The elder scrolls: The Era of the stars.
Disclaimer: I don't own mass effect or elder scrolls; they belong to bioware and Bethesda.
Author's notice: I attempt to combine my two favourite things; the elder scrolls and mass effect. Please note I have never fully played oblivion and the last time I play morrowind or daggerfall since 2005, so my memory may not perfect.
I only have word 2003 on my computer, so my grammer may not be up to standards and I don't feel like buying a new one.
Also while this fanfiction shares the similar concept with ethereal 23's fan fiction (people of nirn enter the space age and meet the races of mass effect.) I will be writing the fanfiction on what I wish to happen.
'Hello' means someone is thinking or talking through telepathy
/hello/ means a message is playing
*bang* means there is a noise
There are three important things you need to know
1. The names of the planets in the solar system changed now
Mercury is zenithar. Venus is mara. Earth is nirn. Mars is sheogorath. Jupiter is Akatosh. Saturn is cavlicus. Uranus is jullianos. Neptune is mora. Pluto is namira. If your asking why I'm changing the names of the planets please note that it makes sense for the people of nirn to name the planets after there gods, not after ours. Also the days and months changed to their elder scrolls counterpart.
2. The people of nirn use robots that were originally humanoids, but were trapped in a soul gem and then had the chance to be placed into a robot body or be killed. So they aren't actually since they use to be human.
3. The people of Nirn aren't going to act all sunshine and rainbows, nor are they going to act all dark and evil.
Part 1: Timeline
4E 202: The events of Skyrim take place. A Bosmer is discovered to be the dragonborn. The Stormcloaks when the civil-war and skyrim becomes separated from the emperor. Alduin is killed in sovangarde by the dragonborn. The dark brotherhood is destroyed in skyrim. The thieves' guild is returned to its former glory.
4E 210: The aldemeri dominion attempts to conquer skyrim. Heavy resistance was encountered; the Storm-cloaks succeed in driving back all thalmor forces. An attempted invasion of the summerset isle is attempted; it becomes a disaster. Tensions between the aldemeri dominion and the storm-cloaks increase. The reformations of the blades occur in skyrim due to the requests of the dragonborn. The Falmer and hagravens become extinct. Giants start slowly signs of reduced hostility.
4E 212: The Stormcloaks attempt to gain the argonians and khajit in skyrim as allies. They are successful with the khajit, however the argonians refuse to become involved with the conflicting. Surprisingly, the entire bosmer population in skyrim sides with the stormcloaks, most likely due to the dragonborn being a bosmer. The Emperor of tamriel dies of a heart attack. Christen Medes become emperor a month after his uncle's death. Skyrim becomes fully engaged in war with the aldemeri dominion.
4E 215: Ulfric Stormcloaks dies due to natural causes. The Dragonborn becomes high-king of skyrim. The emperor of tamriel approaches the dragonborn with an offer. If Skyrim becomes part of tamriel again then the empire will send supplies and troops over to help with the war. At first the storm-cloaks refused the emperor's offer, but later accepted when they realize they had no other choice. Staying true to his word; Christen Medes aid the storm-cloaks in battling the aldemeri dominion in exchange to become of the emperor; through most of his actions were in secret. The giants become engaged with modern society.
4E 220: The Aldemeri dominion discovers that the emperor has assisted the storm-cloaks in the war. The aldemeri dominion/ Empire war occurs.
4E 225: The war ends and peace treaty is signed. It states that each side most keep to themselves and any hostile actions against one another is considered an act of war. The races of Tamriel slowly start to drift about and racial tenses have been the highest; with most of the races keeping to themselves
4E 230: Christen Medes dies of a heart attack. The dragonborn becomes emperor of tamriel. His first task was to cut the amount of racial tension in tamriel, make sure each race have an equal place of power and restore the empire to its former glory. The aldemeri dominion is dissolved due to political corruption and the argonian rebellion.
4E 300: Racism is decrease. All species have equal power to allow for equal power. The empire is restored to its former glory.
4E 320: The dragonborn offers the redguards to restore Yokunda back to its original state in exchange that the continent becomes part of the emperor; the redguards agree. Atmora becomes part of the empire. Pyandonea becomes part of the empire and first contact is made with the sea elves. At first they prove quite hostile through they later joined the empire five years later.
4E 380: Yokunda is restored back to its original state. Scientists and scholars become interested in reverse engineering ancient dwarven tech; the dragonborn quickly increases funding for magic and science in the hopes of increasing their technology.
