Your Past defines your Future
This is going to have some elements of Halo in it but nothing like story mainly technology (the slipspace drive). Also! This isnt canon, there are no reapers. I'm using mass effect as the galatic basis etc. If you dont like that then dont read, if you do – I hope you enjoy!
100,000 Years BCSE: Prothean empire rises.
85,000 Years BCSE: Citadel and Mass relays built for ease of living and transport.
50,000 Years BCSE: Protheans discover the Rachni, they spread like a wildfire and devour everything in their path. The prothean empire is falls and the protheans are now extinct.
40,000 Years BCSE: Over 12,000 Rachni nests die off due to lack of food, a single survives by turning cannibal for food. They enter a long term stasis when food once more becomes short.
Rachni wars: It is believed the rachni were defeated as a good 80% of them were killed while barely coming out of Stasis, the singlular queen cannot reproduce drones quick enough and is evnetually killed.
(The rest of the Mass effect history is the same, until now obviously).
May 1945: Allied Forces defeat Hitlers Nazi Germany.
June 1945: In a surprise move allied forces (minus Russia) continue east to liberate territory gained by Russia through WWII
November 1945: Caught of guard, russia lost substantial ground and the main russian force was pushed back to the edge of Russia's borders.
June 1946: After a bloody war in which hundreds of thousands of soldiers lives were lost, the russian army has been pushed back almost completely to moscow by European forces from the west (including some from the remaining german army) and the chinese and asian allies from the east.
January 1947: After a bloody last stand, in which many prototype weapons were deployed by allied forces through german engineers, the Russian forces are defeated and Stalin is removed from power.
February 1948: A union of european countries is established among the mainland powers including Germany, France, the netherlands and belgium in order to prevent another world war. Britain refuses to join.
April 1948: China see's the opportunity to expand as the rest of asia, minus the commonwealth countries, are severely lacking in power and invades Japan, Korea and the phillipenes.
June 1948: Understanding the risks of becoming it's own state in a world shown to be prone to violence, Ireland choses to remain a part of the commonwealth.
March 1950: The newly established European Union has greatly increased in power and size coming to a total of 13 member states over it's short 2 year life-span. The economy Is booming and trade is great. The UK still refuses to enter talks to join much to the delight of the Commonwealth, despite this however the EU and UK's relationships are fantastic.
May 1950: The countries of south america decide to take a note from their northern counterparts and unite under a single banner, the SSA (States of South America). It is believed by many conspiracy theorists that this power play was orchestrated by surviving high ranking Nazi's who fled to the region at the fall of Nazi germany – though nothing concrete is found.
September 1950: Seeing the power play in Asia and South America, the EU moves to increase it's own size and power through the UK and Russia – the UK again refuses to enter talks however Russia is much more open as they are undergoing a severe economic crisis.
March 1951: All 19 EU member states adopt a singular currency, the Euro.
June 1951: Russia becomes a member state of the EU, many EU citizens are in uproar over this but are immediately silenced when large natural gas deposits are discovered in Russian territory.
August 1951: The UK and it's commonwealth become unnerved through the number of powerplays in 'modern' times, the entirity of the commonwealth once again unite under the banner of HME (His Majesties Empire) though the 'states' do retain their countries name etc
October 1951: Westminster remains the seat of power for all HME however, all but the most important matters (war, currency and international politics) are devolved to the individual Parliaments in the 'states' of HME.
January 1952: An alliance is proposed between the USA, EU and HME to devote resources and money to landing a man on the moon and beyond.
February 1952: The Euro crashes and as a result the EU must withdraw from the Alliance now known as the SA, Space Alliance.
April 1952: HME finally announces that after much, much effort and time the Empire shall adopt a singular currency – The Pound. Skepticism is high after the Euro crash however the pound is infact not a singular currency, but rather many different ones rallied under one banner with an equal exhange rate. Any form of the pound can be used in any member of HME.
2nd June 1952: Queen Elizabeth the II is coronated the new Head of state for HME.
July 1952: China continues it's expansion though is careful to avoid commonwealth territory, china now ranks as the worlds 3rd largest superpower, behind HME and the USA.
November 1952: The Euro shows very little signs of recovery. Seeing the disheveled state that Europe is in HME makes a bold move and secure Greenland from Denmark and moves on to secure Iceland which it then Gifts to the USA as a sign of good frienship and to strengthen there relationship. Denmark is in uproar however the EU as a whole refuses to attack Greenland as they fear doing so would invoke the wrath of HME armed forces which have exploded in quantity and quality.
March 1953: First man is sent into space and completes a full orbit before safely crashing in the Atlantic ocean, 'hero' is un-named for un-disclosed reasons.
April 1954: Euro begins it's rise once more and although sitting Fifth in the 'top currency' chart, behind the 1. Pound (all variants classified under 1) 2. US Dollar 3. SSA Quento and 4. Chinese/Japanese Yen.
November 1954: China and its 'protectorates' rally under a single banner, government and currency. It is now known as the Asian Federation, is a communist government and has the Yen as a single currency – unlike the Pound however it is one singular currency like the un-succesful Euro or the very succesful dollar.
January 1957: The whole world watches as Neil Armstrong and Buzz aldrin are the first men to land on the moon using the newly developed Alliance shuttle (basically NASA's re-usable shuttle). Samples of the moon are collected and brought back to the newly established Alliance Science department based in Antartica.
