Mass Effect- A galaxy at war: Redux

[mythicdawnmaster]

This is the Roleplay Thread for Mass Effect- A galaxy at war: Redux. See the discussion thread here: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/888027-mass-effect-a-galaxy-at-war-redux/

 

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Edited January 24, 2013 by mythicdawnmaster

[mythicdawnmaster]

Aria T'loaks fleet of vicious mercenaries, and oath-sworn killers drifted slowly as they exited the Omega relay in a glorious flash of blue, the red-lighted station a glimmer in the distance. Aria's flagship, Alpha 2, was a hybrid of Salarian and Asari technology, plated in glimmering Silaris armour, the ship was shaped quite alike the symbol for the Asari republics, with a long helm, and extended wings. But it's smooth edges made it clear that the Salarians had had a part to play in it's construction.

 

Behind the cruiser, a number of other ships followed in a rag-tag order, there were Batarian bombing frigates, Turian fighters, human cruisers and a whole other range of mercenary vessels, many painted with Aria's colours, and many more bearing the Blue suns, Eclipse, and Blood pack insignia's, there cannons primed for combat.

 

Omega was in blockade by a number of Military grade warships, as the Eagles were made up of deserters from various armies, that decided to follow under the banner of Lurik the Eagle, an ex-admiral in the Turian hierarchy who deserted during the Reaper wars, thinking he'd rather spend his last punishing criminals, rather than dying against an impossible foe. He was of course rather annoyed when his ships were fired upon by Cerberus as they occupied the station, and was forced to take up refuge elsewhere. However, with Cerberus gone, and Aria organizing the rebuilding efforts from the Citadel, he saw his opportunity and took over. Unable however to enter Afterlife, he and his men have garrisons around Omega.

 

Aria stood calmly on the bridge of Alpha 2, her ice-blue eyes fixed on the station. "keep going, the cannons are down and Lurik doesn't know the codes to get them online. We cripple his forces in orbit, and land on the station to take point in Afterlife... Now i've got a speech to broadcast." Aria headed off to the control centre, intent on speaking to all those following her before they pushed on to battle.

[Macman253]

Tripp stuck a cigarette to his lips and sparked up his zippo. He drew back on the nano-smoke and peeked around the corner. Three humans sat at the doorway to the power substation for this deck. The blonde haired one stood leaning against the bulkhead, the one wearing dark armor sat on the metal grating as he and the others chatted, the one wearing the Eagles uniform and the ranking officer stood next to them, many Alliance Marines went AWOL when the Reapers became known to the wider galaxy. Reyes racked in a fresh heat sink for her rifle, the long dark haired latina woman smiled. Like Tripp she was a former Alliance Marine, she maneuvered over to the corner and sighted in on the standing human, she signaled she was ready.

 

Kex smirked as he pumped the slide on his double-barrel pump action Reaver shotgun, his biotics flared to signal his readiness. Kex was large even by krogan standards, his armor was potmarked from years of battle, he wore the scarred armor with pride. "Ready Captain..." Spoke the burly Krogan in a gravelly voice. His shotgun made to his custom standards, the favored weapon of most krogans. With his size he easily one handed the gun and flung Biotic powers with his free-hand. Tripp smiled, Dax radioed in over the comms.

 

"In place Captain, I have got Blondie in my sights. Waiting for the greenlight sir." Spoke Dax as kneeled down on the catwalk a hundred yards down the promenade. He wore a set of Crusader armor, designed to be light and easy to move in and painted black. His Opti-Camo unit active, giving him the appearance of being invisible.

 

Tripp smiled and flicked his cigarette bud, everyone was in place. Tripp was a shorter man but he had a muscular build. His crew of mercenaries operated across the galaxy as professional spies and operatives. They maintained the cover of being a crew of smugglers, recently he had been hired by Aria T'Loak to help her steal back her station. They had infiltrated days before and started planning a series of assassinations and sabotage during the battle to create confusion Station-Side.

 

Tripp thumbed his Omni-Tool on and spoke into it, Jeeves the AI that resided inside the The Lucky Lady also had a direct link to his Omni-Tool. He monitored enemy communications and bio-monitored their movements. A holographic projection of the hallway showed their position, Dax's sniping position on the catwalk and the three targets. He counted to three and gave the command to execute.

 

A loud bang filled the empty promenade as the Blonde haired soldier had his head explode from the high caliber sniper round that tore through it, Reyes dropped the leader with three short bursts from her rifle to his back. Kex stepped around the corner and lifted the dark haired man in the air with his Lift power and then gave him both barrels of his shotgun. Tripp smiled and lit another cigarette as he stepped out from his hiding place. He tapped his comms as he exhaled a cloud of smoke. "Dax, setup overwatch on the Promenade, take down any Eagles that will respond to the gunshots." He said as him and Reyes walked into the Power Substation, Kex stood by the door and covered the hallway they had come down.

