The Battle of Solcrum:

The Normandy had soon made it back to the Gagarin System and had once again docked with the Chimera. Shepard had gone to see Grand Admiral Thrawn to give him the data they had recovered from the Geth Bases. Shepard was soon asked to go to Thrawn's office as he had something to tell him.

Thrawn's office was guarded by a trooper who had asked to see Shepard's code cylinder before entering, Thrawn was known for being careful and had everyone inspected before entering. After Shepard's code cylinder had been analysed, she entered Thrawn's office.

In Thrawn's office, Shepard saw Thrawn had decorated his office with paintings and artwork of many different species of the Republic, Thrawn was known for being a collector of artwork. He said that much can be learnt about a species through their artwork but Shepard could never understand that like Thrawn could. Shepard saw Thrawn in a small room to the side practicing hand to hand combat with several DT-series Sentry droids, a very strong training droid used for training and for combat.

As soon as Thrawn saw Shepard enter, he looked at the Droids "Override Code, Rukh" he said and the droids shut down.

Shepard went into the office while Thrawn went to get changed and saw Commander Pellaeon was already in the room "Commander Shepard." He greeted "Do you know why Thrawn asked to see you?"

"My guess is that he's discovered something with the data he recovered." Shepard replied

"You are correct in your guess." Thrawn said as he came out of the room fixing the sleeve on his white jacket. "With an analysis of the data you've recovered, I now know where the Geth are based." He went to his desk and activated the hologram "The data you recovered on Rayingri shows that the Geth are building something but we don't know what yet. But combined with the data from the other bases, it pinpoints the location of where the Geth are." He activated the hologram and revealed several beams which came together "This is the direction of the transmission from Antibaar and this is projected path of the Geth fleet being sent here. Separately they mean nothing, but together they pinpoint the location of where the Geth are. It seems the Geth are amassing above the moon of Solcrum in the Grissom system."

"So you know where the Geth are." Shepard questioned

"I do." Thrawn smiled "But I do not know their strength yet. So far the Seventh Fleet had dealt with a few small groups of Geth Warships but never a fully established fleet. I don't rush into battles unaware. Before I can send the fleet, I need to know more about what's going on. And this is where you come in; your ship the Normandy has state of the art stealth technology that can get close to the Geth without getting caught."

"It does." Shepard replied "As long as we don't get too close that they can see us through vision."

"Well, I need you to go to Solcrum and get a look at what's where. Then I can plan the attack which is why I'm going with you."

"Admiral, are you sure?" Pellaeon questioned

"I am sure." Thrawn replied "After all, if I see it in person, I'll know what we will be up against and then I can plan our attack."

"As you wish Admiral." Shepard replied "I'll meet you on the Normandy when you're ready to depart."

"I think we should head off right away." Thrawn stated "The quicker we head off, the sooner I can plan our attack."

Shepard and Thrawn went to the Normandy where Shepard informed the crew that the Grand Admiral will be travelling with them for a scouting mission. Many were worried about Thrawn's presence as he was a high ranking officer in the Republic and they had to make a good impression on him. But soon the Normandy was heading off to the Grisson System and to locate the Geth Fleet.

...

While the Normandy was travelling towards the Grisson System, Shepard went down to the engineering deck and learnt that Thrawn was down there talking with Adams and Tali. It seemed he was getting information about the Geth and the Normandy's Stealth Systems. Shepard remembered the talk they had before and knew that they would have to drop from hyperspace some distance away before they could engage the Stealth Systems and they would have to leave before the tanks were filled.

Shepard saw Ashley was nervous and went to speak with her "Hey Ash." She greeted "You seem nervous?"

"I am Shepard." Ashley admitted "Having a high ranking member of Republic Command on board makes me nervous. I'm worried about disappointing him and making my own career even worse."

Shepard was confused "What do you mean by that?" she asked

Ashley sighed "I never mentioned this before but this is the first time I've been stationed on some kind of space. Despite being a skilled soldier, I was also posted on planet garrisons and was always doing small patrols. I worked hard in training but everyone just pushed me around because of my grandfather."

"You grandfather?" Shepard questioned

"Yes." Ashley replied "My family comes from a long line of soldiers. I can trace ancestors who have fought in the Mandalorian Wars and the Zygerian wars. My family have collections of medals that my ancestors won but none of them matter. Most people remember my family for my Grandfather, General Thomas Williams."

