Five: Hello everyone, welcome back to 'The Four Elements'. My name is five and I would like to say thank you all for coming back to read this story. And here is six.
Six: What are you doing?
Five: Starting? Problem?
Six: ... ... Yes. This is my story.
Five: You want to the bathroom, so I started for you.
Six: ?! I was gone for two minutes.
Five: And that was long enough for me to start. And we're out of time.
Six: Wait no...
ultimate idiot: Hope that means you like it.
Alucard Bellsing: Yes, yes I did. I will continue. Ah, how will Cerberus react?
Well, when they found out what these three factions of humanity can do, they will make sure EVERYONE knows it, more or less. They will make it known that humanity is better off without aliens. Plus, they will try to get it for themselves. They will also be more active. What do you think?
Five: Bit rude much.
Six: Shut up!
EchoSentient: Talked to you about this. Mostly just changing or ignoring NATO.
MaximusMinimus: Will they go full synthetic? Well, they kind of did already. Uploaded technology. But like the geth mobile platforms. I believe the angel is just that. I get what you are saying though. And more or less yes. However, they still need their organic counterparts to increase their numbers.
Dragonaut344Doomed: Sid Meiers starships isn't the best game to go to for what their weapons would be in space. I will be using the information from Beyond earth instead. Although, the ships would look like they do in starships.
Purity (Piety Republic) use lasers. Harmony (Congruous Collective) use miasma. Supremacy (Sovereignty of Pohl) I think uses particle accelerators?, or something like the council races. Firing solid munitions. Not fully sure at this time. If someone knows, please tell me?
For shields. All is explained at the bottom.
Guest: You said to call you 'brutal demon', so that is who you are now. Your idea for the shield was great. I was just thinking of using a normal energy shields, but I like yours more. More is explained at the bottom.
You also said that massive amounts of text was missing. I don't know what you mean, could you be clear. Can you say which parts? I looked and read over the chapter and saw no such thing. It could be me, but I don't know.
EragonDragneel: I thank you with my heart... can I keep my heart though, kind of need it to live.
Norlan4u: I like your stuff. Your shield idea, explained at the bottom, and for the Memory metals... yes. That will be added in, but I think I will put it as something they are developing right now. So it will come into play later.
Thank you all for coming, and I hope you all enjoy the next chapter.
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Earth - 3:49 A.M. June 16 - Two weeks after the Eden Prime Attack
Colyn Allwood was admiral for the fourth fleet and is tasked with defending earth. Given that the only real way to get to sol was through Arcturus and the fleets stationed there, the chances of anyone making it to earth was next to zero, making his job quite easy. However, that didn't mean he could slack off. Just because the chances were near zero, doesn't mean they're zero. Someone could take the long way around, even though that wasn't practical in any way. There for, he had to remain at least partly alert. There is also the chance that something could happen inside the sol system, like unknown energy signatures appearing about 5 thousand kilometers to the port of the fleet.
He blinked. He blinked again. Didn't have the slightest clue what was going on. One moment he's getting a standard report of nothing happening, and the next the sensors flare up with high amounts of hawking radiation appearing out of nowhere.
"Wha..."
Before he could ask what the hell was going on, black circular disks appeared where the reading were coming from and ships came out of the disks. "Sir, three contacts have appeared on the port side. All cruiser class."
Without even knowing what is going on, he hardened his features and said "All ships target the three..."
A short distance away from the new contacts, space seemed to pull into itself and then pushed out three new ships.
"Sir, three more contacts have appeared a thousand kilometers to the left of the first group. All cruiser class." The same one as before said.
The admiral nearly swore. It wasn't that he didn't believe they couldn't handle it, the unknowns only had six cruisers with him having twice the number of cruisers and nearly forty frigates plus two dreadnoughts. It was more along the lines of THEY WERE INSIDE THE SOL SYSTEM.
There was no telling what they would do, but one thing was certain, he had to stop them. "Have the ships spilt into two groups, group one will target the first group of ships with the second..."
