Chapter 3 Reverse Effect

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Grand Human Alliance Part 2

Humanity had just expanded into the universe outside its solar system. The GHA had few enemies after the first wave of human nationalism, and little to fear from anything. Planets were being gobbled up quickly in the search for resources. The GHA had created a strict policy in the founding, and running of new colonies, because colonies for the GHA were seen as resources and colonists as tools. All this work was for the shipbuilding industry that had exploded in the GHA. Most of the population either worked in some way shape or form to a either a mining monopoly or a shipbuilding monopoly, that the government insured paid them just enough to were people wouldn't riot in the streets. Except for the troubling work being done by the Illusive man, who continued spreading his manifesto throughout the GHA, many viewed this as a golden era for the Grand Human Alliance.

In the year 2147 everything changed. The GHA was attempting to open a mass relay near the colony of Shanxi when Turian patrol ships began to fire, annihilating all but one of the GHA vessels who escaped to warn everyone. The Alliance panicked; they believed these aliens might be Protheans coming back for war. The GHA had every reason to be afraid, with total control of humanity, and with many leaders only looking at the Prothean threat as a way to scare everyone into working for them, they had never actually built a true military fleet. To make matters worse the GHA had a relatively low number of humans in the military as well due to a fairly docile population, knowing this the leaders of the GHA put all of its strengths into a single effort. Within hours of news of the attack the GHA, used special government powers to force every colony to work overtime. Immediately every man and woman over the age of 18 was put into the army or put into the factories. The GHA hastily used its strongest and biggest ships to be converted into the first official GHA fleet. These ships that comprised the first fleet where Frankenstein monsters, they were behemoth former transport vessels that had armor plating quickly put on around them, and had guns literally bolted on their sides. Many of the ships were completed in days and were sluggish and accident prone. These monsters were all humanity had to pit against the Turians.

With its approximately four day old fleet the GHA succeeded in attacking, and destroying the Turian patrol ships that had killed the research vessels. The GHA fleet had caught the Turians by surprise and used their massive canons to tear the patrol to pieces; most of the patrol never had a chance to fire back (though you'll never hear inside the GHA, black boxes indicate the real reason the GHA got the Turians by surprise was because the Turians believed the first fleet was really a collection of space junk). The GHA also managed to receive relatively small casualties, except for one destroyer that exploded on accident when it tried to fire its main guns. For a little while the crew of the first fleet was overjoyed, but that soon ended.

The Turians returned, with a vengeance. A bigger, actual fleet of real Turian warships came to Shanxi. The GHA first fleet upon coming under fire for the first time was reduced to debris within a few minutes of confrontation. The battle of Shanxi was now in the hands of the humans on the planet's surface. General Williams, leader of the defense of Shanxi is best known for saying,

"I don't care if you're a man, woman, or child I will kill the first person who doesn't give everything they got for the survival of humanity, and the defense of Shanxi." For weeks General Williams used the deep mines on Shanxi as places to hide from Turain bombardments, and launch human counter attack to Turian forces. Williams never caved in, and neither did his men whether that was their choice or his. The Turians growing frustrated started systematically destroying population centers from orbit in an attempt to force surrender, but General Williams refused to even consider it. Legend has it he ordered the death of a GHA official who suggested negotiating with the Turians during this time.

After more than a grueling month of non-stop orbital strikes and raids by Turians the second fleet arrived. The second fleet had tripled the armor plating than the previous first fleet and had guns that were more securely fashioned on. The second fleet was able to take the punishment of the Turian fleet while slowly using their more primitive weapons to erode the Turian ships into nothing.

It was only after the battle a council ship arrived, welcoming humanity to the greater galactic community. The battle of Shanxi proved to be a unifying factor for the human race, and the first contact war is now a national holiday for everyone in the GHA. General Williams became a national hero, and several monuments on earth's capital, with talks of naming a colony after him. It seemed to everyone in the GHA humanity had held their own against a superior force and prevailed. The GHA however, never did release the true death toll of a little more than three fourths of Shanxi's population.

Yeah, the reverse effects General Williams would never surrender, he would have literally fought to the last man. Next chapters will feature the GHA as it would be during the mass effect games, them moving on to the rest of the reverse effect species. Also forgot to mention last chapter I was considering writing a first person play through of the entire reverse effect first game. I have never done anything like that before so I wrote what would be the first chapter on my profile its called Mass effect 1: The Spark. If enough people view it I'll do more.