INTRODUCTIONS

Hello all, so I've had this idea stirring in my mind for some time now and it just keeps coming. I have read both TransformersXMass Effect stories, they have decent starts and potential but they haven't updated for like ever. So I intend to try my hand at it. I have to clarify a few things so you readers are not utterly lost or yelling blasphemy. I need a few chapters to build up everything and establish characters for fans on the other side of the fence who don't know a thing about the other.

In the Mass Effect-verse it takes place almost immediately after the Collector Base has been destroyed, and I'm trying to be chronologically correct so Lair of the Shadow Broker and Arrival haven't happened yet. Don't know when Overlord happened so I'm not touching that or pretending Shepard already did it. I'm working off my game(MShep, Infiltrator, Warp Ammo bonus power), so 90% of it was Paragon with just a tad bit of Renegade(examples; I helped Tali and did not reveal Rael'Zorah's experiments to the quarians but yelled at them for accusing Tali. Another was shooting the Eclipse initiate during Samara's recruitment while giving Detective Anaya the datapad of Pitne For's smuggling ring, and on Tuchanka, killing the Weyrloc Clanspeaker and head-butting Uvenk). Also I started working on this way before Arrival was announced so there will be a few discrepancies(like the fact that Shepard went back to the Alliance, didn't think he would after the crap they pulled or at least my Shep).

As for the Transformer-verse, there's a bit of AU'ing on my part. Now personally I don't like doing it when I don't have to(I know, crossovers are a form of AU but I mean those that straying too far from the original story or have no merit, character or technology wise, major overhaul type AU'ing) but come on, how many times do the comic, the books, the games and the shows contradict themselves, especially a comic and series that are supposed to be intertwined(the Bayformers, what) but I'll explain what's what so there is no confusion)(hopefully). I'm primarily using the War For Cybertron universe(which is somehow supposed to coincide with that new CG series and takes bits from good old G1), with bits coming from the War Within and the Megatron: Origin comics(only the bit about Senator Ratbat from the latter). The main bot that's going to have the first interaction with Shepard and crew is going to be a character that only appeared in one panel. Yes, a blank slate. The character is an Autobot named Vibes, and her only appears was in War Within alongside Boardside defending the Iacon vault from an underground Decepticon attack(from War Within). I don't know what it was about her, but I just liked her(minus the huge bunny 'ears' things but I got rid of them). The second is a bulkier bot named Dropshot. Normally that name is used on a Decepticon but I have found an Autobot incarnation that held that name in two of the continuities(Unfortunately it was in Armada and Energon). Personally I just like the name. The bot in question is going to have been active long before the Cybertronian Civil War started but he doesn't act like the warhorse Ironhide. Now about the lore...

Unicron and Primus exist, I'm going with what we do know about 13 original Transformers(that includes the Fallen, Vector Prime, Alpha Trion, Prima and so on), the Matrix of Leadership has been in existence since the beginning of Cybertronian's history and has been in the care of each Prime, only one Prime at a time, the Quintesons did not create the Transformers instead they were an invading force that tried to conquer Cybertron(this happens in Dreamwave comic and War for Cybertron), energon cubes are used by both sides, a 'true' Cybertronian has a spark(this is going to play a part in my story), the Cybertronian Civil War has been going on of a few thousand years with Sentinel Prime and about 100 years or so with Optimus Prime as leader, I'm using the 'subspace' explanation as to where weapons go(like the missile pods on Ravage's hip and almost every other weapon we had to remove when converting the toys from robot to altmode), no mass shifting(I know some of you liked the handgun Megatron, tape recorder Soundwave or microscope Perceptor but even in the realm of science fiction that's a stretch even with the subspace explanation, but that's just me), that's all I can think of at the moment(please don't yell at me if I forgot to list anything major besides characters).

Now for acknowledgement to the Beta Readers who have helped me the most with this story:

deathunit100010

Optimus Bob

Sarge1995

SimplisticDrone

Thanks guys/gals, without your reviews and support I couldn't have gotten this story off the ground.