The same guy for the third time says "Sir! We are receiving a transmission from the unknowns. They are using standard alliance configuration, audio and visual."
The admiral was really getting irritated at being interrupted, but let it go. He had more important things to worry about. "Connect them to the main screen. Let's see who these people are and what they want?" Right after he finished, a thought hit him 'standard alliance configuration'. 'How in the hell do they know standard alliance configuration when we just meet? Something is going on here, and I intent to find out.' With that he stared at the main screen waiting for them to appear.
And when they did he was ready to tell them to explain who they were and how they knew the standard alliance configuration. But stopped with his mouth open. There, in front of him were two humans. The one on the left had cybernetic enhancements of some kind, but still human. The one with cybernetics had black hair and pale blue eyes. The cybernetics that he had was a red robotic eye, and several red lines on his face. He was wearing a dull grey uniform, with two metals on his chest.
The one on the right was a normal looking human with blond hair and green eyes. He was wearing a blue uniform with one metal over his heart and a white circular mark on the other side of his chest. Inside the circle was a blue old style triangle shield with a white cross in the middle.
It was the same human with the cybernetics the spoke first "Greetings admiral. My name is Seth Follen of the Sovereignty of Pohl and my compatriot here is called..." Only to be interrupted by said individual.
"I can speak for myself thank you very much." Casting a small glare at Seth before looking ahead. Putting a hand to his chest and saying proudly "My name is Ean Morley of the Piety Republic."
Getting over his shock Colyn responded "I'm Colyn Allwood, admiral for the fourth fleet and the Systems Alliance. I know many things, but I don't know either of you. Who the hell are you people?" He stared directly at them, demanding an answer.
Ean opened his mouth to speak but Seth beat him to it "We are descendants from the Seeding. I can see on your face that you are confused. Not surprising, it was a long time ago. Here, let me explain briefly. Back when earth was reaching the infection point over a hundred years ago, each of the eight strongest powers at the time created a ship and sent them to a new world in the hopes of surviving. We are descendants from those people." Blowing his head slightly.
The admiral couldn't deny his claim just yet, even if he wanted to. He vaguely remembers from history class in middle school talking about something like this, but he couldn't remember the details. He turns to his side and says "Officer Smith and Officer Dowty."
"Yes sir." The both reply at the same, saluting.
"I want you two to check our history. If he's right, you should find what he's talking about." He turned to the two on screen. "You said you are descendants from the eight powers at the time. If you would be kind enough to tell us who, it would be a big help." The both nodded and replied American Reclamation Corporation from Seth and African Union from Ean. With the information the two officers began looking for the needed information. "While we wait for my officers to find the information, why don't you share a bit about as you seem to know a bit about us?" He said with a knowing smile. He still hadn't forgotten about them knowing standard alliance configuration. If what they said was true, then they have most likely have been spying on the alliance. Something he didn't like.
Ean spoke next "I will start." Bowing lightly. "As I said before, I am a representative from the Piety Republic. I greet you in the name of her Majesty Clair." Bowing again. "The Piety Republic was formed in the year 2520 on March 16. We formed shortly after riding our world of the heretics." Gaining a hateful expression. Moments later, a neutral expression. "Afterwards, we began expanding to new areas for our people to grow. During this expansion, we looked for a way home, however, it wasn't until recently that we found it. We found out a short while ago that one of your worlds was attacked by the geth so decided it was time to make contact with you."
The information was both vague and helpful. Vague, because there was no details, like who the heretic were. And helpful, because they now know how old they are. However, while there was some information, there wasn't a lot.
Seth went next. "I am a representative of the Sovereignty of Pohl. The Sovereignty of Pohl was formed on November 2, 2516 shortly after the resource war ended. Much like the Republic, we expanded afterwards, founding new worlds. Some time ago, we sent a stealth ship to check up on how earth was doing. Through it, we learned of the galactic community and of the other races. It is also how we learned of the resent geth attack on one of your colonies. It was decided that the time to return home was now."
