the year is 2552, the united nations space command is at war with the alien alliance known as the covenant, we are loosing, the covenant hold every advantage the planet reach has just been glassed, now another world, Anesidora-III, just a short slipspace jump away is under the treat of covenant invasion, and subsistent glassing, its defenses were striped to support reach, now a bare bones force must hold out as long as they can Jessica is an ODST the "best of the best" stationed aboard the UNSC-concord, above the world, when the covenant invades she will be tested, harshly. having never seen actual combat before this, will she survive, can Anesidora be saved. disclaimer: there is swearing in the story, as well as mild violence, but nothing big enough to really rate this mature