Mass Effect category
Events
9 entries tagged Events, 9 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Reaper War and Battle of the Citadel.
- Treaty of Farixen: the dreadnought ratio that held Citadel spaceThe Treaty of Farixen fixed how many dreadnoughts each Citadel power was permitted to build, placing the turian navy at the top of a five to three to one pyramid. Signing it was the price of an embassy on the Citadel, and the species who never signed, or who stopped caring, are the ones who reshaped the balance.
- Battle of the CitadelThe Battle of the Citadel was the climactic engagement of 2183 in which the rogue Spectre Saren Arterius, guided by the Reaper Sovereign, attempted to seize the Citadel and open a path for the Reaper invasion. Commander Shepard and the Citadel and Alliance fleets stopped the attack at great cost, and its outcome shaped galactic politics for years afterward.
- Eden Prime WarThe Eden Prime War was the conflict between the Systems Alliance and the geth that began with a surprise attack on the human colony of Eden Prime in 2183 CE. Secretly directed by the rogue Spectre Saren Arterius and the Reaper Sovereign, the war ranged across the galaxy before culminating in the Battle of the Citadel.
- First Contact WarThe First Contact War, known to the turians as the Relay 314 Incident, was a brief, low-intensity conflict between the human Systems Alliance and the Turian Hierarchy in 2157 CE. It began when turians fired on human ships reactivating a dormant mass relay, escalated into the occupation and liberation of the colony Shanxi, and ended with Council mediation that revealed the wider galaxy to humanity.
- Krogan RebellionsThe Krogan Rebellions were a decades-long war between the krogan and the Citadel Council that began around 700 CE, sparked by unchecked krogan expansion onto worlds claimed by other races. The conflict ended with the deployment of the salarian-engineered genophage, the surrender of the krogan, and a Council seat awarded to the turians.
- Morning WarThe Morning War, known to most of the galaxy as the Geth War, was the conflict that erupted when the newly sapient geth turned on the quarians who had created them. The geth won, all but exterminating the quarians and driving the survivors into a centuries-long exile aboard the Migrant Fleet.
- Rachni WarsThe Rachni Wars were a series of conflicts beginning around 1 CE, after a Citadel expedition opened a dormant mass relay into the territory of the rachni, a hostile hive-minded insect species. The Council races fought a losing war for nearly a century until the salarians uplifted the krogan, whose numbers turned the tide and drove the rachni to extinction.
- Reaper WarThe Reaper War was the galaxy-wide conflict that began in 2186 when the Reapers emerged from dark space to harvest all advanced organic life. It saw the fall of Earth, Palaven, and Thessia, the forging of unlikely alliances, and a final battle over Earth that decided the fate of every species.
- Skyllian BlitzThe Skyllian Blitz was a massed pirate and slaver assault on the human colony of Elysium in 2176 CE, partly funded by batarian financiers in reprisal for human expansion into the Skyllian Verge. The colony's defenders held off the attackers until Alliance reinforcements arrived, and the Blitz later prompted a major Alliance offensive against batarian pirate bases on Torfan.