Greetings and welcome to the sequel of my story Unlimited Rettousei. To understand this sequel, it will be necessary to have already read that story.
First of all, some explanations.
This sequel will be short, between 7 to 10 chapters.
About the human civilization.
I had the idea of writing a story where all humans have some powers at different levels years ago, I saw a series named Tomorrow people and I always wondered why no one has used that idea as a plotline, even if all the people have the same powers, they had different levels and only the elite are the strongest. The idea of the Asari facing another race where all their members have powers will be interesting, the fact that those powers have nothing to do with the element zero will make things even more interesting, in the case of the Tomorrow people series, I always wondered how they will react to the telepathy and teleportation powers.
In this story, after one hundred years, all the humans are magus, each person has different levels and only a few of them are S class, the S means Servant.
About the Human tech.
The Flubber: As I said before I got this idea after I saw a movie of Robin Willians of the same name after his death. I got the idea to use it to replace element zero in the development of Human tech because of its properties. Considering that it can control gravity, generate power and repeal kinetic energy, but more importantly, that it is created in a laboratory make it perfect to be the base of the human teach vs the mass effect tech.
Ships: In all the stories that I had read they always use the ships of Star Trek and Star Gate, I love those series but I want to do something different from the other stories, so no I will not be using those ships designs.
I chose two different types of ships based on two concepts.
1-They don't have the command bridge in the most vulnerable part of the ship.
2-The crew needs to have a special power to be able to interact with the ship's system and be able to use the full potential of the ships.
The type of ship that will replace the Normandy of mass effect, will be the sword breaker class, from the series Lost Universe, if you want to see how it looks you can see it if you look for the opening "Lost Universe - opening". I am also planning to use the main weapon of this ship on the others ships that I will be using.
The type of ship that I will use as a heavy carrier will be the "Shangri la" class from the series Terra e. This ship has the command bridge exposed, but when they got into battle stations the command bridge gets inside of the ship. If you want to see how it looks you can see it looking for the intro "Terra e op 1". I will make some changes to include bigger landing pods.
Complaint/suggestion: As I said I love Star Gate and their stories; it is that I just do not understand why they never adopted the philosophy of creating fighters and other vehicles that can pass through the Star Gate, in special when they had the jumpers. Talking with another writer he told me that the F 302 is easier to build because the goa'uld tech is inferior to the ancient tech, that is true but with so many years in Atlantis and with teams that can fix damage jumpers, I believe that by that moment they would understand the basis of that tech to create a new fighter. If I would make a new fighter for a Star Gate story, I would use a frame that not only already exists, but also can pass through the Star Gate, in this case, I would use the X 29 Grumman and add the tech to fold the wings forward. Then I will take from a jumper the engines, power generator, shields, neural interface, and cloak device and adapt them into the X 29, I would also add mini reactionless engines in the base of the wings and front ailerons. I mean after so many years of operating in the space they must realize that they need to add the capacity to dogfight in zero-G. Also, the long body of an X 29 will allow placing a hyperdrive that is not as compact as the one on the F 302. Sorry, I just wanted to give my opinion about that topic.
The fighters. There is only one fighter that has been used as a noble phantom and for that its information must be on SERAPH, I will use some adaptation and add new tech based on the Emerald crystal developed by Rin.
The fleet. I plan to show two human fleets, the one on the first contact war and the one that they build after that. By doing this I plan to show the development and adaptation of human tech, how they learn which concepts work and which ones don't. I believe that no one has shown the development of the human fleets after the first contact war and that is why I want to do it.
While looking at what kind of ships I could use for my story, I found a video that shows an SA-43 Hammerhead vs YSS-1000 Sabre. I didn't choose any of those fighters but I got curious about the carrier that uses the SA-43 Hammerhead, I found that it belongs to an old series named Space Above & Beyond and that they had also carriers, the USS Saratoga. I will use that carrier as the one that the human will use on the first contact war and that later will be replaced for the new generation of ships.
The relationship with the Citadel. It can only be described as a cold war.
I had others surprise in mind but you will have to read my story to find out what I had in mind. Also, I will be changing the timeline.
Now with the chapter begins.
2120.
Humans land on Mars for the first time.
2125. The year that the human race learned that they were alone in the universe and that not all the races are peaceful when Merlin, the leader of CHALDEA, reveal to the world a record that shows an alien, a real alien, giving a terrible warning "Beware of the reapers, that is the warning that I give to whoever found this place that could be the last vestige of my people, we were once a powerful empire, but we were attacked without provocation by an enemy that we didn't know, they just come out of nowhere and without a warning or mercy they began to destroy our civilization. First, we try diplomacy but they never answer our calls, that is when we chose to fight but they were too powerful and the knowledge that they possessed of the Mass Effect technology was far more advanced than ours. We try our best but ..". at that moment the image of the alien was distorted, they could see that he was still talking but the audio was damaged, but the video shows strange ships that look like a squid coming out from a strange structure in the space as it began to destroy alien ships, the final image is of that squid ship landing on a planet. Then the audio return. "I am afraid that I may be the last of my kind and there is nothing else that I can do but to wait for the death, but if by some miracle this base is found by someone else, please, by the ancestors get ready and do not trust the Mass Relays" with that the transmission ended.
What followed was chaos as all the reporters wanted to know what happened, all at the same time, but that is when Kiritsugu stand up and make everybody shut up. Then he proceeds to explain that the record was old, very old, almost fifty thousand years old and that some of the records were damaged. That mass effect is the term used to the technology base on strange elements that can change the mass of any object and finally that the mass relays were a method of transportation even older than the alien that gives them the warning, also revealing that the name of the race of that alien is Prothean.
At that moment Merling continues after Kiritsugu sits down.
