In a universe where a scheduling error results in a drastically different humanity then canon. Multiple human empires and spaceborne states square off against eachother and the universe at large in equal parts. How is the universe effected by a divided humanity? As lines are drawn, and war always is looming on the horizon.

Relay 314 has been opened - the first in many hundreds of years, marking the dawn of a new age. The Council hadn't anticipated to find much; dust on the solar wind, or perhaps even a habitable world or two. They expected to find peace - hoped for it, really. But it wasn't to be so. The Council found humanity split. They found a civil war. AU First Contact

Reach, the greatest fortress of Humanity, and last bastion before Earth. Torn from all it has known and brought to a crossroads between potential friend and foe, mere strength alone will not be enough for it to thrive.

The cold war never ended it simply spread to the stars. Humans have never been more united but the division is still there. In the face of Galatic politics how will humanity fair? MAD still exists and now the Citadel must deal with a race that preaches it. The powder keg that is humanity is waiting for the spark of war. Who will ignite it? Beta needed

High school changes even the strongest of friendships. Four teenagers learned this lesson the hard way. Now, at the start of their junior year, they're completely different people than they were all those years ago. Watch as the universe steps back in and tries to right a wrong made by four students who thought that they had the world all figured out. (A Lucaya and Riarkle story)

In 2157 a Citadel Council exploratory vessel is tasked with opening a dormant Relay into unknown regions of the galaxy. What they find is something they never expected. What happens when two civilizations centered around different technologies clash?

The UNSC Wotan is the finest ship ever built by human hands. But now its crew faces the greatest challenge of their lives. Trapped in a strange land, they must survive and try to find a way home in a dark galaxy where there is only war.