u/Soggy_Apricot_7008

For everyone who messaged me, I am incredibly grateful for your offers and I'm incredibly grateful that I got to see all your amazing art, thank you for your patience and your time. However, I have already found an artist, that's not to say I didn't enjoy your art, you'll have wonderfully different and beautiful styles that I was glad to have seen, the only reason I didn't put this up immediately after I found my artist is because this was my first time using this subreddit and I apologize for that, thank you for your offers and please have a wonderful night.

Currently I've been working on a project that's been on the back burner for a while,

Basically the premise is this:

in this universe The Traveler changed everything for every species, for every cycle with the reapers it was always there, essentially making it impossible for the reapers to have a fighting chance, while many lives and species were lost the reapers suffered casualties that made each cycle more impossible,because of this by the time of their last cycle, the protheans, they had fallen into the low hundreds, this was largely due in part To every cycle having at least one planet with access to the paracausal technology, combining this with access to the relays system. planets could supply weaponry in days or weeks, So in order to ensure their cycle they targeted The travelers currently chosen, essentially crippling the Milky Way, before eventually targeting the leaders in the form of the protheans, Because of this full frontal assault from both forces when the traveler eventually fled its path seemingly, intentionally. took out several reapers along with major witness forces, severely crippling both ends, while still leading to the fall of the prothean people, But not before they set up their systems of defense, Unfortunately, these systems of defense were only intended for the reapers, not the witness forces

Eventually, when it was Earth's, turn the arrival of the traveler on Mars prevented the initial discovery of the prothean ruins and Charon relay, It's signature initially being mistaken as a result of the traveler, because of this, Rather than meeting their intergalactic neighbors humans advance just as they did in the Destiny universe with The traveler's light, leading to the events of the collapse and to the sacrifice of the traveler,shortly after the collapse, and the birth of the Ghost, thousands out of the millions (for the sake of myself only on working on the idea that the traveler created exactly 999,999,999 Ghost and roughly maybe 70'000 ghost left the sol system) created left, thier lightbearers weren't on earth; or the sol system, that knew that they had to leave, not knowing that thier chosen would be not just humans, but amongst the Species of citadel space,The story began

shortly after the events of forsaken, starting with three Guardians as our major narrators and starting group, Tezcatlipoca, Kenji-9, and Zephyr Fel, They learn of the existence of the Charon relay solely due to being given a mission by Ikora Rey, Who had discovered it on Mars some centuries earlier, and tasked herself and her hidden with slowly studying it and repairing it believing it to initially be some type of weapon, however, after finding the original ruins and learning of its true purpose, they task the fireteam with using the relay to see if any of its systems are still operational, but also hoping it takes them to several listed locations with potential weaponry and defenses for the last city, however on because of the previous cycles and a witness itself, more relays are missing from this timeline then the actual Mass Effect timeline, because of this, the relay takes them straight to the heart of citadel space, unintentionally starting a war with the last city. In citadel space, including "High rider" humans (humans who survived the collapse due to being on Exodus ships that made it out during the Golden age, creating and fracturing into both Cerberus and Alliance)

I definitely know this. Looks like rambling and sometimes that is an issue with me but I feel like the synopsis does help, especially in relation to these three major issues I'm exploring

1. Ghost bond with non human/high rider lightbearers:

I know the witch queen and Luzaku explore this concept but what I am trying to explore is A. Ghost bonding with people who don't even understand what they or the ghost is but know they rely on them and it isn't just a quid pro quo relationship but could be any manner of relationship since they don't have a history as enemies, and B. Ghosts who have the goal of helping their brethren on earth and the traveler but left so early, to the point that they don't even know anything about the Warlords and Iron Lords so they are just as disconnected as their chosen lightbearers

2.The concept of light, immortality, and paracausality in council space: mostly this is to explore the concept of how light bearers outside of the solar system will explore and develop their paracausality, They don't have the schools of thought like Titans, Warlock, and Hunter But perhaps they could develop something similar, However, the major difference between them and earth Is that they don't get the luxury of being more abstract with the concept of what they develop in terms of powers, citadel space is high tech, fast shooting, and technologically direct, the working idea I have is that their "supers" Would more likely be gun enhancement for specific archetypes such as void-based techniques for snipers, solar for handguns, and arc assault rifles, What a few exceptions I'm making for the story. Most of these will still just revolve around guns with little to no abstractness or melee, But also the idea of how do you get someone to easily adapt to the idea that they can never die and that they or living engine of effect without a cause since they don't have other light bearers teaching them, and assuming that a lot of them are passing their own current logic of their situation down to others they meet (again, Destiny is a lot more vague than Mass Effect so I'm working on the consensus that The timeline takes place roughly in 1000-1200 years after the golden age so roughly 35 to 36th century)

3.How to explore different governments and militaries in relation to these light bearers and to the concept of sol system lightbearers and ways to naturally make the clash:

If we all know anything about the Mass Effect Universe, there is absolutely no way that any non-sol system/ high rider guardian is staying hidden for long, especially from a military of their own species, Almost each species would have some type of messed up response to the lightbearers of their species, salarians With unethical experimentation, Turians with forced military service in what are essentially suicide missions, and then there's the alliance and Cerberus, To human factions vying for the high seat of the Galaxy with very different methods, and once they figure out the concept of light bearers you can absolutely guarantee they will or work those people to the bones if they can force him too, chances are narratively it. It's already going to happen. What I'm trying to explore is what happens when each of these groups realize the major factors of A. Their lightbearers aren't the only ones, B. They actually have the minority or the exceptions compared to most that are light bearers, and C. The solar system light bearers are not only seasoned in ways that you would only expect from an asari commando or a krogan, they have full mastery of the aspects of their abilities and have developed training systems and they can't compare to due their abstractness and mythicism, And also outside of these aspects if many of them can get spies to the sol system they realize that ghosts aren't just their own thing, that there is an actual God presiding on on the wasteland that is Earth over one city in the entire Milky Way, One that not only has humans that were essentially abandoned by their high rider counterparts, but also humans that casually have demigods walking among them As their neighbor, partner, teacher, or even their drinking buddy

I love writing, it's just sometimes I struggle with building concepts of myself outside of stuff like characters, powers, and weapons, things like fictional politics and military exploration and Large scale cultural changes and shifts are a bit of a struggle to me, which is mainly why I came here, I was hoping to get some help and opinions so I generally be grateful for whatever I can get, And if you're just reading it. Thanks for stopping by anyways.