Yo it's me again, it's been a while since I updated the story, but I have been dogged tired pulling overtime at work lately. Furthermore I was looking over the chapter and changing a few things in mind. If you are wondering what's going on reread some chapters in mind. Still thank you all for the support you have given me. So please relax and enjoy the chapter. I will see you guys later.
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The sounds of explosions were heard as human wearing Blue Suns armor ran towards a group of survivors as he panted now.
"Fucking unstoppable, who the hell thought it was a great idea coming to Korlus to train!" he shouted now.
"Shut up fool! Damn Void walker can track you down!" Batarian shouted now as the group was trying to take cover behind the wreckage for cover.
As they heard a loudspeaker cut on now. "Blue Suns!" a voice shouted now putting them all on edge now. "You don't stand a chance you're stranded on this desolate planet, so make peace with whatever entity you worship. Now this will be your final outcome since you thought raiding ships was easy until I came along. Just know that I, Yoko Minamoto is not without mercy, I will grant you a swift death you sought," As the felt a pulse of biotic energy shake the wreckage now making them flinch, some discharge their weapons.
"She is going to kill us!" one human shouted now.
"There is thirty of us still and just one of her!" Batarian leader shouted now. They felt another shockwave shake the rubble now shake the wreckage.
"Fuck it, I'm charging!" human shouted as he ran out now.
"No, wait!" Batarian shouted now as rush violet and red energy slammed down on top of him making a dust cloud. They could hear the crunching sound now as the fiery explosion of dark matter burst through the of the wreckage. They all jumped back as they saw the metal in the nearby area turn to slag now. They heard a faint laugh now as they fired the guns only to see the bullets not even touch the blonde Spectre. As a rush of dark energy pulsed like a sun blinding them intensely as they screamed.
"This is varren shit right here! She is just fucking with us!" Batarian shouted now. He heard the clash of blades now as he looked up at the ceiling above. He saw her fall down now the blonde falling down in their formation. She releases a shockwave sending some back as shrapnel hit some of them down them with ease. Some responded trying to return fire at her. She spun quickly with swords wrapped with dark energy, she swung them creating a destructive cutting ark of dark energy slicing a few in half. Batarian looked on with fear now as he tried reacting now. She pointed her finger shooting a small bolt of dark matter at his forehead. As it sent him flying back into the rubble. She saw some of them trying to take up firing positions now.
She quickly biotically dashed now as she ran up the wall with her feet. Geckskin and her biotics were making it fast for her to run like a cheetah up the wall dodging hailstorm of bullets. As some tried firing grenades at her and missed. It caused rubble to fall and smoke to cover her position. A violet blur of energy shot towards the ground now as blades swung in the air. The sound of cutting metal and flesh was heard with screams.
As the Batarian knocked to the ground earlier woke back up now. He quickly looked up as he saw everyone lying dead.
"By the pillar..." he muttered in fear. He saw firey dark aura grab and lifted him into the air. He tried to struggle, but it was futile now as he saw the blonde clean her blades now. The cloak over the armor was blowing thanks to the wind in the area.
"Lieutenant Krekon Ashra, you have a bounty on your head for the raids against Vol Protectorate ships. You have a total of eighty million credit for the amount of damage you cost them for their ship, goods, and killing their personnel."
"Damn demon witch…" he managed to mutter out now. He screamed in pain as the fire dark matter burned his skin for a moment.
She heard Omni-tool beep now as she looked down now as she saw Spectre symbol now. She sheathed Souhajin and Mugettou.
"One moment, I have a call to make," she told him as she tapped on her Omni-tool calling down her ship now. She heard the soft hum of the engine now as it came from Lionheart. It was a ship designed from the one she made years ago for the Alliance, except the colors were White and silver. She added a tactical cloak to the vessel itself like her mentor Tadal. An emblem of a lion was painted on the top of the ship. As the Lionheart landed now as drones came out of the hangar bay to clean up the site. As well help take in the suitable components and weapons. She allowed the drones to snatch up Krekon to secure him in a cryo-pod.
She answered the call as her Omni-tool projected a Volus in full body now.
"Did you capture him?" the Captain Dini Volo asked her now. He was her employer at this time.
"The group is eliminated, and Krekon is captured you have nothing to worry about when you head on to Anhur Captain. My only question is do you want to transport him, or I do it. I doubt the Citadel will prosecute him for his crimes against Vol Protectorate." Yoko informed him now.
"Send him our way instead my guards will put him in the cell and you can claim your bounty on his head. Once he is secured, you can get paid both ways from me."
"I was doing this partly as a favorite as for Ambassador Korlack and the fact it's our campaign to wipe these pirate groups out. You don't need to pay me anything." Yoko tried reassuring him now.
"No worries Spectre, it's the least I can do. Furthermore, you needed resupply, and luckily for you, we have the materials you need. So you don't have to double back to Citadel for it." Dini told her now.
"Okay, I can accept, I will be up there soon to see you in person. Make sure he is secured, and I will make sure to salvage some food for him from his ship for the trip to Irune." Yoko agreed now. She loved getting resupplied with the things she needed. Yoko made her way back to her ship now.
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Yoko sighed in relief as she many empty crates she had were filled again. Her ship was running low on supplies from the month-long pirate suppression. Despite having a stealth ship the ammunition, fuel, probes, and etc. were pricy to pay. This ship was technically a warship after all since the Alliance helped developed it. She had Silaris company compose the whole thing of Silaris armor and added extra plating to it. Her father managed to long range and fastest propulsion system using plasma system she developed. Luckily she has the blessing of the Fleet Admiral to get Lionheart built.
She didn't name the ship, it was more of the engineers wanted to make a play on her secondary epithet.
Lionheart's layout was straightforward since it is used mostly old school Alliance layout to the ship, and it used a modified CIC using Turian design in mind. She had managed to do some upgrades and added new tech to the vessel in the last five years.
She could see the Alliance new shuttle UT-47 she was testing for the Alliance on its clamps in particular as it can be deployed straight down. It can either go front or forwards in particular. Having one ramp in particular to exit was problematic.
