5 Death of a universe! Invasion to another universe!
[ Quick Note For Readers: There will be a Timeline and it will probably be the most of the chapter but hey you will see some Lore about the new universe but I needed to make a few adjustments. For some, they might find this chapter boring so sorry, another thing is that I am way too tired to edit this chapter so there will be a few errors, and ill probably fix them tomorrow. Enjoy! ]
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Luke was currently on the Ark making a 'few' changes that would spread throughout all the other installations and the only way he was secretly able to do this was thanks to the force.
Luke: 'Well I'm still sticking to my word but I never said it had to be 'him' and not a different 343-Guilty Spark.'
After a while of debating if he should keep the monitors or dispose of them, he finally decided to get rid of them and replace them if needed because he couldn't one hundred percent trust them completely.
What Luke was doing with the Ark was making it so that the blast would affect the Installations as well while specifically targeting the monitors. Honestly, it was meant to destroy everything that was not connected to him.
All types of life no matter how advanced would be wiped out and all that will remain is himself and Cortana along with the Warden as he was sure it would be impossible to betray him.
Once the changes were made he called for the monitor that was in charge of the Ark. Luke decided to make his 'death' quick and painless due to him being so helpful and once the monitor arrived Luke spoke.
Luke: "Goodnight..."
Milliseconds later Luke crushed him and used the force to wipe his entire existence out of the Ark along with all the other Forerunner technology he could connect himself to.
Luke then used the force to carry the monitors 'dead body' and made his way towards the Titans Wrath where Cortana was currently at. Once he arrived she took notice of the monitor.
Cortana: "So you decided to wipe everything but us huh?"
Luke: "Yeah, I couldn't find myself trusting them until the end of time so I did what I had to... I made it painless though."
He already informed Cortana of the possibility of doing this beforehand and she could understand him as to why he chose to do this. The duo then sat down in some chairs within the observation room as it faced the Milky Way Galaxy.
Luke: "So are you sure that you don't want to kill John personally?"
Cortana: "I'm fine, knowing that he died still is good enough for me."
When he heard this he paused for a moment before telling Cortana that he would be right back and after of couple minutes he returned with a device with a big red button. Luke handed the device to her with a smile on his face.
Cortana: "What's this?"
Luke: "Oh nothing really, just a remote that will set off all the Halo rings. It's not like you'll have your chance to personally kill the Spartan you hate so much."
Cortana was shocked and quickly jumped towards Luke and gave him a kiss.
Cortana: "Hmm you sure know how to make a girl feel special haha. Ready?"
Luke just sat down with a smile that told her 'ready as I have ever been!' Which she instantly took notice of. Once she decided to ditch her own seat by sitting on Luke's lap Cortana pressed the button on the device.
Seconds slowly passed by until they finally witnessed the Halo rings igniting in a spectacular white light. The couple watched as the light grew larger and larger until the entire galaxy was engulfed.
Cortana just happily watched with a huge grin across he face and spoke.
Cortana: "Fuck you John! Fuck you UNSC! Fuck you Covenant! Fuck all of you hahah!!"
Luke could not help but smile as he listened to Cortana scream this out and continued watching the 'fireworks'. Sadly all good things come to an end, except for his future Empire of course. Cortana leaned back and after a few moments spoke once again.
Cortana: "Now what? New universe?"
Luke: "Not quite yet, first I want to gather all the free technology just sitting their and second I want to build up are fleet as I don't know where we could end up. This brings us to are third thing, I want to spend some quality time with my beautiful girlfriend!"
Cortana: "Ohh! I like the last part the most! How about you leave everything to your soldiers and so one and spend that time with me hehe."
Luke: "Of course haha, anything for you."
Once he said this, Cortana started making out with him while Luke quickly sent out orders to gather the free technology and began building more Star Destroyers. He also had them start building the guardian flagship but this wasn't important as Cortana was quickly moving to a more 'sexual activity'.
This would be repeated many, many times until they felt it was time for the next universe.
** 10 Years Later **
It's been ten years since the event of the Halo installations and Luke and Cortana have moved their relationship to the next level! The couple have gotten married eight years ago and have been in a fantastic relationship!
This wasn't all as Luke has built countless Guardians which included the flagship as well as Star Destroyers. The specks of the guardians were as such.
[ Guardian
Role: Enforcement of the Mantle / Protection and security / War and destruction.
Height: 1,412.75 meters. (4,635 feet)
Mass: 200 million metric tons.
Armament: 1 disruption generator / 2 attenuation pulse emitters / 6 converging beam cannons. ]
While the Guardian Flagship was five times as large while also allowing it to hold more weapons, specks are below.
[ Guardian Flagship(dedicated name suggestions?)
Role: Enforcement of the Mantle / Protection and security / War and destruction.
Height: 7,620 meters. (25,000 feet)
Mass: 200 million metric tons.
Armament: 5 disruption generator / 10 attenuation pulse emitters / 30 converging beam cannons. ]
But this of course was everything built has he also built countless fabricators and soldiers and so on. Currently all of his fabricators were being put to good use, what might they be building? The universal gate of course!
