2156 CE( 2126 AD)
First Contact War.- The first contact war, was started when the fledgling Alliance sent the 4th scout squadron past the Relay 314. The Turian patrol responded with overwhelming force, annihilating the ships without any warning. They then traced the ships back to Shanxi. This was the start of the month long siege of Shanxi.
The alliance was caught off guard, by the Turian invasion, starting with an attack by the 314th response squadron of 4 dreadnought and 25 cruisers.
Once the Alliance Shanxi Defense Squadron was defeated, the turians launched a ground invasion.
The Alliance garrison under General Williams, proceeded to fight an war of attrition, employing Fabian strategy and counter attacks, in the hopes of an rescue.
But after a month of fighting, Turians started rounding up civilians. In an insurmountable situation, General Williams surrendered to the turian commander, in return for the lives of the civilians and the men under him.
It would take the alliance, a week more after the surrender to finally liberate Shanxi.
General Williams was demoted and eventually forcibly retired as a scapegoat.
After Shanxi, the alliance responded with a massive counter attack. Based on recovered intelligence, the Alliance 3rd, 5th and 2nd fleet launched a three pronged attack.
An enraged humanity gave no quarter. Planets which could not be taken were decimated with Orbital Bombardment.
It was only after 4 months of heavy fighting from the Relay 314 incident, that a citadel delegation brokered a treaty, ending the war and paving the way to humanity's entry into the galactic civilization as a member.
Introduction of Humans to Galactic Community and Citadel Council
2160 CE( 2130 AD)- 2165 CE( 2135 AD)
- Alliance and Independent human colonies expand into the Attican Traverse and Terminus Systems
- Raloi make first contact with Citadel. Embassy Established.
- Human- Raloi Alliance – Although initially the contact between the Alliance and The Roali Confederacy was polite at best, it quickly changed.
After a plague broke out among the Raoli, the Alliance was the first to respond, hoping to eventually establish an alliance. The effort was successful and ever since then Alliance and Confederacy has enjoyed an exclusive alliance, second to none.
- Alliance Trains Raloi Forces
- Raloi RSD ( Recon and Strike Division) established.- The best of the Raoli military, the RSD was initially trained by the N7 program, eventually going on establish their own training program. Comparable to the N7, the Black watch and the Asari Commandos, the RSD forms a deadly force of specialised operatives armed with the best equipment possible. The RSD is rapidly gaining experience, due to the constant Anti piracy and slavery operations conducted in the Terminus Systems, near Raoli territory. The RSD is distinct for its extensive use of small Attack Corvettes instead of the standard Frigates used by other special forces.
2165 CE – 2170 CE( 2135-2140)
- Batarians leave Citadel
- Mindoir Incident
2171- 2177 CE ( 2141-47 AD)
- 2173 CE – Shepard becomes youngest N7 operative at the age of 17 .
- Azuke incident
2174 CE- Elysium and the Skylian Blitz
2175- Torfan Raid
- Shepard frees Batarian slaves, helps them escape
- Batarian Resistance against the Hegemony starts. Shepard funds initial operations with recovered loot worth 1 billion credits
- Batarian Resistance sets up in the Nemean abyss planet of Kordash.
2176- Shepard returns to the Alliance
Alliance Intelligence interrogates Shepard
Shepard Is reinstated.
2177- Eden Prime incident
- Shepard becomes SPECTRE
- Recruits Tali, Garrus, Wrex
- Rescues and recruits Liara T'Soni
- Feros incident
-Luna incident – Shepard Keeps the AI destroying evidence of its existence.
-Noveria incident – Shepard saves the Rachni queen, sets her free. Rachni queen imparts knowledge of
Technological relics, undiscovered
Mass relays and the location of hidden garden worlds.
-Shepard explores, based on the Rachni Queen's information, discovers 2 pristine Prothean relics,
Discovers new star system cluster and several garden worlds.
The new systems are named Shepard's cluster in his honor.
Shepard receives additional information from the Prothean relics
Concerning Reapers.
-Virmire incident. Shepard had to sacrifice Kaiden Alenko.
- Shepard realises he's outmatched.
- Visits Noveria with the AI programme . Contracts Illegal company KreyTark to develop more durable and intelligent mechs among other goods.
- Illos incident
- Sovereign and Saren attacks Citadel, and are destroyed by Shepard, the Alliance fleet, and Normandy.
Shore Leave- Shepard
Receives medals, and sets up a firm to manage his wealth, now close to several billion due to royalties from his discoveries
-Prepares to resign from commission due to dissatisfaction, with the Alliance not believing about Reapers.