4E 400: Electricity is discovered and it slowly becomes part of the empire. Total population is 1 billion
4E 500: Nirn enters the steam age. Akavir is discovered and it is quickly discovered that the native races are in engaged with the civil war with each other. The native races learn discover the empire's presence and each of them beg the dragonborn to aid with the war. The dragonborn refuses for unknown reasons. Total population is 2 billion
4E 550: Akavir becomes part of the empire. Total population is 4 billion
4E 566: Maganus becomes the archmage of the world at age two-hundred and forty and remains so to this very day.
4E 580: Nirn enters the nuclear age. The dragonborn dies due to unknown reasons. The empire becomes leaderless for a month; many people attempt to become emperor. The 4th era ends.
5E 10: A new emperor is chosen by the people, a nord by the name of Culeen Heart-fish. Who is described as a man doing the right things for the wrong reasons.
5E 25: Nirn enters the industrial age. Total population is 5 billion. Culeen is replaced by a wood elf named Valara. She described as lovable but incompetent
5E 40: Certain species slowly start to have their population reduced. Valara is replaced by an imperial named Georgian Reedfolk. He proves to be wildly popular with the people.
5E 60: Georgian reedfolk is replaced by a dark elf named Benaronah. She turns out to be incredibly popular with the people and other politics and have remained in power for over eighty years because of it.
5E 80: Nirn enters the nuclear age. Total population is 6 billion.
5E 131: A dark elf by the name of Jana Shepard is born in the crime infested town of riften to two barely known people; Hariah Shepard and Dreya Shepard. She becomes an orphan and is moved to raven rock sixty years later (or when she was ten) when her parents were killed by a serial killer
5E 135: Arnus Ferea is born to incredibly wealthy family in solitude and has a life without any troubles or hardships.
5E 140: Benaronah is replaced by a high elf named Zien, the first ever real high-elf emperor. He turns out to be incredibly unpopular and after six months in office, Benaronah becomes the emperor again.
5E 150: Zaan Morseli becomes the first man on masser. A year later, Farkins Silver-blood becomes the first man on secunda. An increased interest in space travel occurs.
5E 177: Benaronah is assassinated by an unknown culprit while visiting the imperial city much to the dismay of the people. A high elf named Melius much to the anger of the people. However, despite the last high elf being a total failure, he proved much more capable and promising then before, but still retains the infamousness that Zien had achieved.
5E 185: Melius is forced to be replaced despite being just as a capable Benaronah due to the opinion of the people of him and rumors of him working with the thalmor. He is replaced by a wood elf named Vyleen. He turns out to be a decent emperor, but a more favourable one then Melius.
5E 200: Nirn enters the solar age. Soul gems are discovered to be a renewable and clean source of energy. A device is built that allows for soul gems to absorb sunlight for energy instead of souls. A device called the C.U.B; conscious uploaded body is created, a device that allows for anyone who had been put inside of a soul gem to be put inside of a robot body.
5E 202: Vyleen is replaced by a nord named Varka Cinnamon-crunch and despite his strange last name he was one of the most capable and popular emperors through he's often described as loud and quick to act.
5E 207: General Williams is born and becomes a general forty years later.
5E 217: General Mary is born and becomes the general for the entire nirn army forty years later.
5E 220: The empire begins to terraform nearby planets. Work on teleportation begins using oblivion gates as a template to create a form of FTL. Population is 10 billion.
5E 226: Construction begins to drastically remodel and expand BlackRose prison.
5E 227: Varka is replaced by Muan-El, the first ever argonian emperor in the entire history of the empire and a very capable one. Due to being the first ever argonian emperor, the majority of Nirn is in disagreement if he should be emperor or not. The argonians feel proud and excited by finally having one of their own being emperor. Redguards, Bretons, nords, giants, wood and sea elves are glad that the argonians get the chance to prove their worth. The imperials, dunmer and altmer think that he's unfit to be emperor due to his argonian blood. The kahjit are jealous because the argonians got an emperor before they did. To this day the majority of Nirn remain fighting over Muan-el's ability to lead the world.
5E 230: The first teleporter station is created and it proves to be a success; unfortunately teleportation sickness quickly becomes a very noticeable side effect. Nausea, vomiting, slight dehydration and nose bleeds are the symptoms of teleportation sickness.
5E 232: Prothean ruins and element zero is discovered on Mars. Once learning of the properties of element zero; mages begin to convert other elements into eezo.
5E 235: David Anderson is born and joins the army eighteen years later.
5E 237: Terrorists gain a hold of an insanity bomb and detonate it in riften causing nearly one thousand people to go insane including some cops. It took nearly three days to restore the peace and the city still hasn't recovered from the mass riots.
5E 239: Shepard joins the military and quickly rises through the ranks faster then most other elves.
