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Infiltration of Saetabelo

A pivotal moment in the Rachni Wars, the **Infiltration of Saetabelo** saw the heroism of the Right Fist of the Courts, the elcor army, as they carried the load to reclaim the salarian colony world. Facing off against the queen that had planted herself deep within the planet's natural caverns, the infiltration teams destroyed the breeding grounds at a high cost, losing more than two-thirds of their invasion forces in the process.

## Description

Having established a clear working relationship with the Unified Krogan in the centuries of conflict since the salarians had uplifted them, forces of the Citadel Council sought to turn the tables in the war. The Ardot System was selected as a suitable candidate for a retaliatory strike, the occupied colony world of Saetabelo having been lost in the first few decades of the war. With intelligence revealing the planet was key to the rachni breeding strategy, the Council ultimately decided that a smaller detachment of their combined forces would go in to test the waters.

Known for its spectacular natural caverns, preliminary reports showed that the rachni had nested deep beneath the world's surface, only sending up the bare minimum of forces to control the occupied populace. Without easy access to the queen and knowing they would need heavy firepower to destroy the breeding grounds, elcor general elder Genowadunbo suggested that his people be used as mobile tanks, snaking through the tunnels with vehicle-grade weaponry to wipe out the occupiers.

With a force of only nine thousand soldiers, relatively small for the potential impact of the attack, the forces of the Council utilized high-concept technological wizardry to sneak past the rachni vessels and land on the world below. Locating their infiltration points with few difficulties, the many battalions the group had been split into began their descent.

For three arduous days the soldiers fought almost non-stop through waves of workers, soldiers and warriors. Lives were lost to planned cave-ins, acid wash-outs and booby traps left behind by the rachni as they evacuated to lower levels. With only five thousand troops remaining, the forces breached the queen's lair in the late evening of October the 18th. Fierce fighting ensued as the rachni threw everything they had at the enemy in order to protect the queen. Genowadunbo himself was killed in battle with two brood warriors, only to be instantly avenged by the surviving members of the Asenn Vanguards, an asari commando unit. As the queen fell to the barrage of mass accelerator fire from the mobile tanks that were the elcor, the rachni lost the ability to communicate with one another and were slaughtered easily. The last of the remaining invaders were wiped out within the night.
Cryo Ammo

**Cryo Ammo**is a type of modified ammunition block that can be installed in a wide variety of personal weaponry. As a functionality, it freezes or chills whatever it comes into contact with, releasing the supercooled particles embedded within. This freezing makes the target more brittle and more susceptible to kinetic force. When installed in a modern weapon, the holographic heads-up display gives off a white glow.
Eakaris

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A submachine gun designed to match the power of the Phaeston in a smaller, more mobile chassis, the **Eakaris** is a powerful yet unwieldy weapon manufactured by Cipritine Armory.

## Description

Conceptualized by Rear Admiral Hyurik Lavarit in 2121, the Eakaris was his vision to develop a carbine variant of the Phaeston assault rifle. Dedicating a team to the project, Cipritine Armory began working on ways to fit the large and powerful mass effect field generators within the more compact body that the Eakaris would demand.

First rolling off the line in 2134, the Eakaris sacrifices accuracy and recoil for raw stopping power. With an output of RPM only slightly below that of its larger brother, the Eakaris hits hard as long as you can compensate or fire smartly. Because of those same drawbacks, however, it has never been utilized as a standard issue weapon for the Turian Hierarchy military unlike many other projects developed by Cipritine Armory.
Fenal's AtmoClub

A lower pressure, oxygen-atmosphered house of respite, **Fenal's AtmoClub** is located near the historic Denb Markets in the city of Lenos on the volus homeworld of Irune. Engineered to provide non-volus clientele with a place to enjoy themselves outside of the oppressive environmental suits necessary for business on the rest of the world, the AtmoClub mainly serves white collar civilians with credits to spend. For convenience, the club is connected to its sister business, the Hossaleigh.
Hyetiana

**Location**: Milky Way / Silean Nebula / Nahuala System

**Hyetiana** is a cool garden world that serves as a bastion of research for the asari.

## Description

Hyetiana boasts multiple observation outposts, glacial drilling stations, and educational institutions. While the planet's average temperature hovers near freezing, the equatorial band contains oceans and many fresh-water rivers. Xenobiologists of all stripes often visited the planet, as its expansive facilities are a haven for the life sciences.

## Notable Locations

### Cities

* Asenn
* Phyrene
* Port Lerama

### Universities

* Hyetiana Institute of Science and Technology
Denok Shiagur

**Denok Shiagur** was a krogan warlord in the waning days of the Krogan Rebellions. Noted as one of the only female warlords in krogan history, she was also one of the few known fertile females at the time. She leveraged this status as well as her admirable combat prowess into the warlord's position of her clan, allowing males to compete for the right to join Clan Denok and lie with her. She was killed in the remains of the turian Gothis Colony towards during the Devastation at the Ruins of Gothis. At the announcement of her death thousands of male admirers swore blood oaths against the turian aggressors, killing thousands in open combat or assassination in the years that followed.

## Quotes

A master of incendiary language as well as political leverage, many of Shiagur's more vile quotes have survived whether in recorded form or the tradition of oral storytelling.

