A/N: I debated added this timeline or not, since I originally had planned for the story to focus only on Alexandria, and she obviously doesn't know what has happened in the last 100,000 years, but I am adding the perspective of Titan Fireteam Dinomite, and I couldn't just have them pop out of nowhere. Small changes were made to the first two chapters that you probably wouldn't notice on a second read.
The Shit That Happens
LOCATION: DARK SPACE/ISV LAST HAVEN
DATE (IMPERIUM CALENDER): 8-12-51621 AR (After Reunification)
The stasis field dissipated and Boss, leader of Fireteam Dinomite, opened his eyes and stretched out his arms and legs. At first he didn't realize he was in a stasis pod; he didn't realize he'd been asleep a millennium; and it certainly didn't cross his mind that his civilization had just been burnt to the ground, and that he was one of the last seven billion humans left. Humans had abandoned the archaic cryogenic freezing technique long ago, and Boss awoke in a soft warm bed, feeling well rested rather than feeling sick like he had just been defrosted. He was so comfortable in his little pod wearing just his standard issue black compression shorts that for a brief moment, he thought he was just about to wake up to another average day in the Imperium. Then, as he looked up and saw the bottoms of stasis pods, it hit him. He sat up in his bed and darted his eyes all around, hoping to find himself back in his room, but all he saw was pods, pods, and more pods.
The stasis fields all began dissipating and he could see other humans also wearing just their standard issue compression undergarments waking up in various emotional states. Some cried, others vomited, and some just stared. They all must have been coming to the same realization as he had. The war was over. Humanity had lost, and they were chosen to live on while everyone else was sacrificed.
Boss suddenly felt short of breath. The other members of Dinomite: Fixer, Sev, and Scorch, all sat up in the pods next to his and exchanged glances of varied expressions.
Felicia, code named Fixer, a green eyed, olive skinned woman with her dark brown hair in a ponytail, remained stoic and seemingly unmoved by emotion. The cybernetic facial tattoos of her culture burned a evil red glow. The first streaked down the right side of her face like an open slice wound, and the second surrounded the outside of her left eye like a twisted hook. She possessed a sinister look, for an equally sinister woman, and she showed nothing but anger hatred on her face, not despair.
Samir, code named Sev, a red eyed, light skinned man with short, wavy brown hair kept his head low and his eyes clamped shut, attempting to shut out his emotions. He succeeded in his attempts and opened his eyes to face Benjiro, hoping to find some form solace in his leader, but the orange eyed, light skinned man with a goatee and short black hair that pointed up slightly in the front was just as distraught as he was.
Samson, code named Scorch, a yellow eyed, dark skinned bald man with a black goatee vented his frustrations through a particularly excessive usage of curse words, and he elicited many death stares from other humans who chose to mourn in a more quiet fashion.
Knowing you were going to lose everything and actually losing everything elicited two different emotional responses from humans. When they were losing, humans would still continue to fight, even when there was no hope for victory. They fought because it was all they had left. Now, they had nothing left, nothing left to fight for. Their people were gone, their friends were dead, and their homes were destroyed. All they had left was the realization of defeat, and that realization hit them hard.
"Oh god."
Boss fell back into his bed and opened his journal that he didn't write in regularly; only when there was something he really felt was worth writing.
51,621 AR
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK... (crying) We lost. (crying)... Close the damn journal.
51,621 AR
Can't. I just can't. I'm just walking around like zombies, just dragging their feet to the next task. No one talks. No one can talk. Just work. My duties are all I have left. I just wanna kill those bastards. I wanna make them pay, pay for what they did to us. I want to fucking kill them! I just, I just... wanna wrap my hands around one of their fucking throats and choke the life out of them! I wanna kill them! I WANNA KILL THEM ALL, THOSE BASTARDS! ALL OF THEM DEAD! I WANNA BURN EVERY LAST WORLD, SO THEY CAN FEEL THE WAY I FEEL! THEY NEED TO FEEL THE WAY WE FEEL! THE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE! WHAT THEY'VE DONE!... (crying) I just, I just. (crying)
51,621 AR
The Forerunners set up primitive humans on installations like animals in a zoo and implanted them with those gea mind fuck programs. Makes me sick.
51,621 AR
The San 'Shyuum have been quarantined to their home system, never to leave. That's the least they deserve. I can't believe they surrendered. If I could, I'd kill them myself.
