Author Note : Alright, this story is a story that has passed my mind when I was playing Planet Side 2 as The Vanu and this just won't get out from my head so I decide to type it down. This chapter is just the Time line and I hope this story won't become a dead end like my other story. Please give's a lot of review and opinion on what course you want to take. One thing clear is there will be no alliance between the VS with the Citadel. And can somebody give me a suggestion on which gender of Shepard you want me to use. I had a hard time choosing it.
Chapter : Timeline 1
2145 : A strange anomaly appeared in space in the solar system, it soon were noticed by scientists on Earth. The scientists described the anomaly as a fracture in space. It disappears a couple of weeks later before any further investigation can be.
2226 : Responding to intelligence indicating imminent and simultaneous attacks, Earth's six greatest countries declare war on each other. The fight quickly intensifies into an all out brawl between great army of each country.
2244 : The space-fracture anomaly reappears, nearly 100 years after its original sighting. This time probes are launched and successfully reach the area near the anomaly. A multispectral transmissions is detected as they exit the fracture in the direction of earth. They are believed to be some form of scanning issued from the other side, and are considered by many as a clear indication of intelligent alien life that is aware of humanity. When the fracture closes several weeks later, it release a shockwave of unstable energy which ultimately destroy Pluto and thrown his moon Charon to Neptune so in the end humanity found their system minus one planet and Neptune gain another moon.
This founding is made public by scientist and the news that there's a possible extra-terrestrial power prompt the nation to sign an armistice and ending the war.
2245 - 2285 : Because of the increasing connection and trade of culture nation border start to fade and the world government agree to unite the government as one forming the Terran Republic led by council of Senate. The Republic start to build a mighty fleet in case there's an attack from extra-terrestrial power. This act start to slowly strain the economy but the public let it be because of the fear of alien invasion spread by the government.
2290 : The space-fracture anomaly reappears again, this time in an area between Mars and Earth although it's size is not as big as the first one it still large enough for a fleet to come through, a red alert situation is declared on the whole of Earth. After several weeks of waiting without anything happening, the Government decide to investigate what is on the other side. Many debate happen on what forces to send, in the end a force consist of 50% of the total Terran fleet is decided to be send through the anomaly complete with many scientist team and some number of civilians just in case there's a planet found to be colonized, tagging along with the fleet is a small number of privately owned spaceship owned by a conglomeration of corporation called New Conglomerate with a goal to seek profit from this journey. The fleet succeeded to go through the anomaly to the other side, but not long after the fleet succeed to go through the anomaly rapidly gone unstable then abruptly closed and traps the entire expedition fleet on an unknown location. Worse the energy wave from the closing of the unstable wormhole damaging many ships in the fleet, warship and civilian alike in an unknown location and unknown to them a different time precisely 130 years in the past.
The fleet soon fall in to a state of panic, forcing the Terran military to enforce peace through force and try to repair the ships as they can. This situation also force the corporation owned ship to abide to the military or they will be declared as renegade and forced to surrender their ship. After drifting in space for a while with no sense of time and with the supply aboard started to dwindle and some ship start to break apart unable to sustain the damage they gain, the fleet finally succeed to find a hospitable planet to inhabit with 3 large continent in it, at first they want to named it 'New Earth' for their new home but after scanning the surface they found an Alien ruin so they choose a new name 'Auraxis' and begin to settle in that planet while the scientist and some soldier aboard is eager to get their hand on some alien technology.
Meanwhile on the Solar System side of the wormhole the situation is even worse, the energy wave from the wormhole that is hitting Earth and Mars are on a far larger scale than the other side. Fortunately the energy unleashed isn't enough to destroy the planet but still enough to cause untold damage on the surface. In the end many city found themselves in ruin, many lives was lost and untold amount of resources and technology lost because of the disruptions effect of the wave destroy most electronic device and all the fleet left in orbit get destroyed and their debris fall to Earth adding to the destruction. While the military try to do damage control, many people find themselves fighting just to survive and get the necessary goods. As time progress unrest start to crawl itself to the people and many riots start to taking place and this cause the military to suppress it with more force which cause more unrest and the cycle is repeated again and again until the dam is broke.