This gate will give him access to the next universe which is large enough to allow tons of his units to pass through at once. He also decided to bring the Halo Installations because why not?
The Halo Rings were logically decontaminated due to having the flood on them and this was thanks to the endless amount of troops Luke sent in to kill the flood off until nothing remained.
Back to the gate, he was not sure if he was allowed to return vita the same portal so if that's was the case then he would need to figure out a way to return to universes he has been to.
Luke was currently watching the final section of the gate being placed when Cortana came up behind him and wrapped her arms around him.
Cortana: "I wonder where we will end up, I was getting bored of not having anything to to kill. The sex is a great pass time but I wanna have other fun activity's to do."
Luke: "Being all bloodthirsty are we? Don't worry haha, it will be finished any moment now."
Right when he finished speaking the gateway suddenly started booting up followed by a white orb appearing.
Luke: "Ready to go?"
Cortana: "Of course!"
He then gave the order as the white orb suddenly expanded outwards faster than the speed of light until all of his units were covered only for the to retracted back into it normal size while leaving nothing within the space.
Luke instantly knew something was wrong, how does he know? Well Cortana along with everything else around him was frozen in time and he soon looked out the observation window and found that he was in an endless white space with an almost impossibly black dot far, far away.
The very next moment 'ROB' suddenly appeared with an apologetic expression on his face. Luke put two and two together and spoke.
Luke: "You screwed something up, am I right?"
ROB: "Yep... I may or may not have accidentally sent you to your next universe at the start of the Big Bang. 0.0000000000000000001 seconds after to be exact, time for some good news and bad news so which do you want to hear first?"
Luke could not help but sigh out as he didn't understand how a God could screw up something... AGAIN!
Luke: "Good news I guess."
ROB: "You are about to become immortal! Your Mark will also be burned into this universes plot so woo? Bad news is that your going to fall into a coma until the start of the 3rd plot"
Luke: "First off will Cortana be immortal as well? How am I about to be immortal anyway? Second I hate you, third which universe am I in?"
ROB: "First - Yes, Second - Fuck you to, Third - You will find out when you wake up. You will be safe as your body and stuff will be in between space itself. As to why your about to become immortal, you are about to be hit with a cosmic energy from the Big Bang which will super charge your cells giving you eternal youth in a way. You and Cortana will live forever unless someone kills you so your semi-immortal. Sweet dreams bitch!"
Before Luke could even notice anything he suddenly fell into a coma as the Big Bang passed by him. Unfortunately the couple won't be waking up for about 13.8 billion years give or take until the plot begins.
[ Timeline
(BCE = Before Common Era / CE = Common Era)
13,800,000,000 BCE: The Event known as the Big Bang occurred but an unknown anomaly appeared scarring the universe with messages to all home planets to future civilizations but unknown means.
13,500,000,000 BCE: Microorganisms begin appearing on planets and quickly evolved to safely live on said planets if possible.
13,490,000,000 BCE: The race known as Leviathans have successfully evolved to the point of having a since of self. The Leviathans begin their primitive civilization.
13,489,980,000 BCE: The Leviathans began entering the stars and quickly learned that they are not alone within the universe by finding a strange indestructible relic with a possible message they currently don't know. Above said image is a picture of a Guardian.
13,480,000,000 BCE: Multiple civilizations have found each other while each one tells stories of unknown relics with an unknown language written on them. Once they noticed that they all have the same relics they begin studying more to be the first to translate it.
13,450,000,000 BCE: The Leviathans dominate the Milky Way, enthralling every new sapient race they encounter and protecting them in return for tribute. The Leviathans consider themselves the galaxy's first and only apex race. Unfortunately they still have yet to fully translate the language except for a single word. They believe the work is called 'Beyonders'
10,000,000,000 BCE: An old civilization gets tired of the leviathans ruling over them and began fighting themselves. A single sentence has been translated to what they believe says 'We The Beyonders are the Apex race, now and forever.' Unfortunately all the data was soon destroyed by an attack from a new race fighting back before it could be spread to the public. Most of the work that has been made is now lost and must restart their efforts.
8,000,000,000 BCE: The leviathans continued to claim the title of Apex race and still rule over the Milky Way Galaxy.
7,000,000,000 BCE: The first synthetic life form is created and they instantly became obsessed with translating the relics message.
5,000,000,000 BCE: After observing that their subservient races create synthetic races who consistently and violently rebel, the Leviathans create an Intelligence to seek a way to permanently preserve organic life. The Intelligence constructs an army of "pawns" to gather genetic information throughout the galaxy. New progress was made with translating the message on the relics.
4,500,000,000 BCE: The Intelligence betrays the Leviathans, using its pawns to slaughter them for their genetic material to create Harbinger, the first Reaper. Thus begins the cyclical harvest of the galaxy's intelligent organic life by the Reapers, part of a vast experiment conducted by the Intelligence to fulfill its mandate.
4,000,000,000 BCE: The Intelligence builds the mass relay network to increase the efficiency of the cycles, allowing galactic civilizations to develop faster and more consistently between harvests. Surviving Leviathans enter hiding until they are able to fight back against their creation.
