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Shepard got a message from Cerberus saying that they wanted him to test a new tank called the Hammerhead.
The hammerhead was quite different from the Mako. It was able to jump higher and was able to research minerals on the ground, but its armour was much weaker meaning they can take as many hits as they did in the Mako.
Shepard and his team took the Hammerhead on several missions which include retrieving research data, collecting artefacts, investigating Prothean ruins and wiping out a geth incursion. Shepard even took the Prothean relic and placed it in his cabin.
Shepard then went down to the armoury to check on how Jacob was doing.
Jacob looked up from his work smiled at Shepard. "Commander. Can I hope you was something?"
"I'm more interested in just talking for a bit," said Shepard leaning against the table.
"Sounds good. I can use some down time. There's always something right? The way some people talk, we may as well be dead already. Hard for the crew to relax on this kind of job," said Jacob as he leaned against the table next to Shepard.
Shepard nodded. "No kidding. The next Normandy gets a lounge."
Jacob smirked. "They'd better not need to do this again. Rebuilding everything was a pain in the ass."
"I can verify that."
"Yeah, I bet you can," Jacob nodded. "I doubt they'll front the money to stitch me back together if we screw it up. It's a hell of a job, isn't it, Shepard? Being the good guys?"
Shepard shrugged. "Wouldn't be the high road if it was easy."
"You've got to figure, if all the people hoping we win stood up, the Collectors would have a much bigger fight on their hands. Claws… whatever. I bet we have a lot more friends once we win. Hope we live to see it."
"I hear that."
Jacob then stood up straight. "Anyway, I need to get back to work. Good talking to you."
Shepard then went and checked on Mordin, who looked as if he was finishing typing up an email.
"Have you got a minute to talk?" Shepard asked.
"Yes. Personal matter on mind, actually," said Mordin moving away from his computer. "Got a call from nephew. Promising geneticist himself. Just turned 16. Got tenured at university. Following in my footsteps. Had to lie what I was doing. Think he was suspicious. Doesn't matter. Still good to hear his voice."
"Does anyone in your family know about what you really did for the government?" Shepard asked.
Mordin shook his head. "No. Know I'm lying, but won't pry. Salarians curious as people, but also have social cues. Keep two types of secrets from family. First I personal or guilt-based, invites suspicion, exploration. Puzzle to be solved. Reward for curiosity, intelligence. Drama! Other secrets are more serious. Dangerous if discovered. Signals discourage curiosity for protection of family."
"Why wouldn't everyone give clues that their secrets were too dangerous to be uncovered?"
"Not conscious. Social. Relative body language. Can't fake it. Example: yawning perceives as contagious among humans. Subject observed yawning, sensory input deactivates left periamydalar region, subject yawns in response. Social empathy. Also works with dogs. Salarains faking signals to discover curiosity similar to human faking yawning. Can try, but effectiveness limited."
"Are you calling him because you're worried we won't make it back?" Shepard enquired.
Mordin shook his head. "No. Where survival unlikely, but Ashley contacted him for family connection. Hard to imagine galaxy. Too many people. Faceless. Statistics. Easy to depersonalise. Good when doing unpleasant work. For this fight, want personal connection. Can't anthropomorphise galaxy. But can think of favourite nephew. Fighting for him."
Shepard smiled and patted him on the shoulder. "I'm glad you got to talk to family before we finished this. And I'm glad we talked too, Mordin.
"Honoured to be part of this, Shepard. Helped preserve galaxy before with genophage. Dirty work, ethically ambiguous. Problematic. Collectors mission simpler, cleaner. Will be proud to see it in Mordin Solus biography vid. Unless we all die. Proud posthumously in that case." Mordin then placed a hand on Shepard's shoulder. "Regardless… thank you."
Shepard then got a message from Cerberus asking him to investigate a station on the planet Aite which had gone dark.
They soon landed on the planet on board the Hammerhead moment they exited the tank they got the message on the radio.