51,622 AR
Things are getting better. I still don't see any smiles or hear laughter, but at least people are talking again.
58,978 AR
The Forerunners just started demilitarizing themselves! They're reducing the Warrior-Servant rate and replacing it with these superweapons called Halos. I still haven't heard anything about what these Halo things do, but if they can make a entire military obsolete, they must be pretty fucked up.
60,372 AR
Interstellar War Update:
Holy shit! The Flood are back! Please slit noses, don't fuck this up.
60,398 AR
Interstellar War Update:
The Food seem a lot more ferocious than we fought them. Guess they hate Forerunners too. A part of me wishes we had the power to intervene, but we're still too few right now. All we can do right now is hope for the best. Another part of me is happy to sit back and watch the Forerunners burn, but I know that could come back to bite us in the ass.
60,421 AR
Interstellar War Update:
The Forerunners are losing to the Flood... big fucking time.
60,599 AR
Interstellar War Update:
Holy shit! The Flood started using Precursor constructs to like, fuck up space and shit! The Forerunners can't even travel around in slipspace anymore! They even destroyed the Greater Ark!... I just wish there was something I could do.
60,624 AR
Interstellar War Update:
I don't believe it. The Forerunners fired the Halo Array.
60,624 AR
I'm angry. I know they didn't have any other choice, and we couldn't have made a difference at all, but still, they killed everyone. Everyone if the fucking galaxy! Gone! Just gone! Things have never looked so bleak.
60,624 AR
Did I mention the stupid Halo Array destroyed the legacy of the Precursors? It literally shattered everything they ever built, everything they left behind for us, their children. Bastards!
60,625 AR
The Forerunners are reseeding the galaxy and placing caches of their tech all over the place. Rumor has it they're actually preparing to leave. Leave like, go live in some other galaxy. Fucked up, huh? There's a big debate going on right now about whether we should just leave the Forerunners alone, or go and finish them off. A lot of angry people want payback for what they did to us, me included. It's just that, these aren't the same Forerunners we fought. A lot of the Warrior-Servants are gone, replaced with "Builder Security." Now it's mostly just all those Builders and Lifeworkers now. So, Forerunner or not, we'd basically just be butchering civilians.
60,625 AR
It's been decided. We're just gonna keep an eye on the Forerunners. It they go starting shit, we'll put 'em down, but for now, their safe. At least, their safe from us. I didn't hear anything about going to help them if they ever get into trouble. I don't wanna commit genocide against them, but I don't think I could bear the thought of ever coming to their aid either. I think it'd be funny to just go pay them a visit. Show up with a big ass invasion fleet and be like, "Hey assholes, remember us?" I bet they'd shit their pants.
60,626 AR (100,000 BCE)
The Forerunners left the Milky Way. They're calling it the Great Journey. They were smart. They didn't use those special crystals that make them travel through slipspace so fast, the crystals that always allowed us to track them.
60,629 AR
Happy New Year's and all that shit! Not much to talk about for a while now. We've started expanding, building our own little mini galaxy (some people are actually calling it the Mini Way), and setting up monitoring devices all over the Milky Way.
92,634 AR (68,000 BCE)
Almost forgot I had this thing. It's more of a coping mechanism than an actual journal. I don't really talk a whole lot. Anyway, the Milky Way is firing back up. The Protheans became a space faring race and discovered some space station their calling the Citadel. There's also a bunch of these relay things all over the place now. Don't know where they came from, but they make awesome sling shots, and the Protheans are using them to travel across the galaxy at insane speeds.
93,214 AR (67,420 BCE)
All of our investigations into the origins of these relays have turned up nothing. The Protheans don't know either. Makes me wonder. Their not Forerunner or Precursor, and they just popped up over night. We're staying hidden for now, finally starting to get back on our feet. Things are going pretty well.
94,322 AR (66,312 BCE)
I've got good news and bad news. Bad news is, we haven't found a way to remove the geas from those primitive humans on Erda, yet. Good news is, there's no chance of the corruption spreading to us if some perv decides to screw one of them. Our scientists also managed to disable the remote control feature of the geas. Now they'll only suffer from stunted development, but not direct slavery.
