Chapter 12: Epilogue
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Location: Earth
Date: June 1, 2187
Five days after the reapers had been destroyed Commander Faith Shepard had been found and recovered from one of the many impact craters created by the Citadel debris that fell from orbit. She was found in Texas, fifty miles from Dallas. Commander Alenko along with help from survivors and locals had brought Commander Shepard to a clinic run by a former asari commando who had opened her clinic to all in need of help. Along with finding Commander Shepard; Admiral Anderson was found to be alive.
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Location: Arcturus Station
Date: June 10, 2187
Those left in the Arcturus system due to fleeing their worlds found themselves trapped a system that didn't support those with different needs. Quarians and turians found that they had to begin sharing food in order to not begin starving, thankfully one of the quarian ships left in the system was a live ship, meaning it had dextrose gardens growing in a sterile environment. However, the gardens weren't meant to be used for more than they were built for. In twenty days since it began feeding both quarians and turian evacuees the liveship garden was already missing a quarter of it's reserves. It was estimated that in eighty days it would be completely gone and with no active Mass Relays and the ones that had existed having been destroyed soon those in the system would have a food shortage.
Even as the turians and their fellow dextro species began to fear what would happen to them the salarian a began to worry about their future as well. With the daltrasses in other systems to assist with their soldiers fighting the enemy it left those of considerate age to wonder what would happen to them. Those too old for fighting helped with tech support. Those too old for that were left with young daltrasses who left their eggs to be fertilized, however their were those like Mordin Solus that were too old for even that simple job. Those wondered what would happen to their species. Would they survive? Had the weapon they'd help build worked? Were the reapers gone forever or would they come back to haunt them in another fifty thousand years? None of them would know. It was all speculation and salarians hated speculations. They liked data. Date led to answers. No data. No answers.
Humans adapted to the stress better than any species. As they possibly still had a homeworld to return to, unlike the asari. The blue skinned all female species cried forlornly for those who died when their homeworld was destroyed. When Ilium's skies were covered in smoke and the once beautiful planet was overrun by the reapers. Millions had gone missing, millions were dead and those who they thought alive were lost to them when the relays exploded because of the energy released upon them.
Then there was the krogan. Those left in the system had been left there by Urdnot Wrex to protect the weak. So that is what they did. The human's in charge of the system brought them in for crowd control. This was something most krogan could do without getting too angry about it. They were also put on patrol ships with both turians and humans onboard with them. This led to some fights that were quickly contained.
It was then decided that the densely populated terraformed planet of Zareth, that had once been a moon, would be used to allow all non-military citizens, the injured and those with children to live on. There was no argument by any species on this choice.
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Location: Oort Cloud Arcturus System
Date: June 19, 2187
The SSV Eden Prime newest battleship in the Systems Alliance arsenal that had still been being worked on in the Arcturus System when the relay system had been destroyed was on patrol when it's sensors picked something up coming out of the Oort Cloud at the edge of the system. The ships officers included turian Commander Valarian and Lieutenant Commander Hendriks Chekhov, with Tabvis Claw as the commander of the four Krogan onboard. The three commanders were on the bridge when the alarms went out. It was Commander Valarian who gained sight of the ship coming out of the cloud.
It was a frigate class ship that was found to be coming through. When communications were brought online the words were heard throughout the SSV Eden Prime.
"Don't shoot! We're the Normandy!" The sarcastic pilots voice was heard. "Then again if you hate us that much, shoot all ya want."
Cheers were heard throughout the system when word reached the station. Three hours later the tale of how they were able to get back was being spread from ship to ship. Within two days a system wide meeting occurred between ships and the station to determine whether or not they'd begin rebuilding a relay to go back to the sol system or use a tug ship to find the relay that the Normandy had used to return to one of the home systems.
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Location: Sol System
Date: July 4, 2187
With the celebration of Freedom's Day that was once long ago called the Fourth of July came another reason to celebrate as suddenly ships from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto were discovered inbound. Ahead of the was the SSV Normandy SR-3 and it's crew safely aboard. With it's return to the system the frigate was given the news of what had happened to it's Commander. Within hours of arrival the ship returned to dry dock outside of Dallas, Texas where Garrus Vakarian took an aircar and left for an unknown destination before he could be questioned on what had happened to them when the Normandy had gone missing.
Location: Arcturus Station
Date: October 20, 2187
"Today marks five months since the last Reaper was seen," came a voice over the station speakers. "Five months since, not just humanity, but all species came together as one to fight a common enemy. Today we set out a new way of living. No longer will the Citadel be the home of our Council, our governments, or our living. We live together, from today onward, here in the Arcturus System on the planet Zareth. This is where we begin planing our futures together, not separately. We live together, fight together, and die together." In the midst of the speech, holo-projectors showed people what was to come for the new planet. Their new home, with new cities, and a new bright future.
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Location: unknown
Date: January 1, 2188
...System corruption...
...Hacker input...
...Red Level Alert...Information pull...
...unknown hacker input...
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M-Angel: Wow, this story took me two years and couple of months to write. Even though I didn't get many reviews or follows for it I'd like to thank those of you who did do those thing. It means a lot. ^_^ When I get time I'll look over the third story in this series, A New Dawn, and begin a rewrite of it.
