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What would have happened if the SA was found by Aria’s people and not the Turians? For whatever reason humans open a relay into her territory rather then relay into a Turian patrol. What about explores who answer to the Hegemon? How about Batarian Emperor loyalists, maybe an Imperial Guard ship?
Would the Terminus powers go for a smash and grab before the Citadel Council could interfere or would they try to create an allied state? Could the Alliance be a catalyst for which Aria could legitimize much of her empire and a route to export her materials? Would the High Lords, SA, and Commissars make the same insights of the SIX, Thirty, and the Council of Woe that they made in OSABC?
Could totally see some shady human merchant ports taking on rules similar to New York before the American Civil War. Slavery and the slave trade were illegal but they were nine month laws so you could have slaves there for nine months before they were free. Is humanity damaged and cynical enough to accept an alliance with a culture based on castes like the Batarians or the rule of force seen by Aria? Could the High Lords sell that to the population?
If the SA was directly hooked into piracy rather then fighting it, there would be no Corsairs and SA fleet to fight them off. But with humanity’s neo-feudal power structure I could see noble families and other power groups investing much more into their private military forces and participate far more in the wheeling and dealing, and shooting, in the Traverse and Terminus. Finally directly running piracy themselves.
Could such an alliance between the SA and Terminus powers trigger a war with the Asari perhaps the rest of the Council races aswell? Wouldn’t take long for human worlds occupied by Asari to prefer their rule over the High Lords and the Senate if the Asari play their cards right. On the flip side if that war didn’t happen, what would happen with Asari immigration?
Lastly what would our dear Sara become in such an environment?
Wow this post got way longer then I thought it would.
The oldest jobs that could be consider true professions are prostitutes, mercenaries, and brewers in that order. Money, sex, war, and drugs. I guess that tells you all you need to know about the human race. I don't know if I should be sad about that or scream HUMANITY FUCK YEAH!
Bitch, I'm wearing kinky boots and leather. Do you really think your going to win this fight?
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I’ve never thought about that possibility.
The most likely event would have been that Aria might have been able to negotiate a settlement directly with the Hegemon and Batarian Emperor and coordinate Alliance colonization, resulting in a Unified Terminus Alliance. With the raw materials from Alliance space (not to mention their HE3 hyperscoop) Aria and the Batarian Emperor could have effectively dominated literally a full third of the galaxy.
The results … would probably get very ugly, very fast. It’s certainly not unthinkable that the Hanar Ascendency would throw in with them if Aria and the Emperor guaranteed them first crack at all Prothean sites, and it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that they could have invited the quarians — Aria toyed with this idea for years and one of the worlds she is currently colonizing was slated to be proffered up as a possible world for the quarians. If the Migrant fleet had joined….ugh.
As for the effects on the Alliance…it’s hard to say. The amount of Asari getting in would actually be much lower, and Aria’s asari culture is a LOT darker, sex-obessed, violent and cruel than mainline asari culture. There is even a greater stigma on purebreds since there are so many aliens around (some rural areas of Thessia and outlying areas of asari space with little traffic still have high levels of purebreds).
The High Lords, without a need to pander to the Council, would probably become even more dominant, playing up anti-alien fears towards the Citadel Races while pointing to batarians and quaraians as ‘good aliens’.
In the long run, war would almost be certain, if all the groups above joined up, and I’m pretty sure Aria and co would lose, but it would be close and bloody.
Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.
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I personally think somewhere along the line of Darkest Night is the closest thing you can find. It takes some bits from Renegade Reinterpretations but there isn’ta council in that fic.
Personally I think that level of total enslavement is more realistic than that of Renegade Reinterpretations.
the summarry:
No free humans anywhere. Salarians and Asari in alliance (sort of) against Baterians with human slave soldiers, no turians. Other races as far as the story is considered don’t exist.
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