fallen, as of August 31, the total cost of the UNSC Eridanus Fleet, which originally had nearly 400 million military personnel and participated in and commanded the Battle of Reach, had been This resulted in the heavy cost of 134 warships being sunk, several ships missing, and more than 700 million soldiers and civilians missing or dead...
(According to statistics: Among the dead, military personnel were killed or missing about 300 million. Excluding those who successfully escaped and survived the incident, the number of civilians on Reach who were massacred by the Covenant was about 400 million! At this time, due to evasion, The war is spread across the planet or the number of humans who are still hiding in various shelters and surviving by chance is probably less than 300 million.)
Prior to the start of the campaign, the UNSC Eridanus fleet consisted of one supercarrier, one first-class aircraft carrier, three cruisers, ninety-eight destroyers, seventeen frigates, thirty-two corvettes, and twenty orbital defense platforms and Eighteen maintenance and modification platforms!
However, after the battle was over, the Eridanus fleet had less than ten warships left, except for those ships that had implemented the 'Cole Agreement' and randomly jumped and disappeared, and could not be contacted to this day. Naturally, all the orbital defense platforms were destroyed by the Covenant. Only fifteen "empty buildings" and maintenance and modification platforms used as shields temporarily survived because there was no need to destroy them.
As for the loss of the Covenant fleet, it is even more disastrous...
As of 08:00 in the morning on August 31st, the Covenant invaded Reach and Tianyuan Four's heroic and cautious fleets with thirteen large and small battleships, one hundred battleships from the Holy Sigh Fleet, eighty battleships from the Just Vigilance Fleet, and special There are 341 warships in the Justice Fleet, including flagships such as the Long Night, Truth Seeking, Sublime Excellence, and Truth and Harmony, for a total of 534 ships. All the battleships sank in the universe around Reach, and at least four million soldiers of all races were killed!
Of course, the number of casualties among the Covenant's invading soldiers was still increasing at this time, because the battle on the ground on Reach was not completely over, and would last for at least ten days or half a month.
Perhaps, after seeing the battle damage data of both sides participating in the Battle of Reach, many people may find it strange why the Covenant fleet, as the victor, was completely annihilated, while the human UNSC fleet, which was the defeated and escaping party, was completely wiped out. However, there is only a small fleet left in the fleet. This does not seem to be very reasonable no matter how you look at it?
But actually, it’s very simple!
Near the end of the battle, while escaping from Reach aboard the Pillar of Autumn, a certain little girl, who was so angry that she turned evil, turned over the table, trying to seriously interfere with the world and possibly cause plane fusion or The risk of a big collision. After directly opening the plane portal and summoning a part of the Reaper Legion, the Covenant fleet, which was already celebrating victory and preparing to pursue the victory against the human fleet and other planets, had nothing to do.
Because, the remaining Covenant fleets were bombarded by the Overlord-class Reaper battleships with huge Element Zero reactors, extremely high energy intensity, thick and durable shields, and magnetic fluid cannons that were extremely powerful for this world. It disappeared without much resistance, and he couldn't even escape!
In fact, if anyone suddenly encounters a fleet of more than a thousand Reapers after a big battle, they will only end up being destroyed. There will be no better outcome.
'! ! '
'Here they come again! '
'Kill them! '
'no! refuses to die! '
'This way! Run! Stop shooting, they can't be killed! ! '
'Run quickly! '
'Robot monster! '
'I surrender... Ugh! ! '
'Don't shoot, don't shoot! '
'Wow~! ! '
'...'
On the planet Reach, a group of hands, heads, legs and other outlines are similar to those of the Quarians, but their faces have a glowing light-sensing device. Even in broad daylight, you can see clearly, like LED glare. The flashlight-like Geth troops were silently advancing with Geth pulse rifles and the Geth 'Javelin' sniper rifles, massacring the Covenant troops who were fleeing in embarrassment.
Under the overwhelming numbers and powerful and advanced weapons of the geth army, the Covenant troops were defeated like mountains and were swept across the land of Reach like sheep, without even the courage to turn back and resist. .
