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[Babylon5/MassEffect] What if: The Systems Alliance had access to Shadow Tech?

In the year 2150, the Systems Alliance uncovers buried in the surface of Mars a Shadow Vessel from the B5 franchise. With this discovery of a highly advanced species how will the SA adapt these new technologies? How will the rest of the series play out with the discovery of Shadow technology? How will the other races view the SA? Will they be able to survive the Reapers?
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This depends on a few things:

- Is the Shadow technology well understood and can be made functional, given the lack of telepaths in the Mass Effect universe?

- Assuming it can be activated, will the Shadow Battlecrab either go berserk (as it did in *Messages from Earth*) or summon another Battlecrab to finish freeing it and depart SA space?

- Assuming it can be activated and does not flee or go berserk, can the Systems Alliance can replicate the technology involved in it in time for First Contact and/or the Reapers?

If it can be made functional, but goes berserk or escapes, nothing the Systems alliance has can functionally stop it.

If it stays in place and the Systems alliance can replicate its, however, the Systems Alliance is now developing tech based on a ship whose weapon that is capable of exceeding a Reaper's primary armament by *over two thousand times* and phasing in and out of hyperspace at will. The Systems Alliance promptly becomes untouchable in a direct confrontation, easily overrunning the entire Turian Hierarchy when the First Contact War happens (if it even does) and earning the total fear and perhaps even reverence of other Citadel races.

Needless to say, if the Reapers do turn up - even if Sovereign's original plan succeeds - they're in for a *very* bad time.