Author's Note: As I have made clear, writing Envirosuits and Doobies was fucking EXHAUSTING, and it's the longest thing I'll ever write.
But I've been feeling hyperactively creative lately, and I don't want to abandon the world I made forever. So I think I'm going take a page out of Jade Tatsu's book and keep expanding on it with one-shots. They could be set at any point in the story, and won't come with any regular frequency. This fic is also highly unlikely to ever have a "complete" tag.
But hey, I don't want to leave you guys hanging!
-e&d-
One-Shot: The Communes of Earth
The communes of Earth were strange places.
They were an inevitable result of the quarian's disastrous uplifting process. The 1960s had been frozen in time, and there had never been any effort to establish a unified culture in the way that there often had been other species.
As a result, the communes often DESPISED one another. There were anarchist communes, Christian fundamentalist communes, hippie communes...you name a lifestyle, and there was a small community devoted to it.
The Reapers had changed all of that.
They still hated each other. They still despised each others' ways of life. But for one moment, that had agreed to put their differences aside for the sake of the galaxy.
And so with the Memorial Station Armistice, they had all been accepted into ranks of the Interstellar Defense Force. Conservative had fought alongside communist, anarchist alongisde statist. And after the defeat of the Reapers, they all celebrated for weeks together.
Then they went right back to hating each other, obviously.