The frontier, a vast and dense collection of habitable planets and moons. It expands hundreds of solar systems. Hundred of thousands of environments, from woodland to badlands and deserts to rain forests. However, a war has been raging through the frontier for decades. It started with the Titan Wars, which lasted about 15 years, for a short, 9 months there was peace on the frontier once again.
However, attacks began again. Two sides fighting each other. One fighting for reclaiming what was once theirs, the other one fighting for claiming what they believe is theirs.
The first is the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation or IMC for short. The IMC is mega corporation supplying electronics. The IMC has many sub-divisions such as Hammond robotics, which is responsible for making their technology. Both civilian and military.
The other side is The Frontier Militia, or often referred to as The Militia. A collection of farmers, pirates, slavers and drug traffickers. They have some subdivisions as well, mainly the M-COR, or Marauder Corps for short.
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"In space, fuel is life. And the 1st Militia fleet is running low. Only seven planets in the Yuma sector can refill a fleet of that size. This, is one of them" A voice spoke, Venom looked up at the voice, which belonged to the IMC vice-admiral of the 1st IMC fleet. Marcus Graves, an elderly, black man with decades of experience. "We've set up turrets like this one," Graves pointed at a 20mm Heavy Turret which had been stationed up on a rooftop, "Just in case the militia decides to pay a visit. This one's Charlie,"
The dropship continued to hover alongside the small military site, "This one's Bravo," Graves said, "Bravo, give us a sitrep."
Venom looked at the 20mm heavy turret as it began to go into combat mode, "Turret is online and operational sire" A grunt replied over the radio, the dropship was just about to continue on when a new voice entered the commlink. "Sire, it looks like jump-signals. Hundreds of them, it's the Militia fleet"
Right on time, One and a half dozen crow dropships jumped in over the site. Deploying militia foot soldiers and Pilots, "Sire, we count 12 Pilots, 36 grunts and we have detected 3 titanfalls!" The grunt continued. Looking over the site, Venom saw the Militia titans hit the ground, Two atlas's and a stryder.
"It was only a matter of time," Graves said, "All callsigns, you are to engage and neutralize any Militia personnel, do not hesitate to shoot, for they will not" The dropships continued on, before stopping at Alpha, "Today Pilots, we have a chance on making peace on the frontier, make it count"
"Yes sire!" The IMC Pilots responded before jumping out of the dropship. An IMC Atlas Titan already stood on the ground, "TEAM ALPHA, YOU ARE TO SECURE SECTOR ALPHA, TEAM BRAVO AND CHARLIE, YOU'RE WITH ME" An IMC Pilot Captain said as he signalled for the two teams to follow him.
"Here we go again," Venom said as he clicked the safety off his R101 Carbine, sprinting he leaped into a wallrun, "All callsigns, this is a battle of hardpoint, secure the sectors." A commlink video feed opened with a south african mercenary on, "Pilots, friendly titanfalls are inbound in T minus 3 minutes"
Venom took note before jumping up on a rooftop of a destroyed building, peeking down the road he saw one of the Militia Atlas's aiming down the road. Instantly cloaking, Venom lept to the other building across the road to avoid being seen. The IMC Atlas had reached the same sightline as the Militia Altas. The Militia titan instantly began to open fire with its XO-16 20mm chaingun.
The IMC atlas responded by firing off its missiles. The missiles collided with the enemy atlas bringing down its shields. The IMC atlas began to open fire with its 40mm cannon, bombarding the Militia titan who had foolishly let its shields be destroyed.
Swapping to his Archer, Venom looked at the enemy titan before firing. The rocket hit the militia Atlas making it burst into flames before exploding. Looking at the IMC atlas, he gave it a thumbs up, the Pilot inside responded, "Thank you for the assistance, now go secure Bravo while me and Charlie team take care of Sector Charlie"
"Roger" Venom replied as he dropped down from the building and entered it. It looked like an old bar, there was one passage way to Terminal Bravo. Cloaking again he sprinted down the hallway before coming up on Terminal Bravo. An IMC pilot laid dead with his helmet cracked open. A gunshot was fired but missed Venom, quickly looking at where the gunshot came from he saw a Militia Pilot with a G2A4 battle rifle.
Venom quickly jumped to avoid another shot as he opened fire. The 8.19mm rounds collided with the Militia Pilot killing him. "HOSTILE PILOT, FIRE FIRE!" a Militia grunt yelled as his comrades rushed to his sides. Throwing a fragmentation grenade before taking cover, he blew them up. "Thank you for the assist sire" an IMC grunt said before walking over to the terminal to operate it. Running out of the destroyed side of the wall he looked around… and was nearly blown to bits as the Militia stryder had fired its Quad Rocket at him. Cloaking once again he leapt for cover.
"Come out you IMC piece of shite" The stryder said as it looked around the wall. In the meantime Venom had been sneaking up on the stryder. Jumping onto the hull, he ripped a small hatch open exposing the electronics of the Stryder, "Oh you lil piece of shit."
