Post by dmc1001 on Apr 8, 2018 8:28:13 GMT
Owen Shepard:
Landed on the planet Tarith to check out a Blood Pack mining operation. There was a relay there that needed disabling in order to disrupt operations. Place was covered in fog and required following some beacons just to get around. The atmosphere was also toxic, meaning a rebreather mask was required. First thing I encountered were these giant, aggressive bugs that I learned were called Klixen. They attacked on sight but still went down. The Blood Pack didn't fare as well, since I saw dead vorcha all over the place. There was also some giant flying creature that seemed to carry the klixen around and drop them in front of enemies. Had to fight a few vorcha and one krogan but we disabled the relay and got the hell out of the stink hole.
Got a message from Chorban, who Faith had helped with scanning keepers on the Citadel. He didn't tell me anything new, but he had deduced that the keepers and the Citadel itself were around far longer than the Protheans. Also talked about the 50,000 year cycle of extinction. He talked of a signal going off around the time the Protheans died off and one was about to go off around now. Faith had told me a lot of this, but also that the keepers no longer responded to the signal thanks to Prothean intervention. It was too late for them but they wanted to help prevent future races from dying at the hands of the Reapers. If it hadn't worked, Sovereign would have brought the rest of the Reapers in by now. However, it was clear they were seeking an alternate path and that the Collectors were somehow involved. Hmm...there's that Hackett mission. Hope I have time for it or survive going through the Omega 4 relay. I suppose he sent this to me in lieu of Faith. Then again, I had all of her omni-tool data, so maybe messages to her were making their way to me.
Garrus wanted to talk. He mentioned how his team on Omega had been betrayed by one of their own, someone named Sidonis. He learned that a specialist on the Citadel called Fade could find Sidonis and he wanted my help tracking the guy down. I guess everyone was tying up loose ends, assuming we might all be dead soon enough.
Finally made it to Illium to help Miranda with her sister, but there also happened to be two recruits on my list, the drell assassin and an asari justicar. I was greeted at the port by an asari with two LOKI mechs that did not attack on sight for once. She told me my docking fees had been waived. Turned out Liara T'Soni had been behind this. She had traveled with Faith and I'd only really met her at Faith's funeral. She was one of the few aliens Faith could tolerate. Now she was, according to this asari, one of Illium's "most respected information brokers". How the hell did she go from shy archaeologist to this? Not even remotely similar disciplines. Whatever. I'd take it.
Some asari asked to speak to me. She wanted to pass a message to me from "a friend made on Noveria". She said she recognized me from my aura. Now, I'd never been to Noveria; Faith had. I just can't imagine that our auras, whatever the hell that even means, are so similar that we could be confused. It was from the rachni queen who Faith had allowed to live - which is borderline unbelievable. What the message did make clear was that when we went to war with the Reapers - which is claimed had corrupted them in the past to make them aggressive - they would join us in battle. Maybe Faith had the right idea in saving them if it could give us this powerful ally.
Encountered another person Faith had met on Noveria, an undercover agent who Faith had helped since it allowed her to travel to Peak 15. She said she'd buy a beer next time she saw her but I guess she was making good on that with me. She then suddenly took off but left a note under my beer. She was on an undercover op to stop an asari merchant who had been selling schematics from Noveria. The target had seen her so she asked for my help. First, though, I got her to give me a special discount rate, which she programmed into her kiosk. Then she mentioned special items, stuff that wasn't illegal but that she didn't have licenses to sell. Once she mentioned that, Parasini showed up. She couldn't arrest her, not on Illium, but the lack of licenses could fine her out of business. Heh. At least I still got my discount. Turned out the latest schematic had been a lure and the device was actually faulty.
Met with Miranda's contact. She said her father had hired Eclipse mercs to grab her sister, Oriana. Niket, a friend of Miranda's, offered to escort Oriana personally. Once we encountered our first mercs, one of them said Niket would not be helping us. Now, that could mean he was dead but I suspected otherwise. It was suspicious since he probably would have said Niket was dead if that were the case. Guy told us to walk away or we'd be dead since he had snipers with their guns trained on us. He was the first to go down and almost all of them were dead in about 15 seconds. They had no idea who they were dealing with, but they would soon enough.