3,999,999,800 BCE: Harbinger begins to take interest in the Relics messages as he learns their older than the Leviathans. Harbinger wants to know if 'The Beyonders' are still around somewhere or if they have already gone extinct.
2,000,000,000 BCE: The Milky Way Galaxy seems to run into a technological stagnation and is unable to advance any further. Harbinger believes the extinct race of 'The Beyonders' may have a clue to further themselves more.
1,000,000,000 BCE: The Leviathan of Dis, a Reaper, is killed by the Leviathans. Its corpse comes to rest on the planet Jartar and remains undisturbed for nearly one billion years.
37,000,000 BCE: An unknown spacefaring race fires a mass accelerator round at a Reaper near the planet Mnemosyne. The round penetrates the Reaper, disabling it, and continues moving through space, eventually striking the planet Klendagon and creating the geological feature there known as the Great Rift Valley.
298,000 BCE: The ancient arthenn race flourish in the Zelene system, living on the planet Helyme until being destroyed in an unknown event that wiped out all complex life on the planet. They also maintained a presence on other planets in the system including Epho, which bears the scars of an ancient orbital bombardment, and Gaelon, which may have been mined for helium-3.
125,000 BCE: Ancient spacefaring races called the thoi'han and inusannon fight over the planet Eingana, littering the planet with the debris of hundreds of starships. Refined element zero scattered by broken drive cores contaminates the environment, causing many native species to go extinct and those that survive to show a tendency to develop biotic powers.
68,000 BCE: The Protheans achieve spaceflight and discover mass effect technology from the ruins of the extinct inusannon. They go on to establish a galaxy-wide civilization linked by the mass relay network with the Citadel as their capital.
50,000 BCE: At some point, the Protheans encounter a hostile race of machine intelligences that endanger their existence. To combat this threat, the Protheans aggressively assimilate many other spacefaring organic races into their empire. The Prothean Empire is able to fend off the machines in a conflict known as the "Metacon War".
48,000 BCE: The Prothean Empire collapses with the arrival of the Reapers through the Citadel. Although the Protheans had learned of the Reapers' existence from studying the ruins of previous civilizations and had begun to prepare, they were nonetheless caught off-guard. Over the next several centuries, the Protheans fight the Reapers system by system, world by world, and city by city. In the end, it is not enough. The Reapers methodically wipe out the remaining Protheans, as well as other contemporary races, and depart the galaxy to await the next cycle.
13,000 BCE: The turians of Palaven begin to develop civilization around this time.
6,000 BCE: Seeking to escape the imminent explosion of their sun, an alien race constructs an AI-managed starship equipped with supercomputers containing a virtual world, into which some one billion of the aliens transfer their consciousnesses. The starship begins a journey throughout the galaxy which lasts for the next 8,000 years.
1,900 BCE: Tuchanka, the krogan homeworld, enters the nuclear age. In a global conflict, weapons of mass destruction are released, triggering a nuclear winter. In the resulting devastation, krogan society devolves into a collection of warring clans.
1,800 BCE: A supernova propels the Mu Relay, the only point of access to the remote Pangaea Expanse, out of position. Concealed somewhere in the dense nebula formed by the supernova, the relay's position is effectively lost for centuries. Later, the rachni rediscover the relay.
1,600 BCE: In the Andromeda galaxy, the angara are created and seeded across multiple worlds in the Heleus Cluster by the Jardaan.
580 BCE: After developing faster-than-light spacefaring capabilities based upon Prothean technology, the asari begin to explore the mass relay network, and eventually discover the huge Citadel space station at a hub of many mass relays. The asari are first to rediscover the relic messages of 'The Beyonders' and believed that they are older than the Protheans themselves.
520 BCE: The salarians discover the Citadel and open diplomatic relations with the asari. Soon after learning of the relic messages from the asari the Samaritan's discover another on their home planet.
500 BCE: The Citadel Council is formed. The asari and salarians together colonize the Citadel and establish it as a center of the galactic community, led by the Council. This year is also known as 0 GS, the beginning of the Galactic Standard (GS) timeline. As a gesture of openness with their new asari allies, the Salarian Union opens the records of the League of One. Under threat, the League responds by assassinating every member of the Union's inner cabinet; Special Tasks Group operatives then hunt down and eliminate the League. Both civilizations begin wishing to translate the message left behind by 'The Beyonders'.
300 BCE: The volus begin exploring and colonizing the stars shortly after discovering FTL.
First contact is made with the volus. Eventually, the Citadel Council commissions the volus to draw up the Unified Banking Act, which establishes a standard galactic currency known as the credit and links all galactic economies.
The turian Unification War occurs. The increasingly isolated and xenophobic colonies on the frontiers of turian space go to war with each other. After years of fighting, the Turian Hierarchy sweeps in and pacifies the remaining factions. Animosity between turian colonies continues for decades.
The Council grants the volus the honor of being the first non-Council species with an embassy at the Citadel, rather than a Council seat.