* *"NO WOUNDS OF THE FLESH SHALL HOLD US BACK TODAY, MY CLAN! FOR TODAY WE ENTER NOT ONLY THE VOID, BUT WE TAKE KRUBAN IN GLORY!"*- Recorded by a batarian prisoner of war during the Devastation at the Ruins of Gothis, the penultimate battle of the Krogan Rebellions.
Eagle Nebula

A cluster located in the Terminus Systems, the **Eagle Nebula** is a free-for-all colonization and resourcing prospect for multiple species. Humans, batarians, salarians, and hanar-drell organizations all have sizeable stakes in the cluster.

## Systems

* Amun System
* Imir System
* Malgus System
* Relic System
* Strabo System

## Mass Relay Connections

* Crescent Nebula
* Ismar Frontier
* Minos Wasteland
* Omega Nebula
* Serpent Nebula
* The Shrike Abyssal
Jenakala

Credit to the Expanded Galaxy Mod

**Location:** Milky Way / Olyn Protectorate / Kanala System

The closest planet to Kanala, **Jenakala**'s extreme heat and lack of atmosphere keeps it hostile to life. What it lacks in biota, however, it makes up for in mineral composition. A robo-miner's dream, the crust of Jenakala is rich with iridium and platinum with significant reserves of tungsten and titanium.

## Description

Jenakala's close proximity to Kahje resulted in inevitable exploration, a lucky coincidence that had significant repercussions for hanar society. Investments by both the Illuminated Primacy and private corporations led to the hanar becoming a dominant force in the galactic mining community. Subsequent financial and technological gains and their influence over galactic markets are two reasons the reserved species feel they deserve a spot on the Citadel Council.

## Trivia

* Jenakala was created and added by the Expanded Galaxy Mod for Mass Effect 3, which can be found here: EGM
Fiura Myeri

Art by Railroad

**Fiura Myeri** is an asari explorer with the Holun-Myeri Exploratory Fund, named in honor of its founders Torel Holun and Tera Myeri, her parents.

## Biography

Born in the city of Lyethli on Thessia, Fiura was thrust into the Next Great Step political movement from the moment she left the womb. Her parents, both large figures in the movement, used their child as a symbol of the spark of change, a new era for the asari, volus and the entire galactic community.

Unfortunately, that new era would never come. The Next Great Step movement was voted down within the Republics on account of the sheer impossibility of the project. New relays would be a massive sink for resources, and a sink that could quite possibly never bear fruit. With that, the young Fiura's stardom and her parent's hopes were dashed.

Her mother, however, would not go down without a fight. Drawing upon her husband's considerable wealth, the pair started up the Holun-Myeri Exploratory Fund, an initiative started with the hope of opening up new relays and exploring what lie beyond. Wanting to be an asset to her parents new and exciting endeavor, young Fiura began training and learning all she could to help in the project.

When she came of age, her parents began investing in her education and training for the project as well. She attended high-level boarding schools back on Thessia, engaged in private biotic and combat tutoring with retired commandos, and even took part in several expeditions to uncharted worlds with survey teams.

It was during one of these missions that her father succumbed to his old age and passed in his sleep. Her mother, not wishing to burden her while she studied and became the leader she needed to be, neglected to tell Fiura until after she had returned from Agebinium.

Disoriented by the news and disillusioned with her mother, Fiura canceled her education, training, and ventures, then vanished from her mother's sight. Privately, she did continue with the training, hoping to one day return to the project.

In 2180, that day came. She met with her mother and had a harsh and emotional reconciliation, resulting in her assignment to the FSS Asteria as soon as the exploratory mission was prepared.

## Personality

Fiura is a severe individual, her personality expanding wildly across the entire spectrum of emotions. She is serious in her goals, stopping at next to nothing to obtain them.

## Armament

Fiura utilizes a Breaker assault rifle and an M-3 Predator heavy pistol, as well as the combat abilities Overload, Damping, Snap Freeze and Incinerate which are installed on her omni-tool. She wears a comfortable set of HMEF Wayfinder armor and her biotics are combat-ready as well.
Hindara Globular

Credit to Wikimedia Commons

The **Hindara Globular** is a cluster of stars within the Attican Traverse. Sparsely colonized by the quarians before the Geth War, afterwards it has been left largely untouched by the formal governments of any species, Council or not.

## Known Systems

* Anashri System
* Belas System
* Osari System
* Plenesh System
* Ran'baas System
* Shana'suud System
Elcor Colonization Timeline

The patient, ponderous **Elcor** have a very passive mindset when it comes to the colonization of new worlds. Their unique physiology makes most candidates suitable to humanoids uninteresting to them, as they prefer the crushing gravity under which they evolved. This is both a downside, as these worlds are not terribly common, and a boon, because worlds discovered with such qualities are often passed on to the Courts of Dekuuna with little fanfare.
Korten Rashkar

**Korten Rashkar** is a krogan of Clan Korten who serves as one of the scouts within the clan's service.

## Biography

Born and raised within Clan Korten territory on Tuchanka, Rashkar has never known a life outside of their corner of the wastes. He's spent centuries scouring their territory and the lands beyond, and despite his youth is seen as one of the best scouts in service to the Clan.

## Personality

### Brash

Korten is one of the best at his job, and he is well aware of it. He doesn't back down from the opportunity to talk up his own skills and diminish those who accomplish similar tasks.