Again, vague and helpful. He would like more information on them, but couldn't ask farther without hurting future talks. He was lucky however, as the two officers from before spoke up "Sir, we have been able to find the information they spoke of. In the year 2412, the earth was reaching what is called the 'inflection point'. The inflection point is when there is not enough resources on earth to send people into space, and then shortly after, the collapse of the world economy. The eight strongest powers at the time each built a ship and sent them into space. The eight powers are American Reclamation Corporation (ARC), Pan-Asian Cooperative (PAC), African Union (AU), Kavithan Protectorate, Brasilia, Franco-Iberia, Polystralia, and Slavic Federation. It should be noted sir that Franco-Iberia landed on mars and eventually became the Systems Alliance." The admiral nodded his thanks at that. "At this it is unknown what happened to the other seven spacecraft that were launched, however, they are believed to be lost or destroyed. Well, maybe not all of them anymore."
The admiral nodded his thanks. The information was helpful, much more then what they said. "Your story does check out. So, what is it you want?" He then remembered them answering it was because of the geth. "Oh right, the geth." While he didn't think they would be of much help, he wasn't going to say no. Based on what they said, they no doubt had some ships, and some ground forces. How much, he couldn't say, but any help would be nice. He began to think over his next actions. Talks needed to continue, that much was certain. However, he wasn't the man to do it. The diplomats at Arcturus Station would be the best choice. "I'll need to inform Arcturus Station and the parliament of the new situation. After they have been properly informed of everything, the talks can continue there." With a forced smile on his face. He may as well, be nice to them. It may help the talks go by better.
"We would prefer it if the talks could continue here." Replied Ean.
Colyn's face fell part way, and his face said, 'WTF'. He didn't really know how to respond to that. He composed himself as best he could and said "I will have to ask that the talks continue at Arcturus Station. It is where such talks happen."
Seth spoke next, "I have to agree with Ean. I have never seen earth before, and would like to continue to gaze at it more. I am sure it wouldn't be much of a problem if the talks happened here." His gaze was slightly off to the side. Likely looking out of a window.
Expect, supremacy ships didn't have windows, but Colyn didn't need to know that. Colyn grumbled at the news. He didn't have the authority to authorize where the talks would take place. Only the parliament could. 'Sign'. He really didn't care where the talks took place really. 'I'll just send their request up. If it's approved, good for them. If not, I'll get them to go.' "I'll inform them of your request, but I must ask that your ships move outside the area, about 12 clicks to your port side." They nodded to the request before cutting the connection.
As the ships moved away, Colyn began compiling a message to be sent to Arcturus Station. He added all the sensor and images of the unknowns to it. He really wanted to get this over with and get back to what he knows.
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A few hours later while the alliance parliament talked over the information about the Sovereignty of Pohl and the Piety Republic, and discussed what to do. Another similar talk was taking place on the citadel.
Tevos spoke "Tell me Valern, what is it you needed to speak with us about?" Being soft and gentle when she spoke. Mostly for Sparatus sake. He had a mild headache.
Sparatus was feeling irritable, having to deal with Saren going rogue and all. He's had to go over numerous reports the past two weeks, and hasn't been getting as much sleep. The reports are background checks and investigations into each turian spectre. After Saren went rogue, well, everyone wanted to make sure the others wouldn't either. The other spectres were being looked into as well, but they weren't urgent, and so wasn't being done as fast. "I'm tired and have other matters that need to be attended too, Valern. What could possibly be urgent enough to drag me away from my work?"
Valern tapped each of his fingers together one after the other in a wave like pattern. It was somewhat menacing. "It has been... found out that the humans have made a first contact with two different species."
Both Sparatus and Tevos blinked. "Wha..." Was Sparatus's reply. He brain wasn't working fully at this time.
