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The second installment of my "Synthempathy Outcome" trilogy, "Disconnected" continues the story of a resurrected (spacer/war hero paragade vanguard) Hadrian Shepard and Kaidan Alenko. Strongly recommend reading my previous story, "A Longer Haul," first.
The Milky Way is a changed place. Synthesis is gradually transforming the way its inhabitants communicate, and seems to promise a golden age. Following the Reapers' mysterious departure reconstruction began, and after nearly a year marooned in the Crucible Day Event, a mourning Kaidan Alenko and the Normandy crew survivors were reunited to undertake a mission that uncovered a secret from the waning days of the Prothean Empire, and the means to restoring Hadrian Shepard to life (albeit with no memory of his final day on Earth).
With Shepard back, he and Kaidan embark on a peacetime errand in the new Normandy SR-3 to help restore some normalcy to the galaxy that was left fractured by the Crucible Event's disruption of the mass relay network. But an enigmatic new antagonist stirs, powerful and bent on taking apart the rising new society purchased with Shepard's sacrifice, launching the newlywed husbands and allies new and old in a race to stop them.
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- Part 2 of The Synthempathy Outcome
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ALH is presented in 3 major parts. In the first, which overlaps with ME3 (from just after the Cerberus coup thru to the ending), I flesh out the development of mShepard and Kaidan's long-overdue romance during their time aboard Normandy, and speculate on how to reconcile some of the ending's seeming plot holes (which, if I may say so, turned out to be pretty prescient vis-a-vis the Extended Cut).
In the second part, I lay out a vision of the game's aftermath- what Synthesis did to people, and Kaidan's struggle with the loss of Shepard while needing to step up and lead the marooned Normandy crew in surviving. Time passes, people start adapting. Help eventually arrives, and I send Kaidan and the crew on a new mission that offers Alenko a glimmer of hope for a happy ending. But as it was for Shepard when he was the protagonist, what Kaidan wants requires making choices, and living with consequences.
And the third part concludes the story.
I published this work on fanfiction.net in May of 2012 to some very kind reviews, and having just completed a sequel I wanted to extend "ALH" to a wider audience, to pave the way for my 'opus,' "Disconnected."
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- Part 1 of The Synthempathy Outcome
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A continuation of the Mass Effect story focused on the mShepard/Kaidan romance and based on the Synthesis ending, interpreted such that Synthesis gave the galaxy's organics a form of cybernetic empathy-- with each other, and eventually with synthetics.
"A Longer Haul" follows the development of Kaidan & (spacer vanguard) Hadrian Shepard's relationship in ME3's 'unseen' moments, up to the final battle for Earth, and Kaidan's despair at the loss of Shepard, and the lengths he and the crew of the Normandy will go to for the rumoured hope of resurrecting the galaxy's hero.
"Disconnected" tells the story of the Puritan incursion. As the galaxy rebuilds and adapts to 'synthempathy,' aliens from beyond the Milky Way who object to Synthesis and its "subversion of nature" invade to un-do the effects of the Crucible Day Event, and the crews of the Normandy and SSV Vimy Ridge search for a way to repel a technologically superior race fighting a remote-control war.
And in the works now is the final installment, "Integration." With the first post-Reaper Invasion elections about to set the agenda for the new galaxy, all the chickens come home to roost.
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