### Prejudiced

A member of Clan Korten through and through, Rashkar believes in the necessary purity of his species. He sees genetic mutants, defects and weaklings as individuals not worth his time, and believes they need to be purged from the race in order to make a stronger krogan that can stand against the galaxy.
Dofazo-Lican Arms

**Dofazo-Lican Arms** is a drell-owned corporation in the weapons manufacturing industry. A relative newcomer to the galactic market as of 2182, their designs are reminiscent of those found on Rakhana before its evacuation.

## Description

The drell lost much of their culture when they were forced to abandon Rakhana. Music, art, and most importantly to Kreir Dofazo and Thrinn Lican: their weapons. The drell depended heavily on the hanar for everything after they were rescued, and the two men wanted to give a piece of themselves back to their people. To do so, the pair founded their own company, and Kreir - the creative mastermind behind their designs - began manufacturing a line of classic firearms reminiscent of those back on their home planet.

Of the weapons created by Dofazo-Lican Arms, their best-selling units are the Fogar heavy pistol, a reliable, accurate sidearm, and the more unique Gavaas Suppression Blaster, which is a heavy weapon capable of smothering an enemy in a quick-hardening polymer. And although Thrinn and Kreir largely marketed their weapons to other drell, their designs have gained some popularity in Council Space as a whole for being both affordable and well-made.

Dofazo-Lican Arms, though far from being the most profitable or inventive company in the galaxy, has become something of a staple on Kahje for restoring a small part of what the drell people have lost. More than anything, Kreir and Thrinn want to uplift their species again, and make them believe that they still have a future.
Euntanta

## Euntana

**Location:** Milky Way / Crescent Nebula / Lusarn System

**Euntanta** is remarkably close to Earth. Its orbital distance is similar, and while slightly larger, its reduced density yields similar mass, atmospheric pressure, and gravity. There the similarities end, for Lusarn is a hot class F star, emitting over eight times the energy of Sol. Euntanta is a parched wasteland, its water long since boiled away into its nitrogen-carbon dioxide atmosphere.

## Description

A handful of mining outposts dot the hellishly hot surface. The crews remain in underground bunkers, sending remotely controlled machines out at night to do surface work and load cargo for shipment.
Earth

**Location:** Milky Way / Local Cluster / Sol System

**Earth** is the homeworld of humanity. A world of varying climates and a diverse people, the planet is slowly recovering from intense climate change.

## Description

The homeworld and capital of humanity is entering a new golden age. The resource wealth of a dozen settled colonies and a hundred industrial outposts flows back to Earth, fueling great works of industry, commerce, and art. The great cities are greening as arcology skyscrapers and telecommuting allow more efficient use of land.

Earth is still divided among nation-states, though all are affiliated beneath the overarching banner of the Systems Alliance. While every human enjoys longer and better life than ever, the gap between rich and poor widens daily. Advanced nations have eliminated most genetic disease and pollution. Less fortunate regions have not progressed beyond 20th-century technology, and are often smog-choked, overpopulated slums.

Sea levels have risen two meters in the last 200 years, and violent weather is common due to environmental damage inflicted during the late 21st century. The past few decades, however, have seen significant improvement due to recent technological advances.

## Major Locations

### Cities

* London
* San Francisco
* Tokyo-Chiba
* Vancouver

### Geographical Features

#### Continents

* Africa
* Americas
* Antarctica
* Eurasia
* Oceania

### Nations

* Argentine Republic
* Chinese People's Federation
* Commonwealth of Australia
* Federal Republic of Germany
* Federal Republic of Nigeria
* Federative Republic of Brazil
* French Republic
* Indian Union
* Japan
* Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
* Republic of Cuba
* Republic of Korea
* Republic of Ireland
* Republic of Turkey
* Republic of Singapore
* Republic of South Africa
* United Arab Emirates
* United Eastern Oceania
* United Kingdom of Great Britain
* United North American States
Harz

Artwork by Railroad

**Harz** is a legendary figure in batarian culture, considered by all to be the founder of what would eventually be called the Batarian Hegemony. In the religion of Quenshir, he is considered a god.

## Biography

While most details have been lost to time, few have appeared so consistently or been so solidly recorded that they are almost indisputable.

Born sometime in the 7th Century BCE, Harz was a prince within the ancient batarian nation of Tremdazan. When his father passed, the young man was already a valiant military officer, having made a habit of goading enemies into combat and then swatting them down with brilliant tactical strategy.

Why he began the campaign is as much speculation as it is a mystery, but in 664 BCE he started a war that would come to be known as the Conquest of the Three Continents. In the span of twenty years, Harz and his loyal allies in three different nations conquered twelve of the fifteen major states of ancient Khar'Shan.

Details on his later life are even more vague, though most agree he ruled the new empire until early into the 6th century. His death is an enigma, as he does not seem to have a recorded death. Once he steps down as king, he seems to vanish from history.

## Legacy

Records indicate that initially, the aristocracy was extremely displeased with the man. He was all about uniting the people, something that the high-society of ancient Khar'Shan was displeased with. Once conquered, however, those doubts seem to vanish. The vast majority of writings on the man sing his praises, and glorify his name to the heavens.

