Helloooo to all you people who actually clicked on this story for whatever reason. I thank you for being here. Briefly, (somewhat) I would like to say that I am new to writing but not to reading on this site. I really like science fiction and I... okay I hate Naruto but it was a certain part of my childhood and I've grown to like any decent fics written about it. As such, I'm really sad that I cannot seem to find any decent, long fics that crossover Naruto with... really any scifi story. So I'm writing my own! And if you looked at the automatic label for this story you would see I chose Mass Effect. Why? Because Mass Effect is awesome!

For some reason, people seem to like having Naruto be the last of his particular brand of humans and have him leave the planet with Shepard or something like that. I'm doing it differently! The whole race of humanity from the ME games does not exist. Instead, the Naruto-verse actually advances past that funky feudal age that they're stuck in and make it into space and to the Citadel... eventually.

This chapter was originally just something to help me organize my crazy thought process. Now, I spruced it up a bit and published it as the first chapter... I'm still not quiet sure if that was a good idea, but we'll find out! The chapter below details how the Naruto-verse evolved from the not-Madara's failed takeover to how they become the badasses of the galaxy without even realizing it. You could probably get past the story without reading this chapter as most of the stuff here won't be extremely important, if at all, but it might be fun to read. *shrugs*

The next chapter/actual start of the story should be up tomorrow... probably... maybe. Depends on how much I drink for the first day of 2013.

Posted: 1/1/13
Word count: 6,650
Vague summary: Kinda unimportant storyline/backstory.

Hope you enjoy

Chapter 1
A History Lesson

January First, Year One: The Treaty of Unification is signed, marking the end of the Fourth Great Shinobi War that almost ended the world. All individual countries would hold their previous identities but be included in the Sannin Alliance named after the title held by a man who lived with a dream of world peace but did not survive long enough to see it a reality. All leaders present at the conclave signed the agreement.

January 2, Year 1 AU (After Unification): The Hero of the war, Naruto Uzumaki, went into self exile. He was widely known as the strongest person in the world and believed that if he stayed allied with is birth home of Konoha it would make the fledgling alliance strained.

June 1, Year 33 AU: An incident with a distraught Bijuu - Isobu the Sanbi (Three Tails) to be exact - results in the large amounts of destruction and the death of twenty-four humans. To counteract the tension and anger at the demon, Naruto returns from his self exile and creates a large island south of the main continent. He convinces all the Bijuu to move to the minor continent so that nothing similar happens again. Most had been uncomfortable with the sudden growth of humanity and were glad to have such a large space all to their own again. The others did it only because Naruto asked.

Many were once again wary of the Bijuu, but still some remembered how they saved humanity in the Fourth Great Shinobi War. Over the years the people began to trust the Bijuu, eventually celebrating each of them individually. Nine days throughout each year was dedicated to one of the nine Biju. Most were random, but October 10 was indisputably the Day of the Fox.

February 19, Year 103 AU: Rumors that sailors found another continent west of the mainland could be heard in most households.

March 2, Year 103 AU: A government funded expedition was sent west over the ocean. Another continent was found, also inhabited by humans. The language of the 'Westerners' was similar enough that it only took a few days to work out communication. The newly discovered culture did have Chakra, though it was not as potent as the 'Easterners' . The Easterners were heavily reliant on their technology, which was far more advanced than that of the Western continent. Agreements and trade routes are created, though it will be difficult with four weeks of ocean between the two continents. Or rather, it would be challenging had the East not have long since created a motor that worked on electricity - a powerful advancement to the steam powered engines the Westerners still used. It enabled them to traverse the seas with much greater ease. Rumors were that the West was also trying to make a vehicle that would allow humans to fly.

April 14, Year 103: The first updated map of the world is released. It marked the Eastern continent with the name Sannin, the western continent with the name Eden - as its inhabitants called it -, and the southern continent created to isolate the Bijuu with the name Seidou (Sanctuary).

January 2, 105 AU: A bombing of Suna ended with a hundred and eighty-two people dead and many more injured. It is found to be blamed on a small group of Westerners that believe that the Sannians (People of Sannin) were trying to poison their society and destroy it. Outraged, the government of Sannin demanded retribution. Not enough people in Eden liked or trusted Sannin enough to side with them and the anger and opposition sparks a war. This marks the beginning of the War of Duality.

The War of Duality was a brutal and bloody slaughter on both sides. On one side, the people of Sannin had far more potent Chakra and generations of powerful ninja abilities. On the other, the people of Eden had far more advanced weaponry. Whenever Sannin would create or rediscover another powerful ability for its soldiers, Eden would mass produce the next most outrageous weapon, and vise versa. By the time it ended, no one was quiet sure who was the most inhumane.

