Hey everyone and welcome back to Xcom: Incursion! Anyway, I got a couple of good things for Christmas… such as Mass Effect 2 & 3! YES. Now I can finally learn more about the Mass Effect universe and make fewer mistakes! Though I'll have to wait for my own laptop because the family computer is filled and has no more memory space but anyway, time for the second chapter AND A SPACE BATTLE! (Super hard to friggin' write)
"While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women."
-Stephen Hawking
2109 July 11th 10:20 AM Earth Time
Spirits' Dance Approaching Species Alliance world, Eden Prime, Species Alliance Space
"Sir, we are detecting ships by the planet." An officer exclaimed, motioning for Ganus to come over to his screen. Ganus walked over, looking over the officer's shoulder. Ganus' mandibles tightened a little as he looked at the screen, they had expected little resistance, instead what they saw was a fully prepared, defensively positioned militia comparable to a standard Turian militia force.
The ships themselves demanded a commanding presence, sleek and sharp looking. There were what looked like guns on the crafts, they were small compared to standard Turian guns but showed their technological superiority with streaks of green and red visibly coursing through the guns like veins. Alien writing was visible on the ships, although blurred from the distance space presented.
All the ships carried a strange insignia on their sides, a black backdrop with three white stars in front of an alien planet.
"By the spirits, they were ready for us." The officer whispered. Ganus remembered that the officer was rather new compared to the others.
"They're still nothing a Turian fleet can't handle however." Ganus said trying to reassure the officer and himself. What could a militia, even an unknown alien one, do to a Turian fleet?
"Sir, we're picking up a signal coming from one of the Alien ships." The comms officer called to Ganus. Ganus glanced over at the comms officer and walked over to him.
"Audio or visual?" Ganus inquired.
"Audio sir-."
"Sir, we're getting energy spikes from one of the Alien ships and their weapons are turning around to face the Spirit's Rejoice!" The sensor officer called out to Ganus
"What?!" Ganus hissed, turning to his sensors' officer.
"Sir! Alien weapons have been fired; the Spirits' Rejoice has been completely destroyed! Orders sir?" Ganus sucked in a breath, if these Aliens wanted a fight, they were sure to get one.
"Open comms to all ships!"
"Done." His comms officer stated, after a second.
"I want all ships to open fire on the vessel that destroyed the Spirits' Rejoice! And after that spirits' damned ship is destroyed, fire at will at all enemy vessels immediately."
2109 July 11th 10:25 Earth Time
SAV Imperial standing off with aggravated unknowns, Species Alliance world Eden Prime, Species Alliance Space
"Sir! ETs are opening fire at the SAV Union! The SAV Union is now heating up weapons again!" Nix said in a rush. Broadley couldn't wrap his head around this situation. One of his dear friends had just started an unprovoked war. A war he would now have to fight. And even more, he was working with a terrorist organization! Broadley simply didn't know what to do. He hadn't been trained in this sort of situation. We're the bad guys? Broadley thought, finally snapping out of it.
"Direct fire to the SAV Union; blow it to the hell and back."
"Sir?" Nix inquired, slightly taken back by this.
"Blow it up I said, if we're lucky, the ETs won't fire on our other ships." "Yes sir." Nix said, relaying the command down the line. After a moment;
"The SAV Union has been destroyed." Broadley winced inwardly.
"And the ET ships?" "Still heating weapons and turning to us sir. What are your orders?" Nix said. Broadley cursed.
"Open comms to all Alliance ships." Broadley said. After a moment, Nix gave the all go.
"All Alliance ships are to fire at will at hostile ships, release all capable fighters and military drones to engage with hostile ships. All AIs are to engage in cybernetic warfare with the enemy, take and learn as much as you can about our enemy and mess up their communications. All military personnel are to report to their battle stations." This was it. This was war with another species. The Alliance hadn't been at war in almost fifty years. Broadley sucked in a breath as his fighters began to fly out from the hangers as the enemy released fighters of their own.
From looking at his standpoint in the neural interface, Broadley could gather that there were almost twice as many enemy fighters then there were Alliance. But comparing enemy fire to their own as the fighters collided in a cloud of fury, the alliance clearly still held the advantage in a technological aspect.
