A/N - So. How d'ya do. Ace Combat and Mass Effect huh? I have no idea either, just going to post this to see how we go, if I get reviews I'll post more often, if not? Eh I'll just keep writing for kicks.
So yes Ahem, thanks to a recent bout of Ace Combat music I've decided on making a fic. With a twist of Mass effect. Or the other way around really, this is the intro simply, next is some actual story.
Mass effect had changed the galaxy for Humanity, made space travel practical where decades prior people were fussing over Jump Zero as the gateway into the final frontier.
They didn't know what was coming and the advent of mass effect had all but killed the advance of science in other fields. After all who needed rockets and jets with mass effect making everything so practical?
But for the nations of Osea, Yuktobania, Belka and Usea it was disastrous, the bleeding edge in aerospace design became the back burner as mass effect technology came to the head of the newly formed Alliance, to become the Systems Alliance. Those once great nations descended into obscurity with but a few people in space claiming their origins in those places anymore, however their leaders were not deterred, mass effect technology may have accelerated them to space but they wouldn't give up.
After all that these nations had gone through they refused to lie down and let some dusty old race direct their path. The four nations banded together, they called their new nation the Circum-Pacific Concordat, they would forge their own way to the stars.
Wars passed, new worlds were discovered and the CPC fell further into obscurity, however near end of the third decade Earth citizens started seeing something remarkable, the sleek, knife like shapes of the old world of aircraft returned to the skies.
In mere months these same craft were reported taking flight into space and returning without the aid of mass effect at all, days later enormous craft were seen taking flight into the stars, massive craft in the kilometres scale...
The Circum-Pacific Concordat had made their way into space on the backs of thirty years of development, using technology once thought unfeasible, the CPC launched its own space fleet to the vexation of the Systems Alliance.
Where had these people emerged from?
Why weren't they Systems Alliance members anyway?
What were the strange technologies they had come to space with?
Questions that found little answer as the newborn Concordat fleet initiated an gargantuan build up of energy before disappearing in flashes of light...
Plied for answers the CPC leadership simply said that they had launched an experimental expedition to find new worlds for the CPC to call their own, out in the Skyllian Verge, the Systems Alliance leadership was stunned.
Humans had twice made it to the starts but without the aid of mass effect technology?
But they moved fast, human or not the Skyllian verge was Systems alliance territory and they would, against popular belief protect their citizens and their homes...
Elysium was chosen for the base of Systems Alliance frigate patrols and from 2175 onwards they patrolled to repel a possible CPC invasion.
They would never have expected what happened next.