July 3, 143 AU: In what was promising to be a great battle, the war came to an abrupt end. A great beast, the likes of which had never been seen by anyone living in either armies, sprouted from the ground with a roar. The beast - a raccoon of sorts - that towered over everything there, controlled what seemed like an infinite amount of sand. Each and every soldier on both sides were individually ensnared by the the sands, keeping them from doing anything besides breathing and looking terrified. It was the man who was controlling the monstrous raccoon that stopped the fighting however. He was a man with bright blonde hair and lines tripling each cheek. He stood atop the beast without fear and looked over the armies with calm blue eyes. While those of Eden did not recognize him, the Sannin soldiers knew instantly whom he was. Naruto Uzumaki. The man should have been well over a century old, but the power he held was unmistakeable. Not a single solider died that day.

July 4, 144 AU: The Treaty of Division was signed. It ended the war and stated that neither Eden nor Sannin would attack each other. Period. With the war the lasted almost forty years suddenly stopping with no winner, there was obviously still tension between the two factions. If Naruto hadn't been watching over both governments - literally being on both sides of the planet at the same time - and swiftly knocking out and locking up anyone who showed any hostility, who knows what would have happened. Over the coming years, the two continents would slowly stop wishing for blood and even become allies.

August 27, 145 AU: The first child conceived between a soldier of Sannin and one of Eden was born. On its own this is rather impressive that it happened to soon, but there was something else much more remarkable that happened. During the War of Duality, both sides had done all they could to to win, including enhancing the soldiers themselves. The Sannin soldiers were implanted with what they called Seeds of Izanagi. It was based off of the stories of Naruto where he learned to use the Chakra given off by nature to augment his body. The Seeds grew inside of their host's body and fueled them with Natural Chakra, making them faster, stronger, healthier, and longer lasting. On Eden's side, they used a fledging understanding of nanorobotics to replace all the nerves in the soldier's body. It allowed them to process thoughts a thousand times faster and raised their reaction time by 600%. What's amazing about the birth of a child between the two soldiers was that sge was naturally born with both a Seed of Izanagi and enhanced nervous system inside of her.

165 AU: A fourth continent was found, though it is smaller and had no human life. Not many people are eager to move there due to the extremely cold environment. This land is given the name Yalk.

298 AU: A mining expedition in northern Yalk finds remains of something. It is never known what as those that found it never return.

299 AU: A large number of unexplained disappearances occur along the coast of Sannin. Though they are technically allies, there is still bad blood between the two main continents. Rumors start to sprout up that the cause of the disappearances was Eden. Tensions rise.

January 3, 300 AU: Hundreds upon hundreds of creatures pour into the city of Kumogakure no Sato. They are described as charred human husks implanted with bright blue synthetics. While easy to disable, they were difficult to fully shutdown and came in seemingly unending waves. Unprepared and not having a substantial military at the time, Sannin is slowly overtaken by the Husk army. However, before the Husks can move out of Lightning Country, reinforcements form Eden arrive and hold them off long enough for Sannin to organize and exterminate all of them in a combined effort. Unknown to anyone at the time, this move was what forever cemented an alliance between Sannin and Eden.

January 4, 300 AU: Once the heat had died down, it is found though various methods that the Husks originated from an abandoned mining zone on the Northern tip of Yalk. A recon team is sent to investigate.

January 6, 300 AU: Only one member of the recon team made it back. She reported that they found a large ship unlike anything ever seen before, massive in size and deep metallic purple. She said that upon entering her team began acting weirdly. Half the team tried to kill the others and had to be put down. The rest killed themselves. Shortly after finishing her report, the last member of the team tried to kill her commanding officer while screaming about cleansing the galaxy. She was killed on the spot.

January 11, 300 AU: Another wave of Husks invaded, this time on Eden soil. Furthermore, some of them did not fully resemble humans, more like large insects on two legs. Worse still, many Husks came into battle with powerful, futuristic weaponry, the likes of which had never been seen before. As an idea of combating the computerized corpses, a group of scientists designed a super computer that could hack their synthetics and kill them en masse without risking human life. It worked at first, but the mechanics of the Husks 'evolved' for lack of a better term and became immune to the computer. In response, an even larger group of scientists designed and built a completely new computer that would learn, adapt, and evolve on its own. The Artificialy Designed Adapting Modem, or ADAM, was the first Artificial Intelligence ever made by man, and it worked perfectly.

