HaloME: Era of Contravene

by Evident Disaster

The Era of the Human Covenant War has ended, but the strife of a new age has dawned, now comes the threat from beyond and the chronicles of those who live in these troubled times. Chapter 26, the battle for Eta Halo has begun, the greatest battle since the time of the First Contact war has begun and all will decide the future of the galaxy. Updates have begun, CH22 has been edited.

10. Chapter 10

CH10

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The Rendition of chaos…

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UCAF battle group: Dirge of Catharsis

The UCAF fleet moved through slip-space at the best speed to the Terminus System capital, Omega, the sprawling hive of scum and villainy, the UCAF had been direct with the orders, the UCAF had to hunt down the rogue spectre and also the reports of the mysterious contacts. The fleet comprised mostly of frigates and a single cruiser, the mission wasn't critical enough to validate anything more than just a few ships, and also Daniel had requested the extra support.

Shepard had been unsure what to expect when the UCAF engaged the unknowns, but he didn't wish to lose any more troops, the collectors had shown him that there was something different about them, the strange weaponry they used proved more harmful than what the UCAF determined. The outposts had repeated the same stories; many had been struck by insect like creatures which used something similar to what had been used during the encounter on Matano. This seriously worried the heads of command at HIGH COM and ONI, there wasn't enough information on these beings and thus it was imperative that the UCAF track down Saren and any of his associates before things go cold, the Collectors were the next best thing to the unknowns.

It was the main reason why Shepard was now leading a hunt and kill fleet after the spectre, the Terminus Systems provided an enemy with the perfect hiding place as there would be no mainstream monitoring of space and any traces of Saren's footprints would vanish in space as no one would take not of his arrival or departure. Omega was their main lead in all of this, an asari named Aria T'loak controlled the massive space station in the Terminus Systems and it was a known fact that she had information on many things, including the spectre and the collectors.

Shepard had a fair idea of what he would be expecting when he and the fleet arrived at Omega, the UCAF wasn't welcome since the Nova bombings on the Batarian colonies and he and the marines would not be very welcome along with the krogans who had serious rage about the UCAF planning on Nova bombing Tuchunka because of the growing krogan forces along with serious arming of the race. The many Terminus powers eyed the UCAF as a hostile threat that should be openly ignored and avoided, only if confronted first should one engage, but many instilled the neutral approach to avoid getting on the wrong side of the UCAF.

Shepard remained in his room, he was flicking through some recent reports on the war, he had plenty of time to read through things, they weren't expected to arrive at Omega until the next morning and that would be when Aria brings out her fleet to greet them. The pirate queen was paranoid, but she had merit for such paranoia, being the head of one of the most important stations in all of Terminus attracted a lot of attention, especially since it was a fortress that few could engage.

Shepard flipped through the holo-slate, the UCAF had suffered 10,000 casualties, half of which were wounded and the rest which had been KIA, the results showed that the turians had suffered almost 5 times as many casualties, but had been determined to keep themselves entrenched in their pit holes and cities rather than risk an open engagement with the UCAF marines. Fighting had calmed down somewhat substantially since the beginning and now it seemed almost fruitless to continue. The UCAF had reports that the UNSC wished to open communications with the council and make their demands up front and then just cut off communications in order to recover from the war, there were debates going on about how the UCAF and the UNSC should make their demands and what their demands should be.

Compensation for Shanxi seemed the highest at this point in time, and the Attican Traverse was to become demilitarized by the turians and only council patrols would be allowed in. Everything within range of the Charon, Sigma and Theta relays would be UCAF territory and a handful of worlds would be taken by the UCAF to remain as peace keepers and security in the Attican Traverse. The idea seemed simple enough, but with this the turians were being stubborn about the territory and the ideas of accepting defeat, the UCAF honestly couldn't care about their martial honour as the UCAF had very little to lose now.

The council themselves had made it adamant to pull council forces to the last line and accept the terms, the council couldn't afford to keep up the war anyways and the krogans had been steadily decreasing into civil war with the genophage becoming partially removed. The batarians were licking their wounds and the other council races had been petitioning for the disarmament of forces in the local colonies.