The batarian religion of Quenshir, a cult formed around ancestral-worship, holds Harz as their deity in power. He is the god of Conquest, Unity and Strength, and is typically depicted shirtless atop a throne of silver, his weapon a sword of sunlight from Harsa itself.

Secular batarians revere him as a hero, the originator of the Hegemony and one of the most important batarian figures to have ever existed. His name is still sung in popular culture and quoted as a reference for people making bold decisions. His name has also become something of a colloquial swear word, often being followed by a descriptor of his nether regions.
Helyme

**Location:** Milky Way / Crescent Nebula / Zelene System

A post-garden world thought to be the homeworld of the long-extinct Arthenn species, **Helyme** is a world in quarantine.

## Description

A "post-garden" world that once enjoyed an Earth-like oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. It is still blessed with plentiful water, but a generally cold climate (and extreme seasonal shifts, courtesy of a 38-degree axial tilt).

Helyme is thought to be the homeworld of the arthenn, a spacefaring species which disappeared approximately 300,000 years ago. Precisely what happened to Helyme is still under debate. It appears a global extinction occurred, wiping out all native animal life forms more complex than zooplankton. Plant forms were not affected, but the lack of oxygen-breathing life caused oxygenation of the atmosphere. Plant life was reduced after lightning storms ignited global wildfires.

The leading theory for Helyme's devastation is an out-of-control biological weapon. For this reason, landing is strictly prohibited. The corporations of Illium have emplaced a network of quarantine satellites to dissuade would-be looters from landing in the crumbling cities.
Iceloren

**Iceloren** is the agricultural hub and second-largest city on the turian colony world of Digeris.

## Description

Built on the southern border of Digeris' Great Grass Sea, Iceloren is surrounded by vast swaths of agricultural land and the Sepia River. Large processing plants for agricultural products span most of the prairie-side of the city, with housing and other districts bordering the riverside.

## Known Locales

* Little Thessia
* Court of the Defenders
Human Colonization Timeline

**Humans** have seen one of the most rapid expansions of any species in the Milky Way after their discovery of the Mass Relays and Mass Effect technology. Fist exploring beyond the Charon Relay in 2149, the species began colonizing the extrasolar universe not long after. The following is a table showing dates of initial colonization for all human worlds, including those jointly populated by another species on which humans became a sizeable minority. The list is intended to be extensive, though newly-created worlds and canon worlds without info will be added as the lore is created.
Desekodoun

The **Desekodoun**is a once every decade event put on by the Hegemony of Khar'shan where stables of gladiators, mainly slaves, from across the Hegemony battle to the death to determine a stable and its master as champions. Part honored tradition, part sadistic brutality and purely batarian in execution, the Desekodoun is an event which spans five years in preparation and culmination. Three years of high-intensity combat broadcasted throughout batarian-controlled systems as a unifying tool of propaganda and culture.

## Victors

Having been run for centuries, the list of victorious stables in the Desekodoun is long enough to fill volumes of literature in its own right. The title of champion is given to the stablemaster as slaves are not permitted to reap any official rewards from the Hegemony itself.
Courts of Dekuuna

Officially established in 4257 BCE, The **Courts of Dekuuna**,sometimes known as the **Court of Elders**, are the governing bodies of the United Elcor on Dekuuna. It is formed on a backbone of elected elders, using centuries-old vaults of preserved jurisprudence to act as their guide in the decision-making process.

## History

Officially established in 4257 BCE, the Court of Elders has been traditionally divided into three distinct groupings since the day that the Courts were founded. The Agreement of Januredarmos (Jan-Ur-Dar-Moss), roughly meaning “inward-acting”, lobbies for isolationism and accelerated stockpiling of elcor resources. The Agreement of Katradaramen (Kat-Rad-Dara-Meen), or “balanced-thinking” argues for a balance of isolationism and activism, specifically in economic policy. The third and final pact, The Agreement of Agredarama (Ag-Reh-Dar-Ama), translating to “outward-doing”, pushes for a more aggressive building of the elcor position in the galaxy, both politically, economically, and militarily. Whenever the time comes for the annual gathering of the council, they argue the loudest for a push to gain a council seat, or for an expanded military and navy, often stating (and not untruthfully) that if the elcor were to initiate a standardized draft, they would have “an infantry force to rival that of the turians”. Their position is always put down by bi-partisan forces of the other two agreements, usually with the simple argument of “Why?”. For this reason, the Agredarama’s have, countably, the smallest number of established precedents within the records.

## Selection Process

The Courts of Dekuuna are formed on a backbone of elected elders, using centuries-old vaults of preserved jurisprudence to act as their guide in the decision-making process. The Elders, required to be of at least 300 years of age, are elected by a “Moot” of seekers. The seekers are allowed to be of any age, as long as they have reached maturity, and gain the (almost always honorary) position of seeker after being recommended to it by at least two Elders. There can be any number of seekers, however, there can only be 500 hundred elected elders at a time -no more, no less,- with the members of this high-order serving for life. The extended life-span of the elcor means that vacancies only open up rarely, usually decades after the last: plenty of time for the Court of Seekers to make up their mind about who they will elect far beforehand. This rigid, balanced, and standardized procedure serves to make elcor politics extremely stable...or stagnant, depending on who you ask within the Courts.