(Auraxis AL 1): To set a standard for time the Terran military in Auraxis announce that the year they arrive in the planet as AL 1 (After Landfall) and fortunately there's no change in the count of day and years just that the night is about 2 hours longer than normal. A team of scientist leaded by Prof. Henry Briggs along with their security guard make their way on one of massive facility at the center of one of three continent on the planet. In there they found an alien artifact inside of what appear to be a lab which activate suddenly when Henry try to get close to it, in there the whole expedition is shown a vision by the artifact. No one knows what the vision they get but after that all of them agree for one thing 'to survive they need to go forward not as a person but as a species'. While some in the team want to spread this to the whole fleet the notion is quickly suppressed when the majority says that the people won't believe them and they are not ready yet. After that they start to search the Vanu facility having gained the information through the vision, securing whatever information and tech they can that is not to significant. In the end when they got back to report their finding they just report that the ruin are just a research lab and they finally got a name for alien race called the Vanu and they request for the facility to be used as their research base which is granted as long as there's a guard assigned to the facility (most of the guard assigned are the soldier who previously act as their security escort which the scientists gladly accept) and they keep giving result to their finding. A few days after that all of the personnel that account as a member of the expedition meet together in a secret room on the alien facility now designated as 'The Crown' because it contain a large amount of varied alien technology it become a jewel of wonder for the scientists. In that meeting they discuss what should be done with their knowledge and what is their goal. Many opinion are thrown but they all agree that The Vanu is truly a race of great mastery of knowledge and wisdom and it's up to them that the will of the Vanu race be carried on. Also that there's a subtle but increasing tension in the settlement between the military and the Conglomerate which many predict will birth a troublesome conflict in the future. In the end of the meeting finally a consensus is made, they has been given the mantle and it's up to them to bring it to a greater height by spreading their sovereign under the mantle bestowed by The Vanu thus the seed of what will become an independent nation called as The Vanu Sovereignty is sown. The assigned security personnel will form the main force of military for the Vanu follower in the coming conflict while the scientist will vigorously research new technology either by inventing, reverse engineering or combining it to prepare the Vanu follower for the incoming conflict. They decide to spread their principle and goal through discreet mean always just telling the person they deemed trustworthy and ready for changing, this movement would flourish undetected by either the Terran Republic or the Conglomerate.
2292 : (Earth) The situation can be called as an egg on the tip of bullhorn. With a lack of long range communication in the first years many region start to come to chaos and many warlord start to appear and carve their own territory. This territory varied between the warlord depends on their charisma, influence, and sometimes cruelty. Finally just in the second year after the Day The Sky Fall because of the energy wave and ship debris coming from the sky, Earth is divided into a large number of territories, the biggest territories is held by what remains of the Terran government. Anarchy and violence is a common thing the only secure place can only be found deep in a rich area lived by influential or important people or deep in a military base. While the rich got a secure and joyful life the common people must search from the scrap and bits or fighting to defend themselves. Fortunately the technological level has return to the 21st century era level.
2293 - 2300 : (Earth) Conflict start to arose in Earth, The Terran Republic start to give pressure to the smaller territories to re-annex themselves again to the Republic. This causing the warlord of the territories pressured to search for an ally and began building their military. In 2297 The Alliance is born to challenge the supremacy of the Terran Republic. The Alliance is an amalgamation of many nation big or small that feel pressurized by the Republic. Tension is alarmingly increased in the border but still no major battle happen only skirmishes that keeps both sides on their guard.
(Auraxis AL 9 ) Tension between the Conglomerate and the Republic arose with the Conglomerate hiring more mercenaries from the populace, this helping the secret Vanu movement to implant their agent to both sides. Henry Briggs found the blue print of a special chamber called the rebirth chamber that enables people to be resurrected automatically in it using the nanites in the air that they breath the fact that surprise them all although the chamber can't resurrect someone who died for old age the implications is just too great. This founding quickly increase the moral of the movement and intact chambers are found deep inside The Crown and several key places in another ruin that has a research lab in it or soon to be build. A plan begin to form in the upper echelon of the movement, they will increase the tension between the Greed blinded New Conglomerate and the naive Terran Republic until conflict happens and the movement is ready they will surface and take control while using rebirth chamber reprogrammed to only work for them for their advantage.
2310 : (Earth) A Incident happens on one of important city of the Alliance killing several governmental figure and hundreds of Civilian. After investigations evidence was founded that point to the involvement of the Republic, The Alliance public want a retribution to be made, tension arose and finally after a paranoid Republic Officer order his patrol to fire on Alliance patrol when they accidently pass each other to close for comfort a full scale attack was launched by the Alliance in to the border of the Republic, Thus begin the War for Terra, a war that will continue for decades with untold lives lost.
(Auraxis AL 40) Henry Biggs died because of old age leaving a wife and his two sons, Kreig Biggs and Mark Biggs.
(Auraxis AL 43) MAX suit is created and tested secretively by the follower of the Vanu, while they began to stockpile on their own military equipment. Energy based weapons and hover vehicles are the primarily weapon of choice to be stored.
2350 : the war is nearing its end. The Alliance manage to push deep in to the territory of the Republic. Fierce fighting is happening in the capital city of New York, both side unwilling to break.