Because the soldiers of the Covenant have long discovered that the weapons in their hands are completely unable to effectively penetrate the shields of those terrible robot armies, because every unit of the opponent has the luxury to carry that kind of light or heavy shields. shield?
But looking at the Covenant itself, those energy shields that were relatively advanced compared to the UNSC were completely unable to withstand enemy shots? Whether it is a jackal holding a shield, an elite with its own shield, or a Grunt hiding behind a bunker, they are all easily killed and harvested in silence by those ruthless and precise shooting robots. , even if you drop your weapon and beg for mercy, it’s useless?
'Wow! '
'That scary monster is here again, run! ! ! '
'no no! ! ! '
boom! boom! boom!
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In a small Covenant camp on the plain ahead, when the Covenant elites gathered a group of soldiers, they used the turrets and fortifications as well as the Phantom transport ships and "Enchantress" fighter planes flying in the sky to fight tenaciously with the troops sweeping in from a distance. When the Geth soldiers fired at each other and resisted tenaciously, knocking down several enemies from time to time, they soon discovered in despair: in the distance, something appeared that was about 160 meters high, with something like The four and five joints surrounding its head look a lot like the Covenant's 'Scarab' super-heavy siege platform, but something even scarier? !
They have seen it before. The opponent has an extremely powerful heavy shell and an unparalleled shield. Whether it is a plasma rifle, a needle rifle, a fuel cannon, a howitzer, an assault gun, or the cannon of the Enchantress fighter plane, or even their Those shadow turrets, etc., are unable to cause any damage to it. The opponent is as if it is completely immune to the firepower of their small weapons and vehicles?
Corresponding to the opponent's terrifying defense is the equally terrifying beam attack emitted from the eye-like red energy emitter on the head! The powerful destructive capability of that kind of beam cannon can even cut an SDV-class heavy battleship flying in the sky in half and destroy it in just a few seconds!
As for the other small vehicles and aircraft of the Covenant, let alone that!
During this night, wherever the terrifying, powerful walking machine said to be called the 'Destroyer' appears, there is no longer any place for Covenant soldiers to stand, whether in the air or on the ground. And that's what makes them panic.
Buzz~! !
Isn’t this?
While the Covenant soldiers on the ground screamed and ran away, the huge Reaper weapon, the 'Destroyer', suddenly raised its huge head, and a red beam of light emanated from the laser on its head. The launcher blasted out, sweeping down several Phantom transport ships and Enchantress fighter jets that were trying to escape in the sky, and then swept it towards the ground again, the Exile's 'Bullback' self-propelled artillery and the Revenant assault cannon. The platforms were cut in half by the terrifying beams, leaving molten red glassy ravines in place. As for the Covenant soldiers who were swept away, they were directly burned until only ashes and ashes were left. A pile of broken debris...
boom! boom! boom!
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Soon, continuous huge explosions began to sound in the Covenant's stubbornly resisting camp. Then, when the Covenant no longer had any organized resistance, the geth soldiers who had been waiting fell silent. Following the 'Destroyer' harvesting machine, which was a full 160 meters high, he slowly stepped into the enemy's camp where lasers drew straight lines.
"..."
Looking at the battle scenes on the screen, although the locations were different, the process and results were mostly the same, Noble 6 couldn't help but open his mouth, and couldn't say a word for a long time.
"Can not believe it……"
"Annie, what on earth are they?!"
I was riding with a little girl on the bridge of this Geth community cruiser, which was said to be only 361.5 meters long, suspended in the high sky of Reach, watching the battle scenes of various Geth individuals. Watching their live battle scenes, looking at the guy who was countless times scarier than the Covenant's 'Scarab' super-heavy siege platform, Noble 6 followed the opponent in a daze all night, marveled at it all night, and After watching the whole night of the Star Alliance's massive defeat and eventual annihilation, which made him feel extremely happy and energetic even if he didn't sleep, he finally managed to come back to his senses. , swallowed his saliva, and asked with difficulty pointing to the robots around him that looked exactly like the attacking troops.