An electric smokescreen began to emerge from the stryder, forcing Venom off, "This is callsign Venom, requesting titanfall" He reported over the commlink as he sprinted for cover. "Request accepted, standby for titanfall" A spectre replied over the commlink. A green highlight appeared marking where his titan would land. Jumping out of cover just as his titan landed. It was a Stryder with an automatic 40mm cannon given to him when he hit Generation 10. Jumping into the titan, he readied the 40mm.
The other stryder readied up as well, reloading its quad rocket. Dashing out of his domeshield, Venom quickly locked onto the enemy stryder with his MTMS. Firing out the missiles he dashed to the side to avoid the four missiles that had been shot out from the quad rocket.
The other stryder copied his move, making only a couple missiles hit the Militia stryder. Firing his automatic 40mm cannon, Venom hit the enemy stryder three times in the broadside. "Alert, hostile titan's shields are down to 40%" The titan OS informed him.
Seizing the opportunity, Venom dashed forwards and punched the stryder three times, destroying its shields and sending it flying into a rock. The hostile stryder roze from the ground as Venom dashed forward bombarding it with 40mm shells. Some IMC grunt had begun to fire cautiously at the Militia titan, trying not to hit Venom.
"Alert, hostile titan is doomed, advertisement: Termination" The OS informed Venom.
Dashing forwards once again as the Militia stryder tried to get away, Venom punched the cockpit in, grabbing the Militia Pilot inside. Looking at the struggling Militia Pilot swearing as he tried to get out of the IMC Stryder's hand. Sighing, Venom clenched his fist. Crushing the Militia Pilot into two halves. He dropped the dead Militia and turned around to the IMC grunts who had begun to secure the titan to check for anything important.
"All callsigns, the Militia are running low on men, keep it up" Kuben Blisk informed. Dashing forwards he began to wander towards Charlie.
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"And for today's news, after an engagement with the IMC. The 1st Militia fleet suffered critical losses. Reports say that up to 80% of the fleet was destroyed during the three hour short battle. The Militia barely made it away with fuel for a week. Other fleets are reporting similar success as well. If the IMC fleet's are to engage any Militia fleet. Then the results are certain. The Militia is doomed" A female news reporter said on the big TV in front of Venom. Shaking his head, he zipped from the beer in his robotic hand.
"The Militia are fools" He sighed and said to himself, "They should just surrender, they have no way out of this other than that" Rising from the couch he was sitting on, he walked over to the small fridge in his own quarters. Opening the fridge he grabbed some jam before walking over to a cupboard, opening it he found some white bread.
Finding a knife, he began to make himself a jam sandwich. It wasn't really the healthiest, but he didn't really care. He was getting a new squad today, his former one had been KIA since a large skirmish near the western border of the Lya Sector. Eating his sandwich, he began to wonder. 'I haven't gotten any information about my new squad, other than that i'm the leader of it'
It was true, he only knew that he was getting a new squad, and leading it. 'What were they gonna be like? What would they look like?'
His thoughts were cut short as his phone began to ring, shaking his head he picked it up.
"Hello?" He asked.
"Callsign Venom," A woman replied, "You are to report to the vice-admiral in order to meet your new squad"
"Roger, what is the deadline?" Venom asked.
"T minus five minutes," The woman replied, "You should hurry up, good luck Pilot"
Sighing, Venom finished his jam sandwich before getting ready.
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"Welcome to the bridge Pilot" An automatic generated voice said as the Pilot entered the Bridge of the supercarrier 'The Sentinel'. Walking between the terminals he found the vice-admiral.
"Venom reporting in" Venom said as he saluted in front of the vice-admiral.
"Thanks for showing up Venom," Graves replied shaking the Pilot's hand.
"Thanks sire" Venom said as he looked at Graves.
"You excited for your new squad?" Graves asked as they walked towards Graves's office.
"I am sire" Venom replied.
"No need for the 'sire'" Graves said as they walked into Graves's office." I can imagine that you want to read your new squad's files before you meet them?"
"Yeah" Venom said as Graves found 3 folders, putting them on the table. Looking at them he picked the most upper one.
