History Fanfic / MythosEffect

* JokeAndReceive: When Jorus Irion visits Primarch Quentius to warn him about himans, the Primarch jokes that humans also have demons ready to be unleashed on them - and becomes shocked when Jorus confirms that humans have demons under their control.

* MookHorrorShow: For the Turians for facing against Engels and Tagers.

** Since there has been no trade with humanity, any human product is sold at exorbitant prices. A sleazy Quarian named Nator is quick to try to take advantage of this. At an auction on Illium, a random assortment of ordinary junk (spare uniforms, a survival bag, a knife, etc) sells for so much that the Quarians' cut is ''two hundred fifty million'' credits.

* Foreshadowing: After being taken prisoner, Adrien is released remarkably easy with no assurances he'll follow through on his promise to get the rest of the Turians to surrender. [[spoiler:This turns out to be because not only is their only possible escape route being watched as well, but the Turian general in charge of the planet is already planning on surrendering the entire planet]].

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics and ArtisticLicenseLaw: The war is going so utterly awfully for the Turians and they are so disinterested and disconnected from the actual process of generating wealth, plus the Council's decision to cancel all trade with them, they've come with increasingly ridiculous and exploitative forms of taxation. Currently, the last series of amendments imposes new taxes, forces the Turian client states to buy enormous amounts from Turian worlds (with added tax), and cancels all duties on Client products.

* InspiteOfANail: The war against the Turians is still called the First Contact War even though humanity has already fought another alien race (the Migou).

* BatmanGambit: The Federation keeps their Turian [=POWs=] into very good camps for SlaveToPR reasons [[spoiler:and because they know one of the POW will eventually offer to convince the Turians besieged in several places to drop their guns and walk away]].

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Trooper Taeden allowing his men to take a fifteen minute break to eat (after days of starvation rations) while on a scouting mission gets all of them killed or captured by the NEF.

* RapeAsBackstory: Sidra. After losing the rest of her unit, she ran into a gang of criminals who were recruited into the army and ran away. One can guess what happened later. Then, one night, they didn't tie her up properly...

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When the Turians end up going to war with the NEF, the Asari and Salarians wash their hands of them and stay out of it. And the Volus are doing their best to not get actively involved as well.

* TradingBarsForStripes: The beginning of Chapter 25 has a Turian executed for rape and attempted murder. Adrien is told that Digeris attempted to make up for manpower shortage by recruiting criminals. The results were... mixed.

* TranslatorMicrobes: Sorta. Language Recognition Units are small earpieces capable of translating several preprogrammed languages, on the human side. Both parties need one, the translation is both noticeably robotic, and has an odd tiny inflection. It's mentioned the Citadel has better tech in this regard.

* HealthcareMotivation: The Volus need Primarch support to break off from the Hegemony. As of Chapter 24, they got two: one supports them due to his daughter requiring expensive treatments for Corpalis syndrome, and the Volus are footing the bill (the other guy is a more straightforward case of EveryManHasHisPrice).

** [[GreyAndGrayMorality From the Turians' perspective]], at least those who are captured, the NEF aren't malicious, just people doing their jobs. Adrien notes that the ones processing him sound like "customer service workers who've been on the phone too long to even pretend to give a shit anymore".

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Councilor Sparatus has quickly become this to not just humanity, but to the majority of Citadel space due to his being more or less responsible for the war lasting as long as it has with his [[FantasticRacism Fantastically Racist]] CulturalPosturing. Even many turians in the Hierarchy have come to despise Sparatus for condemning their race to a war that has cost them so much.

* ShoutOut: During Dr. West's autopsy of a Turian, the good doctor is singing [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves 'Whistle While You Work']].

* ColonelBadass: Colonel Tarkin, or as the Turians would call him, a Colonel Steel-Hide.

* EvilInc: The Chrysalis Corporation.

* PunchClockVillain: Most Turians at the beginning - particularly Captain Jorus, who points out that the initial attack on the humans was unbelievably ''stupid''.

* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:The final fate of Desolas Arterius.]] Several others meet similar fates against the Nephilim.