"Wait, wasn't Thomas Williams the commander of the Shanxi Garrison?" Shepard questioned

"He was indeed." Ashley responded "It was under his command that the Shanxi garrison collapsed at the start of the war and even though he encouraged Resistance against the Turians, many lives were lost and he got the blame."

Shepard now realised something, now she understood why Ashley seemed to have a dislike of the Citadel "So that's why you weren't too fond of letting the Citadel people on board."

"It was." Ashley admitted "After the war ended, my grandfather was used as a scapegoat by many. Although some defended his actions, he was disgraced by the press even though the courts found him innocent. My grandfather was forced to retire due to the backlash and its affects both mine and my father's careers, my father's never advanced past Serviceman Third Class because people blame my Grandfather. I always swore I would restore my family's name."

"I'm sure you will Ash." Shepard replied "There wasn't much you Grandfather could have done. We were facing unknowns at the time, I doubt even the most experienced commanders would have been able to prevent the occupation; Shanxi only had a small garrison and fleet against a massive Turian fleet. It's not easy to fight against those odds."

Ashley gave Shepard a smile "Thank you Shepard, for understanding. I won't let you or the Republic down."

Then Thrawn came into the room with Tali "Commander." He greeted "We should head to the Bridge, we should be arriving soon. Our Quarian friend can help us identify the Geth when we arrive."

Thrawn, Shepard and Tali then went up to the bridge as the Normandy prepared to arrive in the Grissom System.

...

The Grisson system was a small system with only three planets and two asteroid belts. There were two people who this system was named after since two people had the name and were famous for space. The first was Virgil Gus Grisson, the second American in space and the one of the astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 fire during a test. The second person was Jon Grisson who was also very famous; he was a war Veteran from the SDF War and became the first person to leave the Sol system in the early days of the Republic. His flight using the first human built Hyperdrive resulted in him travelling from the Sol System to the system where Arcturus Station was founded. He was important in the founding of the colony Benning and became famous for being the first human outside of the Sol system although he disliked the fame and stayed away from the media when he retired.

The first planet in the Grisson system was Benda, a planet that had a sea of molten rock and an atmosphere of sulphur dioxide and chlorine, the solar winds from the sun were also blasting away the atmosphere of this planet but not stop a scan from uncovering an ancient Salarian vessel and recovering a League of One Medallion. The second planet was known as Zaherux, a planet that was also having its atmosphere blown away by Solar winds creating a silver dust like surface. With several probes being lost over the years, theories have developed with one involving the idea that this planet was home to an advanced Alien species but no one knew for sure.

The final planet was a large hydrogen-Helium gas giant known as Notanban, the upper atmosphere was home to microorganisms that would die if exposed to the sun but that was not of any interest to the Normandy, it was the largest moon of Notanban that was, Solcrum. This moon had a trace atmosphere made of krypton and Xenon and had a crust made of various metals with deposits of sodium. Just like the other planets, Solcrum was scorching hot because of the heat from Grissom so any missions would require special heat suits. It was here that the Geth Fleet was located.

The Normandy exited hyperspace a distance away from Solcrum and then the Stealth drives were engaged so the Geth wouldn't be able to see them. The Normandy soon arrived at Solcrum and Shepard was shocked at what they saw.

Shepard, Thrawn and Tali were on the bridge of the Normandy and they looked at the Geth fleet that had gathered above Solcrum. There had to be nearly 100 Geth ships here including at least 10 Dreadnought size ships. Some of the ships did look more like transports as it seemed the Geth were indeed building something here. A large construction platform could be seen and the Geth seemed to be building a large space station.

"Tali?" Shepard questioned "Do you have idea what the Geth are building?"

Tali looked at what the Geth were building "In truth Shepard, I don't know, my best guess is that it's a Geth factory. The Geth are like a computer, even when we destroy Geth units, they just upload themselves into a new body. This station must be a factory for making Geth units but that is just my best guess."

"Even so, no matter what it is, that station is a danger to the Republic and must be destroyed." Thrawn stated "Thankfully I can find a weakness in that station."

"And what is that weakness?" Shepard questioned

"I do not know yet but if you study like I do, you can tell that this station is familiar." Thrawn stated "The shape of the station and the paint scheme shows that this station was not built from scratch. Rather it is a repurposed station that the Geth are using. Much quicker than building from scratch. They have taken a disused Medical station and are refitting it to create a base. Simply but effective."