 

The substation had an access terminal that was twenty years since it was out of date but it worked enough, much of Omega was stuck in the last two decades. Reyes activated the locked terminal and began to tap into it. Tripp drew his custom Predator pistol, the weapon had etchings of ivy and shamrocks and pearled grips, not the weapon a professional mercenary would often possess but he grew attached to the weapon and kept it, he thumbed the safety off and spun the pistol on his finger as he waited for Reyes to complete her objective.

 

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Lucas and Vex, the human merc and his partner Vex. A turian that spoke bad English due to having a large scar that took off half of one of his mandibles peeped around the corner. He saw the substation at the end of the hall and the dead guards. Standing out front was a tall and burly Krogan. Lucas popped back around the corner and drew his submachine gun. "Ok Vex, take a look your eyes are better then mine..." He said, Vex nodded and looked around the corner.

 

"What you see?" He said, the loud bang of a high caliber rifle filled the air as a bullet tore through Vex's head and covered the wall in the turians blood and bits of skull. Lucas jumped in fright and slipped on a fragment of skull. He fell back to the ground and as he did so dropped his weapon, the gun his the grating and discharged. The spray tore into Lucas' chest and killed him.

 

Dax smiled as he saw the event, he tapped his comm unit and chuckled. "Hey boss, one shot... two kills." He said as he started checking his firing trajectories.

 

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Tripp laughed at Dax's remark and idly puffed on his cigarette as he flipped and spun Bianca around his finger, Reyes smiled as she finally cracked the code on the ancient terminal and it booted to life. Jeeves' hologram appeared on Tripp's Omni-tool, he took the form of a English butler. Noone in the crew knew why and most didn't ask. "Integrating with the systems sir... one moment." Spoke the hologram and it vanished. The terminal fired up as its programs began to run as fast as the aged terminal could handle. Jeeves reappeared on the holo-projector next to the terminal. "I am in the stations systems... I am uploading White Rabbit now sir." He said, the stations lights began to flicker and soon shut down. Sending the entire station into utter darkness.

[leirynot]

Domenic pulled a grenade from his belt and lobbed it over the cover he was hiding behind. It detonated, showering the Batarians attacking him with shrapnel. He stood, dispatching the two survivors with quick bursts from his Hornet. He moved on, getting closer to the air-lock.

 

2:00

 

The timer blinked in the HUD of his helmet, soon this station would be blown to hell, the Batarian terrorist group occupying along with it. Luckily, his hacking of the security and communicaiton systems kept them off his back for the most part, since they were unable to track him or alert others if they saw him. The ex-Cerberus officer hacked the door within seconds, as it opened there was a Batarian standing in the doorway. He quickly smacked him over the head with his gun, caught him as he fell, and extended the blade on his wristguard, holding it under the Batarian's throat. The others there took aim and fired, trying to shoot around their comrade, but failing. Firing around his meat-shield, Domenic killed his opponents with well aimed shots, then dropped the corpse he was holding and ejected a heat-sink from his gun. He was almost there now, so close. He opened the inner door of the airlock and put his gun away, then began pressing various buttons on the controls.

 

1:30

 

Suddenly, more 6 more Batarians arrived, quickly sighting their guns on him.

"Freeze, human."

Domenic smiled and turned around, though his face was hidden by his helmet.

"We know you planted a bomb on this station, where is it?"

"I hafe done no such sing," Despite his work with Cerberus, he still had a fairly thick accent from his home, "I hafe merely set your reactor to overload."

The Batarian leader's eyes widened.

"Stop it, then."

"I cannot at zis point, zere is not enough time... I am sorry, but I must be going." With that, the outer door of the airlock opened, sucking him into space, then quickly closed again. Leaving the Batarians stuck in the station for the last minute of their lives.

 

Domenic activated the jetpack in his armor to accelerate away from the small station, and move to the ship that was waiting not far off, its airlock door open. He navigated to it and landed. The outer door closed and inner one opened and he walked aboard, taking off his helmet. The ship flew off as the base exploded.

 

Domenic entered the cockpit, "Zat vent vell, did it not?"

Noah glanced at him, "Yeah, whatever."

"Hmph, vhy are you alvays like zis vhenever vee deal vith Batarians."

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Fine zen, be zat vay. So, vere do you sink vee should go next?"

"Omega, I received word Aria's retaking it, and that some Turian b.astard who refused to fight the Reapers is the one who took it over."

"Very vell zen."

Noah plotted the course, and they were on their way, they would probably arrive late to the fight, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Noah stood up, letting the autopilot handle it. It shouldn't be long now before they get there, he was going to go get his armor on.