2351 : Frustrated that after a year there still no progress the Alliance top bras decide to launch a nuclear bomb to the center of New York flattening the city and killing almost a million people, military and civilian alike. In retaliation a vengeful Republic officer launch their own nuclear missiles to the Alliance capital city also flattening it. In the end of the year on December 4th a peace agreement is made between what remains of both side and a new Alliance and pledge are made after the catastrophe that is known as the War for Terra end, thus giving birth to Earth Alliance from the combination of Terra Rep. and The Alliance.
2440 : Humanity successfully launch and expedition on Mars. Plan for colonization on Mars is being made.
2443: The first Colony is established on Mars. Earth Alliance changed its name to System Alliance to accommodate that Humanity no longer just living on Earth, no one remember the fleet that has been lost before The Day The Sky Fall disaster.
2487 : Humanity found traces of unknown element on Mars.
2488: After some exploration humanity discovers a small cache of highly advanced Prothean technology hidden deep beneath the surface of Mars on the south polar region of Promethei Planum. They decide to reverse engineer it. Building on the remnants of this long extinct race, humans quickly explore the science of mass effect fields, leading to the development of faster than light travel and beginning detailed exploration of the Sol system.
2489 : Following information from the translated data cache on Mars, humans discover that Charon, previously moon of Pluto but now belong to Neptune, is actually a massive piece of dormant Prothean technology, a mass relay, encased in ice. Once activated, a team of explorers go 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.
2490 :The Systems Alliance begins the first surveys for colonization prospects outside the Sol System. One of these surveys discovers the planet Terra Nova.
2491 : To defend its expanding territory, humanity begins constructing a "massive" military fleet and Space station at Arcturus, the nexus of several key mass relays, even though they have yet to encounter another intelligent spacefaring race.
An accident at Singapore International Spaceport exposes hundreds of humans to dust-form element zero. Roughly 30% of the children born in Singapore after element zero exposure suffer from cancerous growths.
2492 : Planet Demeter, Eden Prime and Terra Nova were colonized.
2494 : Shepard was born
2496 : A small number of human children exposed to element zero exhibit minor telekinetic abilities.
2497 (AL 337): Humanity makes violent first contact with another spacefaring race: the turians. The turians observe human explorers attempting to activate a dormant mass relay, a practice forbidden by galactic law after the Rachni Wars, and attack. Over the next three months, a brief but tense conflict known by humans as the First Contact War and by turians as the Relay 314 Incident ensues.
The First Contact War culminates in the turian siege and occupation of Shanxi, the first human world to fall to an alien race. Admiral Kastanie Drescher leads the Second Fleet in battle against Shanxi's occupiers one month later, catching the turians by surprise and evicting them from the planet.
The turians prepare for a full-scale war against humanity, but this draws the attention of the Citadel Council. The Council intervenes before hostilities escalate further, revealing the existence of the greater galactic community to humanity and brokering a peace between them and the turians.
An anonymous extranet manifesto is published following the end of the First Contact War. The manifesto calls for an army, a "Cerberus", to be established to defend humanity against inevitable alien attacks. Derided as "survivalist rhetoric written by an Illusive Man ", the manifesto is quickly forgotten by the media.
2498 - 2505 : Almost no change in the event happening all goes like in the canon.
2506 : The Batarian secretly activate a new mass relay and found a planet inhabited by primitive alien race. Typical for Batarian they decide to enslave this new race and use them as slave soldier to use against the System Alliance that continue to expanding their territory in the Skylian Verge. Although initially the invasion fleet reported an imminent success in the invasion, it will be the last report from the fleet. The invasion fleet never return or be seen again after that. The Batarian has keep silent and refuse to comment when ask by the council of the whereabouts of one of their fleets.
2507 : The Batarian colony Cholis suddenly gone silent. The planet previously has become the staging ground for the secret invasion fleet of the Batarian. The Hegemony and the council is alerted about this development, the council ready a small fleet on the edge of Batarian occupied border for precaution. In the 7th month of the year the Citadel fleet composed of Turian ships along with some Salarian placed near Batarian colony world of Anhur receive a distress call from the planet. When they come to investigate they found an unknown hostile Alien fleet invading the colony. The Citadel fleet under the command of its admiral aboard decide to engage the unknown hostile alien, unknowingly setting an event that will greatly impact the Galaxy.
Author Note : And this is the end of this chapter. Just so you now I push the timeline about 340 years forward than the year in mass effect timeline. Every event in Mass Effect is pushed 340 years forward if you are confused with the years. Okay, reviews is very appreciated and if there's a misspell in the grammar please tell me. And if you have some idea to add to the story please feel free to give it to me. And please tell me which gender Shepard you want me to write because I don't know which to choose, both has pro and cons and I cannot decide. See you in the next chapter.