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United We Stand is a Halo/Mass Effect crossover by Mayto, on the SpaceBattles.com forum.

Starting off at the meridian of the Human-Covenant War during the boxing of New Ghent: only equally the local UNSC forces are losing to the Covenant, drop pods of unknown origin appear. These troops before long reveal themselves to exist aliens, but not of Covenant races, and fifty-fifty more than surprising to the combatants, begin fighting the Covenant to assistance the humans.

These soldiers soon proclaim themselves to be from the Turian Hierarchy. Disgusted by the bear of the Covenant and sympathetic to the plight of humanity, the member nations of the Citadel have decided to bring together the Human-Covenant War. Standing adjacent with the assist of the Citadel Council, the UNSC prepares for a new stage of the Human-Covenant War.

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This fanfic contains examples of:

• Action Dad: Vado 'Mavamee is a skilled Shipmaster, warrior, and a loving father to his daughters.
• Adaptational Badass: The Council races are seen using technology that wouldn't see more than widespread employ until the second and third Mass Outcome games, such equally Silaris Armor, Cyclonic Barriers, and Omni-blades.
  • The UNSC adopts new engineering and weapons provided from the Council races and assuasive them to stand on even grounds against the Covenant. Furthermore, the Coalition's support gave the UNSC more time and resources to produce more warships and advanced combat vehicles that were rarely seen in canon such as the M850 Grizzly.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Since the First Contact State of war never occurs, Saren Arterius doesn't become hostile to humanity, nor does he have an encounter with Reaper technology, becoming indoctrinated. The same applies to Matriarch Benezia.
  • To a degree, the Turians in general. Their beginning coming together with humanity in this universe is not via a misunderstanding-turned-military conflict, as per canon (the First Contact War, AKA The Relay 314 Incident), only bear witness upwardly in a Big Damn Heroes moment to relieve a man colony from Covenant invasion.
  • In Halo canon, the nuclear bombing of Far Isle Colony was a massive overreaction by the UNSC and UEG that sparked the Insurrection. Here, Far Isle had come up across a Reaper ruin that turned almost of the colonists into monsters, and the nuclear bombing was the only mode to incorporate it, though they had to keep this a undercover, resulting in people thinking it was a massive overreaction to a secessionist motility, sparking the Coup.
  • Cerberus is the anti-Reaper taskforce led past Ackerson, and the simply branch of ONI known not to be under Reaper control, siding against Parangosky in the Man civil war. The Illusive Human was Ackerson's correct-hand man, Illusive, and is the defacto leader of Cerberus following Ackerson's death, though he notes that he may be the last surviving member following ONI's attempted purge.
• Adaptational Villainy: Admiral Margaret Parangosky is very manipulative and amoral equally she was depicted in canon. She gets more worse as she intentionally has ONI slowly taking command of the United Earth Regime and secretly assassinating the UEG President. It is later on reveals that she and other high ranking ONI members had been indoctrinated past the Onyx Reaper (Nazara) and she planned to indoctrinate humanity.
• The Alliance: The Citadel and UNSC grade the Coalition to jointly prosecute the war against the Covenant.
• Asshole Victim: James Ackerson gets brutally assassinated by a (presumably) rogue Spartan, but considering that he was responsible to for the Spartan-3 program that made apply of more than amoral practices than previous generations out of spiteful jealousy of Dr. Hasley'due south piece of work on the Spartan-2s, few mourn his demise. Downplayed when we find out he was the last member of ONI'southward leadership who wasn't indoctrinated, he wanted to use the Spartan-3s as a force to oppose the Reapers, and he was killed equally part of ONI's attempt to wipe out Cerberus, the anti-Reaper taskforce he had secretly formed, significant his death removed 1 of the milky way'due south few leaders who both knew about and opposed the Reapers, and cut Chief Chief off from the remnants of Cerberus.
• Big Damn Heroes: The first chapter features the Turians intervening the boxing of New Ghent between the UNSC and the Covenant, saving the former from a losing battle.
• Torso Horror:
  • When Zaeed and crew begin to question a Sangheili smuggler on the nature of the antiquity his crew was transporting, the Sangheili reveals that information technology caused the death of the entire coiffure, including himself. Cue his grisly transformation into a husk, revealing the piece of work of the Reapers.
  • When the Batarians intervene in the Boxing of Chi Rho, they unleash a gas weapon that melts off the flesh of exposed targets, which Covenant forces unfortunately experience first-hand.
  • Information technology's revealed that the majority of ONI has been indoctrinated by a Reaper found in Onyx. They have performed gruesome experiments with Reaper tech such as Husks, cyborgs made with dead Spartans, biotics, etc. John is understandably disgusted and repulsed past the cruelty and horror.