This shuttle had an IES system to help scanners from picking it up, which is perfect to get close a base on the ground. It had two accelerator cannons on the front to help take down structures and enemies. Very good in different environments and high hazard zones. The price tag for it was six million credits to make, but it would pay for itself with longevity. The fact it would keep the soldiers alive for the trip and back.
Just behind it was the Titan she developed after BT. In her training, the Grizzly tank and Mako tank itself were not optimal. They either lacked firepower and mobility. This mech has the combination of the two as she managed to aid a set of hover system to its legs so it can travel far on land. The chaingun fired 20mm rounds that 1.6-inch slugs into a target it was great at long range and close range. The multi-missile system used six ML-77 rocket launchers to make and combined them with VISR system. They will hit the targets she wants instead of the ones closest to her. Vortex module was modeled after the biotic move backlash. Since she could keep it stable spinning, it seemed to work the best. Often catching missiles and slugs felt nice and sending them even more fun. Couple that with deployable electronic smoke system to disable tech and personnel. It also provided tactical retreat option. A sad fact about the mech was the fact it excelled in open combat.
Still, it didn't stop her from having fun as she managed to paint it. She painted it a dark black and red scheme and gave it a menacing red eye like a Zaku. It also had the latest ship sensors inside and targeting interface. One of the added benefits was the fact she can layer ship grade plating metal around it for drops into enemy territory. Dropping into AA gun protected area scared the shit out of people.
There was a special crane to help move the two machines to the middle of the bay for repair. Port side which housed her fancy tech lab, she stayed on top of newest upgrades. She made sure it housed fabricators, tech table, terminals and etc. She also had the proper gear and materials to help fix her vehicles or equipment in particular. She saw her drones dispose of the Blue Suns equipment into the cycle to be recycled. She personally didn't need them at all, well except for Krekon's Omni-tool. The weapons gathered were more as components to sell anyway. She had managed to sell the ship salvage she had to the Captain. He had plans on selling the weapons and computers to a Quarian vessel that come to Anhur to work.
The rest of the wall itself was meant for storage in particular for food, materials, confiscated gear, mechs, drones, and cryo-pod for her prisoners.
She walked up towards the console area in question that housed the weapon bench and terminals. She used to request particular parts, hold logs, and created a shooting range down the cargo bay. Which was pretty nice, as the branch added in hologram based course itself, which is reserved for Armax Arsenal arena. To her left held a storage area for all of her personnel customs weapons, armors, and mods. She began putting away her armament away on their proper stands now.
She only had her swords since she didn't need her guns to do the job, but that was okay itself for the quick blitz attack against the Blue Suns. Take away their discipline, cover, and focus they were easy to deal with after all.
She took off her suit now as she placed in decontamination unit now leaving her black sports bikini now as she soon it off now as well leaving her nude now. Drones took it away from her now to go drop it off in laundry basket upstairs. Decontamination unit turned on making her skin tingle from it scrubbing her skin.
"Computer, tell me when the refueling is done please," she ordered the VI as she headed towards the elevator.
"Understood Yoko, but we will need thirty minutes to refuel the tank." The computer told her as she nodded her head now. She would make her rounds to ensure everything was here and maintained.
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The third deck itself housed engineering and the weapons system together like the old days around the First Contact War. Nowadays the Alliance dedicated one of the lower floors just for its weapon system to help increase the power of their main cannon. Technically that wasn't needed at all since you could achieve more with less like her cannon, but that was beside the point.
She made her way past the door now as she saw her mechs and drones were cleaning the place up. Some of them were operating their stations or refilling the fabrication units. Recharge stations were on each of the sides of the room ready to be deployed at an instant. She walked past a set of terminals now to see the most significant change to the ship itself now.
The IES system was different now instead of exposed drive system it now resembled an orb now. It also has two revolving rings around the core itself resembling a mass relay device itself.
The reason for this was simple, Mass Relay jumps made it hard to stealth around in particular. Warp gate idea was good, but not optimal since it could be detected with ease. So she had to rise up to the challenge itself in making independent FTL system to resemble biotic charge. For that, she needed help on the dark matter aspects and theories surrounding it. Searching the Extranet, more importantly, her media page gave her answer.
A man named Conrad Verner popped, and he was a major fanboy of hers. At first, she was going to pass it off as him wanting attention. Until she looked into his background a bit. The man surprisingly enough had a degree in Xeno-technology. He also wrote a highly controversial doctoral dissertation on dark energy. He theorized dark matter itself causes a minute of difference in time like some spatial distortion like stasis.
In the end, he stood by his words and something she could respect. She hired the man for the job itself. He would help with theory, and she did the hardware.
Placing more emitters along the hull was needed along with insulator. So that the tendrils of energy can react to the actual barrier system. It would help propel the ship like the familiar biotics charge she does time to time. Conrad's math was spot on as well, as he managed to help reduce the Blueshift emission from jumps to three seconds with ease. The only thing you had to worry about was the fact it needed ten-minute cooldown on short trips, and longer jumps took thirty minutes.
He said he didn't want the money, but he was more than happy to help him. The blonde didn't believe him at all, but he made sure to keep the new drive a secret. Yoko paid Conrad five billion for his valuable work after all. She wasn't going to dismiss real brilliance, despite his goofy nature. He even improved her Titan's hover system as well for fun. He loved flying around in it and also joined in her mission inside of it. That was one of the fun days for her actually to have a friend to talk to about dark matter.
The only downside about that was the fact was the fact trajectory was needed to make these jumps work. At times she would be forced to follow Mass Relay ones now.
However, she had a plan to map routes herself using probes, but she was willing to bank on the idea of doing a deal with the Quarian people. One of the reasons why she was here out here was to mean one of them around Anhur.
She focused her thoughts again as she tapped on a nearby terminal for the core alone. She brought the dome around it. It held a series of super coolant conduits and devices to keep the drive temperature from rising too fast. As well ensure the drive can run for twelve hours long with all systems active, unlike the limited three hours. A low powered state could last for weeks if she wanted it to.
