The 4 contenders lay strapped to a device, seeing nothing but the bright light overhead. Wires and tubes connect to the machine at their back, and A small red stone in the center of the room pulses and powers the machine. A robotic woman AI voice says, "Synchronizing Identiy..." "Beginning Reality Simulation" Theres a flash of light, and a wave of red cascades over their vision and it fades to black.... -------------------------------------------------------- [NOVA Base Arena Opening scene]  https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/245696087/0/0 [Continued..] [-26 years Later-] Exotic sounding animal calls can be heard from the forest in the distance, the wind gently blows through a large circular confrence room with and open roof. A pile of large documents lay on a table in the center of the foriegn looking room. The NOVA space station, a large sphere, can be seen just outside the atmosphere as if it became this planets 3rd moon. Mormon Jedi stands at the middle table with a few other raiders who are clothed in white bone masks and tribal looking armor over black clothing. Mormon jedi looks up from the documents as Mister Mustard approaches, twirling one of the arrows for his crossbow in his hand. "MJ.. you know who we are up against dont you? Our bunch of raiders is but a small fraction of the NOVA soldiers.. are you sure this is do-able?" "We've worked together building this resistance from scratch, we have watched as our homeland and hunting grounds were ripped up for mining, and now we can fight back ... and you dont believe we can do it? " says Mormon jedi. "Its not that i've lost faith, it is that i CAN'T lose my people. This is our family. I dont want to send them into battle against something we are too outnumbered to withstand." "This is just enough to get in, like a bee sting. We get the shard, and get out. Then after that, they will be worrying if they can withstand US.." Mister Mustard pauses and thinks "...alright. let us liberate our world. They have no idea what's coming to them." Mormon Jedi and Mister Mustard grasp hands in agreement. The 2 other raiders do the one arm chest salute of their world, and they exit the circular building into the outside air. Rows of raiders can be seen lined up and ready in front of many war-ships. They all salute and call out battle ready. •                •               •                 • Somewhere within the dark passages of a space Freighter, prisoners sit chained together in the musty dim red light. AI ravager robots patrol the large deck of prison cells, holding NOVA citizens, and other beings from the worlds of NOVAs empire. Out in space, a black ship slowly approaches the freighter. A button is clicked and the outside flickers a moment and then becomes reflective, making it appear invisible. "Eyes on the target. Moving in." a voice says over the comms system. A voice on the other end speaks "is it true the entire holding deck is sealed off?" "Yes. And heavily guarded." "This will be easy" the voice says with a chuckle. Small maintenance robots float around the outside of the freighter, inspecting and fixing any problems. The prisoners inside catch a glimpse of one of these robots as it slowly passes the window outside the ship. Some become confused when they see a knife pulsing with electricity, ever so slowly floating toward the robot. The knife finally taps the robot and it starts to spark and pulse with electricity before its light fades. "What the..." a prisoner says. The face of Pistol Pete appears in the window. Prisoners start to react with relief but he holds a finger up to his mouth for them to keep quiet, then he gives them a NOVA salute. Him and 2 more men begin attatching what looks like tethers along the outside of the freighter where the prisoners are. Floating ravager robot limbs litter the space around them. After Pete hooks the last one, he radios in. "Looking good out here, how's it in there?" Fastman is ready in a crouch position near a corner with 3 other men, holding his soma prime. "All good. Clearing it out." They come around the corner smoothly moving while firing their guns. Robots fall from the ledge of the second level sparking and smoking. A robot comes from behind a pillar and attacks fastman. He readys his arm as his glove activates its tazer, and fox claws slide out from the fingertips. He shoes his clawed hand into the robot and throws it upward into a light fixture. It explodes in sparks and comes crashing to the ground hard. "All clear." From outside, pistol pete gives a signal to his men. "Clear for up and out" and they return to their cloaked main ship. The ship activates the high powered thrusters and lifts off with tethers attatched to the holding cell floor which is completely sealed off. The freighter creaks and slowly pulls along behind the ship, when suddenly the floor breaks free. The NSAC ship flies away carrying the entire prison cell floor, as the freighter sits ripped open and incapacitated, freeing the NOVA citizens from ravagers. Pistol Pete who is in their ship, suddenly recieves a radio communication in his earpiece. It's a very urgent serious voice.     •               •              •  Pistol Pete and Fastman stand in front of monitors showing camera footage of the NOVA space station. A man talks to them " they've breached the sector 5 landing deck. Normally a small horde of raiders would be easily stopped at this point by our NOVA base personnel, but..." They see footage of one of the raiders cloaking themselves, only the vague outline visible, as he jumps and wallruns, then de-cloaks as he jumps and slams his sword down into a crowd of NOVA soldiers, causing an explosion. "..These guys are different." Fastman says "Sector 5? That's high priority lockdown. We need to get there now." They begin grabbing their guns and leaving the room. The man at the monitors says "wait.. be careful. They have O.A's." Pistol Pete smiles. "So do we." His eyes glow a shade of blue, and fastmans eyes glow a shade of hazel. They leave the room.    •           •           • In the large base hangar, Mormon Jedi and Mister Mustard make their push forward along with other raiders. The NOVA auto-lazer guns at the back of the hangar light up the entrance taking out as many raiders as possible. They move forward taking out soldiers and taking cover behind crates and ships. While crouching behind a crate, Mormon Jedi says "Mustard! If i can distract those guns, you get to the forward left wall and blow it open. It leads to the passages to the vault." He says showing a holographic image of the hangar from his wrist. " you get as many men in there as you can and ill meet you there." "Got it." He says loading his crossbow. He begins moving along crouching down between the crates. A NOVA soldier turns the corner and tries slashing him with his electric bayonette. Mister Mustard dodges to the side, grabs the weapon, and whips both the soldier and the weapon sideways into a crate, and he falls to the ground. Mustard stabs his hand into his chest and throws him forward across the floor. He slides and knocks down 2 more soldiers coming their way. Mormon Jedi walks up to a ship in the hangar. He focuses as his eyes turn a shade of black-blue. He holds his hand out and stabs it into the side of the ship. It pulses with a wave of electricity and the ship powers up. He focuses his energy into turning the ship so that the front points to the back of the hangar. Suddenly the ships blasters fire off, lighting up the back of the hangar where the turrets are. Fiery explosions light up the area. Mister Mustard sees this chaotic destruction. "I'm assuming that is the distraction..." He pulls out the crossbow and aims at a section of the wall highlighted with his scope. He fires and the crossbow lets loose the explosive dart, exploding as it hits its target. After the smoke clears, a hole in the wall is revealed. Mustard and the other raiders storm across the open floor as the guns are distracted and go through their new entrance. Mormon Jedi finishes unloading the ships weaponry on the back of the hangar as he hears the sound of ships approaching from behind. Fastman and Pistol Pete each in their own ships approach the hangar entrance along with some NOVA soldiers. "We got eyes on the targets" says Pistol Pete. The ships flash as gunfire rains down on the raiders from behind, as the ships move in to land. One man, Mormon Jedi, emerges from the scattering crowd of raiders. He holds his arm out and pulls the electric energy from a landed ships battery. With his hands pulsing with electricity he swipes his hand through the air and sends a wave of lightning in the shape of a coyote claw slash. It hits a NOVA soldier ship and knocks it off path as it paralyses the system functions. It hits the side of the hangar and explodes. "Thats our guy" says fastman as he lands. [Continued in part 2]