AN: So I was reading a FoZ/ZnT who had the main character's Game avatar summoned by Louise, the guy is viewing the FoZ/ZnT universe from his laptop through his game avatar's POV and is playing it like a game. Now I've had similar ideas before but I hadn't decided to use them yet. But that story inspired me and now this is the result.

Of course this isn't a FoZ/ZnT story but a Mass Effect n Stellaris xover. Again. I know but I just love this idea so much I had to write it down.

Note: I don't know if anyone else has a similar idea for this little xover but for goodness sakes, I ask that you tell me so we can agree to disagree on a few things.

Disclaimer: I own nothing except for what happens when my character messes up things.

2017 AD

I love video games. Ever since I was old enough to play my first console. Cartridges, for Mario and all of the classic games from the eighties and nineties. Of course I was only about five at the time so I think that doesn't count. What counts though would be my cousin's Xbox, the first ones to hit the market in the early 2000s, which also happened to have Halo: Combat Evolved. Man I love that first one, played for days on end repeating it once I've finished the whole campaign from Easy level all the way to frigging legendary! That was a doozy, let me tell you, a kid of six years beat Legendary within three months! Ha! In your Face Elites! You and your wort, wort, wort!

I remember this one time, I played on Legendary again, during that mission on to go find the Cartographer, I think, and when we landed and dropped from the pelicans there were a group of grunts to the left near the cliff wall. I saw one of them toss one of those damned sticky plasma grenades and it sailed up in a high arc. From what I saw, the thing was gonna land right on some unlucky marine who wasn't paying attention and I ran towards the guy. I never took my eyes off of that grenade.

I yelled out, "Noooo!" at the screen and I pressed the A causing Master Chief to jump up just as the blue grenade was about two or three meters above the marine. To my own amused and utter surprise...I managed to save that clueless marine. But now I have a frigging plasma bomb stuck on my chest and I'm running around like a headless chicken, shooting at any Elites or grunts that I saw. Five seconds later and BOOM! I'm dead. Way to go Master Chief, way to go.

Look on the bright side...you just respawn at the checkpoint and try again. This time I threw a frag at the left group of grunts hiding behind those rocks. They blew up and shrieked much to my delight. Ah...good times those.

Now...

Well, now I'm stuck with a laptop and my new favorite Game genre, my number 1 genre to be exact, are RTS games. However, I don't just like any RTS games, for example, the first RTS that introduced me to the genre was Age of Empires! Yep thats right! One of the first and most classic RTS games ever to hit the shelf, now I didn't buy the game itself since my uncle already did that, but when I first played it, it was like my whole world suddenly opened up with a lot of possibilities. It was with RTS games that I discovered my own knack for management, resource allocation and distribution was very exciting, for me atleast. From Age of Empires I graduated to Empire Earth, which introduced me to the concept of customization, another attribute of RTS games that I found very interesting and well worth the time and effort.

After all, who doesn't want his own civilization to rule the world? Am I right?

...

Guys?

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Oh well, more for me then.

So yeah, RTS is my number 1 genre, followed closely by FPS in second place, with 3rd Person-Shooters/RPG/action in third place. Other game genres I mostly indulge when I am seriously BORED out of my mind!

However, what truly got me hooked in strategy games were two things. First was a game called, ROME: TOTAL WAR and Galactic Civilizations. For the first game, I was truly captivated by the thought of leading my own Legionary army against a horde of barbarians, except where the Germanians were concerned. Those buggers with their Berserkers are frigging OP! I call foul! As for the second game, well I was scrolling through my uncle's external storage drive and found one of his many hidden folders. In it I found a variety of...well...you get what I mean.

But that was not all that I found. I hit the mother-load and found his stash of new PC games. Among the listed one, I found ROME 2: Total, meh, already got that...cost me but worth it, although many people found the game unsatisfactory I found it to be entertaining...like WASHING dishes entertaining! Seriously, I think the elevators on the Citadel in Mass Effect move faster than ROME 2's AI turns.

But I'm getting off topic.

Lets restart...from the top.

