Hello again.

Here I am with a new chapter, I hope that you like it, and please review it at the end.

To answer some questions

Jump node: Some people asked me about what is this FTL method, the idea of this comes from a video game and carton named wing commander, the way it works is by entering the orbit of a star at the right angle and coming out from the orbit of another star that has a similar frequency. That is why the CAS Enterprise need a couple of days to arrive at the battle because they needed to get close to a star similar to the one of Shianxi. The data gathered in these jumps will be used to develop a new FTL system. However, after this chapter, it will not be used anymore in favor of the new system.

The Titan: I will use the terraforming that was shown in the movie Titan AE, mainly because every time that someone writes a story about terraforming a planet they only use the project genesis from star trek and I just wanted to do something different. If you want to see how it looks, you can find this video on y0utub3: TITAN A.E. - Earth Reborn

The ships: As I said in the first chapter, I wanted to use a different type of ships from the ones that are always used, like Star Gate and Star Trek. I choose the sword breaker class from the anime Lost Universe to replace the Normandy class of the game, and the Shangri la class from the anime Terra e or Towards Terra to replace the current carriers, my reason for that is that they don't have the command bridge in the most vulnerable part of the ship and because the crew needs to have a special power to be able to interact with the ship's systems. If you want to know how they look, you can find these videos on y0utub3: LOST UNIVERSE Opening Sub Español Romaji 4K (This video will also show you how the guns systems works on this story) and Toward the Terra (2007) - Intro (Textless) to see how the carriers will look.

There will be a time skip at the end of the chapter

Chapter begins.

Citadel. Council Chambers

"This is a disaster," said Tevos as she read the report about what had just happened to the diplomatic envoy that they had sent.

"This cannot be allowed to stay unpunished," said Sparatus. Ashe was mad about the report that he just received, an entire fleet had been destroyed that the fate of the soldiers on the ground is unclear. This had not happened since the Rachin war. "We must take action now"

"That is not practical, we need more information" – said Varlen.

"We are facing the biggest danger to the citadel since the Rachin war, we must act now," said Sparatus.

"I remind you that it was the actions of the Turians that caused this trouble, and your actions jumping into the unknown have cost you one of your fleets, we need to understand what we are facing, their numbers, weapon, and tactics, besides those creatures already had the advantage if they manage to access the navigation data from the Turians, that means that they already had a target list" – said Varlen.

"The council of matriarchs will not be happy about this," said Tevos.

"The same can be said in Palaven" said Sparatus. "I can believe that newcomers could cause so much damage"

"And who said that they are newcomers," said Varlen attracting the attention of the two councilors. "Just because we just make contact with them, that does not means that they are new to the galactic stage, looking at the recorders from the battle, I come to the conclusion that their tech is more advance than our own, but we need to confirm that from the prisoners that you took from that planet"

"We couldn't take any life prisoners" - said Sparatus

"We do not have time to lose by lying to each other's, our STG teams have confirmed that you took some prisoners, we need access to them if we want to be able to face them and then force them to give us their tech" - said Varlen

"We also need to find a way to give this information to the public, a war after so long is something that will cause a lot of confusion, The Asari republic cannot ignore the death of a matriarch," said Tevos.

Before the councilors could begin, their preparations and assistance come running to the chamber.

"What is the meaning of this; we give orders to not be interrupted for anything" said Tevos.

"My apologies but you need to see this, it is on the entire Galactic network, some aliens had sent a message," said the assistant.

That surprised the councilors as they activated the main holo screen and look for that message. There they saw a creature that some could say is how a male Asari would look. Then that strange creature began to speak.

"To the people of the citadel space, I am Emiya Kiritsugu, president of the Chaldea alliance, I wish that I could greet you in peace but sadly that is not possible because depending on the actions of your council, our people could be at war by tomorrow at this time" Kiritsugu waited for a few seconds before he continues.

"I know that this is something that will surprise you and scare you but the actions of two of your member's races leave us with no other choice but to take arms against the citadel space"

"All began we one of our deep exploration ships found a garden world, upon close investigation, we discovered some ruins from a long-dead civilization that you call Protheans"

"While our teams began the investigation of this new world, an unknown ship appeared in our long-range sensors, the ship crew was from the Quarian race, they had come to this place to honor their people's tradition of pilgrimage"

The councilors look at each other's as if they didn't know this information.

"We were in the process to make peaceful first contact with them when a new ship arrived, it was a Batarian dreadnought"

The councilors did not like where this was going.

"The crew of our exploration ship tries to make peaceful first contact with them, but unlike the Quarian, they respond with violence"

At that moment, the image of the leader of this new race changed to show a video record of a Batarian with an angry face.

"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 what 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"

"After that, the Batarian ship attacked our ship, so the captain had no other choice than destroy them, in that battle the Quarian ship was destroyed and the captain offer his help to return them with their people, but first they were invited to the near colony that we had on that sector of the galaxy." Said Kiritsugu as he appeared again on the scream.

