Author's note: Guest, the Hovarth are in, just a quick thing you might like to know is that the Arks are a bit over twice as fast as Hovarth slipspace drives. Also, a Trump Card carries 100 tons of antimatter, a photon torpedo carries 1.5 kg of antimatter. Which do you think makes the bigger boom?

Ny'Kle, I don't know what you named them, but your reptilian aliens with the ridiculously good genetic engineering tech are in.

Also, ABANDON GALAXY, WE'RE GOING UNDER!

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TIME TO TOTAL EXODUS: 5 months
ROBO-REAPER CONSTRUCTION RATE: 60,000/month (accounting for sabotage)
Total Reaper Count: 4,450,858/5,000,000 starting (accounting for Robo-Reaper production)
Trump Card stockpile remaining: 11,500,000/12,000,000
Arks 1-200 launched
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Ark 1 was the first Ark to be built, and it was the 1st Ark to be launched. All 1,000,000,000 of its stasis tubes were full, with an additional 30,000,000,000 AIs and Uploads in its servers. In accordance with obscurity protocols, it would be making a burn towards the galactic core for 2,500 Alliance standard lightyears before adjusting its vector to bring it to the Triangulum Galaxy. This wouldn't be a problem due to its advanced magnetic ram-scoops collecting interstellar (and later intergalactic) hydrogen to fuel its immense fusion reactor and torch engine.

As Garrus entered the stasis capsule, he thought about his life leading up to this. He'd spent 5 years working at a dead-end job in C-sec, followed by his sudden evacuation from the Citadel, and then he'd reserved a spot on Ark 1 for himself and his family. He was leaving from the Jericho system, and he wanted to make absolutely sure that he'd be around to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that the next cycle didn't go as planned for the Reapers. That was why he'd scratched a sign on his stasis tube reading "do not wake me until the Reapers are losing." He joined roughly 5,000,000 others who did the same.

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Alliance Gateway system Aurora
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System Defense Coordinator 17438 (A consensus of 71,000 Geth) was buried underneath 5 km of armor and a 15-layer energy screen. 'He' most certainly DID NOT desire to repeat the grisly fate of Vabrakir Churmi. Therefore, as 50,000 Reapers entered the system 17438's immediate response was to order EVERYTHING in the system to fire EVERYTHING. 24,000 Trump Cards downrange killed a full 30,000 Reapers, and made a region of space several light-seconds across briefly resemble a supernova. Annihilaser kills destroyed another 2,117 Reapers. Then, as the Reapers recovered from the devastating Alpha-strike the Annihilasers fired again killing another 2,117 Reapers.

The remaining 15,766 Reapers retaliated , and they didn't bother with the Cycle-Breakers. The Reapers instead targeted the true threat, the swarm of 4,000 Cruisers, allocating 24 shots per cruiser, with some receiving 18. As the Cruisers died the Cycle-Breakers continued firing in vain, but they could only kill 117 Reapers per volley on their own. Soon the Cycle-Breakers died too, firing one last volley in defiance. 17438 was eventually located and unceremoniously wiped from existence.

Author's Note: It figured that eventually the Reapers would wise up to the Alliance's strategy of using massive, ridiculously-hard-to-destroy ships to draw fire off the true weapon of the massive Cruiser swarm.

NOW SHUT UP ABOUT HUMANS BEING OP IN THIS FIC BECAUSE IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FOR THE ALLIANCE FROM HERE!

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Alliance Checkpoint system Richter
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As 20,000 Reapers entered the Richter system, the immediate response was to apply the local defense cluster of BPXRLs. The Richter system had a full 5,000,000 of them. To achieve 1 gigaton of yield on-target you need to point approximately 60 50 megaton BPXRLs at them. Each Reaper is usually allocated roughly 2 gigatons to destroy, meaning that 120 BPXRLs were allocated to each Reaper. 120*20,000=2,400,000 this means that all 20,000 Reapers were mopped up with little fuss at the LOW, LOW PRICE OF HALF THE ENTIRE DEFENSE CLUSTER!

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Alliance R&D
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"As you can see here, the main problem we face is that Dakka is more important than the power of a single shot in this case, and Annihilasers don't lend themselves to dakka very well."

"In other news, the Salarians are supplying us with their fast-priming Annihilaser systems."

"That's only a partial solution, I vote that the new cruiser mk. Has a 5-barreled Gatling version of that, maybe 4."

"We can probably manage the 5-barreled Gatling Annihilaser, but asking for 4 of them on 1 ship is just too much"

"We are also giving them 4-layer energy screens."

"Production can begin in 1 month."

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Alliance Checkpoint system Oort
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The Oort system hadn't actually been founded before the BPXRL production lines had closed down, meaning that instead it had been equipped with 20,000 Annihilaser platforms. These platforms mounted 20 Annihilasers with the new fast-prime systems and had 3-layer energy screens in addition to 100 meters of ablative armor. This meant that each platform could fire 4 shots per second. It takes 2 Annihilaser shots from a cruiser-scale Annihilaser to destroy a Reaper on average. This meant each Annihilaser platform in the Oort system could kill 2 Reapers per second.

That meant that without light-lag mopping up the 120,000 Reapers that had just arrived would have taken about 3 seconds. As it was with light-lag the process took about a minute. This also lead to the destruction of 3,000 Annihilaser platforms.

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Alliance Deep Space Asset Tartarus
(rogue gas giant near Tau Ceti)
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This rogue gas giant had been a center for Alliance weapons testing ever since the Alliance had developed FTL. It was also mined for light elements to fuel generation 3 fusion reactors, which also served the dual purpose of producing heavy elements for manufacturing (and eezo synthesis) purposes. Tartarus thus had a thriving industrial base capable of producing just about anything without any outside help whatsoever. At present the Tartarus research team was testing a modified mini-relay (created with the assistance of the revived Protheans) for use as a cannon capable of delivering a Teraton of firepower every second at projectile velocities of 1,000,000,000,000 c while using nothing but inert rocks for ammunition. Other projects included a prototype eezo reactor capable of violating conservation of energy (they knew it was possible thanks to the Relays and Reapers) and an FTL sensor (the !#$%ing device was working, things just weren't showing up in the right place!).

As the 15 meter long weapon fired, a lance of what appeared to be blue light streaked across space and slammed into the small moonlet that was being used for a target. 3 milliseconds later the moonlet was a rapidly expanding cloud of debris. By rapidly I meant at 0.3c.

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I'm still looking for OC aliens BTW!