A/N: To address a guest that review along the lines "tali a spectre?! sorry but i dont think she is spectre material...and it certainly doesnt helps that she is quarian"
Right *Clicks hands* Time to decode this mess.

First off, She is Spectre material alright, have you not seen her history? She was a teammate of the Saviour of the Citidel in 2183, She saved the Alerei form the Geth with the help from her Captain, She took down the collectors and was a major influence and force in the reclamation of Rannoch to the Quarian people.

Secondly, it doesn't matter that she's Quarian. The Quarian race has a Councillor, COUNCILLOR, which means the race is eligible for a Spectre propostion. Why do you think most of the Spectre in the Trilogy were Turian, Asari and Salarian. Shepard was inducted under special circumstances for the Saren problem (If you try to use that loophole)

#Rant Over

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Chapter 10: The Siege of Shanxi


November 19th 2189
ANV Mt. Snowdon
Orbiting Shanxi
Konner Pearson

The Snowdon had just dropped out of FTL above the peaceful colony of Shanxi, to the sight of multiple ships in plain view. Or as Ben put so crudely "Holy fuck that's a shitstorm!"

"I am detecting 50 individual signatures around the planet, most of them being fighters, but 1 of them being the flagship, a dreadnought." KAI chimed in at the wrong time

"Yeah, so basically a Shitstorm." Konner had just walked up to the bridge of the warship and was standing behind Ben with Nyreen next to him.

"Konner! Just dropped out of FTL to the orbit of Shanxi, there is way too many ship to count out here, they seem to not see us at all, even when we are not in active camouflage, they are just staring at the planet dumbly, On a hunch, I asked KAI to see if he could get any hails from the ships and all he got back was this." He pointed at the speech software in front of him that sparked to life in a series of screeches and high pitched beeps, Konner knew where this was going and he did not like it one bit. "So, KAI, please tell our Captain here what that is?"

KAI's Blue ball popped to life in front of the 3 man squad and stated "The IFF's tag them as Geth constructs that are currently in the orbit around Shanxi. There are no communications coming from the planet either."

"There must be a jammer of some-sort either in the fleet or planet side to stop the colony from requesting help on the emergency frequency, smart move if the Geth can actually be that . . . smart. Shit." Konner had just realized something that he just noticed of the behavioral activity of the Geth ' How do they know about the signals on the planet, this is a human world, we wouldn't give out information like that' He knew who to talk to for that information. "Get Yani up from Engineering, she is going to want to see this immediately"

"Yes, Captain, Engineer Raan is on her way up to the bridge"

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Yani was making her way from Engineer from the immediate recall from her station to the bridge as fast as she could "What's the problem Konner? Are we being attacked or something important with the councilors?" She asked intently, wanting to find out what in Human Hell was going on that was getting the Captain on edge.

"Care to specify what they are over there at about 10 o'clock?" Konner pointed at the location of some purple mist but on closer inspection, Yani found out what they were.

"GETH!?" She shouted in surprise at the revelation. "What the fuck are they doing here, in a Human system orbiting a Human planet?" Konner flinched at the crude manner that Yani put it, well she has been around him for the last year, wouldn't be a bad thing that something wore off of him eventually.

"Yea... that's what I brought you up here for, they are transmitting a jammer that KAI can't even lock onto, knowing you and your work with Geth, you will be our best bet at what the hell they are doing anyway."

Yani had calmed down at the sound of Konner voice, reassuring her that she was safe from them "Ok, I'll get to work and lockdown that signal and see if I can scrounge up any other data form their databanks." She walked off to the terminal that was next to Ben in the cockpit

"Oh. Cool, I get to sit with the CO's girlfriend." Ben said as her saw her waltz up to the chair next to him "So, how are you Yani?" He said with sarcasm to wind up Konner himself.

"Oh, Ben, She is way out of your league, anyway, when are you going to follow Heather around the ship eventually, you know she likes you. Even Yani agrees with me"

"Oh, hell no, pfft..." He turned back to his interface "I might take you up with that" he said under his breath.

"Stop being an issue and keep this ship afloat please Ben." Konner put his hand up to his comm. "Garrus, how are you doing with the guns? We might need them combat ready soon. You know, just in case these Geth start shooting at us."