February 2, 300 AU: A problem arose with the use of ADAM to kill the Husks. The AI could only work over short distances from where it was based. When the Husks started avoiding the area, it became useless. An idea was brought to the best seal masters Sannin had to offer.

February 8, 300 AU: The most complicated seal ever designed was finished, ending at over eight hundred feet in diameter. It was mostly done by the man who came up with the idea, whose skills with seals amazed the four dozen other seal masters he called to help. The Evestigatus Seal (Seal of Discovery) was a massive Fuinjutsu version of an AI in that it could learn, adapt, and evolve on its own. It could wirelessly connect to another type of seal he made - called the Izanami Seal - no matter the distance. The Izanami Seal would be grafted into the skin of every soldier willing, allowing instantaneous transmittance of information between each of them. The Evestigatus Seal - or as it became to be known as, Eve - would work in tandem with ADAM to send the AI's signal across all distances to every Izanami Seal. This in itself would not do anything as the signal could not be emitted in a helpful way from anything non mechanical. Luckily, the enhanced nervous system created during the War of Duality - Alpha Nerves, they were called - was now present in roughly 73 percent of the population. It was still unknown why anyone with at least a single parent who possessed Alpha Nerves was naturally born with them, but not many were complaining. Whenever a Husk got within a dozen feet of anyone with Alpha Nerves and an Izanami Seal, the synthetic zombie would drop dead without so much as a finger needing to be raised in defense. Seeing as the combination got the desired results, almost every person with Alpha Nerves volunteered to have the Izanami Seal grafted onto their person. This had the unfortunate effect of almost anyone who did not posses both augmentations to be targeted and killed by the Husks. By the end of the month, everyone was either invulnerable to Husks or already dead. The cybernetic zombies became nothing more than a laugh to look at as they shambled around and died, then they were just an annoyance to clean up.

March 1, 300 AU: Once the last grafting of the Izanami Seal was finished, the genius of a man who came up who came up with it and Eve dropped the Henge he had held for a month straight and revealed that he was the three-hundred year old war hero, Naruto Uzumaki. After a brief talking with the government leaders, he returned to self exile in Seidou.

August 13, 300 AU: The last Husks were reported to be dead. It also seemed that no more were being made as there was nothing left to drag victims away to be changed. Still, no one wanted to go and check on the monstrous ship that was reported to be in Yalk.

September 8, 300 AU: Though they are relatively new, the human-made satellites orbiting Gaia are able to give a blurry image of Yalk from space. It shows a massive dark object against the white snow, moving southwest towards Sannin. Evacuations are ordered from the coast.

September 11, 300 AU: The construct emerges from the waters onto the island nation of Mizu no Kuni. Images show it to be a gigantic machine in the shape of an insect, though a lobster might be more sensible seeing as it rose from the ocean. A powerful crimson laser tore through the country, setting everything ablaze. Though the civilians had long since been evacuated, the military personnel stationed there to fight stood little chance and were completely annihilated. By dusk, the island country was completely destroyed. The metallic insect seemed to go into a sort of hibernation and was theorized to be recharging. It would have been easy to go on the offensive, but no one knew what they could do against it if they did. So both sides waited.

December 25, 300 AU: The annual gift giving holiday known as Christmas that started almost exactly three centuries ago was tense. It turned to panic when word of the destructive insect was moving again spread.

December 26, 300 AU: The metallic creature flew across the ocean. Apparently it spent the last few month regaining the energy to do so. Just as it came over the coast of Fire Country and a great red light began to build up, its gong of a battle cry was overpowered by a cornucopia of animalistic roars. As the evacuations had not finished, both civilian and military had front row seats to the sight of the purple floating machine be struck simultaneously by nine blasts of dark energy. The resulting explosion came in the form of a giant blue and black mushroom cloud - a mixture of the substance that made up the machine's power core and demonic energies. It was not hard to find the source of the blasts that ended the war machine. Not far from the coast, eight giant beasts and one human-shaped figure stood in all their glory.

The year 300 was now commonly known as the Year of Reaping. Naruto and the eight Bijuu eventually returned to Seidou, but only after much celebrating and cheering. Many of the demons were uncomfortable with the praise at first, not used to it, but they all enjoyed as much of the party as they could. Many were interested in the substance that erupted from the 'Reaper', as the machine became known as. As far as it was known, none of the construct itself survived, so all they could study was the blue substance that spread all over the atmosphere. It was dubbed Element Zero, not really for any overly scientific reason, but because all studies gave zero results besides saying it was radioactive.

