Prologue
In the year of 2084 humanity learned it was not in the universe, Martian explorers from former USA, discovered ancient ruins of a spacefaring race, in the decades that followed these mysterious artifacts revealed fascinating new technologies allowing travel to further than ever before.
This new technology started humanity on a path to a new golden age for the people of earth, no longer was humanity constrained to it homeworld with it's diminishing resources, but could travel to the rest of the sol systems and harvest its raw materials.
The news of this discovery dominated the media, after being leaked by an unknown source, and raised questions about humanities purpose and existence and caused a great impact on human culture. The impact was most profound in the religious community, with established religions struggling to explain alien life, some tried to include this new information while others out right denied the evidence and even a few new cults/religions were formed.
Therefore with these new resources and the knowledge of alien life humanity reached an uneasy peace for the first time in years and in the years of national peace three new world powers arouse, the UNAS (united north american states), the NCR (New Chinese Republic) and the European Federation (EF), these three nations became to be known as the big three.
Within ten years of the access to the vast wealth of resources of the entire Sol system humanities planet became to recover, environmentally, socially and economically, this in turn started a new "gold rush" as thousands of people from all over the earth left their homeworld to start a new life in outer-space.
By 2118 humanity had started to again run low on resources in the Sol system, this time by a massive overpopulation of Earth and the dozens of small colonies and space habituates that had sprung up throw out the sol system in the 30 years following the first discovery of the Martian ruins.
Fortunately once again Mars provided the answer in the form of data leading to the third great discovery for humanity the Mass Relay network.
Within a year earths big three as well as several other organisations created the United Systems of Humanity charter to defend and expand human space.
The USH came into existence because the cost of establishing and defending an extrasolar colony was too great for big three let alone for any of the countries not included within the new world superpowers.
The fledgling USH main supporter was not the big three or even a group of smaller nations, but instead the global mega corporations. With the like of RobCo, Vault-tec and International Atomics, later to be know as interstellar atomics, financial support the USH was able to create a dedicated military force hired from a mixture of the best international private military companies and individual national military personal.
In the same year, 2119, the first manned exploration to the other side of the Charon relay leading to the rapid growth of humanity throughout the stars.
Humanities new goldern age came to violent end less that 100 years after the first discovery of the Martian ruins and less than 40 years after first using the mass relay.
In the year 2157 USH explorers, a small scout fleet only consisting of a cruiser, a three frigate wolf pack and a pair of cargo vessels, attempted to open a dormant relay.
Unfortunately for these explorers a group of alien spaceships, later to be know as a turian patrol fleet, witnessed the USH ships activating a dormant rely an action declared illegal by the citadel council, though humanity did not know this, and opened fire on the human ships.
Only one of the cargo ships manage to make it back to the closest human colony, Shanxi a large primarily NCR world, but this ship in its attempt to escape led the turians to humanities front door.
Shanxi only had a small space defence fleet assigned from the United Systems Interstellar Navies 3rd fleet, only 3 cruisers 6 frigates and a single space defence station.
While human starships of the late 2150's had thick armour, powerful energy weapons and an arsenal of nuclear missiles the USIN ships could not match the numbers if turian ships, the turian fleet consisted of 3 cruisers, 15 frigates and a dreadnought.
Turian warships mass accelerator cannons also had a greater range and rate of fire than their human counterparts. The space battle above Shanxi was as fast as it was bloody, the USIN scored several kills but were completely wiped out.
The turians proceeded to invade the colony of Shanxi, wrongly believing at the time that this was humanities homeworld and the ships they had destroyed being the bulk of humanities defences.
While the space battle had been quick and rather painless for the turian navy, the ground battle was a long and brutal slog for the troopers of the turian legion.
The United System Mobile Infantry, the dedicated USH ground forces, used the time bought by the USIN to dig in and prepare for the alien invasion.
As with the USIN the USMI was outnumbered by the Turian invaders, but they also had the advantage of being an entrenched local force who excelled at urban combat.
With the use of combat robots, power armour, handheld laser/plasma weapons, stealth suits and miniaturised nuclear ordinance General Williams, the leader of the USMI forces of Shanxi, fought a desperate guerrilla campaign to try to hold the planet in hopes of a quick counter-attack by the USIN.
These hopes where for nothing when the leader of the turians started to use orbital bombardment to take out the resistance, this one act caused thousands of casualties amounts the civilian population of the colony world.
With a mounting death toll, Williams did the only thing he could to try to save the lives of the men and women under his command as well as the civilians of Shanxi, he ordered a complete and unconditional surrender of his surviving forces, one month after the initial invasion of the colony.
The turians believed they had defeated the bulk of the humanities forces, began to suffer from logistical problems mainly supplies and personal, were caught unaware when a month later Admiral Kastanie Drescher of the entire USNI 2nd fleet launched a counter attack.
The second fleet, while not as technologically advanced as the turians, outnumber them with a dreadnought, two carries, fifteen cruisers, forty five frigates and hundreds of smaller vessels.
After a short and bloody battle the turians were evicted from human space, and started mobilising for a full scale war.
As the two sides prepared for war the rest of the citadel council took noticed and intervened negotiating a peace treaty that just about bought the war to an end.
The war had been costly for both sides with over 10,000 humans, mainly civilian caught in the crossfire with orbital bombardment, and almost 2000 turians killed or missing in action.
The peace talk, while ending the war, where not as successful as either side would of like.
While humanity signed the ceasefire they refused to join the citadel and the turians refused to pay any sort of reparations to the USH.
What followed were decades of cold war between the rapidly expanding humans and the increasingly fortifying council, while neither side were willing to fire the first shot in a war that would devastate both sides neither government were willing to back down.
As the USH began to expand into the Skyllian Verge, an area of space that the batarian had tried to claim as their own, the hegemony partitioned the council to declare the verge "an area of batarian interest".
The council refused citing that since humanity was not a member of the citadel they could not force the USH to do anything.
This decision led the batarians to withdraw themselves from council space and begin a proxy war with the humans for control of the verge.
The end to this proxy war became known as the Skyllian Blitz, the blitz started with a massive pirate/raider/slaver invasion of human world elysium secretly backed by the hegemony. While this attack was, brutal elements of the USMI manage to hole the invaders at bay until reinforcements arrive and drove the pirate/raider/slaver back into the terminus systems.
The blitz came to an end when humanity attacked and conquered the terminus world of torfan and breaking the back of the batarian backed forces on the border to USH space, this left the hegemony's only means of striking out at humanity by the use of individual and deniable terrorist attacks.
In the year 2181 a new project was proposed by the citadel council and back by human mega corporations to ease the tensions between the two powers.
This project was to design and produce a new ship build by the best minds of the turian hierarchy and the USH, after a year of negotiations the idea was given the green light by all involved.
Production of this new ship, the USS Normandy, was scheduled for completion by the beginning of 2184.
Unfortunately an unexpected find at the end 2183 on the world of eden prime means the USS Normandy had to start its shakedown cruise two months early.
What was supposed to be a simple retravel mission ended up becoming a lot more complicated.
A/N: 11/04/2018
I've had the idea for this story in my head for a couple years now and finally decided to get this down on paper (sort of).
The basic premise of my story is something I proposed on the mass effect kink meme quite a long time ago.
The idea is what would happen if humans from Fallout (with their advanced retro-technology) didn't blow themselves straight to hell but manage to reach the stars and meet Mass Effects aliens.
I will be 100% honest with y'all, I'm not sure if this will go any further than this, but i just wanted/needed to get this out if my skull.
So anyway, thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this, let me know what you think; the Good, the Bad & the Ugly; it does not matter I would like to hear your opinions.