p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"DISCONTINUED -|- span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"{AN: Decided to flesh this out a bit.)/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strong style="text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The Mist Broker/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"In a room, an office, two figures stand. Watching a recovering wilderness thrive to the best of its abilities./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Do you believe the time is right?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I can't say…"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""The date's correct…" The figure said tapping the date and time on the window's interface./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""That it is."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Then I shall go through with the plan." Pressing its collar, the figure spoke. "Operation Mist is go, I repeat Operation Mist Broker is go"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Yes, Sir!" Came the reply./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A series of slowly spinning red lights activated./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I have to have some fun every now and then." A figure replies to the look given by the other./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A Turian strolls the bridge to the cockpit of a new kind of frigate./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""1500 is good. Your Captain will be pleased."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Meandering for a moment or two, the Turian moves away./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I hate that guy."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Nihlus gave you a compliment... so you hate him?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Remember to zip up your jumpsuit after the bathroom? That's good, I just jumped us halfway across the galaxy and hit a target the size of a pinhead, that's amazing!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Tell me about it when you can hit a target the size of a needle point."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Oh, hardy ha, ha."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Joker, that's the commander."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Shit, uh Ma'am!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Don't worry abo-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A ping sounds out from Shepard's Omni./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""How the?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I thought we were under cold run, how'd you receive that?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I'm asking the same question when we get back, shouldn't be possible…"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Well what's it say?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""It says "-" I uh need to speak with the captain."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Well you're in luck he just pinged us, wants you in the comm room."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Keep me up to date on strong style="text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important;"everything,/strong could be nothing, a teen hacker doing it for laughs, but it's suspect enough, Joker."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Ma'am."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Jogging towards the stern of the ship, the Commander turns jogging backwards. "Joker, Turians have exceptional hearing he more than likely heard you!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The Commander disappeared around the corner, a few moments later. "So, what do you think's up?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Above my paygrade Kaiden don't want any bad joo-joo."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The commander swipes her wrist ID on the door. Entering she finds the Captain and the SpecTRe speaking./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir!" She exclaims jumping into a salute./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Relax Shepard, I and the good Spectre here just need to inform you of some aspects of this mission, that were under wraps till now"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir, I need to inform you of an Omni-Text I received a minute ago."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""What!?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I thought we were running cold Captain?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""We are Spectre, that's the problem."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir I think you need to see this, whoever sent it knew classified info on this mission."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Let's see that, "Target destination under attack, repeat Eden Prime is under attack by synthetic forces, believed to be Geth, advise extreme caution!/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Prepare cargo hold for civilian evac, medical staff need to be advised." This is serious. We can't do anything now but Intel needs to be informed of this."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A new ping sounded off./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Let's see, "New information urgent, please inform council spectre! Spectre has gone rogue, believed to be commanding Geth troops, facial recognition brings up a Saren Arterius as the perpetrator."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""That's not possible, Saren is a frie-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Another ping./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I'll set it to read it for us."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Satellites detect radiation spikes in civilian areas, dirty bombs detected, rack up for hazmat! Repeat dirty bombs detected rack up for hazmat, full seals, full seals!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""This is getting more and more outlandish, but…"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Shepard, I want you to follow the recommendations of this contact, I'll send the order in a second, don't worry about any fallout from this, it's out there really far out there, but if there's a lick of truth in this it could be the single most catastrophic attack on humanity in a hundred years."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Captain we've yet to inform the Commander of the true mission specs."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Right, right. Commander?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""This as you've no doubt worked out is no simple run through, a week ago we discovered a Prothean beacon on Eden Prime."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I've been sent to both retrieve it, and to decide if you have the stuff needed to be a Spectre."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""No joke Shepard."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Shi-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir, I think you're gonna want to see this!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""What is it Joker?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""We've got a signal from Eden Prime, It looks like a distress call, all other traffic is missing, Sir I think this is serious!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The clip plays./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir, that looked awfully like a synthetic force attacking our colony there…"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I agree Commander."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Another ping./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Advise Spectre Nihlus to keep a distance, reports of a Turian Spectre fooling high ranking personnel and executing them point blank, to the head have been received. Believed to be Saren Arterius."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I'm cautious to believe an anonymous source, however I will take this into account." The Turian leaving./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Anderson turns from the door. "Commander I want helmet cams running at all times down there."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Yes sir."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Dismissed."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""And Jane, keep yourself safe out there"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I will Anderson"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The cargo hold is in vacuum, there are six people suited up near the drop hatch. The drop attendants call comes over helmet comms "Drop in ten!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Shepard taps her right elbow with her left hand, cueing the mic. "Everyone ready?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Yes Ma'am!" Both her subordinates reply./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Waving one over to herself she keys her comms to private, using her eye controlled helmet HUD. "Jenkins!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Ma'am?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Putting an arm over his shoulder Shepard brings Jenkins in. "I want you to stick close to me, this isn't a normal combat run, this is an invasion, a full scale attack."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I understand Ma'am."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Good." Giving him a slap on the back, the group lines up for drop./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A few minutes, and one Turian early drop, later the drop attendants call comes again. "Three, two, one, strong style="text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important;"mark!/strong"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The group drops one at a time, all with a slap to the back from an attendant./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"DISCONTINUED -|- span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED -|- /spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"DISCONTINUED/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"{AN: Decided to flesh this out a bit.)