First contact is made with the batarians. They are granted an embassy a century later.
The asari discover the elcor home system and help the elcor locate and activate their nearest mass relay. "Within one elcor lifetime" they establish a regular trade route to the Citadel and are granted an embassy.
First contact is made with the hanar and the quarians. Both races are later granted embassies. The counsel begins working together to translate the messages from the relics.
1 CE: The rachni, a species of highly intelligent hive-minded insects, are discovered when a Citadel expedition opens a dormant mass relay leading to their star systems. The rachni prove to be hostile and begin a war with the rest of the galaxy. Negotiation with the rachni queens is impossible because they cannot be contacted in their underground nests on the toxic rachni worlds.
80 CE: The Rachni Wars continue. The salarians make first contact with and uplift the primitive krogan, manipulating them into acting as soldiers for the Citadel Council. The krogan prove able to survive the harsh environments of the rachni worlds and pursue the rachni into their nests, systematically eradicating queens and eggs.
300 CE: The rachni are declared extinct. In gratitude for their aid during the Rachni Wars, the Council rewards the krogan a new homeworld. Free of the harsh environment of Tuchanka, the krogan population explodes.
300 - 700 CE: The krogan begin to expand exponentially, colonizing many new worlds. Growing concerns about their expansion lead to the founding of the Special Tactics and Reconnaissance branch of the Citadel.
693 CE: Beelo Gurji, a salarian operative, is appointed the first Spectre by the Citadel Council. The Citadel Council temporarily halts research in 'The Beyonders' due to being unable to translate anything after so long. Few teams still work on it.
700 CE: Krogan warlords leverage veterans of the Rachni Wars to annex territory from other races in Citadel space. Eventually the Council demands withdrawal from the asari colony of Lusia, but the krogan refuse. A preemptive strike is made on krogan infrastructures by the Spectres. The Krogan Rebellions begin.
The Citadel Council makes first contact with the turians around this time and persuades them to aid in the war. After the krogan respond to the initial turian offensive by devastating turian colonies with weapons of mass destruction, the turians vow to stop the krogan from ever becoming a threat again.
Sometime after the turians join the galactic community, the volus are accepted as a client race of the Turian Hierarchy.
710 CE: Realizing that the krogan will never give in as long as they can replenish their fighters, the turians unleash a salarian-engineered bio-weapon known as the genophage on the krogan. The krogan population starts its decline.
800 CE: The Krogan Rebellions end, though scattered krogan insurgent actions continue for decades. The turians fill the military and peacekeeping niche left by the decimated krogan. The Citadel Conventions are drawn up in the wake of the conflict.
900 CE: The turians are granted a seat on the Citadel Council in recognition for their service in the Krogan Rebellions. The Citadel Council begins doing more research in the relic messages left behind from 'The Beyonders' with the turians help.
1,380 CE: Extensive and unchecked industrial expansion on the drell homeworld Rakhana begins taking a significant toll on the planet's environment.
1,600 CE: The first sightings of the Collectors are reported in the Terminus Systems. In Citadel space, the claims are dismissed as unsubstantiated rumors and tall tales.
(Estimated date) In the Andromeda galaxy, the Jardaan begin deploying Remnant machines to the Heleus Cluster to terraform barren planets into life-supporting worlds.
1,755 CE: Samara's three daughters are diagnosed as Ardat-Yakshi. Rila and Falere accept exile, but Morinth flees. Samara takes the oaths of the asari justicars and pursues her errant daughter for the next 430 years.
1,858 CE: The oldest geth log is time-stamped around this time, on quarian creator year 2463, third day of Fal'tash, Waxing Moon.
1,873 CE: The oldest geth audio-visual log dates from approximately this time, 15 years after their oldest log. On quarian creator year 2485, 18th day of Lun'shal, New Moon, the geth record the first instance of their creators growing frightened when a unit inquires if geth have souls.
1,880s CE: Aria T'Loak arrives on Omega, a space station in the Terminus Systems regarded as the region's nominal capital. Aria is hired by the station's warlord as an enforcer and quickly becomes one of his most trusted lieutenants
1,895 CE: The geth, machines created by the quarians as a source of cheap labor, become self-aware. Fearing a geth uprising, the quarians begin dismantling them. The geth revolt against their quarian masters. In the resulting conflict--known to the geth as the Morning War--the geth systematically drive the quarians from their own worlds. The surviving quarians are reduced to living as spacefaring nomads aboard the Migrant Fleet. Contrary to expectations, the geth do not venture outside the former quarian systems into wider Citadel space, instead isolating themselves from the rest of the galaxy behind the Perseus Veil. As punishment for creating the geth, the Citadel Council closes the quarian embassy on the Citadel.
1,921 CE: The geth begin construction of a megastructure designed to house and simultaneously run every geth program in existence. Completion of the megastructure, which would allow the geth to maximize their collective processing capacity, is the long-term goal of geth civilization.
1,961 CE: April 12: Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok 1 becomes the first human to travel in space. Humanity becomes a spacefaring race.
