Prologue

"You think he is the right choice for the candidate?" the older man asked he had graying hair and was going bald. "Yes ambassador his records prove he is one of the best soldiers we have ever had," said the admiral standing with the group of five people in the small room where they were holding their conference. "Well I can tell you the kid has heart when we adopted him…" A woman interjected the man, "I was the one who saw the poor kid sitting there on the steps of the recruiting office." Anderson chuckled at the Shepards as Hannah talked about when she met Kyle. The kid had a hard life by the looks of his record, grew up in an orphanage on Earth that he ran away from at age eight and didn't turn up till he was seventeen, when the Shepards adopted him, rumor has it he was involved in gangs on Earth and ran away which explained all the scars and injuries the kid had.

Kyle Shepard stood as tall as a turian, he has a wide built with a broad chest and squared shoulders. Though that isn't what was first noticed about him if they saw him, he had the most unnatural snow white hair and his eyes never stayed the same color they literally changed. He wasn't a big talker though so not many people knew what happened in the gangs that made him this way because it was obvious it wasn't natural, just like his left arm. From the elbow down he had a fake robotic arm. The man easily changed the atmosphere when he walked into a room, he was very intimidating. Then again when everyone knows who you are it is hard not to be he had an outstanding military career starting out by being stationed out on Akuze where he and the rest of his squad was overrun by thresher maws killing all but him because he got lucky when one of the maws dug straight through one of their defenses hitting him into one of the buildings the was covered in one of the thresher maws acid. When the Alliance got to the remains of the outpost they only found Shepard left everyone else was dead.

That incident didn't stop him though the man had strength he had to admit that much because after the attack on Akuze Shepard refused to turn to a different career he had more than likely lied to get through the mental requirements to continue in the military. Alliance officials decided to give him an easier job after that letting the man be basically on guard duty while on the planet Elysium. It was supposed to be easier at least that didn't last long though because batarian slavers ended up attacking the colony soon afterwards in a raid called the Skyllian Blitz. Leading the resistance against them Shepard ended up stopping hundreds of troops single-handedly earning him the Star of Terra. About a year after that Alliance intelligence found the slavers base of operations on the moon of Torfan and the Alliance came to Shepard again to ask him to join in on the retaliation against the Skyllian Blitz. When asked to be in the raid he asked if he could know the plans for attack and once learning them he backed out of the operation.

Anderson blinked a few time coming back from his memories he saw that those around the table were looking at him. "So Captain do you think he is right for the job, are you sure you want him protecting the galaxy?" he heard Ambassador Udina ask. "He is the best choice out of everyone," was his response. "I'll make the call," Udina said.

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