Codex: Human Space Timeline
Beta Reader: Albert
1961 CE
April 12th: Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok 1 becomes the first human to travel into space. Humanity becomes a spacefaring race.
1969 CE
July 20th: Apollo 11 lands on Luna. Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on Luna, and the first human to walk on an astronomical object other than Earth/Terra.
1971 CE
April 19th: Salyut 1 is the first space station put into orbit, allowing humans to live outside of Earth
1998 CE
The International Space Station is put into Earth's orbit, being the first international spacecraft to be made by the humans as a unified effort.
2036 CE
March 12th: Jessamine O'Neal is the first human to step on Mars.
2069 CE
July 20th: Armstrong Outpost at Shackleton Crater is considered formally as the first human settlement on Luna, on the 100th anniversary of the first lunar landing.
2070 CE
Billionaire Victor Manswell, frustrated with the pace of official human space exploration, begins funding his own private spaceflight expedition.
2075 CE
The Manswell Expedition successfully launches from Earth en route to the Alpha Centauri system with 300 colonists aboard in cryogenic stasis. Communications with the vessel are lost soon after launch.
2076 CE
On Earth/Terra, dimensional rifts began to appear around the European content h, especially around Vatican Rome. This sparks a resurgence of religion as well as scientific curiosity as many began to flock to study or pray at the phenomenon. It also sparked fear among the various governments around the world as they increase funding for their space and military programs.
The events also push the European nations to solidify into one government known as the Neo-European Union. Once the government was formed, they sent their soldiers to secure the rifts found around the content.
2077 CE: Humanity Discovers Dilithium Crystals
Scientists used filters around the dimensional rifts began to collect dust for research, along with several small-automated probes to collect 100-10000kg of earth samples. The geologists and radiologists were able to determine the minerals were not from Earth.
During their collections, scientists also discovered crystals that could absorb any different forms of energy to produce pure, clean energy with a transfer rate of 80-90% efficiency as opposed to the 40-70% efficiency most generators produce. In addition, the newly dubbed dilithium crystals grew by the amount of energy collected over a period of time. Several world powers begin more intense research on dilithium crystals for continued use. They also enacted safety procedures as exposure to any rock larger than 10 micrograms could kill a person.
Several radical religious groups and a few institutions such, as the Catholic Church tried to outlaw the collecting of dilithium crystals, which they called lyrium 'mystic rocks.' Most governments and companies ignore them. Radicals attempt to attack several labs and companies researching the crystal but are capture and imprison while scientists moved their research into space.
2080 CE
On a deep space station, a scientist named Sarha Hornbeck found a way to exponentially increase the growth of dilithium crystals. She had determined that bombarding the crystals with large amounts of gamma radiation while allowing solar winds to pass through the crystal would increase the growth rate from a large shard to the size of 2m bush within days provided she kept the crystals from discharging its energy. Twenty space stations and several spots on the light side of the moon are laid out to grow dilithium crystals.
2082 CE
On Earth, many children begin to show signs of developing powers that resembled magic from fairy tales, and other abilities that seemed to defy the laws of physics. These children, called mages soon found themselves either treated like shamans or experienced their own new witch-hunt against them. In response, several different governments step in to locate and protect these magical children, more out of protecting future military assets rather than out of a moral imperative.
It was later determined through a scientific study that one out of twenty children developed the gene due to their parent's prolonged exposure to dilithium crystals. That was roughly sixty percent of the Earth's population and every colonist leaving Earth. The mage gene was identified and studied to track down future mage children.
2083 CE: Humanity Discovers the Fade
The European Space Agency's Lowell City in Eos Chasma becomes the first permanent human settlement on Mars.
The first Dilithium Fusion Reactors were made using crushed dilithium crystals that siphoned off energy in its purest form. The reactors were first put onto spaceships transporting colonists to the Martian colonies to be able to produce artificial gravity in parts of the ship.
Around Earth, dimensional creatures called demons begin to appear around mages or sites with dilithium crystals. These creatures also tried to possess weak-willed mages and/or drain the energy from the crystals to increase their power. Energy fields were used to capture demons or keep these creatures from appearing. The demons captured revealed they came from a world where a group consciousness of the galaxy existed. It was where people dream, dream up new ideas or retrieve old ones. This creates a decline in several religions and marks the discovery of the dream world called the Fade.
Many wealthy governments began paying researchers to help make mages immune to demonic influence.
2085 CE
The United States of America, Canada and Mexico came together to form the United North America States for the mutual protection and economic union of the three governments, especially since the dimensional rifts continued to appear around Europe. A terrorist organization known as Freedoms First was against such a union and tried to break it apart through terror. They had little support due to fear of the dimensional rifts and most were caught within a few years. They lost all support when they tried to destroy the Statue of Liberty and failed to get close.
2088 CE
Geneticist/Cyberneticist Leo Cameral was able to design cybernetic implants that helped mages become immune to demons but with some drastic side effects. Mages given the implants had their elemental and spiritual powers enhanced; making them perfect frontline troops. However, it also meant they could not perform creation and entropy powers in return. Dr. Cameral begins work on developing an implant that would do the reverse while several mages were given the current implants, creating the first psychic knights.
2090 CE
Two years later, Dr. Leo Cameral released a new implant for mages that would enhance their creation and entropy powers. The implant also attracted demons but also prevented possession by the demons, and the mages could gain the demon's powers for brief intervals. However, taking on the demon's powers left the mages with an emotional price of being the opposite of the demon's 'sin' These mages were called magicians, and they fit a support role and could act as a final stand in any battle by going berserk with their demon's power. Demons seem to prefer this arrangement as they find out what it means to be mortal without fear of dying after they became abominations when they posed humans.
2097 CE
The Eldfell-Ashland Energy Corporation demonstrates helium-3 fuel extraction from the atmosphere of Saturn. The fuel would be used to fuel ships' torches/thruster engines while dilithium crystals would be used to power the ship's systems.
2103 CE
Construction of Gagarin Station (Jump Zero) begins beyond the orbit of Pluto. It would be used as a testbed for new technologies, including new weapons like particle plasma cannons, plasma torpedoes, and plasma lasers. Scientists and engineers also began construction of the first antimatter reactor on the station.
2104 CE
As time passes and fear of the dimensional rifts began to wane, several governments that had troops surrounding these rifts begin to feel public pressure to pull personnel away from the rifts. These groups were ignored at first, but the governments soon capitulate to groups demands as the public begins to lose its fear of the dimensional rifts.
2107 CE
The first antimatter reactor was developed, providing energy several times greater than that available from currently used dilithium crystals. However, because of the danger that if the reactor goes critical, it would severally damage a planet's atmosphere, along with the high price tag for the reactor, humanity decided they would only be put on large spaceships (heavy cruisers and up) or on large, deep space stations.
2114 CE
Studies determine that brief exposure to anti-matter reactors increased the chance for children to become mages by 5% and increase sterility in adults by 30% due to prolonged exposure. Geneticists are hired to correct the problem while personnel is routinely tested every three months. If they are in danger of becoming sterile, they are moved to a different ship.
