History Fanfic / RenegadePeptuck

** Three in Chapter 8: [[spoiler: Tali]]'s stealth systems have a certain [[VideoGame/{{Crysis}} mechanical voice announcing when they activate]], there's a [[VideoGame/{{FEAR}} REV]] MiniMecha, and one of the mercenaries mentions getting [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique "biology lessons" on a quarian prisoner]] from a guy named [[BattleLosAngeles Nantz]].

** Telfair's Orca squadron is named [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Athena]] [[ActorAllusion Squad]].

** WordOfGod regarding the Scrin is that the forces seen in-game in TiberiumWars are the equivalent of a few hundred mercenaries with armored cars and assault rifles, and the ''true'' Scrin armies and navy are "an entirely different beast." Among their assets are [[spoiler: phasing tiberium kinetic impactors with liquid-tiberium cores]], [[spoiler: short-range teleporters]], [[spoiler: phasing technology]], [[spoiler: [[SphereOfDestruction rift missiles]]]], and some of them use [[spoiler: large-scale versions of the Masterminds' mind-control rigs.]] The implication is that [[spoiler: the Scrin are preparing for war with the Reapers.]]

* ContinuityDrift: The original version of the story specifies that the turian Councilor's name is Velarn, but it wasn't until ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' came out that we learned that Velarn is the ''salarian'' Councilor's name.

-->“That big walker,” she ordered. “We’re going to [[{{Firefly}} kill it with our brains.]]”

** Mention is made of a quarian [[{{Firefly}} 'Hoban]] clan, who are renowned pilots due to flying tramp freighters and fighters.

Take Earth from the ''CommandAndConquer [[CommandAndConquerTiberium Tiberium]]'' setting, as of the end of ''Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars'', and put it in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' setting, following the same timeline. The result? ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5851454/1/Renegade Renegade]],'' an AlternateHistory[=/=]AlternateUniverse fanfic that loosely follows the plot of the first ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Mass Effect]]'' game.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: The author has made it quite clear that neither GDI nor Nod are complete good guys or villains. In fact, Nod seems to get more positive points than negative ones in this timeline, though in [[WordOfGod his commentary]] the author notes that both the Brotherhood and GDI are different entities than they were in the ''CommandAndConquer'' games, being separated by more than a hundred years.

Not to be confused for the [[Series/{{Renegade}} television series.]]

->“Send them all,” he barked. “Everyone.” The subcommander started to nod, but then paused.
->“Warlord, what do you mean by ‘everyone’?” he asked.
->Kruge headbutted his lackey off his feet.
->''[[Film/TheProfessional “Everyone.”]]''

** Three in Chapter 8: [[spoiler: Tali]]'s stealth systems have a certain [[VideoGame/{{Crysis}} mechanical voice announcing when they activate]], there's a [[{{FEAR}} REV]] MiniMecha, and one of the mercenaries mentions getting [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique "biology lessons" on a quarian prisoner]] from a guy named [[BattleLosAngeles Nantz]].

* BadassArmy: GDI and Nod. The former fought the Turian Hierarchy almost to a standstill on Shanxi, without much understanding of mass effect technology. The latter is implied to have some incredibly badass troops (if lacking in the raw numbers and sheer firepower of GDI). When asked what Nod's troops were like, [[WordOfGod Peptuck's response]] was to put up pictures of [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]], [[{{FEAR}} the Point Man]], and a [[{{Halo}} Spartan]].

* StoryBreakerPower: The GDI's sheer industrial capacity is downplayed, in canon, even outside of GameplayAndStorySegregation, it takes all of ''3 minutes'' to make a Mammoth tank. Peptuck outright states it.

* CowboyCop: Garrus, which is lampshaded, as the chapter in which he first showcases his overly aggressive tendencies is titled "Cowboys."

