Mass Effect First Contact
May not be exactly what you want, but this has no FCW as far as I can remember:byAn asari exploration vessel discovers Earth in the 2030's.and the first contact scenario has incredible implications for both species. What does humanity look like through alien eyes? Where do they go from here? /-AU: no Reapers, completely disconnected from the plot of the games, but mostly faithful to the setting.
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Told from many points of view.Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 16 - Words: 51,333 - Reviews: 1063 - Favs: 1,567 - Follows: 1,712 - Updated: Apr 11 - Published: Aug 12, 2011. Humanity makes First Contact with the galaxy peacfully, and the resulting technological and cultural exchanges successfully obliterate next to all Renegade beliefs the species holds. This is the world of Mass Effect where the human race is one made up virtually entirely of idealists.
Inspired by College Fool's Renegade Reinterpretations.Rated: - English - Drama/Adventure - Shepard (M) - Chapters: 22 - Words: 29,484 - Reviews: - Favs: 502 - Follows: 567 - Updated: Sep 21, 2013 - Published: Jan 25, 2013 - id: 8943770As the summary says it is basically the flip side of the College Fool story. Good gets bogged down in recent chapters in dealing with the Batarians.
Depending on you tolerance for these sorts of things could come off as a little HFY. I had a sort of Cthulhutech Mass Effect crossover where the NEG and the Nazzadi save the Destiny Ascencion from the Mi-Go with both the NEG and Nazzadi seeing the Citadel as a means to help win the Aeon wars and the Citadel Sees the NEG/Nazzadi as nothing more than a means to become stronger should the Mi-Go return or should the Terminus decide to attack for some reason. So basically both governments view each other as merely tools to achieve victory, while the civilions view the newcomers from both sides with caution a suspicion and eventualy come to accept eachother. I think this is the other one:The galaxy is a dark and cruel mistress as all its inhabitants can attest to. However, it's when things are at its bleakest that hope gathers its maximum strength.
When the Asari inadvertently make first contact with a species known as humanity, few realized just how much hope that race would eventually give to the galaxy.Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 8 - Words: 37,023 - Reviews: 451 - Favs: 575 - Follows: 630 - Updated: Feb 6, 2013 - Published: Nov 18, 2012. Pretty damn old thread but I suggest to anyone still interested to try peptuck's stuff.
He does the best fusion fics I have ever read and two of them kinda fit your criteria:-No Gods, Only Guns (Borderlands crossover): extremely awesome. The whole galaxy has been more or less infected by Borderlands-style madness. Begins at the time of canon and the reader is left to discover the massive divergences as they read, so I am not even sure the FCW even happened. If anything, though, Humans as a whole get along with the other races better than in canon. Diplomacy is present, and awesome.-Vigil (currently undergoing a rewrite; mega-crossover, mainly with XCOM): again, no humanity wank, everyone is more dangerous.
The FCW did not happen. Other incidents happen, thoroughly justified, and the diplomatic process gets its time in the limelight.Hope someone gets some use out of this. By:There was a theory once, about Nemesis, the Dark Star. Stillborn twin to the sun, it wandered the void, black and cold, and every 25 million years, came back home. AU.So this fic died after three chapter, but it still fits what you asked for. It has the turans saving the humans from a slow death.By:What if there were no Humans in Mass Effect? What if there were Orks instead?
The Council would have a lot less sleep, for one thing.This doesn't quite fit, but is worth a mention none the less. Pretty damn old thread but I suggest to anyone still interested to try peptuck's stuff. He does the best fusion fics I have ever read and two of them kinda fit your criteria:-No Gods, Only Guns (Borderlands crossover): extremely awesome.
The whole galaxy has been more or less infected by Borderlands-style madness. Begins at the time of canon and the reader is left to discover the massive divergences as they read, so I am not even sure the FCW even happened. If anything, though, Humans as a whole get along with the other races better than in canon. Diplomacy is present, and awesome.-Vigil (currently undergoing a rewrite; mega-crossover, mainly with XCOM): again, no humanity wank, everyone is more dangerous.
Asari Human First Contact Fanfiction
The FCW did not happen. Other incidents happen, thoroughly justified, and the diplomatic process gets its time in the limelight.Hope someone gets some use out of this. Click to expand.
Click to shrink.On No Gods, Only Guns: Well, technically humanity (as a whole) didn't go to war because most megacorps are busy punching each others in face and crotch (and obliterates everyone get caught in the process) (that's how 1st contact happens) and after that, supplying everyone with guns. Cheap (relatively), Horrible Death-Dealing Guns. It's kinda hard to wage war against your supplier, isn't it?On Vigil, humanity get scrapes with Geth, but (most) Geth (and humanity) has good sense to put down arms and waive white flag amd sending emissaries. It helps that Geth can finally find a commonality with meatbags that is human; ability to back up personalities and experience upon death (Eclipse Phase-style Cortical Stack) and share it with others.
Oh, and being victim of Ethereal Invasion, I guess. I noticed its been mentioned in the thread you linked but for sake of thoroughness I'll recommend Tavi's.
Its a Halo cross which nixes the Forerunners, makes the Protheans the race that the Covenant worship, and makes it so the Citadel and the Covenant have been going through a Hot War-Cold War cycle for millenia. The Covenant find humanity first but are given aid by the Citadel Races. The results: A humanity off to a much better position than in canon (waging war against a common foe has made the Citadel view of humanity to be the species equivalent of, 'Hey, I like this kid!), The Council are no where near as stupidly stubborn (Having the Covenant glaring at them across the border has forced them to make compromises that were never made in canon) and a lot more SpecTRes running around (have I mentioned the struggle between the Citadel and the Covenant?). Overall it was a very interesting read.
Unfortunately, its pretty much a dead fic relatively early on in the story. But what's there is good.Also, I don't particularly like whoring myself out, but there's also my story (in my sig) which was inspired a bit by Blood and Fire in that it made it so I knew I didn't have to follow the typical formula of First-Half-of-Crossover-Fights-Turians. We are currently, I'd say, 3/4ths of the way through the second story arc.