"As Kiritsugu has informed you, those events happened over fifty thousand years and there is no way to know that these reappear are still alive or if they will ever return, but we cannot deny that we had just found out that not all the races that we will meet in the future will be peaceful and we must be ready, I know that many of you are wondering why we should risk ourselves in the outer space if we can just stay here, and you may be right if there is not for the fact that there is a mass relay in the orbit of Pluto. We need to accept that even if we chose to stay in the Sol system, there is a chance that sooner or later someone will visit us and may not have peaceful intentions, for my part I would prefer to have the front lines and any point of encounter with an alien as far as possible from Earth"
In the Emiya mansion, all the presents knew that he was giving a modified version, he wasn't lying but wasn't telling the all truth either, but they could understand why he was doing it, one hundred years ago the humans from earth learned that magic was real and not today they had learned that Alien lives is real and not all of them are friendly.
What follows on Chaldea was the announcement of their new policy for the future.
All military forces on the planet will be joining to create and new one that will protect Earth and its territories.
A new fleet must be created able to take the fight away from the homeworld.
All the resources available must be placed to increase the current base of our new technology based on magic.
2127.
The construction of the orbital ring, a huge space station that will have the form of a ring around Earth, begins. Normally this kind of project would have been considered impossible, but two key factors make it possible. The first factor was SERAPH. the ancient computer that was on the moon in the Chaldea HQ, has provided with the blueprints about how to create that, event them there were very few people in the world that could use those blueprints. The second factor was that an event called the awakening, ever since the end of the battle of Yokohama in 2099, all the babies that were born were magus, however, around 2116 some of them began to show special skills, even among the magus, it was later discovered that these kids were born with magic circuits of super quality, so far only the Emiya family has magic circuits of that quality, it was in that moment that they found out the cause, these kids were Pseudo-servants. When the Emiya family learns this, they went to Merlin to find answers. That is when they learned that the gates of the throne of heroes are now open and the souls of the legendary figures in human history will be returning to increase their chance of survival. That so far, all the kids that were born as Pseudo-servant belong to the caster class, not the legendary magicians, but scientists that with their work advanced the human civilization, names like Einstein, Edison, Tesla, Faraday, Volta, amounted the ones that had been born so far and with the power that they receive from their legends, the knowledge of the modern era and the full support of Chaldea, the project of the space ring and many others become possible. In later years all of them will become part of the seats of Avalon.
Also, the revelation about how people that were born with the power of legendary figures and heroes become public that same year. In later years when the people asked merlin why he revealed that information to the public, he answers "The world had just learned that they will be facing the biggest war in all their history, to overcome that information they need hope and what gives more hope than the return of their heroes".
2128.
Over the years many of the mythical creatures that have repapered in the modern world had integrated into human society. Now is normal to see elves, centaurs, and other creatures in human cities, colleges, and other places. Some creatures like dragons and Pegasus are considered endangered species and under the protection of Chaldea law.
Many cities began a process of renovation to adapt to the use of all the new tech and people that they are received.
2130.
Chaldea absorbed the seats of Avalon, some of the new members and the Emiya family are not happy about that but understand that it needs to be done, with the future war against the reapers and their role in the advancement of the human tech, they had just become too important to lose them.
2132.
A team led by Rin Emiya and Dave Stutler managed to refine the process of creating emerald crystals, as well as othercrystals that have Flubberas a base.The prototype that used this new crystal in its FTL system managed to get 21.9 light-years per day.
2137
The moon is now completely terraformed, Mars and Venus are expected to be ready in the next two years.
2138.
Gate magi-tech is developed by the seat of Avalon, Taurus Silver also known as Tatsuya Emiya, after years of studying the teleportation spells of his older siblings and seeing his older brother UBW, Tatsuya realize that they didn't teleport themselves they just enter a different dimension in one place and come out in another place. Using this revelation, he manages to create a spell that works as a gate that joins two different points between distances, but the range is limited, however, it could be used as a way to place people and equipment from Earth to a ship that is on orbit.
This discovery speeds up the construction of the space ring that is planned to be used as a big shipyard to build the future human fleet.
2141.
The Prothean dreadnought that was found in Mars if finally restored, the military began to use it to run simulations to see how well their tech will face this mass effect tech. they were surprised to discover that their second generation of FTS system was already faster than the one used on the Prothean ships, they also learned that all the systems of that ship depend on element zero, from weapons to communications. They also discover that their defense system has a program to detect signals that also use elements zero as a way to identify those threats, it is seen that when the sensors detect a mass effect signature in their direction, they catalog it as a threat.
One of the officers that were part of this project then as a simple question. "What happened if the object does not have any mass effect tech?"
They began to test that idea with an object that was placed in a collision course against that ship, to their surprise the ship defines that object as space trash in a collision course and only activates the automatic defense when it was too close.
After that, they make another experiment when they put another object, but this time to pass in parallel to the ship, with no risk of impact, the computer detects it but did nothing to stop it.
Combat simulations were created to use that information in a possible battle against ships that use mass effect.
2142.
The star eagle is born, when the military was beginning to study possible candidates to be the first space fighter of Earth forces, they were surprised when SERAPH sends then the image of an F 15 eagle, every time that they try to try a different design, SERAPH send them once again the image of an F 15. That was something that the engineers in charge of that project couldn't understand. It was later that when Merlin hears about this problem that he decides to take a look, the fact that he used that as an excuse to escape paperwork has nothing to do with his desire to help.
When Merlin took a look into the trouble, he reveals what was happening. "SERAPH is trying to give you the mistic code of a noble phantom, it is seen that in one part of the multiverse an F 15 was used as a noble phantom and that is why its information is on SERAPH database, use that basic form to develop the fighter that you want and you will see that the result will surpass your dreams"
When the engineers learned that fact they began to work, keeping the form as close as the original as it was possible, in the end, they manage to use the frame of the silent eagle, the idea behind this was to use the internal weapons compartments to protect the missiles when the fighter fly from the space into an atmosphere.
While the extremal appearance belongs to an F 15 silent eagle, but the inside was completely different as the more advanced techno magi were used to build it. The two engines were replaced with a fly magic device because the flying devices were smaller and more powerful than the original engines, which leave a lot of free space inside the star eagle, so the engineers place an emerald crystal power generator to power all the system and there is still enough free room inside to add more missiles, the machinegun was replaced with two Psion particles projectors placed at both sides of the cockpit. Because it uses a fly magic device the star eagle also can vertical take-off and landing.