** Garrus' shift from a somewhat impetuous CowboyCop to "[[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] meets the [[ThereWasADoor Kool-Aid Man]]" appears to be a direct result of GDI's presence in the timeline. Thanks to GDI aggressiveness, the Council expanded the number of Spectres, and he was given an opportunity to join. He made the choice to become a Spectre, and as a result never got the instilled restraint he would have otherwise received as a police officer. The result is a Spectre who is overly aggressive.

* BiggerIsBetter: GDI's approach to weapons engineering is generally summed as [[{{BFG}}" Bigger."]] Then followed by [[MoreDakka "More."]]

* BiggerIsBetter: GDI's approach to weapons engineering is generally summed as [["{{BFG}} Bigger."]] Then followed by [[MoreDakka "More."]]

* PlanetOfHats: Averted. Shepard asks how Reegar got into the armory, then sees his omnitool, and assumes that since he's a quarian, he hacked the door. He swiftly counters that he doesn't know that much about tech, and instead fabricated several explosives using his omnitool.

* BiggerIsBetter: GDI's approach to weapons engineering is generally summed as "Bigger." Then followed by [[MoreDakka "More."]]

* MythologyGag: A lot of material is based on content from the canceled ''Tiberium'' game: The Werewolf weapons are based on the SwissArmyWeapon the protagonist used, Nod armor and uniforms are based on their designs in the game, and the Scrin's Intruders are modified versions of the humanoid enemies with the same name in that game.

** A more villainous example is [[spoiler: the Collectors starting the harvest a few years earlier than expected]]. And Kane suspect that [[spoiler: he actually caused them to attack by revealing Temple Prime]].

* ContinuitySnarl: That being said, there's some divergence between the two fics when it comes to the minor details, particularly the timeline in ''Eagles' Fall'', which does not mesh precisely with the timeline in ''Renegade''.

* KillHimAlready: Both Jenkins and Shepard make this mistake when confronting Saren by covering him with their railguns and demanding he surrender instead of outright shooting him. In the former's case, [[spoiler: it gives Saren time to use an ECM pulse to make his weapon think it is overheating]], while in the latter, [[spoiler: it gives Saren a time for a Scrin Mastermind to arrive and teleport him away]]. Shepard berates herself for this mistake immediately afterward, saying she should have shot Saren right away, and Nihlus responds by saying that yes, she ''[[GenreSavvy should]]''.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler: ''Udina,'']] surprisingly. He manages to take out [[spoiler: the Battlemind]] by ramming an aircar into it, sending both twenty feet until they hit a wall and causes [[spoiler: the Battlemind]] to stain everything in a twenty-foot radius to be covered in silvery gore.

* ThemeNaming: GDI's naming scheme for their big ships. Supercarriers' classes are named after planets, while the ships themselves are named after mythological figures, i.e. the ''Mars''-class supercarrier ''GDC Krishna''. Dreadnought classes are named after terrestrial bodies, with the smaller dreadnoughts being named after cataclysmic events and the bigger ones being named after apocalyptic ones. So you get ''Mountain''-class dreadnoughts named ''GDD Tunguska'' or ''GDD Sarajevo'' [[note]]Apparently named afte rthe liquid tiberium detonation in Tiberium Wars[[/note]], and ''Glacier''-class dreadnoughts ''GDD Ragnarok'' and ''GDD Tiber River''[[note]]after the site where tiberium hit Earth[[/note]].

-->“That big walker,” she ordered. “We’re going to [[{{Firefly}} kill it with our brains.]]” Later on there's a GDI frigate captain named [[Creator/NathanFillion Nathan]] [[Series/{{Firefly}} Reynolds]] who says taht they're going to send the geth "to the special hell."

* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Phoenix, which may or may not be this setting's analogue to Cerberus. Their intentions and motivations are stereotypically mysterious, but they appear to be hostile to Nod, or at least Kane's followers. [[spoiler: And as with Cerberus, they are lead by Jack Harper, who is... ''different'']].