* NicknamingTheEnemy: The Turians and Humanity call each other the Turkeys and the Nefs[=/=]Hueys.

* TranslatorMicrobes: Sorta. Language Recognition Units are small earpieces capable of translating several preprogrammed languages, on the human side. Both parties need one, the translation is both noticeably robotic, and has an odd tinny inflection. It's mentioned the Citadel has better tech in this regard.

* NicknamingTheEnemy: The Turians and Humanity call each other the Turkeys and the Nefs=/=Hueys.

* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: The Migou were perfectly capable of wiping out humanity at any time, but refused to do so for years because they wanted to enslave them. Once the war becomes too costly, the Migou decide to simply destroy Earth entirely, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain only for Hastur's psychic scream wto wipe them out]].

* HoldingBackThePhlebtonium: The Migou were perfectly capable of wiping out humanity at any time, but refused to do so for years because they wanted to enslave them. Once the war becomes too costly, the Migou decide to simply destroy Earth entirely, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain only for Hastur's psychic scream wto wipe them out]].

* BreatherEpisode: The war between the Turians and the NEF is occasionally broken up by chapters focusing on the Quarians, particularly their efforts to secure a trade agreement with the NEF.

* DrivenToMadness: The Turians think we're insane for fostering mass use of technology proven to induce eventual madness in both the developer and the user.

* EldritchAbomination: ''Heaps'', both against Humanity and from them. The Salarians are at a loss as to how Engels even ''exist''.

* TheFamine: The turian garrison defending Coryza takes a major blow when NEF forces succeed in destroying their food supplies, and their quartermaster imposes a rigid rationing to make the remaining food last for a month. However, his idea of "rationing" is more like "reducing meals to the absolute bare minimum to stop anyone from dying". Adrien describes the situation as torture, and already one of the survivors has preferred to kill himself via SuicideByCop rather than give the NEF the satisfaction of killing him.
* FatalFlaw: For the turians, {{Pride}}. They can't accept that their initial attack on the New Earth Federation was illegal and immoral, and that they might not be the strongest military around anymore. Case in point, Desolas Arterius is held in contempt for surrendering to the NEF while the latter outnumbered and outgunned his forces along with having complete aerial and orbital superiority, plus being directly told by the sole remaining Navy officer that a refusal to surrender would be tantamout to a declaration of total war.

* HonorBeforeReason: Every general but one gave Desolas Arterius grief for surrendering to the humans, calling him a disgrace to his rank. Desolas's response is that a LastStand only looks impressive when you're not participating in it.
** Ferox insists in ignoring Victus' attempts to come up with a plan to escape the siege the NEF's been forcing their group and insists on taking the fight to the humans, even though Victus points out that if they did, they'd become artillery fodder and a humiliating footnote at best. Ferox doubles down, fervently invoking their ancestors and how their tactics and protocol are absolute, and Julek has to brutally confront him to make him back down.

* HumansAdvanceSwiftly: In less than two centuries, they have gone from a planet-bound species to being able to handily beat an alien race that has been fighting for thousands of years.

* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: The Turians are looking down on the Volus, despite them being vital to Hierarchy economy, and deny promotions to any officer who can think for himself instead of blindly following the centuries old military dogmas. Both are coming to bite them hard in the war.

* OnlySaneMan: Primarch Quentius, the only Turian Primarch that knew trying to force humanity to stop using arcanotech would only bring trouble.

* OutsideContextProblem: Humanity serves as one for being the only space-faring race ever encountered by the Citadel to not use Mass Effect technology. That and the MindRape and [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] they utilize.

* RevengeBeforeReason: For the higher Turian echelons, the war's more about being shown up at Shanxi, foreign technology they refuse to even try to understand and being actually held back by a bunch of crazy upstarts than any actual interest in humanity.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: A lesson humanity learned during the Aeon War, and with good reason - when you are fighting an EldritchAbomination, the only way to kill it is to use such overwhelming force that you can wipe it out.

* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: Captain Victus does this to his rival Captain Kleitos after one insult too many.