The Rise

by Jayson Shepard

Shepard finds himself in the midst of an upcoming tragedy that grips the fate of the galaxy. An alternate to the actual storyline to the game. Recommended that you play the game before you read to understand better. This is my first so dont judge harshly.

1. Distress Call

The Rise

By: Jayson Shepard

Chapter 1: Distress Call

Daytime nears its end on a calm and peaceful autumn on the Citadel. The year is 2183, a year that will be remembered historically for many years to come. The citadel is the center for many species of all reaches of the galaxy. But none of these species are ready for the upcoming turmoil.

Commander Shepard wipes his brow as sweat runs down his forehead. That same forehead holds the only thing that makes him not want to look in the mirror anymore. What is left is a scar from a bullet that should have killed him on the Battle of Elysium, but instead grazed his forehead and took someone else. Any time he looks in the mirror his memories of ships and gunfire raining down from the sky. The utter confusion as civilians, friends, and soldiers were cut down around him by ruthless self-sacrificing pirates. Amid the gunfire and death, Shepard rounded up surviving soldiers and led them in Blitzkrieg attacks eventually exterminating anyone stupid enough to face him. Since this, Shepard has gotten unwanted attention from the media gotten him to where he is today in the military.

"All I ask is for you to open up your eyes, and listen to reason. The message is clearly an act of impending war," Shepard argues to the Citadel Council.

"Our eyes our open to the fact that during this brief video this alien species we are now calling the Lithinites brags about their "advanced" weapons, armor, and mass army," The Asari Council member Contradicts.

This new race called the Lithinites is a race of apparently humanoid proportions. The only obvious difference between them and humans are the fact that they have no noses, just two small holes with which they breathe. They called their home planet Spacter II. They were even nice enough to send us detailed reports on the planet. The Pressure is .5 of Earth; the atmosphere contains Xenon, Nitrogen, and trace amounts of Oxygen. Their planet orbits a Tri-Star system meaning a pair of smaller stars orbit each other while they orbit the larger star.

"It is obvious that they are attempting to try to scare us into submission and make us bow to their will." Shepard says to the entire council. "And if we refuse they want treat us like a mother treats a disobeying child, they will point guns to our head when we least expect it, when we choose to trust them!"

"Commander, this council will not immediately attack a new possible friend to us. This is not going to be another First Contact war. The council rules, since you obviously have no real evidence of any danger the Lithinites hold, that we will send ambassadors to Spacter immediately with open arms and not open fire. This session is now dismissed."

As she bangs the gavel, all hope of saving lives of the planets that the Lithinites will take first and hold hostage until we place them in power, is lost.