There are so many Star Wars / Mass Effect crossovers where one character or more from either universe suddenly appears in the other. But there are next to no one where the two universes clash. Well, let this be one of those stories.
This is Star Wars alternate universe as I've rewritten the timeline for KOTOR and SWTOR to take place after the movies.
Skywalkers and most movie characters will likely not appear. Nor Yuuzhan Vong, who I find quite boring. Reapers too won't likely play a role either.
Rest easy though, this story will not be littered with Original Characters. I will instead include a lot of characters from the expanded universe, like fan favorites Kyle Katarn and Mara Jade. Bear in mind though that since some characters are quite the blank slate, they can appear as OCs in all but name.
Since this is AU some characters might also have different background stories. Kyle Katarn in canon is an Imperial turned Rebel, while here he continues to serve the Empire. Though this is the New Empire, not Palpatines.
Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy my story and while updates might be sporadic, I have no intention of abandoning it.
Please read and review. :-)
P.S. I will not reply to guest reviews. I like replying to my readers and I do that through reviews. Guest reviews will therefore be deleted.
Force Rising
Timeline
100.000BCE: The oldest written text in the galaxy, the Scroll of the Ancients, dates back to this age. The scroll tells us that prehistoric humanity was the first race to invent faster-than-light travel, independent of jump gates or as the scroll refers to them as, "Mass Relays."
Humanity enters a war with the ancient Rakatan Infinite Empire, who is limited by the use of Mass Relays and wishes to use humanity's hyperspace drives, to further expand their empire.
When the war draws near its height the humans and rakatans join forces against an unknown enemy. The scroll refers to them as "Dark Machines" that destroy and consume everything in their path. With the use of an ancient construct called the Star Forge, the Human-Rakata alliance are able to defeat the Dark Machines, but at the cost of the Star Forge and the extinction of all spacefaring life in the galaxy. Only a few humans survive on scarcely populated and far away colonies, while their home world is lost forever surviving only in legends and myths.
Some of the surviving human colonies' populations evolve over time into the various near-human races.
25.000BCE: First Incarnation of a Galactic Republic dates back to around this age. The Jedi Order successor to the ancient Je'daii is founded during this age of the ancient Old Republic.
509BCE: A relatively small band of city states on the planet Mandalore rebel and overthrow the Mandalorian Monarchy. What would be known as the Mandalorian Republic is born. The Republic of Mandalore would through the centuries spread across the Galaxy and usurp the Old Galactic Republic as the main governing body of the Galaxy.
27BCE: The Mandalorian Republic is reformed into the Mandalorian Empire through a series of destabilizing civil wars.
7-2BCE: The Chosen One known as Anakin Skywalker is born to Shmi Skywalker. Religious texts preaches that the Force revealed itself to her, informing her that she would carry a child that would guide the galaxy towards peace.
30-36CE: Anakin Skywalker is executed by the Mandalorian Empire, betrayed by one of his own followers. It is said that he came back to life a week after his death and became one with the Force forty days later after making a series of appearances to his followers. His disciples subsequently scatter across the galaxy spreading his teachings and establishing orders in his name. Today the existence of the "Skywalker" is a hotly debated topic. Both among the general populace and Force-based organizations.
476CE: The Mandalorian Empire collapses. A new Galactic Republic is subsequently formed from its strongest unified systems. It survives for almost a thousand years, while the once mighty Mandalorians are left with only a handful of planets.
1453CE: The Galactic Republic collapses due to internal struggles and irreconcilable differences between its factions. Some systems leave while others remain with the Republic.
1453 - 1939CE: Governments rise and fall, kingdoms shine and crumble, empires conquer and collapses and the Jedi Order gains its foothold in Galactic society. Usurping many smaller local conclaves of Force practitioners within the Republic.
1500CE: The Jedi Order builds their temple on Coruscant.
1515CE: The Sith Order on Korriban sets in motion their plan to conquer the galaxy, thus starting the first galactic conflict where both sides rely heavily on Force users in centuries.
1516CE: The Jedi join the alliance against the Sith declaring themselves guardians of peace and justice, within the galaxy.
1519CE: The Sith are defeated and beaten back to Korriban. With their order scattered and hunted down by the Jedi, they are declared extinct, though a young Jedi by the name of Yoda believes that they are still out there.
1520CE: The alliance of states who fought against the Sith agrees to form a new galaxy spanning government. The Galactic Federation is thus founded with the city planet of Koros Major as its capital.
The Jedi order declares their allegiance with the Federation.
1776CE: The thirteen Core Colonies, led by Coruscant, rebel against the Federation starting the War of Independence. The Jedi Order experiences a schism between those who side with the Colonies and those who side with the Federation.