Covenant forces were still engaged on some worlds, they had been helpful in clearing up a lot of problems such as the spread of the flood and advance during the war, but now they have held back as the UCAF asked for a deceleration of the war, there was enough blood spilled and the council was willing on talking. Grand Arbiter Thel had praised the covenant forces for their bravery and had also added his voice in the UCAF senate to consider allowing the covenant to also claim certain worlds in order to aid in security of the Traverse and territory. The UCAF had been unsure of how to approach the request and had considered it, it only remained up to the UCAF high com and the senate to give the final verdict and permit the covenant.

Shepard felt that the changing faces of the war now had ended, most of the conflict being centred on the destruction of Shanxi had mostly been cleared and the colonies were willing to consider the war to end or pause as the many marine detachments hadn't been in human space in over 3 years. Shepard would have liked to head home, but seeing as Shanxi had been his home he had very little to look forward to, he'd probably end up on a retreat world or reserve for the UCAF veterans and officers. Or the new colony of Mindoir which had been built during the war, it was a nice place to live, near from Nova Terra and the Exodus cluster he and many veterans could still be close enough to head to the front lines. But he doubted that he'd even need to go after the war ended.

A break from the front lines would be nice. 2 years of command over the regiment had taken their toll on him as he had come and gone through some of the worst fights, planet strikes on krogan held forts and assaults into the deepest layers of the Batarian forces, he had come through all of them with more than one loss. He had the option of staying on or being promoted and he'd have Matthew taking his position in either case, the boy had learned and grown into a fine officer, he'd be his replacement once HIGH COM decides.

The intercom activated as the captain ordered.
"All marines to briefing room 3, commanding officers report to stage 1, General Williams would like to address you for the mission."

Shepard placed his holo-pad into his pocket and got into his grey and black helldiver issued overalls, he had the officers insignia and badges on his which separated him from his subordinates, and one stylish hawk had been added into his uniform to tell the troops who he was. The hawk of Elysium, and the damn survivor of Shanxi's ground zero, he was considered their best officer and marine.

Walking down the metallic grey and white hallways he passed through the many gates and checkpoints over the station, he autonomously saluted to those who saluted to him and he ended up down at Stage 1 when he finished his 20 minute walk, the ship was big so the distances travelled were just as long, he found the place and entered the room. The 120 officers of the regiment sat in their assigned seats with Shepard's being close to the end, right next to General Williams himself.

Once everyone took to their seats and had finished their discussions the general began. Williams was one of Shanxi's general's he had only just survived the nuclear assault by taking cover inside of a heavy masonry building which had been constructed during the early years of the war, the building was half destroyed when they found him and he was suffering mild radiation poisoning, but he was strong enough to get back on his feet and make the trip to a field hospital, they say he was lucky seeing as the entire colonial defence command was wiped out.

The general was placed in command of the battle group along with some of his own marines because of his tactical thinking and vigorous beliefs of combat, he had proven that the troops of Shanxi could and would fight for the UCAF in the front lines, whatever had been left of the Shanxi forces had been given to him and then he just kept winning battles. Since then the UCAF had heralded General Williams as the spearhead of the war, up until 3 months ago when the UCAF and council had begun to open communications, Williams was put on the side lines with the rest of the UCAF in order to reduce tensions on the front and keep the ideas of talk open.

The UCAF was soon to broker the treaty and the two sides could finally end the conflict for another time, Williams had been an opponent to the truce and had argued that the turians and the council would not abide to such things, a piece of paper was a piece of paper, the council had never given a handshake or even made a blood pact, this was not solid and Williams refused to accept it. Many others agreed that the general was right; the chances were that the council and the rest of the galaxy would break the truce and continue war when they recovered.

As they all waited the general addressed them clearly.
"As of 1830 of UCAF standard time, the UCAF HIGH COM and the Citadel Council had initiated formal contact and had begun a talk for peace."

Shepard and the others were shocked, the talks had already begun? Williams continued.
"Now the information about how the talks are going is being withheld until they are completed and the UCAF releases the disclaimer, up until then all active combat is to be ceased in the next 12 hours, and the UCAF and Council forces would remain in passive condition until the talks are completed. We have not been called back, the mission is still to be continued no matter what, the ONI had been adamant that no special operations could be compromised now as it was too dangerous to ignore the threats from the unknowns. That said, we will be arriving at Omega within less than half a day and when we arrive we have our orders, gather information as instructed and continue on the search for the 'reapers'." Williams had used his finger gestures about the strange attackers.