• Can't Kill Yous, Still Need You: Xytan spares the Minister of Discovery and Thel because he sees them more useful in his plans: he needs Discovery'due south expertise to opposite-engineer Chemical element Zippo technology. Xytan is impressed with Thel'southward fortitude that he might one twenty-four hour period need him and kept him imprisoned, and having guards posted to keep him from taking his own life.
• Combat by Champion: One Brute chieftain challenges Samara to a duel, which she accepts and wins; admitting with some difficulty.
• Composite Grapheme: Principal Chief John-117 is a composite of both his canonical delineation and Commander Shepard from the Spacer background.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Several characters wind up expressionless in rather brutal and messy fashion.
  • Several Citadel soldiers witness the Brutes' eating habits in-person, every bit several of them feed(?) on human soldiers in the midst of one of many battles.
  • When the Batarians arbitrate in the Battle of Chi Rho, they unleash a gas weapon that melts the flesh of several Covenant soldiers who weren't wearing protection.
  • Ackerson gets assassinated by a presumably-rogue Spartan in a rather brutal fashion as he is drilled through the skull and thoroughly mutilated.
• Cyborg: Turian soldiers who were left badly maimed in the Covenant War are mandatorily turned into gainsay-ready cyborgs. Nialla is fabricated into a cyborg subsequently surviving her almost fatal run into with an Elite Ultra during the Battle of New Ghent. UNSC soldiers are likewise given like treatments.
• Deadly Gas: The Batarians deploy fluorinated chemical weapons in the Battle of Chi Rho as a desperate terminal resort by the Coalition in a losing boxing against Covenant forces. The gas gruesomely causes skins to melt off from their victims (or in the Jackals' instance, practically disintegrate their skins and bones!) and leave them choking in their ain blood.
• Bargain with the Devil: Admiral Rael'Zorah is forced to help Xytan in taking over High Clemency in render for his freedom and a Covenant warship for his people. Xytan further sweeten the deal with Rael by offering his new Covenant to assist the Quarians in regaining Rannoch from the Geth, technology to terraform their former colonies, and genetic engineering science to repair their allowed system, in exchange for the Quarians to be incorporated into the Covenant. Rael is left very hesitant to accept Xytan's offer until Xytan reminds him of his daughter Tali'Zorah and of how she will walk on Rannoch without a adapt if he accepts the offering.
• Decomposite Character:
  • While the Master Main is Shepard in terms of name, background, and leading a team against the Reapers, Vado 'Mavamee is Shepard in terms of function and mission.
  • While non a graphic symbol, the SSV Normandy has ii counterparts: Vado's heavily modified stealth Storm Cutter, and Parangosky's modified personal prowler/pleasure ship that Principal and the Spartans steal.
• Defiant to the Stop: Ackerson's final human action earlier dying is to spit on the face plate of the "Spartan" ONI sent to kill him.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Several Spartans are killed in Onyx. Jorge is shot in the back of his head by an indoctrinated Kurt, who is and then put down by Solomon.
• Divide and Conquer: Xytan took advantage of the war between the Coalition and Covenant to accept over Loftier Clemency and capturing the Hierarchs. He temporarily ceased hostility against the Coalition in order to allow them to focus their attention on the Covenant loyalists, weakening both sides in the process, and giving him enough time to build his forces.
• The Dreaded: Along with referring to the Spartans as "Demons", the Covenant appallingly and despises the asari (and biotics in general) as "Witches".
• Eldritch Abomination: The Reapers make their advent in a literally nightmarish scene where Xytan 'Jar Wattinree dreams of his meet with Sovereign during a mission to destroy an army of Husk Drones. This is amplified from his perspective, the Reaper is a demon imprisoned past his gods, the Forerunners.
• Enemy Civil War: When Xytan 'Jar Wattinree executes his insurrection and captures High Clemency, the Covenant is thrown into a civil state of war between his followers and the Covenant loyalists. The Coalition are shocked and surprised when they detect this, and they current of air up trying to take advantage of the situation. Unfortunately, the UNSC falls into a civil war soon after that.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Ackerson is a horrible person driven by his jealousy of Halsey to create the Spartan 3s as expendable child soldiers to be sent on suicide missions, but he is loyal to the UNSC and humanity, and was one of the few remaining members of ONI's higher echelons to non accept been indoctrinated by the Reapers, fifty-fifty being responsible for the anti-Reaper taskforce. Which is why he was killed.
  • The Ministers of Discovery and Conversion are completely willing to sign off on committing genocide confronting an unabridged species for destroying Forerunner artifacts... so long every bit said species actually did so before the genocidal war began. Conversion revealling her suspicions that the proof Truth presented to convince the others to wipe out humanity may take been falsified shocks and deeply disturbs Discovery. Both are also willing to excuse humanity destroying artifacts after the war began to keep them from falling into Covenant easily.
