2016 human year
"Reports coming in that a turian flotiila has another clash against the slaver fleet that was about to raid a council colony near the Attican Traverse. Reports indicated that the slaver fleet suffers heavy closs while the Turian Navy only suffered light casualties "
"You hear that news, Vadam? Your forces suffered yet another failure. You told me that the colony is lightly defended and an easy target but you have to clash with that flotilla and loss 1 cruisers and 4 frigate. Slaver ships are not cheap, admiral." Grand Admiral Tarus said to Admiral Vadam.
"I'm sorry grand admiral, I did not expect that my fleet will encounter the turians along the way." Vadam said.
"You have one chance of redemption, I want you to raid a colony, a big one near the attican Supreme ruler of the hegemony allows any planet to be raided. The slave market has started to run out of slaves and with your failure, we have to raid another one fast and big. Usually, I would kill you but due to aforementioned condition and your tactical expertise I hereby decided to make you the head of the next slave fleet we assembled. As usual, the Batarian Hegemony is gonna provide you with ships to bolster your forces but the Hegemony will deny ay involvement, is that clear?" Tarus said.
"Yes sir." Vadam replied.
"Alright, I expect you to debrief me with your plan in one galaxy standard week." Tarus ordered.
"Those slaver is growing bolder." Turian Councilor Demeiros said to his fellow councilor. "They even dare to attack a joint council colony now. If the Primarch didn't inspect the colony, the colony will surely loss. We must teach batarians some manners."
"I agreed, but we cannot afford a war right now. The terminus system-." Asari Councilor Tranni said before being interrupted.
"My Navy didn't build 35 dreadnoughts only to fear that a bunch of criminals gonna overpower them." Demeiros said. "Who knows where they gonna attack next."
"We can increase the patrol and nothing more, the galaxy will not suffer another galaxy war." Salarian Councilor Linan said to Caerdos.
"And looks like I'm outnumbered again. Alright the turian will stand down but we must increase our military to deal with those bastard sooner or later." Demeiros said.
"Agreed, now if there's no other issue this meeting is finished." Miyma said.
"So, how about we survey some uncharted worlds and slave some primitves species." Vadam said to his second-in-command Dhognoth.
"That's not gonna work, it takes too much time. We can raid an asari colony, the Nefrane for example, the market love them and the Asari have no guts to start a war, they're gonna negotitate." Said Dhognoth
"What about the fact that it's heavily guarded?" Vadam said.
"We can attack Gothis, the bulk of the 31st and the 32nd fleet of the Turian Navy that guards the space near attican traverse is gonna respond there and we can attack the council won't dare to mount any retaliation because of the fear of a war with the terminus system .Also, don't forget that the supreme ruler's favorite slave is an asari but to be able to achieve that,we're gonna need a couple of years and a hell lot of soldiers and ships." Dhognoth explained.
"I'm sure Grand Admiral Tarus will understand that a couple of years of preparation is comparable to the biggest score in the slave fleet." Vadam calmly stated. Maybe his head will be saved with this plan.
2020 Human Year
"Are the preparations ready?" ask Tarus.
"Yes sir, 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th fleet is ready to attack Gothis, the rest of the fleet is one relay jump away from Nefrane." Vadam explained.
"This will be the most glorious annual military exercise the Batarian Navy gonna held. Launch those ships, I don't spend credits on those pirates and mercenaries so they can sitting around." Tarus said.
"Most definitely sir. Alright, Dhognoth, initiate Operation:Blue Suns." Vadam ordered and the ships from many organization initiate their FTL.
"So this is the most advanced VI on this galaxy?" General Vakarian said to a salarian tech surely didn't know if that thing can still be considered a VI or an AI
"Yes sir, it can hack thorugh any security and taps to any cameras in the galaxy. Even geth inflirtator won't be able to pass through without being detected." The tech officer explained.
"Geth don't inflirtrate, they can hack however, how effective is this platform against the geth?" Vakarian asked.
"We scheduled a test in the simulation tomorrow sir." The tech officer said.
"I hope the council money on this secret council facility on Gothis didn't go to waste." Vakarian said.