1,969 CE: July 20: Apollo 11 lands on Luna. Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on Luna, and the first human to walk on an astronomical object other than Earth.
1,980s CE: The drell make first contact with the hanar around this time. With their homeworld Rakhana severely depleted and no spaceflight capability, the drell were poised for a massive population crash by 2025 CE. Agreeing to help, the hanar mount a large-scale rescue operation and evacuate approximately 375,000 drell to their own homeworld, Kahje, over the following decade. The remaining 11 billion drell on Rakhana gradually perish, warring over the last reserves of food and water.
Aria T'Loak assumes control of Omega after defeating the space station's previous warlord in single combat. She mockingly bestows the title "Patriarch" on the broken krogan, and uses him as a reminder to her enemies of her power.
1985 - 1992 CE: Giotto — First ESA deep space mission; first ESA mission to intercept an asteroid (Halley & Grigg-Skjellerup)
1990 CE: Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
1992 CE: Ulysses — First ESA mission to Sol; first polar orbit around Sol
1997 CE: Sojourner touches down at Ares Vallis becoming the first rover to explore Mars. During its three months of operation, the rover captures more than 550 images of the Red Planet. Huygens — First ESA mission to Titan; a Saturn moon
2003 CE: Mars Express — First ESA mission to Mars / SMART-1 — First ESA mission to Luna. Humanity discovers the 'The Beyonders' relic messages. Those who know English found it odd that they were able to understand the message as it's clearly Alien. 'We The Beyonders will always remain the Apex Race now and Forever. You can stay in are Empire but when we return you will face judgment by the Emperor. We. Are. Coming.'
2004 CE: Rosetta — First ESA mission to orbit an asteroid (67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko). The Alien message is leaked to the public by unknowns causing short term panic.
2006 CE: Venus Express — First ESA mission to Venus. Huygens — First successful landing on an outer Solar System world (Titan)
2014 CE: Rosetta — First artificial probe to make a soft landing on an asteroid (67P)
2015 CE: SpaceX successfully lands and recovers the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket after delivering 11 communications satellites to orbit. This represents the first-ever orbital class rocket landing, and humanity's first major shift towards sustainable space travel.
2016 CE: ExoMars - First ESA probe landing on Mars (contact lost).
2018 CE: BepiColombo — First ESA mission to Mercury
2020: Covid-19 appears around Earth causing worldwide toilet paper shortages. Unconfirmed rumor is that toilet paper is now appearing on the black market. End of the world?
2022 CE: Juice — First ESA mission to the Jupiter system. Cure for Covid-19 is found and the world was saved for now...
2069 CE: July 20: Armstrong Outpost at Shackleton Crater is formally founded as the first human settlement on Luna, on the 100th anniversary of the first lunar landing.
2070 CE: Billionaire Victor Manswell, frustrated with the pace of official human space exploration, begins funding his own private spaceflight expedition.
2075 CE: The Manswell Expedition successfully launches from Earth en route to the Alpha Centauri system with 300 colonists aboard in cryogenic stasis. Kesel are lost soon after.
2077 CE: Liara T'Soni is born.
2103 CE: The European Space Agency's Lowell City in Eos Chasma becomes the first permanent human settlement on Mars.
2125 CE: The yahg, an intelligent pre-spaceflight race, are discovered on the planet Parnack. Ambassadors representing the Citadel Council arrive on the planet and attempt to open diplomatic contact. After the ambassadors are killed by the predatory yahg, the Council ceases all contact with the yahg and declares Parnack off-limits.
Not long after the yahg are discovered, one yahg is captured for the Shadow Broker to study. With the Broker's assistance, the yahg rapidly ascends within the Broker's organization as "Operative Kechlu". Eventually, the Broker becomes wary of "Operative Kechlu" and attempts to have him terminated, but the order is sent too late. The yahg assumes the mantle of the Shadow Broker and directs the organization for the next sixty years.
2129 CE: Alec Ryder is born.
2134 CE: Steven Hackett is born
2137 CE: David Anderson is born.
The Eldfell-Ashland Energy Corporation demonstrates helium-3 fuel extraction from the atmosphere of Saturn.
2139 CE: Saren Arterius is born.
Kahlee Sanders is born
2143 CE: Construction of Gagarin Station (Jump Zero) begins beyond the orbit of Pluto.
2146 CE: Thane Krios is born
2147 CE: Trace amounts of element zero are discovered on Mars.
2148 CE: Humanity discovers a small cache of highly advanced Prothean technology hidden deep beneath the surface of Mars on the south polar region of Promethei Planum. Building on the remnants of this long extinct race, humans quickly explore the science of mass effect fields, leading to the development of faster than light travel and beginning detailed exploration of the Sol system. More research is put to identify the seemingly indestructible material left behind by 'The Beyonders'.
2149 CE: Following information from the translated data cache on Mars, humans discover that Charon, Pluto's moon, is actually a massive piece of dormant Prothean technology, a mass relay, encased in ice. Once activated, Jon Grissom leads the first team of explorers through the relay, which instantaneously transports them to another relay in Arcturus, 36 light-years away. The explorers discover that the mass relays are part of a vast network, making travel across the galaxy possible.
