BCE 56722 Terra
With the discovery of the mass relay, humanity colonize neighboring systems. However each colony declares independence from Terra and civil war breaks out. Terra comes under siege by the separatist and the home planet of humanity burns.

BCE 56684 The Super Soldier
After many failed experiments, Arcturus Cain, commander of the Terran military, finally succeeds in creating the gene-seed. A super enhanced organ capable of augmenting the human body, Cain begins producing an army of super soldiers. Even though the casualty rate from the process was high, enough soldiers were made to turn the tide of the war and Terra once again came under governmental control. After going under the augmentation himself, Cain begins his plan of conquering the separatist colonies

BCE 56603 The Vex
The largest of the separatist, The Republic of Vex, long used machines to fight their wars. Upon hearing of Terra's invasion of the other colonies, they began to mass produce armies of robot warriors to defend themselves. However at some point during this rise of arms the machines became self aware and turned on their masters. The machines destroyed the Republic and took the name of Vex for themselves. But their victory was short lived for Terra's military fell upon them. In the end Terra reigned victorious and wiped out the Vex, or so it thought. Unnoticed by the Terran's, a single factory ship escaped into the void of space.

BCE 56542 The Beginning of an Empire
Arcturus Cain succeeds in conquering all Terran controlled space and proclaims himself 1st Emperor of mankind. Wishing to further expand human control and not wanting to rely on the predictable space travel routes of of Mass Effect Relays, Cain combined technology and his own psychic powers to create the first warp engine. A device that will grant a ship the ability to travel through the Immaterium, allowing long distance space travel to any destination.

BCE 56540 A Fleet for an Army
Cain begins development of a massive imperial fleet. Realizing the dangers of warp travel he chooses to only equip warp engines to the ships of his super soldiers, now called the Adeptus Astartes (Adepts of the Stars). These ships are massive space fortresses that would spear head invasions through surprise warp travel insertions that would weaken enemy defenses. Leaving little resistance for the main imperial fleet when it arrives via mass relay.

BCE 56476 The Imperium Of Man
The emperor of mankind declares an eternal crusade against the galaxy. A massive fleet is deployed to over a thousand systems. Led by the Adeptus Astartes, the Imperium was an unstoppable juggernaut that subjugated or completely destroyed any race that was in its path. Within 3 centuries, half the galaxy came under Imperium control.

BCE 56115 Alliance
Sensing that their empire was threatened, the ancient race known as the Eldar dispatched diplomats to the neighboring empire of the Forerunners. Even though they are long standing rivals, the Forerunners easily agree that an alliance must be made to stop this upstart imperium. Combining Forerunner technology and Eldar divination they plan to intercept the Astartes' fleets in an attempt to repel the Imperium. Thus the galaxy's largest war begins.

BCE 56072  It Hungers
On the Eastern fringes of the galaxy there the system of Tyran. The system consisted of 7 worlds that were home to the space fairing insect race known as the Rachnii. Unfortunately, it would be this year that the system is engulfed in an unexplained event known as warp storm. This nebula like storm ravages the planets for half a solar year. When it abated, the planets that emerged were nothing like they used to be. Forest and oceans replaced by towering spikes of carapaced chitin and bio-organic seas, and the largest of the planets had three massive tendrils protruding from a continent sized fanged crater like a mouth with 3 tongs. However the scariest aspect is that the planets were now sentient and filled with an intense hunger. From the chasms of each planet came fleets of bio-ships. When the fleet was complete the largest of the Planets used it three massive arms to tear a hole into the warp and with that the planet fleets made hast to neighboring systems to feed on all life the galaxy has to offer. The Tyranids were born.

BCE 56070 Freedom
Markus Gown, a wealthy and prosperous merchant desired a astartes warp engine for his own to further increase his wealth. He managed to obtain one from a military factory that he paid off with a massive amount of money but it was worth it. Six months later in a secret ship dock in the Sol System asteroid belt, he finished construction of his personal ship with engine installed. That very day he took voyage with his new prize named the "Freedom" and traveled into the warp. Unbeknownst to anyone, the warp jump left a small tear in reality and something was peering out.