"Slavery is a serious crime in our space but we still have hope that we could find a peaceful solution to this incident, but that option ended when we make contact with a second species from your citadel" once again his image disappears as a new recording was shown, this time it was a Turian admiral.

"This is Admiral Taler of the Turian Hierarchy, I had come to this system in response to a crime, and I want to know how you know our language, as far as I know, your people had not made contact with the Citadel."

"I am captain Anderson of the Chaldea Alliance, about your language one of our ships make contact with a Batarian dreadnought when we were exploring this part of the space, they order us to surrender and get ready to become their slaves, we disagree and show them that we will not be slaves of anyone, we get a copy of your Codex after that from the remains of the dreadnought, are you coming here for that?"- Anderson.

"The Batarian are trash, but they are still members of the Citadel, however the crime that I came to punish in the activation of the relay is against the citadel law."

"We are not part of the Citadel and we are not obligated to follow those rules"- Anderson.

"The Citadel law has kept the peace for thousands of years and must be followed for all space-faring civilizations!"- Admiral Taler.

"Not in our space, if you had any trouble with that you can ask this Citadel council to send a diplomatic envoy to contact our government so we can find a solution for this situation, but we will not follow a law from a government that does not represent us"- Anderson.

"The Citadel represents us all, even if you do not want, now surrender your ships and prepare to be boarded, you are under arrest."- Admiral Taler.

"That is not going to happen, do not make the same mistake that the Batarians, we outnumber you"- Anderson.

"We are not like those useless slavers, we are the Turians Hierarchy and all my crew are professionals' soldiers, this is your last chance to surrender your ships" - Admiral Taler.

"That is not going to happen"- Anderson.

"The death of your crew will be your fault" - Admiral Taler.

"With the sole exception of a single ship, all the Turian patrol fleet was destroyed and I will tell all of you this, we are not part of your citadel, you cannot force others to follow your laws if they hadn't agreed to be members of your alliance, many of you may be thinking that there is still hope for a diplomatic solution, but that ended when the Turian send a war fleet to conquer our colony world of Shanxi" again images that show the arrived of the Turian fleet.

"Using their numbers they manage to overrun the defenders of Shanxi, but by that time Chaldea HQ has already received the alert and were in the process to send one of our main battle fleets to defend our colony, but for four of your days, the Turians attacked and destroyed a peaceful colony" the face of Kiritsugu turns deadly serious.

"You may not know this, but my people had mastered the use of energy weapons, as well as shields and an alternative FTL system that does not use element zero, also we had been removing all the mass relays that lead to our territory, and based on the communications that were intersected from the Turians forces, the main goal of this invasion was to steal our technology, something that we could not allow to happen".

"After four days our forces finally arrived," said Kiritsugu as he once again shows how one of their ships appeared and destroyed many Turian capital ships with a single shot.

"That ship is the Enterprise, and it led the battle to rescue our colony" showing more images of their fleet destroying the Turian fleet. "This is what happens when you face a fleet that still uses kinetic barriers against one that uses energy weapons, but the Turians couldn't leave the battle just like that and then used their main weapon against our colony" now it shows the Turian flag ship firing their main gun against the planet only to be destroyed a second later.

The councilors knew that this will look very bad for the citadel side.

"Before the Turian fleet was destroyed they managed to capture some of our citizens and leave that system and that is the main reason for this transmission. We the Chaldea alliance demand the return of our citizens, we do not care about your territory, economy, and politics. The recent events had teach us that we do not want anything to do with you, we only want our people back, after that, we will return to our territory and leave you alone if you do the same for us, of course, we will return the Turians prisoners that manage to survive the battle"

"For that reason, I am delivering this ultimatum to the citadel council. If you do not reply in one hour with the agreement to return our citizens, the Enterprise, the same ship that leads the destruction of the Turian fleet, will attack a military target inside your space, if after that attack you do not agree to return our citizens in the next 24 hours, this time the Enterprise will attack a planet and considering that the Turians used a planetary bombardment when they lose the battle, you will have no right to protest when the Enterprise destroy the capital city of the targeted planet"

"To the Citadel council, it is your hands now the opportunity to stop this before a full-scale war between our people began"

With that, the transmission ended.

The three councilors were silent.

"The situation has changed," said Varlen.

"This is a disaster," said Tevos

"This change nothing, if they attack us it will prove that they are dangerous and need to be controlled"- Sparatus

"I believe that you do not understand," said Varlen. "At this moment all the citadel space believe what that creature has said and they will place the blame of all this incident on the Turians and by extension the citadel council"

"We need to control the damage to the reputation of the council and calm the people, make them know that we had control of the situation," said Tevos.

"We need to place our forces on alert," said Sparatus

"We also need to give an answer to calm the citizens and to buy us some time to find a way to take the advantage of this situation" – Tevos

"Do you have any idea about what to say?"- Varlen.

