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Azi Jin: Indeed the beacon on Mars contained blueprints and plans for SW Armor Ships weapons etc. In the grand scheme of things it changed everything but at the same time nothing. Humanity United but until a threat is found we will still occasionally fight eachother. There is no force so no new Religion. One thing I can tell you right now is that Human Cars drive on the road, flying Cars are a deathtrap and that's it. The Timeline doesn't change much, the Citadel was stuck in technological stagnation prior and after Sovereign attacked the Citadel only then did some real technological progress happen but stopped right after. The protheans on the other hand were a very aggressive race and as such had a massive leap in technology over the Citadel since War is the driving force for technological development. Besides a few more ships on Citadel side and more Human colonies and ships not much changed. Some characters were born later for convenience's sake.
April 2nd 2234, Mars, Olympus Mons complex
Alliance Fleet Command, or FLEETCOM for short, was in something you could call controlled chaos. Everyone was running around and shouting but they did it with purpose.
"We have to mobilize everything! For all we know we might be in the fight for our very Survival, this is what the Alliance was created for!" yelled out one Admiral Bismarck
"I agree, my fleet is the closest and I can be there withing 2 days without waiting for all my ships a, a week if I wait for all ships to arrive and take on the necessary supplied" Said admiral Drescher
"What if we can still salvage this, maybe it is some misunderstanding that we can tal-"
"Miss Prime Minister, you cant be serious, a Human colony is currently being bombarded from orbit and you want to talk with the ones bombing our countrymen. You have to order a full Mobilization, be ready to switch to a war economy!" said Admiral Hazama
"But the Civilian-"
"The Civilian population is in panic, prime minister, if they learn that you ordered the Alliance to do nothing while Aliens attack Shanxi not only will you be kicked out of office by the population of earth you will also probably be executed for treason against humanity. We have to face the situation for what it is. Humanity is at war with as of yet unknown entity, they might be stronger than us but it is our Duty to fight against them even if it means certain death" calmly said General Howards
For a moment the Prime Minister stayed silent, thinking calmly about her next move "Alright I will order full mobilization. Shanxi must be saved no matter the cost"
"On that we can agree Prime Minister" said Admiral Bismarck. The Prime Minister disconnected leaving the Admirals and Generals to talk alone. "By the time Drescher arrives with her fleet the enemy will probably control large amounts of ground, Williams is unlikely to hold out for long with his forces on Shanxi as it is the colony was understaffed. We will need ground forces, which Legion is the closest to full strength?"
"That Would be my 501st Legion, we are at 84% combat readiness if we would receive that shipment of AT-TEs and the Mk2. Armor we would be at 100%." Said General Skywalker
"My Fleet has 6 Acclimators, more then enough for the 501st to load up and still have room for supplies for Williams and the colony" Said Drescher
"Skywalker regroup with Drescher and move unto Shanxi once her fleet is fully assembled, I will try to get you those supplies but with Mobilization that will be hard"
"Try not to kill everyone Drescher, we need prisoners if we are to know what we are up against" said Admiral Hazama
"No promises Hazama" replied Drescher as she disconnected. Followed by everyone else.
"Send Priority Message to all Alliance Military Personnel: Shanxi under attack by alien forces, full mobilization in order. Winter Contingency[1] in effect"
April 9th 2234, Shanxi System
"We received the translation matrix from Shanxi Command Admiral!"
"Broadcast on all frequencies and cross your fingers the Bird fuckers are listening" Drescher waited for a moment while her comms officer did as ordered and gave her a nod "To all Turian forces in System, surrender now and you will be spared. Or don't and then we will have a problem to settle"
"No Response Admiral, the Fleet in orbit is moving full steam to us however" responded her Bridge officer.
