M-Angel: Okay, so here the new story. I originally wrote the in a notebook back in 2009 but I didn't publish it on here because I didn't think it was good enough for an original story. I then moved and forgot about it until I found it half finished in a box back in April. So while I've been writting Surviving Hero I've been fixing this story to make it better. Oh, also while I'm at it I asked this totally awesome author if I could use some of her Turian and Rachni mannerisms and culture in my story to give it some spice. So I want to give my props and credit to Myetel and her story Spirit of Redemption, which is a true masterpiece and would recommend it to anybody.
HBHound: I been trappin
M-Angel: So leave your true thoughts and feelings on this story. Tell me what you think, how I can improve it, and anything else. So please enjoy the story. :-D
Chapter 1: Life Goes On
50,000 years ago
In a facility deep underground on a green lush and full of life planet. A being walked into a room and placed a silver crystal onto a recording device. With a deep breath the being began to speak.
"Facility 95627 Sector 8-B12. Species 9762. Subject 1902. Sex is female." the being paused and tapped a button on the device and continued to speak.
"We have named the female Varn'kish after the goddess hunter of old. Her species is quite similar to the ones we found in the Solsystem. Differences have been noted. Females range between an 5.3 feet and 6.1 feet tall. Males range between 5.1 feet and 6.8 feet tall.
Eara are pointed, unlike the rounded ones in the Sol system. Males and females alike seem to share the hunter and huntress rolls in the woodland areas. The ones in the prairies and coastal regions seem to share roles as warriors, farmers, and royals. We recently found this female on an island isolated on an island by herself.
She has pointed ears, bluish/silver hair or fur on her head and only her head. However we have discovered that there is some kind of energy emitting from the girl, just like the others." there was a long pause before the voice continued. "We haven't decided whether to do live autopsies or a cellular reconstruction of one of the species of this group." Suddenly there was an explosion in the background followed by a war cry-like sound and a cling of metal falling as the recording device and crystal were separated.
Outside of the room chaos ensued as fire began to spread throughout the facility. Species 9762 had escaped the rooms they were being kept in and began hunting down and killing their capturer's.
Years of research and discoveries were lost in a moment as the facilities reactor core was ignited by the fire. As the dust settled afterwards all that was left from Facility 95627 was the three mile hole in the ground. This left species 9762 to grow their own and evolve into a greater force that would one day take the galaxy by surprise.
In the mid-22nd century being in a far off system named the Sol System began discovering alien data from one of their solar system's planets named Mars. Shortly after this discovery they made another one, a device known as a Mass Relay was found and re-activated. Year's later they came into contact with their first aliens known as Turians.
The turians attacked these humans and a war soon ensued. It was stopped. Only when a group of beings stopped it from escalating. These beings were a part of the a Citadel Counsel. In 2165 humans were granted an embassy.
In 2183, the attack of Eden Prime brought about the beginning of a secret that could destroy every species in the galaxy and the one that would stop it from happening was Commander Faith Shepard a powerful N7 biotic, who had a renegade streak caused by the death of her family and friends on Midior. The Citadel Counsel made her the first human Spectre and charged her to find and bring in Spectre Saren for his crimes against humanity.
Taking her job seriously she brought with her the best fighters for her mission. Systems Alliance gave her the SSV Normandy fresh from the docks. With her team, ship and crew ready Commander Shepard took on her first mission as a Spectre, which would bring her face to face with a species thought dead, a crazed Spectre, and the face of true evil.
Pressent Day
April 10, 2188
"I don't see it." groaned a muffled male voice who was bent over a console.
"I'm sure if I was a human woman with pleasure centers you would've found it by now." came a female synthetic voice next to him.
"Okay sweetheart that's not fair." he groaned. Suddenly he found the right wire and hooked it to the console. "Bingo!" he yelled as the extranet connections came back up. "Ha! I don't need any tech's help."
"Jeff honey..." the man's head turned to the holo-projector and saw a human avatar of the AI named EDI.
"Have I told you that you look gorgeous today?" he asked the image. The woman's face turned pink. The avatar turned her heart-shaped face away, causing her raven colored hair to hide her momentarily. "Okay, no more teasing." he promised. Suddenly he heard somebody clearing their throat. Turning he saw Commander Shepard standing there with a hand over her mouth. "Aw, dam-n it, Faith ya know I like it when you make a noise."