5E 243: A large tone fork shaped object is found frozen near Namira. It is quickly discovered to be able to allow star-ships to travel instantly to other star systems and is called a gate. The empire begins to activate as many gates as possible. Arnus attempts to turn the military at age 18. He excelled at conjured and destructive combat. However, he wasn't able to join until six years later.
5E 250: The remodelling of Blackrose prison is complete and it is now a maximum security jungle super prison in black marsh with no possible way of escape and where violent criminals fight for territory. It proves to be incredibly controversial.
5E 255: Shepard becomes a nightingale. Her fellow nightingales describe her as fun and loving on shore leave; quick, deadly and intimidating when in combat.
5E 257: Present day.
A pale gray and yellow nord research vessel about 250 meters long, 100 meters wide and 150 meters tall by the name of SSV Phillos stood beside a metal tone-forked shaped object that was greatly bigger then it. The ship had a narrow blocky symmetrical shape with a long narrow rectangular shaped head. The middle of the ship had a boxy and ugly appearance as was the back just with multiple thrusters emitting conjured magic blue flames.
The majority of the ship had small narrow rooms that favoured utility over comfort, however some rooms such as the crew-quarters and the bridge had some comfort; through only barely and the bridge was here her captain was standing.
A large nord man stood by the name of Captain Tarven fire-strong in the center of the bridge. He was a muscular man with pale white skin and messy short brown hair. He was about forty-four years old and had multiple small and barely noticeable wrinkles across his face. Stood with a posture that displayed both superiority and disinterested. He wore a heavy dark green fur jacket with multiple golden symbols on it and thick dark green pants.
He stared at the large polished metal tone-fork in front of them. Most of his crew were amazed by the sight of a gate; however the captain's expression was that of boredom. The captain let out a very loud and noticeable yawn and patted his mouth with his right arm.
A bosmer pilot near the end of the bridge turned around and faced his captain. "Is something bothering you Captain," he asked.
"Nothing is bothering me Sammon, just bored and don't refer to me by Captain; refer to be my first name. I've already informed you several times before on our trip," he said with a deep clear voice.
"And why would you be bored? We've just seen a gate up close for the first time ever," he said excited as he pointed towards the large intimidating galactic slingshot in front of them.
"Uninteresting. We are already capable of feats that far surpass these gates; such as actual teleportation," he informed rudely with heavy emphasis on the last part.
"True, but going through a gate doesn't make you feel like hell when you go through it," he replied annoyed by Tarven's comment. In all due, the protheans were capable of some pretty impressive feats.
"You'll get use to it. Now send the ship through so we can scan for planets, tell the emperor what a fine job we did and get a hefty pay check.
Sammon give him a confused look. 'How do you become immune to teleportation sickness,' he asked himself, but quickly removed himself from the thought before he becomes too indulged in it. "Uh Captain, shouldn't we-." He stopped when Tarven stared at him like he was about to hit him; hard. "I mean Tarven. Shouldn't we send a probe through just in case if they're others on the other side?"
"Are you suggesting that aliens exist," he asked confused.
"Yes."
The nord let out loud and deep laughs as he crouched down in laughter. The crew looked out there captain confused. "Ha, ha, ha, ha, that's fucking hilarious; aliens. Sometimes you really crack me up," he said barely able to talk clearly. He stopped laughing once he realized that Sammon had the complete opposite expression on his face. "You weren't kidding," he said somewhat embarrassed by his probably offending laughing.
"And why do you find my beliefs funny," he asked annoyed.
"Well, if aliens exist; shouldn't we would have find them by now?"
"We have, just not an alien race with an actual civilization. So I don't see why it wouldn't be possible for intelligent life to exist on other planets. The only requirements for a planet to have advanced life are complex and highly evolved life-forms. Besides, several different intelligent races have evolved on Nirn."
"Well that was quite an interesting discussion. Sorry if I offended you and if you are right about aliens; then I'll buy you drinks for a week"
"Apology and deal accepted."
"Through we're still sending the ship through," he demanded.
"After everything I told you; were still going to rush blindly through it. I mean what-," he argued but was then interrupted by Tarven.
"Send the ship through," he ordered staring at him with a look that could make almost anyone nervous.
"Fine," he replied worried about the consequences as the ship flew towards the gate and disappeared in a flash of blue light and a loud bang.
Once they exited the relay; they were greeted by several unknown and alien ships much larger they then were, about ten in total. They're appearances was similar to that of nord starships; blocky and geometrical, but all had the appearance of a fighter-jet or airplane. They were also much more colourful with a clear white body and strips of red, blue, yellow or black across them. Multiple armaments were on each ship; cannons, railguns, missile launchers and chainguns. Clearly the fleet was meant for war.