"The council has no information on the reapers aside from some random beliefs made up by conspiracy theorists and random people; they dismiss the claims like they dismissed our existence until the war took hold. The council is desperately trying to hide something else, aside from their botched flood plans and research into UCAF technologies and forerunner experiments, the council is determined to leave us in the dark about some critical information." Williams ended.

A hand went up and the pale skinned male who had the ONI insignia placed on his shoulders inquired. "What kind of information are we talking about general?" Lieutenant Ackerman asked.

Shepard had his reservations of the ONI officers, they weren't all bad, but Ackerman was one of the few Shepard liked, except for that dead passive attitude that he held, Ackerman knew more than what others did, but those were incredibly sensitive pieces information on he was allowed to carry. UCAF and ONI had been determined to keeping what knowledge that he knew to a minimum, Shepard usually heard things in passing when Ackerman did say something, but this time he wasn't going to get early tips on what might be going on.

General Williams looked at the Lt with an incredulous face. He then answered.
"There have been rumours that the turians and some other factions outside the council's control have decided to take an interest into our conflict, this isn't the collectors, but another force. We have little information on what they might be planning or who they might be, but they are determined to take action against humanity and worse yet, they are believed to be as powerful as us." He ended ominously.

The other officers and staff looked around, murmurs were passed and speculation, but Shepard felt that he knew what was already going to happen. Shepard decided to put forward his view on the situation. "Sir, are you saying that we will be facing an enemy which we have no idea about, and has been suspected of using technology almost equal of not superior than our own? And the collectors and the rogue elements we are now tracking might be related in some fashion?"

The table seemed to have a few nods and a lot of pondering, Williams answered Shepard's question.
"Yes, that is what we hope for, the collectors and the rogue element known as Saren, we need to know what they do and we need to know fast, or else we might be facing a greater threat in the future if we don't, on the other hand, if there is no relation, then we can only assume that what is coming isn't related to any of this and we might be facing something completely outside of our control."

Looks were exchanged that made it very clear that whatever the politicians and those at HIGH COM were doing, they had their reasons. The meeting went on with little else to discuss and that Shepard and Ackerman would have another talk about what might be happening. It was still another 9 hours before arrival at Omega.

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6 hours later…

Shepard took a light sleep before he woke up, he needed a short rest before he suited up, it wouldn't be appropriate for an officer going out on first contact to be dreary while trying to talk. Shepard went through his routine in a summarised version of, brush teeth, comb hair, wash face, and get disinfected, and then suit up, eat breakfast, and then get into MKVII Liberator class Helldiver custom armour.

The MKVII was a unique pattern and class of helldiver exoskeleton assault armour; it was one of the first to receive the N7 mark and the first to be declared the 7th gen exo-assault class. It had a chrome black finish and a single layer of anti-beam coating, followed by 2 layers of adamantium, 1 layer of iridium, a micro weave of titanium and an ablative layer of ceramic and finally a nano-weave of bio reactive gel. The total weight of the suit was 75kgs and that was without all the attachments and external equipment required.

The armoured suit had many attachments; Shepard had a single tactical interface wrist pad, 1 dead-shot jetpack, and custom head gear- optical fusion goggles: 1000m range, infrared, night vision, sonar, motion tracker and LIDAR, there was also the shoulder mounted M51 mini-gun and multi canister grenade launcher, 4 external 15 inch serrated blades, spare ammunition packs and explosive gear. The MKVII was one of the few Helldiver suits which had received these upgrades and it was a definite improvement, as it also had internal medical systems which injected bio-gel and medi-gel into the user's bloodstream and had vacuum seal in case of breaches.

Shepard's choice of suits wasn't his, the suit was given to him by donation of the UCAFs R&D department from those who had developed the Spartan MKVI and MKVII, the helldivers always got the secondary upgrades and updates to their suits whenever the Spartans did. Shepard looked through his load outs, he had more than a few guns to pick from, but his custom AR Carbine would suit the job for today, he also loaded a M5 custom laser sight pistol, M8I HEC-S100 SMG, 12 grenades of varying types and enough thermal hot shots to take on a battalion of elites.

