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One month after the devastating geth attack on the Citadel, the galactic community struggles to rebuild.

The UNSC Fleet made a tremendous sacrifice to save the Citadel Council and earned humanity membership in their prestigious group. Now the Council is forced to respond to evidence that the Reapers - enormous machines that eradicate all organic civilisation every 50,000 years - have returned. To quell the rumours, the council has sent Commander's John and Jane Shepard and the Normandy to wipe out the last pockets of geth resistance. Officially, they blame the invasion on the geth and their leader, a rogue Spectre.

The Normandy was patrolling the Terminus Systems for what was left of the Geth, supposedly investigating an area where at least three ships had disappeared recently when they were attacked by an unknown assailant. The Normandy was destroyed with heavy casualties, including that of both Commander Shepard's, Brother and Sister.

NOTE: This is the Amalgamation universe's take on the beginning of ME2, with two Commander Shepard's, a male and female, as un-identical twins. They have the default names and faces for there gender, the male being a Soldier class and the female a Biotic. I did this to cover as much ground as possible and to make as many people happy as humanly possible whilst still being plausible.

In this universe the military is titled as the UNSC, but only by name as it's army integrates many different traits and aesthetics from different games, an Amalgamation. See more information about that here:

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How'd I make this? I use Blender as my go-to free 3D software, and for this scene I re-used some personal assets (planet, stars, etc) plus actual game models for Bioware, which are the Shepard models floating in space, all copyright and stuff goes to them and with special thanks to nach77 for putting up a download for these models, he probably rigged them all up for me too. It's great, so easy to do this comic now that I have those models!

I also used Photoshop to edit out any mistakes and also to edit IN a few things too, like the debris you see in the background. I photoshopped that in from the actual opening credit scene in ME2, with some added stock debris. The space background and the planet and compositing with the sun and stuff is all i take credit, if I had to make all this stuff from scratch you'd be waiting a much longer time for me to bring this series too you, but I do work quite hard on what I do make.

I kinda had to just start doing the comic, so I used my brain to come up with the quickest and easiest way to start rendering the comic, if you're reading this now the whole thing isn't done yet, you'll get updates on my Patreon

www.patreon.com/user?u=3333118
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Comments: 16

arbiter690 [2016-11-25 00:51:01 +0000 UTC]

I look forward to seeing the Shepherds in the story, but I wonder if they are/were in a temporary truce with Cerberus and against the Collectors like before? I also wonder what specifics of their backgrounds such as one their origins (1,born on earth as orphans who ran with the gangs till they enlisted into the military at eighteen years old 2, they grew up on spaceships and stations while their parents served in the military and later enlisted at eighteen to follow in their footsteps 3, both grew up on the colony of Mindoir (masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mind… ) till when both were sixteen their colony was under attack by Batarian slavers and while their friends and family died the two were saved by a passing military patrol and few years later enlisted into the military) and their psychological profile (1, they were part of a military unit sent to the colony of Akuze to investigate the loss of contact with the pioneer team, but while they found only the intact settlement and no survivors and later camped for the night, they were set upon by thresher maws  in addition to not knowing what they faced, the unit was slaughtered almost to the last man; fifty marines were lost, and only two made it back to the landing zone alive 2, Early in their military career during the Skyllian Blitz , they found themselves facing an overwhelming enemy force and risked their own life to save their fellow soldiers by ralling a resistance force and managed to single-handedly repulse the enemy ground force long enough for reinforcements to arrive and despite the impossible odds their bravery and heroism have earned them medals and recognition from the fleet 3, Throughout their military career, they have held fast to one basic rule: get the job done retaliation. They've been called cold, calculating, and brutal with their reputation for ruthless efficiency makes their fellow soldiers wary of them, but when failure is not an option, the military always goes to them first and in retaliation for the Skyllian Blitz , they were part of a military force when they raided Torfan (masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Torf… ) a small moon which served as base for criminals, mostly batarians , who built strongholds deep underground where they sent 3/4ths of their unit to its death and murdered surrendering batarians. Though the Alliance took heavy losses, the enemy was completely annihilated and after Torfan, the batarians began retreating from Citadel space.)? What choices they made on their mission for Saren (helped Tali acquire data on the Geth for her pilgrimage, Garrus find Dr. Saleon, Wrex reaquire his grandfather's old armor from the Krogan Rebellions, save or kill the colonists on Feros from the Thorian before killing it, engaged in multiple Cerberus projects relating to husks, rachni, and Thorian Creepers, save or kill the Rachni Queen from the facility on Noveria, reasoned or kill Wrex, sacrifice Ashley or Kaiden on Virmire, save the colony of Terra Nova from an asteroid commedered by Batarian terrorist Balak, kill or allow her Balak to escape, visit Pinnacle Station, and killed or convinced Saren to kill himself)?

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Amalgamation100 In reply to arbiter690 [2016-11-25 01:07:56 +0000 UTC]

Oh no sorry, it's this issue where the questions are answered lol sorry 

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arbiter690 In reply to Amalgamation100 [2016-11-25 01:13:30 +0000 UTC]

Where is that issue if I may ask? I'm eager to know the answers to those questions.

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Amalgamation100 In reply to arbiter690 [2016-11-25 01:26:43 +0000 UTC]

Okay mate, I have everything organised in my gallery, and what you're commenting on right now is the cover photo for issue #3

at first I made the mistake of thinking you were still commenting on the concept art and summary of of the universe, and thats why I appologised and said it was actually "this" issue

just go to my gallery and on the lest hand side you have Issue #1 at the top, #2 and #3, after that there are folders about the military of the universe and different factions which aren't complete but should be enough to give you an idea of what's going on, and a lore folder. In the Lore folder is the galaxy map of this universe. I've been doing a lot of world building

Now go knock yourself out haha

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arbiter690 In reply to Amalgamation100 [2016-11-25 01:50:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Amalgamation100 In reply to arbiter690 [2016-11-25 01:53:34 +0000 UTC]

Tell your friends and stick around for when I post the timeline, I'll need your input

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Amalgamation100 In reply to arbiter690 [2016-11-25 01:02:08 +0000 UTC]

The questions about Cerberus can be answered in Issue #2 man

go read it lol

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The-PBG [2016-10-09 08:58:37 +0000 UTC]

Well this should be fun ^^

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Amalgamation100 In reply to The-PBG [2016-10-09 09:14:09 +0000 UTC]

I was wondering when you'd comment

Yes it should be. For me as well hopefully

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The-PBG In reply to Amalgamation100 [2016-10-09 09:55:59 +0000 UTC]

THE FUN HAS BEEN DOUBLED!!!!

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Amalgamation100 In reply to The-PBG [2016-10-09 12:57:18 +0000 UTC]

That's funny, because there's two Shepard's in this! XD

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The-PBG In reply to Amalgamation100 [2016-10-09 13:30:52 +0000 UTC]

Oh I wonder why I made the joke?

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Amalgamation100 In reply to The-PBG [2016-10-09 14:04:26 +0000 UTC]

idk man must be coincidence.

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The-PBG In reply to Amalgamation100 [2016-10-09 15:39:36 +0000 UTC]

I kid

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Amalgamation100 In reply to The-PBG [2016-10-10 13:30:36 +0000 UTC]

As always

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The-PBG In reply to Amalgamation100 [2016-10-10 13:50:22 +0000 UTC]

Um duh its me

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