One of the wonderful perks of having a dad being Aerospace engineer was the fact he loved making stuff with her fun. One of the ideas he pitched around was to create a prototype barrier system that revolved. He called the Cyclonic Barrier Technology or CBT for short. One of the things he saw constant in his career that the barrier couldn't stop the force of a slug from blowing a hole in the ship. He theorized that a dynamic barrier system would be better since it could save power and shield strength. In combat, it could slap away rounds with ease making this ship hard to breach even with Javelin missiles. If something did get through they had to get through the layers of Silaris armor in particular.
She walked up to the main gun itself as it was a giant railgun like the old days but more refined as it could swivel like a Quarian ship. That way she could outmaneuver an opponent with Lionheart's speed and ship at angles others couldn't.
It had several oscillator eezo rings along the rail system that would help propel the slug to hit fire like Alliance Heavy Cruiser. Elemental shift mod was implemented to help give each round a nice punch as well. Her favorite one was using Warp rounds. Unlike the slow Javelin missiles, in particular, the slug can breach a ship before it can react making it one hit kill. However, for one round, an hour will be shaved off the IES system due to the heat it produced. That's why the Alliance never moved forward with the idea due to heat management. In combat, if the barrel was too hot, you can't fire so only Midway got it.
When not using such said mod she loved using three burst round. Argus rifle showed it was good against shields and armor. She decided to implement it for her ship. It worked great on heavily armored vessels in particular. Adding disruptor effect ensured that it wouldn't be stopped, but the downside to it was simple. She couldn't swivel the cannon at first until she added dampers to it.
The ship also has two rapid shard guns to hit small things like shuttles, fighters, and gunships. The system worked off the E-shift mod making it deadly. Alliance R&D couldn't even pay for this alone or use it feasibly as it resulted in billions of credits spun. Not a problem for her since she was raking in billions off from, investments or research in general
Just alone without her Spectre rank, she was a Trillionaire, but that wasn't including the Spectre accounts. They were designed to hold money gained from jobs, monthly payouts, Council missions, and salvages. If she kept this up, she would no doubt surpass her actual main and savings account itself.
Another great benefit to the ship itself was the fact she could salvage anything in general thanks to her drones and mechs.
The missile system used her VISR system, but it was developed by R&D. R&D had a knack of creating excellent missile technology, and it was something she didn't pass up.
"One of the ground weapons called the Hydra used a three-stage charge to each missile. It was designed to overload barriers, destroy armor, and the last stage uses an explosive warhead to detonate inside the enemy ship. Expensive ammunition that would never be implemented for any warship, but she funded them to make the system it for the Lionheart. Four missiles can be fired along the wings of the body at a target.
A secondary option was to create MIRV missile, one of the many ideas that games use to single rocket to deploy smaller ones. She had R&D do the work to make high yield explosives in a miniature form. They delivered really well when you want to overload a ship's GARDIAN laser system. Firing sixteen mini-missiles for each one would make any operator made. Just firing two of these and two Hydra missiles at the same time guaranteed a cruiser's destruction.
The series of Ultraviolet lasers aligned the Lionheart in strategic places. She managed to buy experimental polymer from the Asari Orisoni scientists. The new polymer was high heat resistance and zero conductivity. She also included a mini-IES system to the laser so they can operate longer with overheating and damaging the unit. The heat would disperse naturally or be soaked up by the central system. GARDIAN system.
She only had six laser array, but they could rotate in different angles. As well use pulse fire to shoot multiple targets. The delivery system for her probes and countermeasures line the starboard and the port side as well. It was the things her grandfather insisted on having.
It helped deployed holograms drones and dummy launchers to help trick the enemy, especially when it showed on their sensors. It was one thing that would fool pirates so severely. They see a massive juicy haul, and they would try to shoot it down or board it. She would be waiting for them closeby for them. Setting them up in active zones of piracy works pretty well after all. She could use existing Identification tags from ship's that visited her dock to trick them into chasing.
She even included electronic smoke, but it would more of Ion cloud in space that would hurt a ship's sensors. Perfect for a clean get way of scrambling rockets when the IES system wasn't on. The last armament in question was deploying mines. She only did that for certain situations dealing with groups of pirate ships. She had to develop Smart mines that used VISR tech.
The mines would use thrusters to avoid the ships she wanted and run into the ones she did. It would be careless to leave floating mines in space so people can get hit. It was a perfect way to cut a person escape to a relay or trying to get off the planet. It was up there in costs with missile system she had made.
Her month-long campaign itself had used everything at her disposal as she ran across the galaxy. Downing 32 ships in a month like this made her fulfill her quota for pirate suppression campaign the branch was doing now.
So far from what she can see everything was stocked, and the maintenance was done now. Her father got her in the habit of checking everything herself to ensure everything was correct. Make sure her logs were done, and to ensure everything was there.
She nodded her head in satisfaction now. "Now to ensure that the crew deck is okay and I can relax a little," she muttered as she made her way back to the elevator now.
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Yoko made her way onto the crew deck now as she felt the ship nudge a bit.
"Refueling is commencing, and payment sent out to the refueling station." Computer alerted the blonde Spectre.
She made her way to starboard side now as she turned right to the first door on the side. This was her personal training room to do exercises. It had several machines types here and gravity manipulator to train under gravity. You would get more use of your body when you can use all your muscles. In a sense, it was like a version of Dragon Ball Z's training room. Not to extreme Anime levels, but four times gravity was her limit. She was a human being after all.
She moved on back to the end of the hallway to the observation deck. She peered inside as she looked at astrology and cartography room. One of her favorite past times would me mapping the stars and planets she would come across away from the usual routes. There would be treasure troves of resources out there untapped due to the fact it was dangerous exploring away from the Relay.
She loved talking to Scott, Sarah, and Alec about her little discoveries in mind. Like Epsilon Eridani System and the planet called Reach and several other colonizable worlds there. To think how narrow-minded the galaxy has become finding element zero technology has limited the scope of doing things.
