in a similar way, if you had a football or soccer team, you wouldn't go into a match without defenders and attackers let alone without a goalkeeper. It would be pretty stupid not to build some form of defense force before exploring the unknown like that. Not inconceivable time to build or repurpose existing ships to military fleets.

You can look that up in the codex if you wish.įrom that it's 8 years to first contact war in 2157. The Alliance soon becomes the military and exploratory spearhead of humanity. As a result The Systems Alliance charter is signed by the eighteen largest nations on Earth. Activating that takes humanity to Arctures and discovery of the mass relay network with the obvious conclusions of imminent first contact. Also reveal Charon (Pluto's moon) is actually a mass relay encased in ice.

Mars archives are discovered in 2148, which leads to mass effect field tech. Originally posted by Vellari:It doesn't happen 'overnight'. Not really a plot hole if try to prepare yourself first incase of any retalitory strike before opening that relay at Charon. Obviously since then Humanity would of built up it's fleets as it explored more, colonised more and gather more territory as well as political power in the citadel.

This suggests Humanity had a good number of ships at the time. The early human explorers activated all the gates in the stream until the Turians noticed them, because this activation was an illegal action it lead to a declaration of war between the species, humanity calls it the 'first contact war' and the Turians call it the 'relay 314 incident', this lead to the battle of Shanxi.ĭuring the war the Turians descended on Shanxi, invaded it and managed to contain the human forces with their military might and technology, but a human fleet got behind the turian fleet and caught them by surprise which lead to the citadel council to notice the conflict and put a stop to it. when Jon Grissom and Alec Ryder went through the Charon relay to the Arcturus Stream, they setup an outpost there that wold eventually become the defacto capital of the Systems Alliance not just military but civilian rulership. It's likely Humanity had a large number of ships, it was heavily implied, but i will get to that later.

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