98,845 AR (61,789 BCE)
So this is weird. We found another Erda, with another human civilization. Didn't see that one coming. They have geas too, but not they same ones the other humans got. Their geas don't allow them to be remote controlled, but still stunt their growth as a species. Our guys are still trying to find a way to get rid of the geas all together.
98,978 AR (61,656 BCE)
Despite all the shit that's going on in the galaxy, I'm actually starting to feel a lot better. Physically, you know.
99,108 AR (61,526 BCE)
Those Halo superweapons are still just sitting around the galaxy, waiting for some asshole to come along and fire one up. We blew one of them up, and a new one appeared in its place a while later from the Ark. We've got rapid response drone fleets waiting in deep space not far from each of the rings, ready to move in with deadly force against anyone who discovers them. Some thought we should set up outposts on the rings, but so far we've just sent the drones.
111,234 AR (49,400 BCE)
These new Protheans are dicks. They're becoming more and more like the Forerunners; enslaving races they can control, and destroying those they can't. They're like fucking hypocrites. Their minds naturally rejected geas, so the Forerunners were going to exterminate, but we saved them. Now, they're doing exactly what the Forerunners tried to do to them. I understand these aren't the same Protheans, but still, come on.
111,927 AR (48,707 BCE)
Interstellar War Update:
We've begun mobilizing for war with the Protheans. It's our duty as the true holders of the Mantle, placed upon us by our creators. The Protheans are in the middle of a war with these Zha'til guys right now, the Metacon War they're calling it. It's the perfect time to take action against them. I just hope we don't turn into another version of the Forerunners. It's like that one guy said, "If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
112,828 AR (48,000 BCE)
Interstellar War Update:
So, we were just about to take down the Prothean Empire, when these cuttlefish robots show up out of nowhere and start tearing shit up. About 50,000 years ago, before we encountered the Forerunners, our civilization underwent a series of technological dark ages. We became scattered across many worlds, cut off from one another. We even lost the location of Erda. Most of the records about what happened back then have been lost, but from what little we have found, we discovered that we fought a war with a synthetic race we called the Preservers. We won, but at great cost. The legends say they tried to exterminate us (get in line), so we fought, we sacrificed, and we exterminated them. Now we think one of the original Preservers survived and built another army of smaller, less powerful Preservers. Of course, we have no proof that's actually what happened, but it makes sense since there's only one Preserver left that matches the descriptions in the legends (the big one with the yellow eyes and bad ass guns).
112,929 AR (47,899 BCE)
There's been a lot of debate going on. Everyone agrees we should stop the Preservers. Only problem is, we can't. At first, when we saw their reduced capabilities during their attack on the Prothean's Citadel, we thought we could take them. But then, more and more and more of them just kept showing up. Then, more of the original Preservers showed up. We're guessing the weaker ones come in to harvest, then the tougher ones that we fought come in later to finish the job. We have no choice. They don't know we're here, and for now, we have to keep it that way.
113,003 AR (47,822 BCE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Protheans lost. The Preservers removed all the evidence of their existence and disappeared through the Citadel, which apparently is another relay. Some people wanted to send recon probes through the relay to see where the Preservers went, but we decided to just send a third of our nuclear stockpile through instead. We never heard from those nukes again. We're continuing to build up our forces. If the Preservers come back, we'll be ready... hopefully.
157,825 AR (3000 BCE)
My god. I don't believe this. Our former allies, the San 'Shyuum (you know the ones who abandoned us because there was no chance of victory), have begun worshiping the Forerunners because of all the Forerunner tech left behind in their home system from the Ecumene occupation. Of course these aren't the same San 'Shyuum that fought the Forerunners with us, but it's still an insult to their ancestors. I say we forgive them for surrendering and go make contact with them to reconcile our alliance. They are fucking technological geniuses after all.
158,625 AR (2200 BCE)
The San 'Shyuum have started a massive religious war (big surprise... religion). The Stoics think they should leave the Forerunner Keyship alone, while the Reformists want to study it. We have decided that if the conflict threatens their existence, we will secretly support the Reformists. The San 'Shyuum Civil War has begun.
158,725 AR (2100 BCE)
The San 'Shyuum Civil War ended when the Reformists gained control of the Keyship and blasted the Stoics capital with its main gun. The shot blew a huge chunk out of Janjur Qom which the Reformists turned into a giant mobile space station. They're calling the station High Charity.