April 1957: The USA begins terraforming Iceland into a training ground for the Alliance forces. Upon completion it will have 8 Primary docks and 16 Secondary docks with Primaries being able to dock Aircraft carriers and secondaries everything else. Note, a secondary dock is actually a collection of 4 docks so essentially the island could have 8 Aircraft carriers and a collection of 64 other ships be they frigates or destroyers.
March 1958: Terraformung of Icland complete, initial plans for Naval bases were a complete success. 9 Airfields begin construction and over 20 seperate barracks constructed for seperate divvisions of the armed forces. A large portion remains untouched as the area is planned to become 'space-ports' for atmospheric launched space functional fighters – ALSFF's.
December 1959: The USA and HME decide that the Alliance shall be the centre for space and new technology whereas they will go about their armed forces and technological devlopments based on the Alliance technology individually. This results in the USA aiming for numbers and size advantages in warfare but HME going for technology and efficiency advantages, this gravely scares all other superpowers as the combination is an all but unstoppable force.
January 1960: The EU has once more re-gained its power and now ranks below the USA but above the Asian federation in terms of power, economy and size. The EU currently stands at 19 member states and looks to secure another 7 in the future years.
September 1960: The Alliance set's it's sights on other planets in the solar system and due to HME drive for efficiency, a new type of engine is desired.
October 1964: Feeling very prone to an invasion from the EU, All African countries unite under a single banner, the nation of Africa, and petition for membership in HME. The HME wants to help and expand it's power base however it feels that taking on so many countries could de-stabilise the pound and as such a decision is made to split africa into two – Norht and south Africa, North becomes a member of HME and South becomes a member of the USA as they offer to take them in as a sign of good faith to their close allies HME.
January 1970: The EU absorbs Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia into it's 'ranks' bringing the number of member states to 26. After much debating and a valid argument, the EU becomes known solely as 'The Union' due to member states outside of Europe.
March 1971: In a counter to The union's power plays moving into the middle east, China secures Kyrgizstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan while an Alliance force secures the rest of the Middle East with the land going to HME – consipiracy theorists believe this to be a play by the Alliance as they have plans to secure South America for the USA.
April 1978: New engine developed by the Alliance – the engine is based around tunneling into the slipstreams of space which greatly reduces time of travel by 10's if not 100's of light years. The asian federation and the Union both launched manned missions to the moon around this time and prepped to begin working on sending a man to mars.
May 1978: 3 ships are outfitted with the Brand new Hereford-Shaw engines, all being Alliance vessels – one ship is a scientific ship while the other two are military vessels. The ships are ready to launch though they are waiting for the military ships to be armed with new weapons that were tested in a secret alliance sub-terranean base on the moon.
November 1978: The SSA finally gives in to the pressure of Argentina and launches an attack on the Falkland Islands with the reasoning that they beling to Argentina therefore the belong to the States of South America. There is no response from HME which greatly surprises the entire world.
March 1979: In a surprise attack, a fleet of 2 Aircraft carriers – the HMS Dauntless and HMS Endeavour – alon with their battle groups of 6 Destroyers and 12 frigates per Carrier appear in SSA waters. The first battlegroup – HMS Dauntless' – continues past the falklands and set's a blockade between the mainland and the island while the 2nd Battlegroup launches the invasion of the Islands.
At the same time, 6 astute class submarines appear up and down the west coast of the SSA and begin a bombardment with their arsenal before disappearing while the forces of the USA invade from the north and secure much of the Northern Sates of the SSA.
November 1979: After a fairly quick campaign the SSA Army is all thats left and the remnants of that are held up in Southern Argentina, they are dispatched with in 2 weeks between a combined Naval and Air Force strike.
February 1980: The weapons are succesfully fired and the 3 ships are launched from antartica heading for Venus as Alliance scientists believe it is more important than Mars. (if only they knew).
May 1980: The AF (Asian Federation) is most succesful with their mission to the moon and launch a manned mission to Mars, the Union is very close behind.
1981: The alliance begins terraformation of the Northern Hemisphere of Venus as the little resources that were present there have been mined. This portion of Venus will be dry docks for the construction and maintainence of the newly proposed HME and USA fleets. Once again the USA will aim for numbers and size while HME will aim for efficiency and technology.
1982: A combined Union and AF scientific team discover the Mars archives, they hide it from the Alliance as they fear an invasion of the planet. They discover the mass effect technology.
1984: AF and Union forces begin construcion of ships based around mass effect technology.
1985: Alliance hackers discover the AF and Unions use of mass effect technology but deem the benefits null.
2000: Construction of all 4 Superpowers fleets are finished – They are as follows;
HME:
Carriers: 10
Dreadnaughts: 20
Destroyers: 160
Frigates: 960
Fighters: 10,550
Seekers: 5
USA:
Carriers: 14
Dreadnaughts: 30
Destroyers: 200
Frigates: 1000
Fighters: 1,2000
Seekers: 0
AF:
Carriers: 0
Dreadnaughts: 38
Destroyers: 203
Frigates: 1,243
Fighters: 16,245
Seekers: 0
The Union:
Carriers: 1
Dreadnaughts: 32
Destroyers 210
Frigates: 1,240
Fighters: 16,000
Seekers: 1
2001: Colonization Drive begins with each superpower headed in their own direction, the USA and HME however have very laxed borders between colonies and work closely on colonization and defense where in certain cases if they each colonise in one system then a single fleet will be left to protect that system.
2010: A mass relay is discovered in the 'Shanxi' system which is an AF system and lies directy on the borders of HME space. A joint scientific team of all superpowers investigates the Relay, it is accidentally activated and the Story begins...