[mythicdawnmaster]

Aria's walk hastened as she neared the comm room of the large vessel, it's sleek silver interior had the tell-tale signs of a new ship, outfitted with all the latest technologies. She approached a large, circular silver door, the twisted and parted on approach, her footsteps died down as she stood infront of the comm terminal.

 

With her Omni-tool connected, Aria broadcast her speech to all the ships under her command.

 

"Comrades! Friends! Today, we take Omega back... no, Omega takes us back! In our absence, she has been chained by Lurik the Eagle and his vigilante men, all trying to bring law, order, and justice to Omega! Well to that, i say f*** off! Omega houses the lawless of the galaxy, you have no rules, and you follow no codes, we will not be held in check by a bunch of military deserters! Cerberus made the mistake to try the very same thing, and we killed every last one of them, and threw their bodies out of the airlock! Well today we do the same! Only this time, we aren't regaining power, we are simply crushing the bugs on our land! Give them everything you've got! and show them no mercy! We will bloody the streets and we shall set alight the sky! The galaxy will soon come to know our one rule, and Omega will be feared once again. We defeated Reapers! If we cannot defeat these scum, then we aren't worthy of Omega's welcome. Fight for your station, kill for me, and together, the terminus systems will forever be ours! All forces Attack!" Aria issued the command, and the fleet deployed.

 

Alpha 2 cut through the asteroid field of Omega like a swallow, it's sleek shell passing with ease, the frontal cannon, which utilized reaper grade stopping power, flung forth a huge beam, destroying an enemy cruiser almost instantaneously. The battle had truly begun, as all ships of both sides engaged.

 

"All right, we need to cripple that dreadnought then move in on foot, Tripp's team have uploaded white rabbit. Go time people!" Aria ordered from the bride, Alpha two closing in on the dreadnought.

[Macman253]

Tripp ducked as a round fired blindly at his head, The Eagle counter attack was here. He tapped his HUD and it switched to night vision. "Reyes cover the door. Kex get your big Krogan ass in here we need to turtle up!" He ordered as bullets began to rake the room. A turian wearing an Eagles badge popped out from behind the bulkhead, Tripp sidestepped his biotic strike and leveled Bianca at him, "f*** you...." He said as he fired, the bullet impacted with the Turian's chest and blew his heart clean through his back.

 

He tapped his comms, "Dax, move to our twenty. We need to hold this substation until Aria's forces board the station!" He yelled as Kex knocked an Eagle Soldier over, he finished the human off with a quick boot to the head that caved his skull in. He pumped his shotgun and gave both barrels to a pair of soldiers as they came around a corner. Reyes continued to lay down covering fire down the Promenade, covering Dax as he relocated. Her gun's heating vent opened and ejected the glowing orange heat sink. "Cap! I need a sink!" She yelled, Tripp fished out one of his spares and tossed it to her. She caught it and slid it back into the housing and took aim.

 

Dax stowed his long-rifle and drew his pistol. He flipped off the catwalk and landed on the floor of the Promenade and took off running for the substation. Bullets hit the ground next to him or the walls beside him as The Eagles fired at him. Reyes and The Captain fired back to give him cover. He could feel his heart pumping hard, filling his veins with adrenaline as he ran. "Jeeves, lock down the bulkhead doors facing the Promenade." He spoke into his Omni-Tool as he walked towards the Terminal, the door next to the terminal opened up and a Turian with a Avenger class rifle entered. He went to strike at Tripp with the stock but Tripp drew Bianca faster and was able to put a round into the rifle rendering it useless as a ranged weapon, the stock connected with his temple and sent him staggering. He retaliated with a sharp kick to the Turians knee and threw a right jab, the turian caught it and used his elbow to lock in his arm.

 

Tripp roared in pain but the screams were drowned out by the gunfire, "Activate Omni-Blade!" He commanded, the Turians eyes widened in shock as a long switch-blade appeared from his Omni-Tool that severed his head clean off at the neck. Tripp freed himself pushed the slumped over turian flat onto the ground. Jeeves' hologram appeared next to the Terminal. "Sir the door's require manual locking. White Rabbit was too effective and its shut the whole station down and locked me out of the main system." He explained in his artificial british accent. Tripp rolled his eyes and pushed the large red button on the Terminal, the doors began to close and as they moved Dax dove into the room. When the doors sealed shut they were protected from The Promenade but the maintenance hallway was still exposed.

 

"Reyes, Kex get on the other hallway. Dax help me move these crates to make a barrier." He said as they started to fortify against future attacks that were already on their way.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Macman253

[leirynot]

The Snipe arrived part of the way through the battle, behind the enemy line. Domenic quickly engaged her stealth systems, since the other ships had no doubt brought shields up over their windows, there was no way they would be seen. They skirted around the Eagle's fleet, Noah and Domenic noticed that Aria's ships were trying to focus the Dreadnaught. Noah smirked and looked at Domenic, only to see the same smirk on his face as well.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Ja, vee take a cruiser and make a missile."

