Mass Effect NV Early Concept

Hello and greetings to all Mass Effect fans!

To some of the readers of my current ME fic crossover with Vandread, I know that all of you right now waiting patiently (maybe it's an understatement…) for the next chapter of the ME x Vandread fic due to the fact that I'm facing my exam in late November. But the main reason that I'm writing this fic (maybe) is that I want to announce you all that after I've finished my current fic, I will be writing this ME fic of mine in the near future.

First of all, 'NV' means 'New Version' and it involves an AU Mass Effect world which has new races and factions, different timelines which kind of involve the Citadel Council's history of the Krogan Rebellion and the Morning War, new and different technologies along with some history that I've made myself. But the most important is that about a very different history for the Systems Alliance in the ME universe, in which the Systems Alliance is not some 'as nothing more than weak conformists who kneel before the Council' stuff. In this ME universe, the Systems Alliance is actually one of the superpower of the Milky Way galaxy that totally rivals (maybe outrivals) the Turian Hierarchy in terms of the size of military, manpower, economy and industry, technology and territory.

To be honest, this is actually an old idea of mine which I had developed since 2009. This Systems Alliance has a far different history than the System Alliance canon because of several factors before they meet the Citadel races:

1) The primary mass relay in the Arcturus System that leads to Shanxi didn't work and therefore, the First Contact War against the Turians never happens.

2) As the first contact never happens, there are several changes and additions in the System Alliance's timeline and history throughout from 2157 to 2190 CE namely:

- The proposal and construction of permanent "Floating City" colonies in the upper atmosphere of Venus, the Martian and Venusian colonists' demand for independence from the Systems Alliance and the creation of the first AI Eliza. The first generations of genetically engineered Humans were born where at first to study the aftereffect of Human biological adaptation when settle in a foreign planet, either hazardous or non-hazardous. They were sent to Venus for this purpose.

- The colonists from Mars and Venus had gained independence from the Systems Alliance peacefully and thus formed the Martian Socialist Republics and the Venus Commonwealth respectively. In 2179 CE, tensions had rose between the SA (Systems Alliance), MSR (Martian Socialist Republics) and the VC (Venus Commonwealth) over the rights to colonize the Alpha Centauri System and other neighboring star system near Sol.

- In 2185 CE, the Alpha Centauri War erupted between the SA, MSC and the VC which lasted for 6 months and had caused more than 6 million casualties from all sides. A year later, as a response to prevent another 'civil war', the United Nations on Earth had formed the United Nations Stellar Council (UNSC) and had successfully forced the three factions to sign an accord of the line of territorial demarcation. In this accord, the entire region in the Sol System were declared as "Capital Worlds" and "Free Military Conflicts Zone", which means that each of the four factions maintained their own military presence but they cannot use them for any conflict within the Sol System except in under certain circumstances. The area of space from outside of Sol to Arcturus was proclaimed as "UNSC Space" while the areas of space beyond of Arcturus were divided into three different spaces for the SA, MSC and VC.

- In 2188 CE, the Systems Alliance was dissolved and reformed as the Earth Federation in order to further consolidate its power and presence in the Sol System and beyond, as well as restructuring the government system in order to administer its colonies more effectively.

- In 2190 CE, many top scientists, physicists and theorists from all factions had predicted about the forthcoming "Eezo Crisis" in 2200 due to the lack of Element Zero sources within the radius from 70 to 350 light years away from Sol along with the eezo reserves on Mars were running out at a rapid rate. This had caused all four governments began act to find solutions of the Eezo crisis by finding alternative resources or elements which are similar to Element Zero or creating and developing new starship FTL drives which does not rely on eezo. This would also meant that the four governments have to collaborate with each other and step aside their past in the war and their difference in politics and ideologies for a common goal.

- The "Eezo Crisis" event actually became the major turning point of Humanity's course in technological development and discrepancy. Meaning that before and after the Alliance met Citadel Council, the Humans' technology still based on Mass Effect technology but they advanced and developed those technologies on their own while the Citadel Council's own Mass Effect technology remained static and unchanged even after it was formed since more than 2000 years ago. Still, the Council's technology still advances and develops but only on very limited and small scale. Therefore, expect that the Alliance's ME tech is far advanced than the Citadel's as they have a variety of technological advancements such as energy shields, space elevators, space habitats, directed-energy weapons (though limited), active camouflage systems, different FTL drives and "mobile combat platforms" for AIs.

3) After 160 years of division and in 2325 CE, the four factions of the Human race decided to band together under a single central civilian government which represents the whole of humanity. They decided to name their government; you guessed it, the System Alliance after they've made peaceful first contact with, not one, but two advanced space faring alien race (Did I mentioned new races earlier?) in less than a year. However, though the Alliance had been formed, the four individual factions and some of their unique characteristics such as the type of governments, cultures, ideologies, and military doctrines existed under the Systems Alliance. For your information, before Humanity made first contact and formed (or reformed I think) the Systems Alliance, the four factions of Humanity were on a brink of a war, or civil war if you add the race, due to territorial dispute and colonization rights with some strong development of nationalism among the whole population within the four governments. Fortunately, the first contact situation with these aliens had prevented the war.

