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The History of the Rise and Fall of the Great Batarian Hegemony.

"A Nation built upon the backbone of slaves will inevitably escalate into violence and civil war, for freedom is the right of all sentient beings, and nothing is as dangerous to a dictatorship fueled with the need for slaves than the very slaves that seek freedom."

- Matriarch Dilinaga on her writings of the so-called Batarian 'Empire'

Introduction:

In many ways, the entry of the Batarian species to the galactic stage shares many similarities to those of of their neighbors, with the finding of several Prothean ruins that enabled said species from discovering Mass Effect technology and that of the Mass Relays. And ultimately, either meeting another alien race or discovering the Citadel.

The Rise:

Khar'Shan back then was divided into a several hundred nation-states that ranged from Oligarchies to Dictatorships to even Monastic Order nations headed by Grand-masters, all of which were prone to committing violence which each other with only brief periods of uneasy peace as each of these nations struggled to become the supreme ruler and unifier of the Batarian people. It was here several Batarian republics and City-States began to form a coalition that would ensure the survival of its members. This coalition would ultimately proved to be fruitful as it defeated the ancient Empire that had been ruled by the descendants of the Great Batarian Emperor Verush. This newfound victory against what had been the top dog of Khar'Shan would ultimately lead to a serious of conquests, usage of Gun-boat diplomacy and the outright destruction of nations and kingdoms.

Thus this coalition, would eventually unite the Batarian people into a single banner, and ultimately lead to the creation of the Batarian Hegemony.

It was during the early space-flight days of the then young Hegemony would they discover the key that lead to their dominance during the early centuries after the formation of the Citadel Council. For it was at one of the moons of the Gas Giant Verush(Proudly named for the Great Emperor in which 0.8 of the Batarian population allegedly traced their descent to) would the Hegemony discover an largely intact Prothean Research base, and as surviving records chronicled,

The remnants of an ancient Prothean cruiser and that of a 'semi-organic dreadnaught'.

Although the existence of the former has been proven to be correct as it had been housed at a museum in Khar'Shan prior to the outbreak of the Batarian Civil War as well as being the primary design of the starships that the Hegemony used and still uses to this very day, all evidence to the latter had either been proven false, or the lack thereof.

Thus the existence of the ancient dreadnaught remains a debated topic among historians to this day, escalating into wild conspiracy theories and even some linking the dreadnaught's existence to the disappearance of the Protheans!

Back to the topic at hand, the knowledge gained from the Research facility as well as evidence of other races the Protheans had interacted with, the Hegemony used all of this to ensure that they would have total control of the people, this ultimately led to the destruction and killings of those who had opposed the government, while ultimately, the knowledge of other races would lead to an ambitious goal by the Hegemony.

The total subjugation and total control of the entire galaxy under the Iron Rule of the Batarian people.

And thus the rest as they say is history. For in the years since the Asari discovered the Citadel and led to the founding of the Council along with the Salarians, the Batarians themselves, were quietly colonizing and expanding, by the time the Council had made contact with the Hegemony, its territories had encompassed a quarter of the SKyllian Verge and were slowly expanding into what would become known as the Terminus Systems.

The era the followed after the Council made first contact with the Hegemony would be one that was of uneasy peace as legends and controversial actions were made in this particular period, from the STG agent known only as the 'Silent Step' to the rape of Esan to even the leaked knowledge of the horrors the Hegemony's slaves had to endure to terraform the planet Aratoht. Shadow and Proxy wars became prominent here as the early incarnation of the Citadel SPECTREs and the Batarian Special Interventions Unit began to emerge to wage these wars on behalf of their benefactors. And the increase of hostilities between the two powers that be finally led to a breaking point.

Fearing galactic war with an enemy that was becoming powerful than them, the Citadel sanctioned a law of expansion as expeditionary fleets began to open Mass Relays, to either get away from increasing batarian slaver raids or to simply look for greener pastures. It was here the first and only time the Asari had a standing army made up of professionals began to emerge, the Salarians and the Quarians began joint projects to increase their military capabilities and the Volus for their part in the increasing contribution to the Galactic economy would eventually gain a council seat(A move that the succeeding Asari councilors would secretly come to regret upon the signing of a a treaty of a defensive pact between the Volus and the Turians.)

The Batarians of course, didn't want to outdo the only power that stood between them and a great galactic Batarian empire. And so slave raids began to increase, proxy wars lasted longer, there was an increase in military spending and production and colonization efforts tripled. And if surviving accounts were to believe, talks about fully using the cache the Batarians had found on one of the moons of Verush.

It would seem that the destruction of the Citadel Council and the dream of a Galactic Batarian Empire was at hand. But in the Hegemony's efforts to increase their power. They had made a crucial mistake. And because of their pride and hubris, would forever shatter their vision of a powerful Empire and ultimately the dream.

For you see dear reader, in the Hegemony's mad haste to secure unlimited power as well as control of the Citadel, the Galaxy and the gifts the Protheans left behind, the Hegemony had unwillingly unleashed the Rachni.


Author's Note: So yeah, I read and reread the canon events of OMETL(Original Mass Effect Timeline) and found out that the Batarians had discovered the ruins of what used to be a Prothean structure. The POD here is that not only do the Batarians discover an intact Prothean site, but the knowledge they had acquired there would lead to an ambitious dream of a Galactic Empire. Because of this buffing of the Hegemony, the Citadel also gets buffed in terms of economic, territorial and military means.

So don't expect my alternate version of Humanity to just rolfstomp everyone here :p.

Till the Next time!