Garrus was occupied with his calibration and got back to Konner "Hang on, were against Geth? This mission is sure turning out what it was like 6 years ago. Oh well, they should be at 95% to 98% efficiency, still can't get these things lined up perfectly with there being a pair and not a single one that I'm used. Even the AI won't give a way to get it perfect, that's a tall order for an Alliance ship."

"Ok, just get them ready for a gun run ASAP, we need to be ready for anything that they can throw at us." Konner said as he was intervened Yani.

"Konner! Getting a live feed from the Geth that are down on the planet!"

"Play it through the monitors." Konner instructed, the monitor flared into life as the Geth optics were hacked into. It showed four beings taking down the Quarians that were standing in the room, unknowing that they were being watched through an in-active Geth platform on the other side of the room. Konner and Yani saw another Quarian in purple shooting at the 'hostile' Quarians, taking them down with extreme efficiency. Then there was a human with a Cerberus-esque mask that shone yellow in the darkness.

"Wait, hold the Geth on standby, don't alert them to the Geth's presence, I want to see what they do inside of the base." Konner ordered and Yani followed suit as she let go of the controls to the unit, the Humans started to rummage around the room, obviously looking for something important. As soon as he thought of that, he saw the Quarian find a glowing, orange OSD that had an unknown language typed on it,

"Huh, looks like they found what they are looking for." Ben said, stating the blooding obvious

"Well, no shit Sherlock." A rather confused glare came his way as Yani just looked at him, dumbfounded.

"Hey! I like pointing out the obvious, I'm a pilot, i suppose to for my co-pilot."

"You don't even have a co-pilot, so what's the point?"

"Just keeping my skills ready just in case, you never know."

Yani looked back at her console and then back at Konner. "Er, they might have just spotted the Geth." The two humans were looking straight at the flashlight of the Geth"

"So, Shepard, how do you think this pile of crap is online huh, I thought they wanted to enslave slash control the Geth?" The Human in black and gold armour asked with his voice not being modulated by the mask that he wore.

The Human in black and red armour responded "I dunno, you gotta asked the Geth expert over here or the Shadow Broker, they will probably know more than me, i just shoot them when they get all red and angry at me." He poked the Geth right in the eye and the feed produced minor static, then the Quarian moved towards it.

"Hey, stop that, your going to make the subject unusable, I want to lock that signal down before anyone finds out what I'm doing" The Quarian in purple demanded.

"Aww, come on honey, I'm a man, whenever you tell me to touch things, I'm going to touch them anyway." he made to that statement and kicked the Geth in the legs.

"Are you two ever going to stop flirting while your around me?, I'm kinda getting uncomfortable her." The human in yellow responded, shuffling backwards to get away from the problem.

"I wouldn't doubt that they won't listen to you, they were worse when the collector and reaper wars were going on" An Asari came into view in white and blue armour. The feed was cut short suddenly as the field went fully static.

Yani was immediately on the case of Konner's confusion "I have stopped the feed as i detected a breach in the Geth hardware in the unit, the Quarian on the feed was quite quick as a hacker."

"So, what now? Did you find out anything about the attack?"

"Yes, i found an audio-file in the system that was marked as urgent and was sent by a Quarian." She brought her hand up and started to play the recording on her Omni-tool.

Geth units orbiting above the planet designated as Shanxi, you are sent to defend the extraction of Geth units from the surface, lethal force is authorized top all units and is effective immediately, if any Alliance ships are detected in the area, dispose of them immediately and leave no remains that can be traced back to them, we want this to be a stealth mission. Go on, my Minions, For the Ani'gaus! The Recording shut off and the Omni-tool was left bare as the message ended. Leaving more questions than answers.

Nyreen had just come up from the battery as she made her way to the bridge, only to find it in complete silence as everyone was deep in thought. She decided to break the silence for her own knowledge and the common good. Captain, what have we found so far?" her military instincts resorted herself as a subordinate in sight of the Captain.

"Well, we have more questions then answers by being here. We have found survivors on the surface and a recording of a Quarian that was sent to the fleet that is in front of us. KAI is still trying to analyse the voice print of the Quarian to see if we get a match to any of the high ranking officials. Will hope to see some results soon."