"Of course not." The tech officer said assuringly.
"How are the preparations on the new shipyard?" General Fedorian said to Colonel Galenus in the Turian Gothis HQ
"It will be ready in 5 galaxy weeks sir." Galerus answered.
"The Council is interested in this planet, they even built a HQ for Turian Navy here. Do you have any idea why, Galenus?" Ask Fedorian.
"I have no idea, sir." Galenus answered.
"Contact. Pirates,slaver and mercenaries ships exiting ftl in the system." Sensor officer Darius reported as his sensors filled with hundreds of dots.
"Smart bastard, they didn't use the mass relay so they can be hard to detect." Rear Admiral Aquilus said."Alert the garrison on Gothis of the attack and to call for reinforcement. While, we wait, let's show teach those criminals some lessons from this flotiila"
"Sir yes Sir." The bridge answer in unison.
What happened?" Fedorian asked to Galenus.
"Sir, Admiral Aquilus send a report, pirates and slavers attacking this planet." Galenus said.
"Slavers and pirates attacking a turian planet. Have they lost their minds?"Vakarian said.
"Probably, tell the 32nd and 33rd fleet we get a code ZX-99 here and need immediate ASAP. Send message to HQ we got a code ZX-99 gere and need immediate reinforcement, lot's of them. General Vakarian, can you lead the evacuation of the civilian? 1st colonial milita division is in your disposal." Fedorian said.
"It's my pleasure, Fedorian." Vakarian hoped the enemy just hit the planet out of random chances.
"Status report!" Aquilus said to his XO after another round hit his ship's shield while a enemy cruiser is destroyed by his cruiser's gun.
"Sir, only the Dawn of Palaven and the Sword of Trebia remains, the rest of the ships is destroyed. Our shield is down to 10% and the enemy losses 2 cruisers and 7 frigate." The XO reported.
"Alright, let's give them another-" Aquilus said before a mass accelerator round destroys the shield of THS(Turian Hiearchy ship) Pride of Caelax and another round quickly hit the bridge.
"Base-01 , are you there?" Vakarian asked from his omnitool.
"This is Spectre Jondum Bau, the base is still in one piece." A voice reported.
"Listen, I want that VI to be secured, or better yet, use that against the enemy, I want to know who is crazy enough to attack this planet." Vakarian ordered.
"It will be done." The spectre answered before the feed is cut off .
"Let's hope that million credit investment didn't go to waste." Vakarian said to himself.
"This is great. You are right Vadam, the defences is light, there's only one cruiser and 4 frigate left and we easily crush them all with only a frigate loss, The landing operation also run smoothly, the colony's defense is no match from our army. Maybe your head will stay in your body after all" Tarus exclaimed
"Thank you grand admiral." Vadam said.
"How's the new jammer performance?" asked Tarus
"It's performing exceeding expectation, no report should leave this planet and we already destroyed all comm buoy."Vadam reported.
"Everything is still going according to the plan. Tell the landing party they have 2 hours left to gather the slaves and extract." Tarus said
"It shall be done." Vadam head will be saved indeed.
Elyna Tranni is having a bad day, her plan on going to a vacation here on Nefrane was a good idea, until report coming in that a slave raid hit that planet. If only she can called her mom but all call cannot be made, looks the slave use some sort of jammer, having a mother tha's a councilor seems to ensure her safety but no the batarian slavers have to raid this planet. Her bodyguard has already start to move her to a secure location but she could see enemy shuttle and gunships deploying and block the airspace. Her luck seems to run out (Again(?)) because the slavers decided that the ground 10 meters from her position is a good landing zone. When her bodyguards saw some slavers dropping from the shuttle they immediately opens fire and unfortunately again for her again, the slavers outnumbered and outgunned her bodyguard so when the slavers returned fire her bodyguard quickly fall one by one and quickly followed by her.
The attack apparently did not go so well for the raiders. General Fedorian sees the enemy soldier retreat back to their shuttles and retreat back to space.
"Something's not right, Galenus. I can feel it." Fedorian said to Galenus.