Noah brought up the comm system and hailed the Alpha 2.

"This is the Snipe, we have a plan to quickly cripple the dreadnaught, if you can take down the barriers on a nearby cruiser, we can board it and ram it into the dreadnaught."

As they sent the message, information showing the Snipes position was uploaded to the Alpha 2, showing they were ready to strike at any time, as they wove around cruisers nearby the dreadnaught, ready to pounce like a flea onto a dog, only this flee was far more deadly.

Edited January 26, 2013 by leirynot

[mythicdawnmaster]

Aria leant on the seat of Alpha 2's captain, gazing out of the window at the battle ahead... The space battle wasn't the least of her worries, it was ground assault that bothered her, if that went wrong, then there would be no hope for them. To her advantage however, the Eagles fleet was utilizing pre-Reaper war technology, and lacked the kind of firepower Alpha 2 possessed, but it was an impossible feat to take on a whole fleet of battle hardened veterans, even with superior technology.

 

Upon hearing the transmission from the Snipe, Aria was sceptical- she'd never heard of them before, and they certainly weren't part of her fleet. still, any help was welcome. Aria looked at the co-ordinates and smiled, responding back through the comm-links "If it helps me, do it. Just don't damage my station." Aria responded bluntly.

 

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Lurik slammed his fist onto his desk as the power shut off. it was pitch black, and the only illumination he had was the light on his armour. "What the hell just happened?!" He boomed.

 

"An infiltration team just shut down Omega's power systems, were completely in the dark!" replied a human female.

 

"Get the emergency generator in here now! I'll give these scum a war." he commanded, a team of Eagles equipped flashlights, and travelled to the storeroom to bring up the generator. As an external power source, it'd at least switch the lights in Lurik's office back on. the light powered up dimly, but were enough. "I want that team dead, send in more troops!"

[Macman253]

Tripp and his team quickly setup the barricade. Kex and Reyes found good positions and Dax had setup high in the catwalks that spiderwebbed the levels. Tripp continued to monitor stations systems, Jeeves scanned the motion sensors and cameras throughout the deck. Tripp was determined to keep this space for as long as possible, if not he had a contingency plan in place. His fingers glided across the holographic keyboard as he entered command after command and fished around in the stations archives. Despite the job he was paid for he had need of some other information, information that would be useful to another employer.

 

Jeeves' hologram appeared next to him, "Sir, I am reading a large force of Eagles headed this direction. The bulkhead was designed to not be opened after its activation but they will use the alternate route." He reported, Tripp nodded. "Activate defense turrets, that should slow them down or keep them occupied." He said as he brought up windows of message data and then collapsed them after reading them. The information he was looking for was not here and he grew more and more frustrated. Dax chimed up over his comm, his voice was soft and near silent. "Sir, spotted the Eagle counter-attack. Ten men and around fifteen drones, they are getting close to the Promenade." He said as he dialed in the drone controller, a short and stocky Volus.

 

Tripp suddenly stopped working as he heard a faint noise coming from behind him, he faked like he didn't see the Mirage Unit that had creeped in through the Catwalks. A Mirage Unit was a Turian Operative that specialized in stealth technology. "Interesting, he had the drop on me but never took the shot. Either he is calling it in or he's not one of The Eagles." He thought as he listened, Jeeves contacted him through a text display.

 

The message read that he found various Chronomatic Radiation Signatures around the station, all of them signs of cloaking technology. "He's not alone, yet there is no reports of infiltrators on the comm net that doesn't correlate to them." He thought as he brought up the information package he was looking for. A series of picture files of a man and a asari woman. The man appeared to be himself and Aria. He opened the command menu and uploaded a decrypt program, the pictures degraded into a series of Dossiers on Cerberus Operatives hidden throughout the Alliance Government and various Corporations. Years of information tucked away for a big payout, the real reason he took this hell-bound job from Aria. He needed access to Omega's systems to recover the files he stashed here five years ago.

[Naktis]

Leilah sat on one of the shuttles and watched The Eagles running around the streets and preparing for battle. She was hired by them to gather all possible information on Aria, maybe even do some hacking to their ships systems too but so far Leilah did nothing. She heard of Aria too much to do something against her. She had other plans.

 

The infiltrator turned her trusty omni-tool on and after digging around for a few moments she found exactly what she needed. Through a not so secure channel she contacted the Asari.

 

"This is... someone you don't know. I am in Omega and I can help you."

 

On purpose she chose a channel which wasn't secure and could be easily traced to its location - Omega.