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Geek's Guide to Thriving in a Low End Fantasy World an ASOIAF Robert Baratheon SI
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Milky Way
Kite's Nest
Harsa System
Khar'shan
Palace of the Council
Emergency Bunker
"So Prime Administrator, if you would give me the codes for remote access to your planet's defense network, that would be much appreciated" Commander Jonathan Shepard said, putting his feets on the table used by the council of oligarchs ruling the Batarian Hegemony.
The said administrator, along with the other council members sitting around the table trembled, though whether it was from the shock of the things or the shock from the slave collars Shepard forced them to wear, he couldn't say.
"There are no codes like that!" The Administrator denied it, though Shepard didn't believe him for one second.
Because if he was a despot ruling a Hegemony, he definitely would have something like that.
"Are you telling me that you, the leader of an oligarchic council and a despot ruling an interstellar empire based on slavery and the strong doing as they wished, don't have remote access to control the defensive network around Khar'shan incase someone tries to overthrow you or a revolt gets out of control? Maybe if I plucked an eye or two, that would make you remember something" Shepard threatened, omni-blade bursting from his omni tool.
Now, you may be wondering, what is Commander Jonathan Shepard, the Hero of the Systems Alliance, doing on the homeworld of the Batarian Hegemony, threatening its leaders?
For that we will have to go back a bit.
Petra Nebula
Vetus System
Elysium
Skyllian Blitz
Two Months Earlier
Commander Jonathan Shepard was enjoying his mandatory vacation on the human colony of Elysium.
That is if you could call sitting in a cafe, drinking some weird drink the locals concocted up fun.
He would rather be out there, shooting something but the command was adamant he take a break, claiming they ran out of things for him to shoot for now.
Really, a whole galaxy with nothing to shoot?
Shepard called bullshit, but orders were orders and he didn't really want to get into a fight with Anderson over this.
He raised his head from his omnit-ool upon hearing the colony's sirens come to life, indicating a raid.
Maybe taking this vacation wasn't such a bad idea.
Civilians began to run to the nearest shelter, away from the space port where the raiders would most likely be landing, which is where he was going.
"Go back that way, shelters are there!" A marine stopped him, pointing away from the space port.
"Commander Jonathan Shepard, N7. I need guns and armor" Shepard flashed his credentials through his omni-tool, and the marine saluted.
"Sorry commander, this way please, you can take whatever you need from the armory"
Shepard thanked him and followed the marine.
-
Shepard had broken every record in the N7 program, including quickest time to get combat ready, wearing his armor, arming himself and doing com checks in just two minutes and fifteen seconds.
He rushed out of the armory, heading straight towards the space port to greet the raiders.
Today was turning out to be fun after all.
-
The pirates, raiders and slavers gathered by Elanos Haliat to take the Elysium and plunder it had thought this would have been an easy affair, especially with the small Alliance force guarding the planet.
They were wrong, and had to find it out the hard way.
The Alliance Navy presence, even with its small size made them regret coming to this system.
Things on the ground weren't any better either.
One group was approaching the city, consisting of mostly Batarians with an Asari and a Turian, before the Asari's head popped like a balloon while the rest took cover, searching for the sniper.
The Turian poked his head, thinking himself discreet, before he too met the same fate as the Asari.
Deciding to rush as a group rather than be hunted one by one, the Batarians leaped out of the cover, knowing how low the rate of fire of a sniper was, they thought they could get close enough.
First Batarian out of the cover lost his head, and the rest thought they had their opportunity, before they met rifle fire.
The rifle couldn't pierce the shields and armors with the same efficiency as a sniper rifle but that didn't matter to Commander Shepard.
His aim was good enough to kill a Batarian before his Avenger overheated which prompted him to switch to the second Avenger he had, continuing to lay fire.
The heavy weapon specialist of the group pulled out the rocket launcher strapped to his back, taking cover as his shields failed, to blast the damn human to pieces.
Seeing the rocket launcher aimed at him, Shepard fired at the pirate's leg knee, a weak point in the armor. The pirate screamed, buckled to left and accidentally fired the rocket launcher, blowing up his remaining team mates.
Shepard moved out of cover, approaching the only living survivor, who began to say something but he didn't bother to listen before shooting him twice in the head.
Four Batarians with a Krogan leading them were herding the humans they captured to the shuttle to take them to ship and get out of this damn planet.
"Hurry up you lazy" began the Krogan, impatient with the Batarians and the humans.
His impatience was met with a rocket to the face, while the Batarians received immediate fire.
