Yuri Effect

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Tevos hated these sorts of meetings. By the goddess couldn't it be something else, ANYTHING else.

She would rather wrestle a krogan then deal with another human-batarian incident.

Ever since the Council first made contact with the young species they have been nothing but a thorn in her side.

The asari tried hard to keep the galaxy pacified as best as they could but the idea of harmony somehow never could reach those fools.

And she knew whose fault it was, she was looking in his hologram.

The bald human was not in the least bit concern with the accusation against him...just like the last time.

"WE DEMAND JUSTICE!" shouted the batarian ambassador.

"For what?" asked the human.

"You bloody well know what for!" hissed the batarian "Your attacks on our colonies in the Skyllian Verge!"

"As far as I recall we had this discussion the last time."

Tevos sighted. The last time, the time before that, and the time before that. It was the same thing since the Relay 314 Incident.

In twenty years humanity managed to become the most common cause of migraine in her life.

In 2157. a Turian patrol detected the activation of a dormant Mass Relay and proceeded to enforce Citadel Law.

The group of twenty starships emerged in the vicinity of a bustling garden world and thought it wise to go in guns blazing.

What they didn't know was that the humans were already aware of their presence and their intent.

The salarians still didn't have much luck in understanding the concept of the Psychic Radar but it proved its effectiveness more then once.

The humans allowed the turian ground units to land unmolested. Some soldiers wondered why the buildings were empty but the superiors ignored their concerns as unimportant, rationalizing that the locals fled.

That is when the humans attacked. Tanks called Magnetrons managed to actually pull starships from the orbit making them crash on the planet or in each other.

At the same time human infantry called Initiates managed to encircle a large part of the turian military inside the cities they were send to occupy.

The turian kinetic barriers proved useless against the strange pyrokinetic attack the humans used and were soon decimated.

Only 2.2% of the soldiers managed to retreat through the kessel back to general Arterius, the rest was either killed or captured.

Since the turian fleet couldn't safely stay in orbit and didn't want to bombard the cities because their own soldiers were in them, they retreated a safe distance away and demanded reinforcements from the nearest base.

The additional ships and troops arrived a few days later and managed with heavy losses to secure air dominance.

Especially the Gattling cannons took a heavy toll, both in ground and air units. Soon turians were again pushing into the urban areas of the world they now knew as Shanxi.

The humans fought them street for street, building for building, room for room. And while many turians surrendered to the humans when surrounded, the humans never even attempted it. Even when offered to surrender they rather died then let themselves be captured. Many turians found that sort of disregard for ones own life strange, even terrifying.

The turian casualties were staggering, but they were making quick progress.

And then the disaster happened. An armada of strange bio-mechanical vessels entered the Shanxi system and flanked the turian ships. To the turians shock the ships fired lasers that sliced and pierced their vessels with ease. Not only that, but they also launched projectiles that the ships captains thought were torpedoes...they were horribly wrong.

The spherical projectiles managed to breach the ships barriers by slowing down before the impact and to the turians horror instead of an explosion the spheres opened up allowing leg-like appendages to emerge. The spider-like machines easily sliced their way into the ships, where they started to destroy vital systems or kill the crew. Sometimes the crew themselves would panic and start to shoot at anyone nearby - even their friends and family.

Only later it was found out that the – Chaos Drones – had the ability to confuse organic opponents.

The turian commander was forced to make a fighting retread back to the relay, he didn't wish to leave more brave turian soldiers at the enemy's mercy but it was either that or lose the whole of the 6th fleet in this battle.

But the humans had other plans...

They didn't only push the turians out of the system, they followed them.

The conflict soon spread over a dozen of turian worlds that were surprised by the sudden assault.

The Hierarchy demanded that the Council intervened, and the asari and salarians agreed that the conflict had to be stopped.

The Citadels combined fleets managed to stop the human advance and were even able to retake most of the occupied world.

It was then that they came face to face with the true nature of the enemy.

Clones! Every single soldier (or rather corpse) they found was only a copy. Not only that their body was so asari like!

That wasn't even the strangest of things.

Turians were actually fighting turians in the streets. Some even recognized the soldiers they left on Shanxi in the first and second attack.

Even civilians that were only a week under occupation started to attack Citadel soldiers.

Entire cities fell into chaos as riots broke out. It was like a nightmare for the average turian soldier who ended up isolated in such a place when hordes of his fellow turians armed from guns to fists charged against his position.

Some didn't want to shoot the civilians and were quickly killed or dragged of only to appear later fighting with the rebels. Others soldiers weren't so compassionate.

That strange phenomenon was soon explained – mind control.

The planets inhabitants that were occupied were all brainwashed to the last infant.