1783CE: The Treaty of Coruscant is signed ending the war and recognizing the sovereignty of the Core Colonies Republic. Later reformed into the Galactic Republic, yet again.
1861CE: The Slave Wars begin between the Core and Midrim worlds who fight for the freedom of slaves and the Outer Rim Confederacy who fight for the freedom of owning slaves.
1865CE: The Slave Wars come to an end with the orbital bombardment of Nar Shaddaa and Nal Hutta in retaliation of the Confederacy's bombardment of Taris. Leaving the Hutt race all but extinct and effectively ending the slaver empires.
1932CE: The Trade Federation blockades the peaceful planet Naboo. Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn and his padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi are targeted for assassination when they arrive to discuss peace with the leader of the Trade Federation, Nute Gunray. They manage to evade their assassins and make it to Naboo's surface, save queen Padme Amidala and escape in her royal spaceship to Coruscant.
Senator Palpatine of Naboo is anointed Supreme Chancellor after the queen puts Chancellor Valorum up for a vote of confidence.
1938CE: Former queen, now senator Padme Amidala, is the target of a failed assassination. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and now Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi are tasked with finding the perpetrator. Their search leads them to Kamino where they find a clone army in the making, supposedly ordered by the then deceased Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. The army quickly finds its use when a number of systems break off from the Republic forming the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Led by rogue Jedi turned Sith, Count Dooku.
September 1: The Clone Wars break out.
1942CE: As the Clone Wars draws to an end, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine reveals himself to be the true remaining Sith Lord - Darth Sidious, who has manipulated the war since before its inception. All in a plan to put the galaxy under a thousand year Sith rule.
With the initiation of Order 66, the Jedi and all who oppose the newly formed Galactic Empire are hunted down and killed; the Jedi Temple on Coruscant is purged, with only a few Jedi managing to escape.
The Jedi Masters Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu and other of the Order's High Council hold back the clone army long enough to send out a warning to the remaining Jedi.
The construction of the Death Star begins.
1953CE: Darth Sidious, during one of the hunts for Force sensitive children, finds a young boy particularly strong in the Force. The boy once known as Galen Marek is stripped of his name and through his Sith training is only known as Starkiller. He often finds himself coming to blows with Darth Sidious' other apprentice, Darth Maul, whom he quickly surpassed in skill and power.
1963CE: Galen Marek, at the age of 21 is sent on his first mission; to create a resistance force in order to draw out the remaining Jedi and those who stand against the Empire.
He is joined by his training droid Proxy and Imperial Officer Juno Eclipse.
1964CE: During the months gathering the forces of the Alliance to Restore the Republic or Rebel Alliance. Galen Marek would find himself drawn more to the ideals of the Rebels than the teachings of his master. Marek later confesses Darth Sidious' plan to the leader of the fugitive Jedi, Rahm Kota who informs him that he knew from the beginning. With the help of Kota, Juno and his newfound friends he turns on his master and sides with the rebels.
1965CE: On 5 September, the Rebel alliance launches a full out attack on the almost finished Death Star, orbiting the moon Endor. Marek boards the station and fights his way to the throne room where he duels both Maul and Sidious. Marek manages to kill Maul, but is injured by Sidious, who gives him one last chance to rejoin him. To rule the galaxy side by side. Marek in his last act of defiance tackles his former master, sending them both into the reactor of the Death Star. The Force energy released by their deaths starts a chain reaction within the station's core, resulting in its subsequent destruction. Large pieces of debris rains down on Endor leaving it a radioactive wasteland and reducing its native population to zero.
December 2: All hostilities across former Imperial space ceases and the Republic is formed again as the "New Republic." Worlds that were assimilated by the Empire also join the New Republic. The leaders of the Rebel Alliance declare the Starbird on the Marek family crest, the symbol of the New Republic. Padme Amidala serves as its first Supreme Chancellor, retiring after her two turns of 8 years.
December 5: Rahm Kota the most senior of the surviving Jedi restores the order. The New Jedi Order is known for its more liberal and pragmatic leanings than the Old Order. Kota's reason for this was that the pursuit of happiness is an essential part of ones nature and to deny it would just as much a tragedy as falling to the Dark Side. This is also one of the key tenets of Anakin Skywalker's teachings.
Rahm Kota would further improved upon the Jedi Order until his death of natural causes in 2014.
1966CE: The remnant of the Galactic Empire on the planet Bastion reforms itself under New Republic supervision, into the Federal Republic of Bastion, led by a council of Moffs.
1993CE: The Mandalorians after having remained as an alliance of states for centuries is united under Duchess Satine Kryze, forming the state of New Mandalore.
2127CE: Darth Krayt, a former Jedi who fought in the Clone Wars, reveals himself as a leader of a new Sith Order. "The One Sith." Taking up residence on the birth planet of the Sith, Korriban. He launches an all-out attack on both Republic and Bastion space, intent on destroying the New Jedi Order, sending all his minions to commit murderous sprees in his name.
Thus starts the Republic-Sith War.
2128CE: The Council of Moffs betray their Republic allies and sides with the Sith. The Republic, in order to counter the now massive Sith-Bastion army, request military aid from non-Republic members.
December 7: The Mandalorians now united against a common enemy together with Corellia and the Hapes Consortium join the Republic in the war. They form what would be known as the Galactic Alliance while the Sith-Bastion alliance and those aligned with them will go down in history as the Axis powers.
2130CE: The Axis wins the Republic-Sith war with the victory at the Battle of Caamas and the Massacre of Ossus. The remnant of the Allied Forces, the Galactic Alliance Remnant, led by Admiral Gar Stazi continues the war.
Darth Krayt after the Sack of Coruscant betrays his Bastion allies in a coup, splitting the Federal Republic of Bastion into two factions, those siding with the Sith and those loyal to Bastion. The loyalist, are led by the ambitious Fel family - Jagged Fel and his son Roan.
2137CE: The leaders of the Bastion loyalists join the Galactic Alliance in order to win the war and restore peace to the galaxy.
2138CE: A young Jedi Padawan by the name of Revan is tasked by the Jedi Order to find Padawan Bastila Shan who possesses the rare power of battle meditation, and was shot down over the planet Taris.
With the help of fellow Padawan Juhani, a Republic pilot Carth Onasi and two droids HK-47 and R2-D2, they manage to track down Bastila on Taris. While on the city planet they free a wookie named Zaalbar from Sith slavery, upon his release, the wookie swears a life debt to Revan and promises to help him in his fight against the Sith Empire. After investigating the whereabouts of Bastila, they are approached by a man named Tyber Zann, leader of the Zann Consortium crime syndicate. Zann reveals that Bastila is held captive by Milos Brejik, leader of a lower city gang named the Black Vulkars, and a thorn in Zann's eye. Zann offers to help them win Bastila back from Brejik who is planning to sell her in a swoop race, if they help him kill Brejik and his superior, Davik Kang.
Using a prototype drive for their swoop bike, Revan is able to win the race and free Bastila, though their celebration is interrupted by Brejik who accuse them of cheating. Before Brejik's men can draw their weapons, Bastila breaks free of her bonds and Revan and company immediately draw their weapons. Faster than Brejik can draw his gun, Zann immediately shoots the gang leader in his nether regions and throws him over the railing, onto the track several feet below, ending the fight.
When the gang regroups in an upper city bar, they find out that the Sith has blockaded the planet, effectively stranding them. Not long after they are approached by Kang's personal bodyguard, Canderous Ordo. The Mandalorian reveals that he is tired of being Kang's personal guard dog and offers to join them in their quest, if they help him steal Davik's prized ship, the Millennium Falcon. With Canderous' and Zann's (who chose to tag along) help. They manage to infiltrate Kang's compound and escape from Taris. But not before Zann and Canderous unload their guns into Kang and his goons.
On their way back to Alliance controlled space, Bastila and Revan get a vision of the previously believed destroyed Star Forge and the star maps leading to its location, with this new information they set course for Kashyyyk where one of these maps are located.
On Kashyyyk they meet a former Jedi Padawan, Jolee Bindo who knows the location of the star map. Bindo offers to show them the way, if they take him with them on their journey, stating that he had grown tired of the scenery.
August 15: Revan, Bastila and company manages to find the Star Forge orbiting around a dead and desolate planet that would later be known as Rakata Prime. But they are followed by the Sith on their way, Revan sends out a distress call for the entire Alliance navy, to gather at his location.
The Battle of Rakata Prime would determine the fate of the Republic-Sith War as the entire military might of both factions clashed against each other. While the battle raged over Rakata Prime, Revan and company prepared for battle against Darth Krayt and his entire army of Sith warriors. Meanwhile Bastila enters her battle meditation in the hope of giving the Galactic Alliance Remnant a fighting chance.