"Tell the Venators to deploy their airwings, everything is to be ready once they are in range. All ships are to heat up their torpedoes and is to launch them once in range followed by a Ion salvo from all ships and instantly open up with our Heavy Octuple Turrets. Concentrate fire on the closest ship, Save the largest one for boarding!" she barked out orders to her fleet and was happy to see as her holotable was filled with new signatures emerging from the Venators that soon were identified as the X-Wings and Y-Wings. "Cruisers move to Echo Formation"
Drescher watched on her Holotable as the enemy fleet moved close and closer, just a bit more and they would be in range "Skywalker, make a break for the planet the moment and opening is there. Make sure my cruisers survive escorting your sorry ass"
"Always the charmer Drescher, I will try my best"
The Turian ships opened fire first proving to have the range advantage of a few thousand kilometers. Some shots hit and some missed but then her own ships got in range and fired their torpedoes, the airwings from the Venators followed close behind the Torpedoes.
Before the torpedoes even hit the Ion salvo from the Venators and the Alliance class[2] happened and then their main turbolasers opened fire. The Turinas were holding a numerical advantage of 3:1 against her fleet. Which was proving a problem especially with the Turian ships being very fast, her cruiser escort was doing its best but as she expected wasn't doing as good of a job against such a large fleet.
Soon enough as the Fleet got into knife fighting range 12 Turian ships made a mistake and instead of flying under her flagship they flew above it, she allowed herself a small smile to creep unto her face as she watched them being ripped apart by her Turbolaser emplacements. As the combat information streamed in she saw Skywalker pull away from her fleet and make his way to the planet at full power. "Order all lifeboats to land on Shanxi in proximity of New Peking, our forces on the planet will recover them"
She made that decision as she lost her first cruiser. Enemy point defense has proven good so she relocated part of her Bombers and a few fighters to support Ground Ops. She watched as both her numbers dwindled as well as the enemies, it just that the Turian ships were destroyed at a faster rate then hers. Their Shields proving ineffective at holding even light Turbolasers at bay.
From the Original Fleet size of 159 vs her 52, not including the 501st and their Aclimators, they were down to 62 and 45 respectively. The Turians were realizing this as some ships started to pull back. In particular the largest ship, as such she gave the order for her Fighters and Bombers to disable that ship as fast as possible, least they allow it to escape.
After 20 minutes the ship was disabled and the retreating ships stopped to protect it but as her fleet got closer that idea was more and more suicidal and the Turian commander realized that aswell "This is admiral Kandros to human Admiral Drescher, we surrender"
"Admiral Kandros, order your ships to move into Orbit of Shanxi and order your ships to power down, any ship found not doing so will be treated as hostile and destroyed"
She watched as the Turians did as told and allowed herself to relax a bit, moving her Victories to planetary support role as the rest of her fleet, with the expectation of her Venators that also moved to planetary support, surrounded the Turian ships
Shanxi surface
Hannah regained her consentience but instantly wanted to be knocked out again, her head was killing her and she was having a hard time remembering what happened. It took her a while to remember that her cruiser was overwhelmed and the evacuation order was given. She looked around the pod and to her horror found she was the only survivor inside, worse yet she hit her head hard enough for it to start bleeding.
Opening the survival kit she grabbed a bandage and a bit of bacta before applying it to her head, wrapping it around and taking the DC-15S from inside the weapons locker. As she was preparing to leave she froze in place. She heard movement and voices from the outside. Fearing for the worst she raised the blaster at the door and waited patiently until it opened and a head looked in.
Luckily for both sides she didn't have the fastest reflex with a blaster so she didn't immediately fire on the head which turned out to be the Helmet from the Mk2. Armor, "Navy person, you alright?" asked the head.
"As alright as I can be after hitting my head and being rescued by some ground pounder." She relied as she reached her hand out to get out.
The Soldier grabbing the hand pulled her up "The pleasure is all mine, hope you enjoy shanxi this time of year, we have ash and rubble everywhere just for you milady"
She furrowed her brows as she heard the last remark "Call me that one more time and I will not hesitate to shot"
"Alright miss ?"
"Hannah, call me Hannah"
"Alright Hannah, I am James and you had the misfortune on landing inside the only remaining skyscraper in this sector so everyone saw that landing. Me and my men were rigging up explosives right as you crashed through our ceiling"
"So what do we do?" she asked.