-Destruction of SSV Normandy SR 1.
-Shepard is recovered by Cerberus.
2178-79 CE ( 2148- 2149 AD)
-Pathfinder Corps formed by Alliance - Established by Admiral Steven Hackett, acting on the advice of Commander Shepard and his own instinct, along with the intel from the Normandy SR 1, Anti Saren operations, The Pathfinder Corps is the ultimate extension of the Alliance Military doctrine, of fast and precision strikes and an alternative for spectre candidates, as humanity was not likely to be granted another spectre for the foreseeable future.
The Pathfinder Corps consists of the Pathfinders, specially selected volunteer N7 graduates and operatives who are trained further and put in command of the Pathfinder( formerly Normandy) class deep scout frigates.
The standard training of an Pathfinder lasts 6 month/1 year training, consisting solely of warship command training.
The mission profile for Pathfinders is long range , long duration ( 6 months), scout, patrol and crisis intervention . Pathfinders are encouraged to find their own solutions and think on their feet, with communication and command chain being limited to minimum.
The pathfinders are provided Spectre level Alliance hardware and extensive credit lines.
Pathfinders are assisted by Corsair operatives, which are slowly being integrated into Pathfinder operations.
- Pathfinder class ship-
Length - 155 M
Breadth - 43 M
Height - 16 M
Sublight - 4 Antimatter enhanced fusion torch drives, 2 retrograte torches, H/o2 manuevering thrusters
FTL - Mass effect FTL with an oversized Tantalus drive core.
Passengers - 15 - 5 Ship crew, 10 Pathfinder team
Armament - Twin forward mounted javelin disruptor torpedo launcher tubes.
1 Thanix Cannon/ Twin Spinal mounted enhanced mass accelerator cannons
GARdian point defense grid
Utilities - QEC and long range communication and sensors.
Tantalus drive core
Nuclear Fusion Reactor Power plant
Medbay facilities
Tech lab
Rapid Launch Emergency Escape Pods
Armoury .
Embarked Craft - 1 M35 Mako .
- Lazarus Project
- Wrex Urdnot becomes Clan Urdnot Chieftain, begins reformation and reunification of Krogans
- Liara comes in contact with Shadow broker
- Garrus becomes Archangel
- Collector Attacks
- The Rachni Queen sets up colonies deep in outer regions
2180 CE( 2150 AD)
- Shepard wakes up
- Miranda and Jacob recruited
- Meets Illusive Man
- Freedom's Progress
- Normandy SR-2
- Meets EDI
- Saves Garrus and his team
- Recruits Garrus
- Recruits Mordin Solus
Recruits Jack
-Recruits Grunt.
-Recruits Samara Thane and Kasumi.
- Helps Liara . Liara becomes Shadow broker after Shepard kills the previous one.
- Liara helps Shepard with information
Shepard discovers Red Eezo in illegal research facility. Sends 90% of stockpile to Kreytark , with instructions to use it to make bombs and warheads for torpedoes and missiles, and grenades, along with enhancing Mass accelerator cannons.
-Receives news that work is going well from Kreytark
-Meets Ashley- whole incident
-Tuchanka- Grunt and Shepard becomes leader of Clan Shepard, ally of Clan Urdnot.
-Recruits Zaid and Tali
- Recruits Legion
- Haelstorm
- True Geth allies with Shepard. Shepard Receives Geth Weapons
And offer of aid. Shepard accepts and formulates plan
- Recruits the rest of the crew
- Loyalty missions.
- Recovers Reaper IFF
- Fallout with Cerberus. Miranda and Jacob discovers Illusive Man's plan to enslave them. Joins Shepard
- Omega Incident
-Shepard receives Blood pack weapons and credits as payment from Aria.
-Raid on Cerberus Facility- Rescues Deimos and Phobos – Cybernetic enhanced Vorcha. Discovers and rescues Kiri.
Kiri joins Shepard's team.
-EDI gets her Body.
- Phobos leaves to uplift and prepare Vorcha.
- Deimos joins Shepard's team
-Normandy SR2 heavy damaged by Collector attack.
-Shepard activates his plan. Legion departs to Noveria to meet with Geth
Trooper and Infiltrator cell
- Shepard takes Normandy SR2 to Noveria.
- Key Events ( Brief Snippets) of the life Of One Kairos Shepard before the tale of his journey to lands far away from the cradle of our civilisation, Milky Way, which I, your poor miserable record keeper has so graciously recounted, began.