2117 CE
Trace amounts of element zero are discovered on Mars.
2118 CE: Humanity Discovers Mass Effect Physics
Humanity discovers a small cache of advanced Prothean technology hidden deep beneath the surface of Mars in the south polar region of Promethei Planum. Building on the remnants of this long extinct race, humans quickly explore the science of mass effect fields, leading to the development of faster than light travel and beginning a detailed exploration of the Sol system. They also develop kinetic barrier/shields, modern kinetic weapons, disruptor torpedoes, and ship-wide artificial gravity and inertia dampers.
When combining faster than light (FTL) drive with dilithium or anti-matter reactor energy outputs, ships can travel up to 30 light years within one day (faster than any known drive). However, it also means the drive cores need to discharge at higher rates due to the amount of energy coursing through them. Humanity begins construction of several heavy cruiser classes for deep space exploration and defense.
2119 CE
Following information translated from a data cache on Mars, humans discover that Charon, Pluto's moon, is a mass relay encased in ice. Once activated, Jon Grissom leads the first team of explorers through the relay, which instantaneously transports them to another relay in Arcturus, 36 light-years away. The explorers discover that the mass relays are part of a vast network, making travel across the galaxy possible.
The Human Systems Alliance Charter is signed by the eighteen largest nations on Earth. The Alliance soon becomes the military and exploration force for humanity.
2120 CE
The Human System Alliance begins the first surveys for colonization prospects outside the Sol System. These surveys discover M-class planets that would be named Demeter, Eden Prime, and Terra Nova.
2121 CE
To defend its expanding territory, humanity begins constructing a massive military fleet and space station at Arcturus, the nexus of several key mass relays, even though they have yet to encounter another intelligent spacefaring race.
An accident at Singapore International Spaceport exposes hundreds of humans to dust-form element zero. Roughly, 30% of the children born in Singapore suffer from cancerous growths after element zero exposure.
2122 CE
The Delta Pavonis Foundation, a major consortium based on Earth, begins settlement of humanity's first extra-solar colony world, Demeter. Within the year, additional colonies are founded on Eden Prime and Terra Nova. They also began building basses on barren planets for the purposed of growing dilithium crystals.
2124 CE
There is a second publicized accident involving the exposure of humans to element zero on the planet Demeter.
2125 CE
The Human Systems Alliance occupies completed portions of Arcturus Station, intended to become the Alliance's headquarters.
Using knowledge of element zero and particle energy, the Earth governments found a way to depolarize the dimensional rifts. An effort is made to close more of the rifts, but the rifts around Italy could not be closed. Panic manifest the populace, thinking it was the sign of an alien invasion that someone or something was keeping the portal open rather than that it was a natural phenomenon. A large number of civilians began to leave for its new space colonies, especially those in Europe and those bordering the European countries.
2126 CE
Arcturus Station is formally inaugurated.
A small number of children exposed to element zero exhibit minor telekinetic abilities not tied to mages manipulation of the energy around a person, but rather the manipulation of mass effect dark energy. Using notes from Dr. Leo Cameral's research allowed scientists to create implants that gave biotics the ability to control and manipulate dark energy. It was discovered that like dilithium crystals, exposure to elemental zero caused post-fetal development mutations in children and the creation of people called biotics. An international effort similar to the one developed for mages begins to track exposures to element zero. It also has a constant rate of 10% of children exposed to element zero show biotic ability while the rate is either 5% or 10% from dilithium exposures for mage ability.
An independent study revealed that it is currently impossible to mix mage and biotic abilities as the brain would run 'hot' if a child had both the mage gene (brain cells) and active biotic brainwave. Therefore, the body would naturally repress the gene or higher brain wave activity to save the child. The few children that had both an active mage gene and a brainwave mutation would die when their brain developed, often before they were six years of age and the blood-brain barrier closed.
2127 CE
Pluto's orbit becomes circularized because of mass relay operations.
The medical miracle, medi-gel is developed by the Sirta Foundation, and it becomes one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in human history, and possibly even galactic history.
2132 CE
Construction of Arcturus Station is completed.
Because of the avid concerns over gene therapy and possible genetic modifications misuse, the Human Systems Alliance Courts passes the Sudham-Wolcott Genetic Heritage Act. It imposes sharp restrictions on controversial uses of genetic engineering while providing government subsidies for beneficial applications.
2133 CE: First Contact
While scouting out a potential mining system, a standard Human System Alliance patrol fleet picked up mass effect signatures of over fifty thousand ships. The ships scout out the area and found a large fleet of unknown alien design. They made the first contact with the Quarian Conclave using a ligneous program developed for the Prothean archives. The quarians explained they were an exile from a galactic government known as the Citadel Council for making the geth and being driven from their homeworld by their own AIs. Deeply moved by their plight, the Alliance gave them some of their extra ships, hulls, and supplies, along with non-classified technology like dilithium reactors and medi-gel that the quarians could use. The quarians returned the favor by giving up technology like their newly Cyclonic Barrier Technology (CBT) for frigates and fighters, non-military tech, and improved drive core design for increased lifespan. They also provided information on not only the Citadel Council and several known species, but also advanced biotic/tech techniques the Alliance put to good use.
The quarians would leave Alliance space after a year, but not before the Alliance let them know they were welcome anytime they needed help. Many quarians would head to Alliance space during their pilgrimage to work for a gift to take back as part of their pilgrimage.
2134 CE
The various governments got together to discuss whether they should make contact with the Citadel Council. They decided not to make contact as they thought they were not ready on a social, economic, or military level and were cognoscente of the Quarian Conclave's problems.
While the various governments decided against contact with the Citadel Council, they did decide that the Human System Alliance would have the right to create a Parliamentary Government that would represent humanity when they contacted the Citadel Council. Within a year, a Prime Minister and several other officials were elected into office to represent the Interplanetary Government.
Faced with the fact that humanity could be confronted with hostile aliens, various Earth military forces donated a large portion of their forces to the Alliance for the inevitable contact with a hostile force.
2135 CE
The Hannar Keedar developed recon and rocket drones, as well as FENRIS, LOKI and YMIR mechs to help substitute as security for human colonies and private companies. While they were no substitute for trained military or police personnel, they were great for heavy support and help in guarding places that the Alliance or police forces could not patrol due to the extremely hazardous conditions, or lack of numbers.
With the possibility of finding a hostile species, several industries for the Human System Alliance's military technology used research from the quarians to make various new equipment and vehicles. These included an early design of the Everest class Dreadnought, the A-61 Gunship, M-35 Mako, M-44 Hammerhead, F-61 Trident Fighter and UT-47 Kodiak Drop Shuttle.
2139 CE
The Human Systems Alliance purchased Gagarin Station at a fraction of its construction cost before they converted the facility into a biotic and mage research/training facility. It is also used by the alliance as a research facility in the study of particle plasma and mass effect technology.
