I do not own anything from Mass Effect or Gears of War, only my OCs. This is my first fanfic. I accept any and all criticism as it will help me improve my writing.

I am not the most accurate with numbers unless I can put it into an equation and work out the specifics - since I'm a technical person - and if anyone has any ideas for what I can use for references and what shields can withstand then it would be greatly appreciated. If not then I will figure something out. Or just wing it. Yeah winging it can be both good and bad so maybe maybe not. But enough of my blabbering. On to the story!

Chapter 1

Official History of Sera

B.E. (Before Emergence)

A.E. (After Emergence)

Early Seran History

~5000 B.E. The nation of Pelles develops a voting system that utilized pottery shards around this time.

~980 B.E. The nation of Gorasnaya begins its rise to power around this time.

~980 B.E. - 480 B.E. The silver era is ongoing. The Kashkur Empire prospers while the Gorasnaya continues to expand.

The fortress of Anvil Gate is built by the Kashkur Empire to guard the Avengad Pass and defend the empire's southern regions from invaders seeking to plunder its cities and silver mines. The city of Anvegad is later built around Anvil Gate.

~480 B.E. Gorasnaya becomes z formidable empire. At its greatest extent, it encompasses over four hundred million people. Over the following centuries, Gorasnaya gradually declines, and is reduced to twenty million people by the start of the Pendulum Wars.

~130 B.E. The Archipelago War is fought.

~117 B.E. The last recorded attempt by an army to fight through Acengad Pass occurs.

~117 B.E. - 80 B.E. The Era of Silence begins. Humanity abandons warfare and Sera enters a golden age.

Imulsion is discovered by an oil-exploitation drill. The Lightmass Process is perfected by Dr. Helen Cooper, allowing Imulsion to be converted into pure energy. The Gold Rush, a global economic boom fueled by the exploitation of Imulsion, occurs.

The Era of Silence ends. The Imulsion industry becomes destabilized by rampant speculation and demand for the substance rapidly outstrips production, resulting in a massive economic collapse.

Pendulum Wars

80 B.E. A long-running global conflict begins to sweep the world of Sera as the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) and the Union of Independent Republics (UIR) fight over Imulsion energy resources. The Pendulum Wars begin.

47 B.E. Bernadette Mataki is born.

21 B.E. Marcus Fenix and Carlos Santiago are born.

19 B.E. Dominic Santiago is born.

17 B.E. The King Raven is introduced to the COG army.

Resignation of Vasgari president Ilim. Vasgar is occupied by Union of Independent Republics "peacekeepers" on the order of Chairman Daniel Vari.

The Invasion of Kashkur begins. The siege of Anvil Gate occurs in southern Kashkur. The Battle of Shavad occurs in western Kashkur. The Battle of Ragami occurs in western Kashkur.

Major Adam Fenix retires from the army and becomes deputy director of weapons research at the Defense Research Agency.

Two months after the siege of Anvil Gate ends, Captain Victor Hoffman leads the Raid on Gralia in the Republic of Lauczi.

9 B.E. Elain Fenix does in the Hollow; Adam Fenix tells most people, including his son, that she simply went missing.

5 B.E. A strange Human appears in the outer parts of the Hollows and is found by the Locust Horde. He possessed knowledge of the Horde, Humanity on the surface, and Queen Myrrah herself that no Human should have had the knowledge of. He knew how things would end and wanted to help the Horde survive while Humanity perished. The Human was taken to the Queen directly. After talking to her he was sentenced to receive regular, small doses of Imulsion so as to turn him into something like a Locust.

4 A.E. Once all was said and done, the Human was turned into a seven foot tall Kantus; almost. The only thing that stayed the same was his hazel eyes, but the sclera was turned gold. He could see perfectly in the dark while sudden brightness blinded him momentarily like the rest of the Locust. His skin was pale like his original skin but it gained a leathery quality to it. He wore the same armor and robes that the rest of the Kantus wore. After telling the Queen about how her plans would fail and the Locust would be eradicated from the face of Sera, he proceeded to tell her about key players and how to go about erasing them from the equation.

Marcus Fenix joins the army, against his father's wishes, with Carlos Santiago.

Several Raids on the Acastu Imulsion Fields take place.

The Battle of Irohma Island takes place.

3 B.E. The Sarfuth-Maranday Border Incident takes place.

Development of the Hammer of Dawn at Aspho Point is discovered by the COG.

Planning to capture the technology begins.