- Earth- Kairos Shepard is not a real name. Or at least it wasn't until it was adopted by a six year old child, a boy of an nameless small time pornographer, Delilah Mira, surname unknown, in the over crowded suburbs of Oslo,the second largest immigrant intra planet destination after Amsterdam. By all accounts it was a happy life for both single mother and child, Delilah supplementing her income with night jobs half the week, the other half being dedicated to distance education, in non citadel literatures and narratives. Here we must pause and note that both parent and child we're highly intelligent. While Delilah was studying one of the toughest courses in the galaxy, and teaching college students their courses Kairos ( we will continue to use this name, as Kairos refuses to divulge his original name, and any attempt at coercion was met with brutal retaliation, as one Alliance Recruitment Intelligence officer came to realise, when in response to his repeated attempts to force Kairos to tell his original name, ( of which there are no records, most possibly being deleted)Kairos shot him in the leg, killed his pet, and rigged explosives to his car and house, which exploded when he came within 10 feet of them.) Was member of the local sharpshooter team, and was reading and writing as good as a high school student.
Then the happy life was suddenly destroyed. Delilah was killed, believed by most to be the work of an rogue pro human faction and an uprising gang. Kairos was left homeless, his mother's meagre income leaving no room for savings.
Kairos was at first put in foster care, from which he escaped at the age of 10, sneaking abroad the MSV Katamarine, bound for the colony of Mindoir, starting of his involvement with a few key events in Alliance prospects for the Attican Traverse.
- Mindoir- Mindoir was a peaceful colony, not part of the alliance. Aside from the main colony, several camps of pioneers and hermits were also present in the planet. Mindoir had a population of over 2 millon, mostly concentrated on the main colony and capital city . Kairos joined one these isolated camps, after arriving at the planet. He was looked after by an old couple and used his skills in hunting and fishing to pay for his way, as he insisted.
Only a few years later, that too was gone. This time it was an Batarian pirate and slavers raid that once again shattered the peaceful existence of a young Kairos.
The Batarians entered the system with a massive raiding fleet of 6 cruisers and a dozen medium cargo freighters, and over a dozen frigates. They then proceeded to decimate to decimate the colony defense fleet of a dozen old frigates and then proceeded with a ground invasion, intent on capturing as many slaves as they could, knowing that any alliance was days away.
Kairos was caught in the main city, where he had gone to attend the local school. The batarians after landing the invasion force, had quickly surrounded the main population centres with their Batarian Tanks and gunships, eliminating major defensive positions, leaving only isolated groups of resistance fighters.
It was in the first wave, that things turned from bad to worse for Kairos and the city. Although the city's defense force and reserves drawn from the city Police and civilians fought hard, they were unable to hold off and repel the attack. The batarians, after eliminating the city's defense force, proceeded with their slavery operations, large groups of pirates and ex military batarians going around with slavers with bag and tag gears- stun ammo, explosive collars, shock handcuffs, batons, and tranquilizer.
What followed was over a week of horror. While limited resistance continued, most civilians who weren't caught in the initial wave, chose to hide in cellars, and shelters among other places, while many tried to smuggle themselves away to the remote isolated pioneer camps, which were easier to hide from the slavers. Some succeeded in their efforts to hide or spirit away, but most did not.
After escaping the initial attack, Kairos worked with local resistance groups, drawing upon his experience in living on the streets for the weeks before and after foster care, scavenging ammunition, and acting as scout for resistance ambushes. He also helped supply food to civilians under resistance protection and participate in sabotage operations.
Throughout this all, the people of mindoir had one hope. Some of the defense Forces had rigged up an planetary distress beacon and activated it, hiding it in a local police station, which became a resistance stronghold.
Eventually the Alliance arrived and commenced rescue operations. It would take the SA one week to completely clear mindoir of Batarians.
By that time, the slavers had smuggled away well over a million people, in what came to be known as the biggest slavers raid in recent history of the known galaxy.
Kairos was by then, at the mere age of 16, a hardened fighter. He had participated in the fierce firefighters that broke out after the SA commenced rescue operations.
It was this rescue that inspired Kairos to join the alliance Marines, which he did just a few months after the Events of Mindoir.
-Azuke.
