AN: This fanfic was inspired because I re-installed an old favorite of mine, Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge. My fanfic will be a full blown war between the aliens and humanity. It is not some first contact war and then peace and then a sequel where the events of the Mass Effect series happen normally. This story is also quite AU, with no Reapers. At least, no large fleet of Reapers coming to process your face. There will however be Reaper tech that can still indoctrinate people, even if no Reapers are left. Also, Yuri by himself is a powerful faction. So, to level the playing field and create a universe with actual conflict and not steam rolling, humanity does not get access to Soviet, Allied, or mass effect tech. At least, they do not get mass effect tech until after first contact. So, unto the timeline/prologue.
EDIT: I changed the name of the story in order to catch more eyeballs. It still means the same thing but I figured that more people would click on it if it was in English.
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48,000 BCE- The cycle of harvest for the Protheans is finished and the Reapers retreat back into dark space.
47,900 BCE- The remaining Prothean scientists on Illos wake up only to find their entire civilization wiped out. In a gambit of desperation, the scientists try to make the conduit relink to other relays in Prothean controlled systems in order to check for other survivors. The attempt fails and almost destroys the conduit.
47,860 BCE- Faced with the idea of failing their final orders, the remaining Protheans come up with a new plan. They decide to calibrate the conduit to aim at the location of the Reapers in dark space. In order to get this information, they send a small team of 5 to the Citadel with a transmitting beacon in order to send back information. They then hack the Citadel's computers looking for the backdoor relay in order to find the location of the Reapers in dark space. After that they shut down the backdoor permanently. The Protheans on the station then died of starvation.
47,855 BCE- The Conduit was finally ready for operation after 5 years of hard work recalibrating the system. Large pieces of debris are loaded into the Conduit via machinery and are flung into dark space. With no relay on the other end to stop the pieces from moving at lightspeed, they slam into the Reapers with righteous fury and destroy them one by one. The Reapers just stay there until they are eliminated, because they are hibernating. Everyone except for Sovereign is destroyed.
47,853 BCE- Having literally thrown everything that they had at the Reapers, the Protheans start to starve. The planet they were on did not support their amino acid type and the food synthesizers had long since been broken. They will ultimately be forgotten, but are content that they are the ones who finally ended the Billion year old cycle of misery and death.
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13,000 BCE- 2157 CE- Canon Mass Effect species' timeline.
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1st of June 1913 CE- After being forced back to his family mansion in Transylvania by the USSR, Yuri became extremely desperate. In his bid to escape the wrath of the Soviets, he activated Einstein's Chronosphere to send him back in time from 1972 to 1913, just before the beginning of WWI. He also turned off remote access to the Chronosphere before he used it. All energy reserves in the Chronosphere were depleted and the device itself blew up when overloaded, barely giving Yuri room to escape. Yuri then began to set up plans for stopping the Allies and USSR before they even began. He tracked down Einstein and killed him, therefore sealing Yuri into this timeline and destroying any chance at copying Allied or Soviet tech.
14th of June 1914 CE- 2 weeks before the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, Yuri mind controlled a Russian diplomat into repealing the mutual defense agreement with Serbia. This kept Russia out of the war and the Czar still in power. One figurehead was easier to mind control than many in a communist party.
21st of June 1914 CE- 1 week before the start of World War I, France signs a mutual defense agreement with Serbia. Spain also signs a mutual defense agreement with France.
1914-1921 CE- WWI still raged and over 63 million had died. Food shortages were common as was widespread disease and governments on both sides were losing control of their population. Meanwhile, Russia used this chance to industrialize and improve infrastructure, making much in the way of money selling arms to both sides. After many people tried to flee to Russia from their own war ravaged countries, travel was banned by all countries involved in WWI.
25th of December 1922 CE- 2 days after the Germans had finally taken Paris after 8 hard years of fighting the ferocious French and British war machines, the Russians invaded. The attack was completely unexpected as Russia had become rich off of the war and in the past had tried to keep it going for as long as possible. There were mumblings that it was the work of a favored advisor among the Czar that lead to the attack.