On the off chance, if she was in Mass Relay range when she mapped the planet, she could see the information could auction the information to people for money. So her little hobby was getting her paid after all when nothing needed to be done.
She made her way to the Port side now to her left resided the life support systems in particular. It also doubled as room to hold a small greenhouse for the plants she had. Scrubbing the air to make it feel natural was tedious in her opinion. Besides that, you can get extra food this way that you don't have to buy from the store.
Victoria Jenkin's growth formula always ensued she head a steady of supply of food aboard the ship. One of the little side projects she had with the woman recently was a way to make solar collectors that capture some sunlight. Then use modern technology to build up to produce real light. Use individual air conditioner units to simulate their best growth rates. She had bags of materials and tools to maintain them. She had a freezer to help store the excess food in when she had no space. She took some time to make sure everything was right with the plants now.
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She headed back out the hallway now and to the end of the corridor now the port side observation deck.
She stepped in to see her Arts room as contained a sound room for actual musical equipment and instruments. The rest of the room had a terminal, datapads, and actual physical art material to work on comics, manga, and paintings. She had a unique design fabricator to make the canvas or paper needed for them. She had some of them sent back home to be framed up or displayed using electronic portraits on the ship.
She walked over to the table now as she connected the battle she had with the Blue suns now. She replayed the fight look at the best scenes now.
"The one where I was above them with my swords is the best one. It captures the fear, tension, and desperation the best. However, the fiery effect of me burning that guy away is cool too. I can make this whole scene in color using manga drawing set up." she muttered as she wrote down notes to do it. It would be easy just applying a filter, but there was no fun in doing that.
She finished doing that as she made her way to the central part of the deck. Port side had an open area for her guests' to sleep with ease,. The room had terminals, desks, shelves, and a shower as well with laundry room set up.
Starboard side she had a fully equipped medical room with a small lab set up. She would have talks with the Professor Solus time to time on medicine and optimal setup. Just in case she got her she had to make an automated system to help recover. Which meant making specialized drones and mechs to help her heal.
Professor retired from the STG to work at a clinic at Omega. Apparently, something happened when he got on a mission. He wouldn't say, but she knew if it bothered a Salarian it was something spiritual. At best it hurt his morals in the end. STG managed to help set him up, but she came with her own materials to help him out. As well her combative skills to clear out the district where the Blue Suns held it.
She managed to clean and scrub down the whole district itself using her drones and mechs. Improve the quality of life for him in that sector. She knew the Blue Suns wouldn't stay away since it became a premium living zone. Still, she brought a good set of mechs there to play defense for the clinic. It was refreshing to see actual people wanting to make a difference.
So every year she would make a donation or supply drop to Omega is she could go to him.
It was better to have an armed and trustworthy person deliver the goods personally. That's when she got tangled with the Pirate Queen herself Aria T'Loak.
Blue Suns complained about her being there the first time, and it caught her attention. She was doing her best to stay out of her business. However with some coaxing or threat of the clinic might stay. She decided to go meet the Asari in person.
She claimed she was the law and Aria claimed she was the Law of Omega.
She countered with her own words to, but not a friendly tone. "I bow to no one if there is no rules bind this place."
Not the best words to say, but the Asari took in great stride. Apparently, she liked the alpha mentality. At best you want respect you earn respect, so at best it was mutual.
Apparently, Aria knew she her actual title and ability. Made a suggestion to remove certain people off the station. The wanted people with bounties, of course, were often the biggest troublemakers. In the end, she collected their heads and Aria gathered what they had.
She did the task discreetly, but what was strange was the fact Aria had no bounty at all. Plus she knew who she was and her title. That meant she had personal connections to E-Republic. Killing Aria would make her job harder, because of the power vacuum it can create. Some madman may come along and want to wage war against Citadel Space. This would counter her oath in helping the galaxy.
Despite that trouble having someone on the other side of the line helps. The blonde still needed to find Elanos Haliat for all the pain he caused Elysium and Mindoir. Maybe if someone angered Aria enough, their personal information and location would be sent to her.
Sadly enough or strange was the fact.
She sighed now as she sniffed herself. "Focus you need a shower, change of clothes and eat something. If nothing shows up on my radar, I will have my spa day soon," she muttered to herself now. She made her way to the bathroom to clean up now.
As it took a good fifteen minutes to clean her hair, nails, and other bodily needs now.
She stepped out the of the shower now as water collector took away excess water as she used a towel to dry off as mini-drones appearing to tie her hair into a Saber Braid. Some of them were removing old fingernail polish hair and added new st. This time it was they were painted dark purple now as she moved to put on clothes.
She moved to put on a printed gold and black floral print bra and panties now. She slipped on a black and gold yukata over her body as she tied the obi around. She put on black house slippers as she made her way to the kitchen.
It was heavily Japanese inspired now and taking advantage of the small space now. She could see the table and seat against the wall.
She could see the fridge Udina gifted here for induction in the corner along the array of cooking equipment here. She could store several months of food here easily, despite the storage downstairs and life support. Resupply from the Volo had natural ingredients to pick from and stock
She went over to crockpot now to collect her Udon noodle soup that finished cooking. It had bellied pork slices inside of it now. She drew up a big bowl for her now as she portioned to her biotics. She moved to grab an energy drink now. She would come back for a second portion in due time as she made her way back out and to the left heading to her personal quarters now.
She walked to the front of the ship on the deck. She passed through the door to a well furnished Japanese room with western influences. One of them was the queen size bed there and amenities of a comfortable area. It gave her time to think to herself in question as well meditate. In the corner had desk meant for play and buildings models here. As well a couch with an entertainment center just for relaxing.
She moved about the room to check her closet now as she nodded her head now. Her drones managed even to press her clothes and neatly tucked the other things away.
She made her way to the catch to watch a vid now. She wondered what the Fleet and Flotilla were about.
"Yoko, refueling is complete, and we are breaking away from the station. I need orders on our next action." The computer told her now.
