Here it is people, the first chapter of this AU, I sincerely hope will like it!
Disclaimer, I do not own Mass Effect in any way, the original characters are however mine.
"The world is my country, science my religion"
~Christiaan Huygens; 1629-1695
Date: 21 of January 2183 (Earth calendar)
Location: SSV Normandy (Systems Alliance Stealth Reconnaissance Frigate)
Commander John Shepard stood behind flight lieutenant Jeff Moreau's chair, the chair was without doubt the most comfortable chair on the ship and the only one made out of real leather until you traveled all the way back to Shanxi, 179 lightyears away from where John was standing right now. Needless to say everyone on the ship was jealous of Joker's chair, John had to pull some strings to make sure the chair was installed but it was worth it.
As John looked out the window the Normandy just dropped out of FTL travel on the other side of the Shanxi relay, they had been traveling for two months now and everyone on the ship was getting tired of it.
"I can't believe our mission is to spy on aliens, did you see the pictures? Maybe we should abduct ourselves a few Asari... you know? For science and stuff?" Said Joker with a smile on his face, Shepard only chuckled in response and went straight to business.
"I want a passive scan of the system, after that continue on the planned path."
"Roger that, let's see if there's somebody home." Responded Joker before tapping a number of holographic interfaces. "Uhhm Commander, you might want to see this."
"What's going on Joker?" Demanded Shepard who had no idea what the interfaces were saying.
"There are other ships here, a small group of frigates and a cruiser are trying to board another frigate!"
"I can't believe this is happening just when we arrive here." Said Shepard while shaking his head in disbelief, suddenly he heard Captain Andersons voice over the ship's intercom.
"All hands battle stations!"
Shepard immediately jumped into action rushing past navigation and communication crew members who were strapping themselves into their workstations. As Shepard made his way towards the cargo bay the Damage control team rushed past him, they were already wearing their hard spacesuits for combat repairs and were to spend the entire battle inside the airlock. Ready to repair any hull breach the moment it was detected, he already felt sorry for them. Shepard quickly started working on putting his own combat armor on. After he finally sealed his helmet into place he looked around him.
Gunnery chief Ashley Williams was already in her combat armor, Staff Lieutenant Kaiden Alenko was busy putting on his chest piece and Richard Jenkins was nervously looking around himself, fully armored except for his helmet. The other marines were already in their armor or just putting on the last pieces.
"Williams" Shepard said and Ashley looked up immediately " Take Tucks, Grenado and Barret and secure the living quarters." Ashley nodded and she and the rest of the marines ran off to secure their positions.
"Jenkins, Fredricks, Dubyansky and Lowe. You're with my on the CIC. The rest of you stay with Alenko and keep the cargo bay and drive core secured!"
Location: Azula (Asari Exploration Frigate)
"Geth are right behind us, I can't lose them!" Tasi, the pilot of the Azula was having a very bad day. Just a few hours ago she was traveling to a unknown system that was suspected to have Prothean ruins but when she arrived in the system the Geth were waiting for them, she was certain someone on the ship had betrayed their destination but she would have to deal with that later.
"by the goddess, they are charging their Mass Accelerator cannon" one of the bridge officers said.
Tasi knew what to do, she knew she couldn't dodge the Geth destroyers attacks forever, she quickly activated the ships intercom "All hands abandon ship, get the your escape pods."
Location: Escape pod Azula-5
Liara T'Soni, heir of the T'Soni Lineage sat silently in her escape pod, trough the window she could see the Azula moving farther and farther away from her, the Salarian professor Mordin Solus was muttering in himself.
"Need to destroy data from omni-tool, but Geth can probably restore it. Should install false data, no... don't have the time... Problematic..."
Liara had a perfect view over the destruction of the Azula. A 17 mm slug traveling close to 1 percent of lightspeed was shot out of the Geth Destroyers main spinal gun and impacted on the Azula a moment later, the slug punched right trough the frigates armor and hit the drive core, the drive core in turn exploded and vaporized all that was left of the ship.
You see, this makes sense because Therum, the planet that Liara was supposed to be on at this time lies in Alliance space so nobody knows about the Prothean ruins there, logically they will start searching for some ruins.
I do have a question that I would like answered, do you guys prefer long chapter with long brakes between each other or would you like short chapters with smaller brakes. I'm not a very quick writer so you'll have to decide. You can tell me by PM or review.