"Funny." she said with laughter evident in her voice. "How long until we reach Zareth?"
"Well..." he began. "We just entered Arcturus System and Zareth is the third planet here..."
"Twenty minutes Commander." EDI replied with a smirk.
"Thank-you EDI." she said and turned to leave. As she left she swore she heard Jeff mutter "party pooper" to EDI.
Chuckling as she walked down the CIC to the elevator she couldn't help but smile at their current lives. She was married, with a child of her own, and now that the Reaper's were gone peace reigned, but how long that would last nobody knew.
Faith smiled as she walked into her cabin and down into the bedroom area. Sleeping at the far side of the room was her newly adopted turian daughter. She and Garrus had finished the asciolast month. Going through the turian adoption rites process had been so stressful, but in the end worth it.
Getting out of the shower and dressing she then heard small chirp hiccupping from her daughter. Time for breakfast she mused as she picked her daughter up.
The little one nudged her mother's neck trying to prompt her to give her some food. Sighing she look at the little one in her arms.
"Give Madaa moment." she said as she began walking to the elevator when Joker's voice came over the comm system.
"ETA to Zareth is 2 minutes Commander." he said.
Sighing once again she spoke into the room's comm. "This Joker. Have Doctor Monroe at the elevator when I get down there."
"Aye Commander." he said with a chuckle.
During the ride down she looked down at her daughter who was nudging her neck urgently, giving it a nip every so often to get her point across that she was hungry.
As the doors opened she was greeted by a turian female with vertical green bars painted onto her face. "Dr. Monroe." she greeted.
"Did she sleep well?" she asked as she took the little one.
"Yes. No midnight wake up calls." she replied with humor evident in her voice.
"Good." Monroe replied as they separated.
As Faith entered the cargo bay to the airlock she saw Jacob and his biotic turian rival Marva waiting for her. The female turian looked at her and smiled.
"Ready Commander?" she asked.
"Yes." she said as they were given the okay by Joker that they'd safely docked at the Zareth spaceport.
"Shepard!" Faith smiled as she walked into Anderson's new office. Once the Citadel had been closed and evacuated, the System's Alliance had given the planet Zareth to the Counsel as a new place for people to go.
It took the place of the Citadel and in many ways was better. Many people, especially xenophobic, had thought sharing a planet in the Arcturus System with the Counsel exile and having the Counselor on saidlanet would cause problems. They had been wrong.
Zareth had once been a poor mining planet with no atmosphere in 2155, but after years of terraforming its surface and atmosphere it had become a partially green planet with 80% of its surface water and 20% landmass.
Its landmass was the size of Northern America back on earth. Out of the 20% landmass 35% was easy farm land, 40% was mountain ranges, and 25% was enriched swamplands.
It was both heaven and hell at once with having sweltering heat in the Sothern mountains and snowstorms in the northern mountains, which made many wonder why the Counsel and Counsel Species would relocate here of all places. The question they should've asked was why not?
Krogan and Drell furbished in the dry humidity of the southern mountains. Humans, Turians, Asari, and Quarians flourished in the valley areas. Salarian's and Hannar flourished in the water and with planet that's 80% water, that was good for them. Volus lived in domes in the Northern mountains.
Elcor lived wherever they wanted. Then there was a nest of Rachni that would be moving into the abandoned mines. Everybody was happy here. All in all, Zareth had everything any Counsel Species member would need.
"Counselor." she said greeting Anderson with a smile and a handshake. Anderson smiled.
"Glad you could make it on such short notice." he said, his smile fading from his face. "We seemed to have made a discovery of sorts."
Frowning Faith crossed her arms over her chest. "What do you mean?" She asked.
Pointing to the couch centered in the middle of the room they walked over and sat down. Anderson pressed a button on the coffee table, which brought up a holo-screen of a Mass Relay near a blackened planet.
"A few days ago two ships, one human and one turian, found an old relay. Sending a few probes through these images came back. The planet has human habitable atmosphere. However as you can see there is no sun. It's called a drifter.
It's a planet that has drifted away from its solar system. The closest system is eighteen hours away. The probes entered the atmosphere and we found several compounds on its surface.
All with the Prothean markings and architecture." he paused and pressed more buttons to a new screen showing a small round object.
"Two teams went down. One turian and one human. Both had two salarian scientists in each team. One team found a box filled with crystals. The other found this device." he turned the screen off and looked at her.