"But how did the Geth get hold of one of our Medical stations?" Luke questioned

"The faded colours show that this station was abandoned at some point." Thrawn replied "It's most likely one left over from the Zygerian wars that the Republic just abandoned. It would have been close to Geth space for them to claim. This means I can look at the old designs to find a weak spot that we can exploit. I think we can head back to the Chimera now, I have a battle to plan."

"Take us back Joker." Shepard spoke

"Aye Commander." Joker replied at the Normandy soon left the Grissom system and went back to the Gagarin system so Thrawn could plan his attack.

...

A few days later, Shepard had been called to come to the briefing room of the Chimera. Thrawn had made his plan and now he was going to tell everyone of his plan to defeat the Geth at Solcrum.

The briefing room was massive, it was built to allow the High ranking officers of the fleet to gather in one room and hear what the Grand Admiral was going to say. There was a mix of Republic species in this room. The commanders of each task force of the Fleet were to hear the briefing and they weren't human. Shepard could see a Mon Calamari and a Twi'lek and a Togruta in the room and several other species. She didn't know their names but these were the commanders of the task force and often commander's one of the Star Destroyers or the Mon Calamari Star cruisers which were the capital ships of the Republic task forces. These commanders would give orders to the other ships in their task force but they would all obey the orders of Grand Admiral Thrawn. Shepard also saw the starfighter commanders in the room as well.

Once everyone was seated, Thrawn began his briefing "Our primary mission was to destroy the Geth threat to the Republic." He spoke "We don't know how massive the Geth are but we have located a Geth fleet that can do serious damage to the Republic and it must be destroyed. The Geth have gathered above the moon of Solcrum and they have constructed a space station using a decommissioned Haven Medical station. For the Republic to be safe, the fleet and this station must be destroyed. Now I know many of us believe the Geth technology to be inferior to ours but don't get cocky, while it is true the kinetic weapons aren't as powerful as our plasma base weapons, they can still do damage to us. I have observed that the Geth have a number of very powerful dreadnoughts in this gathered fleet and they have a powerful laser cannon that can do heavy damage to our ships. We will be splitting the fleet up to surround the Geth. While the Geth have many ships, many of these look to be supply ships for building the base. Black Squadron will be in charge of taking out the base."

The commander of Black Squadron, Poe Dameron stood up "Pardon me for asking Admiral, but what good will our fighters be against that station?" he pointed at a hologram of the station that Thrawn had brought up.

"This station is still being built so they don't have much in terms of weapons on board." Thrawn replied "The major threat we will be facing will be the dreadnoughts. These dreadnoughts will be top priority for our ships to take out. Don't let the fact that these Geth are similar to droids make you cocky, these ships will be heavily armoured but if we take out these Geth, we will eliminate a major threat to the Republic. Do you all understand the mission?"

"Yes Admiral." Everyone in the room replied.

"Then return to your ships." Thrawn stated "Pilots prepare you starfighters and bombers. The seventh fleet will be leaving in a few hours."

The crew all began to leave until it was just Shepard, Thrawn and Pellaeon in the room "Admiral." Shepard stated "There is still the Geth base on Solcrum itself. We're going to need the information from that base to hopefully find out where Saren is."

"As soon as we've cleared a path in the blockade, your Normandy can drop you." Thrawn stated "If you need an air strike, call for it, I'll send it down if you need it. We'll be in radio contact throughout the mission."

"Understood Admiral." Shepard stated and she went back to the Normandy.

...

Eventually, the fleet was prepared. All of the ships were in position and the squadrons had been launched. Gold Squadron was the only one that had one type of fighter, the BTL-A4 Y Wing starfighter. This bomber type of fighter had two large engines that gave the ship a y shape. These ships were fast bombers and could drop a large number of bombs on enemy targets. The Y-Wing also had an automated turret used to fight off incoming attack fighters and ion cannons at the front used for taking out shields as well as proton torpedoes. Gold Squadron had a total of 50 Y-Wings altogether in the Seventh Fleet.

Red Squadron also had 50 fighters but had two different types of fighters, the X-Wing and the A-Wing. The X-Wing had wings shaped like an X and was used to fight enemy fighters and defend bombers. The A Wing was much faster than the X-Wing but required more training to fly. Black Squadron was much smaller than Gold and Red Squadron as it was used to strike enemy targets fast and then pull out. Black squadron had a mix of X-Wings, A wing and Y-Wings.