2017

My apartment

0400 hrs

I came back home around two hours ago. Man was that some party. I lost count how many times my friends took those shot. The entire pub was lit up brighter than a Sunday morning. I mean, there were lights everywhere! Look left and there's a light blinding you! Look right and there's another light, right in your eyes! Up, down or sideways there were fracking lights every-fucking-where! That must have cost quite the Electricity bill for the pub owner. I pity the guy...I think I saw him with crocodile tears when I passed by his office after hitting the head.

Anyways, so since I was the designated driver, more like a glorified chauffeur, I hadn't so much as a sip of alcohol! Ha! Who am I kidding? I don't drink! So I just ended up watching my friends and their girlfriends get wasted, luckily for them I own a mini-van with fifteen seats and there were six of them so I ended up having to haul their asses back to my mini-van and then proceeded to drop their sorry excuse for human beings back at their respective places. I got called an hour ago and it was Jessica. She screamed in my ear about trying to get her to cheat on Michael (who is her boyfriend) by dropping her and Timothy together back at her place.

Oops.

I quickly apologized only to get a call from Michael who was begging me to go over to his place because, surprise, surprise, Lisa (who is Timothy's girlfriend) was about to murder him with a fire axe from his emergency fire-fighting kit. I rushed over to his place after hanging up and found the two of them in the sack going at it like teenagers! Holy shit!

Next thing I know they're both embarrassed and admitted to having had feelings for each other and then after Lisa had calmed down, enough for Michael to talk to her, they had somehow managed to...hit it off. To say I was surprised is the understatement of the month. I was completely blown away, not only because of that sudden revelation but also because I got a call from Timothy that he was on his way to my place with Jessica.

"Why?" I asked him. Still staring at the two interlopers in front of me.

"We need to clear things up a bit...wait, where are you? I can hear Lisa from here?" Oh shit! I panicked and muffled the transmitter, I motioned for Lisa and Michael to get dressed quick. Then I put the phone back to my ear.

"Yeah...about that, can you come over to Michael's?"

"Sure thing." He hung up and I simply shake my head and sat down on the couch. This is going to be interesting.

Twenty minutes later, both Timothy and Jessica pulled up in front of the complex building that housed Michael's apartment and they took the lift up. They entered the apartment and we all sat down in the living room. I saw opposite the couples and watched them as they avoided each others' eyes and twiddled their thumbs and fidgeted as if they had been caught doing something they knew they shouldn't have. Of course, I caught Michael and Lisa in bed so I can understand why they would act a little anxious and nervous but Jessica and Timothy?

...

Oh I think I know what's going here...

"So you guys have anything to say?" They were all startled and looked at me in surprise. I find it funny but the current situation is a bit out of my depth...seriously if they were in love with another person aside from their own boy/girlfriend then why not just admit it?

"I-I-" Lisa was stammering! She never does that...her usual seriousness and angry demeanor was completely gone. Was she really this embarrassed?

"Stop." I held up my right hand and stopped her. "Okay guys you have to come clean on something. Jessica," she perked up a little when I said her name. "Do you or do you not have feelings for Timothy?"

The four of them glared at me but I didn't care, if they keep their feelings bottled they're going to regret it. "Just be honest, because I caught these two in bed when I came into the apartment roughly half-an hour ago." I pointed at Michael and Lisa who both looked like they wanted to murder me, luckily I already called Kate and her boyfriend, Mark (who I had just met and who was also not a drinker)...so if they kill me then I've got insurance.

"WHAT!" Jessica and Timothy both yelled and looked to Lisa and Michael who avoided their gaze. I simply sighed and then with a serious stare at Timothy and Jessica I cleared my throat so they turned to me.

"And you two had just finished your little exercise as well...I'm assuming that isn't mayonnaise on your face?" I smirked as Jessica quickly wiped away on the little bit of semen near her lower lips.

"HOW COULD YOU!" This time it was Michael and Lisa who yelled at the other couple.

"STOP!" I yelled at them. "I'm going to leave now...and when we meet again next weekend. I'm going assume that you've all got this little mess of yours sorted out. Okay? Okay. See ya next week then."

