A/N This is my first fic so be kind

A patrol fleet of Turian cruisers look upon what look likes to be a small convoy. On the bridge of the lead cruiser the the hopes of the men was just realized. Tiberius the commander of the fleet was reading and ask in order to confirmed his hopes "Are you sure that they not Federation"? The sensor operator responded " Sir the transports share no similar designs to any Federation ships while the fighter escort are from the Great War." Tiberius mandibles twitch in excitement. In his mind his thoughts wonder that this was the mistake that cost the Fedayeen big.

" What class of fighters are we dealing with" Tiberius asked?

" Sir in looks like two Ulysses and two Hercules, according to records the Ulysses is the greater danger to our fighter due to the higher maneuverability but according to the Federation files they have weak amour and shields , while the Hercules have greater firepower and amour there maneuverability and speed make them lacking when they are force dogfight agile fighters so we should be able to handle them." Tiberius sent a message to all cruisers to have fighter launch within the hour. Tiberius plan was simple, to use the element of surprise on the Fedayeenfighter. Then they would capture the transports after that he hope to acquire their star charts so fleet could finely make progress against the Fedayeen. They only other possibility was impossible

Claire was about to fall to sleep in her Herc. She was just a simple mercenary being paid to escort these colonist to a hopefully new life but that doesn't mean she had to like it. With the GTVA is willing to send out colony ships with less and less protection. Resource are spent either fight prites or to guard known Shavian nodes. While she is happy to be paid for such an easy job but she wish that something to happen.

" Hey Beta one wake up we have unknown fighters" warned alpha one. Claire responded " Have you tried to make contact with them"? With a crackle on the radio alpha one responded "alpha two has been trying but has been having no luck I already warn the colonist to warmup their subspace engines and head back though Relay and warn the Carthage."

Then all the sudden a massive amount of firepower fell upon both alpha one and two ripping though their shield and thin amour as if it was never there.

Claire scream " FUCK" Claire realizing that she was in command decide had to quickly order the colonist to get out of here. With that order the three subspace portals open which the colony ships entered in order to escape the unknown attackers. Unfortunately for Claire and her wing-man the outnumbered 10 to 1 while they did last longer than alpha squad it was not by much.

On the bridge of the cruiser one of the officers were give the report to Tiberius."Sir, we were able to destroy the fighter escort with out any loses."

Tiberius look at the officer with a stern glare and ask "What about the transports"?

The officers mandibles twitch in fear and responded" Sir, the transports were able subspace before our fighters had a chance to disable them".

Tiberius ask him " Did they enter a node". The officer replied" No sir, but we are currently scanning the area when they pop out we will be ready.

As the officer finish his statement one of the bridge hands yells out "Sir we have them, they appear to be coming out of subspace near the Mass relay". Tiberius laugh with joy " Finally they made mistake, order the fighters to land. Prepare the men we have a rare opportunity today". "Sir, the transports have use the Mass Relay to escape" the same bridge officer yelled out. Tiberius ordered " Good send a message to the main fleet that we are following them'

"Sir how could this be a good thing" the bridge officer asked?

Tiberius looked at the officer and said simply "If they made a base from a mass relay network then we could bring the fight to them.

With that the patrol fleet prepared to enter the Mass Relay not knowing how they will change the galaxy

Codex : The Great War

The Great war was a conflict the between the humanity former government GTA(Galactic Terran Alliance} and unknown race called the Shivan. The Shivan threat came during the middle of the Terran-Vasudan War. The Shivans came from nowhere and proceed to attack both vuasden and GTA forces. This pressure from a new and more powerful enemy force an end to the Terran-vusaden war. The Shivans attacked with fighters that possessed both shields and weapons that heavily out class most of there fleets. It was only due to both Terrans and Vasudan working together were they able to close the gap. Unfortunately whenever the tech gaps between the GTA and VE were closing in on Shivan extend the gap. Then fell to it darkest hour when the Lucifer was discovered according to the experts at the time the Lucifer had an impenetrable shield and massive beam weaponry the destroyed Capitol ships with 3 or less shots. The Lucifer was able to get the Vasudan home world no matter how many ship the sent stop it. The Lucifer was then able to destroy the Vasuda Prime leave uninhabitable for many centuries or even Millennium . Then the Lucifer made its target know. That it was going to attack the Sol system. That is when some V scientist made a discovery that change the course of the war. They discovered Altair IV contain ruins of a civilization that was wipe out by the Shivan. This species (called the Ancient by humans) were able to discover a weakness in the Lucifer shields. The shields of Shivan design are unable to operate in subspace. The GTA Finally found a weakness one that had a chance to exploit before they too lost their Home world. So a suicide mission was plan unfortunately the Lucifer was already on the war to earth. When the Lucifer was destroyed the explosion in a subspace tunnel cause it to collapse sealing Sol from the rest of its colonials. Many people have theorizes that the GTA was either destroyed by the Shivan hoard that remained or that another war between GTA and VE broke out and with out the industry of earth the GTA be crushed easily.

Many none-Humans believe that the great war is a lie or greatly exaggerated. They point out that no shield no matter how advance is impenetrable. They claim that over the Millennium that their species have been exploring the stars they have never encounter a specie like the Shivans or the Ancient even with the claim that they were a galaxy spanning empire . Also with the collapse of the GTA in the sol system Information dealing with Shivans and the great war were lost the other reason that people believe that the great war to be lie is due to the stereotype of a humanity to be a race that seeks understanding and very anti-military. Some believe this is there bad attempt to make them seem dangerous or older than they really are. More xenophobic individuals believe that humanity was trying to gain sympathy out of people so that they may buy human products. Officially the council believes the UEF unless some evidence contradict them.