Once the fleet was prepared, Thrawn gave the order and soon every ship in the Seventh fleet jumped into hyperspace and set a course towards the Grisson System and soon, the Battle of Solcrum would begin.

...

Not too long after the Seventh fleet entered Hyperspace, they arrived at their destination. This time the ships left lightspeed at Solcrum itself to surprise the Geth. As soon as the ships arrived, Thrawn positioned the carriers at the rear and had his powerful Resurgence class Dreadnoughts as well as the Mon Calamari Star cruisers in front ready to fire their cannons.

However not all went to plan, one ship commander of a Nebulon B frigate entered the system too close to the Geth fleet and was closer to the Geth so when the Geth opened fired, this frigate took the full impact from a Geth dreadnought. The ship didn't stand a chance and was obliterated quickly from the overwhelming fire from the dreadnought. Thrawn wasn't happy about losing a ship so early but it was the commander's fault for trying to grab personal glory.

With the fleet in position, Thrawn gave the order "All ships, open fire, concentrate on the dreadnoughts." Then all of the capital ships fired their turbolasers at the Geth ships. The Geth dreadnoughts were well built, they were not just ships that had been scrapped together like the Batarian dreadnoughts sometimes were, and they were well built and able to take the impact. These dreadnoughts had well made shields, maybe they were Reaper tech as the Geth seemed to be involved with these Reapers although Shepard wasn't as sure yet. It became clear that the shields needed to be disabled and so Thrawn ordered the bombers to attack.

"All Bombers, on me." Jon Vader said from his Y-Wing and he flew towards the nearest dreadnought surrounded by some of his best crew from Gold Squadron, Dex Tiree (Gold two), Tyson (Gold Three), Jake Farrell (Gold Four) and Davish Karil (Gold Five). The other parts of Gold Squadron were striking other ships and being escorted by fighters from Red Squadron. Vander's force was being escorted by 3 X-Wings and an A-Wing.

"All fighters, prepare your ion cannon." Vander stated as the Y-Wings flew closer to the target.

"Ion cannon ready." Tiree stated "Locked on target."

Then Red leader called over the radio "Gold Leader, this is Red Leader. We've got a problem here, the Geth are launching swarms of fighters from a carrier."

"Since when do the Geth have fighters?" Tyson stated

"The Geth are robots just like the Trade Federation vulture droids." Karil exclaimed "Stabilize your rear deflectors, watch for enemy fighters."

Then the Geth began attacking Vander's group taking out a X-wing before they could fight back.

"Geth fighters" Tyson yelled "We can't make our run with these fighters on our... ack!" Tyson's Y wing was struck by a Geth fighter and his Y-Wing blew up.

"We just lost Gold Three." Vander hissed "Split up, try and divide these fighters."

"Copy Gold Leader." Farrell stated as Gold Leader and Gold Two split from Gold Four and Gold Five which split the Geth fighters. However the Y-Wings could fight back with their revolving cannon which could fire back at the Geth fighters.

Thrawn watched from the Chimera's bridge as the Geth fighters began attacking the starfighters "So the Geth have their own fighters as well." He stated "This complicates matters."

"Admiral, what do we do?" Pellaeon questioned

"The Geth fighters are still droids which means they must have a signal, destroy it and the Geth will lose the capability to target." Thrawn stated "Squad leaders, look for a communication's tower, that's where the Geth signal will be coming from."

Soon it was spotted "Admiral I see it." Poe Dameron stated "It's on the Geth station on the upper levels, but it looks like it's shielded."

"Take out that tower Black Squadron." Thrawn stated

"As you say Admiral." Poe replied "Black Squadron make as many runs as we can against that Tower, we have to destroy that signal or Gold and Red Squadrons will be torn to pieces."

"Understood Black Leader." Termmin Wexley (Black Two) stated

"We're right behind you." Niv Lek (Black three) added

"We're all in this." Jessika Pava (Black five) added

The fighters of Black Squadron shot towards the communications tower on the Geth base and fired missiles at the tower which struck the tower.

"Yes." Bastian (Black four) cheered "Direct hit."

"But no damage." Ello Asty (Black six) shouted.

"Well we'll just have to make another run." Poe added and then Black Squadron went in for another run.