BCE 55892 Of Tooth and Wraith Bone
Systems of Eldar space went dark. When investigated nothing was found but lifeless planets devoid of everything. It was Autarch Affalel who cam across a refugee ship of the Rachnii. Knowing how to speak to the insect race Affalel learned of the Tyranid. In haste he sent a message to Cammorah, the Eldar capital. However, many systems came under attack by the Tyrinids and the Eldar were forced to pull their forces back from the Imperial lines to defend their systems from this new threat. The Forerunners were left to fight the Imperium alone.

BCE 55632 The will of Gork! Or maybe Mork?
In an unknown system no were near a mass relay. Their lived a brutish, war like race called the Orks. Technologically advanced enough for space travel but not deep space flight the Orks waged countless wars in their small system between their two twin worlds, Gork and Mork. One day during the a freeboota looting contest, a tear in reality opens and ship comes out of the warp. The closest freeboota, Kaptin Kill Hook, checks it out. The only thing he notices before entering the ship in the word Fr__do_, some letters being to blurry to make out. Inside, he finds no crew but does find some odd, small, humanoid, crystal statues that he and his boys enjoyed smashing. It was in the engine room he found his prize. With his mek boys he learned of the warp engine and what it could do. It was then he had a vision. He grew bored of fighting the same thing. What if there were other things out there for him and his boys, no, his whole race to fight. He immediately sent word to all the war bosses to gather up all the ships to make one big ship. It took much convincing and many head bashing but he finally finished it. A ship so large it housed every boy from both Gork and Mork. Renamed The Frag Doom, this ship took to the warp and would be the first step to the Orks first Wwaaaaahhgg!!!!

BCE 55555 Terra under siege
From the asteroid belt they came. An incomprehensible horde of creatures came. Laying siege all over the Sol System, from the fortress moons of Jupiter to the mechanicus world of Mars. The largest horde struck Terra itself, the Imperial fleet defended stubbornly but still many creatures made it to earth. The leader of the monsters was a massive, winged, crimson daemon that called itself Ka'Ga'Wrok, champion of Khorne, The Blood God. The beast was unstoppable, no weapon could harm it. Even the astartes station on Terra were no match and were laid low by Ka'Ga'Wrok's axe. A distress signal was sent out and upon hearing it Emperor Cain made haste back to Terra. He vowed to destroy this daemon himself.

BCE 55504 Wwaaaaahhgg!!!! Ecumene
Learning of the fate of the Imperium, the Forerunners made planes to launch a counter offensive deep into imperial space. However, before they could enact this plan, a call of distress came from the Forerunners very own home system, Ecumene. A massive ship appeared from the warp right in the middle of the system and from it came the Orks. They smashed threw the forerunner defenses, quite literally, and besieged every planet. The Forerunner home planet of Ghibalb was burning. Additionally form their massive flagship, The Frag Doom, came smaller ships that used Ecumene's mass relay to travel and sack other neighboring systems. The Forerunners had no choice but to pull back to deal with this new threat.

BCE 55467 Cain's Fall
For 88 years Terra burned. Finally the Emperor's personal army came face to face with the army of Ka'Ga'Wrok. For 8 days the battle waged, neither side letting up. But Cain realized that the deamons were limitless and that he needed to remove the head of the serpent. Cain challenged the crimson champion of Khorne and Ka'Ga'Wrok, true to his being, accepted. Their duel lasted hours and it was at climax of the 8th hour that Ka'Ga"Wrok struck down Cain with his axe. The crimson beast roared in triumph to his master but as he did the grand bell of the imperial palace struck its midnight toll. As the 8th day became the 9th the Emperor, not as dead as the daemon thought, hurled his sword into the chest of Ka'Ga'Wrok and with the last of his psychic might bound the champion of Khorne to his own sword. With Ka'Ga'Wrok's defeat the daemon armies vanished but the victory was sour for the emperor lay dead. Soon after the Legion Lords gathered in a moot to decide the fate of the Imperium. It was voted that Lady Olivia, lord of the first legion and Cain's own daughter would take up the mantle of Empress. Olivia took up the Emperor's Blade and vowed that she would continue Cain's will.