With that said I stood up and bolted out of the apartment just as a verbal storm of swears and curses erupted and I thought I heard a few thumps as I slammed the door behind me. I ain't getting involved in that war of emotions and feelings. Its why I don't have a girlfriend...my golden rule is that I feel that having a girlfriend is a waste of time when you're just entering your early 20s. I'm 23 and I've made up my mind to have a full fledged girlfriend when I hit 27. After all, I still got plans before I find the missus.

Unlike some people...you just need to look at the situation up there to realize the complexities of relationships which is one of the reasons why I don't want a girlfriend just yet...but...I'm getting off topic again.

*sigh*

You know what...lets restart again.

2017

My apartment

0450 hrs

So its near 5 in the morning and I'm sitting at my desk with my computer booted up in front of me. I lit the small lamp on the desk, to avoid an early blind retirement, and scrolled through my desktop wondering just what the hell was I going to do. I mean, after that debacle an hour earlier I decided to just forget about it by diving into my games, which now reminds me.

I clicked on a folder marked, Top Secret, don't ask, then scrolled through the list. I've got a lot of games installed onto my home computer for the sole reason that I get bored real easy. And trust me when I'm bored I tend to get lost within my own thoughts and that is not a good thing. Definitely not a good thing considering the fact that I once lost myself in my own head only to realize that I was on the edge of the fracking train platform with two cops trying to talk me out of jumping onto an incoming train!

After that little incident I had to go through five different therapists and four life counselors...whatever the heck that meant.

So as I decided on which game to play, which was Stellaris, and then went to go get a bowl of Twisties. You know for a snack while I play an RTS game. Stellaris is relatively new to the RTS genre but was made by Paradox...I think, so it was and still is a pretty awesome game. I bought it a few days ago after seeing the trailer, I know its late for me to buy but I waited for it to get a serious upgrade from its more mundane first frame now with the latest updates I'm glad I waited for a while.

The loading screen reached 100% and the menu came up. A nice one too, the visual is mind blowing and the shipyard in the background with the flying shuttles heading towards it at the start of the sequence is pretty cool. I selected the load saves option and then loaded my latest save. Now I've been playing through my eighth playthrough with a customized human faction which I've dubbed, The Tunarin Imperial Covenant, with the ethos of spiritualist and a fanatic militarist. An interesting combination seeing as how I wanted this humanity to be like the Covenant from Halo, purging aliens from existence. *Evil laugh insert here*

As for the reason why I didn't add xenophobe to the ethics, well I kinda have some ulterior motives for that. Not revealing it though since I don't even know what those motives are. *Sigh* Sometimes I tend to contradict myself.

The screen finishes loading and the next I know the computer shuts itself down and then rebooted. "What the hell!" I growled at the damn thing but just rubbed the bridge of my nose in frustration and hoped nothing got deleted prematurely.

After twenty-eight minutes of rebooting and making sure that none of my game and work data had been prematurely killed off, I was relieved to find none of the more important stuff were missing. Only a few minor files and documents were gone during the shutdown and I decided to continue where I left off. Stellaris loaded once more and reaching a 100% with the menu showing up afterwards, I paused for a moment when I saw the screen.

...

Instead of the usual shipyard floating in space in front of an unknown planet somewhere in the vast cosmos, there was something that I thought was unbelievably shocking and confusing to say the least. Where that shipyard was, now stood something out of one of my favorite 3rd person-shooter and action RPG game. Mass Effect. I shit you not...there on my computer monitor was a frigging Mass Relay with the usual shuttle heading towards it...however, instead of entering or moving closer, the shuttle seemed to hover just a few thousand kilometers away from it, as if unsure of what to do. It was interesting and piqued my interest, I watched the shuttle approach the Relay...very cautiously? Huh, that's new. Then again I think the devs or whoever made this...wait a minute!