"Leave everyone's sensor range and then active the IES system. Do a patrol for any ships coming through. Need to make sure these pirates know who they are dealing with. Be sure to place the Lionheart in an optimal area to chase them down. Use a precise slug with disruptor for any wanted ship in the area. Disable the engines for me." Yoko ordered now.
"Understood Yoko, moving out." her computer responded now. She sat back for the intro to the movie now.
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"No pirate ships detected." The computer told her now as her mechs handle the capture now. Yoko made her way to the CIC as she managed to sleep through the night without trouble.
She managed to step out of the elevator now to her custom CIC. One of the things Alliance R&D question was the CIC. It was modified for Turian standards, but safer as well convenient.
The CIC itself was a secondary pilot seat itself from the front. As it connected to QEC and Comm buoy system to check her messages. She could guide the ship around with ease and coordinate jumps. In a bigger fight, she could sit here without the fear of some slug breaching the cockpit, despite all the layers of protection. Like the Thasca Raids when she helped participated in the ops with Midway before bringing the fleet in.
Still, nothing does beat the feeling of being at the helm of the ship. She made her way to the front of the Lionheart now.
The ship lacked stations to be staffed like a standard warship in mind. It saved on power and reduced heat for the IES system. She had a specialized VI Mr. Ryder made to help handle the roles for the ship as well fly it.
It borderline actual AI technology, but that was enough for her in her book.
She saw the cockpit up ahead. The decontamination zone and docking clamps were to the left as always.
To the right was a different story as it contained an escape pod for quick getaways. The cargo deck had one as well, but really getting to the CIC was faster.
She made it to the helm now, it wasn't anything like the modern era cockpits. Everyone seems fawn at using hologram base system to fly. Her friend Jeff saw nothing wrong of it, but a severe power failure left you unable to control the ship accurately. Even if you had a backup source ready to go.
She was more akin to flying using physical controls and instruments. As well a combination of screen and holograms to get the information she needed.
She double checked the emergency supplies needed for a quick escape now. She also reviewed the emergency boarding defense system. It acted like a shock system and a deployable barrier to trap them on the inside of the airlock.
Being lazy wasn't permitted on the ship until she had free time to enjoy it now. Well almost free time, she had to make a proper report in check up to see if her payment came through.
She double-backed to the CIC and head as she walked through the starboard door. The junction here had scanners made by the STG. They can analyze fingerprints, DNA, and retina all the same time. She saw the light turn green now as the door opened up.
She saw her nice office setting now as a desk with a supercomputer and a nice chair. It had some two chairs and couch inside to hold a small meeting in general with some chairs. As an array of office supplies lined the desk and inside it. She had every database at fingertips, only the most classified information from each race wouldn't be known to her. She connected Krekon's Omni-tool now to review any information he had now.
She was running anti-virus software and data recovery to look at older entries he had.
Pulling up Krekon's Extranet history was simple if you knew his ID and the service provider. Well if you had time to download decades of information.
Blue Suns never did anything random, it was always some paid job by someone. Blue Suns focused on making capital, and they were disciplined.
She only saw ID number that interested her now as she brought it up.
She looked at the email now as she cross-referenced with the Spectre database now.
"A payment for raiding a ship for 50 million credits, so we have a big shot behind the scenes. It looks to be one of my senpai's. Not good." Yoko muttered now.
"Priority call from the Council," her VI announced now. As the blonde got up from her seat and moved out her office. She walked down the corridor. To the right was a door leading to a situation room or war room in general.
It housed the VI, cyber suite, and computers that showcased galactic events to even her stocks real time. She didn't have time to visit t right now, but she made her to the communications room.
She saw her set up that consisted of her QEC and the latest communications software. Quasi QEC set up with cybersecurity coding from Sam made it impenetrable since he was connected to the network.
She walked up to it as she pressed the proper button to answer the call.
She saw the three holograms appearing before her now. She gave a short bow of hello.
"You need something from me Councilors?" Yoko asked them.
Valern spoke up now. "You are doing an excellent job on a campaign itself, but we have an issue we need to settle that has come up," he reported to her now.
"Issue?" Yoko asked him now.
"Yes, and this issue is the fact we had a leak from inside C-Sec. It regards the Prothean Beacon on Eden Prime. It resulted in a man down, we lost Nihlus to it doing an evaluation. Plus the beacon the candidate and him were destroyed in the end. Furthermore, we have allegations that an individual is supposedly behind leading a Geth army on Eden Prime."
"Geth?" Yoko inquired worriedly. It wasn't a name often used unless you were a Quarian.
Tevos sighed now. "The Alliance has reported eight hundred marine deaths, cyber attack managed to cripple their defenses, and the city of Harmony was burned down to the ground. The only saving grace was the fact the six orbital defense platforms and twenty ships repelled off the bulk of the invasion. Furthermore, the militia forces managed to save half the population of Harmony before it went down."
"I am assuming the scene on Eden Prime is too contaminated to do a proper investigation," Yoko pointed out now.
"Very true, and we C-Sec can't go that far out to end up with nothing of course. So we are assigning you with a task to prove or disprove the allegations against Saren Arterius."
"Saren?" Yoko asked them now. "No organic can lead the Geth to do anything over the past three centuries."
"Very true, but how Nihlus died due to execution shot to the back of his head is in question. Besides, that Captain David Anderson made the report, so odds are if this isn't taken seriously. We will have the Alliance pulling away and heading off to war. If the Alliance does so and fail without giving tactical support to us. We will be dealing with them sooner than later." Valern told her now.
"It doesn't give me time to look at the scene or gather evidence supporting either side." Yoko pointed out to them now.
Sparatus spoke up now. "See if you can find evidence from the outside to support he was or not on Eden Prime during the incident. Then go from there with things, while we deal with this issue. We will expect you back to the Citadel in three days at 1200 hours at the Citadel Tower." he ordered her now.
"Yes sir," she agreed now.