On the Chimera, Thrawn watched the Geth fleet. The Star Destroyers were able to destroy the smaller Geth ships but the larger Dreadnoughts and the more hevily armoured crusiers were a bigger problem. But it seemed the Geth ships did not have anti starfighter cannons so the only threat to the fighters and bombers were the Geth fighters. The battle had opened a gap in the fleet and Thrawn knew that Shepard would not have this opportunity for long.

"Normandy, there's a gap in the Fleet, make your drop now." Thrawn called

...

On board the Normandy, Shepard had selected her crew to go down to the Geth base. Because this time the Geth would be on the base in full, Shepard needed the best of the best. Wrex, Ashley and Bau were the best soldiers around and Liara's biotics would be useful. Tali was needed because of her Geth knowledge and Bakira's explosives would be valuable to the mission. Verbro was also a good soldier so he would be on this mission as well.

"Stealth Systems engaged." Joker stated "Pekue, prepare to drop."

"We're all in the Mako ready when we're in position." Pekue called over the radio.

"And the Normandy's weapons are ready to fire." Gunnery officer Zitt'ozar'sruno added "We've got a lock on a Geth Cruiser."

"Normandy's in position." Luke called "Launch now." The Mako was released from the Normandy and descended towards Solcrum. Then the Mako flew close to a Geth cruiser "Fire the main cannon."

The Normandy fired it's cannon which struck the bridge of the Geth ship and caused an explosion that caused the ship to go offline.

...

The Mako landed a few clicks away from the Geth headquarters. They quickly found a Geth supply cache which had some supplies for the Geth station. It was guarded by a few Geth troopers but Shepard, Ashley and Wrex quickly took care of them. They had to wear special suits to protect them from the heat because the radiation from Grissom created extreme heat that could kill them if unprotected, the Geth weren't affected by this. When the Geth were defeated, Bakira lay some charges to blow the supply cache but not before she found some writings by Matriarch Dilinaga, another set of Asari writings to add to Shepard's collection. With the charges in place, the team got back into the Mako and as they drove away, Bakira detonated the explosions.

...

Up in space, Red and Gold Squadrons were having problems with the Geth fighters but they were still able to fight back. Black Squadron's mission of destroying the communications tower on the Geth base was difficult because of how shielded the target was. The Geth had put everything into that shield "We're having no effect on that shield." Bastian stated

"Now much more can that shield take?" Jessika questioned "We've hit it with many blasts."

"We need to use an ion torpedo." Poe called "Gold Leader this is Black Leader, we need assistance here, we need ion torpedoes."

"I copy Black Leader." Vander replied "Gold Two, Gold Five, on me, we're going to help take out that shield."

"I copy Gold Leader" Karil replied and then three Y-Wings began flying towards the base.

"I've got a lock on target." Tiree stated as they got close "Torpedoes away" the three bombers fired ion torpedoes from their front cannons and soon they impacted the shield surrounding the communication's tower and the shield soon overloaded and faded.

"Black Leader, the shield is down." Vander called

"I see it." Poe stated "Black Squadron, on me, time to take out that tower."

"Hurry up." Garven Dreis (Red Leader called) "I'm not too sure how much longer we can keep this up." Then he noticed one of his wingman flying away "Stick close Red Five, where are you going."

"These Geth are all over me." Red Five's pilot, Pedril Gaul called "This is Red Five, I need help." But no help could come in time as Red five was struck by a Geth fighter and exploded.

...

The Mako soon arrived at the Geth base but saw that the base was surrounded by five Geth Colossuses, the Mako's cannon alone wouldn't be able to take them all out before they destroyed the Mako. "Pekue, radio the fleet, we need and air strike on those Geth."

"Copy Shepard." Pekue called "I'm calling the fleet."

...

Luke's old friends, Wedge (Red Two), Biggs (Red Three), Hobbie (Red Nine) and Rake (Red Seven) were all flying together and they were taking out the Geth "Let's hope they can take out these Geth soon." Rake called "They just keep coming."

"Relax Rake." Wedge called "They may have numbers but we have skills." He fired a missile which struck a Geth Frigate on the bridge causing it to explode.

"This isn't a game boys." Biggs stated "We have a mission here."

"That we do Biggs." Hobbie added.