By the time the last one could figure out where the fire had come from and fire back, they were already dead.
Commander Shepard moved out of his cover and approached the terrified civilians, instructing them to go into the city through a route he cleared and take shelter somewhere.
One by one, the pirate command began to lose contact with the groups sent into the city.
-
Shepard boarded the armed shuttle, quickly taking control and lifting off to find more pirates to kill.
He didn't have to search for long before a large group presented themselves.
They were gathered together to push back into the city after they lost contact with so many teams.
Instead, they became target practice for Shepard as he opened fire on the unsuspecting bastards.
Targeting heavy weapons first, Shepard cleared out the field pretty quickly, leaving decimated corpses behind his back, heading to clean out the space port.
-
Shepard used the armed but unshielded shuttle to his full advantage, and had already wreaked havoc amongst the pirates before they realized their shuttle had been taken by the Alliance and began to target him with gunships.
They were faster and more maneuverable than the shuttle he was piloting so he had to do some risky moves.
The Commander accelerated the shuttle to the max, dodging gunfire, missiles and buildings as three gunships chased him across the space port.
He spied a building still under construction ahead and aimed for it. The gunships might be faster and more agile, but they were also taller and wider than the shuttle due to their design.
Shepard aimed the shuttle to pass between two steel beams, barely scraping the paint, while the first gunship's missile pod slammed to the beam at full speed, causing the vehicle to spiral out of control and slam to the ground with an explosion.
The other gunships stopped, realizing it would be better to go over the building to hunt the stolen shuttle.
Shepard made a sharp right after getting out of the construction zone and immediately climbed at full speed, allowing the gunships to pass below him.
Turning the shuttle down he opened fire on the shuttle on the left, turning the hunter to prey.
Quickly taking down the shields, Shepard rammed the gunship, causing it to slam to a building and go down in flames.
The other gunship pilot decided to put some distance between him and the shuttle to not share the same fate before turning back to fire.
Shepard turned the shuttle back, unfortunately taking some fire to the left thruster during that and disappeared amongst buildings, the gunship giving chase.
Deciding he needed a better ride, Shepard hovered the shuttle near the roof of a building and jumped out, and began to climb to the top where the antennas were and prepared to hack and override the gunship's security protocols.
The gunship came around just in time, slowly revolving around the empty shuttle, wondering what was happening.
Just as it came close enough, Shepard used Biotic Charge to jump on the gunship, appeared right over the canopy, holding on as the pilot got startled and jerked the gunship around.
Shepard hacked the gunship just in time and the canopy opened, revealing a scared Batarian.
What kind of a human would do something like that, he was wondering.
Shepard just swung himself inside the cockpit and stabbed him in the face with his omni-blade, and as the dead pirate lost control, the gunship began to go down.
Shepard quickly unlocked the harness and tossed the dead Batarian out, barely lifting the gunship up.
Closing the canopy, Shepard continued his hunt.
-We are losing contact with our teams, somebody find out what is happening!
-This is the Omega Team, we found the attack group heading for the city, they are all dead!
- Spirits preserve me, that human isssss…..-
-Stop running you fools, it's just one measly BOOOOM…-
-SOMEONE SHOOT THAT GUNSHIP DOWN!-
-WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE ALREADY LOST FIVE HUNDRED SOLDIERS?!-
Tolak was terrified.
The human came out of nowhere, jumping out of his smoking gunship just before it rammed the gunship protecting them.
Half his team was dead in the blink of an eye as the human pulled out a grenade launcher, mowing them down.
He didn't even attempt to dodge their fire.
By the time his weapon was empty, Tolak was the only one remaining.
The human turned to him, and Tolak could swear it was a demon looking at him, not a human.
He threw his weapon away, surrendering.
Anything was better than facing this.
The demon took one look at him before going back to save the humans they had captured.
"You move an inch, I'll gut you like a fish" the human said with a jovial tone, causing Tolak to freeze.
Shepard freed the people the pirates caught, but many had already been taken to the ships.
Meaning he would have to mount a rescue.
Turning to the terrified Batarian, he ordered him to get up and the four eyed pirate rose with shaky legs.
"What's your name?" Shepard asked, intending to utilize him to get to the lead ship.
"W-what?" Tolak asked back, not understanding why the demon wanted to know.
"I am the one asking the questions. Now, what is your name?"
"T-to-tolak" The pirate stammered out.
"Alright Tolak, if you want to live and not try to breathe vacuum, you are going to inform the lead ship that you have the governor's daughter and request permission to board. Try anything, and I'll personally space you after I put this whole thing down" Shepard warned, his tone dead serious now.