Tevos nodded her head now. "Good, come dress and with a report in hand, we can follow with ease. No outside contacts with the Alliance forces or Captain Anderson's team until then."
Yoko nodded her head now. "Very well, I will secure a mirror link with the branch to ensure secrecy of my investigation." Yoko agreed as she tapped on a few buttons now to do so.
Valern tapped on his Omni-tool now. "Just to let you know the campaign has ended and a total of 320 million credits will be forwarded into your Spectre account. However, you won't be able to access it until we can confirm the leak. Any Spectre authorizations will be monitored for the next week as well. Keep up the good work Spectre and give us a swift answer to this incident." Valern told them now as Yoko nodded her head now.
The call was cut now as it left her pondering the situation now. It was apparent to her that the Council didn't want to deal with this problem. At best if it was true, they don't want any backlash to this whole incident. Pawning it off on the human Spectre in this is logical, but it also limited the scope of what she did. Still, it was a nice payday she was getting for the work she put out recently.
She tapped on her communications suite now as she made a call now. She wasn't going to like this, but in truth, she had nothing to go on much. However, the data she recovered from Krekon indicated a Spectre ID of all things.
She soon saw Salarian standing up now. "Analyst Zubin Cazala here," he announced as he was her Professor's son she had in the Academy.
"Thanks for picking up, but I have a hard task in front of me, and you here will help out. Did you get the ID I sent you with the information from Krekon's Omni-tool?" Yoko asked him now.
"Quite so, but the information shows that it was indeed Saren Arterius ID. It shows he has promoted several questionable groups as well turn on them. He managed to claim bounties in the past on these individuals."
"So he ends ripping off the company and the people for the goods and the insurance. For what reason? Saren has more money than me, this is due to the many years being a Spectre." she pointed out now.
Zubin shrugged. "True, but more money equals power, but that isn't all to what I found out. A common link to all these attacks was the fact these independent ships have all recently went to Prothean sites across the galaxy. Judging from your current mission in mind to find evidence on Saren's wrongdoings. This is an excellent first step, you established a link already without trying."
"However he could easily take the mission to Eden Prime himself. My point is why to do illegally, he could have come to secure the location to see this beacon. He could sponsor a robbery, but an invasion with the Geth." Yoko pondered now.
"True, but you have to look at it the whole picture. There is always truth in lies in some measures." Zubin told her.
Yoko shifted her head for a moment as she crossed her arms now. "AI research from Sidon." she guessed as Zubin nodded his head now.
"Saren is not known, and that's a red flag to me. I think you should have words with Kahlee Sanders about the issue itself. It will take me time to look through all the Omni-tool data. I won't post the information up for all to see. I also suggest you have words with the Shadow Broker."
Yoko groaned now. "Really?"
"I know you don't like the idea itself, but if you want to know more about Saren's activities, I suggest you put in a call with your banker as well," Zubin told her now.
Yoko checked the time clock on the Citadel.
"Right now he is at home no doubt, and it's night time for Elysium. So I will call them at another time. I will busy studying Eden Prime's satellite feeds and getting in touch with the locals there. I need a picture of what happened on the ground. I will see if I can recover the beacon for study." She informed him.
"Keep me in the loop on this one, I don't want anyone to doubt the integrity of the evidence," Zubin told her as she nodded her head now.
"Very well, I will talk to you later then Zubin," Yoko told him as the call was cut for now. She turned to head back out now. "More time sitting at my desk this time around. I might as well get some iced coffee for this."
...
The blonde sighed as she was looking at the data gathered from sensors in mind and stations defenses. It was painting a clear picture that this was more of an incursion.
She was sitting inside her war room reviewing the Eden Prime attack now. However to sneak this many ships in without tipping of the STG outpost in the area.
She brought up the STG outpost data in mind as three listening posts were out in that area altogether. She brought up the data now to see if the STG got the extra information now. She brought queue of information now as she soon stopped now.
"All three stations stopped broadcasting information for thirty minutes at the same time. This is bullshit, Saren is not assigned to my system at all. Judging by the information given the Geth Fleet quietly snuck by during this. It's too much coincidence that he would do this all of a sudden."
She pulled up information on his last whereabouts now.
He was on Noveria at the time of this incident, but that system was one jump away from Exodus System already. She was going to need to have words with her friend working with Noveria's Internal Affairs department. Illium and Noveria have business branches there that dealt with selling a questionable product.
She exited her war room now as she head over to comm room now. She began inputting her friend on.
It took a few minutes to connect with for a moment now. Yoko noticed her wearing a dress of all things. It contrasted with her dark skin, hair, and eyes.
"Ah, Dr. Minamoto, call to inquire on something? I'm secretary Gianna Parsini at your service.
"I see you are working well Gianna, but can you do me a favor. I'm looking on the whereabouts of Spectre Saren Arterius. I want to know when he arrives and if he did leave at any time." Yoko inquired now.
As the woman looked around now for a moment now. "I am assuming this is a Rogue One scenario?" Gianna asked her now as the blonde nodded her head now.
"Yes, it's coming to it now, but I doubt you can give out information like that to me so easily despite your job." Yoko pointed out now.
"No worries Yoko, anything to help reduce trouble for Noveria is a plus, but I will put up records for you Synthetic Insights to help cover this up. However, you owe me a favor?"
"Like ten sets of designer clothes with pants." Yoko joked as the Gianna smiled.
"That would be nice, wearing a dress robe is awkward you know. Asari fashion is okay, but ours is better for a reason. At least you can run in a dress to a degree." Gianna told her now as he started listing off her investments into Synthetic Insights now. Apparently thanks to the Geth attack they went up drastically for her stock unlike the Eden Prime one. Every investor pulled out on the planet, except her. However, she had a plan to turn it around now.
Hiring several companies to build a global defense system and rebuild the city of Harmony using Viesste Coniari's help would attract people back. Plus the stockpile of food Radiant Gardens would be sold in bulk to help the families with sudden loss of life.
Hopefully, this parts of the beacon she was picking up was salvageable. Nanotechnology was useful in repairing old Prothean technology without damaging it. From what she was told about it, the base was okay, unlike the antenna portion.