BCE 54898 The Crucible
The Forerunner empire was falling. Most of their systems were under siege by the Imperium and Orks. Their allies, the Eldar, were struggling against the Tyrinid hords and could not offer assistance. However, the Forerunners managed to finish their final gambit. They called it the Crucible and it would change the outcome of this war. Upon its activation, it released a shock wave threw out the galaxy that used the mass relays as boosters. The results surpassed the Forerunners expectations. For this galactic event caused all things, living or construct, that have traveled threw the Warp to be pulled back into that dimension and be trapped in it forever. The Orks, their ships, and the Tyrinid hordes completely vanished. The Imperium had lost the majority of their leaders, their strongest ships, and their supper soldier armies. Realizing this, the Forerunners and Eldar once again united and amassed a counter offensive that overran all of imperial space.

BCE 53752 The Imperium Dies
One thousands years of defeat. The Imperium fought stubbornly but could not withstand the combined might of the zenos' alliance. Each system they lost saw their worlds burn, all evidence of their mighty empire's existence wiped out. The Sol system was the last to fall, it's defenses lasted over a decade but in the end it was not enough. Admiral Ironson, last of the imperial leaders and commander of the battleship "The Great Justice", scored no less than 47 enemy ship kills but in the end he met his fate. Without the imperial fleet, Terra was left to the mercy of the zenos. However, unlike every other world that was burned from orbit, Terra suffered a different fate for the zenos decided to make planet fall. After they conquered the the planet the Forerunners decided to use technology to revert humanity back into a primitive state of Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals. They then removed all evidence that Imperium of Man existed. When questioned about this by the Eldar, the Forerunners responded that they have plans for humanity's fate.

BCE 53685 The Vanishing
The Eldar vanished, their world's abandon,  their fleets gone. Almost all proof of their empire disappeared. The only thing left behind were the great gates to the Webway, their source of galactic travel. These gates laid still with no chance of activation. The Forerunners did not see this as a tragedy but as an opportunity. For they made plans to take the abandoned Eldar territories to help rebuild their own damaged empire.

BCE 53602 The Flood
The Precursors, a race long thought wiped out by the Forerunners returned for revenge against the race that defeated them. However, these Precursors were not what they use to be. These deformed, mutated parody's of their former glory were renamed the Flood and came in countless numbers seeking only destruction with no thought of strategy or self preservation. Worst off these new Flood were parasites that would mutate everything around them. Fallen Forerunners would rise again and fight their former comrades. Even constructs and war machines could be altered to serve the Flood. Still suffering from the Imperial War the Forerunners were at the end of their rope. It is unknown how this war ended. All that is known is that both sides in the end disappeared from the annuals of history.

BCE 52884 The Protheans
A young race known as the Protheans achieve spaceflight and discover mass effect technology from the ruins of nearby relay. They repair and reactivate it, and from their they go on to establish a galaxy-wide civilization linked by the mass relay network and come across the Citadel. A massive space station that linked all the mass relays, it would become the capital of their empire.

BCE 48000 Fall of the Protheans
The Prothean Empire collapses with the arrival of the Reapers, a race of massive bio-synthetic living ships. The appear out of nowhere using the Citadel itself as a mass relay and kill the Prothean leaders before the Protheans even realize their under attack. Over the next several centuries, the Protheans fight the reapers system by system, world by world, and city by city. In the end, it is not enough. The Reapers methodically wipe out the remaining Protheans, as well as other contemporary races, and depart the galaxy to await the next cycle.

BCE 48000 - CE 2186
This is the timeline of the Mass Effect series which I have not changed (except for the ending). I am to lazy to right down the entire timeline so if you want to know you can look it up yourself. As for Shepard, in my history he's male, named John, chose the paragon rout, and achieve the best possible outcome for all the story events.