CODEX- UCAF Armaments and Weaponry

Thermal 'hot shots' rounds were introduced during 2540 when snipers began receiving mass accelerator drives in order to fire deadlier payloads at much faster rates without over burdening the sniper, Revenant SR-X9 snipers were the first released to use thermal shell of 50 calibre size and fire at speeds up to 1/3rd the speed of light, the recoil wasn't compromised thankfully by the upgrades made to the SR series. Later in 2550 many special operations forces began receiving major upgrades, snipers of all varying types received variant one mass driver upgrades and later UCAF military began development of mass produced mass accelerator carbines, it wasn't until 2555 that the UCAF began dispersion of all mass accelerator weaponry.

'Hot shots' are encased bullets which possess heat sinks curled around the outer casing which is ejected with the shell once fired, this means that the barrel is immediately cooled by the firing of the shot and the weapon does not over heat from usage. The weights of all standard thermal rounds are 20 grams and can be increased to up to 200, each rounds is comprised of titanium for normal targets, adamantium for heavily armoured targets and ionised copper to deal with shielded enemies, each variation of ammunition works to grant the user an advantage in the field when dealing with opposition, the only flaw is that not all ammunition can be carried and special ammunition is only present amongst the Psychic Operatives and Combat Engineers and rarely found on any UCAF marine. Other modified ammo types are present but many remain between troops who require them for special missions or those who have specific goals and operations that need them.

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He left from his room and down to the hangar, troops milled around in the cruiser as they prepared for the coming mission, the slip space drop would be on the outer boundaries where the fleet would contact Aria and send him and a single team over. Shepard had selected the best suited for the mission, Captain Matthew, Lt Carol, and Gunnery Sgt Mikael. They were waiting in the hangar bay for him.

As he passed through the greying hallways he noticed that Ackerman had exited his room and was following him closely, the ONI agent waited until they were in a quiet area before he called out.
"Colonel Shepard!"

Shepard turned around and watched as the Lt approached him.
"Sir, I need to tell you something."

This was the time and place now, Shepard said.
"What is it?"

Ackerman looked nervously around and said.
"HIGH COM has found where Saren is, it came through only 2 hours ago, from Noveria the operation had been to eliminate the flood contamination across the Traverse and it had led the main strike forces to Noveria, there they had discovered that there was a relation to Saren and the flood, but also something else."

"What else?" Shepard inquired.

Ackerman showed him his holograph, the image displayed from it showed of something he had only seen once. Ackerman explained. "There's been sighting of this thing, the UCAF fleet had wiped the thing out and had continued the mission, HIGH COM said that they're going to have to glass it with the planet, the flood was in the port with it and they can't risk trying to retrieve the machine, but they said that it's there and with others, the strike team sent in has reported that there are more than just this one." Ackerman finished.

The black appendages and glowing eyes pierced Shepard's soul; he couldn't shake that feeling that the machines recognised him, it made him worry. If the flood had some relation to this thing and Saren wouldn't that justify that the collectors have something in all of this as well? Shepard nodded.
"Lieutenant, thanks for the intel…" He was about to turn away when he was stopped again.

"Sir, wait there's something else you need to know." Ackerman exclaimed.

"What?"

"There are shadows everywhere don't trust your eyes."

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Upon arriving at the hangar bay Shepard strolled down the stairs and to his assigned Aires Gunship, the massive black armoured assault transport waited for him, and so did his team. 3 armoured carapace MKVII suits loitered as he came to, Mikael greeted him with a salute.
"Sir!"

"At ease sergeant, what's the status on the Aires?" He asked.

The shortest of the team which was Carol approached, her suit was much slimmer, hers was specifically made for stealth and infiltration and long range sniping, she was the pilot and technician of the team, but also their hacker. She answered Shepard with a breezy comment. "The Aries is ready as much as she ever will be and I do hope I can say that for you sir."

He didn't bother with her remarks, she always did that to her superiors and many ignored her after a while, which he decided to do similarly because of her attitude, she wasn't one of the lazier personnel of the squad she just had her own attitude that followed with it. Matthew was the last in the amongst the team, he was checking his neural intakes to make sure that he was ready to go berserk if things really heated up, the captain had been much like himself as usual reserved until the fight, he saluted to Shepard as he finished his modifications.

"Sir, it's good to see you again, you sure you'd require me for this mission?" He asked.

