A/N Hello to anyone that may be viewing this I like to apologize for not starting this chapter two days ago like I said I would, instead of a codex this will be a first encounter. I hope you guys will like it.
(I do not own Anything in this fanfiction just about anything you see here will belong to someone, Plus I am not sure what all is going to be in here.)
Aboard the Dreadnought of the Turian Hierarchy leading the 23rd Fleet, named Palaven's Pride.
-Turian's POV-
Desolas Arterius is the General in command of leading the patrol that every Turian is proudly serving and being ever vigilant for pirates, slavers, smugglers and the anything that needs justice.
Near him was a ensign who caught something on the scanners, he did his job and reported to his superior "General Arterius!, scans show that Relay 314 has been active approximately for 6 days, scans also show there seem to be a colony sending unknown language transmission via their radio chatter, SIR!" he even end it with a Turian salute.
"At ease ensign, so I can safely assume that this Unknown species have activated this Relay." Desolas was just hoping this was just a coincidence and that would not have to choose between to protocols, his wishes were denied.
"Unknown general, but current evidence points to unknown species being the culprit, and previous scanning data shows that there was not any radio transmission before. It can be assumed that this a colony world, and data from the newly activated Relay, says that it was used multiple times while currently unknown if it was intentional or not." The ensign gave his best reply with what was available to him at the time.
"Well we need to show these PRIMITIVES what happens when you dismiss the laws made to protect everyone!" Desolas's brother, Saren, bellowed.
"Four, problems with that; ONE, we do not know if they are primitive or not.; TWO, They are unaware that this is a law made to protect the galaxy.; THREE, there is also a protocol for first contact.; FOUR, every Turian training or even any training for the matter states that unknown enemies are always more dangerous than the known ones." He hated having to reprimand him, but it was true.
Saren sighed, "Sorry, but which protocol are we going to follow?" Arterius did not want to pick, on the one claw, not punishing these aliens would be frowned upon by his superior and not to mention the council will not be very pleased (Mainly Tevos) about "Attacking" a new race the did not even know about our laws. It was also a species whose abilities are a unknown and have no way to ask them if they even activated the Relay, which sadly evidence say otherwise. On the other claw it was Basically vice versa and could lead to him to a demotion.
He sighed and thought 'Welp, if its a lose or lose situation might as well make the best with what I got.' and made the choice "Put on comm for all ships"
"Yes sir!"
"Attention, this is General Desolas Arterius, we sadly cannot ignore the law, but we are going to be smart about this, this is an unknown enemy with even more unknown abilities. For all we know they could be like the Rachni or the Geth. Base on the information we have at the moment this is possibly a colony world to said unknown race. I want some ships to fly toward the Relay, so when they send reinforcements they will have little room to move before being gun down. Next send some of our forces to there forest and set up a base there. When it becomes nightfall that is when we will send a recon team to evaluate just how dangerous our enemy is. Then when they give us the data is when we will strike and hopefully catch them off guard, We will need also to request for reinforcements since we are just a patrol fleet, Dismissed." when he finished those in the same room as him gave him a Turian salute.
"You did well brother, so who is going down there and when are we going to call the reinforcements, not its needed of course." Desolas sighed
"I will be sending two or three Cruisers to start building a homebase and a safe camp, Lieutenant Abrudas will be in charge of ground forces and I will call the Primarch in a little bit. I also want you and a squad to do recon, can I count on you to not let your hatred for aliens you have not even met yet get in the way?" Saren flared his mandibles as if he was almost offended.
"I would not be your brother if you cannot count on me, I won't be a trigger happy idiot with these aliens, but for the record. I do not hate them it's just I worried that they might cause problems down the road, If this is just a colony world then how many Relays have they activated beyond the 314 Mass Relay and what if they are at war with something worse than Rachi or even worse than Rachi themselves." Seran reasoned with his brother.
"Oh, well that's good, I was afraid you already despise them as a species. Although try to see thing from their point of view and thank you for doing this."
"No problem, see ya bother." and with that Saren walk off to the shuttles to head for the planet below, while Arterius called the Primarch on his omni tool.
"Yes General Arterius, what is it?, I am a very busy man." The Primarch stated his displeasure.
"Sir!, Relay 314 has been active approximately for 6 days according to our scanners, and have detected inhabitants on the planet's surface with currently no orbital defense system-" he would have continued, but the Primarch interrupted him with a question.
"Good, I assume you are currently commencing planet occupation procedure on their homeworld?"
"No sir, this may be a colony world, due to previous scanning data from past patrol fleets. This may be a fairly recent colonized world, I was calling for request for reinforcements since we are just a patrol fleet." he was not prepared for the Primarch's answer.
"Negative General, we are technically breaking Citadel law, so we will quickly enforce the law against these aliens then tell the council. Not even Sparatus will be aware, before you ask my reasoning, it is because if the council were to contact them then will lose what advantages we have. We would have still been required to enforce the law on these aliens to prevent a show of favoritism, besides it is just a recently colonized world so it should be easy, your dismissed." The Primarch then end the call before Desolas added his input. He sighed for what felt like the third time and looked at the planet below and thought 'This is not the best day for me or the aliens' ...Oh he did not realized how true that will be.
3 days ago Aboard the A.I.M. named Guiding Hand, leading a 1km long Cargo Freighter (A/N The reason why that is not in the codex is because it is self explanatory) to build a new city on the newly named world Shanxi.
-True Alliance's POV-
General Williams was a human that got Apex Class splicing, not because he wanted to be a different species (He had to sign a lot of papers to make it clear he still considered himself human), but simply because he found it effective in combat. He was a towering 7ft tall with denser muscle mass and had white tiger like characteristics with eyes are a almost a glowing amber. His myriad was guarding a Cargo Freighter that had all the resources and nanobots needed to build the first city on Shanxi, although in his opinion the marauders were so busy at Saturn's and Jupiter's moons that he swears they have not even heard of Shanxi... yet.