2109 July 11th 10:30 AM Earth Time
Destiny's Grace engaging with enemy fighters, above Species Alliance world, Eden prime, Species Alliance space
Jupiter grimaced as another mass effect slug flew past her fighter, close enough to touch. Everywhere around her, fighters of many species clashed, fighting for their own life as they fired at the general direction of the enemy, the enemy fighters were simply faster than the species Alliance fighters to lock on but held one fatal flaw: their guns were like peashooters compared to Alliance lasers and plasma. One shot were all it took for those fighters, which couldn't be said for the Alliance.
Jupiter avoided another slug and twirled her fighter in space, bringing it behind the fighter how had tried to shoot her, pressing the fire button for the lasers which had proven their effectiveness against the alien's fighters, bypassing their shields which the plasma didn't. The fighter attempted to dodge the fast approaching lasers-the bastard wasn't quick enough however as the lasers had incredible speed, reaching their targets a hell a lot faster than plasma, burning a clean hole through the fighter's armor and causing several secondary explosions. Within moments of contact with the laser, the fighter was all but destroyed, debris floating in space. "Boom." She whispered, turning her attention to the other alien fighters.
To her left, she noticed an Alliance fighter, badly damaged and taking incredible amounts of fire from multiple sources kamikaze into an alien fighter, both exploding in a brilliant display of destruction and willingness to die for the Alliance.
Jupiter would have thought it was beautiful had another Alliance soul hadn't just died from these damned aliens and she wasn't engaged in a bloody fighter vs fighter showdown. Jupiter banked her fighter hard to the left as one of those slugs neared her fighter eight hundred miles an hour She was too slow however to avoid being hit by the slug, as it hit her fighter's starboard side, causing red lights to dance around her eyes.
"Shit!" Jupiter cursed, trying desperately to keep control of her fighter from falling apart as the enemy fighter approached her position. Her fighter twirled in a circle for a moment from the impact of the slug before Jupiter regained control of the fighter, narrowly dodging another slug.
"Bastard." Jupiter muttered, making her fighter do a dive to come back up on the alien fighter who had shot her fighter. The alien fighter did a sharp turn, avoiding a laser blast to the back of his craft and turning around to face Jupiter's ship.
Around the two fighters, battle raged, as a friendly plasma blot hit the alien fighter, knocking the fighter off its point of axis and spinning it into the endless sea of fighters. Jupiter lost her target through the sea of fighters, assuming the unlucky bastard had died from some other fighter, she moved onto her next target.
2109 July 11th 10:30 AM Earth Time
Spirits' Dance engaging with hostiles, above Species Alliance world Eden Prime, Species Alliance space
Ganus looked on grimly at the bridge. It was chaos in itself, the alien's VIs' had completely managed to override the Turian VI's and take control of communications. But not before it had somehow managed to observe the Turian officer's voices and tones of speech and somehow mimic those in the comms.
Multiple ships had been getting misleading information; turning on what they assumed were insurgent Turian ships working for that spirit damned aliens. Ganus had to admit, this was a tough fight. And these aliens were definitely not primitives. Not by a long shot.
Ganus gripped the handlebar as another spirits be damned laser hit the ship. "Damage report!" Ganus yelled over the commotion on the bridge.
"Sir, we've lost our fighter hangers, fighters will not be able to dock back in!" Ganus flexed his mandibles In agitation. 'Not like there would be much to bring back, the way those aliens are having their way with our fighters,' he thought grimly.
"Half of our fleet has been completely destroyed by laser and plasma fire while we've been able to destroy about half of that, and that's being optimistic. The Turian military, beat up by a bunch of natives, how's that huh?" Ganus chuckled darkly as he sighed and closed his eyes.
There is an alternative.
Ganus opened his eyes immediately after hearing those words spoken. Ganus looked around. "Who… who said that?" Ganus said, looking around. A nearby officer looked at him.
"Sir?" He asked. Ganus waved him aside. Ganus didn't bother remembering his name and position.
I am nowhere yet I am everywhere. I am invisible to the eye.Gansu's eyes widened and he frowned.
"Who are you?" He whispered.
That is unimportant. But I know who you are though, Ganus Dardus.
"Who-what are you?"
That again is irrelevant. Listen to me mortal, do you want to live?
"Well, yes. But while my situation is grim, I have confidence in my force's capabilities. And I certainly don't need help from a voice inside my head."