Tevos, on the other hand, was only fazed for a few moments. "What do you mean they have made contact with two different species? That's ridiculous. If they did, they will inform us of it, as is our treaty."
"Never said they weren't. They did just make contact a few short hours ago." Sparatus, finally getting his brain to work properly, and Tevos face faulted.
"If this is true, then let's just contact the alliance so proper contact can be made, and they brought into the fold of the citadel council." Tevos said righting herself.
They got up to call Udina but stop right after Sparatus did.
"Something wrong?" Tevos inquired.
Sparatus realizing something said "Hey, how did you know they made contact..." He blinked and spoke softly. "Dam STG."
Valern smiled before leaving, with the others following right after.
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Captain Prianaly was doing her normal patrol route near the border of council space. Shocking I know, asari doing a patrol route is nearly unheard of. But she was, and proud of it too. She was good at her job too. She commanded her cruiser 'Flowing Water' plus two others and 14 frigates with both grace and power. She is... was the' most respected asari naval commander. She had an incident a few years back that nearly ended her career, and has been working her way back up ever since.
Right now her patrol fleet was traveling through the Aural system. A far, out of the way system that only pirates visit any more, well, and some patrol ships every six or so months too. But not much else.
Until now that is.
"Mam." The sensor officer spoke urgently.
Prianaly replied with a deeper voice than normal asari "Yes, what is it?" She was bored and wanted something to do.
"I am receiving unknown IFFs in the system mam. Three of them. I think their pirates." Slightly fearful. This would be her first live battle.
"Dam pirates are setting up a base again." She whispered to herself. Raising her voice she spoke "All right ladies, pirates have been spotted. I want targets locked on and all sensors checking the area. They may have some friends hiding nearby. Don't want to get ambushed."
Everyone got to work preparing for battle. No one wanted to be caught off guard by something that could have been avoided. The fleet moved into formation before heading towards them.
"Lin, how long until we are in range, and what kind of ships are we dealing with." Inquired Prianaly.
"Target in range in a few minutes mam and seem to be around 5 - 6 hundred meters, likely cruisers, or possibly transports."
Prianaly blinked. "Around 5 - 6 hundred meters? Why is it so vague? Surely our sensors aren't damaged." While not the latest sensors, the current model should be more than capable of saying their exact size.
"Sorry mam. The sensors are going a little haywire trying to get the reading right. Something on those ships must be the cause."
"Possibly some new porotype jammer they're working on. Can you fix it?" Asked Prianaly. She knew they couldn't, but they could still try.
"I'm sorry, I can't. Whatever it is, I can't get the sensors to work properly. However, the sensors are only down about 20%. They must still working out some problems with it."
She nodded "Alright. Keep a lock on at all times as best you can, and tell me if anything happens. They should be taking notice of us soon." Prianaly ordered.
And they did moments later, however, "Mam, one of the ships are headed towards us."
"About time one of... wait. Do you say one of them?" Asked Prianaly. She was confused, and rightly so. There were three ships, either the pirates fought to the death as one, or tried to get as many of their people out with as much as they could before leaving. At least, that's how it should happen. Guess the pirates aren't working together, or something else.
"If they want to fight us with one ship, then so be it. We'll take it out and..." Only for the communication officer to interrupt.
"Mam, we're receiving a call from the ship."
"Oh, are they going to beg for their lives. Put them on the monitor, we have a few moments to kill." Pirates rarely called during moments like this, mostly to ask for surrender. However, she been having a nagging feeling ever sense they entered the system. That same feeling has helped her time and again, so she learned to trust it. And it's been saying that something is wrong.
What appeared on screen, she didn't quite understand. First, the being was clearly a male human, but different. The human had three green lines on his right cheek, like a scar, but they seemed more natural. He was also wearing strange green tinted clothes, but that can easily be appointed to the fact that she isn't all that familiar with human style of clothing. He also, felt different than the humans she's met before. "Who are...?"