During the hectic battle to keep the Sith away from Bastila, Juhani takes two lightsabers through her stomach, but not before the Cathar manages to shove her saber through one of her killer's throat, the other one is killed immediately by Zann who shoots him through the head. HK-47 manages to down several enemies with his blaster, but is finally taken down by a Sith warrior who manages to drive his lightsaber through the droid's central processing unit, HK immediately kills the Sith by caving his face in with his fist. The assassin droid then activates his self-destruct mechanism running into a tightly clustered group of hostiles before exploding, killing several.
Carth is later killed when a Sith warrior almost makes it to the security door separating them from Bastila. He manages to tackle the Sith, jamming his combat knife into his neck, but dies from the wounds sustained from the Sith's Force lightning.
When the battle draws near its end, only the core of Krayt's Sith warriors remain, with Revan personally dueling the Sith Lord. At the height of the duel Krayt almost manages to strike down Revan, but Zaalbar manages to push him aside, taking the strike meant for the Jedi.
Using the distraction, Revan throws his saber into Krayt's chest, while the others continuously fire at him till their weapons run dry. With the death of Darth Krayt the Dark Lord of the Sith, and the successful protection of Bastila Shan, the battle is over.
The Star Forge is later destroyed in a combined barrage from the allied fleet. Ensuring no one is able to use it in the future. The Sith are crippled, the Allies have gained the upper hand and the war enters its final stages.
May 1: The Bastion loyalist hunts down the last traitorous Moffs. Jagged and his son Roan Fel, the only surviving member of the Fel family, establishes the Imperial Systems also known as the New Empire.
May 9: Victory Day. The Republic-Sith War is over and the galaxy is at peace once again. A victory celebration is held on Coruscant where the heroes of the Alliance are commemorated. Tyber Zann is exonerated and reveals that he plans to go into politics. Bastila and Revan share their first "official" kiss and later marry.
June 2: The Galactic Alliance is restored into the New Republic, this time joined by Corellia, Hapes and the Mandalorians as close allies, ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity.
2140CE: The Sith are believed all but extinct.
2145CE: Jagged Fel dies from complications caused by the injuries he sustained during the war. He is remembered as a just ruler and one of the founders of the new golden age. Roan Fel takes up the mantle as the new Emperor.
2148CE: Humans from the lost home world, Earth, discovers a small cache of highly advanced Prothean technology hidden deep beneath the surface of Mars on the south polar region of Promethei Planum. Building on the remnants of this long extinct race, Earth humans quickly explore the science of mass effect fields, leading to the development of faster than light travel and begin detailed exploration of the Sol system.
2149CE: Following information from the translated data cache on Mars, Earth humans discover that Charon, Pluto's moon, is actually a massive piece of dormant Prothean technology, a mass relay, encased in ice. Once activated, Jon Grissom leads the first team of explorers through the relay, which instantaneously transports them to another relay in Arcturus, 36 light-years away. The explorers discover that the mass relays are part of a vast network, making travel across the galaxy possible.
The Systems Alliance charter is signed by the eighteen largest nations on Earth. The Alliance soon becomes the military and exploratory spearhead of humanity.
Unbeknownst to them, the Relay was placed there one hundred thousand years before by the "Dark Machines," who believed that humanity had been eradicated with only Earth remaining. The Dark Machines placed the relay in the Sol system for the next time humanity would rise, in order for them to go down a predetermined path, and to their doom.
2157CE: Earth humanity makes first contact with the asari when they try to activate Relay 314. The asari captain in charge of the patrol fleet, Anaya, initiates first contact. The Systems Alliance later joins the Citadel.
Matriarch Benezia would later comment that if it hadn't been for General Arminius, the commanding officer of the 12th patrol fleet being sick, first contact with humanity would likely have escalated to war.
2160CE: After the birth of his and Bastila's daughter, Revan disappears, leaving only a message that he saw a vision of the last Sith. The Millennium Falcon is later found, sold to a man named Lando Calrissian.
2166CE: Lando Calrissian loses the Millennium Falcon in a gamble to an unknown individual.
2170CE: A Batarian pirate fleet with the intent of attacking the Systems Alliance colony of Mindoir, makes a miscalculation in a relay jump and attack a Mandalorian world. The Batarian fleet is never heard from again.
The attack makes the larger galactic society aware of the mass relays mentioned in the Scroll of the Ancients. The Republic, New Empire, Mandalorians, Corellians and Hapans send out fleets to find them, but all return empty handed.
2171CE: January: A mysterious triangle shaped ship, wearing a six rayed galactic roundel, is discovered at the edge of the galaxy by a New Republic Cruiser. Before they give chase the ship jumps to FTL towards and unspecified region of dark space.
2172CE: Bastila Shan is made Grand Master of the Jedi Order.
2176CE: February: A Mass Relay is discovered by the Corellians.