2 B.E. 15th Day of Brume: The Battle of Aspho Fields takes place. Carlos Santiago, Helena Stroud, and Dan Kennen are killed.

0 A.E. Work on the Hammer of Dawn is completed by the COG.

COG forces engaged UIR troops in the Independent Republic of Furlin.

Skirmish in Ghato City.

Skirmish on Furlin cliffside.

UIR Third Fleet attack COG forces in Bonbourg, the Hammer of Dawn is used for the first time.

Premier Yori Deschenko of the UIR entered peace talks with Chairman Tomas Dalyell of the COG.
Six weeks before Emergence Day, the Pendulum Wars end, with the Coalition of Ordered Governments victorious. The Republic of Gorasnaya refused to surrendered to the COG and continued a guerrilla war against the COG.

Locust-Human War

Emergence Day

The Locust Horde emerge and slaughter most of the human race, only six weeks after the end of the Pendulum Wars. The Locust-Human War begins.

Within the first year of Emergence Day, all Human leaders are killed and Humanity as a whole on Sera is fractured.

7 A.E. All Humans are eradicated from the face of Sera. With them gone, The Locust Horde occupies the surface. All equipment that can be taken to the surface of Sera is, while the Human-turned-Locust goes to nuclear reactors to try and get them running again.

12 A.E. The nuclear reactors activate again. Knowing that they had to escape the Lambent, the Kantus that would later be named King of the Locust Horde created blueprints for ships that could be used to get off Sera and find a planet in the Seran System that didn't have any Imulsion on the planet.

68 A.E. Queen Myrrah dies and a new Leader of the Locust Horde is named.

The first ship created was a small shuttle that had a pilot and a co-pilot, and it could fit seven passengers. When sent up into orbit and then brought back down, there was minor hull damage but otherwise it could be it could go again. A few modifications were made to the armor and how the dropship looked and it was ready for another test. This time the dropship made it into space and back to the planet with no problems whatsoever. More shuttles were being made with the same design so they could get somewhere if they ever needed to make a quick escape.

72 A.E. Another, larger ship was created but in order for it to be able to go FTL a solution needed to be found.

Age of Ascension and Expansion

287 A.E. After over two centuries of searching, the secrets of the Warp Drive were discovered. The Drive could transport a ship to any location that was chosen before a spinning clockwise hole opened up in front of the ship and pulled the ship in. Dozens of ships were created with this FTL Drive as their source of travelling great distances while they used nuclear fuel for their primary fuel source until something better was found.

957 A.E. Thousands of new ships are being created consisting of destroyers, carriers, colony ships, light and heavy weights of frigates and cruisers, dreadnoughts, planet destroyers, planet siegers, and fighters.

959 A.E. The Seran System is completely mapped and a strange artifact is found at the edge of the system. The silver artifact had two fifteen kilometer arms on the top and bottom that were connected in the back, some antennas sticking out of the top, and had a pair of gyroscopic rings at the back that were five kilometers across. Unfortunately, now the Locust Horde was at a crossroads. Most of the planets in the Seran System were inhabited by Imulsion, and the planets that weren't were uninhabitable outright. The artifact at the edge of the system, a Mass Relay was what the King called it, was created by a race of machines called Reapers. They came every fifty thousand years to harvest any species that had obtained spaceflight.

Unable to populate any planet, they did the only thing they could do: they activated the construct and sent a ship through. It took a few weeks to return, but once it did the destroyer sent the coordinates of the new system to every ship. They activated their Teleportation Drives and teleported into the system which they named Archon.

983 A.S. A.E. is changed to A.S., symbolizing leaving Sera behind permanently. Two planets are inhabited in the Archon System and two dormant Relays are activated with destroyers going through to scout them out. A fleet is stationed at each Mass Relay to make sure nothing hostile gets to the planets.

1976 A.S. Eight more systems are obtained before they encounter something that the Locust Horde had been awaiting for ever since they discovered their first Mass Relay. They just hoped that they weren't hostile.

Okay so not as long as I wanted but the next chapter will be more interesting. I just had to lay down the groundwork for everything here.

Now I have a question for you all. Who should I have the Locust Horde meet first?

Asari

Turians

Salarians

Batarians

Humans

Quarians

Geth

Volus

New Race

I know that I didn't get into the specifics of the ships like their size, how many weapons are on them and where they're at, consumables and the like but I would also ask of you readers if you could help me out with this. I don't like making ships that wouldn't work. So if you could please help me out with that then it will be greatly appreciated.

Please Read and Review!

Until next time. This has been Madrac. Signing off.