Fear Wars Chapter 4: Act 2, a mass effect fanfic

FEAR WARS

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0700 Hours, Altium system, 3rd galactic cycle

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"WIIOU!"

The sounds of the alarm was the first thing that Cael's ears could perceive, the feeling that his brain throbbed every time that sound hit his sensitive ears that are being protected by his helmet, only made him want to open his eyes . was more urgent.

And some kind of voice could be heard, it seemed to come so close but at the same time so far away. Almost like listening to the echo of a voice inside a tunnel, so far away but at the same time so loud .

All control within his body had disappeared, he could not move even a single limb of his body, what's more he could hardly feel his body. He couldn't even see anything, just complete darkness that flooded every corner of his vision.

The voices kept saying things she still couldn't understand, the occasional word she could understand coming out of the voices that were yelling at her. wait ? were they yelling ?

Why would they be yelling at him? What were they trying to tell him? Why such a rush to get him up? was he asleep ? If so, why hadn't they lifted it ? Why did they let him sleep at a time like that? What do they want right now?

He wanted to tell whoever was yelling and shoulder-shaking him to stop, that he wanted to get at least 5 more minutes of good sleep, from all the crap it is dealing with a Quarian civilian ship.

But suddenly, it hit me.

Everything that had happened to us in the previous hours hit me suddenly, all the memories that lived in the last galactic hours rushed at him like a pack of angry Krogans that were eager for a good fight.

All the trouble they had to go through to avoid the citadel patrol fleet, the people who had to be left behind on that planet, in the clutches of the citadel patrol fleets. Who most likely will never be able to see again.

He remembered how in their eagerness to flee from the citadel patrol fleets, they became separated from the rest of the migrant fleet, stranded in the middle of a system that was in control of Batarian space.

Remember how they tried to flee that place as quickly as possible, only to have the misfortune of being spotted by a sadistic fleet of slave-pirate ships, who decided they were a juicy target to capture and enslave.

He remembers how in his last minutes of consciousness he ordered one of his officers to turn on the Mass Relay, to try to escape from the pirates and slavers, with an unknown destination in space.

And now, he remembers how in his last moments, they had traveled through a Mass Relay at great speed before losing consciousness.

With each and every one of those memories back in his mind once Yet , all he could do was wince through his helmet, his eyes wide behind his suit's helmet visor. Exhaling forcefully for being prey to the panic that he is feeling at this moment.

"CAPTAIN!" the alarmed voice of a Quarian officer shouted at him in utter panic to his right, the voice trembling all over with a fear that is entirely reasonable in this kind of situation. And what his eyes are seeing right now is the reason why this officer went into complete fear and panic.

In front of him , by means of a light screen that showed the exterior in front of the ship, he showed the image of the rest of this small fleet made up of civilian ships, which are beginning to be boarded by the pirate ships that float around they.

Cael scrambled to his feet, turned to one of his officers and roared, "WHAT IS THE STATE OF THE FLEET RIGHT NOW!"

"CAPTAIN! WE LOST CONTACT WITH 8 OF THE CIVILIAN SHIPS RECENTLY! THEY'RE STARTING TO SURROUND US RIGHT NOW CAPTAIN! WE DON'T HAVE THE DEFENSE SYSTEMS TO REPELL THE PIRATE SHIPS! AND THE SHIPS' DRIVES ARE COMPLETELY INOPERABLE!" the officer's panic and desperation contrasted with the situation in which they found themselves.

Cael didn't know what to do at this moment, they don't have enough power to get away from these pirate ships and they don't have the defenses to be able to fight these wicked pirate scum. They can do almost nothing, but float in the drift of space.

They are dead in the water in the best of terms or rather, in the only term that can be said of this situation. Neck-deep in a bunch of Vot.

But…

…there may be a way out of this situation, but it is risky, risking the lives of all Quarian lives within this ship. What's more , they may not even make it out alive from this plan they are having in mind.

He turned to the officer who was waving his arm to wake him up and asked "THE GENERATOR IS STILL FUNCTIONAL!"

The officer nodded wildly with his head and shouted "YES CAPTAIN! BUT WHY!"

"I WANT YOU TO ACTIVATE THEM RIGHT NOW AND OVERLOAD IT, WE WILL BLOW UP THIS SHIP ONCE THE PIRATES HAVE BOARDED IT!" his response caused all the Quarians who were on this bridge to turn around and look at him like a complete madman.