159,887 AR (938 BCE)
Interstellar War Update:
The San 'Syuum made contact with the Sangheili. At first it was peaceful, but the Sangheili hold the same beliefs as the Stoics, so it gradually turned to religious war.
159,949 AR (876 BCE)
The Sangheili-San 'Syuum War is over. The Sangheili surrendered. They had no choice, the San 'Shyuum's navy was too strong and their planets were being bombed into oblivion.
159,973 AR (852 BCE)
The San 'Shyuum and Sangheili signed the Writ of Union, a treaty forming their new religious partnership they're calling the Covenant. Their gods, the Forerunners. The idiots think the Great Journey refers to the firing of the Halo Array, and they're planning on a reenactment. If they ever do find the halos, which they will eventually, they will never set foot on them.
160,041 AR (784 BCE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Covenant made contact with the Lekgolo on Te. The Lekgolo were eating Forerunner artifacts, and the Covenant declared war to stop them. The Lekgolo won all ground engagements, but the Covenant had the navy, and orbital bombardment's one hell of a bitch. The Lekgolo have been subjugated and incorporated into the Covenant in what they're calling the Taming of the Hunters.
160,177 AR (648 BCE)
Janjur Qom was destroyed yesterday when its star collapsed. Shit happens.
160,245 AR (580 BCE)
The Milky Way is firing back up again. The Asari, a species of unknown origin, is following the same path as the Protheans. They've colonized the Citadel and are basing their technology on mass effect physics... Preserver technology. It seems this is some kind of trap the Preservers set up so they could avoid nearly being defeated like they were with us. Well, that's my guess anyway.
160,247 AR (582 BCE)
We did some digging. Turns out the Asari were a side project of the Forerunners. The slit noses took female humans and altered them so they could reproduce without males. This resulted in a non-violent human spin off. Bastards.
160,325 AR (500 BCE – 1 CE)
The Asari and Salarians have set up a galactic government. They're calling it the Citadel Council. They've made contact with the Volus, Batarians, Hanar, and Quarians and gave them all partial membership. They're kind of douche bags to the non-council races, but at least they're not slavers and exterminators. I still don't think their form of government is fair, but until they cross the line by condoning actions that the Forerunners and Protheans took, we can't in good conscious go and force them to change. We will not become the Forerunners. Their ways are their ways, and we can't just trample over them because we don't like them. If we did, there would be anarchy.
160,436 AR (389 BCE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Turian Unification Wars have begun. It's complicated.
161,524 AR (1 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
Salarians explorers made contact with the Rachni and were attacked, which is strange, because rachni are non-violent. The Rachni Wars have begun.
161,605 AR (80 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
Since there were no space faring warrior races in Council Space, the Salarians decided to uplift the Krogan, an incredibly violent species that the Forerunners had a very difficult time controlling. The Krogan have been travelling deep into the toxic Rachni worlds and systematically eradicating the species. We have ensured that the Rachni will survive.
161,822 AR (300 CE)
As thanks for saving their asses from the Rachni, the Council granted the Krogan a new homeworld. Their growing population is of serious concern.
162,322 (700 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Krogan annexed Lusia a while back and refused to leave. Things are heating up again. The Krogan Rebellions have begun.
162,373 (751 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Turians have entered the Krogan Rebellions and are drawing support from the Volus, their new client race. We have secretly been performing drone attacks on Krogan forces to try and give the Turians a hand.
162,418 AR (796 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Turians have been pushed back to their home system. They're making their last stand against the Krogan. We've stepped up our drone attacks, destroying entire fleets and cutting off reinforcements. The Salarians are developing a bio-weapon called the genophage. We've been looking over the specifications of the weapon. It will end the war, but it might end the Krogan as well.
162,420 AR (710 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The genophage has been deployed. With our help, the Krogan are being pushed back.
162,422 AR (800 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Krogan Rebellions are over. The Krogan have been quarantined to Tuchanka, and the exploding population suppressed to a more "normal" level. Unfortunately, the genophage doesn't lower the birth-rate, it raises the infant mortality-rate. That gives it a bad taste. I hear our scientists are working on something to fix this problem.
162,526 AR (900 CE)
The Citadel Council granted the Turians full membership into their little club.
162,738 AR (1112 CE)
The Yanme'e were incorporated into the Covenant as a slave race. We're not liking how this "Covenant" is handling things.