• Evil Cannot Embrace Good: While it is probably a side effect of her being indoctrinated, Parangosky doesn't fifty-fifty consider that Master Chief wouldn't wish his childhood on anyone else, meaning her talk of having all UNSC children raised like that horrified him, and he would have opposed her even if she wasn't indoctrinated.
• Expy:
  • Vado 'Mavamee is one for Commander Shepard of all people. A skilled commanding officer who is tasked to lead a team composed of various aliens with their own unique skills to travel to uncharted territory to gather information on enemy factions. His background is even similar to Colonist Shepard.
  • Xytan 'Jar Wattinree is one for both Saren Arterius and the Illusive Homo. A war hero who goes rogue and betrays his authorities subsequently an encounter with a Reaper convinces him that doing so is necessary to salve the galaxy. The fact that he may have been indoctrinated only further highlights the similarities.
• Fallen Hero:
  • Xytan 'Jar Wattinree, from the perspective of many in the Covenant. He was one of the greatest admirals the Covenant always had, responsible for eliminating many of their enemies, most notably destroying a planet of Drones that had been indoctrinated and turned into Husks past Reaper technology. He would later on execute a coup on High Clemency, throwing the Covenant into a civil state of war.
  • Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb went from the hero who organized the defence of New Constantinople, to someone willing to back up ONI'south soft coup and so thirsty for revenge that it took a Turian cruiser blocking his line of fire and a group of Citadel generals storming onto his span to finish him from performing an orbital battery on a Covenant noncombatant settlement that was trying to give up to the Coalition. Tragically, the reason for this is that he's been indoctrinated by the Reaper on Onyx, and the but thing that has stopped him from helping ONI in the UNSC Civil State of war is Commander Keyes arresting him soon afterward the war starts. Even worse, his thoughts reveal that a small role of him seems to be aware that something is wrong with him.
• Foil: The Citadel and Covenant are this to each other. Both are interstellar polities composed of multiple alien races. Whereas the quondam is a secular organization that seeks to maintain interstellar peace through promoting trade and security, as well as developing friendly relations amid other races; the latter is a theocratic imperium that enforces adherence to tradition and either subjugates or eliminates potential threats. While the erstwhile is hardly perfect, the latter is ripe with dysfunctionality.
• For Want of a Nail: Several major changes happen due to the Citadel joining the Human-Covenant State of war:
  • Saren Arterius doesn't becomes hostile towards humans due to the First Contact War never happening; nor does he encounter Sovereign, or get indoctrinated by Reaper applied science.
  • Due to Xytan 'Jar Wattinree commencing his coup during Thel'Vadamee'due south trial, the latter is unlikely to become the Arbiter.
  • Due to the Citadel turning the war in humanity's favour, Admiral Cole never fakes his death to alive out the rest of his years with his married woman.
• Fusion Fic: The story combines several concepts and characters from both serial.
  • Zaeed Massani is a Spartan I.
  • David Anderson is shown to be an ODST soldier.
  • A Colonel Williams, who is either Ashley Williams' father or grandfather, is one of several high-ranking ODST figures killed in Thel'Vadamee'due south surprise attack on Flood.
  • The Main Chief is Commander Shepard.
  • The Illusive Human being is a member of ONI, specifically its hole-and-corner anti-Reaper subdivision Cerberus. He primarily goes past his real proper noun, Jack Harper, with his codename being "Illusive".
  • The Reapers had come into conflict with the Forerunners and were trapped in a Slipspace dimension past them.
  • The Far Isle rebellion was in reality a colony that kickoff fell nether Reaper indoctrination that turned all the colonists into husks, and the UNSC was forced to nuke the colony to contain the Reaper threat. The UNSC covered-up the truthful reason for the bombing and publicly challenge that it was a brutal rebellion that forced their hand. The cover-upward worked and consequently gave birth to the Insurrection.
  • Information technology'due south revealed that the ancestors of the Turians were nearly exterminated past an alien race (from Charum Hakkor) until a "Lady of Light" who is heavily implied to exist the Precursor Librarian, saved their species from extinction.
  • Onyx combines with story elements from Projection Base depicted in the "Arrival" DLC. Onyx served every bit a prison for a Reaper in which ONI discovered and studied the Reaper and ultimately became indoctrinated past it. The Master Primary soon discovers ONI's indoctrination and tries to stop their plans.
  • Steven Hackett is a Vice-Admiral in the UNSC Navy, who sides with Hood during the civil war.
• Frame-Up: When Ackerson is murdered, evidence suggests that a Spartan was the culprit. Clues point to the direction of Emile, but John and company quickly realize that he's being framed, but are forced to abort him to hibernate their suspicions.
