Aurora313 wrote...
Basically, Halcyon is the 'After the War' time period.
The Galaxy is in civil war, all the major governments/species/cultures that were involved in stopping the Reapers have pretty much fallen apart. It's a merciless, lawless cosmos that made the pre-war period look like a tea party out of 'Pride and Predjudice'.
It's gone to sh*t, and Shepard had died a second time (though he was only clyinically dead, his brain was still functional thanks to the implants and he got revived about twenty minutes later - hence the 'I've already died twice' line.), so as the Galaxy grew more bitter and merciless, so did the gang. An example is that one point during, when Anderson tries to recruit Shepard again, his answer is put bluntly: 'f*ck off'.
The 'Halcyon Confedarate' I created is a multi-lateral organisation trying to re-establish order and government, while the rest of the galaxy want them to ****** off and stop trying so hard. And the tolls that I believe would have been suffered during the Reaper War finally manifest in outward agression. Hence Ash and Shepard's bitter and rather emotionless reunion in that snippet, desepite their being lovers (or possibly married at this point, I have no idea. Gotta see the ME3 epilogue for that). Also, be noted at that point in time, Ash has PTSD, which in part was caused by Shepard... again.
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That be the long and short of it.
Think I can pull that off? With al the snippets I've shown you?
I wanted to come back to this:
First off yeah, from what I've seen I think you can pull it off.
I do wonder are you going to have a prologue expostitioning the story, or are you going to make the story background clearer by weaving it through the story?
And, excuse my forgetfulness, (too many snippets/dialogues around to remember which were Halcyon for me), to what degree are the characters recognisable, since there's quite a big gap between who they were and who they are it seems, are you gonna cross that gap somehow?
It's pretty interesting stuff as far as I'm concerned and I haven't read any fanfic like it, so I like forward to it!