Ok as you know, I have had 3 reviews on Korrasami futa (one of my stories) from the group known as Critics united. Now as I have been informed by all of you and others that their threats have little weight behind them of which I have taken to heart. However in the unlikely event my stories or profile gets removed I am on Archive of out own (AO3) under the same name but spelled right. I have done this as insurance in case in the highly unlikely event I get removed. But until then this is my main sight to upload to. Other then that enjoy.
Before the attack on Omega station.
Ashley came out of the shower in nothing but a towel covering her body. As she came out John terminal activated and Miranda came up.
"Ash we need to talk. In private." she said stunningly.
"EDI stop all monitoring equipment." Ash said before taking a seat in front of the terminal. "What's up?"
"It's my sister, she's gone missing from Horizon."
"What? How?"
"No clue, from the camera footage it seems that she went out to get salvage but never came back."
"Salvaging is a good way to get money, at least with the lack of a major economy. Keep me informed about the situation."
"Will do, but after the battle I may not be there. I'll be looking into leads."
OOOOO present
John walked into the med bay were Travos was being attended to by Karen and Shoko. The weary former councillor looked to him and smiled.
"Well, I never would believe it if it didn't see it with my own eyes. Shepard, welcome back to the land of the living, as humans say." Travos said.
"Yeah well, hell chewed me up and spat me out. Anyway how are you? Aria did anything major?" John asked.
"No, I used to be her lover until the Citadel fell. We did a lot together bondage and all that. After she made me her slave she became more dominating and wanted locations to old weapon cache's. She only found a few but never got far due to the information I gave to her. Not much of a surprise."
"Given the situation, I can say the same. Ok look I have a bit of a proposition, since your more or less of an expert of a politician I need someone to head up my government."
"And you want me to do it?" he said with a smile. "Well given your politics towards the Council and your lack of political abilities I have no choice but to accept."
"Welcome to the Solar Empire."
OOOOO
Oriana looked at the pods in front of her. Her mouth was slightly agape at the amount of pods there where.
"There's 2789 pods here on this world and more on other worlds." the man said as he walked up next to her.
"Right better get to work." she said.
"Wait." the man said making her turn, before she could do anything the man locked a collar around her neck.
She looked at him with murder on the mind.
"An assurance. To make sure that you follow the rules." he said unaplogeticlly. "Now, get to work."
"Asshole." Oriana muttered under her breath
OOOOO
With the battle over John and his people decided to take a few days to take stock of what they have gained in all terms. They needed to consolidate their gains with Wrex and the Unified clans. In the Normandy's war room Ashley, Garrus, Wrex, Trevos, Samantha, Tali and a hologram of Liara. As John entered he noticed something with the group.
"Where's Miranda?" he asked.
"Something came up." Ashley said. "She wanted to check a few things."
"Ok then." John said as he took his place on the lion chair. "First off I'm assign Tevos as our political expert is everyone ok with that?" no one spoke but everyone just nodded. "Ok what do we have?" he asked.
"At least 25 planets. Compared to other Warlords who have hundreds it's small, but since Aria fell the main leaders of the worlds have recognised that you took her down and wait for news. They're in a transition phase so they need to await new rule, we have sent captains and commanders to the words to ensure things go well."
"Right ok, that's all of Aria's territory right?"
"Yes, all she had was Omega station and 25 planets." Ash confirmed making John nod.
"Ok then, Wrex shall we split them 50/50?" he asked.
"While I would agree you did take down Aria so I'd say 60/40 in favour of you. That way people will know that you are fair as well as a tough Warlord." Wrex said after good think.
"Agreed." Liara spoke up. "It shows that while you are fair you are also tough and a force to be reckoned with."
"Ok the, we'll take 13 planets while you can have 12, sound good?" John asked with Wrex nodding.
"Sounds good to me."
"Ok, Liara Jack… what can you tell me?" John asked.
"Well, it's complicated, she wants to join but doesn't want a colony here. She said that she's working with biotics on honing their skills and let me tell you she could rival an Asari Matriarch. But she wants all young biotics moved here so she can teach them. Train them if you will in fighting and other fields. What's more is that her and her followers seem to be pretty religious worshipping a variant of the asari goddess. They also seem to be training with weapons that are extension of their biotic powers."
"Sholin monks." Ashley said making eyes turn to her. "That's what they are, Sholin monks. People who train in combat because they believed that I order to transcend violence one must understand. That and they also trained in order to fend off bandits. If Jack can train people then we may have a powerful army."
John stroked his chin. "Sholin monks… ok sounds like an idea. Liara talk with Jack to see if we can at least set up a small farming colony so that they can be self sustainable and able to send items to them."
"Will do." Liara nodded.
"Next Garrus hows the military?"
"Nice and large, we have at least 300 ships mostly batarian raiders and alliance cruisers we have at least 50,000 troops from 75,000. The other 25,000 have formed a group near the galactic edge. They maybe a problem later." Garrus said as he read his report.
"Agreed, but we can deal with them later. As long as they don't do anything soon we can ignore them for now." John muttered. "Tali, hows engineering?"