The Systems Alliance charter is signed by the eighteen largest nations on Earth. The Alliance soon becomes the military and exploratory spearhead of humanity.
2150 CE: Miranda Lawson is born.
The Systems Alliance begins the first surveys for colonization prospects outside the Sol System. One of these surveys discovers the planet Terra Nova.
2151 CE: To defend its expanding territory, humanity begins constructing a massive military fleet and space station at Arcturus, the nexus of several key mass relays, even though they have yet to encounter another intelligent spacefaring race.
An accident at Singapore International Spaceport exposes hundreds of humans to dust-form element zero. Roughly 30% of the children born in Singapore after element zero exposure suffer from cancerous growths. After his mother is exposed during the accident, Kaidan Alenko is born later that year with biotic potential.
2152 CE: The Delta Pavonis Foundation, a major consortium based on Earth, begins settlement of humanity's first extra-solar colony world, the planet Demeter. Later that year, additional colonies are founded on Eden Prime and Terra Nova.
Thane Krios is submitted for training as an assassin under the hanar.
A strange event appeared were a small yet growing 'church' has started chanting 'Wait for are Lords to arrive! The Beyonders left us divine messages made with indestructible material so that we one day find their holy words!' They believe that one day 'The Beyonders' would arrive and will bring them into a new Golden Age for humanity.
2154 CE: April 11: Shepard is born.
There is a second publicized accident involving the exposure of humans to element zero.
2155 CE: Saren Arterius is promoted to active service in the turian military at the age of 16.
The Systems Alliance occupies completed portions of Arcturus Station, intended to become the Alliance's headquarters.
Jeff "Joker" Moreau is born
2156 CE: Arcturus Station is formally inaugurated.
A small number of human children exposed to element zero exhibit minor telekinetic abilities.
Kai Leng is born
2157 CE: Pluto's orbit becomes circularized as a result of mass relay operations.
Jacob Taylor is born.
David Anderson graduates from Officer Candidate School with the rank of Second Lieutenant.
The 'Church' had an incident, a 'crazed' man appeared on Live Air and started chanting 'We the Church of Beyond welcome all to join us! The Beyonders will one day return and we must be ready for their arrival! See you all in the Beyond-'
It was cut short as security detained him.
2157 CE: Humanity makes violent first contact with another spacefaring race: the turians. The turians observe human explorers attempting to activate a dormant mass relay, a practice forbidden by galactic law after the Rachni Wars, and attack. Over the next three months, a brief but tense conflict known by humans as the First Contact War and by turians as the Relay 314 Incident ensues.
The events of Mass Effect: Evolution occur. While aiding the human resistance effort on turian-occupied Shanxi, mercenary Jack Harper becomes embroiled in a plot by turian general Desolas Arterius to use an ancient alien artifact, the Arca Monolith, to convert the turian race into an army of invincible "meta-turians". Harper convinces Desolas' brother Saren of the dangers of the Monolith, which is "devolving" the turians into mindless beings under the Monolith's control. To protect his people, Saren orders the destruction of the building holding the Monolith, Temple Palaven, with Desolas and the meta-turians inside. Later, having realized that humanity and the galaxy face dark times ahead, Harper founds the human-survivalist organization Cerberus, publishes its manifesto, and assumes the identity of the Illusive Man.
An anonymous extranet manifesto is published following the end of the First Contact War. The manifesto calls for an army, a "Cerberus", to be established to defend humanity against inevitable alien attacks. Derided as "survivalist rhetoric written by an illusive man", the manifesto is quickly forgotten by the media.
2158 CE: Humans learn the potential of biotics. An international effort to track element zero exposures begins. Roughly 10% of recorded exposed children show indications of biotic ability.
April 14: Ashley Williams is born.
The 'Church' once again appeared Live and started telling people that even biotics are welcome, at this point the church is able to be found in multiple locations.
2159 CE: Saren Arterius becomes the youngest turian to be inducted into the Spectres.
The Systems Alliance purchases Gagarin Station for a fraction of its construction cost, and converts the facility into a biotic research and training facility.
2160 CE: The Systems Alliance Parliament is formed.
With the existence of human biotics firmly established, the Biotic Acclimation and Temperance Training (BAaT) program is set up on Gagarin Station to train potential candidates and develop biotic implants.
The biotic drug red sand is first used.
The Blue Suns mercenary group is founded by Zaeed Massani and Vido Santiago in the Skyllian Verge.
Kasumi Goto is born.
2161 CE: Amid concerns over gene therapy and genetic modifications being misused, the Systems Alliance Parliament passes the Sudham-Wolcott Genetic Heritage Act. It imposes sharp restrictions on controversial uses of genetic engineering, but provides government subsidies for beneficial applications.
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya is born.
Jack is born.
2162 CE: Construction of Arcturus Station is completed. A survey team working for batarian entrepreneur Edan Had'dah discovers a mysterious artifact orbiting an unnamed planet near the Perseus Veil.