"Them?"
(◜◔◡◔◝)
"They are a kind of robot called geth!"
(*^▽^*)
"It is a race of robots produced by a soft but extremely tough outer carapace and muscle-like synthetic tissue!"
(๑¯ω¯๑)
In fact, the main advantage of the geth is their unique neural network.
It is said that they can improve efficiency by 'sharing' processing capabilities and allocating low-level processes such as movement and vision, so that they can perform more complex thinking? Although the geth cannot share sensor data with hives like Reknai, once the number of 'individuals' increases, their ability to think becomes more powerful! An independent geth's thinking level is only equivalent to the intuition of animals, but if they form a group, they can think rationally, analyze the situation, and make various tactical decisions like organic life, and even invent and create?
300 years after the Dawn War, the Reaper Overlord arrived on the planet where the Geths were located, and then incorporated some of the Geths. It was also from that time on that the Reaper troops, in addition to those Reaper troops that were uglier than the last, , and there are these geth troops that are a little bit 'prettier', cannot be 'killed' and can be mass-produced!
But, when Annie went to the Citadel to play with Sister Shepard in the Mass Effect world, and when she accidentally became the master of the Reapers, these 'heretic' geth who were the subordinates of the Reapers naturally became She killed her loyal men, and this time she subconsciously summoned them to leave.
"I can tell they are robots..."
"But Annie... who are you, and why can you command and summon them? There are so many 'overlord' warships in orbit. They wiped out all the fleets of the Covenant in a short period of time. Yes, why can you command them?!"
Obviously, compared to those that the UNSC might be able to build themselves, they are just like their Spartan warriors. Each one costs a huge price, and the final result is a geth that is slightly less flexible and practical. As well as those battleships, what he was more concerned about was the true identity of this little guy who he discovered at the Visgrad relay station and mistakenly thought he was a family member of a rebel!
Just because they can summon fleets and command from the other side, their flexibility and combat effectiveness are no worse than those of ordinary elite UNSC Marines, but the shields and weapons of the geth are much stronger than those of their Spartan warriors. Judging from these numbers, There were seemingly endless robot soldiers that made people feel a little desperate just thinking about it. Noble 6 knew that the identity of the other party was definitely not simple. Anyway, it was not just a family member of a rebel family as they had imagined before. So simple.
"Well..."
(lll￢▽￢)
"It might be a bit troublesome to say, but hey, why don't you come over and tell him who I am!!"
(๑ˊ˘︶˘)੭₎₎.. .:*❤
Annie felt a little shy about explaining her identity. She felt that her title seemed too much and she didn't know how to tell the other person. So she had no choice but to greet a certain Geth crew member on the side. A sound.
'Report! '
'This gentleman! The person standing in front of you now is the savior of the galaxy in our Mass Effect world, the friend of the human race, the master of the Citadel and the Reaper, the head of the Federation of Heroes, the master of countless parallel worlds and all realms, the world's owner! '
'The above is our basic understanding of the great Head of State Anne! '
After saying that, the geth bowed to a little girl who was a little embarrassed and had no idea that he had such titles before continuing to return to his post in a daze.
That's right, just in a daze...
Because, the geths do not need to use peripheral devices to control their own ships like other biological races, but they only need to "daze" there and connect the "platform" carrying them to the battleship. Just go on the 'Platform'. As for more complex operations and instructions, they can be completed silently and extremely efficiently in their own link 'platform'!
"That's probably what it's like?"
o(˶˚ᗨ˚˶)o✧
"ah?"
"The master of countless parallel worlds and realms, the owner of the world?"
If Noble 6 can barely understand the previous titles, such as 'savior' or head of state of a certain country, then he can't understand the latter ones at all!
"Annie..."
"Are you God?!"
In Noble 6's limited common sense and cognition, he felt that an existence that might be called 'the master of countless parallel worlds and all realms' or 'the owner of the world' could only be called Is he the Creator or the legendary God?
