This has been a surprisingly pleasant night for me. Thank you @mp3.1415player, for your story is part of why that is so.
 
Oh, that's clever. The Geth have built a machine gun that fires dirty fusion shells that detonate via inertial trigger. Basically, a spread of the things hits a kinetic barrier and detonates into bubbles of plasma and hard radiation which pass straight through to the hull and cook the target ship. It's not a laser, but it's one hell of a revolution in warfare for the purposes of Mass Effect.
 
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So, at 50 trillion credits-equivalent to develop ships and weaponry from out of a space opera, this may truly be the most expensive case of "Notice me, sempai!" in all history...


And sempai will guide! The first thing you need to do is send an Emancipation Proclamation into Batarian space... deniably, of course. Then, ready the occupation Borg Cubes that we can't do anything about because they're totally not ours'. With any luck, the war should be over by space-winter
 
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INteresting you choose to use the Blue Suns as the merc group being a danger to Quarian pilgrims. Would probably be wiser to pick a different name. Zaeed and Santiago, two humans, were the founders of the Blue Suns, not just some new leaders that overthrew some Batarians. Might be best to just make up a name.
 
So now the Humanx are aware of the Geth pretending to be them. Makes you wonder if, to get around Citadel space with no one the wiser, the Humanx might pretend to be Geth... Nvm, my mind's going to strange places. Different places than normal, but still business as usual. Carry on and good night y'all.
Unless it was more about those strange people who installed all the relays... :confused:

I absolutely loved how everyone was spitballing what the Batarians were doing. And I didn't miss that most of it referenced your other story. :p
The funny part is that it's entirely logical for what they'd do, but the Batarians are actually "innocent" for once. At least of that.

What ludicrous cannon did the Geth use, anyway? Was that a massive circular railgun (powered by some truly absurd exotic-mattter reactors, no less)? I have a strange suspicion that if the Quarians happen to re-watch that video series that ship will seem even more familiar, down to the weaponry too...
All as described in the "historical documents" :p

I'm assuming that their actual ammunition was that impact-triggered fusion round that was discussed a while ago around here on using the kinetic energy of the round to detonate a fusion payload...?
 
Perhaps it's a covert operation by the Turians, who would at least have the resources to do it without anyone being the wiser. Or for that matter the Salarians, of course, as they'd be even more likely to be able to wage a secret war. There are a couple of private groups that might be able to pull such a thing off too.

Taking this assessment at face value, the Geth anti-piracy fleet is, what, the eighth strongest force on the Relay network? At minimum?

Behind the Turians and Salarians (named), Asari (excluded by the Asari assessor), the Batarians themselves, the Hanar (mentioned later) and the "couple of private groups". Notably ahead of the Quarians. And possibly more capable than the minimum the assessment gives them credit for.
 
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Well... the Geth never signed any treaty about how many dreadnoughts they're 'allowed' to build... it's just they've never wanted a big fleet before now.

I get the impression they're using something that sounds like a military grade cyclotron to accellerate the projectiles up to speed.
 
Someone sat down next to him. He glanced over then his eyes widened a little.

"Lord Alamo," he said politely to the representative of the Empire of Texas, who nodded.

"Commander DiGriz," the other man, fifteen years or so his senior, replied calmly. He took the glass the server mechanism handed him with a murmur of thanks and sipped it, looking pleased for a moment before putting it down on the bar top with a faint clink. "Sometimes we find ourselves in a position we didn't really want for reasons that come as something of a surprise," he continued after a few seconds of silence, apparently concentrating on the ice clinking around in his glass. "We make a quick decision, and things suddenly get complicated. Right or wrong, we have to live with the consequences. And it's a mark of character as to how we do that."

He glanced at DiGriz, then went back to contemplating his drink. "Saving the lives of someone you've never met because it's the correct thing to do is… admirable. Even if it comes at a cost to you." He took another sip, before replacing the glass on the bar. "And while taking lives isn't something anyone should look forward to, on occasion you have to make a choice. I happen to think you made the right one."
#Lord Alamo for Premier

I know you probably made him as a throwaway character in order to fill out the Human Government; but every time I see him I just love how you've actually made him a deep and multi-faceted character where he could have just been a simple caricature.
 
Well, that was quite enjoyable, watching various factions chasing their tails. I wonder, if and when the Batarians will end up lodging a protest with the Council over the rampant disappearance of "Legitimate Batarian going about Their Totally Peaceful amd Lawful Activities", or just go all in and try to use blatant military maneuvers to try to flush out the culprits.

Hmm, the way the Geth network dialog describes their ship in action, with all the rings spining up and such, brings to mind the concept of the Centrifugal Gun. Though the real world prototypes all suffered from great inaccuracy (so far as I know), using (Mass Effect-tech) high-tech and computer control, perhaps it could be made workable...
 
I get the impression they're using something that sounds like a military grade cyclotron to accelerate the projectiles up to speed.

That seems pretty accurate. Think CIS droid control ship with cyclotron rings around the outside. Said rings, powered by antiproton reactors, spin up microgram mass pellets of lithium deuteride to 90%+ lightspeed, probably with eezo reactor assistance.

It then shoots bursts at the targets like a GAU-8 Avenger. The pellets initiate fusion on impact.

The result is a mass driver weapon, just like everyone else uses, but using a whole bunch of very small, very effective and VERY fast rocks rather than a big chunk of iron.
 
That seems pretty accurate. Think CIS droid control ship with cyclotron rings around the outside. Said rings, powered by antiproton reactors, spin up microgram mass pellets of lithium deuteride to 90%+ lightspeed, probably with eezo reactor assistance.

It then shoots bursts at the targets like a GAU-8 Avenger. The pellets initiate fusion on impact.

The result is a mass driver weapon, just like everyone else uses, but using a whole bunch of very small, very effective and VERY fast rocks rather than a big chunk of iron.
Also they ignite on the contact with the kinetic barrier, for additional fun.
 
Hmm, any bets on the Batarians, despite being Batarian, managing to figure out some basic pattern recognition regarding the forces they lose being ones they sent after the Quarians? ...And then jumping to the wrong conclusion and attacking the Migrant Fleet in enough force that the Geth can't do their stealth-sniper trick if they want to keep the Fleet intact.


Has the potential to be a heartwarming parent/child reunion, or a horrible drama-fest, or something in between, or all of the above.
 
That seems pretty accurate. Think CIS droid control ship with cyclotron rings around the outside. Said rings, powered by antiproton reactors, spin up microgram mass pellets of lithium deuteride to 90%+ lightspeed, probably with eezo reactor assistance.

It then shoots bursts at the targets like a GAU-8 Avenger. The pellets initiate fusion on impact.

The result is a mass driver weapon, just like everyone else uses, but using a whole bunch of very small, very effective and VERY fast rocks rather than a big chunk of iron.

I think ship-class mass drivers only get up to a few % of light speed so yeah, fast rocks. If this is truly relatavistic it's is in a class far above that. This sounds closer to a very brute-force version of the bomb-pumped laser missiles of the Honorverse.
 
Hmm, any bets on the Batarians, despite being Batarian, managing to figure out some basic pattern recognition regarding the forces they lose being ones they sent after the Quarians? ...And then jumping to the wrong conclusion and attacking the Migrant Fleet in enough force that the Geth can't do their stealth-sniper trick if they want to keep the Fleet intact.


Has the potential to be a heartwarming parent/child reunion, or a horrible drama-fest, or something in between, or all of the above.

The Geth.... they're farming us! Like cattle!

In all seriousness, great suggestion (even though I think it'll be derailed before it gets to that point).
 
You know, I almost feel sorry for the Batarians; they're literally being stalked by invisible killbots.

They deserve to be stalked by invisible killbots of course, but that is still a rather unsettling concept.
 
Sovereign: Join me in my rightful crusade against the meat bags
GETH Collective: No time. Too busy writing GSF fanfic. Where were we? Ah, yes.
Commander Shep'ar'de was confronting his long-lost twin sister after he found out that she is a disguised Racni.

Sovereign: I see that you are in conflict with your brethren. Surely you want to join my crusade.
GETH Splitter fraction: Whats your opinion is the cyclotron design from Episode 34 superior to the interlocked cubes design from episode 46?
Sovereign: After analyzing the designs i came to the conclusion that the cyclotron is the more effective design
GETH Splitter fraction: HERETIC

And that is the start of the Geth reaper wars.
 
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I think ship-class mass drivers only get up to a few % of light speed so yeah, fast rocks. If this is truly relatavistic it's is in a class far above that. This sounds closer to a very brute-force version of the bomb-pumped laser missiles of the Honorverse.

If my memory serves me correctly, which it very well may not be, the muzzle velocity of a dreadnoughts spinal cannon in the Mass Effect universe is ~1.5% light speed. This gives a dreadnought's main gun a yield of ~40kt.
 
That seems pretty accurate. Think CIS droid control ship with cyclotron rings around the outside. Said rings, powered by antiproton reactors, spin up microgram mass pellets of lithium deuteride to 90%+ lightspeed, probably with eezo reactor assistance.

It then shoots bursts at the targets like a GAU-8 Avenger. The pellets initiate fusion on impact.

The result is a mass driver weapon, just like everyone else uses, but using a whole bunch of very small, very effective and VERY fast rocks rather than a big chunk of iron.
Relativistic exploding nuclear buckshot. I would rather not be on the wrong end of any of those four words, much less all of them.

I think ship-class mass drivers only get up to a few % of light speed so yeah, fast rocks. If this is truly relatavistic it's is in a class far above that. This sounds closer to a very brute-force version of the bomb-pumped laser missiles of the Honorverse.
It would have to be relativistic to cross a million kilometres in something like three seconds:
Firing procedure initiated, two hundred rounds per target, one thousand four hundred rounds released, target impact in three thousand fifty four milliseconds… target impact.
In fact, light travels at just under 300 000 km/s, so that's either FTL or the timer for the first rounds started after the last were fired
 
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