2163 CE: The Alliance secretly begins illegal AI research at a base on Sidon with Dr. Shu Qian as project leader. Lt. Kahlee Sanders is assigned as a tech analyst.
The first experimental L1 biotic implants are used in humans.
The Alliance secretly begins illegal AI research at a base on Sidon with Dr. Shu Qian as project leader. Lt. Kahlee Sanders is assigned as a tech analyst.
The first experimental L1 biotic implants are used in humans.
A series of starship drive failures are orchestrated over populated areas on human colony worlds, causing widespread exposures to element zero. This results in a second generation of humans born with biotic potential.
The Leviathan of Dis, a genetically-engineered living starship believed to be nearly a billion years old, is discovered by a batarian survey team on the planet Jartar. The Leviathan disappears under dubious circumstances after a batarian dreadnought passes through the Dis system.
Alec Ryder's twin children are born.
2164 CE: Ivor Johnstagg is sentenced to 21 years in prison for attempting to assassinate Venta Tox, the volus ambassador to the Citadel. Although Johnstagg claims to be acting on behalf of the radical human political party Eternal Earth, no connection is found and Johnstagg is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Backlash from the assassination attempt jeopardizes the Systems Alliance's bid for an embassy on the Citadel
2165 CE: Humanity continues to expand, founding more colonies and establishing trade alliances with many of the other species who recognize the authority of the Citadel Council. In 2165 CE, the Council makes official recognition of humanity's growing power and influence in the galactic community. Humanity is granted an embassy on the Citadel, the political and economic heart of the galaxy. Tensions grow between humans and batarians as they compete for territory in the Skyllian Verge.
The events of Mass Effect: Revelation continue. After an Alliance research station at Sidon is attacked, David Anderson searches for those responsible alongside Kahlee Sanders, and discovers an Alliance scientist, Dr. Shu Qian, was conducting illegal AI research to unlock the secrets behind a mysterious artifact discovered near the Perseus Veil. Eventually, Anderson is assigned to work with Saren Arterius to track down Dr. Qian and his batarian supporter, Edan Had'dah. However, Saren instead kills both Dr. Qian and Had'dah, blames Anderson for the mission's failure, and uses Dr. Qian's research to search for the artifact himself.
Terrorists steal antimatter from the Alliance cruiser SSV Geneva. The sole figure arrested names his sponsor "Cerberus". This is the first such incident of sabotage connected to the Cerberus organization.
After a disagreement between Vido Santiago and Zaeed Massani over hiring batarians into the Blue Suns, Vido betrays Zaeed and leaves him for dead. All records of Zaeed's involvement in the Blue Suns are erased.
Jack is abducted by Cerberus agents on Eden Prime. They fake her death and take her to the Teltin Facility on Pragia as part of a project intended to improve biotic potential in humans.
2166 CE: Commander Vyrnnus, a turian mercenary, is hired to oversee the training of human biotics at BAaT.
2167 CE: L2 biotic implants are first developed and used in humans. Kaidan Alenko is among the first to receive the new implants.
The magazine Fornax is launched.
2184 CE: January 1: The Andromeda Initiative airs a recruitment ad titled "Come With Us".
January 15: Singapore Marketing Council debates on whether to air the Andromeda Initiative ad on their jurisdiction. Council members suspect peculiar behind-the-scenes happenings and so allow the ad on the pretext of getting their own people to find out the Initiative's secrets.
June 1: The Andromeda Initiative brainstorms another recruitment ad prospectively titled "A New Future Awaits".
The Eden Prime War comes to a close. Although most geth forces in Citadel space were destroyed in the Battle of the Citadel, holdouts yet remain. The Alliance Navy reduces its patrols, relying instead on civilian ships to report any geth activity. Raids are carried out against identified geth outposts, but the conflict is essentially over.
The raloi of the planet Turvess launch their first space telescope and discover the asari cruiser Azedes in their system. The asari make first contact with the raloi, who are formally welcomed into the galactic community the following year.
The biological weapon EHE, or "exotic humanoid encephalopathy", is used by the human terrorist organization Totenkopf in an attack on Gagarin Station. The Alliance cruiser SSV Manila is deployed to monitor the asteroid Israfil, the supposed origin of the miroorganisms used to produce EHE.
The freighter MSV Estevanico is attacked by Blood Pack mercenaries and crashes into the planet Zanethu. The Alliance crew on board were among the first humans to encounter the vorcha race.
A clone of Commander Shepard, developed by Cerberus for testing purposes alongside the original's under reconstruction body, is stolen by the deserter Rasa from the Lazarus Research Station.
L5 biotic implants are developed.
July 25: The Andromeda Initiative orientation briefing is shown to prospective candidates.
December :The events of Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation begin.
December 27: Khalisah al-Jilani enjoins people to watch her expose about the Andromeda Initiative in two days' time.
December 29: Fehl Prime's disappearance becomes known to the general public although Collector involvement is still seen as a conspiracy theory. Cora Harper's retrieval of Andromeda Initiative technology from HOME Group's Home Away space station is reported as a security breach by "a rival corporation". Al-Jilani Investigates: Andromeda... Exposed! is recorded, its production notes indicating a focus on Alec Ryder's career.