• Genre Shift: The "Silent Ship" arc shifts from a war story into Sci-Fi Horror every bit the crew of the Circumference run across a seemingly deserted Covenant smuggling ship, with its crew all dead, and being terrorized past a Reaper Husk.
• Government Conspiracy: The UNSC and UEG had known nearly alien life before their war with the Covenant after they had discovered Reaper ruins on the colony of Far Isle in 2492. The colony's people came into contact with the Reaper ruins and were turned into Reaper husks. The UNSC were forced to nuke Far Isle to contain the Reaper threat and covered-upward the event by claiming the colony had fallen into rebellion in gild to forestall mass panic. The public was convinced by the cover-upwards, and consequently seeing the nuking of Far Isle to be a wartime barbarism, which sparked the Insurrection. ONI-Cerberus was also created to gainsay the Reapers.
  • ONI had discovered the Reaper Nazara imprisoned in Onyx. They became indoctrinated past the Reaper and planned to indoctrinate all of humanity.
  • The Turian Hierarchy government learned and classified the knowledge of how the aboriginal Turians were slaughtered past an unknown conflicting race earlier their species were saved through cloning by the Forerunners.
• Heroic Lineage: John-117 is the son of a at present deceased UNSC Regular army general and Admiral Hannah Shepard, a highly busy Navy officeholder. The fact that his male parent and almost all of his extended family died fighting the Covenant, and had been serving loyally since before the war, but to exist rewarded with having ONI kidnap their son infuriates him.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • One mortally wounded ODST soldier saves a Turian colonel past killing Covenant soldiers that were about to kill him and jumps on a grenade to cake the explosion, saving everyone else in the room.
  • A Turian, knowing that he's taken a lethal dose of radiation from Carbine rounds and is just upright thanks to his suit pumping him full of painkillers, stays behind to detonate a Covenant reactor safely.
• In Spite of a Nail: The Covenant falls into civil war. However, the ceremonious war is started by a very disgruntled Elite, Xytan, who succeeded in capturing the Covenant'southward leaders and High Charity.
  • SPARTAN-3 Kat still loses her arm but this time it is shot off past an indoctrinated Kurt.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Even Master Chief has to admit that Ackerson'south views on the Spartan II programme are adequately authentic (that any program that kills or cripples one-half its subjects is at best a image, at worst a failure, and that as a program to create a new blazon of soldier for humanity, it is a failure due to how few it produced), and that Halsey wanting there to exist no more than Spartans fabricated isn't what the UNSC needs.
• Join or Die: Subsequently Xytan's insurrection he offers his former conspirators the Ministers of Discovery and Conversion to swear fealty to him or die. Simply Conversion chose decease.
• Lady of State of war: Matriarch Aethyta, who fought her style across the galaxy in conflicts for centuries, leads the Asari Expeditionary Forcefulness and acting Asari Republics representative in the Coalition High Command.
• Loophole Abuse: The Covenant strictly forbids anyone to reveal information of the Covenant's society and government to outsiders without authorization from the Ministry of Conversion nether hurting of death. But with the Ministry building of Conversion disbanded by Xytan, Gral 'Vamee is gratuitous to speak of this to Victus.
• Macross Missile Massacre: During the end stage of the Battle of New Ghent the Turians and UNSC launched a massive missile barrage on Vado 'Mavamee'southward Battlecruiser and bases.
• Mama Bear: Afterward being hand-picked by the Master Chief to railroad train the Spartan-3's, Samara makes it very clear to John that she utterly despised how the handlers treated the Spartan-III's and swear to kill every single one of them in one case the war confronting the Covenant is over.
• Mercy Kill: Coalition forces perform this on any Covenant warriors at Chi Rho unlucky plenty to not be killed almost instantly killed by the Batarian chemical assail.
  • The forces raiding the ONI base of operations are forced to do this on members of their own team when they take been indoctrinated by the Reaper also equally those who have been experimented on past ONI such every bit Emile.
• Mirroring Factions: Both the UNSC and Turian Hierarchy are armed services-run civilizations. Because of the similarities the Turians expressed admiration to the UNSC and seeing them worthy to maintain peace and order to the galaxy. Some Turians, including Councilor Sparatus and Primarch Fedorian, are seriously thinking of making the UNSC a truly meritocratic military country modeled subsequently their system of governance.
• My God, What Accept I Done?:
  • Principal Chief is forced to arrest Emile as a suspect despite knowing he didn't do information technology in order to hide his suspicions. Unfortunately, this decision would come back to haunt him during the raid on ONI as Master Principal is forced to mercy impale an indoctrinated Emile. John is understandably guilty and even requests to be subjected to court martial for his fault.