A fierce debate on whether humanity should make contact with the Citadel government takes place, but in the end, it was narrowly defeated, as a fierce debate would continue on the topic.
2140 CE: The Begin and End of the Human Turian War
February 6th: At Relay 314, a Human System Alliance fleet of two cruisers and six frigates were activating the relay for faster travel to an established colony. While they were activating the relay, they encountered a heavy Turian Hierarchy patrol force. The turians noticed the humans and moved to attack them for activating a dormant relay of unknown origin (to them), an act that had been forbidden by galactic law after the Rachni Wars. They did not even try to contact the humans' patrol fleet before they opened fire, destroying a cruiser and a frigate with their first barrage. The humans returned fire with PCPs and kinetic weapons, destroying, or damaging several turian ships including the command ship, sending the turians into disarray. The surviving Alliance cruiser and three frigates retreated before the turians could reorganize. The turians did not pursue the humans, but they did contact the Hierarchy's High Command about a possibly hostile alien race that needed to be subjected under their banner.
February 7th: The surviving Alliance ships reached the colony Shanxi and warned the Alliance that the turians were coming. The fleets began to scramble as they waited for the Turian Hierarchy to arrive. A Heavy Cruiser, SSV Discovery was sent to contact the Council in a hope to end hostilities before the war began. However, the ship's mission failed, as the turians intercepted and disable the ship. Captain Yamato Inuzuka destroyed his own ship to prevent the turians from gathering any information about their race and their technology.
February 16th: The Turian Hierarchy 7th Fleet under General Desolas Arterius attacked the Human System Alliance colony Shanxi. The turians destroyed the small fleet and defense satellites over the planet with few turian casualties before they moved to occupy the planet. On the planet, the turians met heavy ground resistance from human fighters, gunships, tanks, mechs, techs, biotics, mages, and soldiers under General Alexander Williams. The turians were caught by surprise, but they still pushed the humans back under the juggernaut of the Turian army.
February 18th: The Turians were about to drop asteroids to quell Human's resistance when the 2nd Fleet under Admiral Kastanie Drescher dropped in to face the Turians at close quarters combat using kinetic weapons, PPCs, and plasma lasers. On the planet, General Williams used planetary space cannons hidden in the mountains and hills. The Turians lost the majority of their ships in the crossfire, including General Arterius's command ship. Only a small number of frigates would escape 'The Slaughter of Shanxi,' as the turians would call it.
February 21st: The surviving turian ships had returned to Turian Space, and the Turian Hierarchy prepares for full-scale war against the Human System Alliance. However, the other two members of the Citadel Council, the Asari Republic, and Salarian Union find out about their attack and put pressure on their fellow Council members to stop their march to war as they tried to start negotiations with this unknown species. Envoys under the future Asari Councilor, Matriarch Tevos, were sent to Alliance territory to negotiate a cease-fire. They were surprised to find that humanity knew about the Council's existence and had decided not to make contact due to personal reasons. Talks soon began between the Human System Alliance and the Citadel Council.
April 4th: After months of negotiations, the two came into agreement. The Human System Alliance would receive an embassy, the ability to build 2 dreadnoughts for every 5 Turian dreadnoughts, and the promise of military/political aid for any issue they would come across. In return, the Alliance would set up cheap trading rights of their non-classified technology, defend trade routes near their borders, and sell a fixed amount of dilithium crystals to the Council. A peace treaty was officially signed between the Human System Alliance and the Turian Hierarchy. A peace treaty that would hold despite the resentment both species had for each other.
An anonymous extranet manifesto was published following the end of the Human Turian War. The manifesto calls for an army, a 'Cerberus,' to be established to defend humanity against inevitable alien attacks. Derided as 'survivalist rhetoric written by an Illusive Man,' the manifesto is quickly forgotten by the media.
2142 CE
Tensions between the Human System Alliance and the Citadel Council began to rise as various Citadel governments wanted the humans to sell their more advanced technology but were not able or willing to trade technology just as advanced to the humans. Disagreements escalated as the humans demanded equal or more advanced technology while the Council only wanted to trade in the form of money or resources used for the short-term trade rather than an equal trade.
The Alliance had caught various Citadel companies trying to hack into their servers and sued them for their attempts. Even though the Council claimed ignorance, the humans suspected the Council had a hand in it. However, they did not have enough information to call it a violation of their treaty. And the Alliance themselves could not breach the treaty without facing severe repercussion from a government that did not want to release them and was more powerful than they were. That fact did not stop the Alliance from developing plans to separate from the Council if tensions got any worse.
April 12th: The Terra Firma party is formed under the promise to keep Earth's needs first and to have the Human System Alliance stand-alone and away from the Citadel Council. Many of its members are known to be racist.
2143 CE
A series of starship drive failures are orchestrated over populated areas on human colony worlds, causing widespread exposures to element zero. This results in the second generation of humans born with biotic potential.
Medi-gel hits the galactic market for multiple races. Hospitals and a large number of military organizations began to buy the miracle gel in bulk, while an activist group against genetics tried to outlaw medi-gel, as it was technically illegal. The Council ruled in the Alliance's favor because medi-gel was far too useful for everyone to outlaw it.
2145 CE
Terrorists tried to steal antimatter from the Alliance cruiser SSV Geneva. The sole figure arrested names his sponsor 'Cerberus.' This is the first known incident of sabotage connected to the Cerberus organization, but it was not the first suspected incident.
After years of the military being strip and ship off Earth, only a small battalion is station around the dimensional rifts. That would prove to be a mistake as a scientist claimed that the rifts are getting bigger.
2147 CE: The Beginning of the Mutant/Darkspawn War
September 1st: Around Earth, people begin to get sick as an airborne virus spreads through the populous. Exanimation reveals that the disease mutates the X-chromosome of its victim, and it was a cross-species disease. General order quarantine takes effect as the governments of Earth try to combat the disease.
By the end of the year, one out of ten, roughly 800 million people, would be infected or dead from the airborne disease as it targets each species equivalent of the X-chromosome. As the X-Chrome Mutation Disease (X-disease for short) begins to spread, the rifts slowly formed into portals. Many people are moved to pray at the portals for hope, getting in the way of the small military that normally guards these portals.
October 3rd: The Portals at the Vatican eventually become large enough that an army could walk in and out. Pope Clement XVI considered it a sign from God and had all the Cardinals and Bishops pray with him in front of the Vatican portal. Other governments considered it a danger but spent so much time arguing about what to do that by the time they reached a tentative decision, it was too late.
October 10th: During a large prayer meeting of church officials, creatures called mutants (later known as darkspawn) jumped out of the portal and attacked with weapons that resembled Earth's medieval era weapons. Despite lacking a technological advantage, sheer numbers alone allowed the mutants to succeed in killing everyone around the portals. That included the entire Church's ruling hierarchy and the army guarding the portals. They also took the army's weapons providing the horde with kinetic weapons to replace their swords. The Mutant/Darkspawn War had officially begun.
