p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"|||ALLIANCE DATABASE|||/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"LOADING PROFILE "SHEPARD"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"DATA RECEIVED- 7/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"/open/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"BEGIN FILE…/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2156: Shepard is born. No natural talent for biotics./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2174a: January 1: Shepard enlists.*/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2174b: November 1: Shepard enters active service./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2176a: April 23: While on shore leave to Elysium, her home, Shepard repels the assault with the help of visiting Salarian diplomats.*/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2176b: May 29: New deep-space and planetary scanning devices gifted to Humanity by Salarians, in thanks for the protection of their diplomats. Credit given to Shepard, primarily./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2177: Scanning of planet Akuze reveals trap set by unknown assailants. Shepard safely disables trap from orbit; calls in investigative ship. No conclusive leads./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2183: Eden Prime events./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"*Details removed, reason: Proper security clearance not found./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"*Shepard piloted a manual-operation loader, with an assault rifle wired into the right arm./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"|||TRANSMISSION 3|||/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"A brief scan showed Carvajal's vitals to be fatal. After dispatching the large robot, Williams' battery was down to less than a minute, and it was deemed necessary for her to stay behind. Shepard forged on ahead, effectively using her Heavy M.E.C.H.'s powerful weapons and armor to clobber the less-than-organized robot soldiers before her./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Shepard turned emHenry/em off at the foot of the stairs. It was clear that it had served its purpose, though she did take her infantry weapon with her. Littered around the beacon were dozens of robot corpses. Hydraulic fluid stained most nearby surfaces, forcing Shepard to watch her step./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Impressively, the many dead robots could all be attested to SpecTRe Kryik's impressive combat skills. Regrettable, the corpse of SpecTRe Kryik could be attested to the overwhelming numbers of the robots. How he had managed to get all of them alone, and get emall /emof them without fail, astounded the Commander./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Kryik lay several feet from the beacon. He had laid down his life to protect it. Sitting atop his chest, stubbornly trying to use his biotics to bring the SpecTRe back, was the missing Kaidan Alenko. Tears streamed down his face, the emotions of a soldier losing a comrade all too evident. Shepard was surprised- the turian had been all too professional for many to even speak to him./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The sobbing efforts of a man to save his friend were rudely interrupted by a blinding flash of green light. Suddenly, Alenko was clutching the the armor he'd been compressing moments ago, as the beacon appeared to empull him in/em. Not fond of the premise of that being on her record, Shepard ran up to pull him from the beacon's grasp./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"With a mighty tug, Alenko was sent back a foot or two. Not very far, but far enough that the beacon gave up on him and went for the entirely unattached Commander, sucking her into its swirling depths./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"OPENING DOCUMENT/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"emTranscriber's Note: What follows is, in sequence, the computer's transcription, then my transcription. I have included both for the sake of clarity. Also, built into this is the recovered three minutes of the actual vision. You can play it on screen, but I really don't recommend that unless you've got a supercomputer, and even then it doesn't make much more sense than the computer transcription. For some reason, a few days later the original files started corrupting extremely quickly, and three minutes was all we could save. Now, we only have these transcriptions./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongMILITARY VIRTUAL INTELLIGENCE 0976 DESIGNATION "HENRY"/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongTRANSCRIBE NEURAL LOGS JUNE 9 2183 21:43- JUNE 10 15:22/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"emscreamreooeapireade fear anatinaenetreserve hide deansteonsteronster GOD OF MACHINES montingindeanctitistanaridden moved thlaadmesbeferonead/em/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Transcriber's Version (based on video)/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Unintelligible screaming]/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Vague, chaotic flashes of flesh and machine]/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Something metal]/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Planets]/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Vision ends]/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"|||TRANSMISSION 3 RESUME|||/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Shepard awoke with a gasp. Her head was still on fire from whatever she had just experienced, and she nearly started sobbing in agony. Pushing away the urge, Shepard went against what her instincts told her to do and sat up slowly./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Shooting a concerned look her way, the resident Doctor Chakwas glared at her. At least she knew she was on the Normandy./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Commander, you really should be getting rest right now. As it stands, having the beacon explode around you is not something we generally consider healthy," the good Doctor admonished./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Shepard groaned. "What do you mean exploded?" Before the Doctor could answer, though, Captain Anderson stepped through the open door. He sent the still-befuddled Shepard a look loaded with meaning that went over her head, and asked the Doctor to leave./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Ah, Commander. Good to see that you're awake," the Captain said with a smiled./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Maybe for everyone else. I feel like shit," said Commander growled in response. She really did feel like shit, too. Shepard's head, eyes, and spine all felt like something had injected fire into them. "I… while I was unconscious, I had this crazy dream. Featuring robots and death, mostly. Can't make heads or tails out of it," she sighed. "Felt really relevant, given the enemy at hand."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Anderson nodded. "Well, dreams aside, I'm here to give you a quick debrief. We filed a report with the council. As it turns out, those robots are the Geth. Haven't been seen outside of the Perseus Veil in centuries, apparently. Anyways, the Council is holding a hearing for Saren, who Kaidan, with confirmation from Nihlus, said was there. No suit cameras captured him; or much footage at all. As such, we're required to be there for the hearing as testimonies. In fact, we're only a few hours out- that's why I'm debriefing you." The staggering amount of information took a moment to process. Shaking her head, the Commander sighed./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Wake me when you need me." she grumbled./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Anderson chuckled. "Dismissed."br /br /\\FILE ADDENDUM/br /br /M.E.C.H. (3): While originally designed to combat hostile fauna, M.E.C.H. units have seen widespread use in the civilian world. These stripped-down robotic frames are excellent aides in the construction of large scale, a modern requirement for participation in the Council's galaxy./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"LOADING PROFILE "SHEPARD"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"DATA RECEIVED- 7/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"/open/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"BEGIN FILE…/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2156: Shepard is born. No natural talent for biotics./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2174a: January 1: Shepard enlists.