I think this is a mod! But I don't remember having a Mass Effect mod...did I? I pressed ALT+TAB and opened a new window where I proceeded to search for said mod. I tried for five minutes using every available search options to find it but I couldn't so after that I just shrugged and decided to go for the flow...or was it with the flow? Pressing ALT+TAB again, I returned to the Stellaris menu and saw that it still had Stellaris on it except this time there were two additional words after a colon.

Expansion Edition.

Okay so this must have something to do with an auto-update. After I hooked up my Steam account with most of the games in my arsenal that are updated frequently. This must be what's going on, but why did it shut my computer down? Heh, not my problem but just to make sure I opened up the save menu and saw that my old saves were still there and clicked on the quickload button and waited as the screen loaded. It opened up on my home planet, Tuna, and several notices popped up informing me of energy and mineral output that had reached their max, better start spending on more ships. Or planet buildings.

After I got rid of the other annoying notices, another event box popped up. This one was very different from any other event popups that I've come across. I've come across a lot. So when this one came up I thought nothing of it but when I read it I think my eyes were bulging.

"Okay..." I said while reading the description. It was a direct message to me from one of my scientists in charge of surveying uncharted systems.

"Praises to thee, Oh Holy One." The message started, "During our initial investigation of the star system, designated Galenix, we encountered a space station of massive proportions. We have determined that the station is dormant. Preliminary scans indicate it uses dark matter or energy as its power source but we are unsure unless you authorize a full investigation into the object. We await your command, Holy One."

I read through it three more times. Now I've read a lot of Mass Effect fan fictions and now that I think about this current dilemma, a smile crossed my lips and I pressed the option to authorize the investigation. The sub menu to the right of my screen opened up and I scrolled down to find the science vessel that particular scientist was in command of, I found it, the TNS Eye of God, it was a typical mammalian ship, utilitarian in design with slight angles and large windows.

I zoomed out of my capital system and double clicked on the Eye of God in the sub menu, instantly snapping to where it was. I zoomed in closer to the Mass Relay and it was just like in Mass Effect. I know I should be hyped up about this but I wasn't, the only thing that excited me was what was waiting beyond that damned relay. I knew enough of Mass Effect lore on what to expect but I was curious as to when is this Expansion within the ME verse was set. As the science vessel continued its job I contemplated on my progress thus far in this current playthrough.

First off, my customized human civilization, as I said before, is a fanatic militarist and spiritualist empire, with my government as a martial dictatorship, the traits I chose were very strong and enduring. I have an aggressive First Contact protocol and I generally purge entire alien populations, whether space-faring, primitive or pre-sentient. The only alien races that I hadn't purged from the planets I conquered were the Vulcan-lookalikes and the elves (using an elf civilization mod-thank the guy/gal who made that).

Secondly, I've pretty much destroyed any advanced space-faring alien civilizations that pose a threat to me along with the twelve Fallen empires that had reawakened around the 2358. Boy was that time a fun time to be in command of a space empire, lots of battles all round. Fleets were decimated left and right with four of the Fallen Empires being destroyed by their rivals around 2403. By 2513, my empire was the sole survivor of the Galactic War. I am now the uncontested ruler of the galaxy! Muahahahaha!

*Ahem*

And finally, I've gotten free time to upgrade my entire navy and armies. Gene Warriors, Xenomorph armies, Psionic armies, Robotic/android Armies and a whole lot more where those came from, including the titular Titanic Beasts (Yeah!). With Utopia, all of my energy and mineral needs are met and more, I'm in the process of achieving Transcendence one of the Ascension Perks. I've got two ringworlds currently being built while I've taken over several from the now defunct Fallen empires. My fleet numbers in the literal thousands with fifty fleets at my beck and call. I've got armies littered across my core worlds, ringworlds and inner and outer colonies. I've eradicated most of the pesky Amaobea (is that right?), Crystalline entities, void entities and a whole lot of mining drones. Leviathans I leave alone for the simple reason that they are space cows. Harmless really.