"We get the hell out of here. While you, you just hold onto me" he said as he attached a rope to his rifle and shot it into the ground. Realizing what he wanted to do Hannah grabbed unto him before both of them jumped out of the no ruined window rappelling their way to the ground soon joined by other soldiers doing the same.
Hannah screamed the whole way down as not only were they rappelling down but they were rappelling down in a active war zone with blaster bolts and bullets flying through the Air while Alliance X-Wings and Turian fighters fought above them.
When they reached the ground, Hannah let go of James and went on all fours as the strength in her legs left her. That didn't last long as James grabbed her be her collar and dragged her behind some rubble saying "Don't pass out just yet, the fun begins now" as both of them hid behind the rubble James peaked out giving of a few shots and ducking back behind cover.
"So what now?" asked Hannah, she could swear she heard the soldier give her a small laugh before saying.
"Now we pray to whatever god we all believe in and hope we survive" he finished as he pulled out a detonator and Hannah's eyes widened. Before she could object he pressed the detonator and the building they were in previously started to tilt and eventually fall down covering the entire area in dust. "What do you think about the famous Shanxi air?" he asked sarcastically.
"I think *cough* I will kill you if we get out of here alive *cough*" replied Hannah
"If we do drinks are on me" he said peaking out of cover to fire of a few shots.
Hannah watched as he fell back with a resounding crack and a hole in his chest plate. Grabbing him by his arm she dragged him behind the ruble as some squad mates arrived to the place.
James coughed loudly before taking his helmet off and spiting out some blood. Hannah had a face to put to a name now unfortunately that face has blood spilling out of the mouth now. The man that ran up to them was a medic that told her what to do as he fired of his blaster at the enemy while another was yelling on the radio. Apparently, space was cleared out and not only were reinforcements on their way but also air support.
Cutting the black bodyglove she took out a bandage and wrapped it around the bullet wound before grabbing the DC-15 that James was using and shooting a Turian that got too close for comfort.
April 12th 2234, Serpent Nebula, Citadel
Councilor Tevos had a very, very bad week. First was the report of a whole turian patrol fleet dropping of the grid and the reports of a large Turian fleet moving out into unknown space. Her fellow Councilor claimed he knew nothing but just as any Turian he was a terrible liar and Tevos saw straight through him. So she kept pushing until he finally broke and said that he will talk with the primarch of palaven.
He did indeed talk to him and now called both Tevos and the Salarian Councilor a Dalatrass that she wouldn't bother remember the name of. The Turian council forwarded both of them files to their omni-tools that both opened and Tevos felt her vein burst as she read.
The Turians had a first contact scenario. A very bloody first contact as from the reports before they lost contact, they reported 6 thousand losses on the ground alone. Thinking they found a species that was just leaving their planet and attempting to open a Mass Relay they fired, claiming they were upholding Citadel Law, a law that this new species didn't know existed. Mistaking a Colony for the species Homeworld they send a subjugation fleet their way and were defeated once the species send reinforcements. Last report was of a enemy fleet entering system.
Tevos massaged her forehead as she tried to contain the headache that was growing stronger by the second. That was until the Turian councilor tried saying something to justify the Turian action, that caused Tevos to explode. "Do you Turians have any idea what you just did!?"
"You damned Imperialists gave the new Species the first impression that the council will have a very hard time trying to rectify and attempting to bring them into the Citadel will now be close to impossible for the foreseeable future! This is exactly the reason that the Asari handle first contact and not you brutes!"
Phew, there goes the 2nd chapter within 1 day of posting the story, hope you enjoy.
Next chapter will be the conclusion of the War on Shanxi and the beginning of the council meeting Humanity.
[1] Winter Contingency is an order in the Alliance Military for all Active Military and Reserve personnel to move to pre-decided staging areas and Fortifications. All Planetary Garrisons are to be put on full alert and the Frontier Colonies to be reinforced
[2] The Alliance is a modified version of the ISD II found in the Mars archives. For one the overexposed bridge and shield generators were hidden inside of the hull and the reactor housing raised to remove the weak spot on the underbelly of the ship. Secondly was the addition of point defense lasers by Alliance engineers