- fiatluxmortem94
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Thank you! Yes, I find that traditional fan-fiction can be boring. I've tried to counter this by using different literary devices and methods to mix things up a bit.
Now onto the story:
[u]Abstract Reality
Part Two
Orbital
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Date: Unknown, Heavy Time-Space Abnormalities
Location: [Station?] Levitated Corpse
I feel my workings,
My innards twisting and producing
Things. Beings? No.
Units.
Units have no feelings,
no capacity for emotional response
Thus, they are units.
Ironic.
I feel,
While they do not.
They are made in my likeness,
Yet are nothing like me.
Yes.
Ironic.
Soon my work,
Here at least,
Will be done.
And then I rest.
Hopefully forever.
When this construct is finished,
Eons and eons
After it was supposed to be,
My work will be done.
And though the artist is not here
To see his life's work finished,
I hope that he looks aside
From his fruited Path,
And sees me and my installation
Glisten in the night sky.
Yes.
Ironic.
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Date: Unknown
Location: High Orbit
<What did we see in them, Twin?
>I cannot recall.
<Nor can I. Were we so
>Blinded
< That we could not see who these beings really were?
>No. We knew. We knew what they would do to each other.
<Yes, but that is not the question I
>Ask? But it was.
<Forgive me, I am preoccupied. What I mean to ask is why did we trust them with our greatest
<tools?
>We didn't.
<But we did. Look down on that planet, Brother. You can see our work on every mountain face,
<in every city... our work is everywhere.
>I fail to comprehend.
<We gave them knowledge, Twin. We gave them everything, or nearly.
>Ah, yes. I understand.
<But look at the destruction we have wrought. Without us these beings would have
>Died long ago. Do not let yourself fall into a rut of self-doubt. We saved them so very long ago.
<Yes, I cannot disagree, but by providing salvation then we assured their destruction now. I find
<this hard to accept.
>Yes. But take peace in the lives that you saved. All went to their graves after full lives because
>of us.
<Yes. I can take comfort in that much, at least.
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Date: Unknown, -25:00 from Slipspace exit
Location: In Slipspace transit between Earth and Rally Point Zulu
Most of the crew is in the wake-up stages of cryo. We should arrive at Rally Point Zulu on August 1st, but who knows when we're traveling in Slipspace.
All crews are ready to go, even if we're going into the safest place in U.N.S.C. space besides Earth. I have six hundred ODST's, three full armored divisions, three Air divisions, and a sprinkling of other troops. This ship is battle ready and fully equipped.
As I've decided I'm going to give this journal to my daughter comes of age, I think I'll describe the Okinawa a bit. It'll make me think like I'm talking to her... I mean to you, sweet heart. God, you were just born and I'm already thinking of when you turn eighteen...
My ship, the U.N.S.C. Okinawa is a Super destroyer, only two hundred meters smaller than any Marathon-class cruiser. This ship has three meters of titanium armor on her weakest spot, and eleven at her strongest. She has two repeater firing Magnetic Accelerator Cannons, and two hundred fifty-by-fifty Archer missile pods. She has two hundred point defense cannons and holds currently five nuclear tubes. This puppy can blow a planet up, in all seriousness.
The Okinawa can push her engines to 500% for thirty minutes before emergency vent, and ten minutes after that before the engines go nova. She can turn at full speed in a full seven gee emergency circle in one minute, half what most vessels a third her size can do! I can't wait to see this thing fly that fast and that maneuverable around some Covenant shiny ship. Actually, I don't. But if it comes to it, then we'll fly in circles around them.
The Super Destroyer is a new classification of ships, Pacific Series. The Okinawa is the first of this series, the Peleliu and Iwo Jima are being constructed now. However, they won't be ready until September, at the earliest. The success of this ship determines the continuation of the series. If she performs like she should, then we'll have a fleet of the suckers ready to kick Big Purple's ass with.
I am being called to the bridge. More later.
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Date: 25 units before Holy Annihilation
Location: Silent Entrenchment
Oh how it fills my heart with joy as I gaze upon the Holy work of our Prophets!
High Charity, in all its grandeur, does nothing to compare itself to the sight of a previously uninhabited Forerunner Artifact! My feet tingle with wonder as I walk on such sacred stone. This new-found artifact shall be the basing area for my fleet and several others that will join with me. When we are conglomerated, our previous fleet names are naught, as we become the Fleet of Particular Justice!
This artifact was discovered frighteningly close to the human infestation. If they had recovered it, all the Covenant would have been in mourning.
But, the runes on the wall shed no light on any mystery, but instead open one. All around the grand atrium, a single tantalizing stanza is repeated:
[i]A stone, a key,
A purple shard.
Release it here,
Begin the path.
Forget salvation,
This is Paradise.
I, along with my Council, must ponder this before the Great Fleetmaster arrives, along with his droves.
Honor and Divinity.
End of Part Two. More feed back is appreciated! Make sure you read part 1 first!
[Edited on 07.28.2009 2:37 PM PDT]