Then Red Leader called "Red two." Garven called

"Copy Red Leader." Wedge replied

"Take Reds Three, Nine and Seven down to Solcrum's surface, they need help to take out a couple of Geth Colossuses before they can enter the base."

"We're on our way." Wedge called "Alright boys, let's go." The four X-Wing fighters flew away from the main battle and towards the planet surface "Alright, we fly in, take out a Colossus each and then we pull out."

"Understood Red Two." Biggs called

"Just don't fly down to fast or we won't pull up in time." Rake added

"Relax Rake." Hobbie stated "We've done this before."

"I always get scared in these dives." Rake responded

"At least we won't come under heavy anti-starcraft fire." Biggs added

The four X-Wings soon flew through Solcrum's atmosphere and soon they were approaching the base. "I see our targets." Wedge called "Now take them out." They each fired their turbo lasers and missiles at the target and then they pulled out.

"Targets taken out." Biggs called.

"Well done boys." Wedge called "Now let's get back to the battle."

But none of them were aware of another Geth Colossus which fired it's cannon which hit Rake's fighter.

"I'm hit." Rake called "I'm losing power."

"Rake just hold on!" Biggs called "Keep it together."

Rake's fighter had been hit by one of his engines which was smoking "I'm trying, I may have to head back to base. My engines are starting too... ach!" Rake was hit by another shot which shot off his X-Wing's left wings. Rake flew into a spiral and soon crashed.

"RAKE!" Wedge called "Rake come in, are you alright."

Biggs sighed "He's gone Wedge." He stated "Come on, we have to get back to the battle, we'll mourn him later. Don't let his death stop us from completing the mission." Wedge sighed and the three remaining X-Wings flew back to the battle.

...

Shepard watched as the X-Wings flew by and took out 4 of the Geth Colossuses. But she gasped when the last one shot down on of the X-Wings causing it to crash and explode. A brave pilot had been lost but he would be remembered. Shepard got into the Mako's turret and fired at the remaining Colossus and soon it was destroyed. Pekue then drove to the base where Shepard and her team prepared to leave "Pekue keep in radio contact," Shepard ordered "We need to know if anymore Geth show up."

"Understood Commander." Pekue replied and then Shepard left the Mako with her team and they quickly went into the Geth base.

...

In Space, Black Squadron was making another run against the communications tower. "Fire missiles!" Poe ordered and soon his X-Wing along with several others fired missiles at the tower. Without the shield, the tower was vulnerable and this time, the tower was finished and the missiles created a large explosion as the tower was blown apart. "Admiral!" Poe called "The Communication tower is out of action."

"Great Job Commander Dameron!" Thrawn called "All ships, prepare to start pushing forward, their fighters aren't a major threat anymore."

It was clear that the Tower was important to the Geth, now that the tower was out of action, the Geth fighters were no longer in formation and they began to drift apart. The Geth warships were the same, gaps were forming in the fleet and this allowed some of the Republic ships including a Mon Calamari cruiser to separate a Geth Dreadnought and started to fire a full barrage against it. Other Republic ships were concentrating on the Geth Cruisers and frigates which were blown apart quickly by the Republic's turbolasers. Only the large dreadnoughts had the armour strong enough to prevent them from being destroyed so it was up to the Bombers of Gold Squadron to take them out. Gold Squadron began bombing runs on the Geth Dreadnoughts and without the communication's tower, the Geth fighters were unable to form a defence. One Geth Dreadnought was blown apart by the Y-Wing's bombs. The battle was going well for the Republic and for Thrawn.

...

Shepard and her team had entered the Geth base and unlike the other bases, this one was heavily guarded with Geth units. Shepard had taken cover behind some crates while Liara created a biotic barrier to protect them. Ashley and Wrex fired everything they had at the Geth but no matter how many they took down, more came.

"I hope this doesn't take much longer." Ashley stated "I'm starting to run low on ammo!"

"Hold on." Bakira yelled and she threw a grenade over the crates and towards the Geth which exploded destroying a number of Geth units. Shepard and her team were doing well but if the Geth kept coming, they would run out of ammo soon.

...

The space battle had turned in favour of the Republic, the Geth ships were exploding one by one while the Republic were holding. But the Republic did take a few losses. An Arquitens class light cruiser had taken a full barrage from a Geth Dreadnought and been destroyed as well as a few Nebulon B Frigates and some CR90 Corvettes but none of the capital ships had been destroyed although one Star Destroyer had taken a nasty hit to the bridge. The ship was in no danger of being destroyed but the ship had to pull back.

