Halo: Minorca Saga

==Background==
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The year is 2551, and Humanity for the past twenty-seven years has been battling a technologically and numerically superior enemy, called the Covenant. Religiously deluded, they have been waging a war of absolute extermination against the inferior Humans, and they will not rest until there is no trace of the “human pestilence” in the Milky Way. 
However, the UNSC has numerous special projects underway, all of which are aimed at turning the course of the war. NOVA and TEMERITY are the names of these highly destructive and audacious projects, all conducted by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the UNSC’s intelligence gathering, black operations, and special research division, made up of the best and brightest the UNSC has to offer. One of those highly clever and sharp persons is Michael Pomare, a daring Lieutenant Commander with a highly analytical mind. After examining Covenant communications and transmissions, he has determined the Covenant’s next target: Minorca. Located in the Alpha Canis Minoris system, Minorca was known for its high rates of rebel activity, and as the Covenant closed in, numerous colonists had fled the planet for the Inner Colonies. 
At the same time, a mysterious artefact is discovered that threatens to tear the Covenant apart. Sinister conspiracies, betrayals and secrets threaten to tear the Covenant apart, and it lies on the Sangheili and Jiralhanae to hold it together. But can they ignore their centuries-old feud long enough to survive the human ambush? The artifact lies beneath Minorca, holding vital clues to the nature of the Great Journey, and the Prophets will uncover its secrets...no matter what cost. And one way or another, a Journey shall commence! But there are guards, intent on stopping all harm from coming to the "Labyrinth". And the artifact isn't all they guard...
Now, searching for an artifact left by an ancient and enigmatic race, the might of the Covenant is now racing for Minorca, and a hopeful UNSC fleet is standing in their way. But some of their soldiers are members of the elite SPARTAN-II unit, who are soon becoming Humanity’s last hope for survival. Will the “craziest operation ever devised” succeed and bear fruit, or will it fail, leading the Covenant even closer to Earth? This is the story of those who fought on that beautiful doomed world...
==Table of Contents==
*Prologue: Hot Gates
*Chapter One: Azure Team
*Cycle Two: The Great Journey
*Cycle Three: A Journey Shall Commence
*Chapter Four: Feet first into Hell
*Cycle Five: Demons
*Chapter Six: Combat
*Cycle Seven: Analysis
*Cycle Eight: Jungle Warfare
*Chapter Nine: Scarab
*Cycle Ten: Lengthening Shadows
*Chapter Eleven: The Labyrinth
*Cycle Twelve: Quiet Distontent
*Cycle Thirteen: Reclamation
*Chapter Fourteen: You Don't Know?
*Cycle Fifteen: Vengeful Fury
*Cyce Sixteen: Devils...Monsters...
*Chapter Seventeen: NOVA
*Cycle Eighteen: Concurrence
*Cycle Nineteen: Preparations
*Chapter Twenty: Revelation
*Cycle Twenty One: Memories
*Chapter Twenty Two: The 100,000 Years War
*Chapter Twenty Three: Ashamed Acknowledgement
*Chapter Twenty Four: Assessment
*Chapter Twenty Five: Return
==Dramatis Personae==
===The Forerunner===
*Caius (Forerunner Army, Forerunner Navy, Flood)
*LX-344 Caretaker (Forerunner Construct, Monitor-class)
*117649 Guardian (Forerunner Construct, Guardian-class)
===The Covenant===
*Qur'a 'Morhekee (Covenant Special Operations)
*Zuro 'Xoram (Covenant Navy)
*Tulo 'Kotarqee (Covenant Army)
*Vice Minister of Acquisition (Ministry of Fortitude/Department of Acquisition)
*Cacap (Unggoy Special Infantry)
*Erebus (Jiralhanae Chieftain)
===United Nations Space Command===
*SPARTAN-002 (Sgt.johnson) (UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence, SPARTAN-II)
*SPARTAN-130 (UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence, SPARTAN-II)
*SPARTAN-019 (UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence, SPARTAN-II)
*Jonathan Stanley (UNSC Aeneas)
*Verdani Forrester (506th ODST Force Reconnaissance Battalion)
*Howard Mitchell (506th ODST Force Reconnaissance Battalion)
*Grant Wallace (427th Marine Regiment)
*Thomas Keller (47th Naval Air Group)
*Jerome Keller (UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence)
*Michael Pomare (UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence, Section Three)
*AJ Lewis (UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence, Section Three)