The result of the Templars dominating Earth, politically, commercially and militarily. The replication of First Civilisation artefacts by Abstergo Industries saw the first ship on Mars in the later quarter of the 21st century where they discovered the Prothean archive. The first contact between Turian and human panned out far different with the Templars in control. Protect and win.

The Battlestar Centaur was attached to the ghost fleet to test a time warp synthesiser created by teen genius. However a misfire caused the Centaur to jump far beyond the red line into the middle of nowhere. They are put in the middle of a new galaxy, new friends and enemies to be made a fearful truth is lingering far, far beyond the temporal red line.