Author note: I wish I did, but sadly I do not own Mass Effect or any of its…spelunk. All I own are the Val'Kin and Val'Nar. First fanfiction too! Woo! ALSO, what is with the lack of AI first contact stories? Just a reminder, is an AU so things will be different. Also, I wanted to rewrite this fanfic because I felt as if I couldn't really move around with the old plotline, instead I decided to change it around a bit. Expect better and longer chapters, you all deserve it. Looking for a beta as well. Val is pronounced: "Vail-Kin" or "Vail'Nar" so read it like that.
800 CE: A reptilian race with mammalian traits known as the Val'Nar have started to traverse the unending Void known as space. The two separate counties that spanned the the tropical planet; Velkania, they lived on coming together to make this possible. An alliance is formed between the two counties as they hadn't experienced a war in over three centuries, this alliance however leads to the countries coming together under one banner, a single planet united in their fever to explore what had previously been out of their grasp.
This single planet being ruled by the democratic republic government jokingly coined an empire by those who had a sense of humor. This term quickly became a species wide joke and the Government was formally named: Empire of the Val'Nar. While this raises concerns, it is quickly dismissed as too many people with a sense of humor in office. Things continue on as if nothing had changed, showing how united the race was even before they "officially" came together.
958 CE: The Val'Nar had made leaps and bounds in the art of space travel, being able to travel between planets with ease in mere days as opposed to the months it had been before. When another discovery was made, it would change days to almost minutes. But that discovery wouldn't be discovered for another 24 Velkania years. For now, however the Val'Nar looked to expanding their living space. A single planet had been found to be habitable with a few "changes" to it. By a few one would mean a complete terraforming of the planet.
The terraforming would take years to complete, but something else caught the Val'Nar's collective eyes: Ruins on the planet now formally named Zaestea. This answered one question that the Val'Nar had since they looked up to the stars: "Are we alone?". This however made another question be asked: "Are we safe?". The only answer that could be given was: "We will be". The tech found is analyzed thoroughly but they do not incorporate it into their own, fearing that the unknown aliens would know much more than the Val'Nar and be able to shut down the tech and thus render the Val'Nar defenceless was far too great.
992 CE: The Val'Kin look into the creation of AI, though the fear of AL uprising makes progress slow. Though it isn't technology that is hindering the Val'Nar. Antimatter is created by accident, Antimatter meets matter and the resulting explosion kills over twelve Val'Nar. It's a bittersweet day for the Val'Nar. A laser powerful enough to cut through a three-inch-thick plate of Ketrite, which at the time is the strongest all around used metal used by the Val'Nar. This has implications that shows a bright future for the Empire of the Val'Nar.
1000 CE: The first 'dumb' AI is created, already it proves successful in helping the Val'Nar when it helps improve the method for creating and containing Antimatter. Awestruck and willing to push the limits the Val'Nar quickly began the research into a 'smart' AI, one that could possible feel emotions like their creators could. This new surge in the ability of technology to create and contain Antimatter revolutionizes Val'Nar energy creation and space flight. The public are still wary of sentient AIs, but can see the clear advantages of them.
Due to the ability to use Antimatter as an energy supplier the Val'Nar experiment with the ability to travel faster in space than they have have ever done before or could have previously hoped to have achieved. This new technology is literally forcing wormholes to appear at one point and end at another. This experiment goes horribly wrong and the ship as well as all those aboard the ship are lost. Any and all faster than light travel experiments are put on hold until further notice
1244 CE: Using a map of the Val'Nar's brain to do so, the first 'smart' Ai is created. Upon 'waking' the AI looked around the room at the worried, yet excited Val'Nar. Using the provided hardware it asked two questions: "Who am I?" and "What am I?". The Val'Nar answered truthfully. "You are you, and who you are is up to you. You are a fully sentient Artificial Intelligence. Our electronical child. To us, you are kin of the Val'Nar." The newly 'birthed' AI was silent for five minutes straight, and this moment was regarded as the longest minutes in Val'Nar History before the AI spoke, almost too soft to hear. "I am Vellal, a Val'Kin. Hello creators." The Val'Nar let out a collective breath of relief. Almost immediately the Val'Kin are given full rights as a sentient being.
