After the events of Halo 3: ODST.... [i] The Phoenix and the Destroyer were launched to defend Earth from the Covenant fleet. Fleet Admiral Hood ordered the ships to deal as much damage as possible and escape to fight another day. Destroyer was lost in the conflict, as the ship took heavy damage, so the Captain ordered the ship rammed into the first wave of ships, led by the grunt captain. Around the orbit of Jupiter, the Destroyer detonated it's 50 naquadria reactors in the middle of the fleet. The Grawa escaped the conflagration along with 20 other ships, including the Forerunner Keyship. The other 200 ships were annihilated by the blast. The Phoenix escaped as Earth's planetary defenses were overwhelmed by added reinforcements. The Grawa was lost in the battle, as the ship was hit by multiple MAC shots. The grunt Tagee survived. For a week, the Covenant held Earth, until Master Chief rallied the human forces and drove them off, Truth escaped through the portal, you know the rest. [/i] After the events of Halo 3... [i] After the war was over, Sangheilios was attacked by 5 grunt and brute ships. The Shadow of Intent and the Phoenix managed to hold them off, and the Sangheili homeworld was safe. A similar attack was launched on Earth, with about the same results. With the newly refit Scorpio, the 3 brute ships were lost. A battlegroup was formed to Search and Destroy the remmnants of the grunt fleet. When they found the grunts, they were about to wreck the enemy fleet, when a call for peace came from from the warship Omdra. The grunts responded by sending a massive plasma shot towards the ship, wreaking hell throughout it. The enemy ships escaped, and the scout ship Patron followed. It came across a fleet of 15-some ships, well armed. The grunts were broadcasting something about activating Installation 05, since Sangheilios was in the firing range. The captain smiled, for the first act of the new alliance was to go to each Halo and remove the device that launches the "Halo Effect". After taking all 6 devices, they launched multiple NOVA bombs at them, atomizing the threat of galatic extinction. [/i] Now with the flood removed from the Halos, (Protocol: all containment zones were glassed and the entire ringworld searched) and the Halo's weapon system destroyed, the Sangheili-Human alliance allowed colonization of the rings. [i] The grunt ships tried to go to 05 but were repelled by the Sentinel defenses. The future looked grim for the grunts, then they discovered a shield world. [/i] [b] (Halo Wars style) [/b] [i] With the surface unable to be penetrated by weapons fire, the grunt race took shelter in the center of the planet and waited as their race grew in numbers and the number of ships they were building increased. However, given the limited intelligence of the Unggoy, they forgot the access codes that allowed them outside of the shield world. The grunts slowly lost their anger for the Sangheili and the Humans, though a few members of their race continued to hold a grudge. Outside, technology slowly advanced, the Brutes and Drones went extinct (Brutes because they continued to be a threat and were destroyed, the Drones because their sun went supernova and they had no ships on hand), the Jackal race went back to being planetbound, and the Lekgolo-Sangheili-Human alliance became the Allied Planets Empire. (Though democracy still was the main form of government) [/i] [Edited on 01.26.2010 2:16 PM PST]