2143.
The first space carrier of Earth is complete in a small space station that works as a shipyard, the CAS Saratoga (Chaldea Alliance Ship) is completed.
2145.
The new generation of FTL systems manages to achieve a speed of 30 lightyears per day. Sadly, that marks the limit of that path of techno magi as the Emeral crystals cannot be refined further, which also means that the FTL communications were limited to a similar range in live time transmission. That limit will not be surpassed until years later, just in time for the event that will later be called the first contact war, and the person responsible to fix this situation is another member of the Emiya family, Sakura Emiya.
New experiments begin to develop alternative FTL systems.
2152.
The internal part of the space ring is completed and in that same year, hundreds of shipyards began to build the CAS fleet, the first carrier to come from these new shipyards is the C.A.S Enterprise.
2164.
With a big fleet protecting Earth and with a population that keeps growing, Chaldea finally approve to move out of the sol system. However, there is a rule that they must follow when they chose to colonize a planet, the planet must be death and they need to terraform it, the reason for this rule is because of a message from Gaia that Merlin told to the world. "What if when the humans were nothing more than apes, another race had come to Earth and colonized it, what would happen with those apes, would they still have the chance to evolve? Now you need to give others the opportunity to evolve in their own planet"
The system on the other side of the Earth relay is colonized and named Genesis. Plans to remove the relays began.
2168.
A new FTL system is discovered, it was based on the gate tech magi developed by Tatsuya Emiya and the wormhole theory developed by Steven Hopkins, considering that he is back on Earth as a Pseudo servant that makes the work easier. The theory behind this idea is that near the orbit of each star exist micros wormholes, so they send a drone into the orbit of the sun, and when it detects a micro wormhole, it will activate its FTL drive, they were hoping that this will send the drone from the orbit of the Sol to the orbit of a near star, in this case, the star of the Genesis star system.
Many drones were destroyed in the process before they find the data that allow them to use those corridors that they named Jump nodes and it works, the drone jumped over 200 LY in an instant, but later they determinate that this type of FTL is too dangerous to be used.
Steven Hopkins even said. "Only the luckiest ship in the fleet could attempt this method."
However, the data that they gathered will be later used to develop a new type of FTL system.
2199.
Chaldea territory expands to 10 star systems. They are still looking for a way to remove the relays from their territory.
The space ring is now complete after the construction ended the external ring.
2200.
In this year happen the biggest discovery that changed the face of human tech magi and once again that discovery was made by a member of the seats of Avalon. Sakura, Shirou, and Rin and came in the form of an accident.
All happen when Sakura went to visit the laboratory that Rin and other new members were using, they were still trying to develop a new power source that will allow the creation of a new FTL system.
It wasn't the first time that Sakura visit them, in special when Shirou was also helping them with his knowledge of metals and materials, but this time she brings a present, two flower vases that had some of the flowers that can only be found inside Shirou's UBW.
The nature of the UBW has changed and now allows the girls free access at any moment and place, you could say that now that their legend is linked together with the legend of Shirou it is only natural that this happens. Another change that happened with this union was that the UBW now looks like a paradise in comparison with the original version, now it has mountains, pasture fields, flowers, and lakes.
These flowers however were special, they had crimson red petals with anthers and stamens as golden as the sun. but that wasn't what made them special, these were the first flowers that she has managed to bring outside the UBW and cultivate them.
After a small talk with Shirou and Rin, Sakura place the flower vases on their desks and was about to leave when an electronic noise attracts the attention of all the present because of its intensity, one of the technicians was calibrating the sensors just place one on Rin desk.
That was strange. Because those sensors were calibrated to detect subspace anomalies, believing that something is wrong with that sensor, the technician replace it with a new one, but once again the sensor activate its alert noise.
That attract the attention of Rin that took one of the sensors and began to scan her desk and everything that was on it. At that moment she scanned the flowers, Rin's eyes got so big, and before anyone could ask her what is happening, she jumps to Shirou's desk and also scanned the flowers when the result was the same, she began to laugh happily and shows all the present the result of the scanners.
The source of the subspace anomalies were the flowers, later investigation will reveal it wasn't just subspace anomalies, but that those flowers were producing zero-point energy.
They began to run simulations on those flowers and it shows that in their natural state are harmless, but when the aloe from the flowers is crystalized with Flubber in thesame process used to create Emerald crystal, not only the energy output but the subspace frequencies were out of scale.
Considering the risk of this new form of energy, Chaldea order that all experiments related to this new form of energy should be realized on a distant planet that was in the process to be colonized. The name of that new planet was Eden and in time will become the more heavily defended planet in Chaldea territory after Earth, considering that this is the place where the new crystals are created.
They give these flowers the name of Flowers of Life.
A few weeks later they did it, a Ruby crystal.
This crystal can generate an unbelievable quantity of power as well as generate sub-space frequencies never seen before.
The data recollected by Tatsuya and Steven Hopkins also help to discover a new application to the gate tech developed by Tatsuya.
By using a combination of Emerald crystals and Rubi crystals they could create a defined path between two structures. However, those structures can only make a portal between them. For example, if you are on planet A and want to go to the planet D, you need to past for the structure that links planet A with the planet B, from the structure that links planet B with planet C, and finally with the structure that links planet C with planet D.
As strange as it sounds the military loves this because that means that if a planet fell under enemies' hands, they cannot use to send an army to earth, they would need to pass through many control points.
They chose to applicate this new techno-magic in the form of big gates that looks like the Arc de Triomphe in France and New York. Since that day this new invention will be known as The Gate.
They also began to study the way to use this discovery to create a new FTL system that will allow their ships to move faster than their current limits of 30 LY per day.
In that same year, right after the first Ruby crystal was created, SERAPH sends a new file that has the blueprints of a new project, something called the Titan project.
This project was something that attract the attention of all the seats of Avalon, so far following the rules of Gaia, they found dead planets and terraform them. But the Titan project will allow them to create a new planet that could be a copy of the biosphere of Earth.