"Never go anywhere without you Matt, seriously, having a berserker is one thing any officer would need, especially where were going, Omega's said to be neutral ground, but I doubt that we'd get anything but a warm welcome once we land. It's packed with Krogans, Batarians, and a lot of other pissed of races who want to take a piece of us. Just don't start using 'it' if we get into a fight."

The captain nodded and remarked.
"Well I'll consider it sir, but no promises; I don't make them I just kill things." He joked.

The alarms blared as the ship was making final approach through slip-space, Shepard had his neural uplink feeding him intel from the main network, he would get his orders from General Williams when they exited slip-space. The command crew prepared as they decelerated from slip-space and began to pull out.

"5 seconds till real-space transition, and… mark!" The AI announced.

Shepard felt the transition from his seat, the inertia pushed them all slightly as they exited, and he could see the stars pool outside and the many other lights of the heavens and the most interesting and surprising things, was the massive debris field that they had just flown directly into. He heard collision alarms blaring and the General yell.

"Hard to PORT!"

There was scraping metal and heavy thuds as the entire ship ran through the debris field, Shepard watched as dozens of pieces of flying husks went by. He was shocked, they weren't supposed to have exited anywhere near the asteroid field, he checked over the network as saw that through the main cameras, it wasn't just a debris field that they had flown through, it was the remains of Omega's main defence fleet.

The cameras could see that there were over 2 dozen hull fragments scattered across the distance, Omega looked as if it had been smashed by a meteor storm of asteroids and the most concerning thing was that there was a single solid shape that was protruding from the bottom of Omega, and Shepard was sure that it wasn't meant to be there.

General Williams yelled out.
"Alert status cancelled, bring us to combat status now and call in the rest of the fleet, we have hostiles attached to Omega and possible threat of unknowns, collectors have been confirmed."

The ship changed to combat status and every marine jumped into their gunships, they were ready for plan B, taking the station by force. General Williams went over the com to Shepard.
"Colonel can you see this?"

Shepard replied. "Yes sir, I can see them, that's definitely the collectors, but what are they doing here?"

"No idea, we're trying to get communications up but the channels are jammed with emergency signals and static, someone's trying to hide their presence, there's no sign of Aria on the network which we can assume means that she could be deceased, if so then we're going to have to clear out the collectors and do things the hard way, if she is alive I need you to find her. Do you understand?"

"Yes sir, is there anything else?"

"Marine teams will be joining you and will be aiding in the recovery of the station, if the station is compromised and Aria is dead, then we might have no choice but to use option C, and we don't want to use it unless we absolutely have to understand?"

"Yes sir."

"Good luck Colonel."

Shepard heard Carol comment.
"Well here's to another fuck up that the galaxy decides to throw at us."

Carol kicked into gear and brought the Aires out of the hangar bay, it was shortly followed by squadrons of fighters and other gunships. As they made their approach they could see the more detailed outlines of damage to the station. The collectors had been thorough in clearing out the lower levels and crippling the higher ones, it seemed that the damage might be superficial but a number of docking ports and landing zones had been trashed by the devastating assault from the collector vessel. This revealed a lot about the collectors already, they were a threat and not only to the race of the galaxy, but also to humanity.

It was then that they made their own little threat, more than 4 dozen contacts appeared on the LIDAR screens, Carol yelled.
"Contact, evasive patterns now!"

The gunship tilted away as particle beams seared by, Shepard looked out from one of the gunports on the sides to see what was firing at them. A single red eyes with wings and what seemed like a focus cannon in the middle was firing particle charged beams at the squadron and the gunship, the fighter screen broke away to engage while the gunships continued on a bee line to the space station.

Shepard watched as they made their approach, but as they reached the main containment field they encountered more than just a few little problems. Carol yelled.
"Multiple contacts, smaller but fast!"

She gunship rocked as beams of blue energy shot by, the gunship lurched as one struck home. The shields took a slight hit and that was enough for Carol to yell. "Someone man the guns, the Aires can't target anything that's right behind it."

Shepard jogged to the rear M50 turret, the heavy Vulcan assault cannon activated at his touch, Matthew manned his own and Mikael went to man the lower guided missile system. The gunship was now in the lower industrial sector of the sprawling station, Carol was passing through some narrow corners to lose some of the contacts, but others continued on their pursuit of the gunship. Shepard waited as they finally cleared the industrial sprawl and into the open.