June 25, 301 AU: A child was born. Unsurprisingly, it naturally had a Seed of Izanagi and Alpha Nerves. Also, after a conference between the heads of government and Eve, the intelligent Fuinjutsu manipulated the Izanami Seals slightly so that any offspring would naturally have them grafted into their skin as well. What was really surprising was that the child did not look... normal, was the word. She could pass as a human, yes, but there were slight differences. Her musculature system was more compact in some areas and larger in others. Her pupils were larger than normal. And her finger and toe nails were sharper. It was believed to be a rare birth defect.

June 27, 301 AU: Another child was born. He was perfectly normal, except that his spine was twice as long, resulting in a tail. As he grew older, the tail grew hair only slightly darker than the hair on his head. Now people were intrigued.

July 7, 301 AU: Another child was born. He was normal in every way to the naked eye. It was proven though that as he grew, the Izanagi Seed that grew inside of him had a large amount of radiation that matched that of Element Zero. Years later, he would be able to use his Chakra in new and strange ways, such as telekinesis.

305 AU: Large amounts of research finally found results and answers for why one in every three children was born with strange animalistic qualities and why one in every five children had abilities to manipulate their Chakra in ways not dissimilar to that of what the legendary Rinnegan could do. The source was found to be the killing of the Reaper. The insanely large amount of Demonic Chakra from the Bijuu and Naruto did little to those already born at the time, but the recessive trait they developed would matter greatly when someone conceives a child. The children with the telekinetic abilities of sorts were caused by the Reaper itself exploding and the resulting influx of Element Zero. The different looking humans were called hanyo, not out of spite but simply because that's what they were - part human and part demon. The radiated children were called biotics. Many were uncomfortable with the hanyos because of their looks, but no violence ever sprung up. Parents of hanyos cared for their children and thus did not mind others that looked odd as well. Plus, most looked at as 'If the Biju are demons, what's so wrong with being like them?'. The Biju were seen as great heroes after all.

October 11, 305 AU: A hanyo child is proven to posses biotic abilities, answering a question many wondered.

July 16, 969 AU: Though it had been approached often, the idea of leaving the planet never really meant much to anyone until today. Through a combination of technology and Fuinjutsu that had become common place, the first spaceship made to carry life was finished and set to launch with its crew of one AI and five humans - two of which were hanyos and one a biotic. It's destination: the moon. Shortly before it launched, the crew was met face-to-face with a legend in the form of a young blonde man. It had been a long time since Naruto had last been seen out of Seidou and it was an unspoken rule that no one was to got there, but he had not aged since 300 AU. He just smiled and joked to watch out for the soulless corpse of the Jubi that was buried on Luna. Not even the crew themselves knew if they should be honored at meeting him, or terrified at the reminder that no one else had managed remembered.

November 26, 1011 AU: By now, shuttles moving off from the surface of Luna and Gaia was common place, but today another special ship was being launched. This one was set to go to the fourth planet from the sun, Inari. Only one member of the famous moon landing crew was part of this one, the other three surviving members stood off to the side next to an blonde legend to salute the explorers.

April 10, 1148 AU: A recent census showed that Gaia held a population of over Twenty-one-and-a-half billion humans. Luna had long since been terraformed - a process that took nearly a year for the relatively small planetoid - and now housed a population of eleven billion humans. Inari and its two moons Kurama and Phobos had been terraformed as well, the latter two having been physically tripled in size to keep them stable and to have workable gravity. They each held a population of roughly six billion, two billion, and one-and-a-half billon respectively. But today, a deep sea research team found something on the bottom of the Deseado Ocean in the southern hemisphere of Inari. The remains of technology by what are being called the Protheans send all of humanity into a frenzy. Never before had it been proven that alien life exists (though more than a few speculated that the Reaper was not of their home planet).

Specialties used what they could from the ruins to upgrade their own technology, but not as much as what people wanted came out of it. The formula for Medigel was useful for hospitals and caught on quickly, but other than that nothing really changed. Prothean weapons were so different from their human equivalents that nothing could be taken from them. Maybe they would have been helpful had humanity still used the guns of Eden from the War of Duality, but it was far too late now. Omni-tools were almost hilariously pointless with Skynet. Skynet was the unbreakable connection between all humans that was made from ADAM, Eve, the Alpha Nerves, and the Izanami Seals. When compared to the Prothean's Omni-Tool, they were actually very similar except that the Omni-Tool was a wristband like device with a holographic interface, Skynet was literally inside your head. It also worked nearly a hundred times faster, had no known distance it could not work over, and could not get lost or stolen. It was not even a contest to which one was better.