Giving a small bow as he spoke "I am Travon Kendrix of the Congruous Collective. To who are I speaking?" Replied the mysterious man.
"My name is Prianaly of the Asari Republics. I don't believe I'm familiar with or ever heard of the Congruous Collective? Who are you exactly?" She inquired.
"I would be surprised if you did know us. We split from humanity before the systems alliance was created. As it stands, we have never made actually contact with the alliance or anyone from council space for that matter." This was both surprised and confused Prianaly. Why had they never made contact with anyone if they know of them? "Now I have a question for you. Why are you here?" The question was firm, and to the point.
"This system is on my patrol route." Her eyes narrowed slightly. "You seem to know a lot about us and, like you said, have never made actually contact with anyone. So how do you know so much?"
He gained a small smirk "The extranet is very open to connect to. You may want to fix that."
Prianaly was exasperated. She didn't think of that. Such a simple way was used, and they got untold amounts of information about council space. A lot of information could be found there, but not everything. That is at least something that's good about this. Petrol routes and anything that deals with the military is almost all classified. She straighten herself out before speaking "How long have you known about us?" That was the kicker. The longer they have known, the worse.
"Long enough." The smirk was gone, but his hands have moved behind his back.
"If you have known about the galactic community for..." waving her hand in his general direction "... as long as you say, then why have you never done so?"
He actually took the time to think over that question. His head tilted to his left and down a little. He took a moment before looking at her again and saying, "It not my place to say who we should and shouldn't have contact with. But, I can guess that you don't have anything to really offer us. We don't have any real need to contact you. But, that's my guess."
Now she was shocked. How could she not? "What do you mean we don't have anything to offer? The asari, and by extension the galactic community, bring peace and unity to all races. We are also the most advanced society in existence, plus trade and military protection for all who join. What reason could you have for not joining?" She was exasperated. No one refused to join. Sure they might be skeptical and hesitant about it, but would eventually join. There was nothing but positives for doing so. A small part of her mind remembered the terminus system, but mostly forgot about it. She calmed herself down, no need to get mad over it.
Travon opened his mouth to speak but before he could the sensor officer spoke "Mam, the River Flow and Naiver are preparing to fire, should I tell them to stop?"
Prianaly got so caught up in what was going on, that she forgot about everyone else in the fleet. "If you could excuse me for one moment, I have to update the rest of the fleet with the new situation." She had a forced smile on her face and was exasperated. They were not going to cause an incident.
He nodded before cutting the connection on his end. After he did so, she slumped into her seat. Everything was happening a little too fast for her sake and was giving her a light headache. The sensor officer, Lily she vaguely remembered, spoke up "Mam, do you want me to hail the River Flow and Naiver?" She nodded in response, but didn't move otherwise. Lily immediately call the two ships and put them on the main screen.
Right before they appeared, Prianaly straighten herself out. On the left appeared a dark blue colored asari with the standard blue and orange form fitting suit. The suit showed off her curves quite nicely. The only other thing of note about her was the three jagged horizontal lines across her forehead. Her name is Hily Aveava, captain of the River Flow. She also had a bit of a temper and can be irritated easily.
On the right appeared a lighter blue skinned asari wearing the same blue and orange form fitting suit. Her name is Veifna Iedri, captain of the Naiver. She had an orange tinted x face mark covering her face. Another thing of note was the stab wound under her left eye and back a bit. The scar also extents to inside her mouth. She is also missing a tooth on her lower jaw. The attack had scared her mentally for the past several decades. She has been quite reserved and overly cautious ever since.
Hily spoke up first "What is it you...?" she never got to finish.
Prianaly was definitely angry, if the fact that her face was turning light purple didn't tell you. "Power down all weapons immediately, they're not pirates." Slamming her arms into her armrests to help get her point across.
