I weep for this story's discontinuation (unless the author miraculously comes back). This is honestly one of the best StarCraft Crossovers I've seen; the execution of the story, timeline, and the Battle of Shanxi honestly surpass that of the Sudden Series for me. This could easily have become the new Enduring the Flames of War but for StarCraft in my eyes.

Many people complain about the whole "150k dead and no war" thing, but in this context it seems reasonable. These poor sods just came out of a war with over 10 billion dead. I'd see them accepting 150k to avoid another multi-billion war.

I highly doubt the Turians had any technological advantage, considering Terran tech is both highly versatile and reliable, and i wouldn't call the C-14 Impaler Gauss Rifle primitive, considering its shoots those 8mm spikes at the velocity of hypersonic speeds which is 1500m/s or more, resulting in roughly the same kinetic power as a 25mm - 30mm autocannon round, acctual math was done for it before, and what the game shows does no justice to it by a large margain, its mainly like that because of unit balances, the rifle itself can penetrate two inches of RHA steel, which is 50.8mm and shoots depleted uranium armor piercing rounds, even then there is the new pulse laser rifle which is based on the licensed C-14, resulting in even better firepower than its base model. So this story makes absolute no sense, considering again, Terrans have experince fighting technologicly superior race, *ahem* Protoss, who would mop up the floor with the Turians easily *ahem*

The CMC armor would easily hold up against mass accelerator, its made of 80% depleted uranium and 20% titanium with vanadium plating above all if this can mostly hold up against Protoss plasma cannons then mass accelerators have little hope doing anything to it, mass accelerator guns may have high velocity similar to Gauss accelerator, but they have absolute terrible armor penetration and kinetic power compared to a full caliber gun, hence the making of different ammo types to compensate, round size is also a factor because the larger the round the more overpowering effect its have which can also suppletement additional kinetic and penetrative power.

These scenes always have armed soldiers pointing guns at diplomats in the very delicate first contact negotiations.

All you need is for Pvt Crackhead to sneeze and pull the trigger. The greeting party wouldn't be armed like some detail getting ready to brig the dirty alien. Ceremonial swords is one thing, but no ambassador would even come out of their ship under those circumstances with such a show of contempt. I think those Asari would just fly right back out.

And the scene with the ill disciplined morons pointing their guns and then questioning orders. Every one of them is totally expendable and even the ship is expendable in the face of going to war with a SECOND alien empire. They should understand that up front and shouldn't even have a weapon. Raynor comes off as a complete moron.

No one but a child or an idiot would bother to bring armed men to greet an ambassador like a coward.

Goddamn crazy aliens indeed

:rofl: Oh god it's so absurd, but it makes so much sense givne what the Citadel knows.

Overall I like the story, but I do have one mayor issue with the scalings you give; according to the game wiki, the most protoss capital ships are easily above 2 or 3 kilometers, and even terrab battlecruisers are supposed to be at a kilometer, the hyperion being a bit larger. The cruisers/ dreadnoughts in Mass Effect are anywhere from 300 meters to 1.5km. Jim and the Raiders might be a bit suprised, but they wouldnt really break a sweat, and they wouldnt panic, theyre used to dealing with such legnths/ heights

I will be honest, on one hand the fact (Jim and the Terrans specifically) that they are tired of war and want to avoid another is understandable - but it's hard to believe that after 150,000 needless deaths due to a group of lawful warriors circle-jerking each other they are happy to just say "let bygones be bygones". Would have expected Humanity to be more aggressive and vengeful, but hey ho it's your story - and it's a dropped one at that xD

Should have made all technology need psionics to use and couldn’t be reversed engineered

Protoss: “Fuck yo physics, shuttle rides are boring!”

Looks like little Bobby found a dik-ti-oh-na-ree.
He also found some crayons, but he ate them.

And little Bobby is looking for a bi-bli-oh-tek to find a dik-tio-na-reeso that he can find out what su-ren-de-ring means.
Just don't give him crayons.

Fucking stupid storyline

Fucking stupid MOTHERFUCKER

Ya know... it may be several years too late but... I love this omake.