162,846 AR (1234 CE)
We set up an outpost on Installation 01, or Beta Halo, the closest installation to the Mini Way. The small expeditionary force was attacked by Sentinels shortly after touching down. At first, it was just a few, a patrol maybe. Over time, more and more kept showing up and the small force was overrun by an army of the little bastards. We are mobilizing to invade Installation 01.
162,847 AR (1235 CE)
We invaded Installation 01, destroyed all Sentinels and Sentinel manufacturing facilities, and captured the monitor of the installation. It turns out the Halos also serve as research facilities to study the Flood. We have resumed their studies and set up more fail safes for the event of an outbreak.
162,968 AR (1342 CE)
The Covenant discovered the Kig-yar and absorbed them. The Kig-yar resisted at first, but quickly went along.
163,084 AR (1400 CE)
Rakhana, the Drell homeworld, is taking an environmental beating. The Hanar are close to Rakhana, so we've been leading the jellyfish there by letting them chase a signal.
162,579 AR (1895 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Quarians are some mean bastards. First, they created a species for forced labor, the Geth. Then, when the Geth became intelligent and started asking questions about their existence, the Quarians started shooting them on sight! The Geth are fighting back. I wish them luck, they didn't deserve this.
162,581 AR (1898 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
Payback's a bitch. The Quarians got their asses handed to them by the Geth. Their just wandering around on their ships now since no one will help them, and they can't colonize worlds because of their shitty immune systems. They'll find a way to survive though. I mean, we've been through worse and we're still here. I wish them luck.
162,605 AR (1921 CE)
The Geth are building this big thing that we don't know what's for. All we know is they're not expanding their territory, which makes them vulnerable to siege.
162,642 AR (1961 CE)
Those two new Human civilizations are now officially space faring.
162,701 AR (2000 CE)
The Hanar finally tracked our signal to Rakhana and are evacuating the Drell.
162,770 AR (2069 CE)
Those Humans of unknown origin have begun colonizing their Sol system. They're on their way.
162,776 AR (2075 CE)
The Mystery-Humans (that's what I'm calling them) have made their first expedition out of their Sol system. Getting shit done.
Meanwhile, the Forerunner-Humans have formed an international government. They're calling it the UEG (United Earth Government). It doesn't have a whole lot of influence right now, but it's a start.
162,781 AR (2080 CE)
The UEG Humans have begun colonizing their Sol system now too.
162,826 AR (2125 CE)
The Citadel Council sent ambassadors to Parnack, the Yahg homeworld. They made the mistake of not studying Yahg culture from a distance and abiding by their customs. They insulted the yahg they met with and were subsequently killed. Parnack has been declared off-limits by the Council.
162,838 AR (2137 CE)
The Mystery-Humans extracted helium-3 from their Saturn.
162,840 AR (2142 CE)
The Covenant discovered the Unggoy on their homeworld, Balaho. The Unggoy surrendered without incident and were incorporated into the Covenant.
162,841 AR (2143 CE)
The Mystery-Humans are building a space station beyond the orbit of Pluto. Their calling it Gagarin Station.
162,846 AR (2148 CE)
The Mystery-Humans developed FTL travel using mass effect physics.
162,847 AR (2149 CE)
The Mystery-Humans discovered the "mass relay" in their Sol system. They activated it and used it to travel to Arcturus. They have also formed a new international alliance to become their "military and exploratory spearhead." They're calling it the Systems Alliance.
162,879 AR (2151 CE)
The Systems Alliance has begun militarization. They're also building a battle station (space station armed for combat) in Arcturus.
162,880 AR (2152 CE)
The Systems Alliance has begun establishing extra-solar colonies. They're spreading out, building fleets and raising armies.
162,885 AR (2157 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Systems Alliance made hard contact with the Turian Hierarchy, shit. After the Rachni Wars, the Council outlawed the activation of any mass relay without first knowing its destination. Trouble is, it's kinda hard to find out where a relay goes if you can't even go through it. Anyway, some turians fired on civilian ships that the Alliance had contracted to chart new territory because they were attempting to activate a dormant relay. In the criminal justice system, ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking the law, but most species will make an exception during first contact scenarios, the Turians not included. They allowed one ship to escape and tracked it to Shanxi. The planet is now under siege.