The Prothean ships interested some people with how they ran on Element Zero and the Inari government scheduled for one to be built. But with Element Zero being as rare as it was and no one wanting to ride on a ship powered by it - the explosion from the Reaper power core was still well known - the project was dropped before it could even really begin.

1213 AU: Humans land on the planet Venus, the second planet from the sun. Due to its toxic atmosphere it takes fifty years to fully terraform, unlike Inari's twenty-one.

1298 AU: Humans land on the planet closest to the sun, Mercury. It is deemed too difficult to terraform due to the close proximity to the sun and is only used as a source for mining minerals and questionable experiments.

1401 AU: A freelance company springs up with an unusually large amount of funding from places unknown, and with its only objective being the advancement of humanity. The three branches - or 'heads' as they are more commonly known as - of the company are agriculture, exploration, and military. The company's name is Cerberus.

As part of the agriculture head, Cerberus used an almost unbelievable amount of money to create a more workable terraforming sequence. When it is finished, Mercury is made perfectly habitable and twice its original size in just under five months. The new sequence is so effective that it is estimated that Inari could have completely terraformed in two months if this process had been known at the time.

The exploration head spent seemingly endless amounts of cash to make spaceships faster, longer lasting, bigger, and easier to live in. It was this branch that figured out the secret to artificial gravity.

The military head upgraded all commonly used weapons from the most mundane of kunai knives to the latest combat seals. This was much slower going seeing as how no one was expecting a war anytime soon.

1420 AU: Human ships made it past the asteroid belt and into the area of the Gas Giants. The fifth planet from the sun, Sussano - named after the giant storm on the planet that was visible even from space - had dozens of moons orbiting it. The four largest were quickly enlarged and terraformed. They were named Kazekage, Mizukage, Raikage, and Tsuchikage after the leaders of old Sannin. Every other moon remaining that was too small to inhabit were dragged together into a fifth planetoid that was much bigger than all other moons, being nearly three-quarters the size of Gaia. It was also terraformed and named Hokage. They were designed with special atmospheres to absorb large amounts of light so that they could be habitable even though they were so far away from the sun.

1421: Plans to turn the gas planet of Sussano into a habitable planet began to circulate the Skynet rumor mill.

1432 AU: Human ships made it to the sixth planet, another Gas Giant called Saturn. Governments and Cerberus worked on a new and bizarre idea instead of making a special atmosphere like the five moons of Sussanoo - which was a very expensive project. The idea was to build a giant metal ring that surrounded the planet and poured light down on it. While it is possible to create metal from Chakra, the amount of supplies Cerberus used was so large that everyone was stumped as to where they got them from. Only strip mining a planet or large moon could hope to get that much metal!

1455 AU: The largest building project humanity had ever taken part in was finished. The 'Halo' that surrounded Saturn was so large that it was successfully cultivated and given its own atmosphere. The outside of the ring was both inhabitable and able to grow plants, but the inside was covered entirely in Fuinjutsu to pour light down as it orbited Saturn, effectively making 'night and day'. Already immigrants were moving to the Halo - named Micheal after the angel of an old Eden religion.

1459 AU: Sussano is successfully terraformed to have a habitable atmosphere and gravity. The gigantic storm it was named for vanished as well, but due to its distance from the sun it is constantly very dark. The answer was to build another Halo and put it around the planet..

1461 AU: Humans reached the seventh planet from the sun, Tsukuyomi.

1462 AU: Saturn is successfully terraformed. With the light given off from Halo Micheal, and a few adjustments to lower the gravity to tolerable levels, it was perfectly habitable.

1469 AU: The Halo Raphael is completed around Sussano. The artificial light given off from the inside of the ring allows people to comfortably live on the surface of Sussano. Unlike the construction of Micheal that only had Cerberus to build it, Raphael had the combined effort of Cerberus and the governments of Sussano's five moons. The combined effort made the process that previously took twenty-three years to complete only ten.

1470 AU: The eighth planet in the Sol System, Amaterasu, was reached.

1472 AU: Tsukuyomi was terraform and the Halo Gabriel that surrounded it was finished. This Halo also took only eleven years, with only Cerberus working on it, it proved that their method of building Halos had improved.

1473 AU: The leaders of Cerberus declared a new idea that most people took as a bad laugh than being serious. They said that they would take the asteroid belt that separated the first four planets from the last five and turn it into a massive Halo that encircled the sun and inner planets just as the belt did. Many laughed at the idea, especially because there was no real reason to build it at all. It would not be needed to give light to anything as it did not surround a planet, and it would be impossible to gather enough supplies even if they were given a century. Or so they said.