4) As for the new races in Mass Effect NV, I've created at least 17 of them in this fic. Why? Trying to make the Milky Way galaxy a more diverse place than in the canon Mass Effect world. For additional knowledge, four of those races are in fact inspired or based on from external sources namely Warhammer 40K, Forgotten Realms, Worldwar series and believe it or not, Dinosaucers. XD But there are some differences of these four races than the ones from the original. If you guys wanted to know about these races such as their names, governments and their looks, you'll have to wait until next year for the fic to come out (Yeah I know! It stinks!). But if you guys asking me to reveal them, I might change my mind and try to edit this or add another chapter. ;)

5) After the formation of the Systems Alliance, Humanity and the two new races forming a government organization comprised of representatives from each associate member races and government known as the United Interstellar Establishment (UIE). Unlike the Citadel Council which more like a supranational union and the Council itself is more like a form of 'benevolent' dictatorship, the UIE is a democratic federal representative of political and military intergovernmental organization. In some sense, the UIE is similar to our own present day United Nations but more effective and every associate member within the UIE were recognized as a sovereign species and government with equal representation. Each species that joined the UIE were represented by the leader of the species' government but sometimes also by an elected government official or an ambassador that represents the government of their species.

Seven years after the formation of the UIE, they had made first contact with six new races and one of them had joined the UIE. However, the other five races decided not to join the UIE instead they formed their own political organization known as the Organization of Non-Aligned Races (ONR) which is similar the our modern equivalent, the Non-Aligned Movement which considered themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc. But unlike NAM, the ONR is also a collective defense organization but they were very focused on defensive, not offensive.

6) Before the Systems Alliance met the Citadel Council, both the UIE and the ONR had involved in a major and violent interstellar conflict against a single species galactic superpower that lasted for a hundred years (101 years to be exact). Both the UIE and the ONR won the war but it had caused approximately 125 billion people from the UIE and the ONR enslaved by the opposing force during the war along with around or more than 225 billion civilian and military casualties from both sides, 500 UIE and ONR colonies were rendered lifeless and inhabitable, more than 1700 UIE and ONR worlds have been captured and occupied, a single human colony have been destroyed to pieces (literally) and the destruction of a single star system belonged to the opposing force (no kidding).

This is to show that the Systems Alliance and the Human race is not some 'newcomer' that the Citadel Council wanted to pushed, bullied and make war with. After the war, the UIE began to reformed, restructured, and then renamed itself as the Interstellar Coalition. No, not the Interstellar Alliance from Babylon 5 which I've found out recently. Again, recently and I meant a few months ago.

This is probably one of the most difficult but exciting story I've ever wrote in Fanfiction even though I haven't started yet. About the part where I've wrote about the existence of this fic's UNSC earlier above, I did that on purpose because of a "What If" situation when I'm going to crossover this fic with Halo, where both Master Chief and Cortana were sent from their universe to this one and the guys from the Alliance became confused when Master Chief told them that he's from the UNSC (United Nations Space Command), not from the other UNSC (United Nations Stellar Council) or probably the other way around. Mind you that this story has some influences from Halo and other games so expect that y'all.

I would also need help from some people in Fanfiction that have expertise in any sci-fi or Mass Effect-related technology because as the Alliance's ME techs were far different and advanced than the Citadel's, that could also mean that I will have some difficulties to explain the details and functions and so on about the Alliance's new techs and devices. Everything from Physics, Chemistry, Quantum Physics, High Energy Physics, theoretical elements and so on. One of those problems for example are the type of FTL drives that the Alliance's used, the Omni-Blade, directed-energy weapons, small arms, the substitute elements for eezo and others.

In any case, I make this so to give you all a heads up on what is going on in my brain recently and to inform you that this story will be written once I've finished my current story. But I can't guarantee where after that, I'll probably decide to make another fic which is about Avatar: The Last Airbender and I've promised my friend that I will write that next year after finishing the ME-Vandread crossover fic. I let you all to decide whether you want me to make this fic or not and if you do, inform me so I will do something about it when I'm confident that I am ready for it.

Furthermore, I'm so sorry if my English grammar was not that good. English is kind of a second language in my country though some people have difficulties to learn and understand them. ^^;

P/S: I also did this because I'm angry and frustrated when some of the main Halo characters from some ME-Halo crossover fics assumed the Systems Alliance as a weak and degenerate version of the UEG and the UNSC. I said/wrote that because I'm an avid Mass Effect fan and a "Systems Alliance patriot". So yeah, because of THAT! But that doesn't mean I did this with the intention of flaming the Halo fans. So, NO INTENTION OF FLAMING! OKAY! XP