Within Rome itself, only the Swiss Guard and a few citizens of Rome had survived by sealing themselves in the Church's vault. They would later form a resistance force that attacked the mutants from behind enemy lines.
Alliance command splits mutants into four categories: goblins, grunts, ogres, and shirks.
After three weeks of constant fighting, two-thirds of Europe was under the mutant's control while the other countries across the world were under constant attack. The mutants had also been involved in the kidnapping of several implanted mages and biotics, along with several healthy women to be used for what would later be termed a "terrible fate and purpose."
October 31th: Several hospitals go silent across the world. Teams were sent to investigate, and in the process discover something unsettling. One out of thirty women infected mutates into terrible creatures called broodmothers that give birth to mutants and others that they consume. DNA testing revealed that the grunts and goblins representatives of the horde are created though mutated human DNA. The source of the other types of mutants remains unknown for the time being.
The Alliance began orbital bombardment to contain the plague. A woman near these battle zones or serving the military on Earth are given suicide pills to take if infected or captured.
Two weeks later, a few of the captured implanted mages and biotics appear. They were made into the vanguards of the horde; bring the leadership to a squad of mutants, along with enough firepower that would turn the tide of battle for the horde. It is also noted that the horde develops un-implanted biotics along with un-implanted mages. Mages and biotics are given suicide pills as well.
Realizing they could not contain the plague, the Alliance pleaded to the Council for aid. The Council would not even tell them it was purely a human mater until two months after the request for aid. The Alliance planned to leave the Council to look for aid outside of their domain.
Several isolated space stations are taken or built by the Human System Alliance to be used as a sterile environment to work on a cure or an inoculation for the X-disease. They also conducted in-depth research on the mutation and made several discoveries that allowed the Earth governments to hold the line.
By the end of the year, a little more than one-eighth of the Earth's population was dead or infected. Only a few cities were left in Europe, including London, Vatican Rome, Rome, Paris, Moscow, and Berlin.
2148 CE
January 21st: Frustrated by the lack of aid, the Human System Alliance stated the Council violated the treaty they had signed and called a breach of the treaty. The Alliance then stopped all trade agreements, cut all ties, and ended the treaties they had signed with the Council except for a few, like the Treaty of Farixen, Sharing Prothean Technology, and the Armrest Agreement. The Council could do little about it since it was the law and would regret not helping as the Alliance decision nearly put the Council's economy into a recession as they grew to depend on cheap trade going through Alliance space and new resources only the Alliance can provide.
Angry at the Alliance cutting all ties, the Council made it clear that anyone aiding the Human System Alliance would face severe repercussion. The Hanar Illuminated Primacy was the only government that ignored the Council as they secretly sent ships, drell assassins, and supplies to aid the Alliance fight to contain the X-Chromes Mutation Disease.
Once the Alliance left the Citadel, the Alliance sought out the Quarian Conclave for aid, and the two came to an agreement. The quarians sent a large number of ships to help the Alliance contain the disease as well as lent their best tech experts for mechs, defense satellites, weapons and such to help Earth. In exchange, the Alliance would terraform a planet, where the quarians could live on and could act as a safe haven for their species, a planet they would call New Rannoch
The mutants began making footholds in African and Asia. Some animal species in Europe, Asia, and Africa are brought to extinction as they are hunted down by desperate humans and hungry mutants. However, the humans hold the line for a few months thanks to quarian modified mechs.
Examining the enzymes of blood from a broodmother proved useless in finding a cure. However, it did prove useful as they discovered how broodmother's increased fertility rates between species. It was useless information for humans, but it would lead the way to negotiate with the krogan race because of the salarian genetically modified disease known as the Genophage. This partial cure known as the Genofertilization would increase the fertility rates from one out of a thousand to one out of fifty in the krogans. Delegates secretly head to Tuchanka to negotiate with the various clans for aid.
The Alliance reached an agreement with Clan Urdnot and its allies under Urdnot Wrex. For a large number of warriors, they would distribute the cure among their allied clans, along with necessary supplies they needed. Each warrior also would be properly equipped, receive medical examination/treatment and food, and be paid one hundred credits per week \ for any who defend weak points in Alliance space. The compensation increases to two hundred and fifty credits for each warrior that serves on Earth. The money that krogans would use to pay the Alliance and various trusted companies for food and medical supplies for their general public while hiring engineers and scientist to help rebuild Tuchanka. The Alliance would slowly ship krogans to several planets the Alliance occupied, to make it seem that the Alliance hired a large number of mercenaries for Earth rather than an organized krogan military.
Pirates that had tried to take advantage of the Alliance's weaken state were pushed back by heavy resistance and pushed away from their territory. One particularly fleet disappeared near the Perseus Veil.
2149 CE
The mutants began a heavy push on Earth. Most of Europe, Africa, and Russia were taken along with parts of Asia. Many humans began to fear that Earth would fall before an inoculation could be discovered, and they would be right until a new source of aid came from an unexpected source, the Geth Collective.
Concerned that quarians would invade their space thanks to the technology the Alliance gave them for their aid, the Geth appeared under a white flag to discuss terms for peace. In exchange for the same technology the Alliance offered the Quarians and a peace treaty between all parties, they would send Geth units to immediately aid the Alliance and give back to the Quarians half of their former colonies and the quarian's homeworld, Rannoch as a sign of good faith.
After a month of debate, the Human System Alliance and the Quarian Conclave agreed to the Geth Collective's terms. The Geth sent a large number of troops to push the mutants out of Africa and Asia while they containing them in Europe. The Quarians also sent a large number of ships to settle on their homeworld while the more paranoid or stubborn stayed on New Rannoch. A sorrowful peace began to settle for the quarians when they learned the entire history of the Morning War while the geth helped the quarians resettled Rannoch.
November 5th: The Human System Alliance had finally discovered an inoculation that would prevent the X-disease, so plans were made to retake Earth from the mutants. Many chemical plants and labs began mass production of the vaccine.
While the Alliance and allied forces plan to invade Earth, spaceports were open for the first time in years and began to ferry people to stations that were inoculated and quarantine for a week before they are shipped to the colonies. The populations in several of the colonies begin to double or triple within weeks.
2150 CE
January 1st: E-Day happens as allied forces of humans, drell, geth, and krogans invade Earth under the command of General Alexander Williams, General Lee Yui, and Admiral Hamachi Aardvark. The most famous troops known as the 'First Battalion' under a human mage named Major Alice McCoy, a geth infiltrator named Legion I, and the head warlord/biotic krogan named Urdnot Wrex.
Within weeks, the allied forces push the mutants deep into the central European and Italian Alps, taking the few major cities back and a large amount of now barren territory.
The mutants were able to hold the line with three new types, war dogs (quarians), snappers (krogans), and chameleons (drell). The allied forces also suffer heavy casualties from several surprise attacks in the allied controlled territory from tunnels the mutants' dug across Europe.
