History Fanfic / TheMiracleAtPalaven

** Taken UpToEleven with the conclusion of SLENDER SCALPEL: [[spoiler:to allow their allies time to setup a warp bomb within a Reaper itself, several turian soldiers detonate another warp bomb just outside (for redundancy contingencies, multiple bomber teams attack each Reaper), obliterating themselves and the surrounding Reaper ground forces (though doing no damage to the well-shielded Reaper).]]

** The fic begins with a discussion of OPERATION: [[VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies WHISKEY CORRIDOR]], which is an ambitious plan that's essentially [[Film/ABridgeTooFar Operation Market Garden]] InSpace.
** A turian soldier gets his mandibles torn off, leading him to be called [[{{VideoGame/Halo2}} Half-Jaw]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are many characters in the story, though this is compensated for by the [[AnyoneCanDie heavy casualties suffered]] during the Miracle.

** Kind of a FunnyAneurysmMoment given that the buddy she bragged to committed suicide after losing most of his friends and all of his family, mere months after they reunited.

Complete as of April 2013, and the full story and discussion [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mass-effect-3-the-miracle-at-palaven.239502/ can be found here]] on Spacebattles. It is also hosted on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9205200/1/ Fanfiction.net]].

* AnyoneCanDie: It's to be expected, given the nature of the work. Nobody is safe, not even [[FanNickname turian!Ronald Speirs]].

* YouAreTooLate: The Reapers fall victim to this trope. By the time they figured out that these incidents of uprisings inside the processing camps were not isolated but coordinated, their effort to seal off any new on-loading into themselves was too late: the bombers were in position.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: One turian soldier, a former hastatim, announces herself and orders occupants of the buildings to come out quietly and surrender, before beginning room clearing. Against ''Cannibals and Marauders''. She's chagrined at the old habit.

* ShoulderCannon: The Whitelight heavy experimental ordnance (the aforementioned erroneously labeled "Nuclear Shotgun") that one turian/krogan group discovers. The trigger is pulled, [[WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens things inside it start spinning]], [[JokeItem a pathetic discharge report happens]], the turians and krogans perplexedly try to figure out what went wrong (not being familiar with its operation as the cache was a chance discovery)... and then [[LethalJokeItem half the Reaper Destroyer it was shot at is suddenly and spectacularly annihilated]] a few moments later.

** Another tried to help brace a 1-ton krogan in full battle armor when he was using what was erroneously dubbed by them a "nuclear shotgun". She realises that anything that could knock a krogan on his back probably won't be mitigated by a single turian.

** After the Reaper War, one krogan soldier settles down and becomes a farmer. His memoir, [[VideoGame/HarvestMoon Harvest Tuchanka]], is later turned into a videogame.

* AdaptationExpansion: The Codex entry is 3 paragraphs long. The current result is much longer, at around sixty-five thousand words.

* XMeetsY: ''Franchise/MassEffect'' meets ''Film/BlackHawkDown'' written in the style of ''Series/BandOfBrothers''.

** Apparently, hastatim squads are nicknamed as the "[[{{Tsukihime}} Burial Agency]]."

** After the Reaper War, one krogan soldier settles down and becomes a farmer. His memoir, [[HarvestMoon Harvest Tuchanka]], is later turned into a videogame.

* {{Badass}}: In spades. The turian military, the turian resistance, the krogan commandos, the krogan army, the quarian fleet that pulls off the medevac of 15 million wounded turians, and the quarian Marines led by Kal'Reegar. Essentially, ''everyone''.

** The fic begins with a discussion of OPERATION: [[AceCombat04ShatteredSkies WHISKEY CORRIDOR]], which is an ambitious plan that's essentially [[Film/ABridgeTooFar Operation Market Garden]] InSpace.

** Taken UpToEleven with the conclusion of SLENDER SCALPEL: [[spoiler:to allow their allies time to setup a warp bomb within a Reaper itself, several turian soldiers detonate another warp bomb just outside, obliterating themselves and the surrounding Reaper ground forces (though doing no damage to the well-shielded Reaper).]]

** [[spoiler: Captain Ixius tops them all; when the carrier ''Example'' is crippled, she gets as many of her crew off as she can, and then points her dying ship at a Reaper and [[RammingAlwaysWorks rams into it at flank speed]], dying in the process. [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated Or not.]]]]

** She finally ends up giving one years later when [[spoiler:a newly-constructed carrier is to be christened ''Example'']] in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, although she tried to offload that duty onto Castellus (who talked her back into it).

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Captain Ixius may have miraculously survived crashing the carrier Example into a [[EldricthAbomination Reaper]], but she's wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life.]]

-->--Turian Resistance members, on Palaven.

* ForegoneConclusion: As with BandOfBrothers or BlackHawkDown, anyone mentioned by name as having being interviewed in person (e.g. Optimi, Trinity) is going to survive the Miracle.

** The Go-code for FORWARD FLAME is "Ayreen", pronounced as "[[BlackHawkDown Irene]]."

* XMeetsY: ''Franchise/MassEffect'' meets ''BlackHawkDown'' written in the style of ''BandOfBrothers''.

[[AdaptationExpansion Greatly expanding]] upon the short Codex entry, this is a story of the courage, determination and sacrifice required to make a Miracle happen.