1474 AU: Cerberus began construction on the greatest Halo, alone, with half of their personnel working on the Halo to surround that they were actually serious, many become intrigued with the ideal of this 'Great Halo'. It slowly became recognized that humanity was starting to overpopulate. Whether this insanely large Halo would help or not, no one knew for sure.

1476 AU: The governments of Gaia, Luna, Inari, Kurama, and Phobos joined in helping Cerberus.

1477 AU: The governments of Venus, Mercury, Susanno, Hokage, Kazekage, Mizukage, Raikage, and Tsuchikage joined in the effort to build the massive Halo.

1478 AU: The large section of Cerberus that was working on Amaterasu's Halo, Uriel, finished and moved to help the main section in the big construction.

1479 AU: All remaining planetary governments joined in the effort.

1480 AU: The ninth and final planet, Pluto, was landed on by humans. It was small and many did not even consider it a planet, but that wouldn't stay like that for long.

1481 AU: Pluto was risen to nearly four times its original size and terraformed. A Halo was scheduled to be built around it but the system's governments did not want the working forces to split in half like they did for Uriel. Instead, every able ship from the construction of the Great Halo was sent to Pluto to build that Halo instead. The Halo surrounding Pluto, Camael, was finished in a stunning seven months. Morals boosted by the accomplishments, the work force returned to constructing the Great Halo.

1483 AU: The Pluto government, young as it was, joined in on the efforts of building the Great Halo.

1485 AU: Governments had been slowly and carefully formed for the people living on the Halos Micheal, Raphael, and Gabriel. At this time, they believed that they were stable enough with the new and strange lifestyle to send help to joined the construction.

1486 AU: Uriel and Camael governments joined the effort.

1491 AU: The special atmospheres of Hokage, Kazekage, Mizukage, Raikage, and Tsuchikage that were made to absorb light started to fail. The air was becoming thin and if it was not fixed with two years, the atmospheres would be nonexistent. Quickly, the construction force split into five groups to build a Halo for each moon. The mere idea of saving whole cities by the dozen spurred on the teams and they finished all five Halos in thirteen months. The faulty, special atmospheres were replaced with normal ones.

1499 AU: The Great Halo - given the name of the angel in an old Eden religion who united humankind - Sandalphon is complete and habitable, being finished at 24,000 kilometers in width and just over 460 million kilometers in diameter.

The 1400's are known as the Century of Gold. The year 1500 itself was seen as one giant blur as a giant party seemed to take up the entire 365 days. This is truly one of the highest points humanity had ever been at. It had made every surface in its entire solar system inhabitable. The space fairing ships had changed greatly from the cramped, slow ships of the lunar landing. It was not uncommon for some people to live in giant space ships that doubled as cities, commonly called Star Cities. Crime was at an all time low, nearly nonexistent with the great influx of jobs that Cerberus' many projects gave. While not enemies, the new governments all over the Sol System were bound to have problems, but now an agreement was taken all of the governments as they worked together on Sandalphon. By the end of the century, the governments formed a group that would make decisions for the solar system as a whole. It was to be called the United Planets, but that was considered to be discriminatory against those who lived on Halos. So instead they named it the Systems Alliance.

A humongous baby boom in the Century of Gold took the population from the fifty billion it was at before to over two-and-a-half trillion. And that's where a problem began to be shown. The population would not drop down any time soon unless war broke out, and no one wanted that. Combined with the average human lifespan being three-hundred and fifty years (hanyo living slightly longer and biotics slightly less), and they would run out of space sooner or later. Granted it would take a long time now with the Halos and terraformed planets, but it would happen eventually.

1509 AU: To make it easier, the massive construct of Sandalphon was divided into six sections that could be considered countries. They were named Tendo, Shurado, Ningendo, Chikushodo, Gakido, and Jigokudo, and each had its own government body.

1511 AU: The six governments of Sandalphon considered themselves stable enough to ask for being part of the Systems Alliance, they were accepted without argument.

1537 AU: A cruiser discovered a large construct in deep space. It was described as a giant tuning fork-shaped thing, made from a dark purple metal that had not been seen since the Reaping War. It was quickly proven to be made similarly as the Reapers and the Systems Alliance ordered every human to stay as far away from it as possible. No one was stupid enough to risk it.