" CAPTAIN !?" asked one of his baffled officers "HE HAVE YOU GONE CRAZY!"

Cael shakes his head and says "NO! I'M NOT! WE WILL BLOW UP THE SHIP WHILE TAKING THE ESCAPE PODS TO ESCAPE THESE PIRATES!" He turned to his sensor officer and asked with a roar of despair, "WE HAVE SOME PLANET AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE FOR THE CAPSULES TO LAND WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM!"

The officer turned around immediately, without doubting his captain's words, he activated the ship's sensor to locate a nearby planet for the escape pods, the planets he found are mostly uninhabitable for them. Death traps at best.

"THERE ARE NO PLANETS WE CAN LAND SAFELY ON, ALMOST ALL THE PLANETS IN THIS SYSTEM ARE DEADLY TO US!" the operator shouted to his companions and captain, the feeling of hopelessness began to overwhelm the tense and frantic atmosphere inside this place.

"KEEP SEARCHING, THERE MUST BE A PLANET SAFE ENOUGH FOR OUR PEOPLE TO SURVIVE!" Cael yelled, desperate for the possibility that there was some way out of this hopeless situation.

The operator searched the last planet again , hoping that at least that place has the right conditions for its people to survive, everything will now depend on what the scanner says. If that planet's atmosphere, gravity, and climate meet the requirements for your people to hide on that planet, then maybe they can see a tomorrow.

And after 5 eternal seconds, the information finally arrived, in the form of an image of the planet with all the data of the planet, from its climate, humidity, gravity of the planet, the amount of oxygen on the planet and most important of all . If this is inhabited.

what the operator read, each paragraph of data that the sensor that scanned the planet just gave him. It was the excuse he had to be able to shout at the top of his lungs to all the people in this room "YES! CAPTAIN THE PLANET THAT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STAR FORMATION HAS THE ADEQUATE CONDITIONS FOR US TO LAND WITHOUT PROBLEMS!"

The Captain upon hearing this news, turned to the rest of the other officers in this room and shouted "YOU HEARD IT! ORDER EVERYONE TO CLIMB INTO THE ESACPE CAPSULES! I WANT YOU TO SET UP THE GENERATOR TO SELF-DESTROY THIS SHIP! THEY UNDERSTAND!"

"YES SIR!" all the officers shouted in unison, as they returned to their posts, three Quarians quickly ran to leave the room, surely heading to overload the ship's generator, two others stayed in this room with him . Activating the loudspeakers of the ships and giving orders to everyone to board the escape pods.

The captain took a folding rifle from his back, the M-15 Vindicator, activating it for the soon pirate invasion that would devastate this ship. Cael started walking to get out of the room with this ship, but before doing so he turns to the other two who are in this room "Grab your weapons! We'll give the mechanics enough time to blow this up!" ship! along with all this pirate Vot! "

His two officers nodded at their captain's words, taking out the same weapons from their backs, activating them for combat, they began to follow their captain. Ready to at least kill as many as they can, before they fall.

Cael nodded and continued walking, walking out of the room with two of his officers to give hell to anyone who entered this ship.

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0705 hours, Altium system, pirate boarding ship, 3rd Galactic cycle.

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On the pirate boarding ship, a group of Batarians, Turians, and two Krogans armed and equipped with pirate-marked armor and rifles, waited anxiously in silence inside the pirate boarding ship for their destination. A ship full of rat suits.

They know they would not be captured without resisting or fighting, so it is no surprise to see many Quarians killed in such raids. But that entails having a lower payment, the slaveholders still pay but for those who resist and put up a fight. So they will try not to kill all the men.

If they can. There aren't many promises kept in this kind of work.

A helmetless Batarian turns to see all his fellow pirates, slavers and mercenaries inside this ship, which are lined up in two rows of ten, he says to everyone in a loud and old voice "alright damn listen ! Capture all the rat suits you can ! and kill anyone who tries to resist but not all ! If they kill the men and guys who know how to fight, then I won't have the credits they promised me ! they understood Birajuus!"

Everyone shouted in affirmation at the words of that unfortunate pirate. Suddenly through the ship's speakers, the voice of another Batarian pirate sounds "Attention everyone, ETA for the Quarian ship T-Minus 3 minutes" at the words of that pirate pilot. Everyone began to check their weapons systems, checking that nothing is out of place and that they don't jam or break in the middle of combat.

Silence dominated the place, while everyone checked their weapons, and just when they felt a small tremor that shook the ship, that was the signal for them to raise their weapons. The ship door was opened revealing a completely damaged bay with the occasional fire on the walls, floor and ceiling of this hangar.

They all left the boarding ship, taking up positions around the transport that carried them and keeping an eye on every corner of this hangar.

Another boarding ship had just entered the hangar, parking to the side of the ship the others had come from, the doors opening revealing rows of Batarians, Turians and Asari between them. They came out like a wave with weapons ready to kill anyone in their path.

Giving a total of about 40 pirates to capture and eliminate anyone in their way.

The same Batarian who had spoken to everyone on board the ship yelled again "spread out! catch as many rat suits as you can ! And don't kill everyone ! If you leave us with no Quarians to capture, I'll gouge your fucking eyes out!" he said as he walked forward, carrying his M-99 Saber assault rifle.

From the words of this squadron captain, everyone began to move to the hangar exits. In order to find Quarians to capture and sell.

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Corridors of the Ganbay, 0708 hours, 3rd Galactic cycle.

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Cael, who is behind a barricade made of crates of heavy equipment, will be able to stop at least several mass projectiles being fired at him for a while. Pointing his M-15 Vindicator straight ahead at the door that is sealed on the other side.

Behind him several other Quarians can be seen pointing straight ahead with all sorts of weapons from pistols, submachine guns, assault rifles, shotguns, snipers and grenade launchers to the door. Which leads to a series of corridors that lead to the hangar of this civilian ship.

Cael was ready for whatever happened, he has to be, because behind him and all the other Quarians, are the escape pods which are being used right now by his people who are starting to board them. But they still do not leave the ship, they have to wait for the signal to be able to use the escape pods.

Cael, turns on the omni tool on his left wrist, linking up with the engineers at the ship's generator. "How are you doing with the ship's generator?"

" We are starting the process of self-destruction, we will overload the ship's generator , and we will plant explosives in vital areas of it! We have 10 minutes to evacuate, Captain! " the Quarian replied from Cael's omni tool.

"Okay, take the escape pods that are on your side and start getting out of here now, go to the planet and mark the coordinates so that our people can land without any problem" Cael said to the Quarian who is speaking from his omni tool .

" Yes , captain, me. BOSH'TET! RATATATATA! BANG BANG ! BANG !" the unmistakable sounds of gunshots suddenly rang out from Cael's omni tool.

"Hey what's up!" Cael tries to call the Quarian he was talking to, he kept trying for several minutes, but there was no answer "... Vot" Cael cursed as he received nothing. They must have met the pirates who are boarding the ship.

He turned to the rest of the Quarians behind him and told them "board the pods now, we are withdrawing from the ship."

Many of the Quarians were hesitant to comply with that order, not wanting to leave this ship that was considered their home. Some even looked like they wanted to protest their captain's order.

But in the end it didn't matter, because the door they were guarding suddenly exploded, the explosion went through the door completely and metal fragments flew at high speed towards the Quarians.

Some had the misfortune of having the shards tear parts of their suits and embed themselves into their bodies, Cael managed to watch as a large shard of the gates flew at full speed at a Quarian, burying itself deep in its abdomen. The fragment protruded from his back.

Cael quickly focused ahead, seeing the shadow of various figures moving towards them. Cael knew instantly who were entering through that door that exploded a few seconds ago.

He knew he had to pull the trigger, he knew in that moment that the pirates would respond in kind, he knew it would be a bloodbath. So it was no surprise when the first shadow revealed itself to be a Krogan, all the Quarians raining projectiles propelled by an electromagnetic field into the weapons.

Krogans are famous for many things, one of those things is their ridiculous resistance to heavy firepower from conventional weapons, you would need heavy firepower to be able to take them down with one shot. A rocket could do the job.

But unfortunately they don't have any of that on hand , so they'll have to make do with what's on hand.

Which led to the result that almost half of all the Quarians in this hallway focused their fire on the Krogan, Cael still concentrating on shooting the Krogan specifically in its head. But the thing with the Krogans, is that they have good natural armor.

The Krogan held out for a good 4 minutes of continuous fire on its feet, until it was forced to take cover on the side of the hallway, seeing that its kinetic shields had been depleted from the incessant blast that rained down on it.

Those chitin shells that are on his body are already armor for less powerful weapons, you need bigger things to kill him properly.

Cael suddenly ducked to avoid a rifle shot, which was fired by a Batarian, who burst out of the destroyed door and positioned himself behind a corner of the hallway, leaning out and opening fire every chance he got.

Cael kept shooting non-stop, until he felt his Vindicator overheating, stopping firing to allow the weapon to cool down, he peeked out to see behind the Krogan and Batarian, what he saw was a whole group of about 2 Turians 4 Batarians and 1 Asari, entering this room.

Cael turned to his men and yelled "RETREAT! BACK OFF! GO TO THE CAPSULES NOW!" He turned around and fired again with his Vindicator at the Turian that had fired at him , destroying their shields and going through the Turian's hull. Killing him and blowing all the brain matter out of his head. Blue blood and gray matter spread all over the floor.

Cael, began to run with his head down towards the escape pod room, being covered by the other Quarians who are firing on the pirates, Cael goes behind one side of the corridor, points his Vindicator forward again and returns To shoot.

The pirates began to push and gain ground, the Asari that was at the back began to be enveloped by a layer of biotics, after a single movement of her hand, she sent shock waves at us, which sent several poor Quarians flying. , some of them survived. Others were not lucky enough to have those.

They crashed into the walls of this hallway, smashing their helmet and skull in the process. The pirates, seeing that a good number of us had been eliminated, began to move forward, shooting as they continued to gain ground.

Cael turned to his own and shouted "GO TO THE CAPSULES! ALREADY!" he said as he ran to the escape pod room, with another 12 Quarians following behind him .

The doors were suddenly thrown open, revealing a single escape pod still free, it is assumed that inside each Quarian civilian ship there are around 20 escape pods at the front and rear of the ship . With the capacity to hold around 30 people inside, tight, but at least they will be able to get out of this ship.

Not all will be able to escape the ship, most likely they are leaving the majority of the Quarian population at the hands of these slavers, Quarians who will be taken as slaves.

Cael hated having to do this, not everyone will make it but he hopes he can save as many as possible from this situation, if they manage to save as many as they can then he's happy with this.

But Cael wishes things were better, that they didn't have to be caught in the middle of this.

Cael turned and began firing back into the hallway, picking off a Batarian who had gotten too far forward, shattering their shields and piercing through their armor.

Cael turned to a Quarian engineer who was firing an M-12 Locust at the pirates. Cael yells "SHUT THE DOOR!" The engineer nodded, activating his omni tool, he shuts the door quickly. Locking it so the pirates couldn't open it.

Cael called back to the Quarians "GET IN THE CAPSULES WE HAVE 3 MINUTES LEFT!" What he does is genocide, but what other option does he have?

"BUT CAPTAIN! THERE MAY STILL BE PEOPLE INSIDE THE SHIP!" a Quarian yelled in protest.

"WE HAVE NO MORE SPACE TO COLLECT THEM! GET INSIDE THE CAPSULE NOW! " Cael shouted desperately, the Quarian was going to protest but he saw that the door was beginning to be penetrated, the hologram that indicated the locked door was beginning to light up green little by little, Cael shouted "NOW GET IN! " he said as he entered the capsule.

The other Quarians joined in but not before taking one last look at the ship, many cursing in their native language, this is the home of many Quarians. Life in this place may be a lot of Vot, but it was home to many.

So it was a pain to have to board the escape pod, close the pod to avoid the vacuum of space, and suddenly be ejected into space, having a full view of the lifeship you were on a few minutes ago. The back and top of the ship was completely damaged, with holes in which you can see from the other side of the ship, large cracks and pieces of the ship floating aimlessly in the middle of space.

And suddenly, from the engine area of the ship, the place where the ship's generator resided suddenly exploded, creating a chain reaction, various areas of the ship began to explode in a line, one by one, the explosions engulfed ships like a plague.

Until suddenly.

Light was made.

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SS Mala Sangra Command Center, 0711 Hours, 3rd Galactic Cycle

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"WHAT THE HELL DID HAPPEN!" a Batarian roared furiously at the other operators in this command center, the reason for his anger is due to the fact that one of the ships of the suit rats just blew up hundreds of pieces, killing several pirates who were boarding the ship. ship.

A Batarian turns around and answers, "Captain, we detected that the ship's generator was activating, before the explosion occurred, it seems that the Quarians programmed their ship to explode."

"NO FUCK FOOL!" The captain replied with a furious bark at the Batarian, he turned to another operator, the communications officer, and barked "PUT ME IN CONTACT WITH THE REST OF THE FLEET!" the officer nodded, returning to his hard light screen and interacting with it.

Linking up with all the ships of the pirate fleet in the process, the operator turns to the leader of this entire pirate fleet and says, "You're already linked up with all the ships, Captain."

The captain turned forward, taking a breath and then saying "attention all ships, I am the commander of this entire Pathar Gogdachar pirate fleet, we have located several escape pods from different rat suit ships escaping. to the surface of this planet

"send all the forces you have at your disposal and capture all the Quarians that have landed on the planet, we will not leave here without having captured a large number of those rat suits"

" So go get them for our pay! over and out! " the captain roared that last part, cutting off communications with the rest of the pirate ships under his command.

He could see through the ship's mirrors, as several landing craft began to descend into the planet's atmosphere.

Things got a little complicated, but nothing the leader of this band of pirates and mercenaries could n't handle, a little excitement doesn't hurt. After all they are rat suits.

What is the worst that can happen.

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Surface of the planet Altium III, 0721 Hours, 3rd Galactic cycle

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"How long until we reach the terrestrial atmosphere of the planet!" Darek asked, as he watched as they entered the planet, going through the atmospheric layer of this planet. He could feel through the ship, how gravity 6 times stronger than Earth's, was pulling the ship and the rest of the other ships to the ground.

"Sir, 3 minutes and 5 seconds, sir! Activate the VOID system, to adjust to the gravity of this planet ! Mister!" a technical officer said as he checked the ship's systems through his monitor. He discovered that the gravity of this planet could crush the structure of the ship, with its own weight.

The VOID system was a boon to humanity during the era of planetary and space exploration, an advanced gravity system that creates a field with a range of about 2 kilometers in diameter. A dome that recreates the gravity to which humanity has become accustomed, terrestrial gravity.

Protecting yourself from any of the consequences of being exposed to gravity to a gravity that you are not used to, there is another method for this as well, and that comes in the form of Gravity implants.

These devices implanted in the suits of all people, civilians, military, scientists, etc. These devices allow you to move by the gravity of the planet you are on, by collecting data from the orbit in which the subject is being exposed, the device then sends Elxter waves into the body. Which adapt the skeleton, mass and liquids of the body so as not to suffer from the consequences of exposing themselves to a different gravity.

Darek thanks the soul of the creator of the VOID and Gravity systems, they are the blessing they needed in this type of situation. Mentally and with the help of Midas activate the VOID system.

The sides of the ships, the device is turned on in the form of panels which rise to the sides, generating a gravity field in which the ship is not crushed under its own weight. A purple light begins to emanate from the gaps in the scales, expanding to cover an area of 2 kilometers around the ship.

Gravity for everyone changed now, they are no longer feeling the effects of gravity falling on their shoulders, giving everyone a sense of relief.

Darek yelled "VOID system activated! artificial gravity well created ! 1 minute to land on the ground! Everyone take your positions now!" ordering everyone, through the loudspeakers that are inside the ship.

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Midas cargo area

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"I repeat! All personnel, ETA to land on the planet's surface in 1 minute ! Everyone get ready for landing! " Captain Darek's voice blared through the loudspeakers in the ship's cargo area. The place right now is completely abuzz with activity, with people moving quickly to take up their positions.

Soldiers of the stellar alliance with combat suits, StarField, which consists of a tight black suit on the body that allows good flexibility when moving, with pure Meltex plates, which are glued to the armor of the soldiers. Soldiers in the form of a vest, shoulder pads, bracers, boots, knee pads, and helmet.

The helmet is in the shape of the old helmets of soldiers in terrestrial times, with a fin rising above his head and pointing backwards, with visors attached to the blue colored helmet and the jaw protected by the helmet completely covering the head. head of the subject that carried it, some of them carried various modifications to distinguish themselves from others, such as.

One soldier counts on his helmet, a pair of visors which are attached to the front of his helmet, others have knives on their shoulders or vests, but one thing they all have the same is the Star Alliance symbol painted on their vests. and shoulder pads.

Each and every one of them equipped with the standard MX-35 assault rifles, with several pouches around their abdomens which are filled with the semi- solid batteries , ready for combat use, as well as a standard Zenit pistol. 32. A pistol that uses the same type of ammunition as the MX-35 rifles.

Which can store around 200 shots, before it overheats, a small, efficient and easy weapon to use in the middle of a firefight, with enough power to penetrate the armor of standard Meltex armor.

All of the Alliance suits had an artifact equipped behind them, in the middle of their waist, a cylinder which is filled with Elxter particles, which surround 100% of the subject. Once they have reached to completely cover the subject's body, they adapt a more solid , which will protect the user from any solid or thermal laser object, which is directed at the subject.

But for each hit that the particle shield receives, the amount of particles will be reduced over time, the particle layer can be recovered over time, due to Elxter's self-regenerating mini engine that will allow the user to recover his particle shield. particle.

In the middle of the cargo area of the research freighter, you can see 6 structures, all with different designs from each other, with a square shape to them, in the corners of these square structures you can see four Elxter thrusters. Which will help the structures to move without the need of any heavy load vehicle.

The EMDs (deployable mobile structures) were loaded inside these freighters, with the aim of investigating on the surface of one of these planets to investigate in a more secure and indiscreet way the anomaly that was occurring within this system.

but for now they will have to serve to help them in this emergency situation. The Alliance soldiers, luckily for them, have within this cargo ship the exact EMD for this situation.

Soldiers quickly run up the stairs of this cargo area, where several rows of seats can be seen , arranged in rows and numbered, the seats to adjust their Gravity devices with the gravity they are about to enter.

From the last rows, Matías and Shepard enter the cargo area of the ship through a sliding Meltex door, which was all the way back from the Gravity adjustment seats. Shepard yells at Matías "come on we only have 50 seconds now!" he ran to take the seats that were designated for him on his way to this place, by the IS of the Midas ship.

"don't wait for me go!" Matías answered him as he ran to keep up with Shepard, following him as he passed through the corner seats of the last numbered row, Shepard being the first to arrive, took a seat and quickly settled into his seat, Matías arriving second, still settled in your seat. Both letting the seats do their job and adjust the Gravity device of their bodies, in order to adapt to the gravity of this planet.

They began to feel the sensation of the Gravity device enveloping their body, the Elxter particles, apart from being the main source of energy and the most important resource of all humanity, it was discovered that it has several secondary effects on the human body.

Such as adapting the biology of the human body to the different types of environment they are in, without the need to completely affect the human biology, it's more like a kind of conditioner.

Which right now is doing its job. Shepard and Adam, after feeling the gravity they were getting, get up from their seats with their rifles in hand, they see how the other soldiers who were in the area began to get up from their seats.

They went down the stairs that led to the cargo area, in the middle of their way down, they felt a sudden jolt in the ship, indicating that they have already landed, Shepard turns to see Matías, he says " ! Let's go out! We have to establish a perimeter and place the invisibility EMD in the area so they don't locate us!" shouted Matías who, instead of going up the stairs, jumped off them.

The Meltex infused armor began to glow white as each segment of Matias' suit, the shoulder pads, vest, boots, knee pads, gloves, and helmet that was attached to his helmet glowed that characteristic white color. And with a grace straight out of an old superhero movie, I land unharmed on the cargo bay floor.

An advantage of using the Praetor armor is the fact that it is not the same as the other armor of the Star Alliance, in fact, the Praetor armor was designed so that the wearer is like a super soldier, someone with the ability to do miracles on the battlefield.

But they were only given to those people who reached the rank of N7, not everyone could wear armor like this, because of how expensive and complex it can be to make one of these armors for several people.

Shepard already reached the bottom, ran to where the cargo door of the ship opens, which is opening at the moment, saw how the EMD began to turn on Elxter's thrusters ready to leave the ship. Shepard ran faster, jumping out of the ship and landing with one hand on the ground and the other pointing to the sky. The red moonlight fell on his head, slightly illuminating the night in a red color.