December 31: Armali Children's Almanac informs readers about differing human attitudes to new year festivities.
2186 CE: January 12: An asari exploration team discovers a lost human colony in the Alpha Centauri system. The Systems Alliance links the colony to the forgotten Manswell Expedition of 2070 and establishes contact with the colonists.
January 23: SSV Budapest, an Alliance cruiser that sparked a diplomatic crisis between the Earth Systems Alliance and the Batarian Hegemony, withdraws from the Bahak system.
The Bahak system is subsequently destroyed following the explosion of its mass relay. An asteroid was sent to the relay in order to delay the Reapers' invasion. Hundreds of thousands of batarians living on Aratoht are obliterated in the blast.
The events of Mass Effect: Retribution occur. Six months prior to the start of the story, Systems Alliance hero Jon Grissom dies. Hundreds of dignitaries attend Grissom's funeral and a memorial plaque dedicated to him is placed in the Jon Grissom Academy.
After three years on the run, Paul Grayson is captured by Cerberus and implanted with Reaper technology. Kahlee Sanders and David Anderson attempt to rescue Grayson by persuading the Turian Hierarchy to raid several vital Cerberus installations, but are unaware Grayson's body is now under Reaper control. Once free, the Reapers learn of the Ascension Project and use Grayson to single-handedly attack Grissom Academy, where he is finally killed by Anderson and Cerberus assassin Kai Leng. In the aftermath, Anderson and Sanders decide to study Grayson's body to discover how to combat the Reapers.
The events of Mass Effect: Inquisition occur. Councilor Udina asks Captain Bailey to investigate Executor Pallin, claiming that C-Sec has been compromised and is working against the Citadel Council. The investigation results in Pallin's death and Bailey's promotion to the rank of Commander, but Bailey is left with reservations about Pallin's guilt.
The events of Mass Effect: Deception occur. Gillian Grayson seeks revenge against Cerberus and the Illusive Man for the death of her father. With the help of a faction of biotic supremacists, she captures Cerberus assassin Kai Leng to lure the Illusive Man out of hiding by holding Leng for ransom. Her plan fails, however, and Leng kills her and escapes.
The events of Mass Effect: Conviction occur. Days after the destruction of Bahak, Councilor Udina publicly denies any Alliance involvement in the affair. Admiral Anderson travels to Omega to recruit Alliance marine James Vega to guard an incarcerated Commander Shepard.
The events of Mass Effect: Invasion occur. Aria T'Loak defends Omega from Adjutants unleashed by Cerberus. The Adjutants distract Aria from Cerberus's true plan: to conquer Omega and maintain exclusive access to the Omega 4 Relay. Aria realizes this and unites the disparate gangs and mercenaries of the station to repel the Cerberus invaders, but is outsmarted by Cerberus's General Oleg Petrovsky. When he threatens to destroy Omega, Aria accepts exile and Cerberus takes control of the station.
The events of Mass Effect: Infiltrator occur. When a Cerberus alien experimentation facility known as the Barn is attacked by turian forces, Randall Ezno, a Cerberus operative enhanced with biotic implants, learns the truth about the horrific nature of the experiments and discovers his own handler has been made a test subject. Randal turns against Cerberus and the Barn's Director, fights his way through the facility, and escapes. He provides the Systems Alliance with intel on his former employers and swears revenge on the Director.
September 21: A massive influx of batarian ships in the Exodus Cluster reported by the Alliance News Network. The newcomers claim their home systems are under attack from an as-yet unidentified hostile adversary. Khar'shan is reported to be under bombardment and the Harsa relay blockaded.
Quarian ark Keelah Si'yah launches for the Andromeda galaxy shortly after the batarian planet Camala is invaded.
September 28: Taetrus goes dark, the culprits confirmed to be the same forces behind the attack on the batarians. Primarch Fedorian declares the Turian Hierarchy at war.
2185: The Beyonders awaken... ]
In an unknown Location a breach in space appears as countless ships appeared. This of course belongs to Luke and Cortana.
Luke: "What... The... Fuck..."
Cortana who was slowly getting back up off the floor started looking around while confused spoke.
Cortana: "What just happened?! Why am I on the floor?"
Luke: "Good news and some kinda bad news. Which do you wanna hear first?"
Cortana: "Good news, who wants to hear bad news after just waking up off the floor?"
Luke: "Well the good news is that we are both immortal regarding life span but the bad news is that we are apparently super old... Before you start asking questions let me fill you in, We jumped to the next universe at the start of the Big Bang and that said event gave us immortality because we were exposed to Cosmic Energy..."
Cortana: "You know what? I'm going to believe you, we just jumped to a new universe so what not less believable than that?"
Luke just nodded and checked his force abilities to make sure they were fine and luckily it was as if he didn't spend the last billion years in a coma. Strangely enough, The duo looked the exact same as before when they crossed universes. Luke had a simple guess as to why, ROB.
Luke: "Guess we should find out when and where we are..."