  • The Ministers of Discovery and Conversion react this way when they realise that Xytan used them to coup the Hierarchs and take control of High Clemency for himself. Discovery also reacts this way earlier when Conversion tells him that she has doubts about the veracity of the bear witness Truth used to convince the residual of the Convenant that humanity needed to be wiped out, since the only examples of them destroying Precursor artifacts she could actually independently ostend were all after the war began, usually done to keep the Covenant from capturing them.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Once again, Master Chief finds himself falling from orbit to a planet's surface. Luckily, he has Samara's help to make a relatively softer landing.
  • A commander discovers the terminal survivor of the Rachni and chooses to spare information technology. Are nosotros talking nigh Commander Shepard or Vado 'Mavamee?
  • Zaeed survives being shot in the head at point-blank range. Though hither it was self-inflicted in an effort to either stop the Reaper artifact from taking command of him, or kill himself before it could do so. Luckily, the pain manages to force it out of his listen.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Much to their horror, the Coalition finds out they've primarily been fighting the Covenant's anti-piracy forces, rather than their wartime war machine, but fighting other Ministries forces on the rare occasion they happen to stumble across a homo world. The majority of the Covenants forces haven't been involved at all, about Covenant civilians have no idea what a human looks like, and some areas of the Covenant have no idea they are engaged in a war against an alliance of interstellar nations.
  • ONI quickly come to terms that they are still a novice in the wider galaxy against established espionage agencies with centuries of experience before ONI even existed from the likes of the STG to the Shadow Banker. The Broker even made this clear to ONI by blatantly sending one of their agents to an ONI office to told to their faces that the Banker was capable of intercepting ONI transmissions, and then offering their services to ONI.
• Dainty Task Breaking It, Hero: During the investigation on Ackerson's death, John and company finds clues that point to Emile as the culprit. While John effigy out he isn't the killer, they accept to hide their suspicions to gain ONI's trust and take to abort Emile. This unfortunately leads to Emile's indoctrination and conversion into a husk, which weighs heavily on John, as he'southward well enlightened that he's responsible for Emile's fate.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • A Coalition crew reacts with shock when they managed to encounter a Sangheili smuggler who seems entirely unaware of the war and presumes that they had been fighting a Covenant warlord, revealing that the UNSC had been fighting a modest role of the Covenant's true military size.
  • The Circumference'due south coiffure reacts with horror forth with the Sangheili smuggler when they learn that the smuggler was a Reaper husk.
  • The Coalition forces at Chi Rho have this reaction to the Covenant space navy, whose ships profoundly outsize theirs.
  • When Xytan makes his offer of a truce with the Coalition, Parangosky is rather shaken, every bit the idea of the Covenant willing to negotiate gives humanity time to breathe, rebuild and learn the internal abuse ONI is responsible for.
  • John has 1 when he visits Zone 67, and finds out that the artifact there is a Reaper that has been indoctrinating everybody there.
• Out-of-Character Alert: When the Covenant on Zhoist are willing to seek give up to the Coalition, Vice Admiral Whitcomb suddenly refused their give up and is very willing to commit planet-wide nuclear bombardment on Zhoist'south populated centers. It is later revealed that Whitcomb'due south modify of attitude is due to Reaper indoctrination.
• Pet the Dog:
  • When Vado 'Mavamee discovers the Rachni egg, he brings it upwards to his superiors, who agree to spare its life and integrate it into the Covenant.
• Poor Communication Kills: The Citadel wishes to spare surrendering Covenant soldiers both for ethical and pragmatic reasons. However, several UNSC soldiers and commanders weren't informed of their bear, and enraged by decades of genocidal warfare, have killed several surrendering Covenant soldiers. This leads to tensions between the two polities as the Citadel races, especially the Turians, desire to maintain proper carry and are willing to punish the humans for war crimes, sometimes without the UNSC's input. This leads to segments of the UNSC to resent the Citadel for denying their revenge and punishing them without considering their laws.
• Businesslike Villainy: Xytan contemptuousness on treating his warriors, including Grunts, as Cannon Fodder because he will lose more than of his forces if he carelessly waste product them against his enemies.
• Precision F-Strike: The e'er stoic Master Chief uttered a "Goddamnit" in reaction to Nazara's escape from Onyx. Anybody present is left stunned over the Chief'south one note profanity... except for Zaeed, who is incredibly happy that he's started to rub off on the Chief.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Two races of them, in different flavors. While both the Turians and the Covenant are proud of their martial heritage, their arroyo to it is all-time shown under Soldier vs. Warrior.
• The Purge:
  • ONI performs 1 role way through the story, killing or disappearing many pro-democracy advocates (from senators to student leaders), and President Roselynn (using special tech to induce a stroke).
