AU. One small divergence, the smallest of errors, and the balance of fate tips. It is 2552. Reach is spared, for now. Operation Red Flag goes forth. The Covenant will learn that this war that they have started 27 years ago have only just begun.

The year: 2183. An attack on the Global Defense Initiative colony of Eden Prime threatens to ignite war between GDI and the Citadel, and only one woman can keep the peace, track down the attackers, and expose the true threat to the galaxy. Alt.Universe

The Hashshashin, I would learn, do not kill with blades alone.

A supermutant ambush leaves Sentinel Sarah Lyons stranded in the middle of the Capital Wasteland with no supplies of any kind, and only one way home: Work alongside the enigmatic Lone Wanderer, who has his own agenda.

A Spectre. A colony. A beacon. An enemy. A prophecy. A ship. A crew. A threat that could end civilization as they knew it. And from all of these things....a hero. In-depth Mass Effect Novelization.

"Of all the conflicts recorded in the latter stages of the Human-Covenant War, perhaps one of the most interesting was that which occured on the Outer Colony Crassus, c.Nov.2552. Interesting, and with an entirely unexpected outcome.." ONI Case-File 428/