It will be the biggest collective project since the space ring, but in the end, they succeeded after 15 years of work.
2215.
The moment the seats of Avalon have worked for the last 15 finally pays off when the Titan project is completed. The Chaldea high command chose to create a planet on a strategic place in the galaxy to facilitate the expansion in different sectors in that region.
The entire Earth and its colonies were looking at the broadcast that show the event. They saw how a ship that looks like an egg, began to project three energy beans and rotate, attracting the asteroids and ice rocks that were in that part of the space. Before their eyes, they saw how the planet began to take form, after one hour, they could see a planet that looks just as life as Earth.
Everyone celebrates on Chaldea space cerebrate for this incredible event. But that wasn't the only surprise of that day because when they send drones to see this new planet, they saw something that has only happened in fairy tales, the drones send images of flying islands like the ones that exist in the novels and fantasy anime but now, they were real.
It was later found that because the Titan use Emerald and Ruby crystals some of their properties were transmitted to the planet and while it has normal continents and islands, they were also those flying islands, however, because now everyone can use the flight magic, that situation does not represent any trouble for them.
The name of this new planet is Shanxi.
That same year construction workers arrive on colony ships; their mission was to build a gate that will link Shanxi with the planet Oasis that is the four planed in the chain that led towards Earth. As well and the basic infrastructure to begin to receive colonists.
At the end of that year, a new mass relay in the Shanxi system is found, following the protocol a Marine garrison is sent as a precaution as well as a patrol group.
That same year, the Shangri La, a new ship was developedto test their new FTL is finished, this ship not only has the standard FTL system but also a new fold system that in theory could provide instant transportation between two points.
The test was a success, in fact, was better than they expected when the Shangri La travel a distance of 75 LY in a second, according to the data from the test they could go further but after the range of 75 LY, they can no longer guaranty that they will not collide with any object on the space. However, when they jump into a space that they know and had the navigation coordinates, they could jump further, something that they prove when they jump from the colony Valhalla to the colony of New Cairo, both of them were separated by 20137 LY and the Shangri La travel that distance in a second. There is no known limit to the distance that the fold FTL has because they do not have a complete map of the entire galaxy, but they were satisfied with that result.
The security council of Chaldea gives the order that only military ships will have this new system and if the ship is ever compromised, the crew must destroy the engines even if that means destroying the ship with the crew still aboard.
This new fold system also answers the question about how they will be able to remove the mass relays from their territory, plans to remove the Earth relay began that same year, with the other relays following.
2216.
Plans to replace their current warships with a new generation that integrate the fold systems are approved.
The Shanxi relay is opened and a small group of ships is sent to explore the near space. One of the Ships is the CAS Magallanes, now one knows at that moment but that ship is about to make history.
The story begins now.
"Coming out of FTL," said the navigator as their ship just appeared after a flash of light.
"What are the sensors readying?" asked captain Anderson.
"There is not a ship detected but I am reading a planet in the inhabitant zone of this solar system" answer the sensors operator.
"Well, that is interesting, we should take a look, after all this is our mission," said Anderson.
The mission of the C.A.S Magallanes (Chaldea Alliance Ship) was to be part of the Shield Operation.
It consists in explore the area near a mass relay to gather information about any possible danger of resources that could be found. And if necessary to move the front lines of any possible war as far away as possible from Earth.
When they were ready, they activate the relay and advanced to the next system, after they secure that system and fortified it, they repeat the operation with the other relay that was in the system that leads them to another Solar system. This procedure keeps repeated up until now.
And now the C.A.S Magallanes has begun the standard procedure to activate the relay and travel to find where it leads, place a tachyons beacon, and began to explore the space around the system.
Because of the high level of danger in this mission, all ships that made the first travel by an unknown relay must have at less two squadrons of space marines, marines that receive extensive training and are talented in combat magic. After doing it ten times, many had a feeling of routine with this kind of mission.
After they have arrived at the other side of the relay they activated the sensors that were calibrated with a new version of the Drake equation to find new planets, this was something interesting because thanks to their sensors and that equation they have to manage to find even more planets that can support life, but that was too far away from the relays to be practical given the limitation of the FTL drive that uses this mass effect tech, according to the study of the ship that they found in Mars.
Now they are in the orbit of a new planet.
"Sir, the sensors said that this planet can support life, but there is something else, I am reading the vestiges of some ruins on the western continent," said the Sensor Operator.
"Any sign of intelligent life?" asked Anderson.
"Nothing that I can see in the sensors."
"This could be a great discovery, what should we do captain?" asked his XO.
"Send a message to Admiral Hackett, tell him what we found and that we will send a team into the planet to take a close look."
While this was happening, a few light-years away. An old ship speed down, it was medium size ship that looks pretty old, it still works but its glory days were gone as its patched-up hull shows a history of overuse.
"Are you sure that this is a good idea Tali?" asked an alien in a spacesuit.
"We have already talked about this over the hundredth times Lenos" answer the one named Tali.
"We are taking a big risk here," said another one.
"But the promise of reward is even greater Tarlok" answer Tali, that looking at the last two members of the crew she asked. "What about you, Rafil, Zona, do you have second thoughts about this?"
"It will be a fool to get back now that we have arrived at this point." Answered Rafil.
"We need this, this is our opportunity, to make a difference to our people."
"Well then, we will continue with the plan as some as the drive core cold down to make the next point," said Tali.
What is this plan that made these five Quarians come to this remote part of the space?
Well, all began when Tali was doing her pilgrimage journey, trying to find some so great for their migrant fleet that will not only help their people but also allow her to get out of her father's shadow. And the opportunity to do that comes when she was working on a shipyard that fixes private ships, one day an Asari named Aria come asking for any Captain that could be willing to take her request for a long journey trip in uncharted space.
At first, Tali believes that she was crazy, but when she comes to ask the captain of the ship that she was working on and told her reason for wanting to make that journey. It looks that this Aria is an archology that specialize in Prothean and she comes to the theory that if the Prothean had more advanced FTL drives based on element zero, then they could colonize planets that are at a farther distance from the relays, which means that there could be unknowns ruins of the Prothean waiting to be found.
