It has been five years since the end of the Reaper War. Five years since Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy risked everything to unite the galaxy in a single effort to rid the Milky Way galaxy forever of the Reaper threat. When the fighting finally stopped, and the dust settled, it appeared that Shepard had been successful in defeating the Reapers. In that time, races have rebuilt, new alliances have formed, and the reborn Milky Way is set to have brand new problems that it is not entirely prepared to fight…
Chapter 1
Oblivion
Module 407, or as some of the Quarian crew have come to call him "Oblivion", was a hulking Geth Prime who was currently marching through the hall towards the bridge. Some of the Quarians that passed him gave him a wide berth though unlike normally, this was from respect more than fear.
The crew of the Zakra has been around Oblivion long enough to know that he meant no harm to them. The years of, and preceding the Reaper War, Geth had been widely feared. It started with the Morning War, a rebellion of the geth that forced Quarians off their home world and into a new life on the flotilla for hundreds of years. Seven years ago, a rogue Spectre named Saren and his Reaper ship Sovereign, with the Geth forces that followed the "Old Machines", wrecked havoc across the galaxy, ending with a large battle on the citadel, with Commander Shepard taking out Saren and the Normandy leading the assault on the Reaper. Details of Shepard's mission were fairly secretive, but after seven years and many auto biographies and interviews with those who surrounded Shepard, many stories of the famed Commander got out, forcing the Alliance and the Council to make Shepard a public hero. When the reaper war started two years later, more Geth once again, sided with the Reapers, though it seemed they only did so to survive against the Quarians who hunted them endlessly. Reports had been that it was ultimately Tali Zorah vas Normandy, an Admiral that accompanied Shepard, helped coerce peace between the two warring factions. Legion, the geth who followed Shepard, sacrificed himself in order to transfer his sentience to the other geth, making all of them sentient like organics. Oblivion, like other geth, was also sentient. Though he was sentient long before the rest of the geth became as such. By a few months in fact. How he became sentient without the "Legion Code", he doesn't know. All he remembers is waking up in a lab with destroyed equipment all around him. He does not recall anything, someone appeared to have wiped his memory storage. He knows he lived before, but try as he might, Oblivion could not remember a single part o his life before the experiment.
Deep in thought, he almost didn't notice a small Quarian girl run up to him, tapping him on his shin. Oblivion looked down on the tiny creature, who seemed to not care about how small she was compared to the hulking mass of metal and weapons. This particular Quarian youngster had a mission. A mission that the fearless and ruthless Geth mercenary could accomplish.
"Mr. Geth sir? Can you help me find my binkie?"
Oblivion's neck sparked a little. A bit of damage he received in a previous job that had yet to be fixed, greatly reduced his processing power and left some of his motor and verbal funtions to act up. Oblivion's head jerked a little with every stutter, with the sparking in his neck happening equally as periodically. "Apologies little Crea-a-a-a-tor." The Geth's head sparked a bit more. "What is this 'binkie' you speak of?"
The little girl held up a small hand drawn map with a thin line curving around multiple scribbled objects that ended with a small red "X". The map itself with all the scribbles made little to no sense to Oblivion, and was about to relay this to the little girl when she motioned with her hands while skipping away. "Come on," she exclaimed. "Let's go on an adventure to find my little Hanar!"
The Geth made an audible sound from his external speakers that sounded suspiciously like a sigh, and he started walking, his larger strides keeping up easily with the much smaller Quarian, as they made their way to finding the lost Hanar toy.