"Y-yes, whatever you want, just spare me" Tolak begged. The human took hold of his arm and dragged him inside the shuttle, sitting him on the pilot's chair.
"Go ahead" The human indicated the coms with his gun and Tolak sent a message, his hands shaking.
A couple minutes later they were hailed by the lead ship, Elanos Haliat's cruiser, Plunderer, who instructed them to board the ship immediately as they were getting out of here.
Shepard tied the Batarian to the passenger chair, slapping one of the collars they had on him for good measure and took off, heading to the cruiser.
"SSV Agincourt, this is Commander Jonathan Shepard, N7, ID-11478-2345-2213, I am attempting to board the lead cruiser, do not open fire, I repeat do not open fire" Shepard sent a message to the Alliance lead ship to avoid friendly fire.
They must have received it since he boarded the ship without getting shot.
The hangar didn't have that many captured humans thankfully, which meant Shepard could be a bit more liberal in handling the enemy.
He opened fire at the pirates approaching the shuttle to take the non-existent daughter of the governor, mowing them down with the shuttle's heavy weaponry.
Soon as they were mere blood stains on the deck, Shepard turned his attention to the other pirates in the hangar, who had taken cover and were firing at the shuttle.
He returned it in kind, destroying other shuttles and gunships, as well as flammables like the fuel tanks, resulting in the hangar turning to hell with dead pirates everywhere and causing the fire suppressant system to kick in.
As everything in the hangar except the shuttle he came in were wrecked, Shepard had another idea on how to get the civilians out.
The escape pods.
Pirates tried to stop them, sending dozens to kill them but the grenade launcher Shepard picked up from the hangar had a different idea.
Distance to the pods may have been short, but it was bloody, at least for the pirates.
When the last pod launched towards Elysium, Shepard turned to head to the engineering to take control of it and stop the ship from going into FTL.
The pirates, though, locked the engineering from the inside, stopping Shepard from accessing the core.
Good thing there were explosives on this ship.
Sticking the explosives to the door, Shepard took cover and the whole ship shook.
Moving inside, Shepard began to fire at the silhouettes moving in the smoke left by explosives.
He dropped the empty grenade launcher to the ground and switched to his Avenger just as he came out of the smoke.
A Turian, concussed by the explosive, was standing in front of him, looking at him like an idiot.
Shepard slammed stock of his weapon to the pirates face, and pulled the Turian to himself, using him as a meat shield.
He turned to his right, laying fire on a Batarian taking cover while the Turian himself was riddled with mass accelerator fire.
Once his target was dead, Shepard began to fall back to cover, all the while the already dead Turian took all the fire meant for him.
He threw the meat shield away, surveying the area. Two were taking cover behind a door, one was up the rails, and three more kept taking pot shots at him from the Mass Effect core room, opening and closing the door while they did so.
He targeted the one up the rails, shooting the light fixture above his head, causing it and the plate it was bolted to come down on the pirate, dropping him to the ground and killing him.
Next were the ones behind the door leading to the other side of the ship. Shepard launched a Singularity as they showed themselves to fire. Both went out of control as the Singularity dragged them around itself like toys.
He shot both in the head after dropping their shields.
Shepard didn't want to risk shooting something important in the core room and cause an accident so as soon as they opened the door back to shoot, he launched himself at them with a Biotic Charge, slamming the one in the middle back to the controls and causing the other two to stumble.
Shepard fired at the Batarian on the left, before turning back and nailing the other one in the liver and then the head with the stock of his gun, sending him to the ground and launched a Stasis at the pirate near the controls.
He resumed fire on the first Batarian who almost got up and picked his weapon, chewing through his already weakened shield and shooting him through the lens of his helmet.
Turning back to the pirate on the ground, he put the barrel on his skull and fired, bypassing the shield, and approached the last one who was almost out of the Stasis.
He picked up the Batarian's shotgun and shot him as soon as he was out. Dropping the gun, he approached the controls to shut down the core to prevent the ship from escaping.
He was a step late though as the core began to glow, a sign of the ship entering FTL.
Meaning he was going to have to take the ship to ensure other ships did not escape.
He was going to need bigger weapons.
The pirates had fortified the mess hall, turning it into a kill zone and blocked every other route to the bridge, leaving Shepard no choice but to go through the mess hall.
Good thing too, they all gathered in one place, making it easier for him to take them all out at once.
But first, he needed to take out cameras.
No need to give them spoilers.