Allied forces had discovered the underground tunnels, and they begin to send troops deep underground fighting and burning the mutants out while pushing them back.
May 8th: One of the sterilize space stations goes silent. Fearing a containment failure, a squad under Alice McCoy is sent to retake the station. They found that most of the scientists were still alive and comfortable thanks to a sentient mutant that calls himself the Architect. The Architect reveals that his species are called darkspawn, thralls to corrupted creatures called the Archdemon, and he seeks a means to break them from the creature's 'song.' He believed the Alliance's genetic technology could help, so he brokered a deal. In exchange for vital data the Alliance needed for their war against the darkspawn, he would be given safe passage back to Earth, along with some of their technology. The allied races reluctantly agreed.
The data given to the allied races was valuable data and allowed them to push the darkspawn in Italy into a few isolated pockets of heavy resistance.
As the war continues, a larger number of quarians begin to feel sympathetic to the geth, especially as the full history of the Morning War became well known. However, a small, but loud group, refused to accept peace and instead talked about destroying the geth while the geth were spread out across Alliance's space. Tired of being ignored, the small group called Tasi planned to take over the fleet to attack the geth with a member of the Admiral Board. However, Tasi had tried to recruit name Rael'Zorah, who took the information to warn the fleet.
July 18th: The quarians tried to arrest the conspirators, but Tasi took over one of the Live Ships and held the civilian population hostage until their demands were met: the termination of their alliance with the geth and any allied race that supported them. The quarians contacted their allies for help, and their allies responded by sending the First Battalion to help retake the quarians' Live Ship.
July 20th: The First Battalion was sent to raid the Live Ship with the aid of Rael'Zorah. Within hours, they took out Tasi with minimal civilian and allied casualties. Combined with the geth sending aid to the quarians, hostilities between the two races ended and the peace would hold. Rael'Zorah was invited into the First Battalion, as a Commander in charge of the support ships due to his shown leadership qualities. He accepted with honors.
On Tuchanka, Wrex began to gather greater support for the alliance and even began to talk of a permanent alliance with the support of a famous female shaman, Urdnot Branka. Several clans were supportive of the alliance that helped rebuild Tuchanka, but some did not agree. Wrex's brother Wreav opposed the alliance and thought they should take the Genofertilization for themselves before waging war on the galaxy. However, Wrex was too popular to oppose, but that did not stop Wreav from trying to assassinate Wrex.
August 12th: Wreav and several of his supporters tried to assassinate Wrex as he returned home but failed thanks to several of Wrex's bodyguards, and a human named Lt. Carol West, who was a powerful mage and friend of Wrex. The battle was bloody, and only Wrex and two of his bodyguards survived while Carol took Wreav down herself before she died.
Enraged by his friend's death, Wrex traced and killed the other conspirators in his own clan. With most of the opposition dead, Wrex honored his friend by being the first alien to be buried on Tuchanka. His actions rallied the support of most of the clans to create the Krogan Clan Alliance. Urdnot Wrex was appointed as head of this new government. A position he hated, as he was unable to rejoin the war and help the humans retake Earth, but the humans welcomed as the krogans bolstered their numbers on Earth as a unified force for the first time in their history.
2151 CE: End of the Darkspawn War
[Top Secret]: During the war, the Geth Collective reported they received threats by something they call the 'Old Machine,' for their support of the allied races. The 'Old Machine' is an old creature that claimed to have wiped out the protheans and countless other species. Whether its claims are true or not remains a mystery at this time as the allied races prepare to help the geth.
[Top Secret] January 29th: The Forth Fleet supported by quarian and geth ships moved to protect a valuable shipment of materials and cybernetics needed to help the geth evolve into individuals when they were attacked by several pirate ships, rogue hacked geth, and the 'old machine' that called itself Sovereign. The battle was intense and bloody but ended with a damaged Sovereign on the retreat while it's 'allies' were killed. However, the casualties were high with the destruction of 1 dreadnought, 2 carriers, 3 heavy cruisers, 7 cruisers, 8 heavy frigates, and 26 frigates, plus a large number of fighters. Deactivated material from Sovereign's wreckage was collected once determined it was safe. The wreckage would later give rise to new technological advances.
The events with Sovereign were classified and written into the official report as a struggle of radicals against synthetics to prevent a panic the public. They did inform the Council the truth though they did not believe the ship was alive. However, it but that did not stop them going to the battle site to takes samples and copy sensor logs to copy the technology as well.
Concerned with the continuing war between the allied races and the darkspawn, the Council sent several operatives to Earth in secret. The Council lost contact with all their operatives within days and did not tell the Alliance about their missing operatives.
Within weeks, the Alliance began seeing several new types of darkspawn known as avians (turians), bashers (elcor), stingers (hanar), and vrogs (salarians) as the darkspawn seem to grow exponentially. Concerned about the increase in enemy numbers, Legion I moved behind enemy lines with several drell, geth, human and a few quarian infiltrators to find the source. They discovered the survivors of the Council infiltration team: an asari, two salarians, and five turians. The rest were killed or turned into broodmothers. It also revealed that when an asari is turned into a broodmother, they make darkspawn of the asari 'father species' and give birth to other broodmothers. The survivors of the team are taken away while the cave was firebombed. It is unsure how many new asari based broodmothers now exist.
After the survivors were taken back to Council Space, the Council finally agreed to send aid to the Human System Alliance. However, they were turned down, claiming they had done enough damage as of now.
March 8th: General Alexander Williams is killed by Darkspawn assassins during the release of new darkspawn.
May 5th: During a battle for one of their forward command bases near Italy, Major Alice McCoy saw a hole in the lines and took a chance. She led the First Battalion to the hole and punched through their lines, destabilizing the darkspawn, and forced them to retreat while the First Battalion went to Rome and the Vatican. Within three weeks, most of Italy was secured thanks to the First Battalion and the Vatican Swiss Guard as the darkspawn retreated south.
With the Vatican secured, the Alliance began setting up a post to keep the Darkspawn from poring through the portal, using gun nests and mines to keep them back while the First Battalion started hunting down the few remnants of the Darkspawn on Earth. The Darkspawn remained quiet for a few months.
August 2nd: The Darkspawn had used the months to gather ships in an attempt to break through the blockade with several decommissioned frigates, over thirty freighters and hundreds of fighters and gunships. It breaks out into a fierce space battle as the darkspawn take over a few planetary space cannons. They would have broken through if the First Battalion did not retake the planetary cannons and attacked darkspawn forces from behind. The entire darkspawn fleet was destroyed, along with the last remaining darkspawn on Earth.
The entire First Battalion was declared heroes and Alice McCoy was promoted to Colonel for her heroic actions. Her entire family attended, including her daughter, a non-biotic/mage girl named Hannah Sheppard.
The Human System Alliance's Parliament began discussions on how to collapse the portal, as a population of 3.8 billion could not be evacuated. Without any indications as to how to close the portals while darkspawn kept pouring through, they instead initiated a plan called Operation Home Wreck. The plan included the firebombing of the entrance of the portals for several weeks before sending the First Battalion to invade the darkspawn in their home lair.