I've also got me own space dragon, its not as powerful as the one I fought against but it still packs a punch which I used to fight against the Dreadnought, supported by two fleets of battleships and cruisers. With the Dreadnought repaired and put into service with the 5th Fleet (aka-Holy Vengeance), and the upgrades from the newly researched Enigmatic technologies, my ships are nigh unstoppable. I pitted a single battleship, an Artillery class warship, armed with a Giga cannon, two Stormfire autocannons, two Flak artillery, and several Kinetic artillery, against three fleets of crystalline entities and it beat the crap out of them without ever engaging in mid or close quarters.

A void entity proved more challenging but with my Enigmatic shield coupled with Hyper-shields powered by Enigmatic generators and Zero-point generators, that single battleship proved effective all by itself except by the time it was able to bring down the damned thing, its shields had dropped to near zero.

The chiming sound of the completed event alerted me to another event popup. This one didn't surprise me at all. Seeing as how the science vessel suddenly disappeared. One moment it was there the next it was-POOF-gone.

"Well shit...should have expected that."

Aboard the Eye of God

"Doctor...what the hell happened?" Captain Harald Vandersen, veteran explorer and pioneer, asked the Science Officer who stood next to him with his jaw hanging low.

"I have no idea." Dr. Leon Kodiak.

Both men stood on the bridge whilst the crew rushed madly around trying to figure out whether or not the ship was compromised...mostly because the ship didn't have any weapons, even with the shields still online. Engineering reported the Jump Drive was damaged beyond repair, luckily the Warp Drive was still functional so that was a plus, except now they were stuck somewhere in the cosmos with a similar device from the one that screwed them over just a few minutes ago.

"Report! Somebody tell me where the hell we are!" Harald yelled to his bridge crew who were still trying to figure out what just happened and where the hell that thing sent them.

"Sir! We have something!" A voice, belonging to the Tactical Operations (TO) Officer, responded a moment later. "Scanners are online and we've picked up very unusual graviton readings bearing down on us-oh shit! Sir it looks like three ships...two are corvette analogues and the other one is a destroyer analogue!"

"On screen!" Harald barked and pretty soon the main screen showed three unidentified flying objects, all of which had extreme angular designs much like a bird of prey and were heading right towards his ship. A ship that had no weapons capabilities! "Damn it!"

"It would seem we are on the other end of our own...First Contact Protocol." Science Officer Leon remarked in a grim tone as he watched the three ships approach the Eye of God.

"Sir! We're detecting some sort of frequency on all known comm spectrum...I think the xenos are contacting us." The Comm Officer reported quickly as soon as he saw whatever it was that he saw.

Both Leon and Harald looked at each other and the Captain yelled, "Try and lock onto that frequency and get us a comm line to those ships! We are a civilian research vessel and we are not armed! If you manage to get through, send this: This is Captain Harald of the Tunarin Imperial Covenant, we are not armed! We have civilians onboard this ship and we are not armed! I repeat this is a civilian research vessel on a scientific mission. Do not fire! I repeat, Do NOT fire!"

"You do realize that this is actually a military science ship...right?" Leon stated to the Captain who looked at him with a smirk.

"But they don't know that." Harald retorted, "Besides, its true we have a lot of civilians on board this ship."

"Civilians who all had prior military training and were at one point and some are still in the military." Leon stated again, this annoyed the Captain who simply turned away from the Science Officer.

"I'm not even going to argue with you on that." Harald huffed as he looked away from his superior and watched the screen intently. The three angular ships had an avian feel to them and he should know, because he had fought against an avian race once. About two hundred years ago if his math was right.

"Sir! We're detecting a heat build up from the unknowns!" The TO Officer yelled from his station, "Holy One! They have spinal mounts!"

Hearing that, everyone on the bridge stopped what they were doing and a tense and horrifying feeling filled the air. They knew what that meant, certain death. No unarmed ship has ever survived a shot from a spinal mount and that was with shields at the max.

"They're firing!"

"Looks like they have a similar First Contact Protocol." Leon pointed out as the three alien ships fired their spinal mounted weapons, the scanners registered them to be some form of mass accelerator. Three streaks of golden light traveled at an unimaginable speed, near or passing the speed of light. Something that should have been impossible, but there it was. And all three were headed towards their lone science ship.

"May the Holy One have mercy on our souls..."

