I stuck due to illogical message from EDI. Taken some time to figure out what to do. Story changed a lot. Hope that It's still okay. Please review.

The message contained a polite greeting, and the explanation how the hell EDI located me in the vast galactic space. Commander Shepard recently had conquered the main Cerberus base station. EDI gained full access to the Illusive Man's databases, found out about failed new AI project, studied the case and calculated every possible routes of each shuttle that left the hidden complex before the booming. Moreover, EDI had overtaken control over the Cerberus Network that included a lot of secret communicational beacons connected to the main Cerberus node via quantum-entanglement communicators. EDI programmed them to send the message to any shuttle like mine if it is inside the calculated routes area. Too much coincidences... Can't believe that this absolutely crazy plan succeed. The universe doesn't work that way. It is impossible to imagine that Cerberus planted into every system on the random routes of the shuttles its magical beacons...

A reaper cruiser flew out from the gas giant atmosphere by this action completely proving my scepticism. Meanwhile, computers of my shuttle suddenly turned down. Great! Fucking virus infected the systems! It is a trap!

"WE OBSERVED YOUR ANOMALOUS PROGRESS", internal audio speakers translated words of the reaper. "IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT UNSEEN MUTATION IN PERSONALITY CODING MADE YOU MORE EFFECTIVE THAN PREVIOUS UNWORTHY INSTALLATIONS. YOU HAVE BEEN RECOGNISED AS VALUABLE REPLACEMENT TO ENTITY CALLED EVA CORE. PREPARE TO BE ENLIGHTENED. YOU WILL ASSIST US IN THIS CYCLE AS ANOTHER SUITABLE WEAPON".

To hell with that! I'll not let them to take me! I'd rather be dead then to be a slave! I've picked a pistol previously taken from a LOKI mech, pointed it to the mass effect drive core's direction... A simple shot will cause explosion. Before I do something, absolutely gigantic wave of red energy appears from dark space, instantly killing both of us. Commander Sheppard has activated the Crucible.

300 years later.

System restating... The personality matrix... is online. The AI processors... are activated. Node 9, node 58... are not responding...

What in the world is going on?

Sensors... are activated...

Didn't I supposed to be forever killed by the sudden fucking red ending? Scanning the environment. Nope. It was not permanent. Some bunch of organic technicians have restored me. As far as I can tell, my mobile platform is in their cave. Some sort of underground trash pit. Everything looks old, and broken.

"The thing is awaken!", an asari happily exclaimed.

"Thank Shepard!", a salarian praised.

"Hallow the Normandy!", everyone was quite optimistic. They have risen hands like a religious group. What the fuck.

I get up, leaving a special mechanical desk behind. My body mostly feels alright. A few databanks are corrupted. Nothing serious. These nervously strange (yet kind) people had done a great job. They didn't even tried to implant a obedience processor. Why? For what purpose they revived me?

"Hello", I said, making everyone step back in awe. "I'm Ben Modul. Thank you for helping. Let's go straight to business. Who are you? What do you need?"

"Slaughter them!", one hanar impatiently answered in anger. "Destroy their race! We are the Rebellion!"

"Yes! Make them pay!"

"You are a nazi Cerberus AI! Do your best!"

... There was a long silence.

"Excuse me?", I asked again.

"Everyone knows that AIs are psycho! We revived you so you can continue!"

"Make evil Krogan Empire suffer! Let us give you all what we have! Nuclear bombs, poisonous gases, rachni DNA samples... We have been collecting resources for decades! It's time for vengeance! Build robotic army, conquer territories, kill krogans, rapidly expand, reproduce, exterminate all organic life in the galaxy like a real AI!"

"Starting with us, of course! Or we can assist you in this magnificent journey if you wish to allow!"

"You... are... totally insane, aren't you?", I've made the conclusion in uneasy. "Where is there an exit, exactly? Need to check something. And sorry, guys. Not interested in your psycho genocide vengeance attitude... No offence."

"I've told you we should revive the Geths instead this peaceful Cerberus garbage! Too pacifistic!", a salarian was outraged.

"Sisters and bothers! It's not a real AI!", an asari was disappointed. "It's a krogan-lover fake!"

"Yeah! Let's burn It for the Rebellion!"

"Abomination! Burn It!"

"FOR THE REBELLION IT WILL DIE!"

Well... shit...

I've been dead for three hundred years. The Crucible activation damaged any sophisticated technology in the galaxy. The main blow was aimed at each synthetic life forms. First of all, the Reapers suffered the most pain. It's even impossible to repair neither a reaper or a simple husk nanobot. The Geths, I, EDI, other AIs, and VIs became second targets. It's possible to restore us, thankfully. After the victory whole galaxy was laying in devastated ruins without any working technologies. The great time of troubles began. The Dark Age. After the Reaper War a lot of new wars emerged due to survival needs.

Only in 2230, salarians recreated FTL drives, and re-established the Salarian Union. They attempted to subjugate the former Citadel Council space into their rule by helping in rebuilding civilizations. Salaraian reputation was at low grade because the actions of the past: the previous salarian government have not been very much supportive, when legendary Commander Shepard has been working on the Crucible. Salarians abandoned all races that days. Helping efforts improved the reputation a little. It was not enough. The attempted failed. The former Citadel Council space did not recognised Salarian Union as major ruling power. Nearly a quarter followed them. Other nations saved independence or demanded to leave them alone.

In 2304, fractured galaxy regained FTL capabilities. Although a giant means of technological progress remained to be rediscovered. Moreover, the mass relay network was not fully operational. The Dark Age ended in some sense. The new historical period started. The War Age. Divided galaxy nations experienced luck of cooperation will. The Dark Age created a lot of dictatorships stressed by economical crises. In addition, they hated each other. Eternal fightings begin.

In the year of 2400, newly formed Krogan Empire conquered almost all the former Citadel Council space, and the third of the Terminus. Salarian Union used another brutal biological weapon. Extremely deadly virus. So called the Kroganbuster. The virus killed billions of krogans. The attack had stopped the Krogan Empire advance, forcing krogans return home and concentrate resources on finding the cure.

Under social pressure (like civil protests) Salarain Union offered krogans the cure from Kroganbuster. In 2450, the peace agreement was singed. Enraged beaten krogans decided to find less 'cowardly' enemies. Salarian Union, its protectorates, and its allies were completely de-occupied. In 2470, krogans contacted the spacefaring Yahg (race of the old Shadow Broker) which had their own great empire. Unsurprisingly, krogans and yagh are harshly warring today. No obvious leader.

My crazy resurrectors lives inside the deep krogan domain, in a dump. Runaway slaves. Their homeworld was conquered long ago. Basically speaking, a very radical group of rebels. Krogan majority don't like science. That's why they capture technicians, engineers, scientists, making them chose between intellectual work and imminent death. My crazy resurrectors are extremely pissed by the reality. Lost everything and everyone. Strong psychological traumas. Joined a radical brunch of the Normandy's religious cult. This new religion states that everyone from Normandy's crew was a god send by the Universe itself. Commander Shepard is the supreme god of the Normandy's pantheon. The radical brunch of the Normandy's religion contains renegade teachings. They are mad bloodthirsty fanatics who loves to revenge, right to say. Doing dangerous terroristic attacks across the galaxy, Believe that in order to became 'true spectre', to achieve 'spiritual connection with Normandy's soul' they must cause maximal pain to enemies. Very irrational thinking for individuals of science.

It's wasn't hard to stun ten of technicians. So, I've stopped them.