Both of them flinched. Veifna was able to get her bearings momentarily and said "What do you mean they're not pirates? Who else could they be? Where're too far from any other colony and the trade routes. No one would set up here." She bought up good points. No one would make a colony here. The initial startup costs would be monumental, plus with it being so far, pirate attacks would be much higher than in other places. One would need a moderately to large sized fleet to protect it. No one would move to such a colony even if someone did build one and expenses would be high.
"Because I talked to them. They're colonist from the... well, they're not from the system alliance, but colonist from a long time ago. They've never had contact with anyone from council space before." She could see they're weren't convinced. She wouldn't. They were most likely thinking she was either going insane, or influenced by them.
"Are you ok Prianaly? They seem like pirates to me." Veifna spoke with Hily nodding. She had to think of something that would get them to listen. Think Prianaly, think. She quickly looked around while she was thinking.
While looking around, her eyes landed on the sensor readings of the new ships, and spotted something that may help. While not even thinking about it, she blurted out "If they're pirates, why do they have eezo readings of a frigate size vessel?" Both Veifna and Hily looked to their own sensor readings to find the same thing.
It took a moment, but Prianaly understood what she just said. Looking back at the readings, they were as she said, frigate sized readings for a cruiser sized vessel. The fuck? Were they cutting costs when they built their ships or something? The shields on the shield would be under strength and its movability and speed would be shot to hell. If she had any doubt in her mind that they were pirates, they're gone now. No pirate would ever build or use a ship like this.
"What kind of ships are those?" inquired Hily. Not only was she confused, they all were.
Doesn't matter. She could use this. Prianaly spoke up "See, pirates wouldn't build such horrible ships. They're just lost colonists and don't really understand mass effect technology. Now power down your weapons." She was a little more forceful on her last statement.
"Alright, alright Prianaly, we believe you. Calm down." Veifna trying to placate her. Her hands are tilted forward in front of her and moving up and down.
She visible calmed down "Thank you. We aren't turians, we're asari. We think situations over and find peaceful solutions whenever possible." She rubbed her forehead with her left hand to help relieve some of the pain.
What Hily said next stopped her. "I want in." It was a statement more than a question.
Prianaly moved her hand down some so she could see in-between her fingers and spoke a single word. "Why?" Said word spoke volumes. The burning stare also helped.
She crossed her arms and said "I want to know what is going on and I ain't waiting until after." She stared back as well.
The staring contest continued for nearly a minute with Veifna shifting her eyes between the two. "I have a compromise." Their eyes were somehow looking at each other, and Veifna at the same time. "Why doesn't Prianaly just mute us and shrink our screens down while she talks to them so we don't interrupt but we can still listen in?"
Hily was the first to speak "I can agree to that." She lifted her stare and rested her arms back down.
"Fine, but don't do anything else." They nodded before their screens were reduced in size and muted.
She sent a connection request right after, hoping they didn't think anything wrong with the interruption. She did not want a diplomatic incident.
The request was accepted after 20 seconds of waiting.
What appeared on screen surprised her. She expected to see Travon again, but instead someone else appeared. It was a human female this time. She was wearing a green tinted suit with whitest circles near the neck area. The clothes seemed to have two or three layers with what she could see. Her clothing also looked like it may also be some form of plating, but she wasn't sure. She also had a pearl neckless on. Like Travon, she had green facial marking, except one on each check going down instead of three on her forehead.
"Hello, I'm Regent Tizia Hurford. It's a pleasure to meet you." Giving a small bow and a light smile. "I am the one in charge of this world if you were wondering. I have been informed and updated on the conversation you had with Travon, so we can continue from there."
Prianaly nodded in respond "Thank you." Somewhat hesitantly. "I was talking to Travon about why you don't want to join the citadel and all its races. If you could explain why, I would be grateful." Putting her hands together in a pleading gesture. She was thankful when Tizia nodded.