Within a few seconds the mass accelerator rounds hit their ship and it shuddered under the impact but surprisingly they were still alive. How? They weren't sure but the shields had held up against the shots.

"Um..."

"Captain! Shields are at 97%!" The TO Officer reported, he sounded relieved. "Sir Our Capacitors are recharging shields...back at full 100%!"

"How in the hell?!" One crew member asked out loud but the Captain wasn't wasting any more time.

"Someone get me engineering!"

"Captain...you wanted something?" The lazy voice of the Chief Engineer came over the comm. This pissed off the Captain who started shouting and barking into his communicator.

"GET YOUR ASS OFF WHATEVER HIGH THRONE YOU SITTING ON AND TELL ME WHY THIS SHIP ISN'T MOVING!"

"Aachh! My ear!" The CE complained over the comm then came back on again. "Warp drive is online and so are the sublight engines! And why the hell did the ship shudder?!"

"We're under attack. Just be ready to activate the Warp drive if needed! Captain out!" Harald looked to his bridge crew who all seem to be waiting for his orders, 'of course they would' he thought. "Get us out of here! Try and move us towards that big fork thing...hopefully it'll send us back to wherever we came from!"

"Aye sir!" The Helmsman nodded and proceeded to punch holographic buttons on his terminal.

"What makes you think that thing will send us back?" Leon, who was the Science Officer, stared incredulously at the Captain. "You're not after my job are you?"

"Now is not the time for that! And I said hopefully, that doesn't mean its a guaranteed win."

"Humph!" Leon pouted and watched the screen turn off as the ship began turning away from the alien ships which had stopped firing, probably surprised at why the ship they fired on was still there. Considering it was far smaller than they were, a mere 100m long by 60m wide and 70m tall and crewed by only 33 men.

The aliens recovered and fired again. This time they continued to fire at the ship whose blue hexagonal shields kept popping up where the rounds would impact. It seemed to frustrate them since they kept firing every two seconds nonstop. Captain Harald was amazed and afraid at the same time because his ship's shields were beginning to fail. That much rapid fire from a spinal weapon should not have been possible! How the hell can they keep up that rate of fire without damaging the weapon?

"Sir! Shield Capacitors are failing-oh shit! Capacitors are gone! Our shields are down 15%!"

"Evasive maneuvers!"Captain Harald yelled at the Helmsman who responded by shifting the ship in an upward arc. This caused the next six mass accelerator rounds to miss completely and forced the three ships to match their maneuver. "Get us to that damned station, helmsman!"

"I'm trying! I'm trying!"

In a flash of blackish blue the core, a gyroscopic device of massive size, snapped into existence just as the science ship neared it. It glowed bright blue for a moment and then a tentacle light of blue reached out and ensnared the Eye of God in its grip and in a sudden flash it hurled or more like threw the ship far out into the void.

My Apartment

On my laptop...

I had been frantically pressing the retreat button on the menu that showed up when I selected that lone science ship, for the last two minutes. It hadn't responded to my command and I was watching it get peppered by what looked like Turian ships. I must admit that even I was surprised that my hypershields were able to take a lot of beating from those eezo powered spinal mass accelerated cannons. I thought for sure they would break through my ship's shields and destroy it but I guess not.

Man...that was freaking intense.

However, all that said, I find this thing is really weird because...well...when I zoomed out of the system, I discovered that the entire galaxy map was way, WAY, larger than anything Stellaris could generate. The largest was just over a thousand but this galaxy...it looked like the Milky Way (of course it is. The ME verse is based in the Milky Way) and there were literally thousands upon hundreds of thousands of star systems. It was in the billions range and somehow my computer's graphic hardware and software are able to render all of them.

I don't know what is going on but just like all of the galaxies in Stellaris, you can't zoom out of said galaxy but I am pretty sure my galaxy was not a spiral one, I had an elliptical galaxy of about 1000 stars. If this Expansion Edition can do this then I thank the devs for it! The visuals are awesome and with the upgrades I got for my computer I say its pretty cool. Especially in 4k.