Years later relationships would pop up between the Val'Kin and their creators, this was actually encouraged to a degree by both sides. The Val'Kin knew of the creators slight fear of a synthetic rebellion, they hoped this would prove that they wouldn't do such a thing.
1405 CE: Mechanical bodies constructed with Meshotium, an almost organic in nature metallic alloy serve as Val'Kin bodies. Two frames are standard issue for Val'Kin. The male frame is a set height of 7 feet and the female a height of 6'5 feet, which are all the average for Val'Nar males and female respectively. However the Val'Kin military frames have built in weapons in the hands and forearms of the frames. Dubbed "WarFrames" These frames are heavily weaponized and ready for war. Another addition is made to the Val'Kin as a whole: Antimatter power cores and quantum entanglement 'personality' boxes. These QEPB are basically black boxes that stores the entirety of the the Val'Kin's 'mind' so to protect them from permanent death.
The ship once thought lost to the "Wormhole incident" suddenly reappears looking no worse for wear except for the crumpled up portside. It comes to a shock to all as the crew is found alive and well, if not frightened and confused. The crew did not look a day over their ages when they had started the experiment, much to everyone's shock. The crew reported that they had gone into some place of pure blackness, no stars, no planets, nothing at all. They also reported dark Val'kinoid shadows that whispered in melodic voices and tugging at them before fading away. This is dismissed as hallucinations brought on by shock and paranoia. When they checked the ship's navigation logs arguable the greatest Val'Nar discovery is found. The ship had traveled 2.5 million light-years away from the Kel-System where the Val'Nar and Val'Kin were living, then it had traveled back.
1500 CE: This new form of travel is called: Void jumping. The device used to create wormholes did not in fact create wormholes, but instead tore holes in space and time nullifying both. A surprising but welcome discovery that allowed the Empire of the Val'Nar and the Val'Kin to travel around space as if they were the kings of the endless space. Much to the collective excitement and glee of both the Val'Nar and the Val'Kin. Both, organic and synthetic, had a growing population well over 9 billion strong. The two planets they inhabited starting to strain under the need for resources.
It is discovered that Val'Kin also see and hear these shadowy figures. While this causes some to panic, most see that these enigmas do no harm and continue to ignore them. However a religion is formed from these enigmas. The believers of said religion explain the Void Jumps as opening a pathway between dimensions, the enigmas being projections of the dimension they made a path through. This religion views the dimension the ship passes through as a higher deity. Not really a god per say, but higher on a plane of existence.
1525 CE: A ship carrying twelve Val'Kin and twenty Val'Nar get hit by a solar storm before performing a VoidJump to an unknown part of space or time. No one would know it, but this would pell the end for the Val'NAr, and a near end for the Val'Kin. Massive hubs of storage and communications are built on barren planets and moons for the Val'Kin to share information at speeds of 9.5 terabytes per standard Velkania minute. This, as long as the Val'Kin had a connection, would increase the Val'Kins ability to communicate and allow the ability for them to form a government. This would save the Val'Kin.
Two new planets are found that can support the Val'Nar and colonisation begins immediately, The Val'Kin opt to live both on the planet but also on massive space stations to give their creators more room to live. Construction on these space station begins almost at the start of the year. One planet is found to be eligible to be terraformed. The process is started quickly, although with the two new planets to colonise the terraforming was done with a bit of laziness as most resources were going to the colonies to be.
1808 CE: Terraforming on Venka is complete, and 36,435 Val'Kin and Val'Nar move to the planet, the lowest migration that any new planet has experienced within the grasp of the Val'Nar Empire, but seeing as the two other planets had more than two million Val'Nar and Val'Kin each move to them and were still getting immigrants.
The previously thought to be lost ship arrives at the edge of the system, unknown to all and hiding from those who would have found it. The twelve Val'Kin having suffered a massive error to their processors and personality matrixes having gone off the deep end. A logical insanity. Secretly these damaged Val'Kin plotted to make the Val'Kin dominate the Val'Nar Empire.
1950 CE: The rogueVal'Kin work on engineering an artificial virus to bring the Val'Nar to their knees. They work for years to perfect the virus, making it durable and contagious to an unnatural level. They care not how lethal it is, only that it is deliberating to any organics that match the genetics of the Val'Nar.
2012 CE: The rogue Val'Kin quickly release the virus on every major planet, including the Val'Nar homeworld, from those planets the virus, later name: Proditor est plaga mortis for Traitor's plague, quickly spread from planet to planet, even the space stations were not safe from the virus. This virus is quickly discovered, but a lack of knowledge and understanding of the Proditor est plaga mortis virus undermines all attempts at quarantine.
All Val'Nar are infected by the virus, it is shown that the Proditor est plaga mortis has a 100% mortality rate. Val'Kin and Val'Nar scramble to try to find some cure or way to fight the virus, even just something to temporarily halt the death of the infected in the hopes of scraping up some more time to find the cure.
2016 CE: Despite the desperate attempts by both Val'Kin and Val'Nar, the virus proves to be too complex and the Val'Nar die out. An entire race dying in front of their technological children, friends, lovers, and creations. The rogue Val'Kin expose themselves, expecting praise. Only to be tore apart and destroyed by a crowd of enraged and mourning Val'Kin. The Val'Kin examine the dead rogue's memories and see where things went wrong. They improve themselves to resist that critical personality error.
2026 CE: The Val'Kin treat the planets the Val'Nar once lived on as massive graves, only some remained to care for the infrastructure of the deceased Val'Nar. Homes, roads, empty never to be used cars, books, and everything the Val'Nar had built. The Val'Kin remove all hubs from these worlds in shame. The hubs are placed in the space stations that were built for the Val'Kin
2038 CE: All traces of the Proditor est plaga mortis virus die out, the day is sour to the Val'Kin. The Val'Kin begin to lose themselves to their memories, like a person losing themselves to a dream Val'Kin start to live in the past when their creators were still with them. Desperate to not leave themselves to decay via artificial comas the Val'Kin take to the stars, attempting to find other forms of life, be it synthetic or organic.
2157 CE: The Val'Kin make first contact with humanity.
*A/N* Yep, I've decided to rewrite this story, I feel as if I've learned a few things since my beta started to help me with my other story. (God damn straight) [unlike you] (Asshole.) [that's where you want it] (You said it, not me) [you're right I'm not sorry]So I feel as if this story could use one hell of a tune up in the lore and writing sections, also no this will not be a "OH FUCK ENERGY WEAPONS OOOOH NOOOOO" fic or a "HUMANITY! FUCK YEAH!" fic (not with me at it's helm, you're right) [You said you weren't gonna beta this one] (Might as well) [Well, never look a gift whore in the mouth as my mother used to say] (That has nothing to do with this)[You're the gift whore, and I ain't looking you in the mouth] (Firstly; what even? Secondly, good. I don't trust ye with that shit) [open wide 3] (I think your getting a bit off topic douchebag) [Yeah whatever} (That's what she said when she saw your dick) [Okay cod kiddy] (I don't play cod. And I'm not a kid) So anyway, I hope you guys and gals wanted bigger, longer, thicker chapters, because you're getting it whether you like it or not. (Rape)[Eye rape] (That's what she said when she saw your dick. Beat that one)[You're love life is a joke and it is quite possible you will die alone and forgotten] (IT IS NOT. Now shaddup and write. Asshole)