3rd of January 1923 CE- The morale of Germany was completely obliterated. Russia flew over the border with strange and terrifying weapons. Mobile weapons platforms that easily outperformed new British landships, soldiers with vests resistant to bullets and could kill without any weapon whatsoever, long rifles where each shot released chemical weapons, it was a nightmare.
4th of January 1923 CE- Berlin fell this day.
7th of January 1923 CE- The final desperate gambit to win the war was conducted by the Germans. They hid as many troops in the Black Forest as possible and waited for the enemy to advance past them. 15% of the German army was killed trying to stay hidden from Russia's forces. When they marched on Berlin, the radio was filled with talk of 'voices in my head' and 'he calls out to me.' Contact was lost soon after the incident. The attack was declared a failure and Germany surrendered.
25st of February 1923 CE- London fell to Russia, and with it the last Bastion of freedom in Europe. Everything from the Ottoman Empire to Spain had gone dark. No one who went to Europe returned.
26th of February 1923 CE- The USA ratifies a treaty of cooperation with all of North and South America against Russian aggression. Japan and China follow suite and plans for Japanese imperialism were put on hold.
3rd of March 1923 CE- The world gets a peak at what caused Russia to expand so rapidly. And it terrifies them. Yuri released a formal statement saying that he was responsible for all of this and had taken formal control of Russia. He revealed that it was his psychic power that made it possible, and he would not stop until earth was his. The world saw him for what he truly was, a megalomaniac obsessed with control.
4th of March 1923 CE- The very next day Yuri launched a multi assault on Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Terror and chaos engulfed the population.
19th of March 1923 CE- Africa, the most divided continent politically, quickly fell to Yuri's blitzkrieg like rapid advances.
20th of March 1923 CE- The USA and Canada, some of the few countries that were actually capable of fighting Yuri's forces, have extreme civil unrest. There is rioting in the streets calling for surrender to Yuri's forces. Many suspect that Yuri had a direct hand in creating this, and the military cracks down hard. This action diverted huge amounts of manpower and munitions that might have otherwise stopped Yuri's advances.
21st of April 1923 CE- South America and the White House fall. This sends the remaining forces in America into disarray, where they are easily rounded up and processed by Yuri.
25th of April 1923 CE- North America has officially fallen to Yuri's forces.
1st of June 1923 CE- Despite Yuri taking a huge amount of casualties due to the dry conditions in Australia and the voracious diseases in the South Asian jungles, Australia and Southern Asia both surrender from civilian pressure created by Yuri's propaganda.
7th of June 1923 CE- China is taken by Yuri's forces, leaving Japan as the only free nation left on the planet.
3rd of March 1924 CE- Japan continues to hold out. They were the only nation properly equipped to deal with Yuri. The reason why is because they had been planning their imperial ambitions for many years now. But even they were starting to feel the heat. Food shortages are commonplace and 10% of the population has died from starvation. Yuri decided to test his new large scale psychic dominator, identical to the one that started his revenge in the original timeline. He finished building it on southernmost island of Japan.
4th of March 1924 CE- On the anniversary of the initial attack, Yuri celebrates by pacifying Japan.
8th of March 1924 CE- Yuri finishes celebrating with the finest women on the planet, and starts to setup his plans for humanity. The first thought of Yuri was that he needed to head into space. To that end he put the best and brightest minds that he had captured to work on prototypes for starships. All future starship models were based on the saucer shape of the flying discs.
6th of May 1924 CE- Yuri finishes construction of large scale psychic dominators all over the planet, forever cementing his will into humanities collective brain.
21st of May 1924 CE- Large scale genetic testing facilities are created. Humanity is then separated into castes based on what their genes imply they can do. Those with good genes are permitted to breed in specialized breeding centers. Strong men are mutated into brutes. People with psychic potential are forced into military or propaganda service. Abnormally smart people have their genes preserved and have their brains removed from their bodies in order to form literal 'think tanks.' Normal people just simply do whatever manual labor is required at the time, as they no longer have a concept of fun or freedom.