15 minutes before the end of the Ultimatum

Normally a press conference is something that is planned and takes time to ensure that the Council is always shown in control of the issue at hand.

But today it was not the case as it was an emergency conference to respond to the events that had just happened.

As usual, it is the Asari councilor the one that will talk to the media.

"Thank you for coming here with so short notice. As I believe you all are waiting for an official response to the unknown transmission that we just receive" said Tevos.

The reporters began to make questions but Tevos just rise her hand and keep talking.

"While it is true that there was an incident near relay 314, we are still in the process to gather the information so we can take the best decision for the people of the citadel, we hope that if the person that send that transmission had any trouble with some of our members then he is welcome to come at the Citadel to find a peaceful solution to any trouble that they may have; after all that is the mission of the citadel and we cannot allow any act of violence that could get in the way of our mission" – Tevos.

"That sounds as if you are trying to place the blame on someone else," said Lila, an Asari reporter famous for her sharp tongue and for always getting the best news. "They show us how it was two citadel members that attacked them first, seeing how the Batarian ambassador was promising revenge on this new race and considering how the defense of the citadel had been on high alert in the last few days I would believe that something really bad happened and that transmission just confirmed my suspects"

"Miss Lila, you had to wait your turn to ask any questions. Just like the rest" –Tevos.

"This time I only had one question. Do you really capture members of their specie, yes or no?" said Lila without waiting for confirmation.

Tevos remained in silence for a few moments before she said.

"At this moment we are gathering all the information available to find a solution to this situation. But I can promise you and all the citizens of the citadel space that we are doing all in our power to ensure your safety"

At that moment alerts began to sound all over the citadel.

"What is happening?" asked Sparatus.

Varlen for his part began to see what is happening on his Omnitool. "An unknown ship had appeared out of nowhere, right over the citadel fleet, it is bigger than a dreadnought"

Hearing that Tevos and Sparatus began to feel fear.

Enterprise POV, 1 hour ago, Star near the nebula located close to the citadel.

"Captain, we had arrive at the designate coordinates, so far it seeing that the enemy had not seen us yet," said Joker

"Excellent and the target position?" asked Tolwyn.

"I am placing its coordinates to the navigation system," said the sensors officer.

"Good. Open the inside channel to ship" said Tolwyn.

For the last two days, they had been using the jump nodes to jump from the orbit from one star to the next one, with each jump getting closer to its target.

They had already informed the president that they were in position, so now they are doing the more difficult part for a soldier that is about to enter into battle, wait.

"Chanel opened sir."

"To all hands, At this moment President Kiritsugu is giving our ultimatum to the Citadel council, depending on their answer you will launch the most important attack in the history of mankind, never before the hopes and prays of so many were linked to the destiny of so few in the battlefield. But I had confidence in every single one of you because of your actions since the beginning of this war, a week ago using a jump node was considered suicide but we manage to use it to turn the tide of the battle on Shianxi, and then we were ordered to make three more jumps to arrive to this location, ready to attack our enemies. Don't you see, what was impossible a week ago become a reality to us and we were asked to do it again, we were also the first one to launch a fighter strike against an alien fleet and we won, we were the first carrier to appear in the middle of an enemy fleet and destroy it with our main gun and today we will be making story again, but the road to be here had not been easy, we had lost many of our pilots in that battle, and even if we receive new pilots to complete this mission, we must do this for our fallen friends that died in the defense of Shianxi, for them and for our people we will win" with that Tolwyn closed the communication.

All over the Enterprise, the soldiers are raising their fists as they give their war cries.

Back in the command bridge.

Captain Tolwyn and president Kiritsugu are waiting while watching a stopwatch as the numbers its displays get smaller and smaller. Until the countdown finally comes to zero.

"I was hoping that we didn't need to do this but they had made their choice," said Kiritsugu as he look at Captain Tolwyn to give him his orders. "Attack"

"To all hands, man your battle stations get ready to jump"

A second later the Enterprise jumped ready to write another page in history.

Present time.

"Captain we are right above the citadel defense fleet."

"Target the destiny ascension, launch all fighters" was Captain Tolwyn's cold reply.

The flagship of the citadel fleet and space, which was also the pride of the Asari republic, was right below the Enterprise. Ever since they saw the promise of an attack on the citadel space, they had assumed defensive positions around the citadel relay, hoping that the part where they said that they could use another FTL system was a lie to scare them.

But now the Enterprise has arrived right about them, none of their main guns were in a position where they could fire at it.

At that moment, a strange circle with patterns that they had never seen before began to appear below that alien ship, and a second later a beam of energy was shop hitting the top part of the Destiny Ascension, its kinetic barrier did nothing to stop the attack and after a second that energy bean began to break through the outer hull only to come out from the other side of the ship, then the energy beam stopped.