Thrawn stood on the Chimera overlooking the battle where Pellaeon approached him "Admiral, the Geth Dreadnoughts are still holding strong."

"We've surrounded them." Thrawn stated "There's no escape for them. There's is also no turning back now, the Geth may be holding but they're not invincible."

Out in the battle, Gold Leader flew alongside several other Y-Wings on a bombing run against a dreadnought "Hit that opening!" he called to his wingmen as there was an opening in the Dreadnought under the bridge.

"We see it Gold Leader." Nora Wrexley (Gold Nine and the mother of Black Squadron fighter Snap) called "Ion torpedoes away." The Y-Wings fired several Ion torpedoes against the ship which impacted the Dreadnought and as they flew away, the ships engines shut down and the ship began to drift, the Dreadnought had been disabled.

Thrawn too had seen that "That Dreadnought has been disabled." He stated and he saw that the ship was drifting towards another Dreadnought, he turned to Pellaeon "Pellaeon, call a Hammerhead Corvette, tell it to ram that disabled dreadnought."

"Ram it?" Pellaeon questioned "Why?"

"We're going to take out two Dreadnoughts at once." Thrawn replied. Pellaeon soon realised what Thrawn meant and made the call.

Soon a Hammerhead Corvette or rather a Sphyrna class Corvette began flying towards the Geth fleet while being protected by the fighters of Red Squadron. These Corvettes were heavily armoured transports that were generally used for transporting soldiers around. They were shaped like a hammer which is why they were nicknamed Hammerheads and the front was heavily armoured which is why it could do this mission. The Corvette made a collision course against the disabled dreadnought and soon struck the side where the dreadnought was thinner. Maximum power was put into the engines and the Corvette began pushing the much larger ship towards another Geth Dreadnought. Soon the two Dreadnoughts collided with each other. This caused one dreadnought to break in two and the disabled dreadnought began to break apart. Two Dreadnoughts had been taken out. Thrawn had a feeling the battle would be over soon.

...

Shepard and her team had finally been able to reach the main control room of the Base. Here several Geth Juggernauts and a Geth Prime stood guard in front of the terminal. Bakira couldn't use her explosives as they risked damaging the terminal which had some valuable information that they needed. Bau managed to fire a sniper shot on one of the Juggernauts which caused the Geth unit to go offline. Then Wrex and Ashley managed to destroy another Juggernaut with their assault rifles. Liara threw one aside with her biotics while Verbro fired some well targeted shots at the final Juggernaut. Soon it was just the Prime left. This Geth Prime must have been the commander of this base. It was a hard fight but Wrex was eventually able to destroy the Prime's head with his shotgun.

"That seems to be all of the Geth." Tali stated

"I hope so." Bau stated "We were running out of ammo. We wouldn't have lasted much longer. "

Shepard looked at the terminal "Tali, it's up to you now. We need you to download this data."

"I'm on it Shepard." Tali replied "But I need to ask you something."

"What is it?" Shepard asked

"I would like a copy of this data." Tali replied "This information could be vital my people's efforts to understanding the Geth. It could be key to helping us reclaim our homeworld."

"You know this data is most likely encrypted?" Shepard stated

"I know that." Tali replied "But if this data can help my people reclaim our home, then it is beyond valuable to us."

"Alright Tali." Shepard stated "Make a copy of it for your people."

"Thank you Shepard." Tali stated "This downloading will take some time. I just hope no more Geth show up."

"And I hope Admiral Thrawn is doing well up in space." Ashley added "Otherwise, it will be difficult getting off world."

"Admiral Thrawn has never lost a battle before." Shepard stated "If anyone can defeat the Geth, he can."

...

The battle of Solcrum was clearly a Republic victory. The last Geth Dreadnought was destroyed, now all that was left were a few lone Geth ships and the Geth station. Now Gold Squadron had moved against the station along with the Republic ships firing what they had at the station. One blast from a dreadnought blew a large hole in the station.

"Black Leader, I see a hole in that station." Snap called "That could be what we need."

"I see it Snap." Poe called "All right Black Squadron, give me some cover."

"I'm on it." Bastian called

"Roger." Ello added

"All right everyone, hit that target with everything we have." Poe called and Black Squadron flew towards the hole but now the Geth had managed to restore a new communications tower taking control of the Geth fighters which were now defending the station.