"Off topic, Captain." Nyreen asked "What does KAI stand for?"

"Well KAI stands for-" He was interrupted by red warning light going across the bridge

"HULL BREACH DETECTED, I REPEAT, HULL BREACH DETECTED" Was the sound of the engineers that were currently down in engineering.

Konner reacted and went into Captain mode so that he can assure the safety of his crew "Get everyone to battle stations and get ready for another attack, Ben get our shields up NOW!" No-one questioned him as his orders were final in a battle situations as they valued their own lives as well. "Garrus, open up the Thalanxi and get them fire ready yesterday!" he saw a blue light fling through the sky as half of it tore through the underside of the ship and then the ships blue Cyclonic shields popped into life and shunted into the last part of the incoming fire, The damage was done already

'WARNING, SHIELDS AT 37%' KAI shouted at the crew.

Reacting to the warning Konner ordered all non-critical systems to be powered down to supply the firepower, the Shields and the engine, this resulted in Moon-like gravity and only lighting available light around the ship to be red from the back up lighting. "Helmsman, get this ship on intercept course on those ships, Garrus, get the gun at full power, we need to give them everything we've got"

Garrus responded "Sir, If i do that, the chance of the core venting is dramatically high and i don't want to take that risk unless we have to"

Nyreen was on the same line after leaving him to get to the battery with Garrus "Additionally Sir, your girlfriend is in the engineering, you don't want to vent the core, the plasma will just spew out into the area and burn everyone alive."

Konner had to think about his next order as he weighed up the pros and cons could he let the relationship with Yani get in the way with the inevitable doom of the ship or risk her life to get everyone out? "Garrus, fire up the gun, Nyreen get everyone out of engineering ASAP, KAI take control of the engineering deck and see if you can shield the core so we don't have plasma going up or down decks, Ben, get in line with the ships, line up the guns to fire in an X formation over the ships, i want as much damage done to them." A round of Yes Sir's or Captain's came through as they get to work. By the power of the Eclipse of the Moon, grant the ship strength to get us through this.

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The Snowdon swooped through space on course to destroy the Geth ship, said ship were still trying to shoot the Alliance ship down but to no avail as the shields had turn green with visible light as it gained strength to deflect the shots. The Geth ships were the prey and the Snowdon was the eagle. The Twin light producers were unsheathed from the belly of the Snowdon as it was in range of the accelerated particles. The two cannons flared with light as it gained power and then fired it's first shot, the two particle beams crossing over itself as the particles pounded the ship with all its might, the X formation had the advantage as the paths fully crossed, the power was significantly increase with the beams now focused on the core of the ship. the First one went up in a shine of white light which bleached the sphere that was beneath it. The Snowdon did not wait for the prey to be confirmed a KIA as it focused on the second ship, the bigger one of the two that were being targeted, this time the two beam were engorge within each other to produce a bright red beam that emanated from the ship and shot towards the ship. The beam that had been fired, reminiscent of the reaper particle beams that were used by the destroyers themselves. the beam smashing into the ship and disintegrated upon impact, leaving nothing in its wake, a devastating beam that should be a sin to use.

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The Snowdon was a complete mess from the battle that ensued, could of been worse if they did not have that overshield that KAI had made for them to use in dire situations. A very big bonus for crew support. Not that the Snowdon was out of danger in the slightest, the power draw had left the core critical and could go into meltdown and reverse everything that they had done.

Konner stood back up from his chair and stretched his back as he had finally got to sit down after the battle, the Snowdon, the flagship of the 7th Fleet was almost down for the count. Again, Konner did not know why he is the one of bad luck with the Snowdon and ending up in near death situation more than once, this is why he had upgraded the ship to support the constant dangers it is always in, The overshield (Which anyone would notice because it produced a bright green light that was visible from a mile away), an Damage Boost that augments the canon to intertwine the particles in the cannons to increase the damage and fire rate of the gun, this in turn it a bright red colour as it would exit the chambers of the cannon. And a core overclock which drained all of the power from sub-systems and powered the thrusters to produce a bright blue tail as the ship could dodge more effectively.

All of these bonuses would help in the fight to come.