October 3rd: Late in the evening, the First Battalion moved into the portal with a nuclear warhead. Their objective was to set off the warhead and kill as many darkspawn as possible. As soon as they entered, they discovered large tunnels that were still filled with darkspawn that had survived the firebombing. The mission escalated into a heavy firefight as the team pushed to put the nuclear device deep into the tunnels and far away from the portal and prevent the nuclear blast from reaching the Earth's surface. Battalion casualties were enormous as they lost a fourth of their men going down tunnels for 5 km (3.18 miles) after six hours of hand to hand combat.
October 4th: While exploring the tunnels looking for a place to leave the bomb, the group discovered a large group of children, all females. The majority were human or humans with the dominate dwarf gene, but twenty-nine of them were entirely different species. One claimed they were elves while the other was an entirely new species with horns called qunari. Realizing it was now a rescue operation, Colonel Alice McCoy ordered a fourth of her men to escort the seventy children away as they placed the bomb in the tunnels. After they had set the bomb, the group was about to leave when the Archdemon appeared with an army of darkspawn. The fight was extremely bloody, for each time the creature was killed, a darkspawn would transform into an Archdemon. Finally, they used M-920 Cain Cannons to obliterate the remaining darkspawn and to buy them time to plan the next wave. Knowing that their position had been compromised by the sound of the cannons, Alice took a third of her remaining men to protect the bomb while the rest ran to safety. Her men who had volunteered followed orders as her group held the line. A last-minute transmission before the warhead was detonated revealed that they had been overwhelmed as Alice made a last stand against the Archdemon. The explosion ended the Darkspawn War and resulted in an over 60% casualty rate for the First Battalion.
Within two weeks of relative peace, the last portal was closed, and the war was officially over. The First Battalion under Captain Caleb Wolfangle and Legion I was given unit citations and medals for their explanatory service. The two accept the reward for the unit with a young krogan name Terex, Commander Rael'Zorah, and a rising star in special forces, Lieutenant David Anderson. It marked the beginning of unification of the four races and talks of not only an alliance but also a permanent union.
For the children saved by the First Battalion, most of them were put up for adoption to various families on Earth or in the colonies while trying to keep blood-related children together. A few would remain in foster care until they were of age, but none of them were qunari or elf.
The Hanar Illuminated Primacy continued their alliance with the humans but opted out of the talks of a union and instead decided to stay within the Council. However, they did get exclusive trade rights with the geth, humans, krogans, and quarians.
2152 CE: Birth of the Confederation Alliance of Worlds
February 3rd: The Geth Conclave, the Human System Alliance, the Krogan Clan Alliance and the Quarian Conclave formed under a collective alliance known as the Confederation Alliance of Worlds. The Confederation would be the first joint military and social government outside of the Citadel.
The first order of Confederation was to enter into a trade agreement with the Citadel Council but while stating that they would remain outside the Council. The Council reluctantly agreed, and all four races now share a diplomatic embassy in the Citadel. Most of the basic treaties were signed except for the one placing limits on AI, genetic technology, and exploration policies. Several Confederation ships were sent out to explore new clusters to help support their members' rising population.
The new military craft was being reproduced, redesigned, or built across Confederation space for the new joint military.
2154 CE
April 11th: Jane and John Shepard are born on the CSS Einstein. Jane showed signs of being a mage while John showed signs of being a biotic.
The First Battalion was reassigned as the Confederation Special Forces group, similar to the Council's SPECTRE. Most of the SPECTREs began working with the First Battalion while a few protested working with them. The most noticeable was a turian named Saren Arterius, son of General Arterius who had died in the Human Turian War.
The Confederation started funding the Homeworld Restoration Bill, a proposal to restore the human, krogan, and quarian homeworlds to their natural state. Work begins by using cloning technology and new environmental technology that would fully restore the damage done to these three worlds.
2155 CE
New Thanix Cannons and cheap Solaris Armor are offered to the public after a Confederation attack frigate saved an asari matriarch and her corvette from pirates. The other races outside the Hanar Illuminated Primacy work to copy the technology while the Council reveals theirs. Only the turians and salarians made perfect copies while the asari had made superior models. Intelligence suggests that the Council races were able to copy the technology due to the salarian's spy programs, their own samples of Sovereign, and asari superior knowledge of mass effect technology.
The Confederation began construction of Arcturus Station II, using the original Arcturus Station as the basis for the station. It would operate as the home base for the Senate Council of the Confederation Alliance of Worlds as the Alliance government was moved there and Luna now served as the Human System Alliance headquarters.
2158 CE
The Confederation Alliance of Worlds was officially recognized as an independent government by the Citadel Council and considered to be allies. However, despite their independence, many still considered the Confederation, an associate member of the Council. They often were even treated like that by the Council, but the newly established trade routes and the aid the Confederation received from the Council kept the Confederation from protesting too much.
The quarian homeworld Rannoch was considered fully restored.
2160 CE
The Arterius Station II was completed and christened by a newly elected President Jessie Lamar.
The Cerberus organization, a black opt/human terrorist group began hiring non-human members that are part of the Confederation, though the group was still composed of mostly humans.
The Confederation began offering trade protection treaties with several planets, including a promise to protect trade routes between the Confederation and Citadel against pirates and slavers. This, in turn, makes them very popular as the pirate and slaver population begin to decrease over the years to come. They are also in a position to act as a third party to help negotiations with the various Terminus System warlords and the Citadel Council since a large number of their trade routes ran through Confederation space.
2161 CE
In an offer of peace between the Confederation of Worlds and the Citadel Council, geth, hanar, humans, quarians, salarians, and turians co-design a new stealth class spaceship dubbed as the Specter class frigate. The STG and a few SPECTREs make use of the stealth ship that combined geth cloaking generators, quarian engines, human dilithium crystal reactor, hanar interfaces, the Confederation's new Tantalus Drive Core, salarian stealth drive, turian ship design, and Council and Confederation weaponry.
The Confederation saw greater potential for the Specter class and made a Spirit class heavy frigate that could launch surprise attacks on large ships. Six prototypes are made for the Spirit class: CSS Normandy, Waterloo, Little Bighorn, Iwo Jima, Canrum, and Morning that would be assigned to the First Battalion along with twelve more vessels by the end of the decade.
Confederation forces revealed that the krogans have been partially cured by the application of Genofertilization. The Council at first was alarmed but seeing the krogans have not made any action against the Council decided to let it slide. However, a few STG members noted the number of krogan births was higher than the humans had predicated and decided to investigate the krogan's population boom.
2163 CE
An unknown team secretly begins AI research at a base on Sidon under Dr. Shu Qian. Lt. Kahlee Sanders is assigned as a tech analyst.
