54) Vigil, Prothean Virtual Inteligence, imprinted personality of Ksad Ishan, Prothean Chief Overseer of the Ilos facility.

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It was not a prothean. It was a computer. A ghost inside a metal box.

1781 seconds to shut down.

"When the researchers woke, they understood the prothean race was doomed." The words leave the speakers mechanically. It speaks them all, trusts them to this creature which was not advanced enough to be destroyed.

1254 seconds to shut down.

It confesses its murders, the thousands killed in sleep in order to reach a little further into this moment. All for nothing. This creature arrived in a low-class vehicle, its weapons ridiculously put together and its armor would not last a fraction of a second against a Reaper. It won't win.

Only time ticked away and there was no one else.

652 seconds to shut down.

This was all it can do. Share information, show the way. It couldn't fight. It couldn't even when alive. Still, that something hidden in his memory banks, wedged between one byte and another, rebelled against the script.

"Finish it, human. Finish them."

Auxiliary systems failure.

15 seconds to shut down.

The trace of something bristled one last time. "For me." That sounded right. Like something he would say when alive.

Critical energy failure.

Shutting down.