7th of January 1927 CE- Yuri undertakes a huge infrastructure improvement project. Magrails are built from one side of the planet to the next. A huge spaceport is constructed in Transylvania, where Yuri grew up. With humans no longer having any concept of free will left, these projects are built extremely quickly. Millions of people die in completing the project.
1927- 1954 CE- Yuri continues to live a life of luxury as billions hang on his every word. Yuri himself had undergone extensive modification in this timespan. His cells had been made to not age. His immune system had been upgraded so that when one cell was detected that was damaged, it would immediately be replaced. His own genes replicated perfectly, meaning that his DNA did not get shorter and shorter each time it replicated. This effectively made him immortal from a longevity standpoint. By this point in time, humanity had been divided into several subspecies that bred only with that subspecies. Brutes were the workers and shock troops, psychics were the government administrators and covert ops, luminous humans were created for powering the bioreactors in cities and ships. They had an average lifespan of 2 weeks and could be bred rapidly. Baseline humans still made up the majority of the population, with no particular specialization.
2nd of April 1954 CE- Even though he was in complete control, Yuri was bored. He missed the squabbling, divisive, and destructive nature of humanity before he had united them all under one will. And his ability to manage the rapidly increasing number of humans below him was being greatly diminished. Thus, he began a project to create a new elite class of semi-independent humans who would give him advice, administer for him, and live lives of their own. They would be psychic and as close to humanely perfect as possible. They would be beautiful, strong, and smart. But he would need to have some control over them lest they ruin his plans for unity. Yuri then decided to put a kill switch on every elite human created, in case they resisted his psychic commands and indoctrination. He would have to be careful. Yuri needed them to follow his commands, but also be able to think on their own two feet.
24th of September 1987 CE- The first human colony is setup on Mars.
23rd of October 1996 CE- Yuri's attempts to create a new elite is starting to payoff. The first elite human with acceptable genes is born. Yuri decides to name him Jack Harper and takes to raising him.
25th of January 1999 CE- By now the population of special humans, now called Homo Superioris, has reached a population of 50,000. None of these elite class have even reached the age where they can start being indoctrinated. Yuri decides at a population cap of a million for Homo Superioris. In anticipation of these new humans, he starts building museums, stadiums, and other things where they can entertain themselves with the docile population.
21st of August 2001 CE- Mass brainwashing of Homo Superioris has begun. Yuri selects Harper as his personal heir.
2008-2013 CE- Yuri continues to expand through the solar system. Mining stations are set up throughout the asteroid belt and Jupiter has begun to be turned into a refinery for helium-3.
6th of September 2014 CE- The first generation of Homo Superioris comes of age. They are sent off to administrative posts all across the solar system. Jack Harper stays by his 'father' and acts as an advisor and general.
7th of July 2016 CE- Reports are coming in that worker death rate for projects is down 25% and construction speed is up 10%. This makes Yuri feel as if he made the right decision regarding Homo Superioris and extra batches are planned.
8th of November 2034 CE- Having been bored yet again, Yuri turns his attention to military grade projects. Specifically, he starts tinkering on different weapons of mass destruction and begins work on a new flagship for his fleet.
5th of July 2042 CE- Yuri's tinkering comes to fruition when he creates the Psychic Organizer. It was not so much a superweapon as much as it was an enhancer for Yuri's own psychic abilities. The device enhanced Yuri enough to the point that he could move a 10 story building from a mile away. Before this device Yuri would have barely been able to move an eighteen wheeler if he was standing next to it. Yuri then decided to hide the device away and install a very large version of it on his personal flagship when it was completed.