The Hierarchy frankly had no idea what to do, they lost control over billions of citizens on dozen of worlds that sided with the aggressor.

But the Citadel had a solution.

Instead of trying to gain control over the lost worlds, the salarians devised a plan in which the war will be fought again on enemy soil. An armada of asari, turian, salarian and batarian ships managed to push its way back to the world of Shanxi.

The two sides clashed again on the human world and for seven long years battled each other for space, air and ground supremacy with shifting results.

The first thing they discovered was that sending agents, spies, saboteurs and Spectres against the enemy didn't work. In fact it proved rather disastrous.

The agents and spies were seen working side by side with Initiates against their own species almost as soon as they entered an enemy base.

Specters were caughed sabotaging Citadel operations or killing allied officers more often than not...it was a catastrophe.

The most results were given by mechs since they were immune to mind control, sadly they were a poor substitute for a skilled asari commando.

The combination of the Psychic Radars and Psychic Towers was able to foil most plans and tactics with utmost ease.

Another surprise was that the bioships had the ability to drain energy from nearby ships leaving them dead in space, that unfortunate fate was reserved for the Destiny Ascension among others.

It was first during the fourth year of the war that finally steps towards peace could be made.

The leader of the human race decided that the conflict lasted too long and that there should be peace.

His name was Yuri.

The Hierarchies demands for reparations were stunningly high, not only that, they also demanded the return of their worlds and citizens.

Since the humans were ready to return only half of the occupied worlds, the peace talks broke down and the war resumed.

To the Citadels horror the humans soon started to deploy strange weapons that could mind control whole regions with a single use or turn the people there in the monstrosities called Brutes.

The Psychic Dominator was first used against an asari garrison in the occupied city of Datong on Shanxi.

The whole base simply went dark only to make a surprise assault on the batarian troops that were heading for a renewed offensive on the city of Taiyuan.

The Council thought about using atomic weapons against Yuri but the weapon the humans used couldn't be classified as one of Mass Destruction since they didn't destroy anything, so the idea was dropped.

It was only three years later, that the Citadel races had enough of the war and pressured the Hierarchy in accepting the peace treaty.

It left a biter taste to accept such a document. Millions of lives lost on the Citadels side and for all the spilled blood they had nothing to show for it.

Tevos sighted.

Yuri knew the Citadel space inside out thanks to his mind controlled Spectres. So when the Council offered the Skyllan Verge in exchange for the occupied worlds Yuri easily saw through the deception.

The Council had no authority to give the region to anyone.

So humanity kept the turian worlds and still after the signing of the armistice proceeded to colonize the Verge.

That angered the Hegemony that demanded that the Council interfered, but after finally ending the first war nobody had the will to fight another one, and especially not for the batarians of all people.

So they were left to deal with the humans on their own.

The Hegemony planed to use pirates and slavers to drive the humans out of 'their' territory.

As time passed not a single pirate or slaver returned from a human colony with slaves, even worse the number of slavers and pirates was decreasing at an alarming speed.

That all ended in 2178 when a large armada of pirates and slavers attacked the colonies in the Verge..including Torfan.

Entire worlds were depopulated as slavers dragged the people away from their homes.

Now, the batarians KNEW who was responsible, but they had no proof. How do you prove that the attackers were mind controlled?

And that brought her back to the discussion between the batarian ambassador and the hologram of the Yuri clone. The batarian simple had NO proof.

"I don't need proof I know you did it!" he hissed at Yuri who looked bored with the farce, it was only the 67th time that he had to participate in the same discussion.

"As impressive as your knowledge is, it is still not in any way substantial evidence" said Yuri "If I simply believed your word for it then anyone could come and say he was mind controlled and demanded all sorts of things."

Tevos had enough, she didn't know if the pirates were really controlled or simply exploited batarian weakness out of their own free will, but this had to stop soon "Ambassador Jath'Amon, you have been warned as was your predecessor about accusations without any tangible evidence, this matter is closed."

The batarian looked like he wanted to say a few choice words about Tevos and Yuri but thought better of it.

"If that is all I will take my leave" said the hologram before disappearing.

"I hate that guy" said Sparatus. The turians never forgave humanity for all the pain and suffering they brought to them.

"We all do" said Tevos "But until we know a way to stop his mind control technology we are in no position to fight him."

And it was not only his mind control tricks that made humanity almost untouchable. Their knowledge in genetics was too advanced even to contemplate another genophage. For all they know the madman could have an arsenal of twisted bio weapons stored with the blueprints for his cloning and mind control technology.

Yuri stroked his beard as he walked away from the communication device.

The Council never did allow any humans in their space so he was forced to use long range holograms. Too bad, he would have loved to have a few of his clones on that outdated relic.

