Seaart Official Selection

The first contact war was followed by years of hot and cold warfare between humans and turians. Several attempts by the council to force a permanent truce has failed. Now both the Hierarchy and the Alliance has agreed to an armistice which has lasted for 6 years. Gagarin Station (Jump Zero)has been established as a place of reconciliation, where turian recruits and human biotics train side by side as supposed allies. However, old grudges die hard and for some of the students it's hard to let go of the past. Will friendship outlast the end of childhood? When team Four is spread across space, divided by duty, will something remain of Jump Zero’s lessons, or will the new emerging enemy strain every relationship past its breaking point?

Due to a cultural miscommunication, Shepard and Garrus wind up proposing to one another. To both their surprise, neither of them wants to take it back, and neither wants to wait.

Set shortly after the end of my story, Conspiracy. Palaven is once more under the control of the turians. However, not all of them have been returned home. Shepard and Vakarian aim to rectify that. Rated M for language, violence and mature situations.

"They told us they were the Creators and we believed them. They were powerful, they were sympathetic, they could see into our mind, and they even gave us the power to manipulate dark energy to our every whim. Then it changed. Our Creators turned on us and told us that we were furthering organic life, but when the Old Ones appeared they told us the truth about the Creators. So we fought, we lost and retreated with Vanguard's help. It's up to you now to end the Cycle," he said, turning from the water basin and facing her bright green eyes that still held the silver that bespoke of her Indoctrination despite all efforts to erase it. "Only you, Shepard, can change the way this ends."