162,885 AR (2157 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Alliance launched their counter-attack against the turians occupying Shanxi. The Alliance forces compensated for their shitty guns with superior numbers, and by exploiting the fact that it's hard for birds to compete with apes in guerrilla warfare. Most of the turians were killed, but a hundred or so were subdued and secretly transferred off world.
162,885 AR (2157 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Hierarchy is mobilizing for full-scale war against the Alliance. We may need to step in. The Alliance only has 200 warships that have never even been shot at, while the Hierarchy has a battle hardened armada standing 3000 strong. Drone fleets are in place and awaiting orders to support the Alliance.
162,885 AR (2157 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Citadel Council noticed the Hierarchy was mobilizing for war and demanded to know why. Needless to say, the Asari are sending diplomats to try and defuse the situation. Good thing too, for the Turians. The Alliance wouldn't have been able to fight the Hierarchy. The birds would've had to deal with us.
162,888 AR (2160 CE)
The Systems Alliance formed an international parliamentary government.
162,891 AR (2163 CE)
The Forerunner-Humans established the UNSC (United Nations Space Command) to eliminate rebel organizations in their Sol system.
162,893 AR (2165 CE)
The Alliance Humans have been granted an embassy on the Citadel. Their expansions into the Skyllian Verge are also causing tensions with the Batarians.
162,898 AR (2170 CE)
Batarian slavers attacked the colony of Mindoir. The Alliance responded by passing laws requiring stronger defenses for their colonies, much to the Hierarchy's dismay.
162,899 AR (2171 CE)
The Batarians closed their embassy on the Citadel in response to the Council not stopping human expansion into the Skyllian Verge. This could get ugly.
162,900 AR (2172 CE)
The Systems Alliance created its first sapient AI, Eliza. The Alliance plans to integrate AIs into their forces once they are capable of defending themselves against Hierarchy aggression. In other words, not anytime soon.
162,902 AR (2172 CE)
My team has been assigned as first responders to any extinction level threat posed to the Systems Alliance Humans, and we've been briefed on everything there is to know about their civilization.
162,904 AR (2176 CE)
The Batarian Hegemony funded pirates and criminals to attack the human colony of Elysium. The attack was repulsed by Alliance forces.
162,904 AR (2176 CE)
A civil war broke out on Anhur over the practice of slavery. The Na'hesit don't want to give up their slaves, while almost everybody else does. Unfortunately, the Na'hesit are the stronger faction with support from the Hegemony and various corporations that rely on slavery. The Anhur Defense Force is on its own for now. The Alliance is busy preparing to raid Torfan, the moon that was used as a staging area for what they're now calling the Skillian Blitz.
162,905 AR (2177 CE)
The Anhur Rebellions have spread throughout the Amun system and the Anhur Defense Force has hired the Eclipse to help them fight the Na'hesit.
162,906 AR (2178 CE)
The Alliance launched their raid on Torfan. They took heavy losses, but the enemy was eliminated. The Alliance jumped through some hoops to ensure they captured a decent number of prisoners, part of the reason they endured heavy casualties. On their way to Torfan, the Alliance forces stopped by in the Amun system and bombed Na'hesit installations on Bast, Neith, Sekhmet, and Sobek. The Anhur Rebellions are coming to a close with the abolitionists on top.
162,906 AR (2178 CE)
The Alliance has initiated the "Theshaca Raids" using information from prisoners captured on Torfan.
162,913 AR (2183 CE)
Interstellar War Update:
The Preservers have made another appearance. One of them attacked the human colony of Eden Prime along side the Heretics, a splinter faction of geth. The Eden Prime War has begun.
162,913 AR (2183 CE)
My team has been assigned to retrieve the Preserver's memory banks at all costs the next time it shows up. We're stuck on some stealth frigate now, just floating around the Attican Traverse, waiting for the damn thing to make an appearance. The legends say the Preservers always knew how to hide. Bastards.
A/N: In canon, Arcturus Station is a regular space station, not a battle station.
As with the official timelines, some of the BCE/CE dates are approximations.
In canon, there is no mention of the Alliance taking part in the Anhur Rebellions.
Inspirations for Fireteam Dinomite:
Boss (Benjiro): Anthony B. Wong
Fixer (Felicia): Michelle Rodriguez
Sev (Samir): Andy Samberg
Scorch (Samson): Samuel L. Jackson
CC (Kathalle): Zooey Deschanel
Kathalle did not make an appearance in this chapter.