Having a study with previous ones indicated the brainbox might be okay. The blonde Spectre could take the spare parts of the Archive and salvage this situation with ease.
Dropping all sanctions on the Alliance was the goal in mind, but she can include reparations as well as funding future projects. Well depending on if the data can be retrieved of course. If not it can help prove or inspire different version of the QEC in mind.
"Good news your colleague in question came here with Matriarch Benezia making a scene. However, he wasn't with her during the time limit you specified. It showed him coming and going on the shuttle to Noveria's port during a blizzard. Apparently, he has managed to pay off a man named Captain Ventrailis to help cover it up."
"Are you going to arrest him or keep cover?" Yoko asked her now.
"Keep cover Yoko, I'm about to close this case in due time, but feel free to see my that online gift card to me. I will be sending you all the information encoded in this email." Gianna informed her now.
Yoko nodded her head now. They began trading information to each as Gianna had to cut the call soon. Yoko brought up her Omni-tool to look at the video in question.
"Gotcha, but it's far from a closed case. I might need your help if things don't progress as fast as it should," she told the blonde as she nodded her head.
"Give me a call, and I will see what I can do for you. Thanks, Gianna." Yoko thanked her now as the woman nodded her head. She quickly ended the call. As the blonde Spectre noticed an incoming call coming through.
She answered it now as she saw her sensei Tadal Nolan now.
"I see you were handed the case against Saren, huh?" he asked her.
"I was expecting you to do it, but they threw out to me with a limited time window. However, my case is still pretty strong without much." Yoko confidently told her mentor.
"Good, before you make your case to the Council, let's go over what will happen soon. It's essential that you need to present this right since there will be a crowd watching this hearing. So let's go over a few things you might face." Tadal told her as she nodded her head now.
"Yes sir." the blonde agreed to the idea. Presenting her case in the court of law was one thing, unlike a hearing with the heart of the galaxy. It would be best to not look like a fool. Saren knew the rules and the law intimately above all else.
...
Lionheart sat at the dock of Eden Prime as drones and mechs were wheeling everything aboard the ship. Yoko looked out to the burning crater, where Harmony once resided.
"Thank you Dr. Diana Warren and Dr. Manuel Cayce for resembling the pieces for me." Yoko thanked them now. She stood on dock E-6 of the spaceport.
Red hair doctor nodded her head now. "It was the least we can do on short notice and thank you for making an effort. It would be nice to know what was on this Prothean Beacon." Dr. Warren thanked her as the blonde handed her credit chit.
All the pieces of devices were assembled carefully for repair. As the base of the device itself stood there.
Manuel nodded his head now. "Thanks for the schematics you gave us, the actual data is still safe to recover. Protheans were remarkable engineers, advance fusion batteries that can last this long and so small is wonderful," he remarked now.
Yoko nodded her head now. "Very true, I can make small batteries, but they don't last long as the Protheans version. Still are you two okay, I know it must be hell here?" Yoko asked them.
Diana sighed. "I know we lost of lives, but this information that will be recovered will help more in the end. Thankfully the planet is not on fire, and we lost it all to the Geth." She told the blonde.
"I saw the leader of the enemy." Manuel boldly stated as the blonde turned towards him.
"Leader of the enemy?" Yoko asked the man.
Dr. Warren sighed. "Don't mind Manuel, but he gets unstable when it gets dangerous or tense."
Yoko shrugged. "Maybe so, but Manuel, tell me what you mean about that," Yoko ordered now.
"The 3D drone I had taken a picture of him, a Turian was leading them," Manuel told them now.
"You didn't tell the Alliance officers this when they came around?" Yoko curiously.
"Well, the man in charge punched Manuel since he couldn't shut up at all. We lacked the meds to calm him down. Personally, that wasn't needed at all." Diana informed her now.
The man brought up his Omni-tool sending the file to her now. As Yoko tapped on it to play it the 3D program. She pulled down her sunglasses and activated the VR program and activated the Omni-headphones now. It gave her a couple of minutes to review it now as it played out the scene.
...
Marines were holding the position itself as they were being overwhelmed by the enemy forces.
A small detachment of marines managed to escort the beacon uphill only to be attacked only to overwhelmed and down on the ground. As some Geth went to secure the device now.
"Check the camp for any more we don't want stragglers." a voice called out now.
"Saren-prophet all life signs in the immediate area are gone." one Geth spoke to Turian coming up the hill now.
She noticed the Turian looking around the ruined camp now. As the blonde stopped it for a moment as he checked himself now to ensure everything. He came back out as he looked the wounded marines on the ground. "Make these three shock troopers, no doubt the Alliance will come here to investigate. Furthermore, try to grab more of them for psychological effect against them." Saren ordered as the Geth did so now.
Three Marines were picked up an placed over a tripod as the activated. Spikes shot and impaled them high in the sky. As they struggled to breathe and speak now.
The Turian turned over to the beacon now. "Wonderful, phase one of this operation has gone smoothly, but we need to drag this device down to the port. We need to eliminate Alliance forces that will come for it in one fell swoop. Bring in thermonuclear demo charges, we will blow away what's left of this colony and cause a nuclear fallout. That way the planet can't produce large sums of food for the Alliance when they go to war."
"Saren-prophet, we haven't been able to take down six orbital platforms yet."
Turian crossed his arms now. "Hardly matters when they can't be everywhere, but the defense system and drones it runs will tear up the fleet with ease. Our distraction is costing us many ships and Geth lives after all, but it's worth it in the end. Age of Gods will come back, and your purpose will go beyond a mere synthetic and me as organic." he informed them now. "I will still need to deal with Nihlus though. I can convince him to join us after all."
"If not Prophet?" Geth inquired.
"Then he dies here today on this planet," Saren answered as he heard gunshots in the distance now. "Mop up whatever forces they have here before the militia comes in strong. They aren't pushovers, unlike the Alliance forces. Yoko Minamoto has equipped with the means to actually wage war by themselves. Make it hard for them to save the citizens and distract them from our real purpose here. If you must go attack Radiant Gardens and Constant the capital." Saren ordered now.