That attracted Tali attention and used the video camera on her suit to record the rest of the talk; when the captain of the ship refuses her like the other Captains, she even uses her Omni toll to show him a space cart when she pointed the locations where she believes there could be the ruins. Unfortunately for her, this causes the contrary effect as the captain said that the distance was too far and that the time and resources to only get there will be too great to take the risk without a promise of a reward and the captain end their conversation.
That night after work, Tali began to study the space cart that she manages to record and realize that those Captains were right, the distance between the relays were too great that they will need some of the biggest transport ship caring around half of their capacities with Element zero to be able to make the trip. She was about to dismiss all this when she saw it, the space between the relays 313 and the relay 314 was not as big as the other locations.
She began to make calculations and saw that a middle size transport ship should be able to make the trip. She began to get excited, if she found some Prothean ruins that not even the council knows about, that would give the admiral board an advantage that they could use in the future.
But there was one problem, she did not have a middle size ship or the Element zero to make that trip, that is when she decides to ask her childhood friends for their help, she knew that they were also doing their pilgrimage. It took her some time to convince them, but after they all agree to do it, they manage to use all their salving to get an old and damaged transport ship, that they fix themselves to save some money, and it took them another year to get enough Element zero to make the trip. But now they are here.
And this trip already proves to be a success as in their third week of the journey they found an asteroid field with great deposits of element zero that is away from the council patrols, that alone would be enough to make this trip a success, but they wanted more and chose to continue the trip, now another three weeks later they are about to arrive at their destination.
"This will make a difference to our people," said Tali as they got ready for the final jump before they arrive at their target location.
Back on the planet.
The C.A.S Magallanes is now in orbit on that planet, right above the ruins.
In the portal room, a squat of space marines and a group of scientists are ready to get down to the planet, while the marines are wearing their combat armor and gear, the scientists are using a civilian model, it looks that this will be an easy mission, not the kind that usually requires the space marines that were present on the ship, but better be safe than sorry, so the marines will make the first recon in the city in ruins to make sure that there is no danger.
"Portal opening in 5,4,3,2,1 GO!" said the technician as an energy portal appears at the other side of the room, right on the wall that has a big door frame made of metal and crystals, at that moment the marines and scientists walked through the portal; in one step they were still in their ship and in next step, they were on the planet.
"Look this place," said corporal Ashley Willians, she looks around what appeared to be the main street. Ashley was a rookie marine but her skill is real.
"This must have been a great city on its time," said S.G Kasumi Goto, the recognition expert.
"It makes you wonder what could happen here?" asked L.T Nick Shepard. "I said that we must be looking for the buildings that look like the government center of this colony, the fact that only this city exists on this planet tells me that it must be a new colony when whatever happened hit this place." Said Kain as he began to walk with the other marines following him in a protecting formation around the scientists.
"Also have you seen? The writing that we have found so far on those buildings is the same as the ruins that we found on Mars," said Ashley.
"A new question for the eggheads to find out," said Kasumi.
After a while when they confirmed that there is no danger in the area more crew members began to explore the city.
Back in the Magallanes. It has already been a day since they arrive on this planet, everything goes as normal, and the bridge crew was doing their job as usual.
Until.
"Sir I got a contact entering this system, the readings said that is compatible with the energy signature from the ships that we found on Mars!" said a sensor operator.
"How many?" asked Anderson.
"Just one, according to their trajectory and speed they should arrive here in two hours."
"Call all the teams and tell them to return to the Magallanes, tell them to pick up everything and do leave nothing behind."
The teams that were exploring the city received the orders and hurry up to the ship.
After they got in, they receive a resume of the situation.
"Should we meet them in the space?" asked Kasumi.
"From what we can see they haven't detected us yet, so we can activate the cloaking system, that will allow us to gather information about them so we can decide if we can make contact or not" – Nick.
"How do we know that they can't detect us even with our cloak system?" asked Ashley.
"The ship that we found on mars never could." Answer Anderson
"So, we are putting a trap?" asked Ashley.
"So far is only one ship and we do not believe that they may pose a danger to us and even if they do, either we fight or we escape, but for now we need to gather as much information as we can."
"What are our orders, sir?" asked Nick.
"We will remain hidden while we study them before we made the next choice, I already send a message to the Shanxi fleet and they agree, they told us to proceed with precaution, while this could end in a battle this could also be the first time that the human race made contact with an alien race."
So, while the crew of the Magallanes receives their order. The Quarian ship has arrived at the orbit of the planet and its occupants were beyond happy.
"The sensors detect a city in ruins on the planet, must be Protheans, see I told you that I was right," said Tali with a big smile.
"I must admit that I have my reservations," said Lenos. With the others agreeing with him.
"That doesn't matter anymore, what it matters is that we will be the more successful Quarians that have ever taken the Pilgrimage journey, now let's get down and begin to explore that city, hope that they have a souvenir store".
With that said they began to land their ship close to that city. Once it landed, they began to explore the city in groups.
A few hours later.
"This place is amazing, even I that I'm not an archaeologist can appreciate that," said Tarlok.
"I wonder what kind of colony this place was," asked Rafil.
"We should leave that to the experts on the migrant fleet to find out," said Zona.
"There has never been a discovery like this in centuries," said Lenos.
"I am checking the north sector, had any of you found any scientific or storage facility?" asked Tali over the radio. Receiving all negative answers.
"This colony looks like it was abandoned around the same time that the Protheans disappears, I wonder what could happen?"
"This colony looks that it was abandoned around the same time that the Protheans disappears, I wonder what could happen?"
That could be heard in the bridge of the Magallanes as the translation program reproduce all the talks that have been interceded by their comm. Officer.
"They sound young, maybe even kids," said Ashley.
"You could almost believe that this is some kind of game to them" added Kasumi.
"For me, I am just happy that they don't look hostiles." Said Nick.
"I agree, from their talk we can guess a few things and now we have learned their language, we will give them time for them to return to their ship so they can feel safer before we made contact with them, with luck they can introduce us to their leader so."
