Just when everyone thought nothing unexpected happened, an accident suddenly happened.
Corinthian galaxy!
The Covenant troops who had been exploring the starry sky suddenly released their jump state and came out of the wormhole.
The current command captain of the battleship, Mdama, an elite member, looked at a group of subordinates with a gloomy face: "Hurry up and fix the battleship's jump system. There was such a low-level error in this engine jump. This is so irresponsible!"
Just when this elite captain wanted to scold the technician, he suddenly heard news from the radar chief.
"Captain Mdama, there is a situation here!"
Mdama's eyes turned to the large central control screen. When he discovered the strange steel building, he was stunned on the spot.
"Is that... a miracle?"
"Yes, Captain, I think we arrived at the resting place of the gods by accident! This should be the miracle described in the ruins we explored before!"
Mdama swallowed his dry throat: "Incredible! Tell Tawatimir this news...well, also tell the prophets!"
"yes."
Soon, a communication request came from the prophet.
The current supreme leader of the Covenant Alliance, the Prophet of Truth of the San'Shyuum people, excitedly issued an order to Mdama: "Mdama, you must be taken care of by the gods. Wait quietly, we will arrive soon."
"Dear Prophet, do we need to go there in person?"
"No, you can't explore. The world of Holy Shield is very dangerous. If you go there rashly, you will easily be destroyed by the warriors of God. You must be prepared."
Mdama naturally followed the instructions of the new Prophet of Truth, and then while repairing the faulty jump engine, he sent out exploration satellites to collect information about the shield world from a long distance.
In just 5 Earth days, 72 warships and more than 1.2 million Covenant elites arrived.
In the following days, the size of these fleets continued to expand.
2 million, 3 million, 5 million.
In addition to the almost endless Covenant troops of all races, there are also hundreds of millions of unmanned equipment.
What makes all members of the Star Alliance even more excited is that the Star Alliance headquarters, the City of Charity where jumps and shuttles can be made, has also arrived here.
It seems that the senior leaders of the Star Alliance are ready to fight against this shield world.
Such a large movement of the Covenant warship was naturally discovered by the human spy warship silently monitoring in the distance.
This news was quickly reported to Chen Mu and his party.
"Are those Covenant guys crazy? How could they use so many troops?"
"Have you investigated their location?"
"We were worried about the leakage of human information and intelligence, so the spy ship we dispatched was very far away, so we collected very little information, and we didn't dare to catch tongues!"
"We need to figure out the other party's movements, even if they are exposed!" Chen Mu had a vague feeling that if we didn't figure out the movements of that group of people early, they would be very passive.
"We have passed on the mission."
About three days later, the good news that the mission was completed came to the high school team several hundred light years away.
But they would rather not have this news!
The Covenant fleet discovered a Forerunner shield world 4,200 light-years away.
They have sent a large number of Covenant warriors to arrive there, trying to capture the shield world and obtain the inheritance inside.
"What's the name of that galaxy?"
"The Covenant calls it the Cole Galaxy, and humans call it the Carlon Galaxy. Chen Mu, this galaxy is very close to Mr. Corinth, only 200 astronomical units away!"
"Fuck! Isn't there nothing in that place? Why is Lao Ju so careless? How did those prophets discover the Shield World?"
The first weapon in the Halo universe that they want to control is the Halo Array, followed by the Flood. And 0459, where almost half of the area is occupied by the Zerg, is naturally included in their search targets.
Unfortunately, Ju Chengyan's fleet arrived in the Corinthian system and searched for several days, but could not find the location of Shield World 0459.
They thought that the shield world had been harmonized for some reason, but who knew that the shield world was hiding somewhere else.
"The high school team investigated very little information. They only learned from the prisoners of war captured on the Covenant warship that they received the order of Operation Truth Prophet 10 days ago."
"Obviously, that shield world should have used some kind of technical means to block our detection and exposed it to the Star Alliance very powerfully." Chen Aiguo deduced with a serious face.
"Old Chen, do you think this is a coincidence?" Chen Mu asked.
"Whether it's a coincidence or not, I know we need to act, and we need to act quickly."
Shield World 0459 was constructed during or before the Forerunner-Zerg War, both as a military outpost against the Zerg and to preserve living species within it from the pulses of the Halo Array.
In the subsequent war, Shield World 0459 was completely closed due to the Zerg out of control, and the dormant Forerunner fleet inside was also forced to sleep.
During the war between humans and the Covenant, the fleet led by Mdama was ecstatic after discovering this world. They quickly sent troops to collect the Forerunner relics and tried to destroy all humans.
Fortunately, humans were aware of the Covenant's movements and sent the Fire Spirit to prevent the Covenant from starting.
The Spirit of Fire borrowed the hyperspeed engine to create a chain reaction, completely destroying the shield world, and the Zerg inside were also wiped out.
If the original plot is followed, the Covenant warriors will discover the Shield World 30 years later.
But who knew that those guys were so lucky that they discovered the 0459 Shield World in advance!
Humans don't care if the Covenant is destroyed, but humans will never allow the Zerg to swallow up the Covenant's technology and evolve into an interstellar-level disaster.
Compared to the Covenant which can be defeated, the Zerg are the danger to civilization!
While humans are preparing battleships to welcome the war that is coming ahead of schedule, the Covenant fleet in the Corinthian galaxy is also conducting exploration operations on the 0459 Shield World.
As mentioned before, most humans exploring the Forerunner Shield world will not be attacked by the Forerunners, but this is not the case for non-designated inheritors of the Covenant.
Before they found humans, if they wanted to enter the Shield World, they had to drill a passage bit by bit from the outside (conquer the dock of the Shield World).
While preserving the miracles as much as possible, at the same time occupying a world the size of this planet, this is obviously not an easy problem to accomplish.
If the early offensive force was not mainly provided by unmanned combat equipment, they would have sacrificed hundreds of millions of soldier lives.
It took them a total of three days from the time the Covenant discovered the 0459 Shield World to smoothing out the rather mechanical defense force on the outside of the Shield World bit by bit.
Three days later, the Covenant officially destroyed the rigid defense mechanism on the outside of the Shield World and violently opened the docks of the Shield World.
When the Covenant thought that a more intense battle was about to begin, they discovered that the interior of the Shield World was simpler than they imagined.
The Covenant warriors did not find much resistance in these areas.
Their scanning devices even spotted hundreds of Forerunner warships.
Each of these battleships is larger than their ORS mothership, a true giant.
Even the Prophet of Truth, who had mastered a lot of secret knowledge, couldn't help but be shocked when he saw these battleships that were dozens of kilometers long, and then the Prophet of Truth became fanatical.
"These divine legacies will be the San'Shyuum's greatest strength."
"Prophet, we have been attacked by some weird creatures on this planet. These creatures are very strange. They can host our warriors..."
"Weird creatures?" The Prophet of Truth looked at the combat report, and then said disdainfully: "They are just some special spore creatures that can be replaced. Just send troops to destroy them."