"So that what our new home looks like, it's beautiful isn't dear?" his wife, who will soon to be a mother, asked. she was a N.B.A. (A/N pun intended) or Natural Born Apex, she has an natural golden brown exoskeleton with bat like wings on her back. Raptor like legs and a scorpion tail in the back, mantis like arms and claws that gives her a insect look. Rainbow compound eyes and powerful mandibles (Unknown to her will put Turians mandibles to shame). He fell for her charm and directness, so long ago.
"Yes, it would make a lovely home once the city has been built, although we can always rough it~" he suggestively answered.
His wife was purring at the idea until someone decided to let himself to know "Hey!, at least pretend to be professional while on duty." David Anderson, a human "soldier", mocked scolded the general.
"You can't talk, cause your like my husband, you only have to act professional during combat. Even then any "Civilian" who is willing to defend their home turf is consider a soldier and unlike military leaders or any leader in general has to take a test." she retorted.
"So, you two are planning on living on that world as well?" David asked Mr. Williams.
"Yeah, once the city has been built we are planning on living a apartment. What about you Andy?" said with a cheeky smile.
Growing at what he consider a stupid nickname he replied "I hoping to take a test down there to become a officer of the law, by the way do you know when will the have a Gaia's Cradle set up? I rather not have my first day of the job, if I pass, be shooting up marauders."
"Let me check." Miss. Williams stated then proceeded to Email her friend, a Metronian by the name Eva Core, on her computer.
-Hey Eve, mind filling me in on when will the resources for the Gaia's Cradle arrive, from Sera.-
-Should when the city is done, reason why that slow is cause marauder jerks are giving the True Alliance a hard time.-
"At least 3 days, due to pirate activity." Sera Williams gave the answer as she thanks her friend on the terminal.
"Well at least they do not know about Shanxi yet." The general reassured his friend, soon they will have a little more to worry about.
Present day on the planet's (Shanxi) surface into the forest where 3 Cruisers had made a stealthy landing.
-Turian's POV-
Lieutenant Abrudas took a quick look of her surroundings with gun in hand and nodded to herself when it seem safe "Clear!, I want a perimeter set up ASAP and I want a safe camp for the civilians pronto!"
Everyone went to work and Abrudas went to look for Saren, luckily she did not have to look for long "Hey Saren!"
"Yes ma'am!" he stood at attention.
"You can help set things up until it's time for you to scout the enemy, we should be far enough to not be seen and close enough that it will not take long, then you can pick your team and head out." Saren did a Turian salute and left the lieutenant do her thing while he went to help with the outside perimeter of what will soon be the Turian home base.
-9 Hours Later-
"Alright everything is set up and you three will be heading with me into the forest toward the the location of the enemy to do some recon. Let's get a move on people!" Saren went to the forest with (A/N the wiki had nothing on their eyesight, so I am going to say they can see in the dark) they three Turians behind Opitis a infantry, Latana a Cabal and Druvus a combat engineer.
"You know you have to admit, at night this place is gorgeous." The Cabal noted as flying insects that release a iridescent emerald color glow to show even more light to the moon-lit forest.
"Quite right." quipped Druvus as he was scanning the the forest around them.
"What doing?" The infantry voiced his and a little bit of Latana's thoughts.
To which gave a perplexing answer "Scanning the local plant life, to better defeat our enemy."
Saren stop and turned to the engineer clearly annoyed "Plants" he deadpan.
"Your scanning 'Plants' to come up with a plan to beat our enemy." Saren felt like slapping the man.
"Well, you do colonize worlds that work with your body chemistry, and these plants are Levo base. Which we now know what type of food to give captured aliens and what type of nerve gas to use on enemy combatants." Druvus bore a Turian's smug "Smile" as he finished.
"Oh... Well good work." He did NOT want to admit defeat and continued on his way along with his squad, the others were impressed.
The only female of the group had to ask "I thought you were a combat engineer?"
Said engineer gave a simple reply "I ain't a one trick Verren."
They continue their journey through the forest and met only a couple of critters on the way, but luckily (or unlucky if you thirst for adventure) the rest of the walk went uneventful. When they reach the end of the forest is when they met a curious sight.
"Hold." Saren commanded his team and took out his binoculars (A/N They are like star wars so they can zoom in pretty close) to take a look at the dome.
"Now that's weird, hey Druvus I need you to take a look at this and tell me what I am looking at." he grabbed the binoculars and took a peak at the dome.
"Mmmm, lets see... it looks like framework of a... no wait there is a glow, AH HA!" he finish his mutterings "It is a city size barrier shield generator, probably for either Tank rounds firing at the city or orbital bombardment."
Opitis was horrified "You mean to tell me these barbaric primitives, are breaking even more of Citadel law by willing bombard GARDEN worlds!"
Saren had to wonder if that is what he sounded like to Desolas, he shook his head at the thought, he decided to keep his word to his brother and thought REALLY hard of their point of view then took a deep breath "They are not primitives as we can see here and as for the so called 'Willing to bombard garden worlds' they could have enemies that do what they possibly don't do. Keep that in mind ensign." and with that the infantry just looked down in embarrassment while the rest sent a glare at Opitises racist statement. Then they marched forward to the city with purpose and vigilance, being as quiet as the night itself, and they made it to the massive structure.
A/N Ok I will stop there for now, be warned you may notice that some chapters may end up being longer than others and I apologize for that, I hope you guys are liking the story so far, I actually that it was not as bad as I thought it would be in my opinion. Until later I hope you guys can see more of my work and thank you for reading.