History Fanfic / ExcitingOpportunities

* TheUnfavorite: Jarrion was the unfavorite compared to his older brother, who his father claimed did everything wonderfully. While his father gave Jarrion's brother his own fleet to go exploring the galaxy, Jarrion was only given one starship and told to stay behind to patrol their house's territory.

** During the mission on Horizon, Jarrion stops the Collector cruiser from escaping with its cargo of human prisoners by having the ''Assertive'' fire on the ship, nearly destroying it. Given the Imperium's [[WeHaveReserves usual attitude]] towards civilian deaths, Jarrion sees nothing wrong with getting the abducted colonists killed in the crossfire, and even considers accidentally killing them to be a [[MercyKill mercy]] compared to what the Collectors have planned for them. Since Shepard comes from the Systems Alliance (which at least tries to act like it gives a damn about its people), she doesn't view the colonists as expendable and is outraged at Jarrion for almost killing the very people she was trying to save.

** During the mission on Horizon, Jarrion stops the Collector cruiser from escaping with its cargo of human prisoners by having the ''Assertive'' fire on the ship, nearly destroying it. Given the Imperium's [[WeHaveReserves usual attitude]] towards civilian deaths, Jarrion sees nothing wrong with getting the abducted colonists killed in the crossfire, and even considers accidentally killing them to be a [[MercyKill mercy]] compared to what the Collectors have planned for them. Since Shepard comes from the Systems Alliance (which actually gives a damn about its people), she doesn't view the colonists as expendable and is outraged at Jarrion for almost killing the very people she was trying to save.

* OhCrap: Jarrion has an epic one at the end of Chapter 35 when he finds out that [[spoiler:his older brother [[BigBrotherBully Macharius]] has found out about the portal to the ''ME'' universe and followed Jarrion there in his own cruiser.]]

* CultureClash: During the mission on Horizon, Jarrion stops the Collector cruiser from escaping with its cargo of human prisoners by having the ''Assertive'' fire on the ship, nearly destroying it. Given the Imperium's [[WeHaveReserves usual attitude]] towards civilian deaths, Jarrion sees nothing wrong with getting the abducted colonists killed in the crossfire, and even considers accidentally killing them to be a [[MercyKill mercy]] compared to what the Collectors have planned for them. Since Shepard comes from the Systems Alliance (which actually gives a damn about its people), she doesn't view the colonists as expendable and is outraged at Jarrion for almost killing the very people she was trying to save.

* NGOSuperpower: House Croesus has so much wealth and influence within the Imperium's upper classes that they can afford to have their own private army outfitted with infantry-grade weapons, maintain a fleet of powerful warships--including a ''Mars''-class battlecruiser--and carve out their own personal fiefdoms on the fringes of Imperial space.

** The meeting room aboard the ''Assertive'' has a chair made out of the bones of an extinct xeno creature.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13261932/1/Exciting-Opportunities Exciting Opportunities]]'' is a crossover fanfic between ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6905233/Of-Questionable-Veracity Of Questionable Veracity]] (also known as [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/JJMarmite JJMarmite]]) on Website/FanFictionDotNet. The fic can also be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18480277/chapters/43788352 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. The first chapter was posted on April 15, 2019.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13261932/1/Exciting-Opportunities Exciting Opportunities]]'' is a crossover fanfic between ''Franchise/MassEffect'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6905233/Of-Questionable-Veracity Of Questionable Veracity]] (also known as [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/JJMarmite JJMarmite]]). The fic can also be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18480277/chapters/43788352 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. The first chapter was posted on April 15, 2019.

In an unexpected and highly unlikely turn of events, a catastrophic warp breach from a crippled ship manages to fling a TabletopGame/RogueTrader -- or rather, the youngest son of a Rogue Trader -- through time and space to a universe quite unlike what anyone onboard is used to.

!!This fanfic contains examples of:

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Jarrion's ship, the ''Assertive'', is an outdated ''Dauntless''-class light cruiser that his family salvaged from an ancient battlefield and repurposed into an anti-piracy patrol ship for policing backwater colonies. However, it's only a light cruiser when being compared to other starships in ''40K''. By the standards of ''Mass Effect'', the ''Assertive'' is the largest warships in the galaxy and has armaments capable of taking out enemy dreadnoughts in a single shot.

** Exaggerated with the interior of the ''Assertive'', which is covered with skulls to the point where there isn't a blank space on the wall that doesn't have a skull on it. The first time that Shepard boards the ship, the first thing that she notices aside from the UnnecessarilyLargeInterior is the sheer number of skulls.

* UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: Lampshaded by Shepard, who finds it ridiculous that a 4.5-kilometer-long ship like the ''Assertive''[[note]]For comparison, the average dreadnought in ''ME'' is 1 km long.[[/note]] is considered a light cruiser where Jarrion is from. She also finds the idea of a battleship that is seven kilometers long (which Jarrion offhandedly mentioned the Imperium has) to be overly excessive and thinks that the only reason to build one would be to show off.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Jarrion's ship, the ''Assertive'', is a common ''Dauntless''-class light cruiser that his Rogue Trader house repurposed into a patrol ship for protecting backwater colonies from pirates. However, it's only a light cruiser when being compared to other starships in ''40K''. By the standards of ''Mass Effect'', the ''Assertive'' is the largest warship in the galaxy and has armaments capable of taking out dreadnoughts in a single shot.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Jarrion's ship, the ''Assertive'', is a common ''Dauntless''-class light cruiser that his Rogue Trader house repurposed into a patrol ship for fighting pirates in deep space. However, it's only a light cruiser when being compared to other starships in ''40K''. By the standards of ''Mass Effect'', the ''Assertive'' is the largest warship in the galaxy and has armaments capable of taking out dreadnoughts in a single shot.

* {{Telepathy}}: Loghain is a [[PsychicPowers psyker]] whose primary ability is reading minds.

* ArmsDealer: Shepard accuses Jarrion of being one after he sells lasguns to Horizon's colonists, some of which end up in the hands of criminals in the Terminus Systems due to either further trade or theft. Jarrion denies this by claiming that he only gave out civilian-grade weapons instead of the actual military-grade ones.

* SigilSpam: Exaggerated with the interior of the ''Assertive'', which is covered with skulls to the point where there isn't a blank space on the wall that doesn't have a skull on it. The first time that Shepard boards the ship, the first thing that she notices aside from the UnnecessarilyLargeInterior is the sheer number of skulls.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Jarrion's ship, the ''Assertive'', is a common ''Dauntless''-class light cruiser that his Rogue Trader house repurposed into a patrol ship for fighting pirates in deep space. However, it's only considered a light cruiser when compared to other starships in ''40K''. By the standards of ''Mass Effect'', the ''Assertive'' is the largest warship in the galaxy and has armaments capable of taking out dreadnoughts in a single shot.