I fully understand the motivation from the human side to make the shot, but I can't bear to read a war by misunderstanding - I already read the forever war and that wrecked me enough.

On one hand this story has one of, if not, the best written scenes depicting space and futuristic ground warfare that I have ever read in my life while also avoiding the annoying put fall of depicting the council as a bunch of incompetent buffoons who wish to force all other races in the galaxy into a position of subservience to them. On the other hand however is that this is just a HFY story about a fascist and xenophobic humanity that I began to hate and hope would loose so that they would be taken down a massive peg or two. If it was done on purpose however, I would have no deal breaking complaints for the story.

you have a talent for writhing space battles

I hope you will continue this one. Apart from a few HP/ME X-overs this is one of my top 3 other X-overs, the other two being ME/Cthulhu and ME/Prototype xD

Btw, it wasn't nukes they used, you said yourself it was antimatter

Gotta say I love the Fukyu name lol

Playing dead works if it's a low tech war... High tech includes infrared capacity in helmet visors. XD

"We have i coming transmission. Fire, destroy them." Human commander SLIGHTLY trigger happy? Lol. Even trying to excuse it as having only faced hostile aliens in the past doesn't work, since they never tried to communicate...

This story is good, but frustrating. Everything up to chapter ten feels very human wank. It’s reasonable, but still frustrating.

However, this story shows something that most ME stories don’t, the Council NOT being idiots, Asari excluded.

For that fact alone I recommend reading this.

Continue?

Why did the humans loose the first engagement so utterly?

They better destroy all the citadel races now

I really hope that you come back to this story one day! It is absolutely amazing, one of the best ME fics I've read, and it would be such a dissapointment to see it abandoned!

I have to say that the humanity depicted here just feels pretty evil. I hope after some losses they get better but probably not. They need a good couple of defeats. Maybe a redemption and then mutual defense arc against a greater threat. Maybe the ethereal's.

I have to say that the humanity depicted here just feels evil. I hope after some losses they get better but probably not. They need a good couple of defeats.

I don't care in the slightest about Zaeed. He should no longer be part of the main plot.