11th of August 2045 CE- The potential of the Psychic Organizer is fully realized by Yuri when he puts it onto his old flying disc fleet and hooked psychics up to the machine. It gave them the ability to both teleport people from one place to another and travel at FTL speeds with incredible precision. It also enabled them to use their powers on other ships. However, psychics with weak potential literally burnout after being hooked up for too long. Thus a new sub-species of humankind was born, the navigators. They are short lived clones of Yuri with less psychic potential. They function much like the luminous humans, to be used and then rudely discarded. The Solar system has now opened up to Yuri.
19th of February 2047 CE- When scientific probes go near Pluto, they start to pick up odd readings. Yuri sends ships to investigate and finds a mass relay. One of the ships got to close and was flung through to the other side. When they returned the ships reported they were sent into nebula that was almost 250 light years away. Yuri immediately ordered rapid expansion and colonization.
23rd of March 2079 CE- Yuri receives word that there is a vague new organization called Cerberus. What its goals are and how it formed without Yuri there to guide it remain a mystery. He immediately cracks down and creates a police state, with specialized humans nicknamed 'Homo Canines' by the population of Homo Superioris. They can smell fear and can read body language so well that just by glancing at someone they can see whether or not what they are saying is true. They regularly check all of the human race for resistance to mind control. If any fear is detected, that person is arrested immediately. This is because the people who are mind controlled no longer have any fear, not even Homo Superioris have that gut reaction.
30th of October 2081 CE- After the harsh police crackdown, only 23 people with abnormal mutations that prevented mind control were caught. All of them were baseline humans. There was no pomp or ceremony and they were just killed and left to rot. No one cared for their loss, Yuri did order it after all. Yuri decided to keep the Homo Canines around for occasional checkups on the population.
7th of September 2103 CE- After a huge period of time, Yuri's official flagship was completed. It was massive. It was shaped like any other ship in the fleet, but had a diameter of 1km. That meant that its circumference was 4.1km large. Most other ships in the fleet were only 150 meters in diameter.
11th of April 2138 CE- Shepard is born.
31st of August 2152 CE- Shanxi is discovered and colonized by Yuri.
1st of September 2157 CE- The local Homo Superioris governor on Shanxi loses contact with the scientific vessels trying to open the mass relay.
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"And what do you think Jack?" said a liquid cool voice behind him. It sent shivers down his back every time he heard that voice.
"I think that you should prepare for the worst possible scenario," Replied the immaculately dressed man called Jack. He looked out on the stars and took a long, thoughtful drag of the cigarette in his mouth. His grey hair reflected the light back at the viewer, almost like the armor of a shining silvery knight come to rescue the damsel in distress. But his eyes told a different story.
When Jack turned around, you could see the weariness of world, all of its perks and luggage in the bags below his eyes.
Eyes that never slept. Eyes that were vigilant, always watching, like an ancient falcon.
The man he was talking to told a completely separate story, one of his own making. Yuri, the self-appointed judge and juror of humanity. On his forehead the Hebrew letters of yod, vav, and resh were engraved there. Wires flowed from his head, artificial, much like everything else he had built. His eyes were also observant, but in a different way. They darted from person to person, object to object, always scanning for an invisible threat.
Always afraid.
The silver tongued serpent made his pass at him again. "Sometimes the best way to be in control Jack, is to let others think their own thoughts, while you change the environment they are in. Without changing the person directly, you have changed their goals," the Paranoid man said.
Jack, always waiting on his own independent analysis responded. "But sometimes the best way to control someone is fear. Especially when your own population is immune to fear. The only people who can then fear you are those with something to lose. Then when we have secret police who can detect fear, it ensures that we can catch any dissenters," Jack said with cold logic that had none of the poetic wax Yuri's statement had.
"It's just, that I feel something coming. I cannot see what will happen to me in the future. It makes me fear for the impending fate of what I have accomplished." Yuri said, with desperation leaking into his voice.
Jack replied, "Something big is happening alright. Something bigger than all of us. But we will evolve. The weak will be weeded out, as has always happened Yuri." The suited Jack then took another long inhalation, eyes once again turned to the void.
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