"Captain I am reading a new contact! this time a lot bigger than this Quarians ship and is moving faster they should be in orbit in a few minutes, we didn't see it until now because we turn off all the active systems that could reveal or position" said the sensors officer.
"Do you think that they are friends of these kids?" asked Anderson.
"Impossible to know but they use the same propulsion method that the ship that those kids use to come here."
"I guess we will need to wait and see," said Kasumi.
However, they didn't have to wait too long for an answer, and they didn't like it.
"Keelah! There is a Batarian Dreadnought on-orbit!" said Tali after she saw the alert on her Omni Tool.
"But how is that possible!" said a worried Lenos.
"That don'ts matter! We need to get to the ship and escape!"
"Even if we made to the ship there is no way to escape a Dreadnought!"
"I don't care we have to try something, anything, to escape those slavers!"
"Did she say slavers?" asked Ashley as she like the rest hear the radio talk.
"Tali is right, I prefer to die fighting that allows those pieces of garbage to chain us and force us to work until we died, shit they have deployed dropships, we need to hurry up," said Rafil.
The young Quarian meet in the clear on the forest that was in front of their ship but before they could get there a fighter made a past and fire at their ship, destroying it in the act. The force of the explosion knout then down.
"Is everyone ok?" asked Tali as she stands up.
"We are still alive."
"We need to run to the forest before they can find us."
"And then what, we just lose our only way out of here."
"One problem at the time, first we must avoid being captured."
With that, the five Quarians run towards the forest.
As soon as they arrive at the trees an open radio transmission was transmitted to their Omni tools.
"Listen up suits rats, I am Brater Captain is this Dreadnought, when we detect your ship in our long-range sensors I believe that you were heading to a Quarian secret meeting point, so we had been following you for all this time, but instead you bring us to a place with a great deposit of Element zero and a new garden world with Prothean ruins, for that, I should thank you and as a reward, I will make you my personals pets, you should be honored for that. Now surrender, there is no way that you can escape this."
The Quarians that hear this began to fear their destiny, but before they could think of something a new voice could be heard.
"I don't think so!"
A few minutes before in the Magallanes.
"Sir? What should we do?" asked the navigator.
"Those bastards are slavers! Of course, that we should kick their assess," said Ashley.
"Begin a conflict with a new unknown race? The HQ will be against that," said Anderson.
"Sir, with all due respect, I know that you are considering taking action, either talking or fighting that means that we need to make contact with them, tell them to stand down and if they turn hostile, we will show them what we think about slavers," said Nick.
After a few moments of thinking, Anderson made his choice. Turning to look at the three space Marines before him he said.
"Get ready and wait for my order, open a channel, let them know that we are here!" at that moment he hears the captain of that Batarian ship, and he immediately replies.
"I don't think so!"
"Who said that?" asked a surprised Brater.
"I am captain Anderson of the C.A.S Magallanes, we arrive at this system a little before that the Quarian ship, we chose to hide our presence to study and learn their language while listening to their radio talks to determinate if was possible to make first contact with them, something we were about to do when you arrive and open fire and destroy a ship that can't defend themselves and treat to slave its crew"
"So, what they are just rats in suits."
"We recommend that you leave this system while you can."
"Listen up your ignorant fool! We the Batarian are the chosen people by the gods and we have the right to slave all the galaxy, I don't know how do you look like but being the first one to have slaves of a new species will rise my reputation, so you better surrender your ship and get ready to serve your new masters, after that, we will take the navigational data of your ship so we can have a new world full of slaves ready to serve the glory of the Batarian Hegemony"
"You are sending your men to die; you have no chance to defeat us" was Anderson's calm voice.
"Fool, what can a defenseless exploration ship do against my ship."
"I never said that the Magallanes was a defenseless exploration ship, this is your last warning, leave this system or die."
"I will enjoy putting the chains on you and your crew."
"Have it your way" and with that Anderson close the channel.
Looking at the comm. Officer, he said.
"Tell the marines that they are clear to go."
"Attention all marines, you are clear to go, I repeat you are clear to go." Said the portal operator as he active the portal to allow the marines to be deployed right behind the enemy.
In the inside of the ship, in a special chamber reserved for the transformation process Nick, Ashley and Kasumi look at each other as they nod their heads and raise their hands with their crystal.
While this was happening, the Magallanes began to move, the truth is that they could fire the Batarian ship from their current position, but he wanted information about their sensors, so he will close as much as possible to determine if their cloak tech could defeat their sensor after he gathers as much information as he can, he will give the order to shot those idiots out of the space.
The five Quarian people are running for their lives as they got deeper into the forest.
"What was that voice?!"
"I don't know, maybe this is just a trick to make us drop our guard so they can capture us easier."
"Just keep running, we need to find a place to hide us."
"Freeze you rats!" said a group of Batarian soldiers that were chasing after them. But the Quarians just keep running as fast as they can, but they must stop when they saw another group of Batarian soldiers just in front of them.
"This is it," said one of the Quarians as they saw that they were surrounded.
"Get ready to serve your new masters you suit rats," said the leader of the first group as he began to walk towards them, but then a beam of energy pierces his head killing him at that moment.
"What happened?" asked the squadron leader.
"I am the L.T Nick Shepard from the Chaldea Alliance marines, at this moment you are surrounded by a squad of marines and all of them are ready to open fire at my order, if you surrender now, I give you my word that we will not kill you," said a voice from an unknown location as the Batarians were trying to find him.
"Destroy him!" order the leader as he and his men began to fire in all directions.
"You had your chance," said Nick in his black battle armor as he took his magic tool, it has the form of an old M1 Garand rifle on the outside, but on the inside, it was one of the more powerful weapons ever created, ever since the military began to integrate mistic codes in their equipment's and weapons they took advantage of the weapons of the past that had made history on their own and there are very few that could be said to be in the same level of the rifle that was once described as the greatest battle implement ever devised.
"Asley, on my mark," said Nick.
"Roger that"- Asley.
"Now!" Nick.