1672 AU: The Systems Alliance decided to disband all standing militaries. This was more of a formality than anything else as the only planet that still had a military at this point was Gaia and it had not been used in centuries, all others having already been disbanded. Many expected that without the military that crime would rise. Instead, it lowered greatly as many of the ex-soldiers joined the police.

1798: Unemployment began to rise with the population, which now numbered over three trillion strong. People began to get nervous at what could happen.

1800: The Systems Alliance called in Cerberus - who still seems to have infinite supplies and money - and proposed to them the idea of leaving the Sol System with newly created and untested technology that should allow ships to enter Hyperspace and, theoretically, move at speed faster than light. Cerberus agrees.

1805: The unemployment almost completely disappeared at the construction of a great fleet of ships. The goal was to move three billion volunteer individuals out of the Sol System and into the next. They had no shortage of volunteers at least and the ships could easily recycle breathable air and grow food. Many believed that the ships would make the journey, and after five years of testing the FTL (Faster Than Light) travel method of entering Hyperspace it looked promising. The problem was that no one knew what would happen to Skynet. It worked fine in connecting people from all the way from Mercury to Pluto, but no one knew if it would work from one system to the next. When asked, Eve said that she had no way of knowing, but that she would do all that she could to keep everyone connected. She even called in her 'father', Naruto Uzumaki, to oversee her constantly growing seal array and change it if necessary. The fact that such a legend was partaking in the this giant immigration stirred many to help and volunteer as well as well.

October 24, 1806 AU: The Immigration Fleet was finished, filled, and ready to launch. It consisted of three hundred and fifty-nine ships with the largest by far being the SSV (System Alliance Space Vehicle) Noah's Ark, reaching a great 500 kilometers in length. With cheers and goodbyes, the fleet engaged the Hyperspace and immediately disappeared from Skynet - something that all previous times meant you were dead.

October 31, 1806 AU: The week had passed in an almost unnatural depression for the Sol System. Everyone was connected to Skynet, so everyone felt the sudden absence of three billion people ranging from babies to elders. It was to be expected, as Hyperspace is basically another dimension, but no one knew if they would ever return. It was with a start on one Saturday on the last day of the month that ADAM sent a blaring message through the Skynet, purposely giving everyone a mild wakeup shock in the process. "The Immigration Fleet has returned to Skynet! The Immigration Fleet has returned to Skynet!" People cheered like never before, screaming in celebration to the heavens.

In later years, October 31 will become a holiday of fear and reward where people of all ages - though mostly children - dress up in scary costumes and in return get candy. It was named after the man who lead the entire fleet, Hachiro Halloween.

1850: The second inhabited solar system, the Proxima System, had all four planets and eleven moons terraformed and the Noah's Ark was taken apart to build a Great Halo that surrounded the system's sun. The Great Halo was named Noah for obvious reasons.

1991: Cerberus made a major advancement was made in Hyperspace technology, allowing ships to travel greater distances at a fraction of the time. For instance, the famous week of travel from Sol to Proxima was shortened to two and a half hours.

2000 AU: The largest fleet ever made, consisting of two thousand and fifteen ships was set for launch. Many of the ships were Star Cities that were outfitted with Hyperspace drives. The Spreading Fleet was loaded up with nearly half the population of the Sol System, numbering a staggering two-and-a-half trillion people. The fleet launched off in every direction to spread to any and all nearby systems. All passengers had reentered Skynet within the day.

2001 AU: The Systems Alliance - which had broadened to include the governments in the Proxima System and will probably do the same for other systems once they establish governments - realized that humanity was growing very quickly. They had had close calls before but always managed to avoid the problems that came with overpopulation by expanding outwards. They knew that eventually, they would not be able to do so anymore. To solve this they passed a law stating that every couple could only have a maximum of three children. Many were angry with this and raged in the forms of strikes and such but the Alliance was unwavering. Luckily, no riots broke out and the anger lowered to a simmer by the end of the the next decade. By the end of the century, it was seen as an unspoken way of life that everyone followed, like how no one steps on Seidou soil, ever.

Years.

Decades.

Centuries.

Millennia.

Humans advanced.

Seals advanced.

Artificial Intelligences advanced.

Halos advanced.

Ships advanced.

Life advanced.

Many more Prothean ruins were found, though little was ever acomplished by them except some pretty pictures of the stars and useless blueprints. Three more large purple constructs were found floating in odd corners space, and each were avoided like the plague. Cerberus, once a company that held greater power than any one government, became smaller and smaller but still held the same respect. It was seen as a great honor to be one of the few thousands that work for Cerberus, but they have only had relatively small advancements since the building of the First Great Halo and the SSV Noah's Ark.