  • Xytan performs ane on High Charity afterward his coup, killing everyone from Prophets who would not kneel to him to Jackel street gangs that got uppity. Unlike ONI, he's open near it, dropping the bodies in piles in the plaza leading upward to his headquarters.
  • The indoctrinated members of ONI perform ane on Cerberus, their anti-Reaper taskforce, shortly before the outbreak of the UNSC Civil State of war. Fifty-fifty Ackerson, the leader of Cerberus, is killed, and the only known survivor is Jack Harper, his second-in-command.
• Pyrrhic Victory: The Turian intervention in New Ghent had repelled the Covenant from the colony but had severely reduced their fleet from four dreadnaughts, thirty cruisers and sixty frigates to 3 heavily damaged dreadnaughts, elven cruisers, and ten frigates. Their ground forces besides suffered like results, as half of their armored forces were wiped out by plasma weapons and about 6 thousand soldiers remaining alive, with five hundred permanently maimed and many more wounded. This first battle confronting the Covenant served as a serious wake-up call to the Citadel Council to adopting new plans and tactics in their state of war against the Covenant.
  • The Boxing of Chi Rho has both Coalition and Covenant forces equally suffering loftier casualties in the millions, both on the planet and in infinite. The Coalition succeeded in taking control of Chi Rho, preventing the Covenant from establishing a permanent foothold into the UEG's Inner Colonies, and destroying an irreplaceable Covenant supercarrier. However, many Spartans (including Blueish Team) are maimed (some could not walk once more) and lose 13 of their members, forth with many Citadel special forces, at the hands of the Hoplites, and the Covenant detonate half dozen of the original vii manufacturing yards from being taken.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: One of the reasons that Xytan 'Jar Wattinree grew to resent the Covenant leadership was that they sent him, 1 of the Covenant'southward most capable admirals who had defeated many threats to the empire, to the the frontiers to patrol the pirates. The reason is that they feared that he would grow too powerful for them to control and that he would threaten their positions. Its shown to be a rather common practice past the prophets, both to get rid of high ranking Sangheili who could challenge them, and to create a stable pool of candidates for the Czar position.
• Reassignment Backfire:The Prophets' do of sending high ranking Sangheili who could threaten their ability past exiling them to the frontiers both to weaken their position and to create a steady pool of candidates for the Arbiter position backfires when Xytan 'Jar Wattinree manages to create a dedicated crew that is willing to get against the Covenant, even managing to capture High Charity, which throws the Covenant into a civil war.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: On both sides:
  • Surprisingly, some Prophets have shown themselves to be rather lenient and helpful towards their followers.
    • The Prophet of Discovery helped save Vado 'Mavamee'due south life past covering his failure, which would commonly had him executed, and gives him a new mission to gather data on the Citadel races.
    • Len'Vellana cares securely virtually the lower classes of the Covenant, even walking amoungst them (which says a lot, since in canon most of the higher ranking San'Shyuum not just view themselves as Too Of import to Walk, they actually view walking as shameful, to the point that 1 Prophet who likes to walk simply does so in private so as to avoid controversy), and personally visits production facilities in areas that are having issues with gangs to sort out the bug, fifty-fifty being willing to fight the gangs herself if necessary.
    • The Prophet of Conversion is shown to exist more peaceful than her peers, preferring diplomacy over violence. This is shown when she used syncretism to incorporate a race rather than practise then by forcefulness.
  • The Citadel leadership realize that the AI used by the UNSC is so different in both creation and function from any AI they've dealt with ^notation Namely, UNSC Smart A.I.due south are basically created through a process similar to Brain Uploading, and are loyal to humanity and in possession of a moral compass from creation, unlike the Quantum computing based attempts the Quango races have tried that it wouldn't brand sense to apply their anti-AI laws to them, and that attempting to utilize them would simply impairment their human relationship with the UNSC, so they decide to simply classify UNSC AI as not being AI, just a new grade of life, so that the extremely old and heavily entrenched anti-AI laws don't apply to them (and then they don't have to deal with the headache of actually trying to change said laws)
• Revenge Before Reason: Vice Admiral Whitcomb becomes consumed in revenge against the Covenant by seeking their extermination, which includes refusing to accept an offer of surrender from a Covenant planet; he stated that the Covenant had only answered whatever offer of give up from humanity are glassed planets, and therefore humanity should return that favor equally well. Whitcomb'southward revenge-seeking sentiment is after revealed to exist caused by Reaper indoctrination.
• Dominion of Seven: Bungie's "7" is mentioned throughout the crossover: The Citadel showtime opened the Orion Relay seven months prior to the commencement of the story; there are vii major Covenant manufacturing cities on Chi Rho, which had been occupied past the Covenant for 7 years; a war game has the Spartans winning confronting the Citadel with a score of 7 against three; seven Covenant-held planets are successfully raided past Coalition forces following in the wake of Chi Rho.