## Sub-Organizations

### Military

* Judicial Armada

* Right Fist of the Courts
Feterk Oko'ka

**Feterk Oko'ka**was a Prime Administrator of the Hegemony of Khar'shan for nearly three decades. Under his regime, the Hegemony's training regimen for children in education services throughout the empire was reorganized into a more formal and strenuous program. He is often cited as one of the more controversial Administrators in batarian history as his firm military hand and his liberal domestic hand often led to legislative ideas many Hegemonic scholars and hardline anti-progress movements deemed unsuitable for the government. His popularity, however, led to his long stay in office until his untimely death through means still unreleased to the public.

## Quotes

A generally cheery yet ponderous man, Feterk aired many televised and audio-broadcasted announcements across batarian space. Many of these have been recorded and are held in archives outside of the Hegemony, though the government itself refuses to comment on how many they have saved internally.

* *"I ask you, children, who will fight for tomorrow? Who will seek to free our people from the injustice our enemies torment us with every day? Who will stand for your parents, for your friends, and for yourselves against the others who stand against us?"*- From a speech given to the schoolchildren of Qnobis on Worker's Day, 1788
Hestodon

The city of **Hestodon** is a large metropolis on the batarian homeworld of Khar'shan, sitting as the capitol of the nation of Klema. An important manufacturing hub for the Hegemony, the city is also home to two of the galaxy's few space elevators, built in the days before widespread discovery of element zero by the batarian people. Still in operation to this day, they are much more efficient in terms of kg/energy spent than vessels entering and exiting the atmosphere.
Class-B Alliance Infantry Upgrade Package

The **Class-B Alliance Infantry Upgrade Package** is a standard set of genetic enhancements given to every enlisted Systems Alliance Marine upon joining up with the service and completion of basic training. The second variation of the Alliance Infantry Upgrade Package, it replaced the Class-A variant in 2174.

## History

Developed by MarsGene as a successor to their original Class A package, the Class B offers a slightly wider array of genetic enhancements with an average time to expression that is slightly shorter than its predecessor.

## Traits Targeted

* Ocular cell longevity
* Synapse response times
* Cellular metabolic efficiency
Incendiary Ammo

**IncendiaryAmmo**is a type of modified ammunition block that can be installed in a wide variety of personal weaponry. As a functionality, it provides a boost in damage against organic enemies and armored opponents, burning through both armor and individuals and occasionally actually igniting them on fire. When installed in a modern weapon, the holographic heads-up display gives off a red glow.
M-37 Falcon

Designed for the Systems Alliance by the small human firm Daivari Arms, the **M-37 Falcon** launches 25 mm mini-grenades. Lighter and more accurate than most grenade launchers, the Falcon burns through specialized ammunition as well as standard thermal clips. A field fabrication kit generates this ammunition, leaving the clips as the rifle's only limitation.
Omega Nebula

The **Omega Nebula** is a condensation of gasses and stars within the Terminus Systems, named for the notorious space station Omega which resides within the cluster.

## Systems

* Amada System
* Arinlarkan System
* Batalla System
* Fathar System
* Kairavamori System
* Sahrabarik System

## Mass Relays

* Omega-1 Relay
* Omega-2 Relay
* Omega-3 Relay
* Omega-4 Relay
* Omega-5 Relay
M-97 Viper

Rosenkov Materials developed the **M-97 Viper** in response to the rising prevalence of kinetic barriers in human armor. While kinetic barriers still offer some protection from this weapon, its sheer power and rapid rate of fire make it capable of quickly killing almost any target, regardless of its defenses.

Rosenkov developed a patented automated-release system that assists with thermal-clip ejection, shortening the Viper's reload time. This rifle is popular with military snipers, who appreciate a long-range gun that can snap off multiple shots in the blink of an eye.
Orachorum System

**Location:** Milky Way / Apien Crest

The **Orachorum System** is made up of the star that gives the system its name, an asteroid belt, three planets and four moons. As with every other charted system within the Apien Crest, it is dominated by turian interests, notably the colony world of Chatti.

## Planets

* Esterum
* Namor
* Chatti

## Asteroid Belts

* Mariner's Belt (Between Namor and Chatti)
Llewyn Nebula

The **Llewyn Nebula** is a cluster of nebulous gasses and stars within the Bahanak Frontier on the southern edge of the Milky Way galaxy. The systems within are named for patron saints in several sects of the human Christian religions.

## Systems

* Cosmas System
* Foillan System
* Quentin System
* Roch System
* St. Luke System
Krudanz

The most powerful nation within the theoretical hegemony of nations that makes up the Batarian Hegemony, **Krudanz** is also the most populous and largest nation on the Batarian homeworld of Khar'shan.

## Description

Theoretically stretching back to the legendary Harz and his Conquest of the Three Continents, Krudanz has been thought by most living historians to have been the ultimate result of this valiant unification. Disputing opinions have been written by historians, though none have lived to see them published.

Solidifying their power over the four remaining nations of Khar'shan during the War of Peace, the government of Krudanz officially forged the Batarian Hegemony after this victory, sealing the fates of all batarians under one unified banner.

The nation of Krudanz spans the entire landmass of the continent of Krudanz, the land that gives the nation its name.
Dark Current System

**Location:** Milky Way / Olyn Protectorate

The **Dark Current** system is made up of a brown dwarf star and the two celestial bodies that orbit it within the Olyn Protectorate. It serves as a hub of galactic research, being so close to the hanar homeworld of Kahje and near an intriguing galactic phenomenon, a brown dwarf star with orbital bodies.

## Planets

* Scalding Boulder
* Twirling Pebble
Neptune

**Location:** Milky Way / Local Cluster / Sol System

Though **Neptune**, like Uranus, has plentiful helium, its remoteness made it an unpromising target for mining before the development of mass effect drive. With Uranus cheaper to exploit, it has never seen extensive development. The only permanent human presence is a small research facility on Triton.
Korinsia's Compound

A clearing of dust and dirt in between a massive scrapped warship and a sheer dropoff to the canyon below, **Korinsia's Compound** is the informal title of the base of operations for intelligence broker Korinsia L'Soe and her outfit on the planet of Korlus.

## Description

When first built up, the compound was not much more than a massive scrapped warship, a small office and a landing platform. By the end of January, 2183, Loga Darmune had set up a small arsenal as a test run to sell to Korinsia's freelancers.
Lydia Wolff

**Lydia Wolff** is a communications officer within the Systems Alliance Navy.

## Biography

A classic case of a brilliant mind trapped behind a subdued personality, Lydia is an incredibly intelligent woman, but one who lacks the confidence to do anything with it. Soaring to the top of her class in both high school and college, she gained the attention of the Systems Alliance with a number of theses and papers that called attention to cracks within the Alliance's structure and was recruited straight out of the gate. But the woman they met in person didn't live up to their expectations, and so Lydia was left drifting through the ranks from one menial job to the next until finding a comfortable niche in communications. Forgotten in the system, Lydia tries her best to simply accept her circumstances and make the best of her life, but feeling so undervalued can be grating.

## Personality

* Demure
* Informative
* Kind

## Physical Description

Lydia is a woman whose shy, submissive nature bleeds into the way she presents herself; clasped hands, downturned eyes, and a quiet, monotonous voice make her almost as forgettable as an old acquaintance's name. Physically, she is rather pretty, with a heart-shaped face, curly auburn hair and piercing, electric blue eyes, but she's undermined by her own fumbling social ineptitude.

## Armament

### Combat Arms

Lydia was issued the standard Hahne-Kedar Kessler heavy pistol and will utilize it if pressed into combat. Her omni-tool is equipped with the combat abilities Defense Drone and Energy Drain.
MV1963

Credit to the Spectre Expansion Mod

**Location:** Milky Way / Arcturus Stream / SM2183 Rua System

There is little of note to make **MV1963** a prime candidate for exploitation, however, an ugly exterior hides rich quantities of helium-3 and moons ripe for harvesting precious metals and ores.

## Description

There is clear evidence that the aliens of DC1938 mined the atmosphere of MV1963 utilizing automated systems. Not a single body or survivor has been found on or around the gas giant and its moons.

## Trivia

* MV1963 was created and added by the Spectre Expansion Mod for Mass Effect 3, which can be found at this link.
Continuation Timeline

### February

* **3rd** - Jaunla V'Atu is murdered on Illium. Her acolyte, Dinya Hadran, begins a quest for vengeance.

### May

* **2nd** - The *IHF Densris* is discovered by the starships *VRC Chutano* and *FSV Opolai*, having been disabled and nearly destroyed by an unknown vessel. SPECTRE Heplorn Ral dies saving the *Opolai* and the survivors from a second strike by the assailant.
* **5th** - Limping into port, the newfound crew of the *Opolai* make their way to the elcor orbital station of Depot Dowanubo. Looking for a way to scrounge up some cash for repairs, they inadvertently set off a series of riots that lead to the independence of the station from the control of the Courts of Dekuuna.
* **20th - 27th** - The *Opolai*'s new crew takes time at the batarian/volus luxury moon of Nefari, and recruit the holographic technician Dill Korlack to join their team.
* **29th** - Hunted down by operatives of the Citadel Council, the new crew of the *Opolai* is conscripted into a new mission: To find their missing SPECTRE, discover the whereabouts of the missing asari vessel from his original mission, and report back with any information they learn of their mysterious attackers.

### June

* **2nd** - Heading to Tuchanka on a 'prove-it' mission for the Council, the crew of the *Opolai* search for smugglers within a thresher maw nest deep below the radioactive wasteland.
Kessler II

The Hahne-Kedar **Kessler II** heavy pistol is the standard-issue sidearm for soldiers in the Systems Alliance.

## Description

Developed by Hahne-Kedar as an updated version of the Alliance's old Kessler I after the First Contact War, the Kessler II was designed to be lighter, cool down faster, and hit harder than its predecessor. While they met all three goals, the weapon still utilizes the uncommon Heat Generation System instead of the dominant Thermal Clip System.
Phlegethon System

**Location:** Milky Way / Styx Theta

The **Phlegethon System**is a stellar system within the Styx Theta cluster, itself a part of the Attican Traverse. It was initially explored in 2160 by the Systems Alliance exploratory vessel SSV Ibn Battuta, whose crew discovered the mysterious Carr Relay.

## Planets

* Alecto
* Tisiphone
M-12 Locust

The Kassa Fabrications Model 12 Locust is a compact submachine gun developed for the Alliance but now favored by gang enforcers and hitmen. Featuring a complex recoil-reducing mechanism and high-grade autotargeting software, the Locust delivers longer-range, more accurate fire than others in its class.

## History

### *"The Gun that Killed Two Presidents"*

"The gun that killed two Presidents" is the infamous legacy of the Kassa Fabrications Model 12 Locust. Originally created for the Systems Alliance, who wanted a lightweight weapon for high-gravity worlds, the Locust was designed to overcome the limitations of traditional submachine guns at long range.

With bullet velocity of modern weapons already pushed to the limit, the Locust's designers sought a way to improve accuracy through reducing weapon kick. They created an internal "floating bed" that absorbs the gun's recoil with minimal jarring of the gun frame itself. The barrel, magazine, chamber, and operating mechanism all move within this bed, which absorbs shock with springs and buffers. This creates a platform stable enough that the Locust can use autotargeting software usually reserved for match-grade weapons.

The Locust's lethality on shielded targets has been amply demonstrated. In 2176, a Virginian patent clerk named Michael Moser Lang brought a Locust concealed in a shoulder-mounted video camera to a photo opportunity between Enrique Aguilar, president of the United North American States, and Chinese People's Federation premier Ying Xiong. At a distance of about 25 meters, Lang pierced the kinetic barriers covering the stage with the first burst, and when Xiong heroically tackled Aguilar to remove him from the line of fire, Lang's succeeding bursts went through the premier's body and fatally wounded both men.
Haestrom

**Location:** Milky Way / Far Rim / Dholen System

**Haestrom** is a former quarian colony that has been abandoned, left to the geth in the aftermath of the Geth War. Initially established to observe the odd phenomenon of its parent star, Dholen, the world is still used for the same purpose, just by a different form of life.

## Description

Haestrom was initially colonized by the quarians on the 24th of June, 804 CE. A small research base never intended to truly grow in size, it was easily outmatched by the geth forces during the brief and violent Assault on Haestrom during the Geth War. It was lost to the AI on the 18th of January, 1896.
Niche Tur

**Niche Tur**, also known on his homeworld as **Daug Niche Tur** as of his kidnapping, is a former yahg warrior and the current person to inhabit the position known only as the Shadow Broker.

## Biography

In 2125, when the Citadel Council first encountered the yahg on their homeworld of Parnack, the former Shadow Broker was also drawn to this new species. Ordering some of his men to capture a subject for testing, Tur was kidnapped during a solo hunt and subjugated to years of testing.

In time, the yahg proved himself to be an intelligent and strong-willed individual, earning himself a role within the Shadow Broker's organization as "**Operative Kechlu**". His ambition, however, continued to push him even further. In 2131 the Shadow Broker attempted to murder Tur, but the yahg was quicker on the draw. He had already amassed a small force and stormed the Shadow Broker's base of operations on Hagalaz, killing the former broker and seamlessly integrating into the role himself.
N7 Typhoon

The **N7 Typhoon** is an assault rifle designed by the Systems Alliance specifically for use by their N7-qualified operatives, those who had passed through the rigors of the Interplanetary Combatives Training program.

The Typhoon is a distinctive light machine gun featuring a face shield to protect the shooter from headshots. Its power and recoil are so notorious that it includes a high-tech kinetic reducer to fight muzzle climb. Since the reducer tries to limit all motion by the weapon, marksmen do not engage it while moving and instead reduce the recoil only while they are in cover.
Drell Timeline

### 1400 CE

* Extensive and unchecked industrial expansion on the drell homeworld Rakhana begins taking a significant toll on the planet's environment.

### 1983 CE

* The drell make first contact with the hanar around this time. With their homeworld Rakhana severely depleted and no spaceflight capability, the drell were poised for a massive population crash by 2025 CE. Agreeing to help, the hanar mount a large-scale rescue operation and evacuate approximately 375,000 drell to their own homeworld, Kahje, over the following decade. The remaining 11 billion drell on Rakhana gradually perish, warring over the last reserves of food and water.

### 2125 CE

#### June

* **3rd** - The yahg, an intelligent pre-spaceflight race, are discovered on the planet Parnack.

### 2128 CE

#### July

* **25th** - The first reported cases of the Fisherman's Blight are recorded within the Vesohk Life Dome on Kahje. The plague spreads quickly between drell and hanar hosts.
* **29th** - Vesohk Life Dome was quarantined.

#### September

* **3rd** - Pressured by time, the Illuminated Primacy destroyed Vesohk.

### 2157 CE

#### July

* The turians prepare for a full-scale war against humanity, but this draws the attention of the Citadel Council. The Council intervenes before hostilities escalate further, revealing the existence of the greater galactic community to humanity and brokering a peace between them and the turians.
Kahje

Credit to the Spectre Expansion Mod

**Location:** Milky Way / Olyn Protectorate / Kanala System

With 90% of its surface covered by a vast ocean known as the Encompassing, the Hanar homeworld of **Kahje** is permanently enveloped in a blanket of clouds created by the heat from its energetic white star.

## History

Kahje is dotted with Prothean ruins, which has shaped the religion and society of the hanar.

In 1983 the hanar made first contact with the Drell, and upon realizing the dire straits the race was in evacuated as many of the drell as they could. These refugees were given a new home on Kahje, living in airtight life-domes beneath the surface as well as both the islands and several platforms above.

## Terrain

With 90% of its surface covered by a vast ocean known as the Encompassing, Kahje is permanently enveloped in a blanket of clouds created by the heat from its energetic white star. Beneath that cloud cover, the planet's land area consists solely of small islands. Kahje's atmosphere is perfect for life; while containing some traces of ammonia, it consists primarily of oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen, similar to that on Earth. Unfortunately, the climate has also proved too humid for the non-native drell, who were evacuated there from their own dying homeworld by the hanar two centuries earlier, and they have found it more tolerable to live in climate-controlled domed cities

## Wildlife

Typical of a temperate water world, Kahje has a diverse array of aquatic wildlife. Notably, it is home to the mindfish, an aquatic vertebrate similar to Earth's bony fishes. The mindfish has a hallucinogenic skin oil that is causes effects in hanar similar to those caused by alcohol in most sapients in the galaxy. As such, the mindfish is a hanar's go-to when they want recreational intoxication. If eaten by humans, its effects are more potent and release more slowly, often lasting several days.

## Notable Locations

### Cities

* Cnidaria City
* Golden Shoal
* Rasiil Life Dome
* Najira Life Dome
* Vesohk Life Dome

### Geographical Features

* The Encompassing
* Mount Vassla
Navale System

**Location:** Milky Way / Apien Crest

The **Navale System** is made up of a star and the four planets that orbit it, as well as the asteroid belt. It is located deep within the turian home cluster, the Apien Crest, and is strategically important due to the shipyards over the world of Aephus.

## Planets

* Solvit
* Aephus
* Gerens
* Ratis

## Asteroid Belts

* Navale Belt (Between Solvit and Aephus)
Lokar

Credit to the Spectre Expansion Mod

**Location:** Milky Way / Meade Cluster / Narbo System

Though **Lokar** is arid and cold, liquid lakes can be found beneath its desolate crust. Multiple turian colonies have been planned, though none have ever been launched.

## Trivia

* Lokar was created and added by the Spectre Expansion Mod for Mass Effect 3, which can be found at this link.
M-5 Phalanx

The **M-5 Phalanx** is the product of the Alliance's Offensive Handgun Project, a close-in weapon to be used with no loss of stopping power in comparison with a soldier's assault rifle. The Phalanx enjoys a ballistics advantage over most heavy pistols. Civilian variants are often purchased by colonists on planets that have particularly dangerous big-game animals.
Manswell

Credit to the Expanded Galaxy Mod

**Location:** Milky Way / Local Cluster / Alpha Centauri System

A cosmic coincidence predicted only by science fiction entertainment during the 20th century, **Manswell** is as close to being an Earth twin as can be expected from an alien solar system; they are similar in radius and mass, verdant with life, but Manswell has a higher water-land ratio and shallower seas.

## Description

This planet was colonized by the Manswell Expedition in the 21st century. Established by Victor Manswell, a billionaire frustrated by the pace of official space exploration, the colony has struggled to overcome the challenges of unsupported colonization ever since. Few records exist of the colonist's departure, and contact with Earth has not existed since their leaving the homeworld.

## Trivia

* Manswell was created and added by the Expanded Galaxy Mod for Mass Effect 3, which can be found here: EGM
Lenus

Credit to the Expanded Galaxy Mod

**Location:** Milky Way / Local Cluster / 61 Ursae Majoris System

**Lenus** is the trading center of the 61 Ursae Majoris System. Everything that is grown, harvested or mined in the system finds its way to Lenus before being shipped elsewhere in the galaxy.

## Description

The lucrative trade route from Sirona to Dekuuna forced the architects of the space stations in orbit of Lenus to factor elcor preferences into their design, and as a consequence, they were among the most ecologically-conscious and spacious systems constructed in Systems Alliance space.

## Notable Locations

### Artificial Satellites

* Ancamna Station
* Inciona Station
* Xulsigiae Station

## Trivia

* Lenus was created and added by the Expanded Galaxy Mod for Mass Effect 3, which can be found here: EGM
Kwunara-Kali

Artwork by Railroad

The **Kwunara-Kali**is a criminal organisation founded and lead by Ogun Tarka which operates throughout the Terminus Systems and Attican Traverse. Its name is written in the volus language Tol, and roughly translates to*'**the subtle knife'*.

## Description

The Kwunara-Kali is a small organisation led and managed by the volus crime lord, Ogun Tarka. The group is primarily involved in loaning and moving credits, and Ogun also manages multiple money-laundering schemes through several of his own businesses and with contacts all over the Terminus Systems and the Attican Traverse. Kwunara-Kali avoids involving itself in violent activities, and Ogun goes to great lengths to ensure the group does not draw too much attention to itself. Despite this, the organisation has an impressive roster of brutes, assassins, mercenaries and debt collectors on its books for when problems need to be ‘solved’. They also employ information brokers, investigators and spies.

The Kwunara-Kali is known by some to have ties to the Systems Alliance, and is rivaled by several Batarian Hegemony-aligned outfits. While they rarely deal with the Alliance directly, there are arrangements in place that are mutually beneficial to both parties, and detrimental to their mutual enemies.

Their usual base of operations is the Temperance Cornerclub in the Fumi District of Omega, although business is often conducted on board Ogun's personal frigate, the Kilao, as well.

## Notable Members

* Ogun Tarka
* Dratha Balu
* Gharlan Braska