At that moment Asley active her magic and the ground under the feet of the Batarians began to glow a magic circle and before they could do anything that glow become energy that throw them up to the skies.
At that moment Nick and the other marines shot at the Batarians that were on the air with their spells, some Batarians turn into ice that break a second later, others were burned to the ashes, but the ones that were Nick target saw how a field create a difference of pressures making them explode, creating a rain of blood.
Back to the Quarians.
They just could not believe that they just saw, they were hunted by a group of Batarians and when they believed that all hope was lost a strange voice come out of nowhere and order the Batarians to surrender and when they refuse, they, a moment later they her send by a strange force toward the skies where they were killed on a different way.
"Are you ok?" said the same voice that a moment ago ordered the Batarians to surrender, but this time it come from behind them. Turning around they saw nothing.
"Over here," said the voice again. This time Tali and her friends raise their eyes and saw a group of strange creatures that were flying in the air.
"What are you?" was all that Tali could say, she knew that they were in a very delicate situation. These creatures were like nothing that she has ever seen before, and they were an unknown species because so far, no species of the citadel could fly, not even the Asari with their biotics could do something like this and she has three of these creatures flying right above them.
"We are Marines from the Chaldea Alliance, but our species is called humans, I am the L.t Nick Shepard," said the one that is seen to be the leader as he and the others landed before them.
"What is going to happen to us?" asked one of the Quarians that was next to Tali.
"We had no intention to hurt any of you is that is what you are worried about," said another of the flying creatures that are next to their leader.
"But what about the Batarians there are more in the forest," said Tali.
The leader of this group put his hand next to his head and began to talk in a language that she does not understand, then turn to see them again.
"The rest of the Batarians are death, the second squat gives them the chance to surrender but they ignore it and try to attack them, the result was the same as what just happened here."
"Even if you kill all the ground soldiers there is still that dreadnought in orbit," said other of the Quarians.
"We only need to wait" was the answer of the leader of that group.
"Wait for what?" asked Tali.
At that moment a new transmission come because they could see how all of them raise their hands to one side of their helmets and a few moments later they began to move and talk between them, Tali was not an expert on alien culture but they are seen to be happy.
"We just receive confirmation, the Magallanes has just destroyed the Batarian ship," said Nick as he removes the mask of his helmet, allowing Tali and the others to see a human face for the first time. In their minds, they couldn't help but compare them with the Asari.
"What is going to happen now?" asked Lenos, worried about what these creatures will do to them.
"We had no hostile intentions towards you if that is what is worrying you, we were about to make contact with you when those Batarian show up, what is their problem," asked a new figure from behind them, when Tali and the others Quarians turn around they see another group of creatures in black armor flying in the air but were in the process to landing.
"They believe that because they had four eyes, they are the chosen one of the Protheans and all others race must serve them" answer Tali.
"Are you done Kasumi?" asked Nick Shepard
"Yes, I collected their weapons so the egg heads can study them"
"Good. What about our side?"
"I just finish gathering their weapons and equipment" answer Ashly as she active her Conceptual Storage Device (CSD) and right before the eyes of the Quarians all the weapons of the Batarians were absorbed into an energy circle.
"What was that, what is that thing that we just saw?" asked one of Tali's friends, Tarlok.
"A conceptual store device, is a tool meant to store equipment, cargo, and other objects, don't you have something like this?" asked Nick.
"No, we didn't even know that the mass effect tech could do something like this" answer Tali.
"Mass effect tech? you mean tech base on element zero right?" asked Kasumi.
"What else? Every spacefaring civilization uses mass effect as the base of their technology" answer Tali.
"We don't" was Nick's answer. When saw the surprised look on their faces he continues. "There is no deposit of element zero in our home system, by the time that we found the ruins of a Prothean base that has a store of it, we had already developed our own FTL system and artificial gravity and it has a better performance of the one use on the ship that we found on the base, so we determinate that there is no need to use the element zero"
That was something that surprised the Quarians.
"How is that even possible, there had never been a species that develop FTL tech without a mass effect field," said Rafil.
"Well, you just meet the first one, but now the real question is what is going to happen from here on, do you have any way to send a message to your people?" asked Nick.
"No. all our equipment was destroyed with the ship" – Tali.
"L.t, Captain Anderson ordered us to return to the Magallanes, he also tells us to offer an invitation to the Quarrians as well," said Kasumi.
"Well, what do you say? Do you want a lift out of this planet?"
Seeing that they had no other choice they agree.
At that moment a big energy circle appears before them, surprising the Quarrians, but not as much as seeing how these creatures, humans, walked through it as it was something normal. After a few moments, the only ones left on the planet are the Quarrians, Nick, Asley, and Kasumi.
"Are you not coming?" asked Asley as she follows the other.
Felling fear and curiosity at the same time, Tali began to walk, asked she has passed the energy circle the other Quarrians also followed, with Kasumi and Nick being the last ones.
Back in the Magallanes
"Keelah, what happened, where are we?" asked Tali. She and her friends were surprised to see that just a moment ago they were on the surface of a planet and now that are in what appears to be a ship.
"Portal technology, allows connecting two different points between the space," said Anderson as he was waiting for them. "I am captain Anderson, welcome to the C.A.S Magallanes"
"Thank you, captain, but what happened to the Batarian Dreadnought," asked Tali.
Flask back. Less than an hour ago.
The C.A.S Magallanes using its cloak technology had maneuvered itself right behind the Batarian Dreadnought.
"The enemy ships do not appear to have detected us, sir, if we get closer, we will see their painting work with our own eyes," said the navigator.
"Open channels but keep the cloak activated," said Anderson.
"Yes, sir"
"To the Batarian ship, this is your last chance to leave this system and life, you do not have to die for nothing"
"Listen, future slave, I don't know where you are hiding but once I found you, I will make you see how I put chain on your crew and use your navigation computer to find your world and burn them, and the few surviving will become our new slaves"
"You make your choice." With that Anderson cut the channel.
"Get the main weapon ready, at my mark release the cloak, ready? Now!" said Anderson.
