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For those unfamiliar with Blake's 7, I try explain the necessary bits as they come up. However, if you view Blake's 7 as the dystopia to Star Trek's utopia, you'll probably be pretty close. But to give a specific example, the first episode details the backstory of main character Roj Blake.

*SPOILER ALERT*

Though amongst the most privileged citizens of the Federation, he was a leader of a dissident group which was destroyed. He was captured and coerced into denouncing his own movement, then his memory was erased. He was left alive as bait for the remaining dissidents, who attempted to contact him, only to be gunned down after succeeding. When his memory returns, the Federation responds by implanting memories in children that they'd been abused by him, allowing them to honestly testify to that. Blake is disgraced and sentenced to life on an off-world planet. But he had managed to raise sufficient questions in the mind of his public defender that the man went on a successful search of exculpatory evidence. Unfortunately for the defense attorney, he was not sufficiently visible for his disappearance to need an explanation, so he's simply murdered.

The rest of the series details the tiny rebellion's lengthy and mostly futile struggle against the overwhelming forces of oppression and tyranny.

*BIGGER SPOILER ALERT*

They fail completely and all die. Probably.

*END BOTH LARGE AND SMALL SPOILER ALERTS*

Perhaps things will go better for them this time around. Or not. Either way, just a heads up, it's a while before the actual crossover happens. Since I'm making a few changes to the backstory of Mass Effect, chapters will alternate between Blake's 7 and Mass Effect until I'm finally able to bring them together.

For those who are familiar with Blake's 7, it should be noted that though the events leading to the crossover will be occurring at the end of Season 2 of Blake's 7, certain events from the later seasons did occur, most notably the events of Rumours of Death in season 3 (though obviously it occurred somewhat differently here). The other major differences are explained fairly clearly, but if you have specific questions, ask them in a review and I'll respond as best I can.

Technology and distance are not consistently dealt with by Blake's 7, so I've made some assumptions. They obviously aren't using the relay system, nor is there any mass effect technology. Comparisons between the two are tricky and will be dealt with at some length once they actually begin to interact.

Solomon Bar—Excerpt from Grant Proposal

The artifacts variously known as the Daggers, God's Balls and the Universe's Jewels, have been studied since man first ascended into space. These massive artifacts measure more than fifteen kilometers in length, with the central partial sphere possessing a diameter of approximately five kilometers, dwarfing any human construction. These artifacts dot known space, seemingly at random.

Completely nonresponsive to probes, signals and weapons-fire alike, they are clearly the result of a technologically superior species which predates humanity by millennia. Even our most advanced optical telescopes looking out to the maximum range where such artifacts can be seen, using the speed of light limitation to look back in time more than ten thousand years cannot see a time before the artifacts were in place.

I propose a new set of studies of these artifacts, setting up a long term post atop one and attempting various forms of vibratory interaction, in an effort to see if I can remove a small portion of the material. Simultaneously, such equipment can be used to broadcast a wide array of signals, in an attempt to interact with the electronics which surely must lie within such a vast space construct.

The study of these artifacts consumed many great scientists and historians before the Federation barred private companies from studying them and refused to fund any further research expeditions. We cannot abandon this mystery of the ages merely because it has not, thus far, proven profitable.

Civil Administration Response Memo

Strike paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 from the public announcement. Funding granted. Request for family to accompany him likewise granted. Security Division will assign you an escort and a ship to ensure this research project is not interrupted by pirates, or other traitors to the cause of human progress.

Memo for Internal Security Division, From: Supreme Commander Alexei's Office

Ensure that one of your covert operatives is included in the Bar Expedition. All reports from that agent are to go solely to this office.

Operative Kale, Report 73

No progress. Bar has finally run out of things to try. However, he continues to expound upon the power and superiority of those who designed and constructed these artifacts, saying that we, his students, are simply too stupid to understand their importance. When asked about this over drinks later, he repeated his earlier fantasy about forming an alliance with the builders of these devices to overthrow the Federation (or Military Dictatorship as he calls it) and replace it with a truly 'scientific' and 'progressive' government.

As Bar's efforts have now failed and he is not high enough profile for mental reconditioning to be necessary, I recommend termination of Bar and his expedition.

Memo for Operative Kale, From: Supreme Commander Alexei's Office

Recommendation Approved.

CLASSIFIED-AAA CLEARANCE REQUIRED-Transcript, Appointment Meeting

Supreme Commander Alexei ('Alexei'): Do you know why I'm choosing you as my second in command, Servalan?

Commander Servalan ('Servalan'): Because my mother is on the high council and my father is president of Helti Pharmaceuticals?

Alexei: No. That's why I could pick you as my successor, but there are a hundred other young officers with connections just as good as yours.

Servalan: Then I'd say it was because of my success at—

Alexei: It was because, despite being a treacherous, backstabbing bitch, who somehow manages to get all the credit and none of the blame, you do have one great redeeming feature.

Servalan: Besides getting all of the credit and none of the blame?

Alexei: That's not a feature, that's the result of massive amounts of hard work on your part, as we both now.

Servalan: Than what is my single redeeming feature?

Alexei: While everyone else is fighting the last war, or planning for the next war, you deal with the war in front of you. Which is why I have some files for you to review, independently. This terminal is not connected to any other and you will not connect it to any other. You will review all the files on it. Then you will come talk to me about what war you think we're fighting.

Servalan: Very well, Supreme Commander.

CLASSIFIED-HIGHEST LEVEL-Survey 2019 File Excerpt

The remaining planetary infrastructure is in ruins, however it was clearly an advanced society with multiple orbitals, based on the debris pattern. All the places where the infrastructure is linked however has been blasted into glass. See attached calculations regarding the size/power of the plasma bolt launcher necessary to cause such an effect through atmosphere.

This is consistent with our discoveries on other worlds. Carbon dating confirms the damage occurred in approximately the same time frame as the others as well. See attached report. We're attempting to translate some of the writings we found, but have had no success so far. See attached data file. Of particular interest is the attached image. Image attached. This appears to be the last of the alien's creations. We have no idea why one of their last acts would have been to carve this in the wall of a cave system, but the massive carving is most impressive. My researchers have taken to calling it the Kraken, after the ancient Earth legend, however, even in the most absurd versions of this aquatic myth, the creature did not shoot fire out of its tentacles.

We will proceed with our survey, but I feel I must report that at this point there seems to be little doubt what we will find.