"There are many reasons why we choose not to join, both major and minor reasons. Let us start with the minor reasons shall we?" When Prianaly nodded she continued. "A concern of our people is the military protection the citadel would provide for us. There are numerous times when this protection has failed. I can name several times when aid from pirate attacks came too late to help. Both in and out of the attican traverse. How can you provide your protection, when you fail to protect your own worlds?" There was an air of tension. As if Prianaly said even one word wrong, could negatively impact the negotiations.
She took a moment to gather her thoughts on the matter. What Tizia said wasn't all that wrong, pirates have always been a problem except for the core worlds and the citadel. But, there wasn't much that could be done unless full scale war was declared. As the asari wanted to avoid war whenever possible, they elected to keep things as is. If they did go to war, there was no guarantee that they wouldn't collapse in on themselves afterwards.
She took a deep breath before speaking "You're right in saying that our military has not been able to protect our people. I, myself, sometimes question it. However, our forces are only so large and only so powerful. If we tried to give ships to every world to protect them, we simple wouldn't have enough. There would be gaps, gaps pirates could exploit. Then, the pirates would have all they need to destroy our way of life. Now, I'm not saying keeping things as is, is the best, but if the alternative is the destruction of my people, I don't even need to think about it. Certainly help could arrive faster, but we can't be everywhere at once and we don't always know."
"Brave words." Prianaly didn't expect to hear that. "Many would deny these claims, some would redirect, but you didn't. You clearly provided what is happening, and why they are as they are. Thank you." Giving a small bow.
Prianaly wasn't sure what to make of the situation. She wasn't a politician, she was a naval captain. While she believes in what she said, she didn't fully know if it was true, only mostly. "Your welcome."
The conversation continued as such. Tizia would present her people's concerns, such as the batarian still having slavery even though it is illegal. Prianaly would answer these concerns as best she could while picking her words as she spoke. This went on for the next ten minutes until all the minor concerns were answered, mostly. After that, they moved onto the major concerns.
"The next concern is a major one. According to article 112.5 of the citadel convictions state that genetic modification my only be used for medical purposes and even then it is regulated. 10% of my DNA has been changed from the base genome, which is against your law. It also strictly states that new sapient life cannot be created, but my people have done so several times. My people are unwilling to change this about ourselves, and it is one of the main reason why we cannot join the citadel."
They stared at each other for several moments. Tizia was waiting for Prianaly to speak, so kept her mouth shut for the time being. Prianaly was shocked. She expected many things, such as the size of their navy, but not this. This was completely unexpected. And it showed.
Veifna and Hily (who Prianaly forgot about and Tizia couldn't see) were surprised as well. They started to talk to one another about what they heard and everything else. They didn't like it. Before long they decided on their course of action. They sent messages to the rest of the fleet about what they found out, and most agreed with them, others didn't.
It was at this time that Prianaly finally had her answer, mostly, but was interrupted by her communication officer speaking both fast, scared, and with a higher voice than normal "Mam, Veifna and Hily are planning to attack the humans and have got most of the fleet to agree with them."
Prianaly stopped for a moment before she screamed "THEY ARE GOING TO DO WHAT?" She stared at Tizia for a few moments to really think over what she heard. She could see in the upper left corner that they weren't there anymore. Looking over at the officer and speaking "Opening a comm. channel with them immediately. I gave them orders not to do anything."
The officer tried for a moment before turning to face Prianaly with worry written on her face and said "Their blocking all communications mam, I can't get through."
"Mam, both of their ships and ten frigates are pulling ahead. What are your orders?" Prianaly heard off to the side.
"It would seem not everyone among you can accept our ways. To battle it is." Tizia said before cutting the connection.
Prianaly looked to where Tizia just was. She was both confused, and scared. Confused because she didn't know why this was happing and scared because of what was going to happen. Thinking quickly, she contacted the last four frigates and left the system, heading for the closet colony. She would help, but there was nothing she could do, they had more ships then her. If she could get to a colony quick enough, she may be able to get help in time. But it would take a week to a month for help arrived. She prayed for their safety.