CE 2186 They Came from Nowhere
The battle for Earth was reaching its climax. The Reapers had the advantage over the Citadel forces. Their only hope was that Shepard made it to the Crucible. No one knows what Shepard did in the crucible, but what ever he did the outcome was not what anyone expected. The Crucible fired and a massive shock wave poured threw out the galaxy. At first nothing happened and the Reapers pressed their attack. All hope was thought lost. However, about an hour after the Crucible fired something insane happened. A massive tear in reality appeared right in middle of the Reaper forces. Within a minute the tear exploded, vaporizing almost half of the Reaper forces caught in the blast. When the lights died, in the wake of the destruction appeared a hundred black objects. It was not long before everyone realized that these were ships. These ships were massive, the majority of them being 3 to 5 times the size of a Reaper capital ships. Even their smallest ships equaled the Reapers in size. Within moments of their appearance they fired upon the Reapers. The firepower of these ships was so great that the Reapers were blown apart. However, even though they lost half of their forces by the initial explosion and were caught by surprise, the Reapers still out numbered their new adversaries 10 to 1 and chose to ignore the alliance fleet in favor of dealing with this new serious threat. This would prove to be their down fall for Admeral Hackett, grateful for this opportunity, rallied the citadel fleets and outmaneuvered the Reapers, catching them in deadly crossfire between the Citadel and unknown fleet. In the end the Reapers lost nearly all of their forces. Only Harbinger, largest of all Reapers, and a dozen other ships manage to break threw the Citadel fleet and escape via mass relay. Admiral Hackett wished to sortie with this new unknown fleet but before he could, smaller tears in reality appeared in front of the black ships and within seconds they disappeared. Even the destroyed vessels of the unknown fleet vanished. It was a moment after this event that Hackett realized that the Crucible was also missing.

CE 2186 Retaking their Homes.
In the aftermath of the battle of Earth. Admiral Hackett rallies the Citadel fleet to retake the Turian home world of Palaven. Since his fleet now owned the skies over Earth, Hackett choose to leave a small force behind and made hast to Palaven. The Reaper forces of Palaven were only 1/10 of what was at Earth and could not stand up to the combined Citadel fleet. Like on Earth the Reapers were nearly wiped out before retreating. However, Hackett was not through, for he chose to push his fleet hard and immediately set off to the aid of Thesia, the Asari home world. Like Palaven, the Reaper force on Thesia was small and suffered the same fate. Now that the Reaper fleets were defeated Hackett could commence with the ground wars to take back their planets. It would take months if not years to retake Earth, Palaven, and Thesia.

CE 2189 A Hero Returns
On the outskirts of the Sol System, rifts in reality appeared and from them came 7 of the black vessels that appeared at Earth 3 years prior. These ships immediately hailed the Alliance. Admiral Hackett was present and to his surprise it was not an unknown alien voice that he heard over com but that of Shepard's. Admiral Hackett gave his consent to allow a single gunship that was deployed from the largest of the black ships to dock with his own. When the gunship docked and its heavy doors opened out walked Shepard and 6 large figures.  5 of the figures were massive, standing well over 8 ft tall and clad in huge silver armor. They had large twin barreled guns locked to their wastes and on the opposite side each figure had a unique close combat weapon. One of them did not have a close combat weapon sheathed but instead had a massive fist for a left hand. The final figure was actually smaller, wearing a lighter but more ornate suit of armor and had a pistol and equally ornate saber on their waste. This figure stepped forward and removed its helmet reveling a human female face behind. The parties gathered in a meeting and Shepard revealed to Alliance command that this was Lady Terresa, lord of the Wardens Legion and an Astartes. He then told them of what he learned from the Astartes, of humanity's true history and of the Imperium of Man. Admiral Hackett decides that this information will only be known to the highest of command and ask why do the Astartes now reveal themselves. Lady Teressa reveals that not all the Astartes are united and that her legion wishes to ally with them to take back Earth. Thus the Wardens Legion joins the Earth Alliance.

CE 2190 The Ironic Heroes No One Knew About
Harbinger gathers the last of his Reaper forces to make an all out assault of Earth. This time they plan on arriving with a few dozen giant asteroids to slam into the planet, destroying it. When they arrive at a nearby asteroid belt something unexpected happens. The asteroids themselves come to life and begin attacking the Reapers. The Reapers soon realize that they were not asteroids but a fleet of ships made of various parts and debris. When the Reapers tried to hack this new enemies' calms so that they could out maneuver them, all they got were scream, grunts, and shouts of WWAAAHHHGGG!! Many of the enemy ships chose to ram the Reaper ships. It was from these ships that the Reapers learned the identity of their new enemy. Large hulking green humanoids came poring from the junk ships to breach the Reaper hulls, some succeed. The battle was quick and violent and in the end the Reapers were victorious. However, Harbinger realized that they lost too many and that their plans for Earth would fail. It was then that Harbinger devised a new plan. He would travel to the northern sector of the galaxy where, away from any mass relays, existed an advance alien empire of fanatic tech worshipers. This race was slated to be harvested like all the rest but now Harbinger made plans to have this race serve his purpose instead.