He slowly walked past the countless Bio-reactors that stretched the underground complex.

All those slaves that were brought here made an excellent energy source. There was a reason he needed the billions of sentients to produce so much energy, it was linked to one of Albert's old inventions.

He entered a dark damp room and saw the alien with his back turned.

"The batarians again?" asked Javik

"Indeed" said Yuri as he approached the Prothean "but they are irrelevant in the greater scheme of things."

The alien wanted to comment that none of them were, but found it smarter to skip the verbal jab "You still didn't tell me how you planed to fight the Reapers."

"As you have seen my technology is of limited use against synthetics" he said "when the Reapers invade they will be more then able to defeat my armies, even with superior weaponry the sheer number of their ships makes it impossible."

Javik watched the human keenly, although Yuri painted the fight rather bleak there was something that made him certain of victory, so he waited for the madman to explain further.

"Back in the 20th century there were two men who were the leading experts in the domain of energy. One of them succeeded to actually build a functional time machine."

Javik looked at Yuri without knowing how to respond to that "You're serious?"

"I am, and with enough electricity it is able to transport many of my soldiers with me back in time."

"Where do you plan to go?"

"San Francisco in 1973" said Yuri "And yes the machine can transport you to your Empire before it fell."

Javik knew he made a mistake but before he could use his biotic powers a psychic blast made his head explode.

"Rejoice for I have brought peace to your troubled mind" said Yuri as he activated his omni-tool "Start preparations for departure."

He looked over the room and simply left. If his technology wasn't up for the tasks ahead then someone else's will have to be.

He could use the Allied and Soviet blueprints to reconstruct their tech like he did with the time machine, but that wasn't improved upon for more then a century, it was outdated.

But if he traveled back in the past and prevented his victory than humanity will advance further along a different technological path. The brute strength the Soviets and Allies possessed will be far better in fighting the Reapers than his own subversive technology.

And once they did that, he will reemerge with his forces and conquer the weakened survivors.

But for the time machine to be able to transport so many units he needed a vast power source, and he found it in the Verge.

He already send all non essential population in the Bio-reactors, if he removed any more of his labor or military force he was putting himself in danger from outside aggression.

The Initiate clones that normally were placed in hibernation in these Bio-reactors were needed in the evacuation so he couldn't leave them to power trivial things.

He exited his underground bunker only to emerge on the planet's surface. Looking up in the sky he could see his masterpiece, a planet sized ship.

Since he learned from Javik about the Reaper threat he used every spare muscle, every clone, every scrap of energy in its construction. Even leaving the war front with the Council severely understaffed to be able to construct it in time.

And now it was finished.

Thousands of ships, billions of soldiers...and Einsteins time machine.

Soon...thought the psychic as he slowly moved to the landing platform.

Anya Petrova walked down the city of New Moscow on Mars and marveled at the achievements of her race.

For example power was gained from bio-reactors. In essence every home was designed in a way that when people slept they produced energy that was harvested and stored for use. There were naturally more reactors deep in the underground complexes, but those were filled by clones soldiers. It not only produced large quantities of nature friendly energy it also doubled as a convenient way to put the reinforcements in stasis in case of war. If by some chance a conflict escalated they would be reanimated to fight the invaders while the civilians would be evacuated in them, where they would be safe and protected.

The other most prominent difference was that humanity didn't use eezo based weapons very often.

The ships were outfitted by lasers or gattling cannons that used accelerator rounds. The same was for the ground forces, the Initiates and Bruts. The first used their pyrokinetic powers to instantly incinerate enemies while brutes together with their armor and barriers were send to rip enemy units to pieces with their portable gattling cannon.

She didn't know why all the military buildup since humanity lived in peace now, but if Yuri said to do something you did it.

She glanced down on her new uniform and smiled.

She was recently promoted to command a Leviathan class starship for the glory of humanity and Yuri, and she couldn't be happier.

The large heavily armed and armored behemoths were considered the pioneers in space exploration and combat. They weren't the fastest ships but they could get close to any anomaly and study it with all the scientific equipment they could carry.

She finally reached the space port. A shuttle was already waiting for her to be transported to the ship, it was one of the new organic vessels they were researching. Unlike your normal ships this one could be produced very fast by cloning, had a far superior speed and maneuverability by reacting to the pilots brain waves, fired a strong pyrokinetic beam similar to a laser and was able to regenerate if damaged.

She sat in one of the ships organic cockpits and allowed thin organic tendrils to touch her head.

Her consciousness expanded until she could actually perceive what the ship perceived with its sensors, she could feel the metallic surface, if the ships was damaged or uncomfortable in any way she would know it instantly. She then willed it to take off.