Tarven stared at the large alien fleet intimidated, but still remaining calm despite being faced with the likely-hood of death. However, much of his crew were shaky nervous from being frightened by the unknown vessels in space.
"I- I guess you owe me those drinks," joked Sammon nervously trying to calm himself down
"Alright, I will buy you your drinks as long as we make it out of this alive," he replied angrily. Tarven turned his attention to a dark elf near his right. "Kaylena, can send a message to the alien fleet. Tell them that we come in peace," He ordered.
"We're going to die, we're going to die," she repeated over and over as she clinched herself in fear and rocked back and forth.
"Kaylena! Tell the alien fleet that we come in peace!"
She immediately woke herself up from her state and focused on her captain. "Yes sir, but I'm wondering if they're peaceful and I really want to get of here before they blow us to bits" she said nervously.
"And what act like cowards. A true nord never shows weakness even when the odds are stacked against them. Now send the message to the fleet," he said proudly.
Kaylena took a look at her captain; clearly the man was somewhat insane. 'He's going to get us all killed,' she thought angrily. She bent down towards the microphone. "This IS the SSV Phillos, we come in peace and are hoping you do to." The message was immediately sent to the ten alien ships in front of them.
"I don't want this ship to move until we get a response from them. Now all we have to do is to wait." The captain sat down while the rest of the crew waited in fear and anxiety.
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General Desolas Arterius of the turian hierarchy looked at the small ship in front of him. It had a blocky and geometrical shape, and had a quite ugly design. The quarian flotilla had ships more attractive then the makeshift in front of them. The ship didn't match anything that he or his crew had seen, so it much had to belong to a new race.
They had just encountered it about three minutes ago when the apparently dormant relay 314 was activated and a small ugly ship came out of it. It surprised the crew when it was activated, but what surprised the crew greatly was what came out of it. They were expecting something terrifying like the rachni, but what they got instead was a small ship that looked it would fall apart as soon as it entered FTL.
'I spent two months out here looking for pirates and instead I found an entirely new species. I guess today is my lucky day,' Desolas thought proudly as he stared at the small ship in front of them. It was a quite a small ship and seemed rather pathetic compared to the massive fleet that he commanded. He let out a slight chuckle at the ship in front of them. A nearby turian then attracted his attention.
"General, we've just received a message from the ship; I'm playing it now," informed a communication Officer.
/Dette er SSV Phillos, vi kommer I fred og haper du gjor ogsa/. The majority of the crew had zero idea of what the message meant.
"Private, can you translate the message," asked Desolas through it was rather an order then a question.
"Sorry, can't, but I can guess. Since they seem intimidated by us; I guess it's a message of peace or just a trick. What are your orders General Desolas."
Desolas weighed in the options. On one hand, they could the peaceful route and try to talk the newcomers diplomatically. However they did activated a dormant relay and they must face the consequences for they're actions. Plus, they could prove a useful client race for the turian hierarchy. Desolas weighed the pros and cons of each option, and chose the latter. "Power up weapons to 100% and prepare to fire. Once were done, go through the relay and invade the nearest colonized world; then they'll become a client race of the turian hierarchy. They must know the consequences for they're actions," he said calmly. The ship begin to slowly gain power and aimed there cannons towards the ship.
Within seconds the ship's weapons have reached 100% and have fired on the alien ship. It barely had anytime to react as one single blast managed to cause the SSV phillos to erupt in shards of metal and blood. The majority of the crew let out a small cheer; however, those weren't so patrionic felt some regrets for there general's actions.
Desolas let out the turian equivalent of a sneer. "Excellent. I want all ships to head through the relay. Once we're through, I want soldiers to be on the nearest colonized world we can find," he ordered through the microphone with a loud and commanding voice. The fleet moved towards the relay and vanished in a flash of blue light.
Shanxi, lundas, heartfire
A dunmer by the name of Jana Shepard stood in the middle of day-star; a metropolis of a city with over one million inhabitants. The city was also the only city with a population higher then a million. Skyscrapers made out of polished white marble, thick clear glass and corundum metals casted shadows upon the smaller stone round huts below. The city streets were busy as argonians, elves, humans and khajits walking in and out of stores, and creating clusters of people among the streets.
The dark elf was about fairly young; only twenty-one years old or one-hundred and thirty-three years old in elven years. She had a fairly fit and athletic body with a light, but noticeable muscle mass. She was wearing mostly red and some blue light guard armour that covered everything except her head. The armour's appearance was exactly like the guards of skyrim during the 4th era, just with a bulletproof vest and shield generator underneath. She had an almond shaped face with light ash blue skin, bright thick black hair that reached down to the top of her shoulders and bright pure dark red almond shaped eyes. An elven heavy pistol and glass dagger attached to her hips.