I'm trying to find a way to return to my own galaxy, my science vessel had managed to run away on its own but my screen is stuck in the Milky Way. Seeing as how some of the buttons for my home planet and other fleets are still there I double click on one of them and I'm instantly snapped back to my own galaxy. Weird but cool.

Okay so now...I'm going to teach those Turians a lesson.

Hmm...I wonder why there isn't an event popup showing up on the situation log or for that matter there is no new contact on the contact log. Strange...nah! Don't care, I'm just going to send in the 1st Fleet, otherwise known as Holy Pacifier. So yeah, everything I name (specifically military fleets) starts with Holy. After all you can't have a Covenant without having some parts of it sound holistic.

Aboard the Flagship, The Pacifier

"Admiral Jorik." The Comm Officer saluted as he approached the aged Admiral. "The Holy One has issued commands for us to enter the Galenix system. Our orders are to respond to an immediate threat that had attacked one of our science ships."

"It would seem that new enemies pop up just about every time we get a breathing room." Admiral Jorik sighed. "Very well, alert the fleet and bring weapon and shields online."

"Of course, sir." The Comm officer returned to his station and the Admiral took to his seat. A comfortable leather armchair attached to an anti-gravity device that allows it to float about ten to thirty centimeters above the floor.

"All ships ready for Jump." Announced the TO Officer over the comm. "Standby for Jump in 3...2...1"

There was a flash of light and then the fleet of three hundred ships, 55 battleships, 120 cruisers and 125 destroyers, disappeared from where they had been waiting at the edge of a nearby system, and reappear at the edge of the Galenix system. Each of these ships were then arranged into classes. For example, there are a total of five different battleship classes, such as the Artillery, Support, Avenger, Defender and Carrier class. There are six different cruiser classes which are the Orion, Javelin, Torpedo, Raider, Wall and Hunter class, with four destroyer classes that are the Corsair, Privateer, Streamer and Police class and finally the corvette classes which consist of the Interceptor, Gunboat and Annoyance class. For now the 1st Fleet/Holy Pacifier, consists of several Javelin, Torpedo and Hunter class cruisers, Corsair, Privateer and Streamer class destroyers with Artillery, Support and Carrier class battleships.

All of which are under the command of Admiral Johann Jorik, and he was damned proud of being its commanding officer for the last three hundred years. He was there during the first space faring years of the Covenant and he was there to witness the power of the Holy One when they had been outnumbered and near death. When they had prayed to the Holy One for deliverance He had answered their prayers. This took on the form of absolute invulnerability for their entire fleet of ships. None of which suffered any sort of damage from their enemies' weapons.

"I miss those days." Jorik mumbled to himself. Reminiscing bygone glory days. Now it was mostly putting down insurrections, pirates and other miscellaneous things. Hopefully whoever attacked the science ship would prove to be a distraction.

"Sir. All ships report green and have made it through Jump." The TO reported with quick military efficiency. "We have set a course towards the station."

"Comm Officer Terrence." Jorik called out the man's name specifically, which meant that he wanted something done personally.

"Yes sir."

"Broadcast a message to the fleet for me."

"Of course sir." He typed on his holographic monitor and then said, "You are on the air, Admiral."

"Listen up people." Jorik began, his voice taking on a dramatic tone. "Reports indicate a hostile enemy force beyond that space station, which according to the Science officer in charge of investigating it, Dr. Kodiak, is some sort of FTL device that allows for instantaneous travel between systems. However, we don't know much beyond that but we do know that whatever was on the other side, was hostile and didn't respond to hails from our science ship. The Holy One has ordered us to go through that device and destroy whoever it was that dared attack us. Gentlemen, I know that you'll do our Covenant proud this day and hopefully we get to conquer whatever these aliens are. For the Holy One! For the Covenant! That is all."

The comm was cut off and the fleet moved towards the station. And just as it had happened for the science ship, the device's gyroscopic core detected nearby ships and began spinning at an impossible speed which began giving off a light blue glow that soon turned very bright and began spreading out white-blue tentacles of dark matter. Each one capturing a single ship and sending it hurtling through the void to wherever its sister station was located.