"They only landed for mere minutes and already turn tail and gone. They have so many ships, surely they can hold our fleets at bay for some we can ask our prisoners about that."
."General, this just come in, all the prisoners is dead, some by eating poison pills, some by attacking our soldiers and get shot in the process." Galenus reported.
"Damn it, there's our hope in getting the full picture here." Fedorian said.
"This is Admiral Quinten Kasius, the enemy will come into range in 5 seconds. All ships ready your cannon." Ordered Admiral Kasius the leader of the 32nd fleet. He still didn't know why the pirates and slavers dare to raid a turian planet but that didn't matter because when he and the 33rd fleet is finished no one will dare to do it again.
"Admiral, the enemy is in range." Reported his XO.
"Open fire." He ordered. Maybe after this I can get a medal or two, he thought.
"Sir, the enemy is… gone. They turn tail and run." His XO reported.
"Well looks like they feared the might of the turian navy. Is there enemy left?" He stated. This kind of thing does usually happens when the enemy leader have some brain in his head.
"Negative sir, the enemy only landed soldiers near the capital, engaged our defenses for a while and retreat back to the ship."His XO reported again.
"I know that our fleet is that good but to be able to defeat hundreds of ships without a single shot, I think our fleet is better than I thought." Kasius said.
"Indeed, sir" His XO reported again. And some hours later, both figured how wrong they are.
"How much we've got?" Tarus asked Vadam.
"Over 7 million Asari is successfully captured and the number keeps growing." Vadam reported.
"And our losses?" Tarus asled again.
"Out of 1 million personnel we deployed to the ground. Five hundred is confirmed dead and 2 thousand is wounded. Defences is heavier than expected." Vadam bitterly replied the grand admiral.
"Well I think it's enough, tell the troops to pull out. We're gonna be long gone before anyone could make it here." Tarus ordered
"Yes grand admiral." Vadam said. The result is indeed satisfactory,.
General Vakarian is waiting for the report from Project Sneaker's base, whose VI is in process in inflirating batarian network. After a long 15 minutes, the base finally called him.
"So?" he asked.
"The VI has successfully hacked the network and now started surfing the network. We found that the batarian lead and funded the attack and hit another colony named 's asari's." Jondum Bau answered
"Damn , thank you, Bau." Vakarian said. He then send priority messafe to General Fedorian.
"General, the Batarian hit another Nefrane".The money was well spent after all.
General Fedorian couldn't believe it, the batarian hit not one but two council world at once.
"I think the attack here was a decoy, Galenus. They lure the 32nd and the 33rd here so they can freely attack the Nefrane." Said the general.
"Damn it!" Genalus angrily said.
"Send messages to the HQ, Nefrane is under attack. Tell those admirals in the fleet to get to Nefrane immediately." Fedorian said. He hate the full picture.
The council chambers filled with tense aura. The batarian ambassador, Balak, is called to answer about the recent raid and things going on as ususal.
"The batarian people practice slavery as their cultural rights, you cannot punish us for it." Balak said to the councilor.
"Maybe you need to see the turian people do their cultural rights of protecting our own." Demeiros angrily stated.
"Your planet was attacked as a result of terrible mistake that the admiral of the fleet make, we didn't even do any major damage or take anybody." Balak calmly stated.
"You take out 1 cruisers and 5 frigate." Demeiros angrily added.
"It was in self-defense." Balak added.
"But still another slave raid I unacceptable. Another raid like this and the batarian hegemony will cease to exist." Demeiros said.
"The Batarian Hegemony will hear this warning, now, is there anything else." Balak said.
Before Tranni can say no and dismiss the ambassador, all of the councilor's omnitools lights beep, indicating there's a message. For the councilors, when someone sends a message, it's an urgent and other councilors couldn't believe what her eyes saw
FLASH MESSAGE
NEFRANE HAS BEEN HIT
7+ MILLION ASARI TAKEN BY SLAVES
4 THOUSAND CIVILLIAN DEAD
Asari councilor's daughter is confirmed KIA
"You dare to attack Nefrane too?" Tranni said angrily. She cannot believe her daughter is dead.
"Yes, as I said before we're just doing our cultural rights." Balak calmly stated again.