CE 2192 The UCSC
The Earth Alliance and Citadel decide in the construction of new unified fleet. It would be known as the United Citadel Space Core and would unite all the races into a single fighting force to serve and protect all of Citadel space. Admiral Hackett is nominated as it first commander in arm and accepts the mantel of Fleet Marshal.

CE 2194 Warp Storm
In Batarian space one system is completely blanketed in a storm no one has ever seen before. The only thing known about this system was that it was home to a primitive bluish-grey skinned race that was just hitting its industrial era. This race was slated to be uplifted by the Batarians but now their fate is unknown.

CE 2198 The Traveler
An unknown alien craft arrives at the Sol System and crash lands in Russia on Earth. When confronted an A.I. race known as the Exo claim sanctuary. At first they are quarantined but after two years of understanding them the Exo are accepted as an Alliance race. A city is built around the alien craft and it is discovered that the craft is an A.I. itself called the Traveler with the ability to grant a person, both organic and synthetic a biotic like power known as the Light. These people become guardians of the traveler and serve as protectors.

CE 2205 The Council of 9
The Elcor, Hanar, Krogan, Quarians and Volus are all given seats on the Citadel Council. The most noticeable people to be selected for their seats is Krogan Shaman Urdnot Bakara and Quarian Admiral Tali Vas Normandy.

CE 2208 Psycher?
The first psychers are born in citadel space. At first believed to be biotics, however when a terrible event happened it is revealed that this new power holds a darker truth. The astartes of the Wardens legion explain what a psycher is to the Council and it decided that a school for psychers would be created and that young psychers would be located and forced to attend.

CE 2217 The Passing of a Hero
Fleet Marshal Hackett passes. Admiral Shepard succeeds him.

CE 2219 Awoken
Another warp storm event happened right in the sol system, in a small human colony of the asteroid belt. The storm only last a few months but when it abates it leaves the colony shrouded in purple gas clouds. When the alliance checks it out they find the colonist changed. Their skin and hair now has different pallads of color and all gained natural biotic powers similar to asari. Even children born after the effect gain these traits. Thou they were still accepted by the Alliance as human the colonist decided to rename themselves Awoken and their colony was known there after as The Veil.

CE 2220 The Tau
The unknown warp storm that has plagued a system in batarian space disappears. From the system came an advanced alien race calling themselves the Tau. The Tau were a former industrial race and some how advanced in technology thousands of years in only two decades. The Tau begin to expand their new empire by settling neighboring systems.

CE 2225 The Covenant
From the Northern sector of the galaxy various outer colonies are being conquered or wiped out by a new empire calling themselves The Covenant. This Covenant consist of multiple races united under a religious council of Prophets. When the Citadel requested an audience to try to broker peace, they responded that all the Citadel races are heretics that deface the artifact of the gods and will be burned from the galaxy in the Covenant's Holy Crusade

CE 2226 Tau Hegemony War
The Tau's expansion comes into conflict with the minor space faring races of the Eliksni and Cabal. The rival Eliksni and Cabal unite to face the Tau but are no match and lose many of their systems. The Batarian Hegemony takes this opportunity to offer the defeated races a new home and citizenship as well as revenge against the Tau that took their worlds. The Eliksni and Cabal accept and the New Hegemony is born. Locked in a stalemate war both factions send ambassadors too the Citadel to barter an alliance. Due to the conflict with the Covenant the Citadel claims it will not get involved in this war but will offer sanctuary and medical help to either side. It was also agreed since both factions border Alliance space that no battles will take place near Alliance borders, but anywhere else was free game.

CE 2230 The Passing Of A Legend
Fleet Marshal Shepard succumbs to disease and passes. Admiral Garrus Vakarian succeed his old friend.