"It will be done Prophet, alerting all platforms of new orders." Geth informed him as Saren nodded his head now.
"I am heading off to the port now," he reported taking his leave now.
...
Yoko stopped the recording now as she lifted up her sunglasses to deactivate the program. She turned towards Manuel as she sighed now.
"You guys have that new 3D pylon at the site?" Yoko inquired now.
Diana nodded her head as she sent the information to her. "Well yes, we placed it there to ensure looters and our work was recorded. It doubles a light for us if we do some excavation or it goes into the night," she answered her now.
"Thank you, I will be sure to report the news when I get back to the Citadel then. Thank you. This information will really help me out." she thanked him now as the two nodded her head now.
"We will be heading back to the Radiant to log the Prothean artifacts we got here from the site. Thank you for calling us to aid in the recovery of the beacon. We hope the rebuilding process goes well." Diana thanked her as they exchanged handshakes and hugs. As the two doctors made their way to the nearby shuttle now.
"Hey goldy!" it's been some time since I seen you. Yoko heard an Asari dialect that was speaking human English. She turned to see an Asari wearing hiking clothes now.
Yoko walked up to her giving her a hug now. "Hey, Viesste-san, it's good to see that you are doing well."
"It's good living here on Eden Prime, unlike Illium. Can't stand that place no more, despite helping design Nos Astros. Still, my condolences for the people lost their lives here. If they only listened to actual implement defense systems and countermeasures. No one would have lost their lives, I mean not that many. " Viesste muttered as they broke their hug.
Yoko sighed now. "True, I asked for the companies that built the orbital defense stations for Earth to come to Eden Prime to construct a full defense system now. This time it will have 14 more defense platforms to help cover the coverage of the planet. Drone defense system using ultraviolet lasers will help cover the holes in the grid." Yoko informed her now.
"At least you are big on defense, unlike some people. I know building 300 platforms around Earth sounded like overkill, but in regards to this. I think it will be needed. The Geth handed the Quarians asses to them, and they had a good fleet that was strong as the Hierarchy. They had more ground troops than you Humanity." architect informed her now.
"That's why I am pushing on quick construction to reinforce the area. I am not letting this happen again even if the attack was minor. The Alliance won't spend money on Prime, but I will."
"Hence why you called me here to help rebuild Harmony, but with my style," Viesste said as Yoko nodded her head.
"Yes, how much money do I need to rebuild this city will defenses and all from the ground up. I don't want a carbon copy of Radiant Gardens, I want this place to be liveable and peaceful again. Your thoughts?" Yoko asked her now.
Asari brought up a datapad showing her art rendered drawings. "I already have a few ideas in mind, and we can make this city a pleasure and relaxation city. Focus on housing more residents and keeping them long term, something Callie Adams the Administrator will find interesting. To help the families out, we will remove the problems of paying bills for electricity and water from their bills." Viesste planned.
"Okay, how much will you need to get this done fast, but done right?" Yoko asked her now as the Asari showed the price tag now.
"Approximately 300 million, but we might as well redesign the spaceport. Might as well get people to get rid of this burning crater so I would say 500 million credits. 500 million more as an incentive to get this done with the year."
Yoko held out her credit chip now as she slashed the card through it now. "I will give 1 billion, and I will give you one billion if you get this done. No doubt I will be too busy to deal with Eden Prime personally."
"I will see to it that this city will be peaceful as its name. First things first, we need to redesign this spaceport. I will have some talks with people I know to get this job done. As well make some calls to Bekenstein for luxury goods and Therum for metals."
Yoko nodded her head now. "I will have a small stockpile of element zero sent here to help reduce the costs. My little refinery on the Citadel will see to that."
Viesste chuckled. "Right, you mean the only place that will purify tainted element zero for sale. Hell, just 20 percent of the Citadel's supply gets in your hand makes you rich already. Dropping 2 billion is a drop in a pool for you."
Yoko shrugged. "It was just something my grandpa and I came up with since element zero prices are high as hell. Besides I can sell to those less fortunate people without connections element zero for a reasonable price, unlike market value." Yoko told her now as her Omni-tool ringed now. She brought up her screen now to the stocks for Eden Prime.
"It took a dip before it rose higher than before. Those idiots that took off now are regretting that decision now." Viesste pointed out now.
"I know, sometimes you don't need a panic over money like that. Just learn to adapt to the problem and roll with it. A net gain is still better than dropping into the negatives." Yoko muttered now.
"Well at you are flexible in your approach, watch happens when Asari plans out everything and shit go sideways. Centuries of planning mean very little when outside actions can harm your plans. I will imagine rebuilding this city would detract citizens from Illium after all." The Asari pointed out now.
"Who would that be?" Yoko inquired.
"The Dantius family in mind is reeling from their inheritors internal fighting. That's what happens when every one of them feels entitled to something or at best want it all." Viesste informed her now as Yoko shrugged.
"Humanity may be a walking contradiction, but Asari problems last centuries. I pity all of you have to deal with bullshit like that."
Viesste shrugged. "I know, once you go to court with your sister for a hundred years, you would be sick of it too. Still be careful Yoko, I know you are a big bad Spectre, but fighting Geth isn't easy."
"You have seen the Geth war in action?" Yoko asked her now.
Viesste sighed now. "I walked on Rannoch a long time ago, dad was a significant shot architect as well engineer for the Quarian people. He had the leading family and me in mind to help keep his lineage intact. Not a problem for us Asari, but that war was brutal." Viesste muttered. "However this incident with Geth is far scarier. Zombies, plasma weaponry, and new designs will throw off the Alliance badly."
"Well it looks paying you in advance will pay off, thanks Viesste. If any problems come up call me okay." Yoko told her now.
"I will and good luck out there you will need it," Viesste told her now as the blonde made her way to the ship now. She needed to take off before she was late to her meeting itself.