It was then that 4 contacts appeared, he could see them, they had multiple lenses and shaped as if like crabs, but they were larger, one charged up its beams and fired in strafing shots at the gunship, Carol lurched the gunship down a corkscrew manoeuvre to avoid another direct hit. Once they came back into focus Shepard yelled. "Let em have it!"

The M50 Vulcan assault cannon began to spray out deadly high explosive bullets at mass accelerated speeds; the bullets peppered into the closest hostile and churned it within moments. As it exploded the others charged up and one glowed ominously as it chased after them, it had glowing eyes and seemed to stare after Shepard with a determined glare. He brought the cannon down at the glowing target but was surprised as it withstood the barrage of shells, it took another burst before it exploded and then it came.

"WE ARE LEGION, YOU ARE IMPERFECT SHEPARD!"

He paused until Carol yelled. "More contacts inbound, Colonel, keep firing!"

He snapped to and opened up once more, the hostiles scattered as they climbed up the levels of Omega to the lower industrial zones of the station. There they were greeted by a plethora of objects. There seemed to be active resistance as the gunship narrowly avoided a dozen AA blasts from surface turrets which were still active, the residents of Omega seemed determined to keep their station and their lives.

But as luck would have it for Shepard reaching the residential sector would be as far as they would go, the gunship was attacked once more and this time by another glowing creature, it latched itself onto the top of the gunship and began to hack into the shields, the other dismounted their guns and joined Shepard as the machine began eating into the hull.

He could hear the voice though. "WE HAVE COME FOR YOU SHEPARD!"

The hull buckled as the machine ripped inwards, he could see the glowing eyes of it as it screamed, Shepard and the other helldivers began to fire, their rounds punctured into the shields and began to burn holes into the machine, but it was resilient, it took the punishment with ease and continued to hack away.

Mikael fired his carbine on full auto while Matthew hosed out shotgun rounds with his dual ASR-12s, it was then that Carol appeared and brought up her own special weapon, her modified Revenant SR-XV15 and fired a single 100 gram ionised core into the head of the machine, the shell was blasted through at 80% the speed of light and left an impression which they could all see, and then it exploded.

He heard the voice one last time.
"Child of the father, father of the son! Your sins shall carry on young one!"

The team was knocked back was the collectors assault machine blew to pieces and knocked them to the floor, when it exploded it also took out half of the rear and caused enough damage to send the gunship into an uncontrollable spin. Shepard could hear the alarms screaming as the gunship flew through the interior of Omega and sharply drop to the lower levels.

"Brace!" He yelled.

The gunship collided with the walls and scrapped the outcroppings of buildings and eventually slammed sideways into the heavy metals of the floor, he and the others were thrown around until they came to a dead stop. Shepard lost consciousness after that.

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AN: When the wind blows

Well I have to apologise for the top AN about the recent problems I have been receiving from a certain person, I don't understand why he has decided to attack me probably out of some ridiculous attitude or he's being bullied himself or bullying and getting away with it, but not from me. And the other sad fact is that he says I live with my grandmother and that I should get my own life and here's the bad news.

My grandmother has a terminal disease and is dying, something to do with liver or kidney failure and she's been admitted to a hospital in Korea, that's where she lives, and I will be taking time off to prepare for the coming months as I might be getting sent to see her before her time and send my condolences to the rest of my family in Korea, I won't be coming around anymore for a while.

I have been busy with also trying to find work and searching for universities and other courses for my continued education and learning and I might not be around as much now. I find it arguably the most stressful time I'm having as I have to deal with many problems at once, so I have no idea how long I'll be around for. I can only say that I intend to continue work on this as long as possible before I need to go, and also I wanted to focus on this story without over burdening myself with other fics, so they'll have to wait a bit longer. Better that than half assed work like before, which I intend to correct once I get back to it.

So for now, I just have nothing else to say… have a nice holiday

PS-

As you can tell the reapers and the collectors have been upgraded a bit, they'll continue to get harder to defeat as the story goes and you'll know why, and there's a lot more content in this story than you should know and a lot more things I have decided to include as well as the shadow broker. Hope you guys enjoyed the change of pace.