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Codex:
Shields:
Shields are used by all factions to better protect their troops, vehicles, and ships. No matter the shield, they all have their pros and cons.
Kinetic barriers:
Kinetic barriers, colloquially called "shields", provide protection against most mass accelerator weapons. Whether on a starship or a soldier's suit of armor, the basic principle remains the same.
Kinetic barriers are repulsive mass effect fields projected from tiny emitters. These shields safely deflect small objects traveling at rapid velocities. This affords protection from bullets and other dangerous projectiles, but still allows the user to sit down without knocking away their chair.
However, the shielding afforded by kinetic barriers does not protect against extremes of temperature, toxins, radiation, or energy based attacks.
Kinetic barriers are the most common type of shielding found and used. It is also the easiest to make, but is also the weakest. They do require element zero to be produced.
This type of shielding is used by almost everyone except a select few factions.
Biotic Barriers:
Biotic Barriers use mass effect fields to protect a user from damage similar to that of a kinetic barrier, but with some unique characteristics.
Biotic Barriers are stronger than traditional kinetic barriers, and can help protect temperature, toxins, radiation, or energy based attacks. But, it is not perfect. Energy based attacks will only be weakened, but not stopped. Temperature and radiation will be weaken far more than energy based attacks and will only partially get through.
Biotic Barriers are the fastest known recharging shields, capable of going from nearly broken to full strength in moments.
Because of the nature of biotic barriers, they vary on their level of strength. They are also the most versatile shields as they can be changed to fit the user's needs.
One downside to them is that they cannot be simply left on as other shields can because they require conscious use of it. Another flaw is that barriers are timed in how long they can be used. After a certain point the user will unable to produce a barrier on their own. Because of this, biotic barriers have the shortest duration they can be used.
Biotics were the only known users of this type of defense until the Congruous Collective showed they used it for their both their starships and vehicles as well.
Force Fields:
Force fields (a.k.a. "energy shields") are energy-based shields.
Force fields provide protection from projectiles, energy-based weapons and electronic surveillance. Upon impact of external objects, the effect varies. Against personal force fields, bullets simply bounce off and fall. Explosive weaponry such as missiles against ships is more spectacular however, the absorbed energy creating a corona effect. The only sign of a force field deactivating is a slight ripple through the air around it. (Taken from starcraft.)
While force fields are the strongest known shields, they are energy hungry and must be lowered on ships to attack.
The Piety Republic are the only known users of this type of shield.
Plasma Shields:
Plasma Shields, or plasma envelope, is a cloud of plasma enveloping the ship at a short distance kept there by magnetic forces.
Whenever a starship fires, a small section of the shielding must drop allowing the weapon to fire. Otherwise, the energy released would detonate on the inside of the shields, damaging the ship. Unlike Force Fields, Plasma Shields are not energy hungry, but do need a short time before they can be used. When turned on, plasma needs to leave the ship in select locations and shaped by magnetic forces. This gives it the longest time before it can be used by all known shield types. This process takes nearly 20 seconds.
Because of the nature of this shield type, even if one section of the shield fails, the rest will still be up. Its strength is comparable to the Biotic Barrier.
One flaw of this shield is that it can't be used in atmosphere very easily as particles in the air weaken the shield as well as terrain.
The Sovereignty of Pohl are the only known users of this type of shield.
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Both Norlan4u and brutal demon came up ideas for shields, but for brutal demon your shield idea was already taken by the Force fields mostly, sorry.
For Norlan4u, your shield idea really reminds me of the halo covenant plasma shield, by a lot.
Man that was long. Sorry I have been gone so long, just had trouble writing this out, and problems in real life.
Next time we see what happens between the asari fleet, and the Collective world. Plus, we can't forget about the Sovereignty of Pohl and the Piety Republic. We will find out how the alliance reacts to them and the council as well.
The codex for next time will be about the armor used by everyone. And yes Norlan4u, your armor idea you have for the Sovereignty of Pohl will be there. It's too good not to.