well then, this took me weeks to finish. great story, just great. excluding the few grammatical errors it was perfectly written and the characters were expressed accurately and developed in a believable way. gonna be honest though, not much of a shepardXtali fan, still it didn't ruin the story for me. it was actually one of the more interesting aspects especially when you hinted at garrus having feelings for her. canonically speaking if garrus or tali aren't romanced they end up together so i found that tidbit to be pleasing. guessing that Guilty Sparks is the sequel to this and i can't wait to see how you continue the story especially with how large of a cast you have to deal with but I'm sure you'll give everyone their due time.

I realized I wanted to mention this a few chapters back but emile wields a kukri knife, not a machete. they are similar but still different weapons.

One small tiny error, Jorge calls Halsey "Mom" not "ma'am" since she was the project lead for the Spartan IIs. I'm guessing you played the reach games but if you read his wiki page it's in the trivia section. There are other Spartan IIs that call her that as well. I know the story is complete just wanted to mention that small tidbit

Ok so this was about as far as i could get really before i just had to stop. Why do you hate halo so much? I mean really, does everyone in halo seem useless to you? From the ONI spy who folded on a lack luster threat after shouting around the ship who he was. You know these guys are meant to resist interrogation. Not fold and piss themselves under a mean look. Also, why is shepard being a dick? And im not referring to his character arc, at the start Shepard keeps on whining about trust when hes given the UNSC nothing to trust them on other than, he seems honest. Any government, particularly a military one in a losing war, would have jailed him, taken every bit of tech he has, interrogated him and if hes particularly unlucky, disected for his biotics. ONI would have sent in a spec ops team and slaughtered the alien crew in minutes. Also, why the hell is Tali or Kasumi of any help what so ever? Kasumi is a theif with no military training whatsoever yet shes on par with the spartans? Also, how can tali find completely different covenent tech and instantly know how to improve unsc tech "100 fold"? Why do phasic rounds have any effect on covenent shielding when they are designed to work on kinetic barriers? Something completely different in design. How thw fuck is garrus able to choke a spartan who literally weighs several tons? Seriously? Pushing emile to the wall and making him "squeak" out words? Emile would have rippwd his arm off in moments!
Now im not some halo fan boy blind to the truth ok, the fact that in 500 years humanity hasnt improved in weapons tech at all just makes no sense. If you could email me a response it qould be appreciated cause i just wanna know.

... In the short amount of time they've had Elite shields they can someone understand it enough to actually adapt it to their own shields. Really? This is so not OP and BS at all.

Ok I take back my comment. This chapter was exceedingly excellent. As long as you don't make the mass effect guy's as invincible as you did in the first chapter.

... Bull. Bullshit chapter. Sure as hell not reading this story after the BS that just happened here. That easy to hack a completely Alien ship? B.U.L.L

Heh nice, but Tali should've died from that plasma shot, kinetic barriers shouldn't do shit against DEW's not to mention her suit is poorly suited for super heated gas, he'll if the collectors could board Normandy with mass effect weapons and absolutely slaughter everyone and kidnapping the crews, 75 effin convies should be able to easily kill the entire crew. I believe your favoring the main characters a bit to much

It was good up until the contact with the covenant, but I couldn't keep reading after seeing how poorly they were portrayed. Only because they are my favorite group though.

I feel that the Elites have been majorly underpowered in this fic. I mean, a slightly older elite can go toe to toe against a Spartan II, and maybe win.
Halo is ridiculed for its story by the people who think its lore is only given by the game, completely dismissing the fact that most of its story is developped through novels and comics.
I thought this would be a nice fic, where Covenant hierarchy and dynamics would be explored, since they were present in the first chapter. But nope.
Still original tho, since it's a ME crew in UNSC universe, and not the other way around. But I won't be reading it. Not because it's bad, quite the countrary in fact, I guess it's just a matter of personnal opinion.

Great story

Stupid reapers

Your doing well on the character emosions.

Nice story.

Stopped reading after the covenant first showed up. There is no way EDI could hack the covenant systems or that any computer virus would be compatible with covenant tech. Then there's the fact that the elites are basically tall grunts. The elites are supposed to be highly effective soldiers sometimes on par with Spartans. In your story they are pathetically weak and stupid. Why even write In an enemy from another source if your not going to have them be remotely similar. You might as well have just made the main enemy of this story a fleet of retarded children. TLDR version is that the covenant would demolish the normandy.