The first Confederation AI named Eliza is born in secret on a Gagarin Station. She was given full rights by geth suggestion and integrated into the CSS Normandy under the recommendation of Commander Anderson. The Citadel Council was made aware of the AI's birth some five years later as a VI upgraded to AI by 'accident.' While she was the first, she would not be the last AIs created as over a dozen more are made 'accidentally' and intentionally by the Confederation.
2164 CE
The human homeworld Earth/Terra is consider restored with the return of species that have not been seen in over five hundred years. Also, advanced technology repaired much of the damage done to it over the years.
2165 CE
As the Confederation continues to expand, founding more colonies and establishing strong trade alliances, the Council acknowledged their contributions and offered them colony rights to Attican Traverse and the Skyllian Verge. It was hoped their presence would restore order in the area. Instead, their presence created tensions between the Confederation Alliance of Worlds and the Batarian Hegemony as they competed for territory in the Skyllian Verge.
After a Confederation research station at Sidon was attacked, Commander David Anderson searched for those responsible alongside Kahlee Sanders and discovered an Alliance scientist, Dr. Shu Qian, was conducting AI research to unlock the secrets behind a mysterious artifact discovered near the Perseus Veil. Eventually, Anderson's squad was assigned to work with Saren Arterius to track down Dr. Qian and his batarian supporter, Edan Had'dah and bring them back to the station. However, Saren killed both Dr. Qian and Had'dah and tried to blame Anderson for a refinery exploding that killed several of the workers and the two men. He was unsuccessful as the First Battalion vouched for Anderson and noted how he had helped save most of the civilians when Saren caused the refinery to explode. Anderson requested observations on Saren's activities, and he would be assigned to monitor the SPECTREs. He was granted his request, and as a result, the relationship between the First Battalion and the SPECTREs was strained for a time. Saren was blacklisted by the First Battalion and Confederation.
2167 CE
Salarian STG finally found enough evidence that the krogans were becoming immune to the Genophage. In response, an angry Dalatrass ordered a young but talented geneticist Mordin Solus to create a more advance Genophage along with work on neutralizing the effects of the Genofertilization.
2168 CE
Frustrated by their lack of keeping up with the Confederation Alliance of Worlds, Batarians begin funding pirates and slavers to attack them, particularly human or krogan colonies. Confederation CID hackers catch on to the plot, and they begin siphoning money from the exchanges while putting the colonies on high alert. Several pirate and slaver organized attacks were repulsed by the Confederation forces, and some found their accounts empty. However, it does not deter the pirates as the batarians keep paying them through several channels due to small-scale success on small or independent colonies on the fringes of Confederation space.
Realizing that their pirate strategy was not working, several Batarian military officials start asking the Hegemony to increase their military funds so they could build-up the military strength to deal a crippling blow directly to the Confederation. However, the government and the military had not realized they were heading into an economic recession as they continued to fund the pirates while getting little return from the generally unsuccessful raids.
The Jon Grissom Academy was commission in Elysium. It became home to the Alliance's new biotic and mage training program called the Ascension Project.
2169 CE
The krogan homeworld Tuchanka was considered to be restored to the best possible extent due to the thousands of years of neglect. Still, a good portion of the planet became a jungle again, which should help restore the atmosphere over time, again thanks to the work of the Homeworld Restoration Bill.
Mordin's team would successfully create and launch a new version of the Genophage to keep birth rates low. He also started work on a counter to the Genofertilization but argued against its deployment, as it potentially would cause war, and the whole Confederation backing the less aggressive krogan government. The other Dalatrasses agreed, and the weapon remained untouched after Mordin finished it six years later. Confederation forces are none the wiser until the CID recovered information from a data cache a decade later.
2170 CE
The human colony of Mindoir was attacked by batarian slavers. The combined ground forces of human, geth, and krogan fought valiantly, but in the end, more than half the colonist and marines on the planet were taken or killed, along with many valuable resources. It would be a morale booster for years to come to the pirate/slaver groups. Jane and John Sheppard's father, Lieutenant Commander Connor Sheppard died in the attack, affecting them for the rest of their lives.
Another human colony, Yandoa, suffered catastrophic atmospheric dust-form element zero exposure when an Eldfell-Ashland Energy ship explodes in orbit. Many children suffer birth defects while four hundred and thirty-five biotic children are born.
2171 CE
In protest at the refusal of the Citadel Council to limit Confederation expansion in the Skyllian Verge, the Batarians close their embassy, withdraw into their home systems, and effectively become a rogue state.
The Batarian Hegemony approves Operation Smash and Grab, and they begin to build up a large military force even as the batarians were suffering from a recession.
2172 CE
April 11th: John and Jane Shepard enlist in the Confederation military.
2173 CE
A fly-by over the world of Armeni discovers odd surface protrusions. Upon closer inspection, they are identified as elaborate crypts made by the zeioph, an extinct spacefaring race. Various universities seek to perform excavation, but Council laws that hold burial sites as sacrosanct prevent this. An ongoing debate over the issue ensues.
Terra Firma is involved in a Nashan Stellar Dynamics kickbacks scandal, forcing Inez Simmons, the current party leader, to resign and the party to dissolve. In its place is the First Prime Party is formed, a new political group consisting mostly of humans who want the Confederation to end all alliances with Citadel Council. Charles Saracino becomes the new party leader after his opponent Claude Menneau disappeared. Intelligence suspected that Cerberus might have been responsible for Claude's disappearance.
2174 CE
Batarian funded pirates launch a surprise attack, later known as the Skyllian Blitz, on the multi-race colony of Elysium. The assault is repulsed by the Confederation Navy, and ground forces rallied by Lieutenant Jane Shepard. While in the background, Lieutenant John Sheppard planned the battle strategy that saved many lives and dealt crippling blows to the pirates. Both received commendations, and they were promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was accepted into the N branch (Special Forces).
2175 CE
On a survey mission in 2175 to Aeia, an important colonization prospect for the Systems Alliance, the MSV Hugo Gernsback disappears, and it is presumed destroyed.
A political dissident on Earth provides Michael Moser Lang received funds to purchase weapons. One year later, Lang assassinates the United North American States president Enrique Aguilar and Chinese People's Federation Premier Ying Xiong. Cerberus is believed to be responsible for the resulting political shuffle but why is still under investigation.
2176 CE: The Batarian and Confederation Conflict
Batarian launches a secret fleet of three dreadnoughts and several support vessels across Confederation space to attack the corporate world Noveria. The attack was a plan to make the Confederation look bad while stealing technology developed on the planet for the Council and Confederation's military. They did not realize the First Battalion and CRF were observing them.
June 5th: A larger patrol fleet confronted the Batarian fleet ten light years within Confederation Territory, just before the mass relay to Noveria. They were told to turn back but the warnings are ignored, and the patrol fleet was fired upon. The fleet evaded the Batarians with few casualties as the First Battalion struck from their hidden location with twelve of their eighteen Specter Class ships. Two dreadnoughts were immediately destroyed in the surprise attack, and the third was destroyed within ten minutes by the swarming Spirit class ships. The other Batarian ships were fired upon by the patrol fleet and suffered heavy casualties. The surviving batarians retreated to Batarian Space after the last dreadnaught was destroyed, ending the brief conflict between the Confederation Alliance of Worlds and the Batarian Hegemony.
