We Are The Dead

 We Are the Dead  is a Mass Effect fan novel created by Gnostic. It tells the story of the Black Battalion, 436 Alliance soldier who were captured by the Turian Hierarchy during the First Contact War and forced to fight as proxies against the Batarian Hegemony, and their attempt to get vengeance upon the man who sold them out.

Part I
I remember the night that I fell asleep and the long nightmare began. It was 2157, the year we first encountered the turians - the year of the First Contact War. A bunch of us - me, Scala, Yannoune, Preuss, Mazouz, and Wawrinka - were preparing to hit the sack after a long shift.