"With the new resources we have we can expand a few area's and build new area's for our cities. We also have a shipyard and can begin production of new ships when ready." she said with a little enthusiasm on her voice.
"Good to hear, check with engineers to see how the ships are coming along then order for the prototypes to be built."
"Will, do."
"Ok, since Miranda is not here I'll take the science report later. So is that everything?"
No one said anything and just shook their heads.
"Ok dismissed."
OOOOO
Hackett looked out of the landscape of London with an object in hand. It was a paper latter, something that was rare but it was sealed and was handed to him by Hannah to give to their son. Looking out at the skyline he sighed and stood as he heard voices down below.
In front of the old Alliance HQ was a riot mostly of Asari in protest of the one child per Asari law. They were out in mass to protest with signs saying, 'NO ONE CHILD FOR ASARI!, SHEPARD IS RACIST!' and other such signs. A group of Asari soldiers with riot shields where upfront to prevent people from getting past. The yelling was getting worse and stones started to get thrown but a gunshot sounded. Making people fall silent and look. Hackett stood behind the asari officers.
"Who speaks for the group?" he asked.
"I do." said a purple asari.
Hackett indicated for her to come up and stand next to her. "Now, I can see what this is all about. However you must consider the population. Asari are long lived, as such having one child should be ok."
"It's not." said the lead protester. "It's discriminating our rights as people. We should be able to have as many children as we want!"
"There is a problem here. You are on the human home world, it would look quite odd if the homeworld of humans is mostly populated by humans wouldn't it? The same can be said for Thessia and more humans. Asari only produce Arari, the one child rule was the best compromise we could come up with. If you don't like it you can always leave."
The Asari looked at him with wide eyes. Humans were known for their freedom and diversity ideals but when push came to shove they were hard to convince. This was one of those times when the dark side of humans came out.
"The Asari population on this planet almost overshadows the human population. And that is something that cannot happen. This is humanity's homeworld, what would happen if human overpopulated Thessia?"
The Asari said nothing. "Ho...ok."
"Good." Hackett said before heading inside.
OOOOO
"Well that's good to hear." John said on call with Hackett."
"Yeah, we have had reports that a few of them did leave to other Solar Empire worlds but most of them have accepted that the law is important."
"Well I shouldn't be too surprised, I mean we are limiting their rights."
"Indeed, that reminds me I have a latter here from your mother addressed to you. I opened it but all it has on it was letters and numbers. CAW1 N3, whatever they mean."
John looked at his father for a moment and stroked his chin for a moment and looked up. "I think I know. I'll see you later." he said before ending the communication and headed down to the armoury where Ashley was looking over the guns.
"Ash, does CAW1 N3 mean anything to you?" he asked.
She looked at for a moment blinking. "Yeah, that's something hat your mother said to me when she gave me this." Ash handed John a small device about the size of a memory stick. "Before you died she said that when you said CAW1 N3 to give you this. But I have no idea what it means or what they are."
"Well lets find out." he said as he lead her to the captain's cabin and John inserted the device into his terminal.
Just then the holo emitters activated and a hologram of Hannah Shepard. She looked just as she had last time Ash saw her, old but strong.
"Mom." John said making the hologram look at him with a smile.
"Hello John, if your seeing this then I'm dead. Probably died in combat but that's to be expected. In case Hackett didn't tell you he is your father. Me and him, we had a bit of a fling once upon a time but so did I and Anderson something that only us three know. I had a fling with Anderson after you were born and I had a child with him."
John and Ashley just looked at the hologram with wide eyes.
"You have a sister, little more then a year younger then you. But she was taken, by Cerberus at a young age. I do not know where she is but when you find her I' sure that you both will make a good term. Out of all I have done, I have made many mistakes but you and your sister are the only ones are the best thing I have given to this world. And tell Ashley that I'd welcome her to the family." the hologram disappeared leaving the two to look at each other.
"I have a sister?" he asked in shock.
"Just what the Galaxy needs, another Shepard." Ash said in a joking tone.
OOOOO
Jane Smith sat at a bar in a makeshift armour that she made over the combat missions she had been on. A talented engineer she knew what to do in most cases. But when Cerberus fell there was little for her to do aside from merc work. She was part of a new merc guild, while other merc groups were swallowed into the Warlord factions. Merc groups formed from the old merc groups and other military groups. There where many more merc groups now, but they where mostly referred to guilds due to a renewed sense of honour about them.
Jane however only cared about the money nothing else. As she drank one of the other mercs came up and sat next to her.
"Hey babe." he said with a smile.
Jane just looked at him uninterested. "Bugger off jackass. I'm a lesbian." she said before turing back to her drink.
The merc stood. "Well after a night with me you won't be saying that." he said as he too her arm.
But as soon as he touched her Jane moved fast. Her fist hit the side of his head and tripped him up making him fall to the floor before kicking him in the balls then turned back to her drink while the merc whimpered in pain and others just laughed. In the corner a hooded woman watched the scene with an interested look.
"Who's she?" she asked.
"That? That's Jane Shepard. But she calls herself Smith to avoid connections to John Shepard." an Asari next to her said.
"Relly? Well I've seen vids of the commander and his loved ones in combat. She fits the bill...humm." an idea formed in her mind.