• Screw the Rules, I Brand Them!: Every bit noted to a higher place, in order to get effectually the herculean chore of changing or repealing the incredibly old and extremely entrenched Citadel anti-AI laws and having to go upwards confronting the powerful anti-synthetic lobbies, the Council simply declares that the AI used by the UNSC is not AI.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Reapers are revealed to be trapped in a Slip Space dimension past the Forerunners.
  • Nazara was imprisoned in Onyx, where it is eventually discovered by ONI and indoctrinated them. Later on the Master Chief foils ONI'south plans, Nazara is able to break free while suffering damages from Sentinels.
• Ship Tease: Between Samara and Primary Master. However, John, due to his upbringing in the SPARTAN-II Projection, is socially incapable of developing any serious romance with Samara.
• Soldier vs. Warrior: The Coalition is the Soldiers, while the Covenant are the Warriors. The Coalition races, such every bit the Turians, approach state of war in a methodical and professional style, wishing to stop conflict as quickly equally possible with few losses. Covenant races, such as the Sangheili and Jiralhanae, approach war in a more ritualistic manner, fighting for honor and glory, sometimes engaging in duels with combatants. This changes when Covenant leaders such as Thel'Vadamee have accuse and begin to accept the war more seriously, with greater success.
• Super Soldier: In addition to the Spartans of all three generations, the Turians have a number of veterans who have been heavily augmented with cybernetics (even removing functional limbs, leaving them more cybernetic than organic) and even many of their non-cybenetic organs are enhanced, bio-organic replacements. The other Citadel members are looking into programs of their own.
  • The Covenant also have super assassins in the form of the Hoplites, Prophets with heavy biological and genetic enhancements that make them faster and more agile than even Spartan 2'southward. They are skilled enough that, during the Boxing of Chi Rho, to counter an functioning in which every combat capable Spartan Ii and III is deployed alongside Citadel special forces units (including SPECTREs), but a single one is deployed per Spartan squad (except for Blue Team), and withal they still manage to kill 13 Spartans (nearly half the Spartans deployed), bulldoze the surviving teams off, potentially permanantly cripple 3 more, cause massive casualties to the other special forces deployed alongside the Spartans, and nearly kill the members of Blue Team, with merely the costly intervention of Samara and a group of Asari commandos allowing them to evacuate, and resulting in Master Principal needing to receive a cybernetic middle to survive, Kelly undergoing an experimental Asari brain surgery, Fred needing new eyes, and Linda volition probable never walk again. The Hoplites are extremely rare, and using their enhancements causes severe damage to themselves, including cerebral hemorrhaging and strokes that would kill an unaugmented sapient and requiring numerous surgeries to preclude them from dying or being crippled after every fight, making them simply capable of fighting for short periods, hence their part equally assassins rather than regular super soldiers.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Vado 'Mavamee states frankly that he hopes that they don't become to war with the Citadel, considering based on the spread implied from their codex, it would take years upon years to just set up the infrastructure needed to constitute supply lines tens of thousands of light years long, and far more resources just to maintain those supply lines and protect them from enemy raiding parties.
  • While UNSC soldiers getting improve armor that can survive Covenant weapons is great, it's not that easy in practice. Enquiry and Development takes time, and equally a stopgap they're importing Batarian armor for men and Asari armor for women.
  • Although the Covenant loyalists are opposed to Xytan, they are left leaderless as the entire Covenant government was in High Charity and held captive, and are reduced to various factions fighting confronting each other for the correct to pb the state of war confronting Xytan, who doesn't waste his time in taking advantage of their in-fighting.
  • Despite ONI's best attempts at propaganda, and implanting loyal pawns in positions of ability beyond the UNSC, most of humanity hates them. When the civil war breaks out, large portions of the military, police forces, and civilian population listen to Hood, a lot of those indoctrinated pawns are removed from power by the armed services and/or police, near of whom are not indoctrinated, and ONI agents are beingness lynched in the streets on some worlds. ONI has to rely on forces made upward of people they kidnapped and forcibly indoctrinated over the years and harsh tactics like deploying nerve gas on rioters to make up for the manpower imbalance.
  • Many Insurrectionists don't trust the UNSC and didn't accept the offer of amnesty. Many of them take advantage of the civil war to declare independence, though some are willing to work with Hood, realising ONI is a threat to them all, with some too existence interested in the reforms Hood is planning.
• Sympathetic P.O.V.: There are several POV chapters from the perspective of Covenant members. These provide insight into Covenant lodge, which shows that while very dysfunctional and oppressive, virtually citizens want to live peacefully and are shown to be unaware of the true nature of the war. Some members are even beneficial, helping the downtrodden and preferring peace and diplomacy over violence.