Had to fight through a lot more mercs. Side note, I love biotic charge. Wish I'd had it two years ago but advances in biotics have made us more powerful over time. Hitting an enemy so hard that it sends the flying several meters is outstanding. Miranda had grabbed a radio from a dead merc and, as we got closer, an Eclipse message came that Niket would switch Oriana over to them. Miranda was devastated but also didn't think it was possible.
When we got to the top of the elevator, Niket was talking to Captain Enyala, the lead Eclipse mercenary. The results were in and he had betrayed Miranda. Though Oriana was genetically the twin of Miranda, they were years apart and Miranda had taken her while she was an infant. She wanted to safe her from the life she'd run away from as a teenager. Honestly, I was with her on this one. Miranda didn't take Oriana to Cerberus; she set her up with a family that would love and care for her. Miranda was about to shoot him but I stopped her. I figured the guilt might kill her. Unfortunately, Enyala killed him instead. Then Miranda grabbed her with biotics and sent her flying clear to the other side of the room. Remind me not to her on her bad side. We took on Enyala and her mercs and Miranda went to make sure Oriana and her family got safely on their shuttle. I convinced Miranda to meet with her sister, to let her know there was someone who cared about her. I never expected to see Miranda so gentle, like all the tension had drained out of her. Maybe there was hope for her yet. Maybe she could be saved from Cerberus.
Not long after returning, Joker told me Miranda and Jack were arguing. Miranda insisted Cerberus had done nothing wrong regarding Jack but that she was clearly a "mistake". This wasn't going to end well so I had to intervene. I convinced them to channel their anger into the mission and they agreed they could hold off until after it was over.
Miranda and I talked afterward. She told me she'd introduced herself to Oriana and learned a little about her. She didn't have time to focus on her for now because she didn't want distractions. Still, I'm pretty sure she hit on me.
TIM wanted to talk to me. He would not allow the Normandy to go anywhere until he did which kind of pissed me off. He said the turians had intercepted and disabled a Collector ship. Sounded...unlikely. I agreed to check it out but, like with Horizon, I suspected TIM had more of a hand in this than he was saying.
I took Miranda and Kasumi on this one. Kasumi was great at getting hacking her way into anything and might be useful here. She was also good in a fight, especially since she could cloak herself. Miranda turned out to be the better biotic than Jack. Jack was strong, when she was really pissed off, but that often wasn't the case in a fight. Miranda work best under any circumstances, though I wouldn't want to cross her when she was angry.
The Collector ship was enormous, which we knew from Horizon. It was bigger than Sovereign. No way a turian ship took that out. The inside looked like an insect hive. According to EDI, this is the same ship that was on Horizon. Couldn't be a coincidence. There might have been a chance the colonists were here. There were stasis pods all over the place but far too many of them were empty. Then we saw a pile of dead humans. Miranda theorized they might have been a control group for experiments and so were discarded at the end.
Found a terminal and saw a dead Collector next to it. They were running scans comparing Collectors to humans. It revealed something unsettling, which was the fate of the Protheans. They hadn't merely gone extinct, but had been turned into the Collectors. EDI said they had been modified enough over the past 50,000 years that they were no longer really Prothean. They were merely servants of the Reapers, with no true will of their own. Then EDI compared this ship to the one that had destroyed the original Normandy and killed Faith. Exact match. It had killed Faith and was now after me. Why? On Horizon, that one thing ("the Harbinger of your destruction") that kept taking over Reapers told the Collectors to try to capture me alive. Why kill Faith and keep me alive? What did they want?
There were so many pods in this ship that all the humans in the Terminus Systems would not fill them. Kasumi called it when she said Earth was going to be a target so stopping them was more important than ever. Ah, dammit, is it wrong that I'm glad I was given this undercover mission to infiltrate Cerberus? Whatever bad things they had done - or were still doing - I could at least make use of their resources to do some good. Then Miranda pointed out that there were no Collector bodies around. Something was wrong.