CE 2233 The Demiurge
Humanity discovers another mass relay nearby the Sol System, it was in this system that they discovered an oval shaped world with an advanced race. On this high gravity planet live a human like dwarf race called the Demiurge. When humanity greeted them they were surprisingly welcomed with open arms. It turns out that the Demiurge are a high technology race that loves making a prophet. When they were asked why they never researched into space travel the Demiurge's response was that they just never thought about it. When offered the chance to join the Earth Alliance the Demiurge accepted, never being ones to turn down a good deal.

CE 2237 The Battle of High Prospect
High Prospect, one of the Covenant's fleet space fortresses invades the Phontes system in an attempts to destroy the Elcor home world of Dekunna. Marshal Vakarian responds to Dekunna distress signal and leads his fleet in its defense.

CE 2240 A Legends Sacrifice
Fleet Marshal Vakarian dies in duty in the battle of High Prospect. He sacrificed his flagship by ramming into High Pospect itself and then self destructing, destroying the space fortress and half the surrounding covenant fleet. Urdnot Wrex, steps down from his position as ruler of the Krogan an takes up the mantle of Fleet Marshal of the UCSC. Urdnot Grunt is elected to rule Tuchunka in his stead.

CE 2244 In Honor of Friends.
Fleet Marshal Rex discovers a new mass relay system. The system consist of 12 planets, 3 which can support life. He names the system Normandy and the three planets Shepard, Vakarian, and Solus. Do to the location of the system being nearly centered between the human, Krogan, and Turian home system, this system would become a major staging point for the war against the covenant.  Thus these three planets would become major military worlds to aid the UCSC.

2245 The Eldar
An Asari colony is greeted by a large unknown alien vessel. The vessel look more organic then metallic and appeared to be made of bone. The aliens that greeted the Asari called themselves Eldar. The Eldar claimed that they too were at war with the Covenant and wish to offer an alliance. Upon hearing this the Astartes of the Wardens legion warned the Alliance to not trust the Eldar for they were old enemies. However in the end the Citadel chose to accept their offer and thus the Eldar joined in the war against the Covenant.

CE 2251 Spartan
Doctor Catherine Halsey succeeds in secretly replicating the Astartes super soldiers. Name Spartans, these Alliance loyal soldiers will serve as special forces for the UCSC.

CE 2252 Chaos
Various new religions appear in citadel space. At first they are accepted like all others. But soon the truth is found out. These religions are the worship of evil gods. Four in particular. Khorne, the god of blood, war and slaughter. Tzeench, the god of change and mutation. Nurgle, the god of corruption and disease. And Slaneesh, the goddess of excess and desire. These religions always became cults that would worship destruction and practiced ritual sacrifice. It was ruled that to worship these gods was illegal and for good reason.

CE 2278 Wwwaaaaahhhgggg!!!! Normandy
A ship so huge it could be called a moon appears out of nowhere in the middle of the Normandy system. From it came many other ships housing an endless amount of beings bent on destruction. The Orks attacked everything and the entire system came under siege. The leader of the Orks, Kaptin Kill Hook choose only to stay long enough to get his boyz on the ground. For he had other planz for the rest of the galaxy.

CE 2282 The Feast
In an unknown system in the eastern end of the galaxy was a lush beautiful world. The world was a low gravity world filled with jungles, rivers and all forms of wildlife. Everything on the planet was connected from the smallest bug to the greatest tree. The world was also home to an intelligent yet primitive race of tall blue skin people. Life was peaceful. Then one day a great shadow fell over everything. The tribes people looked up and noticed a second moon. This moon was getting closer and had three great tendrils forking out of it. What the tribes people didn't know was that this was the largest of the living planets of Tyran, and it came to feed. Its three great tendrils slammed into the planet and from them came untold hordes of Tyrinids. The tribes people, the wildlife, the very planet itself fought for it's survival. But the Tyrinids ate everything from the greatest tree to the smallest bug. In a years time the planet was completely devoid of life and no one would know of its once grand existence.

CE 2288 The Infinity
The UCSC finally finishes the construction of what would be their new flag ship, The Infinity. Having a length of 5.7 kilometers the Infinity equaled the size of the Astartes' ships called battle barges. The Infinity was also fitted with a massive warp core and guidance system recovered from the wreckage of High Prospect.

CE 2299 Current Time
This is where your story begins.
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