• Token Evil Teammate: While the UNSC and other Citadel species all accept their share of morally dubious factions, the Batarians as a whole act as this to the Coalition, primarily fighting to curry favour with the Council and perchance get some of the economic sanctions against them lifted.
• Token Good Teammate: While proficient is a relative term, and at that place are operatives in other branches that haven't been indoctrinated, Cerberus is this for ONI, existence the only branch whose leadership wasn't indoctrinated, partially because Ackerson founded information technology in secret once he realised something was going on with the Reapers.
• Unwitting Pawn: The Minister of Discovery and Ministress of Conversion are manipulated by Xytan to achieve his goals in taking over the Covenant and Loftier Clemency rather than helping them to institute a new Hierarchy. The Ministers reacted with appropriate shock at Xytan's betrayal in which Conversion is killed and Discovery is forced to swear fealty to Xytan to salvage his ain life.
• War Offense Subverts Heroism: When Dr. Hasley discovers a group of starving Covenant labourers who wish to give up, a UNSC soldier ignores her orders to spare them and proceeds to kill them. Similar incidents are reported to accept happened elsewhere. This leads to tensions between UNSC and the Citadel every bit the latter wishes to spare Covenant soldiers both for both ethical and practical reasons.
• War Is Hell: The state of war between the Coalition and the Covenant is repeatedly shown to be a cruel thing, with wide calibration decease and destruction regularly shown in harsh detail.
• Nosotros ARE Struggling Together: The Covenant loyalists are more decorated fighting each other for the right on who would pb them against Xytan. Their infighting was and so bad that it fabricated Gral 'Vamee to choose surrendering Zhoist to the Coalition for protection.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist:
  • Xytan 'Jar Wattinree intends to forcibly unify the Covenant under his personal leadership and subjugating the Citadel powers, to create a unified forcefulness capable enough to stand against the threat of the Reapers.
  • Ackerson's desire to make more Spartans isn't only an attempt to show up Halsey, merely also part of a genuine (and mayhap correct) belief that the UNSC needs more Spartans to win the war against the Covenant. And to defend humanity from the Reapers.
• Wham Episode:
  • In Chapter 70, Xytan 'Jar Wattinree successfully performs a coup upon Loftier Charity, capturing it and almost all of the leaders. This results in the Covenant falling into ceremonious war. It's as well revealed that Xytan received assistance from Admiral Rael'Zorah (Tali'Zorah's father), declaring his intention to incorporate the Quarians into his new empire in exchange for helping them reclaim their home planet of Rannoch.
  • In Chapter 72, Ackerson is brutally assassinated, presumably by a rogue Spartan.
  • In Affiliate 81, information technology'south revealed that ONI had secretly been in contact with a Reaper found in Onyx for years, indoctrinating a majority of the staff including Parangosky. They made plans to place indoctrinated members into positions of power, putting the entire UNSC at adventure. They also made experiments with Reaper engineering science, including using dead Spartans to create cyborg soldiers.
  • In Affiliate 83, Hood meets Jack Harper, the last surviving fellow member of ONI-Cerberus, who has prove that Parangosky and much of ONI have been indoctrinated and that Parangosky was backside President Roselynn's death, ONI's coup begins, Master Primary'southward copy of Parangosky's message arrives on Reach, modified and then Hood could run across the hugger-mugger orders meant only for indoctrinated members of ONI and as well including a warning from Chief almost the Reapers. Hood launches a counter-coup, seizes command of Accomplish, sends out his own bulletin revealing what is going on, and the UNSC Civil War begins.
  • In Chapter 86, Nazara makes its escape from Onyx. Main Chief learns that his full name and identity is John Shepard, son of Captain (now Admiral) Hannah Shepard of the UNSC Navy and an unnamed UNSC Army General who died fighting the Covenant.
• Wham Line: The Citadel and UNSC excavation squad discovers a name repeated in the figurer logs from the Forerunner ruins on New Ghent: "Charum Hakkor".
  • "It killed me too. I merely remembered I was the offset to die." The Aristocracy proceed to turn into a Husk.
  • The Principal Master reads the file of his true proper noun: "Seen: Bailiwick John 117 with his mother Hannah Shepard."
• What the Hell, Hero?: Kat is visibly furious with Master Main for partly responsible for Emile'southward indoctrination.
• Worthy Opponent: Several influential Covenant figures limited respect for the gainsay prowess of the Citadel races, leading to the proposals of integrating the Citadel powers into the Covenant upon victory, seeing said Citadel powers every bit worthy of willing submission and conversion, different the humans. An increasing number of Covenant officials begin to question why such worthy races would side with the humans, leading to them to begin having doubts on the reasons for the war, asking unwanted questions.

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