June 18, 5149 AU: A small group of scientists were given permission by the Systems Alliance - after two years of debate mind you - to study one of the five known purple constructs. The allowance of going near the object surprised many, but many more were curious about what could be found out about the... things. The group of forty-five scientists and twelve civilians - for piloting and manual labor mostly - approached the purple construct orbiting the sun of the Utopia System.

And that's it! Was it good? Great? Bad? Terrible? Did it make you throw up? Review and let me know! (PS: I already know I'm a terrible writer, so if you leave a review saying this is terrible, it will only boost my ego and prove that I'm right.)

Explaining time!

FIRST OF ALL: Don't tell me all this bull- *cough* I mean genius work of art that I threw together is impossible. I know that! But it's fiction! And badly written fiction at that! Also, the people of the Naruto-verse should have damn near infinite amount of supplies if there's even one person ever again who can to wood, metal, or even crystal release (and I'm going with the assumption that it's a recessive trait and will sprout up again at some point). They have unlimited work force (clones) and they can defy the laws of physics from before they hit puberty! So yes, I think that they can pull off stuff like this.

Izanagi Seed: It's exactly as it sounds - weird and corny. Basically, now everyone is born with a little seed somewhere inside of them and as they grow, the seed grows into a plant that sprouts around their entire body and give of Natural Chakra. And yes, I did just make the entire human race a bunch of Toad Sennin. I might think of some decent reason for why these exist later, but for now - they're there because I want them to be.

Alpha Nerves: Pretty sure I explained this as decently as I could above. To think about how effective they are, look at it like this: They were made to combat the Izanagi Seed powered soldiers. They work really well.

Izanami Seal: Again, everyone is born with one now - and I do have a reason for that. I imagine them as full body tattoos. They work as a radio of sorts and connects everyone who has them to Eve and - by extension - everyone else.

ADAM & Eve: Nope. Not inspired by anything else. Nu uh. Completely original. ADAM is a bad anagram for the name of the first AI humans made in this story. It's first function was to hack into the synthetics of Husks and kill them. To spread its signal, Naruto desguised himself and made the Evestigatus Seal (Eve). It was fully sentient and the only one of its kind. Using Eve's connection to every human with an Izanami Seal on them, she could transfer ADAM's signal to their Alpha Nerves and broadcast it a short distance from the people. The result? Husks dropping like flies. (For those who don't realize it, this will definitely change the way the war goes when the Reapers come back)

Skynet: What? No! Of course that's a completely original name that I made up... Just be glad I didn't go through with my original plan of calling it the Matrix, even I'm not that corny... yet. Through a combination of, well, everything in the list above, humans created Skynet. Imagine having Google, Facebook, a cell phone, and everything else like them inside your head. Now imagine you always had perfect reception and now lag ever. Now imagine a bunch of AI's also connected to it and constantly doing stuff as well. Now imagine it being around for nearly five thousand years. That's pretty much Skynet. *shivers* I think I created hell.

Halos: Bet you can't figure out what these were inspired by? Oh, you say the Halo game series? WRONG! They were actually inspired by an old scifi novel called Ringworld that I read a while ago. I then took the idea and shoved it through the meat grinder that is my brain and vola!

Sandalphon, the First Great Halo: Why yes of dear readers, I did in fact just say that it was 460 MILLION kilometers in diameter. It's roughtly the diameter of the asteroid belt that turned into it so I thought it was appropriate. Suck on that Forerunners!

Due to lack of originality, I placed Naruto's planet in our solar system and just changed the names up a bit to match the mix with Japanese being a main culture of the world. Also, the continents of my version of Earth are completely different from what they really are, in case you did not figure that out. Still, I tried to draw as many parallels as possible to keep it simple to remember (i.e.: holidays, certain dates, some name of ships and Halos).

Gaia = Earth (Hoped you could figure that one out)
Inari = Mars
Kurama = Deimos
Sussano = Jupiter
Kazekage/Mizukage/Raikage/Tuchikage = Io/Europa/Callisto/Ganymede
Tsukuyomi = Uranus
Amaterasu = Neptune (Most should realize that these have nothing in common. Why did I name it that? Because I felt like it. Meh!)
Pluto = Pluto (Because I say that it's a planet! Just like what I learned for the majority of my life!)

And... well, that's it I think. I probably missed a bunch of stuff, but if I did there's a good chance it will be answered if this story continues.

Feel free to point out any and all spelling/grammar mistakes you see. I might not get around to fixing them but it might help prevent future mistakes.

Until next time,
- - Sorcerer of the East