"The Geth have restored control to their fighters." Vander called.

"Be careful." Garven added

"We just need to hit that hole and the take out the station." Poe shouted "Give us cover and we can take out that station." Red Squadron began taking out the Geth fighters but they were making Black Squadron being forced to move around to avoid fire.

"Watch out." Jessika called as a swarm of Geth Fighters attacked them from above. Poe watched as Black Six was hit and started smoking.

"I'm hit!" Ello yelled and then his X-Wing crashed into the station. All of Red Squadron then managed to draw away the Geth fighters with help from a few bombs from Gold Squadron and the Geth started chasing them now.

Poe now had a clear run through the hole "Black Squadron, pull up and cover me." He called "I'm going in."

"Copy that Black leader." Nik called "Good luck Poe." The rest of Black Squadron pull up which distracted a new wave of Geth fighters and Poe was able to fly inside the hole made in the station. Poe started firing shots inside the station and it seemed he was near the main reactor of the station. He fired missiles which created explosions and he soon made a run for the hole he entered in after firing a missile at the reactor. Poe flew out just as the reactor exploded.

The station began to shake as more explosions went all over the station and the fighters flew away from the station until the station exploded in a fireball and was nothing more than a shattered wreck.

"Mission complete" Poe cheered

"We just need to clear the rest of the Geth." Garven stated "Red Squadron, concentrate on the remaining fighters."

"Gold Squadron, take out the remaining ships." Vander added.

Thrawn smiled as he watched the Geth station exploded "It is done." He stated "The Geth will not be as big of a threat to the Republic now that we've destroyed their base here. But this war isn't over yet."

"How so Admiral?" Pellaeon questioned

"There are still more Geth out there" Thrawn replied "We've crippled them here but they're not defeated yet. We just need to wait for word from Shepard about how her mission has gone."

...

"Download complete." Tali stated "I've got the data."

"Now we just need to get it back to RSB so they can analyse it." Shepard stated

"What do you think they'll find?" Bau questioned

"Hopefully there will be some information that will show where the Geth planned to strike." Shepard replied "Maybe it will help provide us with information about where Saren is or maybe to what this Conduit is. That was what Saren was looking for but we still have no idea what is it. We also don't know where he plans to use the Mu Relay to go to. Maybe this data has the answers to those questions."

"So what now?" Ashley questioned

"We need to radio Joker, ask him what the situation is in space." Shepard replied "We can't get picked up until it is safe." She activated her comm "Joker, we've got the data. What's the situation up there?"

"The battle is over Shepard." Joker replied "We have won, the Geth have been destroyed."

"We need picking up now Joker; we have to get this data to RSB." Shepard responded.

"Aye Commander." Joker replied "Get back into the Mako and await pickup."

"Alright then." Shepard stated "Time to head back." Shepard and her team then left the base and went back to the Mako. The Normandy then picked up the Mako and once they were clear, Admiral Thrawn had the Chimera and several other Star destroyers started an orbital strike on the Geth station which destroyed the station. They didn't want the Geth or any pirates to start using this base.

Chapter End:

So here's what I've wanted to write, a proper space battle scene. I missed elements from different space battles to write this chapter but writing space battles is not that easy, it much easier to put on screen than words. I also want to point out that I do not want to make the Republic fleet too overpowered. Some fanfictions have a human or similar to be very powerful and can destroy the Citadel fleets but I don't want that, I want my story to be more realistic so I am limiting how strong the Republic fleets are. I might bring in the Executor in a later story but that will be a one off ship. I have had this guest reviewer sending me in suggestions and while I appreciate these, I cannot do everything this reviewer suggests. You will see some ships from the Separatist fleet such as the Providence class but they will be a trade federation ship. The Trade Federation has it's own fleet and I will say that Feros will be a Trade Federation world when we come to visit it soon. I will try to bring more Star wars into the next stories but this one mainly concentrates on the Mass Effect storyline, later stories will change from the Mass Effect cannon and Star wars lore will be more important and there will be a surprise coming up. There will be one more chapter will be Garrus' mission and then we're onto Feros and that story will change slightly. This is my last chapter before going back to Uni so updates will be slow. I am also starting to prepare the next chapter of the Wolf Awakens which I hope to finish before the month ends.