Halo: Equestrian Campaign

You gaze into the night sky with a sense of severity. You could have sworn you had seen something through the forest canopy. It was just a shimmer, like sunlight reflecting off of water, but you weren’t certain of what it was. Perhaps your eyes were just playing tricks on you, it had been a long day after all.

If any of your equipment on your helmet had been working, you could’ve seen it for sure, but there was some sort of sludge in the air that was interfering with all of your armor functionalities. From your crosshair to your HUD, everything was fading and flickering out. It was almost like an undetectable EMP blast had fried all your batteries, but that wasn’t the case because some things still happened to work properly.

Unfortunately, there was no way to be certain whether you saw something or not. Your equipment was mostly broken, and you couldn’t waste your teams energy on a hunch. You’d just have to be extra careful in the near future on the off chance you truly had seen something. But as for now, it was time you divvied up the work for tomorrow.

“Alright men, listen up. As you’ve been told, we have discovered a small settlement just a few miles from our current location. We don’t know anything about it’s inhabitants; not how they look, act, live, nothing. The one thing we are certain of, however, is that they have managed to survive on this planet long enough to set up what appears to be a thriving settlement. That means they might be able to help us. Maybe not help us get back home, but help us endure here. Tomorrow morning Chris and I will get as close to the town as possible and see if we can get a visual on it’s inhabitants. It would be nice knowing what we are dealing with, no surprises. While the two of us are doing this, I want the rest of you finding more provisions for us. Tyler and Brendan will hunt, while Calvin and Daniel will grab us a couple more apples from the orchard we found. Am I understood?”

“Yes ser!” they all reply drowsily. It had been a long day for your men, and they hadn’t taken the time to rest since your arrival on the planet so it came as no surprise to you that your they had grown weary.

“Alright, lets get back to our supplies and rest up. I’ll take the first watch, I’ll wake Calvin to take the second shift in about two hours.”

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Ben-Hassrathee ordered his soldiers to set their ship down near the swathe of broken trees amidst the overgrown forest he had discovered. It obviously wasn’t natural, and he had an idea as to what had caused it.

“Set the ship down over there and disembark,” he ordered the pilot. “I want all of you keeping an eye out for the remains of a human ship. It looks like one may have crashed around here, and I want to make sure there are no survivors. Do what you must to send us forward on our great journey.”

The Elite leader hit the ground with his soldiers as they searched for the downed human ship. It didn’t take them long to find it, all they had to do was follow the trail of carnage it had wrought on the forest’s ancient flora. It was mostly submerged in water by now, and looked fairly damaged. It wasn’t very likely that anyone had survived the crash, but the boot prints they found leading away from the crash site told them otherwise.

“Spread out and see if you can find the survivors!” ordered the Zealot. “Rendezvous back here in five minutes. We will make camp away from where the enemy fled and sleep here for the night, the sun’s radiance will ease our search in the morning.”

Ben-Hassrathee was boiling over with excitement. It seemed this recently discovered planet was to become his new hunting ground.