Uh huh. And Massive Attack is that Mass Effect fic various people keep proposing here, where the Reaper invasion sweeps through JUUUUUST before Humans discover the Mars archive and the Charon Relay, emerging into a galaxy of still-smoking ruins and fragments all over hinting at what caused them. After the initial war with the Yahrg, in a similar position, in which the main characters get trained up, it follows the voyage of an elite unit assigned to uncover just what happened to depopulate the spacefaring races like that, discovering a few well-hidden time capsules along the way like stasis pods containing members of the the leading races from the last two cycles, then a time skip to mostly next-gen fic (barring a few long-lived aliens for continuity purposes) where Humanity and the races they've found to ally with have built up their non-ME fighting capability and send a strike force in to Dark Space to deal with the problem before it comes back around to bite their descendents in another 50,000 years. Cue Lensmen-level over the top space battle.
If we're adapting band names and songs now, how about First We Take Manhattan?
Or to stay more original, As the Years Fall Away
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
If we're adapting band names and songs now, how about First We Take Manhattan?
Or to stay more original, As the Years Fall Away
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows