Hey guys! I have read all the reviews about the previous chapter on certain things and wanted to give you some reassurance about it. Project crusader I have decided to create a poll for you the fans to decide on whether or not if I should do this project or not. You will fine this poll on my profile and it will end when we get into the ME2 plot line. As for Sovereign being powerful as he was in my story I did mention to all of you that the Reapers were going to be a lot more powerful in my story then what we saw in ME3. There is going to be an explanation on why the Reapers are so powerful and why the Citadel rivals the Forerunners technology, but I am not going to rush it as it would spoil the ending. So I hope you guys will keep reading this story and send me reviews on anything.

December 12, 2683/2183

Chronos Station

Inner Sanctum

In Chronos Station a tall brunette woman stood in front of a window looking at the dying star, contemplating the mistakes the OSA leaders were making as of late. "Shepard did everything right—more than we could've hoped for as a matter of fact: saving the Citadel, stopping Saren, and the Geth. The OSA's place in the galaxy is stronger than ever...and yet it's still not enough."

The man in the chair smoking a cigarette flicked the ashes off before responding. "The Senate is busy making preparations for war, but Shepard remains our best hope."

The Brunette woman turned around and walked up to the man in the chair. "But they're sending him to fight Geth. Geth!" She walked through a hologram. "We both know they're not the real threat." She stopped right in front of him. "The Reapers are still out there."

The man in the chair took a long drag from his cigarette and exhaled the smoke from his lungs. "And it's up to us to stop them."

The woman threw up her arms in disbelief. "We can't! Not like what we used to! ONI and the Union have cut our funding and left us to fend for ourselves. We now have to use our contacts in corporations to get are funding. But Shepard...they'll follow him. He's a hero, a bloody icon. His popularity almost rivals that of the Master Chief himself, but even he's just one man. If we lose Shepard and the Chief, Humanity (and by extension the OSA) might well follow."

The man in the chair put his cigarette down and looked at the woman with determination in his cybernetic eyes. "Then see to it that we don't lose either of them."

Terminus Systems

OSA Deep space

Outpost

During the OSA's war with the Terminus systems and the formation of the Terminus Coalition after the war. The OSA placed deep space outposts to monitor the day to day operation of the Terminus Coalition, or to plan black ops on key locations in the Coalition's own borders and to listen in on their communications should they ever attempt an incursion into OSA's borders around the Mass Relay network.

The outpost consisted of Humans, Sangheili, Unggoy, and Yanme'e all working to maintain the outpost on long term missions. But this particular outpost listened in on any communications that transmitted through the Terminus Systems. A Yanme'e was stationed at his post listening in on the traffic that came through the comm. buoys around the Relay, but on this day he picked up a distress signal from a UNSC ship, and called over a Human who was second in command of this outpost.

The Human was of African descent with the rank of Major, going by the name David Adams. Adams walked up to the Yanme'e. "What do you have for me?"

The Yanme'e tuned in on the message and put it on the loud speaker for Adams to listen too. "Mayday, mayday, mayday! This is UNSC Normandy. We've suffered heavy damage from an unknown enemy." The transmission then ended with static. Adams instantly recognized the name of the ship and acted fast. "When did you pick up that transmission?"

Yanme'e turn his head to look at Adams. "Just a minute ago."

The Major nods his head. "There should be a patrol fleet near the borders between the Terminus and the OSA, we should be able to send a transmission in slipspace to them in order to intercept the Normandy." He then headed to a terminal and began typing it up. "Alright I sent the message to them, they should be there in an hour or less, but let's hope for the bes..."

Adams stopped what he was about to say when the base began to shake. Before he could find out what was going on, the Commander-in-Chief who was a Sangheili walked in wearing battle armor carrying an energy sword on his waist. "We are under attack from an unknown enemy."

Adams walks up to the holo table and brought up an image of the enemy ship. "Configuration doesn't match anything in our database," said Adams, "if this is first contact then we got off on the wrong foot with these guys."

The Sangheili snarled. "They dare attack us? Then they shall know what happens when they face a superior foe." The Sangheili Commander looked at Adams. "Prepare our men for battle and get this station to combat ready status." The Commander then walked out of the room to prepare what he believed would be a decisive victory.

Adams on the other hand took a closer look at the ship for possible tactical weaknesses. The ship was a strange construction. According to the information on the holotable, the ship was organic and mechanical at the same time, and was bigger than anything the Citadel Council or the Terminus Coalition could make. The ship was releasing what look like tiny insect-like creatures that swarmed the entire area. Adams didn't know what these things were, but it got the base AI to put all files and information on lock down until this threat was taken care of.

Adams then went to go prepare for what he hoped was a winnable fight, but inside of him he believed this was the start of a war in the making.

2 months later

Asgard System

Asgard station

Defense Committee

Chambers

In the large dome-shaped room of the Defense Committee for all OSA colonies around the Mass Relay network was a meeting of great importance to the OSA; one that could mean war for the entire galaxy.

Admiral Hackett was present during this meeting as he wanted to get to the bottom of all these attacks on their outposts as of late. He sat down to hear the intelligence report on who was behind these attacks by Cerberus. After a while, a man wearing the standard Cerberus colors and crest walked before the entire Committee.

The Cerberus agent walked in the center of the room and looked at the Committee and began. "Hello, my name is Tyrone Rawlings, I am part of Cerberus Intelligence division. The Illusive Man sends his regards to the people that have been lost to us these past two months."

A Sangheili then spoke. "For the past two months seven of our outposts have been attacked. And all the people that were station there have vanished without a trace. All video recordings are either damaged or corrupted. Does Cerberus have any information about these attacks, whose behind it and why are they doing this?"

Tyrone brought up an image of an insect-like creature never before seen by anyone on the Committee."The Illusive Man put all resources into finding out who was behind these attacks, and our information lead us to a race known to the Terminus Systems as the Collectors."

There were whispers around the Committee members for a while, until Admiral Hackett broke the silence. "What do we know about these Collectors?"

Tyrone brought up his omni-tool and a stream of information is brought up on a holo image. "According to what we know about them, they took part in helping the Terminus Systems in planning an attack on Elysium. They offered weapons and upgrades to their ships in exchange for samples of our technology and dozens of samples of us."

Many Committee members were confused by what he said last, Tyrone then explained "The Collectors offer advanced technologies that are far beyond anything the Citadel or the TC can make with their current level of technology. They offer these technologies in exchange for living beings in odd numbers and varieties, such as two dozen left-handed Salarians, sixteen sets of Batarian twins, a Krogan born of parents from feuding clans, or two dozen "pure" Quarians — Quarians that have never left the Migrant Fleet due to illness, importance to the fleet, or disability."

Tyrone then recounted events during the war on a certain mission he took part in. "During the OSA's war with the Terminus Systems, Cerberus began sending out operatives to attack key locations in the war, one location was on the space station Omega, where a group of Batarian slavers were planning on selling a dozen Quarians, who at the time were on an important assignment for the Quarian people. The operatives waited to learn who the buyers were. After some time, they came and it was the Collectors. The operatives took action by killing the slavers and Collectors before they returned the Quarians back to Tikkun. At that point we began stopping their operations in the Terminus."

The Committee members looked at one another, concerned for their peoples well being. A Kig-yar member then speaks out. "Do you believe the Collectors are attacking us because of what the operatives did?"

Tyrone sighed and looks at the Committee. "No, the Illusive Man believes the Collectors are working for the Reapers."

When the Committee heard that, they were talking to each other with obvious concern about this, before Admiral Hackett stood up to make his presence known. "What evidence does the Illusive Man have to support this theory?"

Tyrone looked at Hackett for a moment and decides to lay down everything the Illusive Man has discovered, he brings up an image of a red Mass Relay. "The species in the TC call this Mass Relay the Omega-Four Relay: we believe the Collectors use this Relay to go back and forth to their home world."

A Jiralhanae war chieftain slammed his fists down on the table. "If we know where they live, then why do we not attack and rescue our people?"

Tyrone shakes his head. "I am afraid that's impossible." The Committee members looked at Tyrone with confusion, before he continued. "For a long time, the Omega-Four Relay has been the subject of controversy in the Terminus systems as to where it leads, but one thing is for certain: no ship passing through the Relay has ever returned. The Illusive Man believes the Relay works differently with Collector ships. If the Collectors can manipulate a Relay then that's further evidence of their involvement with the Reapers."

Tyrone then brought up the system where the Relay resided. "Also, the Omega-Four Relay resides in the Omega Nebula, of the Sahrabarik system. Because of where it's located, if we send a fleet it will be an all out war between the OSA and TC."

A Mgalekgolo ambassador asked a question that was concerning the Defense Committee. "Are the TC and Collectors working together?"

Tyrone shakes his head. "That was the one thing the Illusive Man wanted to find out: but fortunately for us, the TC has no idea that the Collectors are attacking us, and they don't seem inclined to stop the Collectors from using their Relay to traverse the galaxy."

A Yanme'e wearing red armor then asked a question. "Is there anything else we should know about the Collectors, any other incidents against us?"

Tyrone looks down for a moment before speaking to the Committee. "Some of you may know that the UNSC Normandy was destroyed two months ago on the day our first outpost was attacked: we believe the Collectors were involved in attacking the Normandy."

As the Committee talked about it, Admiral Hackett remembered the incident like it was yesterday, he then speaks out about it. "A patrol of OSA ships were on the border between OSA space and the Terminus Systems when they received a message from the same outpost that was attacked and went to where the Normandy sent the transmission. When they got there, the Normandy had crash-landed on an ice planet, and the survivors were found and rescued in escape pods floating in space. Commander Shepard was assumed KIA when they couldn't find his body."

Tyrone nodded his head. "Cerberus was doing the investigation on the destruction of the Normandy to see who was behind it. During our investigation, the Illusive Man had us try to find the Commander's body. We assumed he was vaporized when the Normandy was destroyed, but according to our intelligence division, the Shadow Broker has had the Commander's body all along."

Hackett and the Committee were surprised by this and many were upset about it too, but before anyone could complain of a lack of communications by Cerberus, Tyrone explained. "Cerberus has already recovered the Commander's body from the Broker, and we know that he was planning on selling the Commander's body to the Collectors for a rather hefty price. For what purpose the Collectors wanted him, we don't know."

Hackett then speaks out about the Commander. "Where is Shepard's body now? And is the Shadow Broker working with the Collectors?"

Tyrone try to explain as best as he could. "I am afraid the Commander's body is at an undisclosed location, I can't say anything else as Cerberus wants absolute secrecy. As for the Shadow Broker, we are taking in the logic that he may be providing the Collectors with intelligence about us."

"What are the Collectors' military capabilities, ships, soldiers, and anything else?" asked a Sangheili soldier.

"Cerberus placed spy probes around the Omega-Four Relay to gather intelligence on the Collectors. We believe that they have anywhere between five to ten ships that are constantly going back and forth through the Relay, but we don't know how many they are building on the other side. As for their soldiers, we have only engaged them once and I don't believe that was their real capabilities at the time."

Admiral Hackett and the Committee heard enough and decide to ask a final question, Hackett stands up and speaks. "Agent Tyrone, where do we stand after everything you told us about them?"

Tyrone had an uneasy look on his face of what he was about to say. "Admiral, as of right now we are in an undeclared state of war with the Collectors, the problem is that we do not have the means of travelling through the Relay and any attempts at going there by slipspace is out of the question."

Hackett takes in what Tyrone says and makes a statement. "I don't know why the Collectors are attacking us. If they are working for the Reapers, then it makes sense; but we don't have much to go by on what Cerberus has presented to us; but I do know we cannot allow these attacks to continue. If the Collectors continue attacking us, or go too far with their dealings, then I propose we do everything in our power to bring them down—even if we have to destroy the entire galaxy to do it."

The Committee members agreed on what Hackett has said and turn to Tyrone and ask if he has anything else to report. Tyrone nods his head. "I am afraid our attempts at covering up these attacks on our outpost have gone unnoticed as we had hoped for."

Tyrone brought up a holographic image of a star system with a Mass Relay. "We call this system Sub-Sector 45: it's on the borders between Turian space and OSA space. That Relay connects to other Relays all the way to Palaven."

Admiral Hackett didn't know where Tyrone was going with this. "Where are you going with this?"

Tyrone nodded his head. "Gentlemen we have spies on the borders." He brought up the image of a moon. "This moon is capable of supporting life for a small population; we have located a group of Turians and Salarians on the planet, trying to listen in on our transmissions."

"Why would they risk death trying to spy on us?" asked the war chief.

"Somehow they found out about our outposts coming under attack these past two months, we don't know how they found out, but we need to do something about this." said Tyrone

"Can they even listen in on our communications? It seems unlikely for them to be able to pick up anything from our transmissions especially when we use slipspace to communicate." said the Yanme'e soldier.

Tyrone nods his head. "It is very unlikely for them to be able to listen in on us since we use slipspace, but we can't let this go to their heads that they can come on the border and set up anything they want."

Admiral Hackett agrees. "What do you propose we do?"

Tyrone grins. "I believe we need to send a message to the Salarian Union and Turian Hierarchy: we need to send in the Headhunters."

Everyone on the Committee was aware of who the Headhunters were and what they were capable of, but some on the committee thought they were savages for cutting off the heads of their enemies. The Defense Committee thought about it and gave the go-ahead on using the Headhunters.

Sub-Sector 45

UNSC Destroyer The Heart of Midlothian

Conference Room

The UNSC destroyer was dispatched by High COM at Asgard station to travel to Sub-Sector 45 through slipspace to drop off the Headhunters. During that time, the Headhunters gathered in the conference room with the Captain and an ODST.

Captain Ronald Rollins was a strong man in his fifties, but patrolled the borders of OSA space. Ronald along with one of his ODST's Michael Baird were planning the mission with the Headhunters. "Alright people time to show these Turians and Salarians what happens when you decide to spy in our backyard."

A Spartan wearing red SPI armor walked up to the table. "Sir, Headhunters are ready to move out on your orders."

The Captain nodded his head. "I understand the mission and what you need to do, but according to our probes in orbit of the moon, there are five corvettes. Two belong to the Salarian Union and three belong to the Turians. According to our information, those corvettes are ten-man crafts used to perform combat and survey missions. So obviously there are fifty of them on the moon. We detected a comm. buoy near the Mass Relay; they must be using it to communicate with their people with any information they have."

The Captain brought up a holo image of the system. "So here's how the mission is going to proceed: I will take the destroyer and park it close to the comm. buoy and use our AI Mo Ye to jam their communications, while you guys do what you do best."

A Headhunter wearing brown SPI armor noted a critical error in the Captains plan. "Captain, what makes you think the Turians or Salarians won't use their corvettes to check on the comm. buoy when you jam their communications?"

The Captain walks up to his ODST and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Sergeant Baird is an artist with high explosives—not on par with a Spartan-II or you III's as per killing power, but he's just as smart and will be joining you on this mission."

A Headhunter wearing green SPI armor voiced his objection. "Captain, no offense to this guy, but I think he's going to slow us down." he walked over to the side and pulled out his combat machete. "Look if you are concerned about those ships, I can destroy those myself with a well placed charge and still kill some Turians along the way." The arrogance of the Headhunter made the ODST clench his fists together in rage before he restrained himself—he knew to expect this kind of behavior from most of the Spartan-III's. It was obvious he signed up on this mission to work with professionals like the Master Chief or Shepard…not savages like this Spartan-III in green.

The Captain chuckled a little before responding. "I have no doubt you are capable of that, but this is my ship my rules, Sergeant Barid will accompany you to the planet for safety's sake." he looks at the four headhunters in the room. "Do I make myself clear?"

The Headhunters straightened up and saluted to the Captain and responded with a "Yes Sir". The Captain nods his head and tells them to go get ready.

UNSC Destroyer The Heart of Midlothian

Locker Room

In the locker room were two Headhunters getting ready to be deployed on the planet. One of them, Jonah was complaining about the mission to his teammate Roland. "So what's the big deal with High COM? They sent two other Headhunters to help us, but don't they realize that Headhunter missions are two-man jobs; not four or four and a half if you count that ODST that's coming with us."

Roland looked at his partner and tries to calm him down. "Look Jonah, relax alright. We have a mission to do and the reason they send Headhunters in is because we're the best at sending a message to anyone. But this time we're getting back-up."

Jonah just shook his head in disbelief. "I see no point in sending any back-up: we're the best at what we do. You and me, we can take down a whole battalion of soldiers without breaking a sweat—true, not as well as John-117 would have, but we still get the job done."

Before Roland could reply the Captain came on the intercom. "All Headhunters report to the hangar bay for immediate departure."

UNSC Destroyer

Hangar

In the hangar the Headhunters jumped into a stealth pelican. The pilot was Michael Baird who began pressing buttons preparing for their departure from the hangar bay. After confirmation for them to leave, the pelican flew out of the hangar bay and headed down to the moon, while the destroyer heads to the comm. buoy.

Moon

30 yards from enemy camps

When the pelican landed the Headhunters walked out along with Baird, they then headed in the direction where the Salarians and Turians made camp. When they got to the camps, they pulled out binoculars and scanned the area. Jonah commented on how easy this was going to be. "This is going to be too easy, just as long the fifth wheel over there does his job."

Baird looked at the Headhunter. "Just watch me and see what a real man can do without hiding behind some SPI armor."

Jonah like the smartass he was, wanted to make a funny comment, but was stopped when Roland gave the go ahead for the mission. "Alright people get ready, we move out now."

Turian and Salarian camps

The UNSC soldiers left cover and headed for the camps. At the camps, the Turians and Salarians had built an impressive listening post, to try and pick up communications from the OSA and to be able to break through their slipspace communications, but so far all attempts had failed. The Salarian scientists could not solve the math behind slipspace theory as it was never thought possible to achieve a means of travel without the Mass Relays.

A Turian by the name of Tacuss walked up to another Turian to check on any activity. "Soldier, anything to report?"

The Turian soldier turned his body to his commanding officer, he saluted before responding. "Sir, there is no activity in the system, I have patrols covering the entire base every five minutes."

Tacuss nodded his head. "Good, the last thing we need is for the OSA to find out what we're doing." he looked at the soldier for a second. "Is there anything else I need to know about?"

The soldier is concerned about one thing. "Commander, we have been unable to contact Palaven or any of our other colonies, something must be wrong with the comm. buoy."

Tacuss thought it over. "Keep trying to communicate back to Palaven. If you are unable to make contact, take a Salarian team in one of the corvettes and go check it out."

The soldier nodded his head and went back to work on the communications array. But unknown to any of them inside the camps were the Four Headhunters on the outside perimeter cutting the throats of their patrol teams allowing Michael Barid to slip by and head to the first corvette.

Once Baird made it, he planted a C-15 charge on the outer hull of the corvette and set the explosive to detonate by remote. The C-15 was a new type of explosive, that if you placed the charge right on a UNSC heavy cruiser, it could cripple the cruiser and cause secondary explosions. "One down, four more to go." said Baird as finished the first explosive.

While Baird was taking care of their corvettes, the Headhunters snuck inside the camps with active camo and began doing what they do best. Olga and Daniel were taking care of any stragglers that wandered off from the camps or were in a position where the rest could not see them, while Roland and Jonah went inside buildings to place small explosives to destroy any information they might have been able to get, Jonah and Roland split up to cover more ground.

Salarian STG Building

Jonah walked into the Salarian STG labs, checking the area before he deactivated his active camo. After a while, he went to the center of the labs and set up the explosive charge, but after he was done a Salarian put a gun to his head. "I knew the OSA would send someone eventually, but I didn't think they would send a Spartan."

Jonah didn't react when the Salarian put a gun to his head, but instead wanted to glean some information out of him. "I'm surprised you were able to sneak up on me. I've never had that happen to me before."

The Salarian just chuckled. "I know about you Spartans, every STG is aware of your augmented abilities and some thought no one could ever get the best out of you, not even the most skilled STG could get up close to a Spartan, so we had to think smarter and come up with a way."

Jonah was not really impressed about the STG's knowledge on the UNSC Spartans and their augmentations, but was curious on how he was able to sneak up behind him. "So how did you do it, you couldn't have come through the door because I would have heard the door open, and I doubt you came through the ventilation shaft, so that leaves only one conclusion: you were already here when I came in."

If the Salarian was impressed with the Spartan's awareness of his surroundings, he didn't show it. "You're right; I was in the room when you deactivated your cloaking technology. An impressive piece of technology! Many in the Salarian science community was wondering how it worked, as it could benefit much for STG operatives out in the field, but we could never get our hands on one, so we had to make one ourselves."

Jonah was surprised by this. According to Union intelligence, the Citadel Council was pushing their scientists to try and match their technology with the OSA's; it looks like they made a breakthrough. "I am impressed how your people were able to come up with their own cloaking technology, but that's not going to help you with what I'm going to do to you."

The Salarian just chuckled. "Have you forgotten that I hold a gun to your head? And don't think this cloaking technology is the only advancement we have made, we have made quite interesting advances to our weapons and I am looking forward to testing it out on a Spartan."