The Citadel Council made the Batarians Hegemony pay severe repercussion to the Citadel, Confederation, and Noveria after their plans were revealed thanks to intercepted communication by the Confederation. This made the Batarians retreat even deeper into their territory to face an economic depression and possible civil war. Yet despite these hardships, military commanders feeling outraged of the turn of events used their own paychecks to pay for the pirate attacks in Council and Confederation space, and they continued to do so for two more years.
Due to heavy pirate attacks across the galaxy, the First Battalion, CRF, CID, SPECTRE, and STGs begin working together to track down and eliminate the pirate/slaver rings funded by the Batarians.
The Anhur Rebellions waged over the practice of slavery on the human and batarian colony world of Anhur and spread throughout the Amun system. Abolitionism supporters hire the Eclipse mercenary group to fight the batarian pro-slavery Na'hesit faction.
Jane and John Shepard finish training up to N6.
2177 CE
During a recon mission on Akuze to find a missing colonial pioneer team, a unit of fifty soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Commander Jane Sheppard investigated a distress call when they were attacked by a thresher maw. Sheppard was able to kill the thresher maw on foot, but lost thirty-six of her men with five others reported as MIA.
Jane is pushed into the N7 program and promoted to the rank of Commander.
2178 CE
In retaliation for pirate attacks, the Confederation launches a major offensive against the moon of Torfan and destroys the criminal bases, mostly populated by batarians; while several others smaller bases are attacked by the Citadel Council. Major Kyle led the assault with his special forces, but he loses his nerve in the battle after half of his men died in the initial landing due to bad Intel. Lieutenant Commander John Sheppard took command and led the Alliance to victory with acceptable casualties due to his tactical mind. Sheppard took no prisoners, and the threat against Confederation and Council colonies from batarian extremists was curtailed.
John is pushed into the N7 program and promoted directly to the rank of Captain.
The Confederation tracked several pirate FTL exit vectors over a period of six months using covert monitoring devices planted on Theshaca's moons, leading the Confederation and Council Navy to eight major pirate anchorages. Since the 'Theshaca Raids,' no ships from the Terminus Systems have entered the Hong system.
The Anhur Rebellions end with the abolitionist forces in power and the reconstruction of Anhur commences. They receive much-needed aid from Confederation Alliance of Worlds before they become a full member.
2179 CE
Captain John Sheppard and Commander Jane Sheppard are invited into the First Battalion under the Command of Rear Admiral David Anderson and the first Spirit Class ship, the SR-1 CSS Normandy. Their missions mostly focus on eliminating pirate, slaver and mercenary forces in the Attican Traverse and Confederation's outer territory.
2180 CE
On Luna, an Enhance Defense Intelligence system goes haywire due to sabotage, possibly by Cerberus, and evolve into an AI due to the introduction of Reaper tech. Geth units were brought in to deactivate her, but in transit to a secure location, she disappeared. However, a shadow copy named Cortona was saved by the Geth. She was put on the CSS Normandy under the watchful eye of Eliza as she taught her the ropes.
2182 CE
Admiral Kahoku of the Confederation begins investigating Cerberus activities.
The AI Data is invited into the Confederation Senate to represent the new synthetics outside the Geth. A debate ensues on whether they will get more seats in the Senate as AI numbers slowly begin to rise.
2183 CE
Present Date
Here is the timeline and I hope you enjoy it. On a side note, please read another story I updated on Codex if you are interested. If I update the codex entry, I will indicate if updates have occurred in each chapter.
Author Note Timeline
1) The instruments are available for a Radiologist to detect the presence of radioactive elements across the world and their source. After the first two atomic bombs were used \ in WWII, we could find trace levels of radioactive cesium all over the world in anything that was not sealed before 1945. In other words, if soils do not have a small amount of the isotopes produced during a nuclear explosion, then the mineral cannot be from Earth or a planet with nuclear weapons.
2) Lyrium/dilithium crystals have to gain their energy somewhere, and since they mostly appear around lava pits and appear to originate from volcanic activity, I think it's more likely gained through extreme thermal energy.
3) I am not a fool to believe people would protect the mages and biotics out the goodness of their heart. It is more probable they would protect future military assets that can move and destroy things with their minds.
4) Humanity will rapidly advance their technology than in canon because of the fear that the whole world would be destroyed. Therefore, humans would push to develop a space program as quickly as possible to get more people off the world in fear of the dimensional rifts in Europe.
5) I decided to have the quarians be the one to make the first contact and to shape humanities' development. I am setting humans up to make a militaristic United Federation of Planets.
6) Yep, I had a turian, and the human war death toll is higher than cannon, as it says that in the First Contact War was a month long with 678 humans killed, and the number of turian killed was slightly higher. A cruiser has 800 personnel, a frigate's personnel numbers possibly 60 to 120 humans while the turians have a reported 300 on their frigates. Several ships are destroyed; the turians occupied a colony and dropped asteroids wherever the military tried to fight. The Alliance fleet drove them out by blasting a large number of them out of orbit. Casualties should have been twenty times the amount reported, at least for this kind of war, even if most of the ships that destroyed were frigates.
7) From what I got from a cannon, the Citadel rarely did anything until it was too late to affect the outcome. Moreover, a disease that is only on one planet and affecting a new race does not make them see the danger, despite the fact it is a cross-species disease.
8) Earth has a smaller population as more people try to leave for space earlier due to the fear of what the dimensional rifts actually were. It also means populations in all the colonies are around ten times larger than in canon.
9) In this Mass Effect Universe, I am trying to put several species together in a Federation like creation to establish an alliance between the four outcast races: geth, humans, krogans, and quarians against the darkspawn.
10) I always felt the krogans bitterness about the galaxy was not so much at the fact that they lost, as that loss proved to them that they were weak and needed to improve. No, it was the fact the Council had to use a bio-weapon to beat them, which made them feel cheated. Not to mention that after they were uplifted, the krogans were sent to the frontlines alone, making the Council seem weak in the krogan eyes. However, the Confederation members fought alongside them, proving to all that the krogans are equals.
11) Sovereign was introduced early as I felt it would use all its power to stop the alliance. However, due to the lack of data, they will not fully understand Sovereign until much later. Also, the Thanix cannon is not as powerful as they did not analyze from Sovereign's main gun, but the small guns along its hull. A more powerful version will be introduced after Sovereign is destroyed.
12) The timeline pretty much follows that in the Mass Effect Universe but a few differences that are noticeable, like the Batarians being angry at the Confederation for stealing their money.
13) It is assumed that Mordin was 38 years old in 2185.
Spoiler: The Reapers purpose will be a lot different from Cannon. It still is a solution to chaos, just not the organic vs. synthetic argument. If you want more detail, read the codex spoiler.