From this point of view, maybe this cute little guy Annie is not actually a little angel sent to them by God, but God himself descended to earth? And, God is still a little girl? !
Of course, that ridiculous idea just flashed through his mind and he tried to ask. In fact, even he didn't take it seriously.
"Eh?"
(๑•̌.•̑๑)ˀ̣ˀ̣
"I'm not that troublesome guy like God!"
(￢д￢.)
"Although people recognize him, he is not their subordinate! However, some of the worlds he manages have been accidentally occupied by others... Anyway, this relationship is very complicated. You only need to know that he is Keprulu The head of the huge country in the star region that spans several planes of the world, and these guys can all be his subordinates!!"
٩(*¯︶¯*)و
Annie didn't mind too much about the issue of identity. At first, she just wanted to play in this world and be a passerby. In fact, if she hadn't accidentally intervened and helped humans fight the war on Reach and lost miserably, she might not have summoned the Reaper fleet and the geth army to come to this galaxy.
(…)
(●￣(ｴ)￣●)
"..."
"Is that so?"
It's okay if Annie doesn't explain, but as soon as she explains, the Noble 6 next to her becomes more and more confused...
However, although it is a bit difficult to understand, Noble 6 still grasped the key point, which is: the little guy in front of him is the head of a powerful and technologically advanced country! And those 'Reaper' overlord fleets currently on Reach Star and the geth army currently mopping up the Covenant ground forces on Reach Star, are they all the armies of the other powerful country?
If you think about it this way, it seems much easier to understand.
"But Annie!"
"Now that you have defeated the Covenant fleet, I believe you will soon clear out the Covenant troops on the ground in a few days. But what are you going to do next?"
"Should we help humanity fight back against the Star Alliance, or..."
Asked here, Noble 6 stopped and looked at the other party with some anxiety.
Because he didn't know, he was even more worried. He was worried that this little guy, the Noble 7 he was familiar with, would attack the UNSC again or have any conflicts with the UNSC after defeating the Covenant?
The opponent's fleet and ground forces are so powerful, and even those Covenant alliances that are more powerful than the UNSC are easily destroyed by them in a blink of an eye. So, once the opponent turns around and attacks humans, wouldn't their UNSC? A dead end?
He couldn't even imagine that he had just driven away the wolf with his front legs, but then a tiger came to his back.
"What's next?"
∑(´△｀)? !
"Of course I don't know what to do next..."
=͟͟͞͞(꒪⌓꒪*)
Anne said that she hadn't had time to think so much. She just called for reinforcements out of indignation against the unruly Covenant troops. As for the next things, such as what to do after retaking Reach. , then she really doesn’t know yet.
(…)
(lll￢㉨￢)
"Anyway!"
(*^▽^*)
"Uncle No. 6, now that things are like this, let's first completely defeat the Star Alliance on the planet!"
(^_−)☆
Anne has no precedent of summoning her troops and then withdrawing her troops. Anyway, now that they have fought and summoned, it seems a bit late to regret it?
Therefore, she felt that when the top brass of the UNSC were basically escaping to death, and when the ground of Reach was in chaos and there were many Covenant crooked troops raging everywhere and might come back, she and her men It seems necessary for those Reaper Legions to continue to stay here to maintain order.
Besides, there are still so many refugees on Reach, and their cities and homes have been burned down by Covenant warships. She will always need to take care of them more or less.
"Too……"
Nodding, thinking that he was just a frontline soldier of Noble Team, thinking that he was just a lieutenant No. 6, he closed his mouth and continued to stand aside, looking at the pictures, and continued to appreciate the Covenant. The unfortunate appearance of those cruel invaders.
Because those things don't seem to be under his control. They should be worried about by the senior officials of the UNSC. And he is obviously not a senior official. He is not even as good as the captain of a battleship.
"If you want to watch, keep watching! I'm going to find a place to sleep!"
٩(๑´0`๑)۶
Lord Anne, who yawned and stretched, said that after fighting hard for so long on Reach, she finally had the chance to go back to the way she used to like eating when she was full. She had to sleep, wake up, eat, and spend the whole day doing nothing, so what she had to do now was to find a cabin on the Geth battleship and have a good sleep!