You almost make me laugh, mortal. If I was indeed just inside your head, how do you explain this?
Out of curiosity, Ganus looked around himself, taking in how time had apparently slowed down significantly.
So you see, I am REAL. Ganus didn't know what to say to that.
I grow tired of your ignorance. Do you want to live? Or do you wish to perish in flames?
Ganus gulped, knowing that his whole life would be affected by this moment.
"What… what are your intentions?" The voice laughed, it was raspy and sounded worn out as if this being had seen more than it should have.
Still, you avoid the question as if it were lethal! So many questions, you remind me of when I was young! The voice let out another raspy laugh before quieting down into eerily silence.
Will you choose now? If not, I will leave you to your eventual demise at the hand of these humans. Humans. Ganus was sure to remember that. So that's what these aliens were called. Humans… Ganus shook his head.
"I'd rather live-." Great! Now just let me do this. It'll just be easier to do this.
Suddenly, a purple mist emerged in front of Ganus and immediately went for his head. Ganus tried to yell to no avail as the being took control of his mind. Time went back to normal as Ganus' eyes turned purple briefly and then faded.
"Get all viable ships to set a course for the planet." Ganus-or whatever was in Ganus' mind said. The navigation and comms officers turned to Ganus. "Sir we can't, the radar, vids and comms are down-"The navigation officer started.
" Comms just came online!" The comms officer shouted.
"So did the radar and vids!" The navigation officer called.
"Get all viable ships to set a course for the planet." Ganus repeated.
"Yes sir!" Of course, they had ground troops aboard, they had expected for an easy takeover of the planet. A ground invasion would force the Human's hand. Hopefully able to take what looked like the capital would force their hand and gain the Turians victory as they called in for heavier reinforcements.
"Get one of our frigates to escape through the mass relay, call for reinforcements." Ganus said to his comms officer.
"Yes sir." The comms officer replied, turning back to do his work. Ganus' mandibles flexed in satisfaction.
A/N: So I was going to wright a little bit farther after that point but I figured that I had gone far enough, leaving you guys on a cliff hanger. Yeah, I'm a troll. :p But anyway, I recently went through all of my chapters so far and edited them based off your guys' reviews saying I needed to fix stuff. So that's all taken care of, thank you. That being said, I also went back to my previous review answering where I was overly aggressive. Sorry about that guys, I was not having the best of days, and I've been going through some crumby times recently…:/ But without further ado, time to answer your guys' reviews and after that, Codex!
werstir- Amazing. Beautiful. Beautifully written. Some of things that I thought as I read this review and fell out of my seat, laughing.
Paktu- I will be including these things and more. In all honesty, this is like the introduction; I plan to have more in depth chapters after the first contact war.
EliteOp- Thanks Elite, it helps.
Quintain Apprentince of Alduin- As I just said, I fixed all of that and I was having a really bad day when I wrote that. I also fixed it so it no longer says AU when I didn't properly explain something.
RandomReader- I dealt with things.
Enji-benjy- I now dealt with the things you mention. As for Septus' fleet? Their still getting repaired-whatever is left of them. As for targeting the weakest ship, I'll explain that in a future codex. Hint: It has something to do with the Espheni war. I made Cerberus stronger cause' now the Alliance will be cracking down on terrorists a lot more than in cannon such as they did with EXALT in the Ethereal war.
Six Samuri of dragon order- I fixed it! *crowd goes wild* Also for the ship, yeah, it would have been too late
Guest- Thanks guest!
5 coloured walker- I told you guys this would be unique! Thank you and I hope you also had a merry Christmas as well!
OMACOO1- XD
Phantomwalker- Fixed! :p
Guest- *Claps hands and nods* Way to go Cerberus… messed up what was going to be a peaceful contact.
AndreyKI- fixed! :p And when they say 'Go to war' they mean actually putting the Alliance in a state of Defcon 4 (Is that how you say it? I'm not American) But think about it, the council has been around for thousands of years. I'd be arrogant as well if the state has been around for thousands and no first contact has happened for years upon years.