We found a terminal and connected EDI to it. It made a power surge in the Normandy, though EDI was able to mitigate the damage. Not that we hand't noticed, but EDI said it was a trap. That's when the Collectors showed up and started attacking. That Harbinger thing also showed up, possessing the Collector drones. Once we'd fought them off we had to reestablish EDI's link to the console. She found data that could help us through the Omega 4 relay. Also, data on the turian ship said the source of the distress signal was the Collectors themselves. Moreover, she said there was no way TIM wouldn't have known the truth. Once again, he sent us into what he knew would be a trap. Miranda had a hard time believing TIM would do this, but she had that same uncertainty in her voice she'd had regarding Niket. She was beginning to suspect that she couldn't trust him.
Then the Collector ship began to power up. EDI didn't have control of the ship and Joker was determined not to see another Normandy destroyed. We had to high tail it out of there to get to the shuttle before weapons came online. A lot of Collectors were between us and that shuttle, as well as husks. Harbinger also kept showing up. Hated that thing. We got to the shuttle and escaped just as the Collector ship weapons came online. Joker managed to dodge a shot and got EDI to get us to "anywhere that's not here". She didn't have access to flight control but maybe his direction was enough to give her limited ability. In any case, this Normandy did not suffer the fate of the original.
I had words with TIM. Told him I knew I couldn't trust him, that he'd betray us. He gave every excuse, including that he was confident in my abilities as well as those EDI. Wasn't buying it because he could have let us know what was going on. Then he told us we could get the Reaper IFF (Identify Friend/Foe) from a derelict Reaper that a team of Cerberus scientists were investigating.
I met with my team. Once we got the IFF we would have the means to go through the Omega 4 relay and EDI determined it led to the Collector home world in the center of the galaxy. Still, we weren't ready. Some of the team didn't have their heads on straight right now and there were still others to acquire. I wanted us all at our best and strongest before we headed to Collector territory.
Had dinner with Kelly Chambers. We talked a lot. She's very flirtatious but I didn't see it going anywhere beyond friendship.
Note: My fish are still alive.
Landed on the planet Tarith to check out a Blood Pack mining operation. There was a relay there that needed disabling in order to disrupt operations. Place was covered in fog and required following some beacons just to get around. The atmosphere was also toxic, meaning a rebreather mask was required. First thing I encountered were these giant, aggressive bugs that I learned were called Klixen. They attacked on sight but still went down. The Blood Pack didn't fare as well, since I saw dead vorcha all over the place. There was also some giant flying creature that seemed to carry the klixen around and drop them in front of enemies. Had to fight a few vorcha and one krogan but we disabled the relay and got the hell out of the stink hole.
Got a message from Chorban, who Faith had helped with scanning keepers on the Citadel. He didn't tell me anything new, but he had deduced that the keepers and the Citadel itself were around far longer than the Protheans. Also talked about the 50,000 year cycle of extinction. He talked of a signal going off around the time the Protheans died off and one was about to go off around now. Faith had told me a lot of this, but also that the keepers no longer responded to the signal thanks to Prothean intervention. It was too late for them but they wanted to help prevent future races from dying at the hands of the Reapers. If it hadn't worked, Sovereign would have brought the rest of the Reapers in by now. However, it was clear they were seeking an alternate path and that the Collectors were somehow involved. Hmm...there's that Hackett mission. Hope I have time for it or survive going through the Omega 4 relay. I suppose he sent this to me in lieu of Faith. Then again, I had all of her omni-tool data, so maybe messages to her were making their way to me.
Garrus wanted to talk. He mentioned how his team on Omega had been betrayed by one of their own, someone named Sidonis. He learned that a specialist on the Citadel called Fade could find Sidonis and he wanted my help tracking the guy down. I guess everyone was tying up loose ends, assuming we might all be dead soon enough.
Finally made it to Illium to help Miranda with her sister, but there also happened to be two recruits on my list, the drell assassin and an asari justicar. I was greeted at the port by an asari with two LOKI mechs that did not attack on sight for once. She told me my docking fees had been waived. Turned out Liara T'Soni had been behind this. She had traveled with Faith and I'd only really met her at Faith's funeral. She was one of the few aliens Faith could tolerate. Now she was, according to this asari, one of Illium's "most respected information brokers". How the hell did she go from shy archaeologist to this? Not even remotely similar disciplines. Whatever. I'd take it.
Some asari asked to speak to me. She wanted to pass a message to me from "a friend made on Noveria". She said she recognized me from my aura. Now, I'd never been to Noveria; Faith had. I just can't imagine that our auras, whatever the hell that even means, are so similar that we could be confused. It was from the rachni queen who Faith had allowed to live - which is borderline unbelievable. What the message did make clear was that when we went to war with the Reapers - which is claimed had corrupted them in the past to make them aggressive - they would join us in battle. Maybe Faith had the right idea in saving them if it could give us this powerful ally.
Encountered another person Faith had met on Noveria, an undercover agent who Faith had helped since it allowed her to travel to Peak 15. She said she'd buy a beer next time she saw her but I guess she was making good on that with me. She then suddenly took off but left a note under my beer. She was on an undercover op to stop an asari merchant who had been selling schematics from Noveria. The target had seen her so she asked for my help. First, though, I got her to give me a special discount rate, which she programmed into her kiosk. Then she mentioned special items, stuff that wasn't illegal but that she didn't have licenses to sell. Once she mentioned that, Parasini showed up. She couldn't arrest her, not on Illium, but the lack of licenses could fine her out of business. Heh. At least I still got my discount. Turned out the latest schematic had been a lure and the device was actually faulty.
Met with Miranda's contact. She said her father had hired Eclipse mercs to grab her sister, Oriana. Niket, a friend of Miranda's, offered to escort Oriana personally. Once we encountered our first mercs, one of them said Niket would not be helping us. Now, that could mean he was dead but I suspected otherwise. It was suspicious since he probably would have said Niket was dead if that were the case. Guy told us to walk away or we'd be dead since he had snipers with their guns trained on us. He was the first to go down and almost all of them were dead in about 15 seconds. They had no idea who they were dealing with, but they would soon enough.
Had to fight through a lot more mercs. Side note, I love biotic charge. Wish I'd had it two years ago but advances in biotics have made us more powerful over time. Hitting an enemy so hard that it sends the flying several meters is outstanding. Miranda had grabbed a radio from a dead merc and, as we got closer, an Eclipse message came that Niket would switch Oriana over to them. Miranda was devastated but also didn't think it was possible.
When we got to the top of the elevator, Niket was talking to Captain Enyala, the lead Eclipse mercenary. The results were in and he had betrayed Miranda. Though Oriana was genetically the twin of Miranda, they were years apart and Miranda had taken her while she was an infant. She wanted to safe her from the life she'd run away from as a teenager. Honestly, I was with her on this one. Miranda didn't take Oriana to Cerberus; she set her up with a family that would love and care for her. Miranda was about to shoot him but I stopped her. I figured the guilt might kill her. Unfortunately, Enyala killed him instead. Then Miranda grabbed her with biotics and sent her flying clear to the other side of the room. Remind me not to her on her bad side. We took on Enyala and her mercs and Miranda went to make sure Oriana and her family got safely on their shuttle. I convinced Miranda to meet with her sister, to let her know there was someone who cared about her. I never expected to see Miranda so gentle, like all the tension had drained out of her. Maybe there was hope for her yet. Maybe she could be saved from Cerberus.
Not long after returning, Joker told me Miranda and Jack were arguing. Miranda insisted Cerberus had done nothing wrong regarding Jack but that she was clearly a "mistake". This wasn't going to end well so I had to intervene. I convinced them to channel their anger into the mission and they agreed they could hold off until after it was over.
Miranda and I talked afterward. She told me she'd introduced herself to Oriana and learned a little about her. She didn't have time to focus on her for now because she didn't want distractions. Still, I'm pretty sure she hit on me.
TIM wanted to talk to me. He would not allow the Normandy to go anywhere until he did which kind of pissed me off. He said the turians had intercepted and disabled a Collector ship. Sounded...unlikely. I agreed to check it out but, like with Horizon, I suspected TIM had more of a hand in this than he was saying.
I took Miranda and Kasumi on this one. Kasumi was great at getting hacking her way into anything and might be useful here. She was also good in a fight, especially since she could cloak herself. Miranda turned out to be the better biotic than Jack. Jack was strong, when she was really pissed off, but that often wasn't the case in a fight. Miranda work best under any circumstances, though I wouldn't want to cross her when she was angry.
The Collector ship was enormous, which we knew from Horizon. It was bigger than Sovereign. No way a turian ship took that out. The inside looked like an insect hive. According to EDI, this is the same ship that was on Horizon. Couldn't be a coincidence. There might have been a chance the colonists were here. There were stasis pods all over the place but far too many of them were empty. Then we saw a pile of dead humans. Miranda theorized they might have been a control group for experiments and so were discarded at the end.
Found a terminal and saw a dead Collector next to it. They were running scans comparing Collectors to humans. It revealed something unsettling, which was the fate of the Protheans. They hadn't merely gone extinct, but had been turned into the Collectors. EDI said they had been modified enough over the past 50,000 years that they were no longer really Prothean. They were merely servants of the Reapers, with no true will of their own. Then EDI compared this ship to the one that had destroyed the original Normandy and killed Faith. Exact match. It had killed Faith and was now after me. Why? On Horizon, that one thing ("the Harbinger of your destruction") that kept taking over Reapers told the Collectors to try to capture me alive. Why kill Faith and keep me alive? What did they want?
There were so many pods in this ship that all the humans in the Terminus Systems would not fill them. Kasumi called it when she said Earth was going to be a target so stopping them was more important than ever. Ah, dammit, is it wrong that I'm glad I was given this undercover mission to infiltrate Cerberus? Whatever bad things they had done - or were still doing - I could at least make use of their resources to do some good. Then Miranda pointed out that there were no Collector bodies around. Something was wrong.
We found a terminal and connected EDI to it. It made a power surge in the Normandy, though EDI was able to mitigate the damage. Not that we hand't noticed, but EDI said it was a trap. That's when the Collectors showed up and started attacking. That Harbinger thing also showed up, possessing the Collector drones. Once we'd fought them off we had to reestablish EDI's link to the console. She found data that could help us through the Omega 4 relay. Also, data on the turian ship said the source of the distress signal was the Collectors themselves. Moreover, she said there was no way TIM wouldn't have known the truth. Once again, he sent us into what he knew would be a trap. Miranda had a hard time believing TIM would do this, but she had that same uncertainty in her voice she'd had regarding Niket. She was beginning to suspect that she couldn't trust him.
Then the Collector ship began to power up. EDI didn't have control of the ship and Joker was determined not to see another Normandy destroyed. We had to high tail it out of there to get to the shuttle before weapons came online. A lot of Collectors were between us and that shuttle, as well as husks. Harbinger also kept showing up. Hated that thing. We got to the shuttle and escaped just as the Collector ship weapons came online. Joker managed to dodge a shot and got EDI to get us to "anywhere that's not here". She didn't have access to flight control but maybe his direction was enough to give her limited ability. In any case, this Normandy did not suffer the fate of the original.
I had words with TIM. Told him I knew I couldn't trust him, that he'd betray us. He gave every excuse, including that he was confident in my abilities as well as those EDI. Wasn't buying it because he could have let us know what was going on. Then he told us we could get the Reaper IFF (Identify Friend/Foe) from a derelict Reaper that a team of Cerberus scientists were investigating.
I met with my team. Once we got the IFF we would have the means to go through the Omega 4 relay and EDI determined it led to the Collector home world in the center of the galaxy. Still, we weren't ready. Some of the team didn't have their heads on straight right now and there were still others to acquire. I wanted us all at our best and strongest before we headed to Collector territory.
Had dinner with Kelly Chambers. We talked a lot. She's very flirtatious but I didn't see it going anywhere beyond friendship.
Note: My fish are still alive.
). I screwed up the settings, though, and the ones from my first session ended up cropped, but some of them don't look too bad. I'll try and fix it for next time.
Bryson's toilet is broken, though. At least those function on the Normandy.
Bryson's toilet is broken, though. At least those function on the Normandy.
or done any of the Cerberus missions.
But she almost had me, William had quite a soft spot for her but I remembered that the romance scene occurs in Engineering and I ain't disrespecting Tali (who William is planning on romancing) like that.
I didn't know there was a second set of nest holes on the first planet (not the one with the marines). Some of the male fighters come out of these holes, the brood warriors. Kinda scary to think they have biotic abilities!
I didn't know there was a second set of nest holes on the first planet (not the one with the marines). Some of the male fighters come out of these holes, the brood warriors. Kinda scary to think they have biotic abilities!
I'm going to use this as the reason she goes off her rocker in 2 and 3 - she never recovers from the stress. 
