History Fanfic / TheMiracleAtPalaven

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Among the things the Reapers confiscate from turians in concentration camps are rifles, explosives, commications gear, heavy weapons, and... spine treatment gel.

* EasyLogistics: Averted. The fic goes into great detail on the logistics issues that arise when the galaxy's largest army is fighting, from shortages of medical supplies to shuttles to thermal clip.

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

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

->''"Only a military executive body that had been humiliated for weeks; that had tried every conventional, orthodox, and reasonable method available to them; that discovered the very existence of their civilization on the brink of collapse; that had found itself in the final straits of desperation; would pay any heed to an outlandish, costly, and questionable strategy being offered by a mercenary with no experience in planet-scale, joint-services operations."''

-->''Do you believe in miracles?''

** [[spoiler: Captain Ixius of the carrier ''example'' orders her bridge crew into escape pods, and gets as many of her crew off before she drives her dying ship into a Reaper.]]

Currently a work in progress [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mass-effect-3-the-miracle-at-palaven.239502/ hosted here]] on Spacebattles, and the author has released the first chapter on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9205200/1/ Fanfiction.net]].

* ConvectionSchmovection: A krogan commando misses a direct hit from a Thanix Cannon, but is still close enough that his armor and hump are burned off.

!!Tropes contained within this work include:

* AdaptationExpansion: The Codex entry is 3 paragraphs long. The current result is much longer.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: It does when the Reaper ship is blinded and have its shields down, and it's taking a 3700 kiloton starship dropping in from orbit to the face.

** A turian soldier gets his mandibles torn off, leading him to be called [[Halo2 Half-Jaw]].

** 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".

* OperationBlank: There are several operations referred to in the document: earlier, OPERATION: WHISKEY CORRIDOR, an ambitions and failed Navy plan to secure logistics lines. The fic itself focuses on two major missions: OPERATION: FORWARD FLAME, the orbital drop of turian and krogan forces onto Palaven, and OPERATION: SLENDER SCALPEL, the plan to destroy Reapers from the inside with warp bombs and then hit them with everything the turians have.

* TakingYouWithMe: Several mortally wounded soldiers use grenades on themselves and Reapers.

Currently a work in progress [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mass-effect-3-the-miracle-at-palaven.239502/ hosted here]] on Spacebattles, though the author plans to release it on Fanfiction.net once it's completed.

* FireForgedFriends: A big part of the story. The turians and the krogan are [[EnemyMine ambivalent towards each other at best and very hostile at worst]] when they first get together. By the time bullets start flying, they've managed to become BackToBackBadass. Similarly, the quarians go from dirty vagrants to "the most glorious bosh'tets in the galaxy" in the eyes of teh turians.

** Taken UpToEleven with the conclusion of SLENDER SCALPEL: 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).

* HeroicSacrifice: Often, epitomized by Kal'Reegar's LastStand.

* EasyLogistics: Subverted hard. The fic goes into great detail on the logistics issues that arise when the galaxy's largest army is fighting, from shortages of medical supplies to shuttles to thermal clip.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Plenty. One of the first ones is when a krogan officer beats down a rebellious soldier and spaces him.
** The Bosh'tet Express.
** [[spoiler: Kal'Reegar's last stand]].

* Tearjerker: Kal'Reegar's LastStand.

** As soon as Kal'Reegar's name is seen, the readers ''know'' what is going to happen to him. That doesn't make it any less awesome, however.

“What was that all about?”
“I think HDI wants to blow up a Reaper from the inside.”