<Containment Control Begins with Umbrella>
Time: November 21, 2026.
Space Sector: Colinth Prior Galaxy
United Fleet of Human Elite arrived in the galaxy on October 21, and it took only a few hours to eliminate Invincible Fleet who was guarding City of Brotherly Love.
At the same time, Prophet Clan, who was led by truth, compassion and pathos, was successfully executed, allowing human ally Sangheili Clan to take revenge.
Then, Serena edited the video of the execution of the prophet, and then used City of Brotherly Love's communication equipment to play it to the Star Alliance in Milky Way Galaxy.
A few hours after the execution video was played, Mike, who was temporarily serving as the commander-in-chief, sent a battle report stating that nearly 50% of the Covenant troops had been defeated and mutinied independently.
After all, the current commanding class of the Covenant is the Jiralhanae, and the level of cruelty, abuse, and ruthlessness of their race is even worse than that of Sangheili.
Coupled with the video of Saum persuading him to surrender a month ago, the video proving that Athena is a descendant of Ancient Humans, and the massacre of the Sangheili Clan by the Prophet Clan.
All this has caused the Grunts, Gnoll and other races to question the Star Alliance led by the Prophet.
Now, City of Brotherly Love has been occupied by humans, and the prophets of the leadership class have also been executed by humans. Combined with the 'demonic' effect brought by the Limit Legion and the influence of the hundred-meter-high divine body, these weak races immediately fled.
Even if the Jiralhanae tries to suppress it with force, it cannot resist the determination of the weaker races to escape from the Covenant, and they will unite to fight against the Jiralhanae.
You must know that the rebellion of the Grunts alone almost led to the destruction of the Covenant, let alone the joint escape of multiple weak races now.
The remaining 50% of the Covenant Fleet troops suspended their offensive against the colonies.
William learned from Mike's report that the remaining 50% were elite Jiralhanae beasts. The Jiralhanae beasts relied on their numbers and tyrannical combat power to successfully suppress the weak races that wanted to escape.
However, this mutiny significantly damaged the remaining 50% of the combat power, so they postponed their offensive on the human colonies and withdrew from the territory of Orion Arm before the Warship group of the Human Elite Alliance arrived.
At this point, because William personally led the troops to raid City of Brotherly Love and successfully occupied City of Brotherly Love, the Star Alliance that was supposed to be Milky Way Galaxy's dominant position was instantly disintegrated.
Except for the fact that the elite troops of the Jiralhanae are still threatening, the Covenant can no longer shake the pace of human expansion and the fate of various races being gradually annexed by humans.
But...
Mike led the combined forces of humans and elites to counterattack, but the battle in the Corinth Prior system is still not over.
According to the order of William, it took nearly a month for the ground forces led by Kolax and Saum to eliminate the Jiralhanae troops on City of Brotherly Love, with the assistance of God Body Squad led by Ivan and John.
Complete control of City of Brotherly Love represents the next goal of William, which is Dreadnought Fleet inside Shield World 0459.
What stops William's footsteps is the Flood on the surface of Shield World.
The time has come now.
November 21st.
09:21 Atlantic time.
At this time, City of Brotherly Love has been controlled by human elites and is protected by CAS-class and CCS-class of United Fleet.
The twenty battleships of Fleet Zero are parked in the low-Earth orbit of Shield World, either preparing to carry out Orbital Bombardment or preparing to send ground troops to the surface.
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Inside the bridge of Star Killer-class Flagship.
"Captain, after scanning, we learned that the surface pollution level below the fleet has reached more than 80%."
"Captain, Tactical missile and Railgun are ready."
"Hmm." After hearing the report from the crew on the first floor, Carmen, who was sitting on the second floor, nodded lightly, then turned to look behind her and asked:
"Boss, the surface of the earth is covered with infected bodies in the form of the Flood. Please execute Orbital Bombardment immediately to clear a piece of pure land for the ground troops?"
Look towards Carmen's line of sight.
Just look at William, Serena, Halsey and Rebecca standing next to Central Control Console, and the clothes of William and Serena are just 'ordinary' Commander's Uniform and civilian military uniforms.
"Hum..." William frowned slightly when he heard Carmen's question, and replied after thinking for a moment:
"Captain Ibanez, notify the captains of all battleships for me that they can only open fire after receiving my order."
"Yes, boss."
After receiving the instruction, Carmen turned around and continued to assist William in commanding the crew and the entire Fleet Zero.
"Boss." At this time, Rebecca looked away from the screen and looked at William and asked:
"We now have absolute orbital control, why not directly implement Orbital Bombardment?
Even if our advance force is Xenos, we can conduct a wave of Orbital Bombardment, which will help us occupy the landing zone."
Before William could answer, Halsey, who was standing next to Rebecca, took the lead and said:
"According to the data from the Bountiful Star ruins, most celestial-level Forerunner creations have a group of Artificial Intelligence named 'Templar Defender'.
They are responsible for simple maintenance of the facility, as well as destroying any targets that attempt to attack the facility.
If we tried to do Orbital Bombardment...
Even if the target is the Flood on the surface, I think these Artificial Intelligence will still regard our actions as bombing Shield World, and then attack us."
"That's right." William did not deny it. "I don't want to provoke a swarm of bees."
William Until now, I still vaguely remember an official novel I read when I was in high school. A Shield World named 'Aoxing' was the training base of Spartan III.
Moreover, the surface structure and even the overall structure of this 'Aoxing' are composed of individual Templar Defenders.
If Star Killer-class bombs Shield World 0459, the result will be the same as the CAS-class aircraft carrier in <Halo Wars 2>, that is, it will be cut off by endless Templar Defender with a suicide attack.
After a while, William looked at Central Control Console's screen again, and the content displayed was exactly inside the Star Killer-class hangar.
Just look at a large number of Xenos with dark red exoskeletons. Under the control of Elizabeth Green, they are entering the disposable Drop Pod in an orderly manner.
The appearance of these Drop Pod is similar to the Drop Pod that is specially designed for Astartes, but the size is two times larger.
There is no bottom buffer spray function, only the parachute installed on the top for buffering. The external heat insulation coating of Drop Pod is also a cheap disposable material.
After all, Xenos was destined to be a consumable combat creature from the moment it was artificially bred, so there is no need to spend money, manpower and energy to research exclusive Drop Pod for them.
Then, William ordered in a low voice to Serena, who was standing on his right side:
"Serena, notify the doctor (049) in the hangar and ask him and his team to prepare the Xenos troops and conduct an airdrop immediately."
"Yes, boss."