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System Alliance

by redskin122004

Chapter 4: Shanxi Part 2

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Hello and welcome to my attempt at mixing two very different stories and mixing it together. Unlike other stories I read of similar nature, I decided to take a route not yet taken...at least, I believe not taken. Oh well...

You probably take note of my attempts at writing...its been a few years, cut me some slack. I make corrections when you point them out or I find them myself.

Anyhoo, time to get this story on the road.


Shanxi Part 2

The remaining ships with over 5,000 Turian personals on board began to make their way towards the planet.

The sky was filled with ships flying to make land fall, and that was when the Turians found their first road block.

In the form of massive dragons.

Powerful enough to rip through starship grade armor with some effort and breathe fire at a target on the ground or in the air, these beings are the equivalent of the Thresher Maws. Only these beings are able to fly, something that the Turians found more horrifying than anything else.

The second road block was the anti-air defense. These are magical construct, each one controlled by the same AI. They also have powerful shields, and will take a lot of punishment just to bring down. What was more terrifying was that they did not use slugs, but full blown energy rounds. They also had a set number of missiles with powerful enchantments that boost the missiles strength. The only thing that the Turians had going for them at that time was the simple fact that there was only 1 city that had these defenses, and all outlying towns and villages had nothing.

Once the Turians found themselves on the ground itself, they ran into the Sky Corps. Consisting of Griffons, Pegasus, adolescence dragons, and humans with jetpacks. Griffons and dragons are the main attack force with the humans and pegasus providing support roles.

If the Turians found direct energy weapons to be shocking, the control of nature herself shook them to the core. Providing covering fire, the pegaus ponies began to change the very sky itself. Unleashing tornadoes, lighting strikes, and heavy fogs.

The Turians however continue to push through, finally running into actually ground troops. Humans made the majority of the ground soldiers, they were supported by Earth ponies and Unicorns, with Earth ponies as supply runners and the unicorns for support magic. It was then that the turians found themselves facing against a krogan like assault and defense.

By the time the turians actually began to make their way into the city itself, the had lost over 700 soldiers by the first hour. By the end of the assault and controlling the city, the total tally of the dead was over 2500. It was a punch to gut when the dead SA soldiers were counted.

A mere 700 soldiers were counted amongst the dead, with only less than 30 remaining alive for questioning.

The turian attack group had also lost an additional 10 ships when invading the city. Of the original 50 ships to attack, only 16 had survived.

It was a win in the turians' book, no matter the loss. To the turians, they stop a powerful group before they got too big. And all their technology now belong to them and for their use.

They couldn't be more wrong.

When word reached Canterlot about the assault from various colonies receiving emergency transporters from Shanxi. The entire castle fell into chaos.

The only being not to run around with his head cut off was Commander General. Several ponies, griffons, and human took note of the strange aura that surrounded the CG, it terrified them to no end when they felt it. He walked towards Queen Celestia and the following statement was recorded.

"We must respond."

"I am sure that this is a big mis-"

"A MISUNDERSTANDING! HOW THE HELL CAN YOU CALL THIS A MISUNDERSTANDING!"

"Ra-"

"NO! 700 SOULS WILL NOT SEE THEIR LOVE ONES EVER AGAIN, CELESTIA! YOU READ THE REPORTS! WE SENT A PEACEFUL MESSAGE AND THEY SHOT US IN THE FACE AS A RESPONES!"

"This...this can only end badly, General."

"And what would happen if they appeared over Equestria and we followed what you wanted about the SA. We would be defenseless and free picking to anyone who came by. I told you from the very beginning that not everyone will be as understanding as us. They killed your subjects...And I know my men and women will be feeling something that they haven't felt in a long time. Anger...true anger, the need to get revenge, to avenge those that died for no reason...I must attend to that. I will have a fleet ready in 12 hours to set out."

"Go...and may the heavens forgive me if this is not the right choice."

By the time the Turians set up a home base and requested for re-enforcements, the entire planet of Shanxi had fallen to them. The turians found the lack of civilians to be somewhat discerning. The reports from the ground-side stated that all civilians were rushed towards several devices scattered across the cities and villages. All of them stated the same thing. The device was actived, a flash of bright light, and all those inside vanished. The turians believed it to be some sort of fail-safe to insure that the people of the planet were not taken, but killed. A morbid solution, the turians guessed, but it kept the civilians away from what could be slavers and other horrors of the galaxy.

-12 hours later-

'I stand here in the ship Kilimanjaro, watching my men as they go about their business, but their movements are stiff, sluggish, filled to the brim with anger and rage. We have over 200 ships ready to go through the portal, 100 ships going straight to Shanxi, with the rest falling towards the Jump Gate...

I never trusted ese pedazo de mierda flotante! It seem to be too much of a good thing. Its why when we found those ruins and the oh so easy to use tech that sent my battle sense going off like crazy. Thank goodness for Luna, el ángel in my time of need...

Dios del cielo, mostrar mi misericordia enemigo, porque yo no tengo de sobra.'

Journal of Commander General, Several hours before the Shanxi Massacre.

The Fifth Fleet, falling under the command of Admiral Hackett, with Commander General supervising the entire battle, arrived before the defeated world of Shanxi. The Turians' ships, surprised to see so many ships before them, struggled to get into formation. The Kilimanjaro went out a head of the fleet to send a message to the turians.

"You stand before the Fifth Fleet, we outnumber you 6 to 1. You attack a colony under the jurisdiction of the System Alliance. Surrender now and I will show mercy. Do not and not only will you be destroy you, but I will send your heads and only your heads to your home planet."-Commander General

The Turians open fired on the massive dreadnought, believing that they can at least destroy the ship. However, the Kilimanjaro was a dreadnought, the turians had trouble just taking down the Dakota, a cruiser with dreadnought like shields. The Kilimanjaro had nearly 3 times more powerful shields protecting her.

The rest of the ships began to open fire on the remaining turian ships, wiping them out. They then proceed planet side to free the colony.

-3 hours later-

The same message was sent out to the turians on the ground, once again receiving the same response of them trying to kill them. A full regiment of human soldiers hit the ground, no other species would take part of the campaign, taking upon themselves to free the colony.

Their collective anger skyrocketed through the proverbial roof when they took sight of the dead civilians. A majority of them simply tossed them into piles. But it was a single event that caused all the human soldiers to go into something similar to that of a Krogan BloodRage.

They found the bodies of an earth pony and griffon, gutted and cut up to pieces. Serving as food. The Turians believed that they were simply well train animals for the humans. And none of them witness any of the ponies, griffons, and dragons speaking to the humans. The idea spread around was that the animals acted as both trained attackers and as a food source. Why else would they go through so much trouble in vaporizing them? Take away a potential source of food away from the enemy, Battlefield tactic 101. However the meat did not agree with them anyways, so they simply left the bodies as they were. When they were found, there was a moment of shock and horror before a roar of rage echoed out, and the turians had their fate sealed.

Walking towards the prisoners, Commander General eyes were on fire, magic rolling off him in waves, causing many around him to choke and some of them even falling to their knees. He walked with purpose towards the prisoner compound, walked inside and grabbed a single turian. He dragged him out, shoving him towards a clear area.

"What the hell is this?" He growled. Shoving a picture of the bodies in the turian's face. It wasn't the only one, several soldiers found similar scene all around the city.

"Food gone bad," muttered the turian, "We can't eat your animals so we-" the turian gasped as he was lifted off the ground by his neck. Most soldiers were confused at what was going on, a single soldier walked up to the Commander General to get an idea on what was happening, he stopped when he saw the picture on the ground. He picked it up...and promptly ran off to throw up violently.

"You...you fucking monsters..." Commander General began to glow, his cloak began to ripple as if air was currently whirling around him. Rage, that is what everyone in the compound felt, undiluted rage spread out from their Commander General. The soldier that was throwing up violently, manage to gasp out their General's problem.

"They...they ate them...they ATE our PEOPLE!" There was a moment of silence, before magic began spread across the compound, reacting to the rage and utter revulsion that the humans felt at their prisoners. The turian prisoners felt death was at their door, and he was trying to break it down with vigor.

"We...we didn't know!" The Commander General sneered before throwing the turian into the sky before unleashing a blast of magic at the flailing body.

A kill on sight were ordered to the soldiers of the SA, and the reason for it.

No one questioned it.

A single Turian survived on Shanxi after that order was given, the only other prisoner of the compound that the Commander General arrived to.

His name was Saren Arterius.

It will be a full week before the Council will find out about the events that happen at Relay 314. In that time SA began to search the relay network to find any information about the turians. It was here that they ran into several other species, disabled their ships and began to question them.

The Council, somewhat on edge when finding out there was over 50 ships missing from the Turian Fleet, began to question the Hierarchy about the numbers when the alarms began to ring out through out the station.

Over 300 warships arrived through the Citadel Relay, demanding to talk to whoever was in charge about the events that happen a week prior.

The Turian Hierarchy felled under scrutiny afterwords, and the Council began to make demands to see the other 'Client' races that fell under their 'care'.

Talks began a month later, along with the release of their prisoner. When asked about other prisoners, the only response they got was:

"What other prisoners?"

Saren Arterius began to explain the event that happened, and the counter attack that turned into a slaughter fest for the Turians. The only reason he was still alive was due to the fact that he was injured trying to capture a human for information, but was unaware of his magic and couldn't walk from his injuries. He and his men fell under attack from the SA soldiers, and was one of 2 that survived it.

When he was questioned about the whereabouts of his partner, he simply stayed quiet.

Commander General decided to answer for him.

"He was executed for eating our people, along with all the other turians. We had mercy, if in small amounts, but the moment we saw our people being eaten, being called animals, we shut that small amount of mercy off. The only reason he is still alive is due to the fact that he didn't eat any and that he was already a prisoner. We can grant that mercy to him."

Talks began to break down afterwords, with the SA feeling disgusted with the Citadel Council. When they sent them a "treaty", which looked more like a list of demands, the disgust turn into outright contempt.

Cut their ship fleet down by more than half

Stop all AI research and development

All weapons that are DEW are to be study by their scientists.

All research and technology to be handed over to be studied.

Many more items were demanded, but Queen Celestia and Commander General refused to read anymore. It was when they received reports about two species sealed Council's fate.

The Krogan and the Quarians.


End of the Shanxi Event.

Next Event: Mindoir Assualt

If anyone wants to be a proof reader, nows your chance, I can use some extra eyes. And like I said before, I will dedicate or somehow include you into the story itself. Trial Redemption has already gotten a spot for his awesome review.

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