What did you do today in ME?

Haha, yeah, I hate the Renegade option there. I still pick it sometimes, but it's really way too psycho.

Sooo, I managed to finish ME1 last night, woo!
File#26
Subject: Therum Mission Report
- Successfully extracted Prothean expert Dr. Liara T'Soni from a Prothean ruin on the planet Therum, after searching the whole cluster for her. She had been trapped inside a Prothean safety zone she had activated when she saw geth at the ruins. Once I had freed her, a krogan and a few geth tried to stop us, but they were eliminated in the process. Both Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko and Tali'Zorah nar Rayya were present and involved in the fight.
- Aboard the Normandy, Dr. T'Soni helped to make sense of the vision from the Prothean beacon, and she recognised the planet Ilos. The Normandy is currently en route to the Citadel in order to discuss assistance in the pursuit of Saren Arterius with the Council.

File#27
Subject: Ilos/Citadel Mission Report
- After refusal from the Council to help with the pursuit of Saren Arterius, the Normandy's lockdown was overwritten by Captain David Anderson in an attempt to save the whole galactic civilization and to shield them from the return of the Reapers.
I, Commander Neva Shepard, take full responsibility for purloining the SSV Normandy - the crew acted on my orders.
- Upon arriving on Ilos, Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko, Tali'Zorah nar Rayya and I were able to pursuit Saren Arterius after unlocking a door he had sealed behind him in order to slow us down, when a barrier prevented us from proceeding. It had been erected by a Prothean VI called Vigil. It told us that in each cycle, a sole Reaper - a sentinel - is left behind, hidden away, while the other Reapers return to and hibernate in dark space. This sentinel, Sovereign in the current cycle, calls in the remaining Reapers roughly every 50000 years. The Citadel, which is actually a mass relay that links to dark space, and the keepers play an important part in this. A signal is sent from the sentinel to the Citadel and then to the keepers, which in return activate the Citadel relay, enabling the return of the Reapers with a surprise attack. The Citadel as the heart of galactic civilization turns into a trap and the Reapers gain full control over the mass relays.
Furthermore, the VI explained that the vision from the Prothean beacon was sent from Ilos across their network after the Reapers had left, an attempt to reach any survivors.
Ilos was a top secret facility that had worked on the creation of a small-scale mass relay linking to the Citadel - the Conduit. The records of Ilos had been destroyed in the initial attack on the Citadel and as a result, Ilos had been spared. The personnel severed all communication to the outside world and went into cryogenic stasis in order to conserve resources. However, the process of harvesting organic life took centuries, and the Prothean VI shut down life support of the less valuable staff to ensure the survival of the most important ones. After the Reapers were gone, the top scientists were still alive and studied feverishly to find a way to prevent a return of the Reapers. Eventually they found a way to alter the signal that emerges from the Citadel and used the Conduit to modify it on site. In this cycle, the keepers ignored the signal, trapping the Reapers in dark space. Sovereign tried to use Saren to override the Citadel's systems and to manually open the relay, trying to not give its true identity away in the process.
Please find coordinates of Vigil's location attached to this report.
- Successfully used the Conduit to get to the Citadel. Followed Saren to the Council Chambers and finally made him see he was indoctrinated all along. After he had shot himself, I used a data file I copied from the VI to corrupt the Citadel's security protocols, giving me temporary control over the station.
I ordered Flight Lieutenant Jeff Moreau, assisted by the Alliance fleets, to save the Council from Sovereign, when Saren Arterius came back to life again after having been confirmed as dead by both Alenko and nar Rayya. He was taken down once more, finally dead, when I saw parts of Sovereign breaking through the Council Chamber windows. I was buried under rubble in the process, but made it out in the end.
It is highly advised to prepare for the return of the Reapers.

Gee, that was way too long... um, pics!


I died much more during Ilos and the Citadel part than I would've liked. I was getting super cocky and didn't even save during Ilos, then I had to redo everything because I was killed by the geth in the armature area... then again by the frigging turrets on the Citadel!! Every. fucking. time. Guess who also didn't save before that?! That's right, me! Well, eventually I made it. And then I imported Neva into ME2, I'm so excited for this and curious how I will handle Vanguard on Insanity I will likely die a lot, haha. I had to start the import 3 times becaaaause... well, I thought I had already unlocked Dominate, but it turned out I hadn't So I loaded a save from my previous Shepard (good thing I had one right before meeting Morinth!), picked Morinth, started the import again, but this time Neva had no eyelashes... Third time's a charm and it did work! So here's a first glimpse of Neva in ME2, very happy with how she turned out: