Very good story, although it drags in later chapters after Shepard and Tela leave for Therum. Being mostly a retelling, I'm guessing many would find it boring, but I like a lot how everybody is contributing, the political labyrinth you've created, and how humanity isn't being touted as the only species (species, not individual characters) that has common sense.

Kind of short, but it’s nice to see Miranda, though.

I mean, the council in of sheep and battle chicken are at least somewhat competent. They also just happen to also be evil bastards. Along with most other governments.

Or you could increase your military and system defenses like ODPs. The complainers are right, if the Alliance won’t do what is needed to protect them, then the Alliance must be replaced by a government that will.

Interesting that the Councilors think humanity acts up and all. The human successfulness in Council space speaks for itself. That isn’t something a childish people could do in less than five decades.

Also, Sparatus saying the humans were being petulant children is...dumb. Dragging the accusations into the limelight is hardly petulant when a major colony was attacked and a shit ton of people were murdered by kill-bots lead by a traitor. You said this council would be competent, but they don’t seem to be competent. If they were, they would see humanity’s reaction as nothing less than the appropriate response to something so major and public: making the reaction major and public. If a city on Earth was bombed by an invading military, the government wouldn’t just say “oh that was terrible” but stay hush hush about everything else. They’d be lynched in a heartbeat if they tried.

Well, ME isn’t HFY anyway. The closest to it Shepherd pissing off the Reapers enough for Earth to become their focus, which inadvertently helped the rest of Citadel space have time to organize.

And the fleet coming in to shoot sovereign, but it had already taken a pounding and that fleet also took massive losses and the only reason it arrived before other races was because Earth is so close to the Citadel and also Admiral Hackett trusted Anderson who trusted Shepherd.

The last part was actually kind of funny.

Looks like Zaeed and access to Heat Sinks are possibilities, but my preferred Male Shepard/Liara ship, could use some work, given the circumstances. That is if you’re interested in that sort of thing. I’m just saying.

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also, hamlet vs macbeth would be an odd crossover story to write

Max heat sink In best assault rifle I could ride none stop so long as was using armor or shrewd rounds .which were my rounds of choice .

Great writing.

It's alive! It's alive! Glad to see more of this fic and am eager to see how's Liara!

Dr. Michaels? Not Michel?

"We might just be ready to face the backslash." Face the backslash? How does one face a /? Or is that the forward slash and \ is the backslash? I can never keep them straight.

Also, Serrice Ice Brandy is the name of the drink, so I think that Serrice Council should be spelled the same, unlike your version "Serise."

And, though I like your initial premise, a competent Council means there is less conflict in your story, and conflict between two sides who should be working together to end the upcoming apocalypse is always good for drama.

Love humor in this story keep it up .