Chapter 1: Prologue

Disclaimer: Het kei goeie spel Mass Effect is van de ge-wel-dige gassies van Bioware en helaas nie van mij.

In the Milky-Way there are many forms of life. One of those is humanity. Humanity was born on the planet Earth, wich is located in the Sol system. In less than two millenia they became a space faring species. They are a capable of many great things, but also great conflict. They were for nearly their entire excistance drowned in wars. Two of those were called the World Wars. This was rightly so, as the entire planet was in conflict. Afterwards they saw peace, but is was a armed peace as two super powers wanted to surpass each other in every way possible.

One of those way was to conquer space, so they did. In 1961 the first human was launced in to space. Eight years later they first stepped on Earth's moon and not long after they lost interest in space. But this interest would return. The first colony on the moon was founded in 2069, a hundred years after the first moon landing. It was called New Hope and was only the first of many colonies across the Sol system.

While humanity stettled on the inner planets of Sol. Immense riches were dicovered on the new planets. But without a central governement, it would not benefit humanity as a whole. For that reason the Systems Alliance was created in 2100. They would be the central government of Earth and all of her colonies.

Not long after it's formation the System Alliance began terraforming Mars and expanded their borders beyond the Asteroid belt. Many new colonies were founded on the moons of the Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Life on these new worlds was hard, but humanity did not give up and soon a golden age dawned.

During this time rapidly shifting magnetic field were discovered in the Promethei Planum. The Systems Alliance prepared to investigate, but they were to late. As the Martian ice began to melt the area was covered by an ocean. Though strangely, the magnetic field disappeared at the same time.

As time progressed humanity did aswell. In 2111 the first anti-matter reactor was created, wich could create enormous amount of energy. The Outer colonies created the first human cyborgs called cybers in 2130. Most of their body parts such as the skeleton, internal organs and muscles were replaced. Only their heart, brains, reproductive organs and skin were not replaced, but augmented. As a result of this they were stronger, faster and smarter. They could live hundreds if not thousands of years.

More and more people in the Outer Colonies became cybers. In 2160 The vast majority of these colonists were cybers, but the ruling class were still humans an they refused to give cybers the same rigths as humans. This eventually led the cybers to overthrow their human rulers in 2182. The Cyber Union was created and the Systems Alliance sent their fleet to bring the Outer Colonies back under their rule.

And so the first Interplanitary War started. It was over when the Systems Aliance fleet was destroyed in the Asteroid belt. A peace treaty was signed on Mars. Systems Alliance space would cover Sol, Mercury, Venus, Earth and their respective moons. The Cyber Union would become a independent state and controlled Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and all of their moons. Pluto and the Kuiper belt were to remain barren as strange gravitational destortions were observed there. Mars and the Asteroid belt would become shared territory.

A/N

Ajeto Peope,

First of all I want to thank ProFartBurger for his very helpful review. Because of it I have improved this chapter. New chapters will be longer, so do not despair. I intend to make them about 2k long, but I will not always be succesfull.

Now about my English. As you may have guessed, I am Dutch. Despite me being as cosmopolitan and a child of Europe, Dutch still is my first language. I will make mistakes, I will use wrong grammar, but I hope to learn and improve my skills. Also you should be gratefull I am writing this in proper English and not n00b! I HaZ l33t HaXX0R Sk1Lz Engl1sh,het Nederlands (Dutch) or Whatever language the Kerbals use (Yes, I love KSP).

In this story I will use Dutch words, examples etc. so I will explain thing at the end of the chapter. If you would like more information on Dutch stuff, PM me or use google.

The second chapter will be up soon, but expect a mayor delay afterwards. This is because I will be busy fighting my mortal enemy: school. That will only be 3 weeks or so. When I am done I have loads of time and I expect to break DemonFireX's record.

Houdoe en tot ziens mensen!