Only to be followed by secondary explosions that ended up destroying the pride of the citadel fleet. But the new specie had not finished their attack as the fighters that they had released were now on top of the others of the citadel fleet.

The pilots already had the experience of the previous attack and now knew what angles they must use to avoid the enemy's defenses, now they knew what to do and they will follow the plan, each fighter will attack a single target with all their missiles and later they will make a short jump to a secondary place where they will reunite with the Enterprise to had a combat landing and then they will leave that place as fast a possible.

In order for this mission to be a success and ensure that the Enterprise survive the attack must last less than 2 minutes, they knew that with so little time if one of their planes is damaged by the enemy, they will not have time to recover them without put in danger the mission and the Enterprise, so all the pilots agree that if their fighter get damage and they could not escape they will use a hand grenade that they will take with them and use it. They will not be prisoners of war.

The rest of the citadel fleet come out from the surprise and horror to see their flagship destroyed and began to react to the incoming fighters.

However, it was too late, as the fighters had managed to get in the right position and fire their anti-ship missiles. The wave of explosion and destruction will leave a total of nine ships destroyed and another ten with severe damage.

But more importantly, with the image of the council in pieces.

The councilors and reporters that were looking at the destruction that had just happened put their attention on the aggressors, looking at how that Ship named Enterprise, and its fighters leave in an FTL that they could tell was not mass effect based.

"By the goddess" was all that Tevos could say.

What followed next was a state of panic on all the planet colonies that belong to the citadel space members now that they know that the tread was very real and that this new species has the full intention and capacity to carry on with the attack that they had promised; destroying the capital city of the unlucky planet.

Many on the citadel, in special the Turians, were calling for a full-scale war against this Chaldea alliance. But that didn't change that in less than a day one of their planets will be under attack and now that they know that they can bypass the defenses to the mass relays and that they could attack any place at any moment was an advantage that they had no way to stop.

Even with all that the council members were planning to defy the ultimatum, knowing that even if the humans carry that attack and destroy the capital of one of their planets, that will only cause all of the citadel members to join forces to face these humans in this war.

However, they didn't expect something. And that was a special report that was transmitted in the more important news show of the Citadel.

"Getting to all our viewers," said the Asari reporter that has questioned Tevos about the council's actions.

"As you must know a couple of hours ago, an alien ship known as Enterprise bellowing to a government known as Chaldea alliance has destroyed the Destiny Ascension and many other ships of the citadel fleet. They claim that the citadel attacked them first and took some prisoners from their people, being the reason for this attack. But that has generated many questions. It is true?"

"Given the limited time that we had before one of our cities will be destroyed, we did all that we could to determinate the truth behind the events and now I will share with you my findings"

"First, as a said before the Batarian ambassador was calling for revenge for the destruction of their ship, that alone confirms that the Batarian, a citadel member, has attacked a previously unknown race for the sole goal to turn them into slaves, something that they said it is a crime for their people"

"Second, using my sources we manage to identify the Turian admiral that was shown in the recording as admiral Taler from the Turian cruiser Palaven sword,and no one had seen him or his patrol in over two weeks"

"Third, The Turian ship that was shooting at that planet was the Spirits Revengeunder the command of General Desolas Arterius leader of the emergency response fleet of the Turian military, we tried to confirm his location as well but that had not been possible, however, we manage to learn that some ships from that fleet had been sent to a shipyard for emergency repairs, we couldn't get more information about what happened to them, also there is a rumor that an Asari diplomatic ship was destroyed but we had not received a confirmation about that"

"Finally, using my contacts with many professors and experts on technology they had told me that these aliens in fact can use energy weapons, based on the video of the attack as well as the fact that they didn't use the mass relay to come to the citadel and escape they all agree that their FTL systems do not need element zero"

"All of this has caused a lot of controversies because in the case of this being true, then citadel members really attacked an alien species to steal their tech and capture some of their citizens, that is an act of war, a war that we can stop by returning their people. I grew up in an Asari colony and I worried that my home could be one of the targets of this stupid war because this time millions could die. So I said this to the council, stop this stupid war before it gets worse"

That message was rapidly accepted by the people around the citadel that were demanding peace, and with all the planets in their space in chaos because they were worried that they will be the next target had damaged their trade operations and made the lose a lot of money.

Finally, the pressure of the people forced the citadel to accept to return the prisoners to their people within only 30 minutes before the next attack began.

The transmission was short and to the point, where the Citadel 'agree' to interchange prisoners, hoping that this act of goodwill could help to end this conflict.

Many saw how the council is trying to act as the peacemakers in this conflict, never admitting the events that lead to this problem from the beginning were their fault.

Two days later the exchange was done and while the council tries to begin some negotiations with the Chaldea Alliance, they just said that they had no interest in having any contact with them.

Having an advanced civilization that is not under their control is something that the citadel council did not like but they knew that this new species, humans, are more advanced than they are so they would need to advance their tech in order to recover their pride and show these humans who is the true power of the galaxy.