-Codex-
Species Alliance- The Species Alliance is a coalition and alliance made up of various species inducted by the species known as 'Humanity', 'Mankind' or Human(s) The species Humanity has shown great promise in difficulties bigger than themselves, such as the first Alien Invasion of their Homeworld (Earth) in the year 1962 AD (After Death). The Humans at the time had just begun sending primitive satellites in orbit when the first 'Zudjari' attack was commenced in a several continents known as Africa, Asia and North America. The Zudjari look and act somewhat like a Human would surprisingly. The Zudjari species had been fleeing the very destruction of their world and had only have found one planet suitable for colonization-Earth. Or that is what they thought. It turns out that origin, one of the Zudjari leaders-had been hiding the truth that they had found many worlds on which they could colonize but driven by war lust, Origin was compelled to attack Earth and annex the Human species before anything else was done about saving its own species. The war lasted for almost a year before it ended with a Human victory, as surprising as it is. Humankind had been able to reverse engineer the Zudjari weapons with limited equipment and technology at their disposal. Extreme prejudice was directed at the Zudjari after the war. Eventually however, Zudjari was integrated within the Human society just when the third World War started among the many Human states on Earth. For more information on the third world war, click [here]. After the war, real space exploration of their own solar system began. In the Human year, 2105 AD, another alien invasion of Earth began by the Ethereal coalition. Originally, the Ethereal coalition was run by an insane dictator Ethereal called the Uber Ethereal, controlling all the Ethereal species using an incredibly advanced version of mind control. Ethereal attacks began in rapid succession after the first attack in a city called Munich. It was then that the secret project, project Starscape was put into action. Preparing for another invasion of Earth by another species, a 'Mothership class' ship was launched from Earth and sent into the unknown. A few months later, the ship arrived at 'Terra Nova'. The colonists believing they were the last of man, set up shack and began to colonize the planet. Meanwhile, thankfully, the Zudjari and Human species weren't without their advantages of knowing the terrain and ability to re-engineer alien equipment rather fast. In a year, the Ethereal coalition is destroyed and the Humans and Zudjari discover a powerful power called psionics. One individual was especially talented in psionics and was dubbed with the name 'The volunteer'. In an attempt to counter the Ethereal menace, an attack on the Ethereal 'Temple ship' commences. In an hour, the temple ship explodes with the Volunteer and Uber Ethereal on it. They were pronounced KIA. Immediately after the supposed death of the Uber Ethereal, the Ethereal species' woke up from the mind control and began to regain the ability to think for themselves and act on their own accord. The Ethereal species begin to apologize about their actions but some still hold extreme prejudice for their kind, even today. Eventually, the united effort of all the species leads to the coalition of species to take another look at space with hope. Over time, the united effort of all species sees the colonization of Earth's moon and sister planet, Mars. Meanwhile, Terra Novan colonists make a breakthrough developing the first true human built AI. Four years later, scientists also discover that their planet is alive, a rare and unseen commodity in space. Political unrest splits the world in half due to these ideologies and the world is embroiled in war. Five years later, the Synthetic Humans win with the planet lover colonists placed in exodus and shipped off the planet and into the forgiving place space is. Six years after these events, people find the Prothean ruins. Surprisingly, they were in relatively good condition. Regrettably, some data was damaged on its way to Earth for study and some information lost forever. The Charon 'Mass Relay' is activated from outside the Sol system, with another first contact with another alien species. Thankfully, this species Is friendly ad willing to co-operate with the Humans, Zudjari and Ethereal species. This new species, the 'Volm' tell of an ancient enemy that kicked them off their original Homeworld and the Volm had since been on the run. Governments militarize themselves for this oncoming enemy. Human, Zudjari, Volm and Ethereal species unification as they create the Species Alliance, similar to a Federation style government. Just four years later in 2060, the 'Espheni war' begins with the 'Espheni, the Volm's enemy, emerging from the mass relay and immediately firing upon any ship within range, thus causing the Espheni war. This war is the most recent Alliance war and veterans still live today. The Espheni thankfully never get past the Charon relay and eventually, ships begin to stop coming through, thus the end of the Espheni war in 2063. Terra Nova and Earth make contact with the synthetic humans integrating themselves into the Alliance for protection. Hyper space is achieved by the Alliance and Mass Relays are set to break down soon. First contact with Turians is made in 2109.
I finished it, my god! This was a little rushed, sorry. R&R!
(Edit: Complete rewrite, 6/6/17)