She analyzed the crowds for any signs of pick pocketing, stealing, lock picking or any other minor crime; there were zero signs of any crime. 'I've been patrolling in the markets for three hours and nothing has happened yet,' she thought to herself bored as she then kicked a rock down the sideway. However, despite her boredom; she still acted serious during patrol, most of the time.
She walked down and through the crowded streets and entered the golden bear tavern. There were people singing, dancing, eating on long polished wooden tables bars telling tales and playing music. The room was bright and colourful with blue, red, yellow, and green on the walls, ceiling and floor.
She walked towards a stool and sat down it. "One nord mead," she asked somewhat tired and incredibly bored as she pulled out five septims from her pocket and placed it on the counter. She needed something drink to remove herself from her boredom.
A light brown scaled argonian bartender wearing dark brown and pale yellow thin clothes reached out to the shelves and pulled out a bottle of mead. "Here you go, one bottle of mead," she said with the usual raspy argonian accent as she took the five golden coins on the counter and placed it in the cash register.
Jana opened up the bottle and started to drink large amounts of it. Once it was empty, she slammed the bottle unto the counter. "Another please," she asked as she pulled out five more septims from her pocket.
"I think that's enough for one day Jana. Besides, aren't you on patrol," she asked as she grabbed the empty bottle on the counter and placed it in a bucket.
"Don't worry, I'm on a quick break and I can hold more liquor then a bear," she said proudly. "How much liquor can a bear hold?"
"About five bottles," replied a khajit that was walking by.
"See I'm fine for just one more bottle," she persuaded.
"No, I'm not going to sell you more booze. I don't want to tell your captain that you've been drinking on the job," she argued.
"Velia, everyone drinks while working, people drink, the elderly drink, oblivion, even children drink. And not one of them has gotten drunk by drinking only one bottle," she argued.
"I'm still not serving you another drink."
"Damn it. Hey, how does business go?"
"Pretty good, but it could be better as long as that idiot D-." Her sentence was stopped by the sounds of an explosive several miles away. Nearly everyone in the building crouched down and covered there ears in shock. "What in oblivion was that?!"
"I don't know, but I intend to find out," replied Jana as she then rushed out of the building followed by several other people.
There were ten gigantic ships above the sky. Everyone took a look at the ships; clearly they did not belong to the empire.
"By the gods," yelled a nord.
"What in oblivion is that," yelled a artmer
"By azura," whispered Jana.
A large bright light formed across one of the ships. It began to grow larger and larger; Shepard could instantly tell they're about to fire. "Everyone come near me now," she ordered loudly. Everyone moved towards her without hesitation. She then put all of mind, body and magicka into one spell and in an instant, her and everyone around her disappeared in a flash.
Codex: Teleportation
There are two forms of teleportation, both which relay on oblivion nods; signal teleportation and magical teleportation. The first one, signal teleportation relays on teleporter nods for travel as one cannot signal teleport outside or from any area outside of a nod. However despite its one major flaw, it still safer then magical teleportation and as long as a signal is active; distance doesn't matter. Magical teleportation is a master level alteration spell that allows a mage to teleport to any location within ten kilometres; through some mages have been known to teleport outside of the usual range and teleport multiple people at a time. It is considered one of the most dangerous spells in the world due to the many risks associated with it, such as: getting stuck in a wall, causing anyone being teleported to explode, cause people to be sent forward or back in time, and teleporter sickness. However, despite its many risks; it's still highly liked by mages, especially amongst nightblades.
The origins of teleportation is absurd at best; however, it is known that the psjic order were the first ones to ever use the spell. Eventually, one of them taught the spell to a group of master mages and the spell quickly spread across all of nirn; accidents were common when mages started to learn teleporting. Eventually, the spell was banned from being used by anyone who wasn't a master mage for obvious reasons.
Author's notice: I'm pretty sure the weird teleporting thing the psjic monks use during the end of college of winterhold quest was a spell. Also I think shepard may have a slight drinking problem; actually everyone has a drinking problem since the only thing that they can drink besides potions is booze. Except a lot more new spells in future chapters. I'll give you a hint on the name of one them; it's named after the first king of the islands of Hawaii.
Please rate and review. Also for anyone who has read the first version and is wondering why I deleted it, is because I felt I kind of rushed the story and didn't really pay a whole lot of attention to the characters. So that is why I'm rewriting the story.