Author's Update
I'm glad that some people thought this would be a good story idea and I did have some really good concepts I want to try out, but there is another Gears story I want to try. It's a crossover of Gears and Mass Effect and it takes place during the Swarm Crisis. It begins shortly after the end of the Gears 5 campaign (side note, for the ending, I chose to save JD, Marcus has been through enough shit, he didn't deserve to lose his son too, as much I liked Del's character, I couldn't do that to Marcus), and it focuses on a Cog squad instead of a single Gear. The leader of this squad is the son of Clayton Carmine, Ford Carmine who is an Onyx Guard Captain and the 'Swarm Killer,' having earned that name after charging head long into a small hive basically slaughtering the entire hive alone, after a close friend is captured by a Snatcher. Another thing to note, I'm making the squad have similar roles to Horde Classes. Also, I will have some roles and classes overlap with each other, for example, Ford will be a combination of Veteran, Tactician, and Infiltrator. Being an Onyx soldier and all, this seems like a good combination. The squad will also get their own JACK unit, gonna bring back DAVE.
Getting back to the story, Ford is essentially tasked to check out a lab in Vasgar and see if there is any tech or information that the COG could use to help fight the Swarm. So basically Ford, and three squad mates work together and go to the lab and find a lot of information, but also a ton of samples of creatures that used to inhabit the hollow, Imulsion that had been preserved and experimented on by the Vasgari during the Pendulum Wars, and a huge Swarm Hive that had a huge number of dumped Locust Beasts, lead by an Armored Kantus (I actually had the idea to call a Locust Kantus that is now affiliated with the Swarm a Fanatic, and have different types of Kanti).
Basically, this particular Armored Kantus would have been Skorge's replacement, taking elements from Skorge, Raam, and Ukkon. Basically, the physicality of Skorge, the military leadership of Raam, and the scientific intelligence of Ukkon. But I digress.
My idea is to have Ford and his squad get cornered by this Armored Kantus, and find a prototype Hammer of Dawn in this lab that is regrettably unstable. After getting a lot of intel, and finding out that the computers were actually linked to the new COG system, they try to escape, but the H.O.W. prototype goes critical and causes a chain reaction with the stored Imulsion, and ends catapulting Ford and his squad to another galaxy. Specifically, the Mass Effect Galaxy.
I'm still trying to decide when to have the story begin, I'm going in between Mass Effect 1 and 2. I feel like 2 would be a safer bet, but I'm not sure. In any case, this is my alternative Gears crossover story idea. I'm a little more hesitant to do this story, mainly because I'm not very familiar with Mass Effect and also because of how long the game is. But I'd like to hear your response to this idea.
Good? Not good? Should try it? Or stick with the stories I have? Also, I'm thinking of pairing Ford with an OC Quarian. Being a Carmine and never taking off his helmet, I thought it might fit with a Quarian who live in environment suits.
In any case, this is my idea, just an abridged and shortened idea. I'll do a trailer shortly after this update to showcase my idea/vision for this, but I'd like to hear what you think of my idea first.