It didn't take long for it to leave the atmosphere and proceeded to dock with the large ship that dwarfed the shuttle many times over. It spanned probably one kilometer and had some two thousand crew members not including the Chaos Drones.

The bioship easily entered a docking area and saw her welcoming comity.

The tendrils under her mental command removed themselves from her head and allowed her to Exit.

"Commander" said a Yuri clone that will serve as her second in command. It was standard for every ship to have one.

Yuris appearance never did change, with his cloning technology every developed colony had a Yuri Prime as its governor. And every military installation and ship a Yuri clone to give advice and help in any way he could.

Beside him were two Initiates at the ready.

She saluted, she probably shouldn't because she was in command but she couldn't help it.

"Second" she nodded as she took point to the bridge.

The ships bio-reactors and eezo core hummed silently as they supplied the ship with the needed energy.

The soldiers saluted before they returned to their work.

"So we are to transport supplies to the Nyx as a first mission?" that was a rather good way to start a career. A simple task to get to know the crew and familiarize herself with the ship. It's not like she never set foot on a Leviathan before, but every ship has its own pulse so to speak.

Yuri nodded "Yes, we are also tasked to meet a Yuri Prime there."

When they reached the ships bridge she saluted to the crew.

"Commander we are ready for departure" said an Initiate.

She nodded to the man. She will probably never learn their names since they were all clones and hid their faces behind the new Initiate power armor. It was basically a black chitin bio armor with a kinetic barrier and a psychic amplifier that allows them to use pyrokinesis.

His three...well you could call them eyes flashed red as he connected his armor's neural connectors to the ships main computer.

All this bio-mechanical tampering was made out of one reason, to prevent hacking. The computers processing ability was enhanced exponentially by every human brain connected to it.

Anya took her seat in the commanders chair "Then by all means, Initiate bring us to our destination."

The soldiers silently proceeded with the command and soon the giant ship started to slowly gain speed. There were no monitors of any kind on the bridge, the Initiates had a display in their armor already integrated, receiving and sending information via brain waves. Those that were not directly connected to the vessels sensors used a head-mounted virtual display device instead of a viewscreen.

The ship approached the giant space construct and with a flash of light it was fired out.

Anya always wondered how they made the things know where to shoot them without crashing into anything. Planets could be detected by gravity but what about the asteroids or other ship? It should be like shooting a target on the other side of a busy street, there was a lot of potential that the projectile could collide with something that rushed in its path.

They appeared not an inch too far from the planet sized ship.

The sphere was like a giant anthill and in its core was their lords laboratory. Then the bio-reactors surrounded it in two layers, almost all their soldiers were currently in there powering the giant construct. The next level was the construction and industrial part with machinery, armories and storage.

The last layer before the thick armor and defense turrets was the hangar filled with ships whose eezo cores allowed Nyx to actually to move, but since the planet sized ship couldn't move through a Mass Relay it was restricted to normal FTL travel.

She felt proud that her race was able to produce such a technological marvel.

"Brings us in" she commanded as the ship found a free docking area in the Nyx.

"Comrade leader we are ready for the jump" said an Initiate.

"Excellent" said Yuri "then let history be rewritten" and with a simple command on his omni-tool he send all of the ships energy to the time machine in his laboratory.

Soon the ship itself started to resonate with the time machine and with a flash the giant construct disappeared from its spot.

-Moon, Yuris base – 1973.

"Comrade leader, the Allied airplanes have damaged one of our Power Plants in San Francisco, the Psychic Dominator on Alcatraz Island will not function" said an Initiate.

"Most unfortunate...but we have other devices. I think the time has come to activate them" said Yuri as he pushed a button.

- Earth, San Francisco, Alcatraz Island - 1973.

A Yuri clone slowly walked away from the explosion in the reactor he caused. With this the future will take a different path, hopefully one that will make humanity able to defeat the Reapers.

But the Yuri from this time line will have to be contacted sometime in the future. If by some chance he died it would prove to be...rather unpleasant for them all.

A/N: Thoughts?- also taking suggestion what should be the name for Yuri's faction. Also take into consideration that in almost two centuries the RA2 technology will improve, so instead a rocket a unit will probably have a hand-held laser - prism gun or something.

Also the concept of time travel will be changed somewhat, meaning you are allowed to interact with people and objects without erasing them from existence. I disliked how killing Albert made the story shift in a weird way in RA3, wouldn't by killing Albert the timeline be corrected by stopping him from killing Hitler and starting RA1? He did invent the time machine in the sixties but in RA3 he was killed in the twenties, that was before he even started work on his prism and chrono tech so the Allies houldn't have any of the things like the Chronosphere etc.