At that moment the Magallanes released its cloak showing to they were right behind them. Their cloak system has proven that they can surpass the sensors of a Batarian ship, but sadly they cannot fire while still with the cloak on so they need to release it so they can use their weapons.
"Psion cannon ready sir," said the weapon officer.
"Fire!"
The Psion cannon is the main weapon of all Chaldea ships, it forms a magic circle over the shields that are directed in from of the target and when it is ready it fires a concentrate bean of Psion particles, that their simulations said can bypass the kinetic barriers that they found on that ship on Mars but this one will be the first real combat situation when the Psion cannon is used. Another of the advantages is that because they can manipulate the magic circle and form it in any part of the shields, that means that they can use their main weapon in any direction.
The Psion bean was fired and a second later its target and went through it like a hot knife in butter.
The crew of the Magallanes celebrates the kill.
"That was so easy that was almost boring," said one of the bridge crew members.
"When dealing with this kind of situations boring is better," said Anderson.
End of flashback.
"The Batarian had been dealt with and they no longer represent a danger"
Tali and the others understood what that means.
For the next couple of days, they were treated as guests, something that was a welcome surprise to the Quarian that were used to be treated as beggars, in those days they proceed to interchange information about their respective side of the galaxy.
For the Quarians the history of these humans was something beyond anything that they could imagine, an advanced civilization that does not care about element zero because they do not need it, forget the ruins on the planet if they could manage to get a good relationship with them this could represent a better future to their people.
For the humans, after learning about the state of this side of the galaxy was a sad surprise, because the way that they see it this citadel council wants to keep themselves at the top of the power and make the others their servants, that is something that Chaldea will not allow to happen to them, in special when they learned about the past of the Krogan and Quarians.
After giving his report to his superiors, Captain Anderson received instruction to invite them to come to their new colony Shanxi, and from there they could try to find a way to return them to their people.
After they give the formal invitation to their guest, they did not need too much time to accept, in special because they didn't have a ship to return on their way.
And that leads us to this moment.
"I still can't believe that a ship of this size can work without Element zero," said Lenos as he saw the view of the start from the outside window on the observation deck.
"What concerned me is our food, we already saw that we can't eat their food and could only safe enough supplies from our ship to last us for three more weeks, we are at four weeks trip to either relay that means that we will die from starvation before we can contact our people," said Tarlok.
"You don't have to worry about that," said Kasumi as she got closer to them. "Our FTL system is better than the one's based on mass effect, in fact, we will be at the relay that connects to our territory soon."
The Quarians look at each other wondering what she means by that but before they could make any question, they could hear the captain of the ship.
"Attention all decks, attention all decks, get ready to condition one, we will enter FTL 30 seconds."
The Quarians saw how the crew member that was with them began to gather around the window in the observatory deck.
"T minus 20 seconds"
"This is my favorite part," said Ashley as she shows them how it is done.
They did not lose time and got ready in their seats as the countdown was getting close to zero. Then it happened.
A brilliant light forces them to close their eyes, but when they opened them again, they didn't recognize where they are. As they were inside some kind of tunnel made out of light.
"Kelaah, what was that?" said Lenos.
"Lest just said that this is how we travel the stars," said Nick.
Around two days later, they arrive at their destiny.
"Is that a relay?" said Tali pointing at the relay that could be seen in the distance, she hurries to confirm what she is seeing with her Omni tool. "That is the relay 314, but we were 4.2 weeks away from that relay traveling at top speed, how is possible that we are here now?"
"When we first find the Element zero, we already have our FTL drives and after a few research we determinate that the tech base on Element zero does not possess any benefit to our people, so we chose to keep developing our tech," said Nick joining the conversation.
That surprised the Quarian, to meet a friendly alien race that considered Element zero tech outdated was impressing, in special because they had already seen the evidence of that.
"Wait a minute, isn't the relay 314 supposed to be inactive? The council will not like that" said Lenos.
"What do you mean?" asked Kazumi.
"One of the more important laws in the citadel space is to never active a dormant relay, anyone that dares to do it will be seen as a danger to the citadel and be sever punished."
"We aren't a member of this citadel so they can't expect us to follow their rules." Said Ashley.
"Never underestimate the arrogance of the council, they believe that they are the highest authority in the universe and that all the civilizations should follow their orders. If they found that this relay is opened, they will send their forces to find who did it and they punish whoever did, even if they aren't part of the citadel" Answered Tali.
"Are they more advanced than these Batarians guys?" asked Nick.
"They are a little more advance than the Batarians but all their tech follows the same principle of mass effect"
Soon the Magallanes got in front of the relay and activate it, a second later it was gone.
One week later, on the other side of the system.
A Turian fleet in a routine patrol made an alarming discovering.
"Admiral! The relay of this system is active!"
"What! Is there any sign of the ones responsible for this crime?"
"Nothing on the sensors, they must have returned to the other side of the relay."
"Send a message to the headquarters tell them about this and that we will follow those criminals at the other side of the relay so they can face the council justice."
And so, the Turian fleet began to advance towards the relay, what they believe to be a simple police action ended as the worse slaughter in Turian history, beyond the ones that happened on the Rachiri war or the Krogran rebellion.
End of chapter 1.
Hello. I hope that you had enjoyed this first chapter.
I intended to show the reaction of a species from the Citadel side to a civilization that does not use mass effect tech as well to have powers that surpass the ones that all the Asari has.
As you can see there will be one week between the moment that the Quarrians arrive at Shanxi and the battle between the Turians. My idea is to use that time to show them the human culture, the magic that they can use, and how that magic interacts with their technology.
Also, to allow the humans to learn more about the Citadel council and how they act, something that the Turian will confirm when they attack.
I also plan to use an original idea to end the first contact war and open a situation that will be like a cold war.
Also, I had a big surprise about the person that will be the leader of Cerberus. I am sure that no one has used that idea before.
Finally, I was reading the reviews of the prequel of this story Unlimited Rettousei, and I saw that many people send me good ideas that I couldn't use at that moment if you want to send me those ideas again as a way of Omakes I will see if I can add it at the end of each chapter.
Until the next time.