He got up quickly, pointing his MX-35 at the area in front of him, which consisted of a lush jungle, with mysterious trees of a reddish-green color, the trunks of the dark-colored trees shone slightly due to small golden particles that were inside. of the trunk. With grasses, bushes and plants of different types and the majority consisting of a yellow, green and red color, which created a natural barrier in this jungle, which was surrounding them, to the ship and the others that are starting to land not very far from where they are right now.

They have no idea what kind of life is on this planet, they don't know if they are dealing with some kind of advanced civilization or some kind of developing life forms, so taking a more discreet approach in this situation is necessary. What is that Alex and Matías will do at this moment.

Matías eventually reached Shepard's side, his MX-35 raised and pointed into the woods. "Come on, we have to reconnoiter the territory we're in."

"Okay, I've got your back, and watch our step, for all we know on this planet there may be man-eating plants on the ground" Shepard replied with a bit of humor in her voice, as she walked towards the bushes in front from them.

"Pray for it to be so" without waiting for anyone else , they crossed through the bushes that were inside this jungle, entering the dark reddish night of this jungle. No idea what can be found.

But this is their job, they were trained not only to be the greatest soldiers on the battlefield, they were trained too, for being the greatest explorers that humanity needs in this case of scenario. And they are ready for it

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Altium III unknown sector, 0728 hours, 3rd Galactic cycle.

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The impact to the surface of this planet was harder than Cael thought it would be , he never thought that for a single moment landing on a planet with a gravity that is 8 times heavier than what they are used to, would hit this capsule so hard. exhaust.

Today is not his day, thought to himself Cael'Tollo Vas, captain of the now destroyed Quarian lifeship Tollo Vas, who is now stranded on a completely unknown planet, with pirates who may or may not be ready to invade this planet for them. .

The other Quarians inside the pod did not survive the ground impact, leaving only him as a survivor. I had to get out of this capsule full of bodies.

Rising from the cold, metallic floor of this escape pod, he saw how each and every one of the Quarians who were with him had died, many surely from the force of the impact. He was lucky to have survived, all thanks to a piece that had fallen from the roof of the capsule, which he used as a shield to protect himself from the impact and thus the fragment cushioned the damage a bit.

Which worked but he couldn't absorb most of the impact, resulting in many broken bones, he could feel like his ribs and right arm were broken, he could barely move without feeling great pain in his arm and ribs.

But he had to do it if he wants to get out of here, he slowly stood up in the most painful way he could bear at this moment, he can feel how part of his body was screaming in pain at this precise moment, he wanted to give up at that precise moment . But he did not want to die in this place.

At least he hoped he could die on the ground of this nameless planet, abandoned in who knows where in the galaxy. If he will die here, at least he wants to die on this nameless rock, they are a sight to heaven.

For the world that he could know.

Slowly, his hands gripped the hatch handles of this escape pod , using what little strength he had left, he slowly opened the hatch, the sound of the door opening being all Cael could hear.

Until after several minutes of effort, the door finally opened revealing the dark exterior of this planet, which was a forest. With completely unknown trees of a reddish green color and with small yellow lights glowing yellow inside them.

Shrubs of different shapes, types, and colors surrounded this strange-looking jungle, an odd sight indeed, but a welcome one to Cael's closing eyes.

"You..." Cael cursed as he felt that his consciousness was declining, the last strength he had accumulated was exhausted along with his legs that now lost their strength and let him fall to the ground. Like a puppet having its strings cut.

Cael could only stare at the starry sky, the red moon that they had seen from the command center of their ship, lit up with a ghostly glow tonight.

Cael couldn't help but wonder if the others who were on the other ships managed to escape the hands of the pirates, most likely they did, choosing to die rather than be caught by the scum of the galaxy.

Darkness is beginning to envelop his vision.

All they wanted was to return to the home from which they had been exiled.

Shadows began to rise above him .

All they wanted was a life for their people.

The shadows began to increase in number , until there were a total of 5 shadows surrounding him, all about the size of an average Krogan and above one, he couldn't see much of their features. But they looked like they had scales for skin and things made of leather or metal attached to their bodies.

Before Cael could question what those things were. The darkness enveloped him once more .

In his dark and cold embrace.

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TO BE CONTINUE