"That's enough for your cultural rights nonsense. You will give back the asari you take or The Batarian Hegemony will face war." Tranni said threatenly
"Unfortunately, the slaves is already in the slave market so I'm afraid we could not return it." Balak said.
"So be it, then you will face consequences. All in favor in liberating the slaves?" Tranni started a vote.
Both Demenios and Linan raises their hands.
"Then it's official, the council will liberate this slaves, with force if necessary." Tranni said.
"I will tell that to my government about this..incindent." Balad said.
"The Galaxy holds witness as Batarian-led slaver fleets attacks Turian colony Gothis and Asari colony Nefrane today. It is expected that over 7 million asari is taken by the batarians. The council has already began preparation for libertating the citizens and the Batarian Hegemony responded by withdrawing their ambassador from the citadel. Also confirmed report indicates that Asari Councilor's daughter Elyna Tranni is killed in Nefrane."
The news was broadcasted all over the galaxy, even to the batarian hegemony territory which ususally airs their own news.
"We have secured alliances with various powerful warlords and some other minor warlords, Aria is neutral however so we cannot afford to open another front in the outer council space. We have secured services from numerous mercenaries such as from the blood eclipse refused to join however. All in all we can forced a stalemate in this war." Grand Admiral Tarus said to Supreme ruler Banine Domreros.
"I see, it is unfortunate that the asari councilor's daughter has to died. Well, we can't stop slavery, it's our main source of economy. Sell those Asari quickly, see if we can make some money to strengthen our defenses. And kill the man who have the idea to attack those colonies." Domreros said.
"Yes, supreme leader." Tarus said.
2021-human year
It's been one year now, Fedorian though, he's now a primarch of the Trebia system, the most elite one some said. The old primarch killed by a bomb In his shuttle in the citadel. A Batarian black ops team apparently planted it. The initial Council offensive is a success, they manage to take 3 system from the batarian, but the Batarian is able to force a stalemate after convincing more warlord and mercenaries to join them. Fortunately Aria didn't join them, the council might be on the run now. The slaves was apparently transported directly to kharshan so the council need to get there to liberate the slaves He then go to the TACCOM (Tactical Command) room in turian HQ at Palaven where turian's forces command and control is located.
"What do we have today?" Fedorian said to Galerus, now his top aide and advisor.
"STG reported the Batarian is moving it's fleet to an unknown cluster." Galerus said.
"How much ships?" Fedorian said.
"Around 100 ships." Galerus replied.
"They're gonna flank us?"Fedorian asked.
"I don't think so sir, they only got 2 dreadnought and 7 cruisers. That's not enough to attack our fleets." Galerus reported.
"This is interesting." Tarus said. "A long range recon probe that was send 12 years ago just returned shows that there's a garden world with over 7 billlion people on it and they didn't develop any interstellar technology or mass effect technology."
"I hope we can make those races our servants to help us win this war. Tarus, send immediately a subjugation fleet." Domrerors ordered.
"Of course supreme ruler." Tarus said.
Scan the system." Uporish Krarponak said to his XO upon arriving on the mysterious cluster.
"All clear, Admiral." His XO said.
It takes the subjugation fleet 2 days to get here and Admiral Uporish Krarponak hoped that there's something worthwhile here.
"There's the garden world." The XO added.
"Helmsman, get us close to that planet, that's our target. XO, tell all ships, go to the garden world" Uporish ordered.
10 minutes later they come within range on the planet and the fleet started to mobilize their 400 thousands soldier
"it's bad, the batarian is here to attack that planet." Captain Victus said to his XO from the ship that is currently engaged in stealth mode.
"The batarian will surely defeat those poor humans." His XO said.
"We're gonna help them anyway. If not, the batarian's gonna make them slave warriors. You finish the data mining, XO? Vicrus said.
"Yes sir, it just done. Let's go back to the council. They're gonna debate a long time about this alongside the goverments, so the sooner we go back, the sooner they start arguing, the sooner it finishes, the sooner this humans get some help." The XO said.
"Agreed, XO. Helmsman, take us back to the citadel." Victus said,