/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strong style="text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The Mist Broker/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"In a room, an office, two figures stand. Watching a recovering wilderness thrive to the best of its abilities./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Do you believe the time is right?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I can't say…"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""The date's correct…" The figure said tapping the date and time on the window's interface./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""That it is."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Then I shall go through with the plan." Pressing its collar, the figure spoke. "Operation Mist is go, I repeat Operation Mist Broker is go"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Yes, Sir!" Came the reply./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A series of slowly spinning red lights activated./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I have to have some fun every now and then." A figure replies to the look given by the other./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A Turian strolls the bridge to the cockpit of a new kind of frigate./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""1500 is good. Your Captain will be pleased."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Meandering for a moment or two, the Turian moves away./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I hate that guy."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Nihlus gave you a compliment... so you hate him?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Remember to zip up your jumpsuit after the bathroom? That's good, I just jumped us halfway across the galaxy and hit a target the size of a pinhead, that's amazing!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Tell me about it when you can hit a target the size of a needle point."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Oh, hardy ha, ha."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Joker, that's the commander."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Shit, uh Ma'am!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Don't worry abo-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A ping sounds out from Shepard's Omni./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""How the?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I thought we were under cold run, how'd you receive that?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I'm asking the same question when we get back, shouldn't be possible…"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Well what's it say?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""It says "-" I uh need to speak with the captain."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Well you're in luck he just pinged us, wants you in the comm room."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Keep me up to date on strong style="text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important;"everything,/strong could be nothing, a teen hacker doing it for laughs, but it's suspect enough, Joker."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Ma'am."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Jogging towards the stern of the ship, the Commander turns jogging backwards. "Joker, Turians have exceptional hearing he more than likely heard you!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The Commander disappeared around the corner, a few moments later. "So, what do you think's up?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Above my paygrade Kaiden don't want any bad joo-joo."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The commander swipes her wrist ID on the door. Entering she finds the Captain and the SpecTRe speaking./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir!" She exclaims jumping into a salute./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Relax Shepard, I and the good Spectre here just need to inform you of some aspects of this mission, that were under wraps till now"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir, I need to inform you of an Omni-Text I received a minute ago."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""What!?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I thought we were running cold Captain?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""We are Spectre, that's the problem."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir I think you need to see this, whoever sent it knew classified info on this mission."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Let's see that, "Target destination under attack, repeat Eden Prime is under attack by synthetic forces, believed to be Geth, advise extreme caution!/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Prepare cargo hold for civilian evac, medical staff need to be advised." This is serious. We can't do anything now but Intel needs to be informed of this."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A new ping sounded off./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Let's see, "New information urgent, please inform council spectre! Spectre has gone rogue, believed to be commanding Geth troops, facial recognition brings up a Saren Arterius as the perpetrator."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""That's not possible, Saren is a frie-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Another ping./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I'll set it to read it for us."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Satellites detect radiation spikes in civilian areas, dirty bombs detected, rack up for hazmat! Repeat dirty bombs detected rack up for hazmat, full seals, full seals!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""This is getting more and more outlandish, but…"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Shepard, I want you to follow the recommendations of this contact, I'll send the order in a second, don't worry about any fallout from this, it's out there really far out there, but if there's a lick of truth in this it could be the single most catastrophic attack on humanity in a hundred years."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Captain we've yet to inform the Commander of the true mission specs."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Right, right. Commander?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""This as you've no doubt worked out is no simple run through, a week ago we discovered a Prothean beacon on Eden Prime."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I've been sent to both retrieve it, and to decide if you have the stuff needed to be a Spectre."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""No joke Shepard."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Shi-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir, I think you're gonna want to see this!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""What is it Joker?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""We've got a signal from Eden Prime, It looks like a distress call, all other traffic is missing, Sir I think this is serious!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The clip plays./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir, that looked awfully like a synthetic force attacking our colony there…"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I agree Commander."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Another ping./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Advise Spectre Nihlus to keep a distance, reports of a Turian Spectre fooling high ranking personnel and executing them point blank, to the head have been received. Believed to be Saren Arterius."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I'm cautious to believe an anonymous source, however I will take this into account." The Turian leaving./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Anderson turns from the door. "Commander I want helmet cams running at all times down there."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Yes sir."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Dismissed."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Sir!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""And Jane, keep yourself safe out there"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I will Anderson"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The cargo hold is in vacuum, there are six people suited up near the drop hatch. The drop attendants call comes over helmet comms "Drop in ten!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Shepard taps her right elbow with her left hand, cueing the mic. "Everyone ready?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Yes Ma'am!" Both her subordinates reply./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Waving one over to herself she keys her comms to private, using her eye controlled helmet HUD. "Jenkins!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Ma'am?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"Putting an arm over his shoulder Shepard brings Jenkins in. "I want you to stick close to me, this isn't a normal combat run, this is an invasion, a full scale attack."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""I understand Ma'am."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;""Good." Giving him a slap on the back, the group lines up for drop./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"A few minutes, and one Turian early drop, later the drop attendants call comes again. "Three, two, one, strong style="text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important;"mark!/strong"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-shadow: black 0.5px 0px 0px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; font-size: 18px !important;"The group drops one at a time, all with a slap to the back from an attendant./p