A/N: Hey everyone, this is the first little piece I've written for , in preparation for an AU piece I'm doing for Mass Effect in the next week or so, following a different series of events in the aftermath of Shepard's resurrection. This one's just a quickie, a few brief snippets of the news in 2185.
"... so far, no survivors of the attack have been found, and indeed, there is little to no evidence that anything out of the ordinary has occurred at all on Ferris Fields, save for the fact that at this time, all fifteen thousand residents are missing, or worse. The disappearances on Ferris Fields are among that of more than a dozen similar occurrences stretched across the dangerous Terminus Systems. So far, all colonies have been human, leading some to speculate that perhaps these events have been the work of the Geth. Eight of the abandoned colonies have been within a four kiloparsec range of the former Quarian homeworld. As of yet no off-"
"...religious extremists gathered in Confederacy Square on the Alliance Capitol Arcturus earlier today, declaring the events in the Terminus Systems to be a sign of the Rapture, an event which according to the Conclave Bible, will be an end to life as we know it, where the worthy will be brought to paradise, and the unworthy... well the-"
"...victims of th-"
"...triggered a panic today, as thousands of colonists on the planet Curacao abandoned their homes and businesses, and took to the New Willemstad Spaceport, in an attempt to book passage back to the Human Core Worlds..."
"...no survivors..."
"...massive exodus on..."
"...chaos in the streets..."
"...hundreds are dead after the packed liner failed to reach succinct velocity for lift off. Opportunists from around the Terminus have descended upon human colonies in the perceived direction of the attacks charging exorbitant sums to evacuate the residents. The Asari Passenger Transport, Spirit of Aerelia had a maximum capacity of three hundred individuals, it is believed the nearly thrice that number were aboard when the shuttle nosedived int-"
"...Alliance officials refuse to comment on the possibility that this may be the precursor to a Batarian Invasion..."
"...builup of military vessels in the orbit of Pluto..."
"...more than a million humans have filed for residency within Sol in the past week..."
"...stocks remain at an all-time low..."
"...President Jacobi urged for calm today as the ever growing number of-"
"...Commander Shepard was confirmed to be alive and well today by none other than Khalisah Al-Jihlani during a surprise interview in the Wards today. The Commander was, as alwa-"
"...either experience makes these concepts possible or these concepts make experience possible..."
"...And when he has brought forth and reared this perfect virtue, he shall be called the friend of god, and if ever it is given to man to put on immortality, it shall be given to him..."