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Name: Charles Smith
Callsign: Chatter
Generation: 10
Age: 37
Sex: Male
Height: 1.74m
Weight: 79.13kg
Race: Caucasian [With hints of Malayan heritage]
Birthday: 5th of July
Homeplanet: New Africa
Home city: Anubis City, aka "The Flying City"
Primary weapon of choice: Combat Advanced Rounds SMG
Secondary weapon of choice: RE. 45 auto
Anti titan weapon of choice: Sidewinder SMR
Titan of choice: Stryder
Titan weapon of choice: Arc Cannon
Titan defensive of choice: Electric smoke
Titan Ordnance of choice: Cluster missile
Joined IMC at age of: 24
Became a Pilot at age: 27
Pilot kills: 3381
Titan kills: 1618
Grunt kills: 7564
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Name: Katy Jackson
Codename: Kitkat
Generation: 8
Age: 25
Sex: Female
Height: 1.68m
Weight: 68.1kg
Race: Malayan [With hints of Caucasian]
Birthday: 23rd of April
Homeplanet: Earth
Home city: North American Sector
Primary weapon of choice: Kraber-AP
Secondary weapon of choice: Hammond P2011
Anti titan of choice: VX-6 Charge Rifle
Titan of choice: Atlas
Titan weapon of choice: XOBTR-16 20mm chaingun
Titan defensive of choice: Vortex Shield
Titan ordnance of choice: Slaved Warheads
Joined IMC at age: 18
Became Pilot at age: 20
Pilot Kills: 1691
Titan Kills: 317
Grunt Kills: 104
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Name: Lauren Jensen
Codename: Cypher
Generation: 9
Age: 29
Sex: Female
Height: 1.83m
Weight: 71.3kg
Race: Ethiopian
Birthday: 31st of December
Home Planet: Xavier
Home city: Angel City
Primary weapon of choice: Spitfire LMG
Secondary weapon of choice: B3 Wingman
Anti titan of choice: Archer AT-Rocket launcher
Titan of choice: Ogre
Titan weapon of choice: Quadrocket
Titan defensive of choice: Particle wall
Titan ordnance of choice: Rocket Salvo
Joined IMC at age: 21
Became Pilot at age: 23
Pilot Kills: 1941
Titan Kills: 813
Grunt Kills: 7515
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After hours of reading files, watching video clips of combat and audio logs. Venom had finally finished. Putting the respective files, audio logs and video logs back into their respective folders, he rose from the chair. Walking out to the command bridge he found Graves.
"I'm done reading the files" He said.
"Good, now please follow me" Graves said and they walked over to the elevator.
Exiting the elevator, Graves led Venom to a briefing room. Opening the door, Venom saw three other people in the room. The first he could identify as Chatter, very light skin with hints of caramel coloring. Grey colored hair and blue eyes.
The second was Kitkat, pink hair with yellow eyes. She was caramel colored with some hints of white heritage. The person besides her was Cypher, a black woman standing tall.
"Hey," Venom said and the four Pilots shaked hands, "Nice to meet you all"
"Venom right?" Chatter asked.
"Yeah," Venom said, "The one and only, menace of the snake"
"Saved my ass during Operation Swamplands, thank you" Chatter said.
"No problems," Venom said. The four Pilots quickly fell into a conversation, talking about their daily lives and their families.
"Pilots, if you could please" Graves said gaining the chattering Pilot's attention, "You are being sent to a top secret IMC research base, what you read in this room… Stays in this room. If we catch you spread any classified information, you will be arrested and charged for first class treason"
The Pilots nodded, quickly understanding the situation. Graves activated the holotable and slid out a folder for each Pilot. "Read these, the ship leaves tomorrow at 0900 hours exact." Graves said and left the room.
Opening their files, they began to read their files.
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CAUTION: THIS FILE IS CLASSIFIED UNDER IMC LAW. PICTURES, VIDEOS OR COPIES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE TAKEN
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Artifact name: Outpost XR371 "Shadowbase"
Location: Eastern Sector of Region Nova, Derlor system. [NOTE: COLONY SHANXI IS IN THE SAME SYSTEM, COLONY HAS NOT BEEN EVACUATED, NOR AWARE OF THE MASS RELAY]
Description: Found near a class 1 garden world, the massive alien structure have at least two fifteen kilometer long arms. In one end a dormant gate/relay of alien origin is located. Scientist have been successful at extracting data. Shadowbase is a mass-transport-relay using an unknown element named Element Z3R0, or element zero for short. The structure is different to that of the Precourser ruins scattered through the frontier. IMC ships have set up turrets on the hull of the station and made a blockade around it in case the Frontier Militia decides to pay a visit.
Discovery: Shadowbase was found 8 months ago, the 9th of June 2156. The planet below is a class 1 garden world, its primary environments are mainly swamps and forests. Prowlers have also been seen during ground exploration, which is believed to have been transported there by Precoursers millennials ago as they are better fit for diving. The station itself is highly advanced and we have deciphered some information about the creators. They call themselves Proetheans, but it is still unknown if the Precoursers and Proetheans are the same.
Mission: Your missions is to protect the scientists against any hostile contacts which may travel through Shadowbase. Your mission will primarily be patrolling the station and escorting.
Payment: 100k Credits
Sign here:_
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18 days later, Turian Hierarchy Battle Fleet. Onboard the 1st Turian fleet flagship
"Sir, we have detected a massive energy spike not too long away from here" A turian techician reported. General Desolas Arterius instantly snapped his head towards the technician, "What?"
"We believe its a Mas Relay which has just been activated." The Turian said.
"Is that so?" Desolas said as he looked at the other Turian, "Relay to the location where the energy spike was located, there we will find out what is happening!"
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Hellooooooooooooooooooo everyone!
This is the project I have been working on, which is also the reason for lack of updates (Sorry) This is a Titanfall 1 and Mass Effect crossover, independent from the Arknetic fanverse. This story will be very IMC centered and the Militia WILL be perceived as terrorists here.
I will just like to clarify that I have not played any Mass Effect games and im going solely out from the Mass Effect Wikipedia, so if someone is willing to help me with the story (Mainly the Mass Effect part), please do PM me.
Until then, Happy Hunting!