As the Salarian was about to pull the trigger, Jonah with agility and precision, pulled the Salarian's hand away from him his head before the gun went off, he then took out his combat machete and cut his enemy's head right off with a force that could cut through metal. The Salarian's head went flying to a table and rolled off on the ground, while his body fell to the floor.

Jonah walks over to where the head is and picked it up. "You know, I was never much into Shakespeare, but Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well." Jonah then threw the Salarian's head out the window and right at a group of Turians playing a card game. The Turians were startled when they saw the head and sounded the alarm.

Enemy Base Camp

Jonah walked out of the STG labs cloaked and radioed to Roland and the rest of the team. "Light it up!"

In that minute, explosions were all around the camps causing panic for the Turians and Salarians as they rushed over to the corvettes to escape the explosions, but the corvettes were engulfed in flames that crippled their transportation. Tacuss ordered his men to prepare for anything and to form a line around the bunkers. The Turian soldiers did as they were told and set up defensive line to prepare, but what they didn't know was that the Headhunters were already inside the bunkers preparing to kill all the Turians outside.

Jonah and Roland along with Olga and Daniel preparing their weapons to kill the Turians outside, while they were doing this, Baird was preparing the pelican for everyone to leave when all enemy forces have been killed. The Headhunters finished checking everything and wired a plastic explosive to the doors to kill any Turians on the other side. When they finished, they stepped back and pressed a switch which killed Commander Tacuss as the doors went flying out of the bunkers.

The Headhunters then threw smoke grenades to disorient the Turians before they rushed out the bunkers killing all the Turians and Salarians in the process, some were using the cloaking technology, but didn't last as long as the Headhunters did and were killed instantly. It took only thirty minutes to finish all enemy forces.

After the fighting was over, Olga and Daniel were collecting the cloaking technology off the dead Turians and Salarians for the OSA R&D department to study, while Roland was contacting the destroyer for pick up, Jonah went over to every dead Turian and Salarian to cut off their heads and place it on spikes for when the Turian Hierarchy and Salarian Union came to this moon to find out why their people have not made contact with them. From this moment on, they would get the message to never attempt this again in the near future.

So as you have seen we will not be jumping into the ME2 story plot right away and instead branch out on the two year gap Shepard was missing and see how the conflict between the Collectors and the OSA take place and what the outcome will be. Next story will be a little different then my previous ones.

Codex- Quarians and the Planet Tikkun

Quarians- When the Quarians were annexed into the OSA. The OSA helped the Quarians immensely with fixing their immune system and helped them colonize a planet suitable for their environment. Ever since then the Quarians have established an embassy on High Charity and has been a player in the OSA galactic market. Trading with the other races in the OSA they have been steadily rising to their former glory before the exodus from their home world Rannoch by the Geth. Most Quarians are happy with what they have and are great full for the OSA for all they have done, but some Quarians like Admiral Han'Gerrel and Admiral Rael'Zorah want either access to OSA technology or help from the OSA fleet to help them take back Rannoch from the Geth. But the Senate has refused on all occasions in giving them any military grade technology or fleet assistance in fighting the Geth as they see no reason to waste resources on just one planet.

Tikkun- Tikkun is the name of the planet the OSA gave to the Quarian people. They name the planet after their home worlds sun. When the Quarians colonize Tikkun their population was only at 17 million. Now that they have a planet to live on and no restriction to population control the Quarian people are now at 35 million and still counting. The Quarians allow an OSA outpost to reside on the planet itself to stay in contact with the Quarians and help protect the planet from outside threats and to help maintain the Orbital elevator the UNSC helped build with the Quarians to deliver resources and goods from space instead of having to land on the surface of Tikkun by ship.

Military- Before joining the OSA. The Quarian military was not as strong in terms of ground warfare as most Quarians would die from an infection alone then from injuries, instead they used their fleet to bombard a target from orbit. After joining the OSA their marine infantry has been able to fight much better with the proper training they get from OSA soldiers and no longer confined in their suits, they are able to fight on the ground without difficulty, but this new advantage has also lost them a bigger one. When the Quarians did colonize Tikkun much of their fleet were either decommissioned or stripped for parts, while the rest went under reconstruction on OSA docking stations to help repair the damages. The OSA does not put any restriction on the number of ships or dreadnoughts for any of the races that join the OSA. As it stands the Quarians have fifteen dreadnoughts and thirty-two cruisers and some fifty frigates at their disposal.