Oh shit, a Xel'naga artifact, I should have seen it coming. Now Me and my forces have been teleported alongside the entire solar system, Not that much of it survived anyway Earth was shattered into a million pieces and Mars was barely in one of the moons weren't any better and non of the gaseous planets survived. Luckily much of my fleet had managed to survive and those who didn't would be consumed for biomass. The Protoss Armada had suffered major losses but was mostly intact
While most of my ground forces were destroyed, my commanders survived or at least their consciences did. I tried to scan for any psionic signals but there was none. That was unusual but I had more concerns right now. I sent my Voidlings to search for a planet to infest. Three days later they found one and we set course, although I still couldn't detect any form of psionics at all or any nearby Zerg broods which was scary, considering the sector was supposed to be littered with Zerg. Was it somehow that the blast blast wiped out every single being here. If so how did and my Zerg survive.
All of my questions were answered when we were within distance of the planet. It was a typical goldilocks world within the perfect distance of its sun. Temperatures not too high or low as the Protoss scans showed. A perfect place to rebuild. However Protoss probes and my overlords indicated something else. Hundreds of ships, most of them were relatively small and seemed old. But more telling was the symbol painted on most of them. The blood pack symbol from the mass effect games. Which meant the Xel'naga device transported me to another universe. Well at least here I didn't have to worry about some angry god alien trying to destroy all life. I know have to worry about an entire race of Machine Cthulhu Aliens trying to destroy all life. Before I could do anything though, I needed to settle down so I could figure out my next step. And so my weakened but still massive fleet emerged from dark space.
Planet Raimos
Yesterday everything seemed fine, thought commander Gatatog Kenax of the blood pack. Ever since he left that radiated craphole of a homeworld, his only goal in life was to earn some credits doing what he did best, killing people. For the last century joining the blood pack allowed him just that and he rose through the ranks until he got promoted to a commander, if you count killing the previous commander a promotion. A few weeks ago, he and his group were hired to put down a worker uprising on a Terminus mining world. The world was ruled by a Ruthless group Asari with connections in Illum, so the pay was high. They would have been done in less than a day but those damn rebels never seemed to stay dead. No problem this meant a higher pay. All this went to hell though when those monsters showed up. Massive ships that darkened the skies and rained down some of the nastiest creatures he had ever seen, which was saying something. No matter he would defeat him or else he would be a vorcha.
The planet fell quickly, for all the ferocity of the blood pack , they were nothing but mercenaries and not that well equipped. They would have fallen sooner if not for the massive number of Vorcha. Still Even now as my new body gestated on the planet's surface I pondered my options. The large presence of Blood pack here indicated that I was outside of Citadel space or at least at the fringes of it.
On one hand that meant that I was in unfamiliar ground. Not much has been really said about the inhabitants of the Terminus in the games ( aside from Omega ) , but what was shown indicated that it was full of pirates, slavers and generally unpleasant people.
On the other hand this represents new possibilities. The Terminus is isolated from the citadel council meaning I am unlikely to come across any true citadel army. And even if I were to do something to warrant their attention, they would be too reluctant to intervene lest they provoke the Terminus systems into war. A perfect place to grow my army. And boy was I going to need to fight the reapers .
But first things first I need to establish a base of operations. From what I could glean from the minds consumed and from the thoughts of inhabitants, this was a backwater mining world. Recently discovered and barley known to the wider galaxy.
As I emerge from my cocoon, I take a minute to appreciate my new body. It wasn't as impressive as the queen of blades but it will do, a streamlined blend of human and Zerg and a little of Protoss mixed in .
Through the eyes of my Zerg I saw something peculiar, a lone Krogan warrior who was was wrestling a Hydralisk. Normally I would dismiss it and have the nearby reaper finish him off but I noticed some resemblance to a certain krogan from mass effect 2. I had the reaper to unlethaly knock him out psionically. He could prove useful.
The skirmish(it could hardly be called a war , at least for us ), lasted for less than a day. And the ending was sadly anti climatic, as the survivors in the last city simply surrendered. When the Asari owners to this world objected, they were gagged and handed over to me.
The population here was small, mostly Salarians and Turians, with the odd Volus here and there. Overall despite technically owning this world the Asari represented less than 5% of the total population. Still they would serve me well and I could always clone more. And of course there was the krogan and vorcha forces trapped here.
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"Do you know why you are here " asked the creature surprisingly polite. Visinlea D'biesan was relatively young by asari standards , now barely in her matron stage, but she had traveled a lot and most of the Galaxy had to offer. She killed almost people of every species in the galaxy and also had sex with them. But never before had she seen a species like this.
"No" . And
"Wonderful" as his face neared hers. His jaws unhinged, revealing a horrible looking proboscis. This was her end, this was punishment for all her crimes, the least she could do is face it with dignity like any asari. But then the creature just started laughing.
"Relax I am fucking with you"
To be continued.