Few minutes later...

"Report!" Jorik demanded as the ship lurched forward very hard that it threatened to break it in two.

"Sir we've arrived in the system the Eye of God was earlier. I've tagged it as Galenix Beta." TO officer, Baggins, spoke from his terminal. "Scanners have detected similar graviton disturbance that the science ship detected when they entered the system...and just as expected our Jump Drives are damaged but can be repaired within three days."

"Three days for a repair?" The Admiral raised his eyebrow, a clear look of confusion on his face. "How is that even possible? Isn't the normal repair duration about a month or at least two weeks?"

"Normally sir but for some reason the dark matter we utilize as one of the power sources for the Jump Drive had been able to interact with the station's glowy blue gyroscope thing...which in turn caused an overload of dark matter that for some reason allowed for our Jump Drives to fail yet be rejuvenated to the point where our dark matter stores are at max." the TO officer Baggins explained.

"Er...in layman terms, TacOp Officer." Jorik had an even more confused and bewildered expression. "Some of us didn't graduate with an engineering and physics doctorate."

"Sorry, sir." Baggins nervously fidgeted. "In layman terms...our Jump Drives get an energy boost from when we are attached to the station via those glowing tentacle things."

"What about the science ship? Their Jump Drive was reported to have been destroyed outright."

"Well sir, that's because theirs wasn't able to withstand that amount of energy surge." Baggins explained. "Basically, their Jump Drive overloaded, same as ours but whereas ours are more larger and with top of the line military upgrades, theirs was the more mundane and not state of the art."

"But aren't all of our science vessels considered military ships?" Jorik pointed that fact out but the TO officer just kept quiet, he wasn't sure why.

"You'll have to ask the Holy One about that sir." Baggins replied.

"Never mind that. What about those graviton readings?"

"There are more than three now. Scanners indicate heavy use of dark matter as is evidenced by the crazy gravitational anomalies around those ships." Baggins said as he squinted at something on his terminal. "Sir, scans indicate these ships all have spinal weapons of kinetic caliber. But from the reports and stats and readings from the Eye of God, they are more like pea shooters compared to our Gauss and Giga cannons. Hell! Even our Stormfire auto-cannons pack more punch."

"Should we worry about this?"

"I'd have to see our own weapons and shields in action against them sir, but from the data we got from the science ship's captain, I think based on that, we'll be fine." Baggins gave his best and most honest reply, he was confident in their ship's superior shield technology.

"Very well then." Admiral Jorik nodded from his chair and faced the rest of the crew. "Order fleet to approach the location of those graviton disturbances. All ships prepare for a fight."

A series of ayes went about the bridge as the crew got to work. The Admiral watched his men intently and couldn't help but be proud to be able to see them work so diligently to further advance the cause of the Covenant and of the Holy One. He knew the Grand Marshal that served directly under the guiding hand of the Holy One but their jobs had given them little time to socialize anymore.

"Sir." The Comm officer called out. "We have managed to hack into the aliens' communications using the frequency spectrum the Eye of God came into contact with and are awaiting your orders to send it back to HQ."

"Granted."

The Comm Officer pressed the send button and the data regarding the alien language was sent back to the homeworld. Minutes later confirmation came back that the translation had finished. "Sir translation has finished."

"Good. Send this message to the aliens on all channels: Our God demands the extinction of your pathetic race...and we are His instruments."

Tunarin Military Databse. Mini-Codex

Armed Forces:

Army

10-trilllon active personnel

400-billion reservists

35-billion militia/paramilitary and colonial troops

Equipment

50-billion vehicles

20-trillion sets of armor, personal shielding and weapons

Support

500-million G-class Heavy transports and insertion vehicles

400-million mobile anti-orbital guns, heavy artillery platforms, mobile Command Centers and prefabricated bunkers

35-million gunships, fighter/bombers, UAVs, Hunter Killer Drones, Nanite Swarms, and Psionic specialists

12-million Xenomorphs, calvary and titanic beasts

-Military Database. Ako Denta Ul Mok.

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