Mass Effect: Singularity Effect: Origins and First Contact

Sol was a backwater, an inhabited backwater in an Eezo dry cluster found by the Protheans. It was about two and a half days of FTL travel from the nearest relay of Arcturus and it would be the Protheans revenge

For here they left only a message and left the system. The message was left in pictures, Prothean text, and Sumerian

The structure was named the Prothean Monolith after its location and only said

"We came. We watched. We studied you, hoping to bring you into our empire

But then THEY came. THEY destroyed us. THEY seek to destroy even we few remaining here

THEY will continue looking for us here so we are leaving so THEY will not know of you, nor this star system

Trust not the Gates which act as roads to the Castle for THEY can close them whenever they want

Trust not the Castle for it is the hidden barracks from whence THEY came

Avenge Us. Avenge those who were alongside us. Avenge those who came before us. Avenge those who may yet come after us"

What was known as The Message quickly united humanity in the face of the destroyers. Over the next ten thousand years, Humanity grew, expanded, and prepared for the destroyers

Eventually, the increasingly large population became a problem so the process of uploading was created to transfer human consciousnesses perfectly at the cost of the original brain as to make it not a process of killing and cloning. This was called uploading

The Bio-assembler was created soon after to create new human bodies out of basic chemicals. Inspired by this, the fabricator was created to create nonorganic materials and when used in conjunction with a Bio-assembler, techo-organic material

The shell was created around Sol which acted as multiple stellar lifting stations, virtual habitats, and massive arrays of fabricators to provide almost half of human industrial power

The other came from using nanobots to harvest the asteroid belt and the Oort cloud

Humanity would send out generation ships to the nearby Alpha Centauri and Benard systems where new shells were created and inter shell communications were created using quantum entanglement

After two thousand more years slowly expanding through generation ships, FTL was finally created using the singularity drive and the first portal gate which sent a tight beam laser through a wormhole to allow inter shell transport

The Singularity generator was the core of FTL and many other technologies such as artificial gravity, kinetic shields, gamma-ray burst generators, warp weapons weaponizing gravitational forces, personal gravity control known as kinetics, and portal rings of all sizes

The Singularity Drive creates a singularity that is used to expand space behind the ship and contract in the front. The long theoretical warp drive was created and capable of 180 light-years per day. This revolutionized travel as over the next one thousand nine hundred years humanity began rapidly exploring, expanding, and leaving behind portal rings for instant ship level transit through their traversable wormholes

This was when the one-kilometer long exploration ship Unusual Findings, a standard exploration ship equipped with a warp drive to explore the universe as well as keeping watch for signs of the destroyers, found humanity's first gate, better known as a mass relay

Captain Anderson looked in front of the command simdeck and saw the object in front of him and everyone on the ship knew and feared the shape and what the object before them was. There was no doubt, it was a gate "We must notify Sol command immediately, we found a gate!"

Commander Shepard looked to be in thought "Do you think we should use it? We could use it to travel to the castle and destroy it and the barracks along with it?" he knew as well as anyone that the message said that all gates are roads that lead to the castle.

Captain Anderson looked over "I suppose that plan makes the most sense, I'll put it in my report." he said, sending all databases to the Sol shell via micro wormhole laser transmission.

The shell network was in an uproar, all trying to decide what to do now that they finally found a gate. In the Sol shell within a simulation modeled after a dark meeting room, the Transhuman council meet to discuss this very issue

Military, a faceless man in an old fashioned general's uniform who was responsible for all Transhuman war assets, the collective will of man in matters of war, then spoke up "I agree with commander Shepard's plan, we should blow up the Castle and the barracks that are hidden within"

Industry, a faceless woman wearing a victorian/steampunk outfit covered in moving gears and cogs who was responsible for all industries and was the gestalt aspect of tinkering, innovation, industry, building, creation, and progression then interjected "all twelve total shells have been outputting war material at maximum capacity and all eight partial shells have accelerated construction efforts ever since we came upon the gate in the Arcturus system." "However, we cannot know for certain if destroying the Castle and its barracks will permanently eliminate the destroyer threat."

Science, a faceless man wearing a lab coat who was responsible for all research and development assets and was the gestalt apect of the natural curiosity of man and the human drive to improve themselves and discover all the secrets of the universe spoke up "We've been looking at the scans of the gate and thanks to radioactive dating we've discovered it's over billions of years old, and that's to mention nothing of the strange gravitic readings given off by the gate itself"

Casual, a faceless woman in a simple t-shirt and jeans who was responsible for all entertainment and was the gestalt aspect of entertainment, fulfillment, and happiness then spoke in a worried tone "That's not a good sign, that means the destroyers have been doing this for a very long time"

Leadership, a faceless man in a fancy, metallic tuxedo with ever-present, dense streams of data radiating off his head like a golden halo of old earth religions then spoke and all talking ceased under the weight and power behind the strongest aspect of transhumanity. "I agree with Military, we should send the Unusual Findings to set off a singularity missile to destroy the Castle and the barracks. But even after this, we must remain vigilant as the destroyers may have backup barracks elsewhere"

The Simdeck of the Unusual Findings

Captain Anderson then spoke to his entire crew "We've got orders, we are to go through the gate to the Castle and launch a missile with a singularity bomb to destroy it. Try and send a ghost to activate it."

As the Ghosts activated the relay to head to its central location the crew looked on at the sight in front of them cautiously as the relay activated and began spinning rapidly. Soon enough, they went in seeing a tunnel of light blue before coming out of what they assumed to be a destroyer portal ring equivalent for a sight that complicated everything. The Castle was inhabited and thousands of unknown alien ships bearing similar gravitic anomalies to the gate swarmed around it like a hive.

Captain Anderson looked at the information feed in exasperation "This mission just got a lot more complicated."