The name, for alliance marine history evokes an image of the darkest cruelest hellhole ever encountered in marine history. In October of 21-, a Cerberus experiment program lured an entire battalion of alliance Marines into thresher maw hunting grounds, to test the viability of Thresher maws as biological weapons. Following the loss of contact with the battalion, the alliance sent fifty Marines, mostly N4 and above to investigate. These Marines were also eventually wiped out by the thresher maws, with one exception. A young Shepard escaped the thresher maws for a time and managed to discover and eliminate the Cerberus experiment program. However he was stranded on the planet for well over a month, fighting and fending off both the elements and repeated thresher maw attacks. Eventually he was rescued by the frigate Yao Shin, attached to the 23rd recon squadron of the fifth fleet under admiral Steven Hackett.
Following this, Shepard managed to give the alliance crucial data on the Cerberus experiment and was eventually sent to recuperate to the garden world of Elysium, with regular Psych counselling and physiotherapy.
Setting the stage for his participation in the siege of Elysium.
- Elysium and the skyllian blitz was a massive proxy invasion and attack carried out by the Hegemony. A massive force of Batarian pirates funded by the hegemony and armed with top notch equipment, invaded the Skyllian territories of the System Alliance, with their main target being the Garden world of Elysium.
The initial attack from a combined force of old military ships and retrofitted freighters acting as cruisers quickly overwhelmed the Planetary Defense fleet of the SA, consisting of an cruiser and four frigates, acting as a wolfpack squadron supporting the cruiser.
Following this, a massive invasion force was launched, with most of them being slavers, tasked with the capture of colonists for the slave market. This was supported by Batarian tanks, and heavy gunships, and in few cases, orbital bombardment.
To the defense of the capital and the rest of the colony came the alliance marines on shore leaves, along with the local defense force, several vacationing turians, a few salarians and several raoli troopers. Among the alliance marine was a young N7, Shepard.
After the initial attack, where the defenders suffered substantial losses, he rallied the defenders into an effective fighting force, first repelling the invaders and then quickly establishing a safe operations zone.
This was followed by an intense conflict, that lasted well over a week.
Shepard carried out multiple guerilla attack sorties outside the safe zone, rescuing prisoners and severing enemy troop movement and communications, drawing on his earlier experience at Mindoir and his N7 training.
The batarians responded with more aggressive attacks, including the use of SBU, and in several instance Orbital bombardment, but the last fell off, when the entire fifth fleet of the Alliance Navy arrived, led by Admiral Hackett.
After the alliance came, the hegemony forces quickly disappeared, leaving the slavers and pirates to fend for themselves, who were quickly defeated and mostly wiped out.
For his actions, Shepard was awarded the Star of Terra, the highest military award of the Systems Alliance. He was nicknamed the The Black Fury of Elysium, a reference to both his berserker attacks on the Batarians and his preference of black armor that covered every inch of his body.
- Torfan
After the events of Elysium, Shepard lead a Volunteer force of Mercenaries, Alliance forces and over a dozen capital warships against this Hegemony funded Moon. The space battle was quick and decisive, with the Raiding fleet capitulating on the surprise of the slavers on being attacked to decimate their fleets.
This was followed by a brutal ground campaign. A main invasion force with heavy armor and air support attacked the moon in a frontal assault, while a elite task force of N7s and saboteurs under Shepard was dispatched to find and execute slaver captains and any supporters behind enemy line. A secondary task was for the planting of locator beacons around the slaves' cages or housing for Search and Rescue by the main troops.
Shepard took no prisoners, killing every slaver in sight, except for children and women. He also located all slaves in the moon. His force was responsible for collecting intelligence that led to other slaver bases being destroyed.
While on the moon, he also found Batarian slaves and lower castes who were treated like slaves. While his forces were clamouring to kill them as well, he took them under his protection and helped them escape Torfan.
Later on, he helped the same slaves to form their own resistance movement, funding it from the enormous loot that he was able to take from the slavers. He also is suspected by the STG, of providing the initial training for the movement and is the main suspected reason of his disappearance.
After the operation, Shepard used the disabled ships' salvaged drive cores and the Nuclear weapons they had carried to leave a shocking reminder.
The WMDs were set off under ground and in the atmosphere with chemical weapon attachments. The very atmosphere was set on fire, and the earthquakes created massive tectonic shifts, rendering the moon inhabitable and desolate, a stark horrifying image of vengeance that is still burned in the galaxy's collective conscience and especially in the Hegemony.
In the aftermath of the Torfan Raid, Shepard was dispromoted and put in a remote backwater colony, only to be put under Anderson a few months later.
The events of Torfan earned Shepard yet another title, The Butcher of Torfan, for his actions in the raid of Torfan.
