Hello there, I've read and followed a great amount of AU stories on this website while I love most of them I never found anything like what I'm about to write. I will try to keep myself as much to the Mass Effect timeline as possible but there will be some major changes that are going to change the Systems Alliance.

So please bear with me as I start with the not so easy task or rewriting of Mass Effect history.

2075 The Manswell Expedition is launched.

2103 The European Space Agency founds the first permanent Human settlement on Mars: Lowell City.

2143 Construction is started on Gargarin Station beyond the orbit of Pluto, it is supposed to research and experiment on Faster-Than-Light travel.

2145 A signal is send from the Prothean ruins on Mars, Humanity hears it and moves to investigate. When they arrive at the location they come into contact with something that will change Human history, a working Prothean VI. The VI gives the human explorers information about the Charon Relay, element zero, the Reapers and much more.

2146 The Systems Alliance charter is signed by the eighteen largest nations on Earth. Gargarin station is being modified to serve as a headquarters for the new Systems Alliance.

2147 Debate rages over the question If the Charon relay must be opened or that Humanity will remain in the Sol system, eventually both the United Nations and the Systems Alliance decide against it.

2148 The Systems Alliance decides to research other means of FTL travel.

Nuclear missile silos are built on Pluto with orders to nuke all unknown ships activating the Charon Relay and entering the Sol system.

2150 The Alliance launches her first FTL capable Frigate, The Waterloo's mission is to recover the lost Manswell expedition and explore Alpha Centauri system. The mission is successful and Humanity settles on her first extra solar planet, the colony is named Demeter.

2153 The Alliance starts building large fleets and a couple more nearby planets are colonized, all without using Mass Relays.

2154 Shepard is born.

Gargarin station is completed, and will serve as the headquarters of the Alliance.

2155 A prototype Frigate named the Nanshan is send to Arcturus without using the Mass Relay, its mission depends on the situation of the system when they arrive. If the other Relays in the system are activated the Nanshan is to avoid all contact and return to Gargarin but if all the Relays are inactive the Nanshan has permission to open the Charon Relay.

2156 The Charon relay is opened and the Nanshan returns home. The Alliance decides to put most of its defenses at Arcturus because they know that the Reapers will use the Relay system. This will put Earth out of the danger zone of possible tray shots and torpedoes.

2159 The Gargarin station is deemed to small for the Growing Alliance, construction starts on Arcturus station.

2160 A number or other Relays are opened, all of course with scout ships traveling to the destination systems first.

2165 A Activated Relay is spotted on the other side of the Shanxi Relay, all activation of other Relays is stopped and the Alliance starts building defense platforms around it.

2168 The Alliance starts researching stealth technology that they plan to use to explore the relay system beyond Shanxi and gather all information about the current inhabitants of the Citadel.

2172 Shepard enlists in the Systems Alliance.

2175 The experimental stealth Frigate Metaurus travels beyond the Shanxi Relay and copies all available information from the present comm buoy. The Metaurus returns to Shanxi undetected, scientist from all over the world start to translate the information.

2176 The Alliance wants to know more about the civilizations beyond the Shanxi Relay and starts funding ways to make a ship literally invisible.

2182 The experimental Stealth ship Normandy is launched to explore the systems beyond the Shanxi Relay, gather as much information as possible and to warn the Citadel races about the Reapers if they are not yet aware of their coming. Commander Shepard is Andersons second in command on this ship.

Hello, Wisekill1 here! I hope you like this timeline that I've made up I personally think that this Alternate Universe story will be very interesting. I already have a plan how to get the non-human crew onto the Normandy.

Please review, follow and favorite if you want me to start the real story from this timeline!

And you can always review or PM me if you think something is wrong or should be changed, I keep a lot of Mass Effect wiki tabs open while writing this but it's still possible to make a mistake every once in a while.