Chapter 2: Setting the Scene.

MC POV

*Sigh* "That was fun yet torturous. I mean seriously!? Who in their right mind sends a rookie who has only practiced against A.I. to fight off an entire Covvie Fleet!?" Suppressing a shudder at the harrowing memories of my 'training' I continue my march toward the bridge of my flagship, the 'VCNS Kaiju'.

A behemoth of a ship with a length of approximately 18km. Not one single ship can stand up to the overwhelming firepower that the 'Kaiju' can dispense at any given time being easily capable of taking on multiple dreadnoughts at the same time all on its own.

(A/N I may be majorly wrong on this but honestly, I chose this ship for its look and size, everything else I do to the ship is entirely of my own design and thoughts)

As I am walking toward the bridge I am being guarded by a contingent of 12 made up entirely of women. The section these women are from is called Praetor. This group consists of women that are heavily enhanced and skilled having been trained in a myriad of tasks ranging from piloting a TITAN (Titanfall) to setting up information networks and their only job is to guard me and to do any task I ask of them.

Finally reaching the bridge I see two more Praetors guarding the blast door and as I walk up to them they snap off a quick salute. "Admiral on deck!" The crew stands up and all give me a brisk salute while I give them a slight nod and speak, "Captain sitrep"

"Yes sir. All ships are green, fighter crafts are ready to sortie and ground detachments are prepared for deployment. We seem to be not far from a system that consists of two garden worlds, four resource-rich worlds and a gas giant. Also, there is a smaller planet that is similar to a garden world but is inhabitable."

Thinking for a few seconds I start to speak in a stern tone. "Move the fleet into position above the largest garden world. Set up resource mining operations on one of the four resource worlds and start construction of orbital defence platforms above the largest garden world."

"Send ground forces onto the planet and garrison it and begin construction of an orbital construction center, that includes drydocks."

The Captain, who is named Ash, starts to work on executing my orders and the fleet starts to move toward the planetary cluster.

(Time Skip: 1 Month)

Narrator POV

It has been a month since Alexander's fleet arrived in this new location and in that time span the workers have been hard at work setting up defences and resource operations throughout the system, even starting operations on the gas giant, 'Omega'.

During this time period, every planet in the system has gained some sort of defence and has been given a name by Alex himself. The main planet and most defended of all is Reach, a fortress garden world named after the UNSC planet Reach.

Alongside these developments, probes have been sent out in order to find other systems and figure out Vanguard's approximate location in the galaxy. It has been three weeks since the probes have been dispatched.

(Time Skip: 4 Months)

The information gained from the probes has led to gaining an access point into the holonet and star charts giving Vanguard some valuable information on time period and location.

After the first two months of gathering information with probes and consolidating and increasing his forces, Alex made the decision to begin making credits through bounty hunting on a small scale. He sent out a group of 8 ODST, 4 Pilots and 1 Spartan. The ship they were given was a more militarily focused Gladius-Class Heavy Corvette (Halo).

The Gladius was given some medium-sized cannons as well as an Ion cannon mounted on the front of the ship. During its modifications, it was given a small hanger bay made for two ships, one of which is a boarding ship and the other is a small transport craft not too dissimilar to a Pelican but with upgraded armour, weapons and painted black. Eventually, the decision was made to outfit the vessel with a cloaking system just in case.

The leader of this excursion was SPARTAN-B312 also known as Noble Six who was known for her expertise in tracking down and neutralizing high-priority targets when operating against the insurrection. They have been working for the past two months on a wide variety of jobs.

Other than operations in the wider galaxy within Vanguard's own territory operations have been in full swing for a little over a month and a half. Mining operations have been fully set up for just over 3 months but gas giant miners and shipyards took a while longer to set up.

(Time Skip)

Year: 32 BBY, one hour before the Jedi arrive on the Trade Federation Lucrehulk

Mc POV

"Alright here's the deal, the Neimodians decided it was a great idea to blockade Naboo because of some deal that probably doesn't even exist and so, I have decided that I shall help them. So for this mission, Myself, Six, Audrey, Delta, Saya and Mai will be deployed and the rest of you shall stay on the ship and will only engage if needed, understood?"

"Yes sir!" They gave a quick salute and I head down to the hangar bay with the ground team which is most likely overkill. The team other than myself consists of a Spartan, a hyper-lethal Spartan nonetheless, 2 of the best Pilots in the entirety of Vanguard, a Praetor and finally a Vindicare (Warhammer 40k). So yeah, kinda overkill.

As we are walking to the hangar bay I feel the telltale sign of a slipspace jump meaning there is still around half an hour till we reach Naboo.

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Author Note

Sorry that there wasn't a whole lot to this chapter I just wanted to get something out there while I wasn't doing homework. The next chapter is gonna be the first interaction with canon and Qui-Gon which I am really excited about. It has been a long time since I watched the prequels so I might get some events wrong and might mess up the characters a little however I will do my best to keep as true to their personalities as possible.

If there are any tips you can give me on my writing and action scenes please do so as I am not a very good writer so every little bit helps. If there is something I messed up in terms of the characters and their personalities also give me some tips there too.

Other than that I hope you enjoyed the chapter!