This year will mark the beginning of what will be known as the galactic cold war.

Events of the year 2216

Right after the exchange of prisoners, president Kiritsugu honors his promise to the Quarians and sends the C.A.S Magallanes to take them with their people.

There Tali present the offer of president Kiritsugu to the admiral board. Many wanted to refuse, saying that if the Chaldea alliance is so powerful they sure could help them to retake their home world, but Tali and Captain Anderson told them that they had no intention to fight a war that has nothing to do with them.

The Chaldea Alliance had agreed to create a planet that is compatible with their biology and find a way to fix the problem with their immune system so they can live without depending on their space suits after that they could use that planet to increase their number and strength and later do as they want.

Many people do not believe that they could actually have the tech to build a planet but they finally agree to the deal when Tally asked one simple question. "What do we have to lose by agreeing with this?"

After the Quarian finally agree to this deal, a location for the new planet was selected, it was far away from the citadel territory and it was no part of the Chaldea Alliance so that guaranteed that the Quarian people will have their independence, also the sector had many natural resources.

Because of the distance to this new location, The Chaldea Alliance had agreed to build a space gate that will allow them to travel to their new home, otherwise, it would take them 3547 years to get there if they go using their FTL systems based on element zero. The gate that will connect their new home with the rest of the Galaxy will be placed on Shianxi for security reasons.

Unlike the planet version of the gate that looks like an arch of triumph, a space gate has the form of a halo.

Over this time Tarlok, the Quarian that has recorded all the events that happened in the first contact war, from how they first meet the humans to how they destroy the Turians force on the planted was correct in his predictions; his channel had become the number one on the citadel galactic network. He also learn about the Servantube, which was the human version. So he also create an account there and he becomes a big success, something that Ereshkigal did not like because she needed a lot of time and effort to be one of the best ones on Servantube.

And talking about Ereshkigal. She had managed to convince her grandpa to be here and do this presentation. Say what you want about Kiritsugu, but that man just cannot say no to his granddaughters.

"Hello to everybody in the cosmos, here is your favorite start Ereshkigal Emiya, but you can call me Eres-chan, today we have a very important guest to witness a historical event, from the Quarian people Mr. Tarlok," said Ereshkigal as she pointed to Tarlok.

"Hello" was all that Tarlok could say, as he did not understand the situation. Ever since the contact between his people and the Chaldea Alliance, they had asked him to keep transmitting his channel to the citadel space and even allow him to have more access to some information about their people, at first he believed that it was for propaganda but something tells him that there is something else, but now he is on a CAS ship, the Pathfinder, along with many others ships, all of them humans because no citadel ship could come this far from the relay network.

He is accompanying a delegation from the migrant fleet to witness the creation of their new planet. Something that even now many of his people cannot believe.

"Don't be shy Mr. Tarlok, I have to say that this is my first time meeting a Quarian, By the way I assume that you are also recording this to show it on the citadel space, right?" – said Ereshkigal.

"Ah, yes, I was asked to keep my channel active to give the opportunity to my people that at this moment is away from the migrant fleet to learn more about what is happening so when they come here they can adapt faster" – Tarlok.

"That is very nice of you, if you have any questions you can ask me and I will do my best to answer you".

"Actually there is something that I want to ask you since you said your name, you said that your family name is Emiya, right? Isn't that the same family name of your leader or it is a very common name?"

"He is my grandpa" – said Ereshkigal.

Tarlok didn't expect this, but then he remember.

"In the battle of Shianxi, I hear that three of his grandchildren, also participate," said Tarlok.

"Yes they are my big brothers" – said Ereshkigal with a big smile.

"Your brothers? That is a surprise, it is common to have big families on your planet?" asked Tarlok.

"That is because we had different mothers." – said Ereshkigal

Tarlok looks surprised.

"You see, the one with the red clothes and silver hair, he and I have the same mother and father, but the one with blond hair, he is the son of my father and mom Sabrine (See epilogue of Unlimited Rettousei) and the one with white hair we also have the same father but his mother is mom Illya" – said Ereshkigal.

Seeing that Tarlok seen to be confused, Ereshkigal explained.

"Polygamy is allowed in our people, you see my grandpa has four wives and my father has six. But in the end that does not matter, we are a single family and we love and support each other" - Ereshkigal explained. "Besides it was also a necessity, see there are ten women for each man, so if we keep the monogamy system that would mean nine women will be alone and that in the future there will be more old people than children, allowing the Polygamy fixed that trouble"

Tarlok nodded, but then he remember something, he hear that three of the president's grandkids were at the Battle of Shianxi, but the only ones that he saw that match the description that Ereshkigal say were the servants.

"The brothers that you mentioned wouldn't they be the servant's class that destroyed the Turian army?" said Tarlok a little worried.