"Then three days ago the scientists figured out what they were. They're recording of each and every species that we know of and dozens others we don't know of." he took a sip of water that was in a glass nearby.
"Then they found one of a species dubbed Species 9762. They're like us but with energy readings coming off of them and pointed ears."
"Did you say pointed ears?" she questioned.
He chuckled. "Yes. It turns out that the Protheans found them around the time they discovered our ancestors." he chuckled at Faiths shocked look. "It seems some of our folklore may have some truth to it."
"Begs the question, what else is true in our folklore's." she said causing Anderson to nod.
"On another note," he began. "The mines around the Citadel have been placed around the Citadel along with a comm bowie for when another species finds the Citadel. It also has a warning message on it about the Reapers and the Collector and a way to contact us."
"You think that wise?" she asked. "What if it's a species like the Yang or Batarians?"
He chuckled. "I'm sure we can trust the Spectres to take care of it, correct?"
Faith sighed and looked at the ceiling. "I'm never going to retire, am I?"
"Mot as long as you, Garrus, and Fa'lani are in charge of the Spectre unit." he paused. "Speaking of which how is the location of you base?"
Her eyes narrowed. "Secure." she said as if she was trying to convince herself and not Anderson.
Date: Dorvan 14, 2588
Location: ScorpiusSystem
space is dangerous when one doesn't know where to go. Fifty thousand years ago an ancient race came to this system and did experiments upon its inhabitants. In a bout of rage the inhabitants attacked the strangers for taking their men, women, and children. Some escaped the facility that they were being held in, but most died when the facilities reactor core exploded, thus creating the three mile wide and the two mile deep lake that separated two major kingdoms. After this occurred peace between nations, tribes, and kingdoms came to be.
For fifty thousand years peace reigned over the planet that inhabitants called Gi'ah. The inhabitants themselves were called Creations. They had both short and long pointed ears. Some had blue or green hair. Depending on the regions they came from was how their ears or hair color would be.
Some were warriors with powers that were thought in ancient times to be gifts from the gods, but now with scientific innovations and knowledge they knew it was a defect within the DNA stains.
It was genetic, but they were still seem as the greatest warriors in the world. The made up 70% of the creasing armies in the different kingdoms. While warriors weren't required to have powers to defend themselves the royal inhabitants did at all times.
The commoners took up the lower jobs in kingdoms and could join the armies and could become generals, governors, or senators with hard work.
By the year 2400 creations were space bound with satellites, probes, and ships going off and exploring the system and nearby planets. By 2500 slip space drives were discovered and ships began exploring the nearby star systems.
In 2535 colonization began and by 2588 almost 500 colonies existed. Of the ten kingdoms, each owned 50 colonies, spaceports, and space stations. Orbital Defenses Platforms or ODP's were placed around colonies and moon research stations.
In 2545 the first artificial intelligence was created and its life lasted ten point eight minutes. By 2588 artificial intelligences or A.I.'s were on every ship, both warships and commercial ships.
Their life expectancies are now 75 years compared to the creasing lifespan of 1200 years.
On this day in the Scorpius System a new chapter to their species was about to occur. As the captain walked onto the bridge of her ship she couldn't help but smile.
The Cealiawas named after the goddess of peace and friendship. She was a mighty ship, with supper mass excel orator canons or MAC canons for if and when they came into contact with the strangers that had dome those vicious experiments.
The captain's name was Narima vol'com, but her offical or court name was Lady Narima Volk'ner.
She was the daughter of a high priestess who had married a lord who then bought her mother land to build her temple in the woodlands.
"Mr. Tolen lets bring the slip space drive on and get this colony cruise going."
The holo-projecter next to her came to life and a man with short pointed ears, black chin length hair, wearing a techs uniform appeared next to her with a smile on his face. "Aye Captain." he said.
Within seconds the slip space drive came online. A mass of energy swirled and opened a portal in front of the ship. After the ship passed through, the portal collapsed and the ship and its inhabitants vanished.
M-Angel: So there is chapter one. I hope I didn't disappoint anybody with this first chapter. As you can see its not quite like what most probably thought it would be. So here is the rundown on this. It takes place in the Mass Effect universe, while adding elements from Halo like weapons, ships, and AI tech and the adding the Elvian species from Jak & Daxter. So, there is that rundown. So please tell me what you thought of this first chapter.
HBHound: Ashelin(from j&D) gonna shoot Miranda for stealin her look