*/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2174b: November 1: Shepard enters active service./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2176a: April 23: While on shore leave to Elysium, her home, Shepard repels the assault with the help of visiting Salarian diplomats.*/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2176b: May 29: New deep-space and planetary scanning devices gifted to Humanity by Salarians, in thanks for the protection of their diplomats. Credit given to Shepard, primarily./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2177: Scanning of planet Akuze reveals trap set by unknown assailants. Shepard safely disables trap from orbit; calls in investigative ship. No conclusive leads./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"2183: Eden Prime events./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"*Details removed, reason: Proper security clearance not found./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"*Shepard piloted a manual-operation loader, with an assault rifle wired into the right arm./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"|||TRANSMISSION 3|||/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"A brief scan showed Carvajal's vitals to be fatal. After dispatching the large robot, Williams' battery was down to less than a minute, and it was deemed necessary for her to stay behind. Shepard forged on ahead, effectively using her Heavy M.E.C.H.'s powerful weapons and armor to clobber the less-than-organized robot soldiers before her./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Shepard turned emHenry/em off at the foot of the stairs. It was clear that it had served its purpose, though she did take her infantry weapon with her. Littered around the beacon were dozens of robot corpses. Hydraulic fluid stained most nearby surfaces, forcing Shepard to watch her step./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Impressively, the many dead robots could all be attested to SpecTRe Kryik's impressive combat skills. Regrettable, the corpse of SpecTRe Kryik could be attested to the overwhelming numbers of the robots. How he had managed to get all of them alone, and get emall /emof them without fail, astounded the Commander./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Kryik lay several feet from the beacon. He had laid down his life to protect it. Sitting atop his chest, stubbornly trying to use his biotics to bring the SpecTRe back, was the missing Kaidan Alenko. Tears streamed down his face, the emotions of a soldier losing a comrade all too evident. Shepard was surprised- the turian had been all too professional for many to even speak to him./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The sobbing efforts of a man to save his friend were rudely interrupted by a blinding flash of green light. Suddenly, Alenko was clutching the the armor he'd been compressing moments ago, as the beacon appeared to empull him in/em. Not fond of the premise of that being on her record, Shepard ran up to pull him from the beacon's grasp./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"With a mighty tug, Alenko was sent back a foot or two. Not very far, but far enough that the beacon gave up on him and went for the entirely unattached Commander, sucking her into its swirling depths./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"OPENING DOCUMENT/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"emTranscriber's Note: What follows is, in sequence, the computer's transcription, then my transcription. I have included both for the sake of clarity. Also, built into this is the recovered three minutes of the actual vision. You can play it on screen, but I really don't recommend that unless you've got a supercomputer, and even then it doesn't make much more sense than the computer transcription. For some reason, a few days later the original files started corrupting extremely quickly, and three minutes was all we could save. Now, we only have these transcriptions./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongMILITARY VIRTUAL INTELLIGENCE 0976 DESIGNATION "HENRY"/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongTRANSCRIBE NEURAL LOGS JUNE 9 2183 21:43- JUNE 10 15:22/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"emscreamreooeapireade fear anatinaenetreserve hide deansteonsteronster GOD OF MACHINES montingindeanctitistanaridden moved thlaadmesbeferonead/em/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Transcriber's Version (based on video)/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Unintelligible screaming]/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Vague, chaotic flashes of flesh and machine]/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Something metal]/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Planets]/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"[Vision ends]/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"|||TRANSMISSION 3 RESUME|||/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Shepard awoke with a gasp. Her head was still on fire from whatever she had just experienced, and she nearly started sobbing in agony. Pushing away the urge, Shepard went against what her instincts told her to do and sat up slowly./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Shooting a concerned look her way, the resident Doctor Chakwas glared at her. At least she knew she was on the Normandy./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Commander, you really should be getting rest right now. As it stands, having the beacon explode around you is not something we generally consider healthy," the good Doctor admonished./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Shepard groaned. "What do you mean exploded?" Before the Doctor could answer, though, Captain Anderson stepped through the open door. He sent the still-befuddled Shepard a look loaded with meaning that went over her head, and asked the Doctor to leave./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Ah, Commander. Good to see that you're awake," the Captain said with a smiled./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Maybe for everyone else. I feel like shit," said Commander growled in response. She really did feel like shit, too. Shepard's head, eyes, and spine all felt like something had injected fire into them. "I… while I was unconscious, I had this crazy dream. Featuring robots and death, mostly. Can't make heads or tails out of it," she sighed. "Felt really relevant, given the enemy at hand."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Anderson nodded. "Well, dreams aside, I'm here to give you a quick debrief. We filed a report with the council. As it turns out, those robots are the Geth. Haven't been seen outside of the Perseus Veil in centuries, apparently. Anyways, the Council is holding a hearing for Saren, who Kaidan, with confirmation from Nihlus, said was there. No suit cameras captured him; or much footage at all. As such, we're required to be there for the hearing as testimonies. In fact, we're only a few hours out- that's why I'm debriefing you." The staggering amount of information took a moment to process. Shaking her head, the Commander sighed./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Wake me when you need me." she grumbled./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Anderson chuckled. "Dismissed."br /br /\\FILE ADDENDUM/br /br /M.E.C.H. (3): While originally designed to combat hostile fauna, M.E.C.H. units have seen widespread use in the civilian world. These stripped-down robotic frames are excellent aides in the construction of large scale, a modern requirement for participation in the Council's galaxy./p