"Yes, by the way, I am a servant class as well," said Ereshkigal smiling.

Tarlok for his part does his best to remain calm after learning that this smiling human has the power to destroy an army. Therefore, he tries to change the topic.

"There sure are a lot of ships out there," said Tarlok as he look out the window.

"They are here to protect the Titan" was Ereshkigal answer. "You see the Titan is the symbol of the unlimited power of human imagination, knowledge, and magic, the components are so advanced that they are not easy to replicate and it will take a lot of time and resources to create another ship like the Titan" - said Ereshkigal

Tarlok sees how the escort's ships began to move apart from the Titan as it goes deep into an asteroid field and he was not alone, a group of admirals from the migrant fleet has come to see this event in person.

The Chaldea scientists have asked for all the information that they had about their home world and DNA samples of all the living creatures that lived on it. Something that they had in their archives. Many do not believe what the humans were saying about building a planet, but with nothing to lose, they provide all the samples that they required.

Now they are about to see a miracle.

Once the Titan was in position it fire three energy beans that were so large that Tarlok could not see where they end and then the Titan began to rotate, attracting all the asteroids.

Tarlok and the Quarians saw how the Titan leave after the asteroids as they began to gather and take the form of a planet.

They could not believe what they were seeing when the planet began to develop an atmosphere. At that moment, the Titan began to enter into the atmosphere of the planet.

"Terra-formation complete, now the Titan will begin to sow the biosphere," said a voice from the speakers.

"Sow?" asked Tarlok in shock.

"Remember the samples that your people give us? Using advanced DNA manipulation all of them are been sown into your new planet that will have the same condition as your original home world, including Flora and fauna. It will take one year to stabilize but after that, you will be able to start your new life here"

"That is amazing," said Tarlok

"And there is one last surprise," said Ereshkigal enjoying the reaction of Tarlok. "I saw your video when you saw for the first time an emerald crystal, you were very surprised."

"I believe that no one that had lived in the citadel space won't be" – Tarlok, but then and idea hit him. "Are you telling me that your people will give us that!?"

"Yes and no, you see the emerald crystal are very valuable and are something that we cannot give easily, but we also understand that while you still depend on element zero, the citadel council still can try to coerce your people, so in order to prevent that my government had agreed to provide you with the formula to create Flubber"- said Ereshkigal with a big smile.

"Flubber?" asked a confused Tarlok.

"It is a gel that is the basic substance used to create the emerald crystals" – Ereshkigal.

That surprised Tarlok as he didn't expect something as valuable.

"We will also provide you with a ship that was taken from a museum that used a drive based on Flubber so you can understand how to use it; it was our first generation of FTL."

"Amazing, but I believe that Captain Anderson told us that your first generation of FTL could travel to only 2 light years per day?" – Tarlok.

"That is correct, however, you now know that you need to crystallize the Flubber to improve its performance, believe me, it took us some time to learn that fact, also you know that the FTL based on its crystallized form does not have the same troubles as the one based on element zero. Working on it on your own will allow you to understand that technology better and once you mastered this tech you will be able to build ships that surpass the ones that depend on mass effect drives to travel" – Ereshkigal.

Tarlok understands what Ereshkigal means.

With one last look at their new planet the transmission end.

Citadel, one of the restricted chambers reserved for the most important meeting.

Ever since the discovery of the Chaldea alliance and the short but brutal conflict, that follows that encounter. The citadel had to accept the bitter reality that they are behind in the field of technology and weapons. That is something that they need to fix as soon as possible if they want to keep their status.

That is why the council has created section zero. A group formed by their best experts on technology and military strategist, with the sole purpose to advance their tech.

Ironically, the best source of information that they had about the Chaldea Alliance comes from the videos that Tarlok has uploaded to the Galactic network. In addition, with the last transmission, they were in shock.

"By the spirits," said a Turian general after seeing the Titan in action.

"Are we sure that that is even possible?" asked an Asari admiral.

"So far all the information about their capabilities had been confirmed to be true, so we had no reason to not believe that this is the case as well," said a Salarian professor. "But I had to say that I understand your reaction, create a planet like that, I am sure that I would love to study that ship"

"Great, that means that they are more advanced than what we had believed," said the general.

"We can do nothing about that Titan ship so I suggest that we focus on what we can do now with the information available"- said the admiral. "What can you tell us, professor?"

"Based on the videos send by that Quarian and the information that we receive from the Turian soldiers that were captured, and the records from the ships that survived the battle against that monster ship, the Enterprise, I had marked the points that are more important to us and we need to address as soon as possible"

"First, I would like to address these creatures and their powers. Based on the information that they share with that Quarian, we can conclude that they are probably in a new state in their natural evolution"

"What do you mean?" asked an Asari.

"They said that only a couple of centuries ago they began to be born with the powers that they now possess, which means that it comes from natural evolution and not some process or experiment. Also, we do not how that energy is, besides that is different from the Biotics, until we get more information about that we won't be able to develop a way to counter it"

"I see," said the Turian.

"The second point is that portal or gate technologies, is something that seen to come from a Science fiction movie but I had reviewed the video records dozens of times and I had come to the conclusion that it is real, how it works I can only provide with theories until we manage to capture one of their ships and study it."

"The third point is one of the more important that I had identified," said the Salarian professor as he show the image that was part of the videos that Tarlok had shown on his channel. "The emerald crystals, based on what we had learned these humans discovered by accident and it took them a lot of time and resources to perfect it, can repel kinetic energy, amplify energy and generate anti-gravity, we can assume that this is the power source of their civilization and technology also the biggest danger to the citadel"

"What do you mean?" asked the General.

"Our entire economy runs on element zero is the base of our technology but now our people know that is something better out there, something that can be mass-produced and do not need to be mined from asteroids, so far the Chaldea Alliance does not want to have any interaction with us, but if they release this on our markets and we do not have control over it, it could destroy our economy," said the professor.

"You are forgetting that the Quarians now had this Flubber, they could cause the collapse of our economy if they release it in the markets." said the Asari.

"I am sure that the humans will put some restrictions over the use of this Flubber also, they only give them the basics, it will take them time to develop a version of those crystals and even then it will take them some time to be at the same level than the ones that the humans are currently using," said the professor. "That leads us to the final and I believe one of the more important points. The servant's class, with their tech we know that we cannot win a space battle, but with the servants we know that cannot win a ground battle either, so far we know of four servants class, the three that destroyed the Turians forces in their colony and that one that was presenting the information about the Titan, we do not know if there are more of them, but we know that four belong to the Emiya clan, so we can assume that a genetic element is related to their power"

"All this does not change the fact that we are at disadvantage here," said the general.

"Maybe we can use an idea that the humans are already using, the seats of Avalon, according to the information on that video that Quarian shows, they put together their best researchers and give them all the resources that they could need and that is what advanced their tech to these levels, I would suggest that we do the same," said the professor.

"Put together our best researchers and give them all our support, that may help us but it will take time and there is no guaranty that they will find a way to give us the advantage," said the Asari.

"Maybe no but it will improve our odds against them," said the admiral.

"I believe that we need to tell that team of researchers that they must focus their efforts on developing no based mass effect tech, otherwise we will always be behind the humans." Said the professor.

"We also need to design new ships and fighters". Said the admiral. "The humans had shown how they use lots of fighters in their military operations. We in the citadel only use the fighters for support operations but their fighters did a lot of damage, the fact that their energy weapons do not take as much space as our mass accelerators cannons allow them to store more fighters than our own ships not only that but their fighters have stealth capabilities that make the invisible to our sensors, that is something that also requires our attention"

With that said, they began to work on those projects.

Earth, the capital of the Chaldea alliance on the Moon, SERAPH.

We see how president Kiritsugu is in a meeting with the highest members of the military seeing the after-action reports of the battle against the citadel forces, to determine the level of performance of their forces in the last conflict, so far the performance of their force had been better than anticipated however the secretary of the Navy, Admiral Hood, has asked for a moment to talk about a very important matter related to the future of the Navy.

"Mister president I am afraid that we had some serious trouble that we need to address as soon as possible" Adm. Hood

"What would be that trouble?" asked a worried Kiritsugu.

"I want you to focus your attention on the damage report of the C.A.S Saratoga," said adm. Hood shows some images. "The Saratoga was the first carrier to come out of the relay to face the enemy, but it also cause all the enemy fire was focused on it, after overloading the capacity of the barriers the Saratoga receive a direct hit on the command bridget and incapacitated the Saratoga, the only reason why it was not destroyed was that the Turians ships that were attacking were destroyed by the rest of our fleet"

All the present were studying the image of the damage to the Saratoga.

"Also we need to see the reports of our destroyers, so far they had also been acting as exploratory ships and we saw that they did well against the Turians, but there are also some problems that we need to fix, so far our destroyer as faster, had better shields and the main weapon can do a lot of damage to ships that use mass effect tech, but the Turian equivalent had a better firing rate and are more maneuverable," said Hood.

"I know that you wouldn't say that unless you already had a solution," said Kiritsugu.

"Sir, our current carrier's class was designed over one hundred years ago and we use the surface carrier as inspiration, but we cannot have a ship that can be incapacitated if the enemy hit the command bridge, in special if we place it on the more vulnerable place of the ship, we also need to improve the maneuverability of our ships and give them a secondary weapon system that allows them to face multiple enemies and the only way to do that is to develop new classes of ships to fix those troubles"

"In the past, the congress wouldn't allow the money to develop new ships classes but with the current events I do not believe that that will be a problem," said Kiritsugu. With that said, the work to develop the new ship class that will defend the Chaldea alliance began.

Events of the year 2217

The terraforming to the Quaring new planet is completed as well as the gate that will connect their new home system with the Shanxi system.

Work began to find a way to restore the Quarian immune system.

Some people in the magic community began to question if the Quarian and other races could also develop magic, and it was decided that that topic would be studied after they have restored their immune systems.

The Quarians began their work to rebuild their civilization on their new planet

The best magic engineers are selected to develop new classes of ships that will improve the capacities of the Chaldea forces.

The seats of Avalon complete the perfect form of Ruby crystal, and the data that they got from the jumps made by the Enterprise allows them to perfect the Fold system that was tested on the Shangri La in 2215 (See chapter 1), while the technology was a success it requires more energy than what could be provided by the emerald crystal, but the Ruby crystal can and with the navigation data from the Enterprise it increases the safety of the jumps.

Events of the year 2218

The Cidetal modify the treaty of farixen to allow an increase in their military power.

The Quarian receives the formula for the Flubber and an old ship that used it as a power source, they assign their best to begin to understand the secrets of this technology, among them is Tali, that was part of the group that first encounters the Chaldea Alliance.

Jeanne completed her training and officially receive the Servant class designation. There are rumors about a possible relationship with Sieg (Siegfried) but none of them had confirmed them.

Events of the year 2219

The Chaldea Alliance began to explore and create new colonies in the space that is in the opposite direction of the Citadel space, Planning to have resources in a safe place in case a new war happens.

Tarlok was invited to Earth so he can transmit the decommissioning ceremony of the Enterprise. When the Citadel learned that, the ship that they feared was over one hundred years old and was used as a training ship by the moment of the battle and that cadets were the ones that cause so much damage to them was something that they did not like. However, the words of president Kiritsugu were something that they like even less.

"This ship as well as many others that had received the name Enterprise had honored its legacy and written a page in our history but I am sure that all of our citizens can´t imagine a human fleet without a ship name Enterprise, for that reason is my great pleasure to inform you that I had ordered the construction of a new class of carrier and the first one of this new class will be named Enterprise. This new class will be a vessel designed for battle, able to carry more fighters with better shields and weapons, with a new FTL system that will allow them to arrive at any place that they are needed at an unprecedented speed, in few words a vessel that designed to hunt and destroy enemies fleets alone."

Tarlok sees that even if the humans had lived in peace for centuries they still possess a strong military so he asks the reason for that.

To answer that question he is taken to Mars to see the Prothean ruins. At first, he was surprised because no one had found Prothean ruins in this state of preservation for a long time. However, that surprise turns into horror when they show him the records of what they call the last Prothean.

"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 my 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"

After Tarlok recovered from this revelation, he asked if this is why they keep removing all the mass relays that lead to their territory and always had a strong military. Like many, he has always wondered why the Chaldea Alliance refuses to use the mass relay and keeps moving them away from their space.

When he received a positive reply, he could finally understand why they do that.

Many in the citadel got scared but that information but many more refuse to believe that information, saying that that is just Chaldea Alliance propaganda.

Events of the year 2220.

A cure for the Quarian condition is found by modifying the elixir to be compatible with the Quarian physiognomy. Even then, many Quarians were afraid to try this elixir as the people from Chaldea Alliance called it. It was Tali, who offer herself as voluntary to be the first one to receive this treatment. After a couple of days after taking the elixir Tali removes her helmet allowing the Galaxy to see how a Quarian looks for the first time since their exile.

After that, many more Quarians agree to receive this elixir.

A Krogan ship appears near relay 314 and requests permission to visit Shianxi, when asked, who they are and what they want in Shianxi, a single reply comes.

"I am Grunt and I want to see if you can safe my people from extinction as you did with the Quarians"

Events of the year 2221.

The Chaldea Alliance agree to help the Krogan people even with the protest of the citadel. A new version of the elixir allows them to have the same number of kids as a human female in the same span of time, while not as many as they use to have before the geno plague, it will save them from extinction and maybe by having fewer children they will appreciate them more.

When the Chaldea Alliance ask the Quarians for volunteers to test if is possible for them to use magic, many agree immediately, after seeing what magic can do many jump at the opportunity to be able to use it. Amount them are Tali and her friends that were the first Quarian to make contact with the humans.

Events of the year 2223.

While exploring the deep space on the other side of the galaxy from the Citadel space, a human ship found something that they never expected and that will cause more questions than answers.

End of the chapter.

Hello, I hope that you liked this chapter. I try to show elements that I always wondered why no one has used. Like the after-action reports where both sides began to study the other to see what they can do to against them in the future.

As you can see, I will be using the idea of a cold war between the Citadel and the Chaldea alliance, where two sides began to compete and get ready for a future war. Mainly because I had not seen that plot being used before.

I had a surprise about Cerberus that I wonder if you will be able to guess what will be.

About the events of the year 2223, that is a surprise and it will be a small story that will take chapter 6 only.

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