For these robots made by the Quarians, the layout of the battleship must be the same as that of the Quarians, and they must retain functions and living areas such as the captain's cabin, right? Therefore, Anne did not feel that she could not find a comfortable place to sleep.
As for the reapers and the geth army, they will find trouble with their enemies on their own, so there is no need for her to blindly command them! Of course, Anne had remembered to tell the Reapers before that she did not let them or the Ges carry out evil acts such as civilizing the crooked Star Alliance people or transforming corpses. She just let them perform their most basic functions, destroying the Star Alliance. They are just Alliance ships and guarding Reach.
"You have to work hard!!"
(◍˃̶ᗜ˂̶◍)✩~
Before leaving the bridge, Annie did not forget to imitate the behavior of some leaders, and pretended to explain to the geths who were standing still.
'clear! '
'clear! ! '
The explainers said in unison, slightly startling Noble 6 who was still unwilling to leave.
After the Mass Effect world was blatantly incorporated, it was rare that the Reapers finally stopped performing the high-end, atmospheric and high-end talent work of harvesting life in the galaxy once every 50,000 years. Instead, they began to work in the Milky Way of this world, in Tianyuan. Four's Reach plays a role as the protector of mankind and the vanguard of the counterattack against the Covenant...
I have to say, is this really a small irony?
But there is no way, now whether it is these geth or reapers, they are just the private property of a certain little girl, and they are still the kind of people who do not care about food or wages, have no days off, and need to work day and night. Working overtime, and at the same time having to work for her wholeheartedly and without complaint, without being allowed to even complain?
…
At the same time, in a command room in the underground fortress of the castle base, the survivors of the Spartan Red Team, Dr. Halsey, and several senior UNSC base officers were staring dumbfounded at those who were attacking them outside their base. base, but now it is being defeated and defeated by a group of robots of unknown origin!
What happened last night, when the Covenant fleet was wiped out and Reach began to be taken over by unknown forces, these UNSC officers and doctors have a rough understanding of it.
However, the more they learned about it, the more they became confused and wary. They had no idea what was going on with the robot armies and fleets that suddenly appeared and suddenly attacked the Covenant forces, but also attacked the UNSC humans. Something happened!
Therefore, they were still huddled in the castle base, still carefully passing through the satellites in the orbit of Reach, and carefully observing the new arrivals through the small things that were difficult to be destroyed by the Covenant, like giant insects. fleet and those robot armies that are obviously robots, but are extremely agile in movement and extremely 'luxury' in equipment.
'Well……'
'I suggest that observation be continued and that the soldiers be alerted? '
'Don't do any aggressive behavior before they show obvious hostility towards us, and don't actively contact them! Everything, just wait until our communication is restored, wait until we connect with our superiors, wait until we understand what they are and where they come from before we make a decision? '
After a long time, Dr. Halsey, who had also watched the big turn here all night, breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and suggested to the top commander of the castle base and Colonel Holland.
"..."
"I understand. Doctor, please go back and rest first. I will continue to keep an eye on you."
Nodding, Colonel Holland said nothing more. He himself was as cautious as Dr. Halsey about those powerful mysterious visitors, so he was going to observe carefully for a period of time, and everything would be revealed. Wait until there is a reply from the solar system, wait until they figure everything out?
'Um! '
'Then let's do this for now! I'll go down to the base and take a look first...'
Dr. Halsey had no intention of going back to sleep. She just nodded to Holland and the Spartans of the red team and walked directly to the underground of the castle base.
Because they found a passage below, she wanted to see what valuable Forerunner heritage would be inside after cracking and opening the door?
After all, this universe is too dangerous. There are so many dangerous enemies and potential enemies, and each seems more powerful and cruel than the last. Then, she must prepare in advance, mostly for the UNSC, for Humanity needs to prepare more knowledge and weapons! And the most efficient way is to obtain it from the ruins of the forerunners!
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