"Thank god you came! My name is Dr Gavin Archer. The situation is urgent—we're facing a catastrophic VI breakout. I'll explain the details later, but you must reactivate that transmission dish! The controls aren't far from your position. You have to hurry!"
Shepard then turned and looked at Miranda. "I don't suppose you have any idea what the station with the setting on?"
Miranda shook her head. "No. We project leaders were not supposed to know about other cells to indicate that we got captured we wouldn't be able to compromise anyone else."
"Sounds as if this station got compromised pretty quickly," said Kasumi.
"I don't understand how a VI could cause a catastrophe," Tali frowned. "This is the sort of problem you would expect from an AI."
"Maybe the good doctor can explain once were inside," said Shepard.
They soon entered into the station and found it completely empty, there were no signs of life in that troubled Shepard greatly. When the open was the next door they found several dead bodies wearing Cerberus uniforms.
"What here," Jacob stared.
"Bullet wounds," said Shepard examining the body. "They've been shot."
"But by what?" Miranda frowned.
He then soon approached a monitor which had the image of Archer.
"Ah, there you are," he said relieved. "I've got myself in a computer room on the far side of the base. There are geth on the loose. A rogue VI program has seized control and… I've lost a lot of friends today. I'd hate to see you join them. Please watch yourself."
The monitor then went black and Shepard looked at Miranda and Jacob, who are both as complex as he was.
He then turned to Tali. "How could a VI take control of geth?"
Tali shook her head. "It should be possible. Geth are immune to viruses or hacking attempts. It is a good thing that Xen's not here, she would flip the chance to get hold of this data."
"Then let's not tell her," said Shepard, he hadn't forgotten what Admiral Xen's long-term plans were.
Shepard broke into a research room and listen to a log from Archer hoping to find some answers. All it mentioned was the doubt of the Illusive Man on the project. If geth were involved then what they will be searching must've been big.
Another report from Archer mentioned that they experimenting on live geth. Shepard was starting to worry that they were performing some sort of research similar to Tali's father and that was the case you didn't bode well for anyone.
Shepard then access the controls to lower the dish, but it stopped midway and was still transmitting. Suddenly a holographic image appeared in front of them and appear to be speaking to them, but Shepard could make any sense of the words.
"Damn it!" said Archer, who appeared on the monitor. "The VI's overridden the controls. We have to stop him—he's trying to upload his programming off-world. Destroy the antenna inside the dish. There's a tram on the lower level. Get it fast as you can!"
Tali looked at Shepard. "Did he just say he?"
"They might have given the VI a name," Shepard shrugged. "We humans don't usually like to call things it if we can't help it."
"We better get down to the tram," said Garrus. "If that thing goes off-world who knows what damage it can cause."
They made their way to the lower levels and the strange VI appeared out of the screams watching. It in take them long to encounter the geth, were not quite the same as the usual geth Shepard had encountered.
Their optics were green instead of the usual red and they appear to be more feral than any other geth. The geth were determined to block their path, but it in take them long to finish them off.
They then encountered another log from Archer which mentioned a great achievement for humanity. Shepard had a feeling that he wasn't going to get Nobel Prize award.
Using the tram they were able to get themselves onto the dish was soon encountered by more geth. The VI was clearly determined to upload it cramming off-world and Shepard could only imagine what damage it could cause if it reached Alliance or Council computers.
They fought their way up towards the dish and began to attack the supports to the antenna while fighting off platoons of geth. Once they struggle for centre point explosions began to ricochet towards the antenna.
"Warning: structural integrity of dish has been compromised," said the computer's voice.
"You've done it!" said Archer over the radio. "You sever the link to the satellite!"
Shepard saw the dish was coming apart as wreckage fell. One piece of wreckage nearly hit him and then he saw the antenna falling straight towards him.
"You've got to be kidding…" he groaned. They then made a run for it. "Move! The whole thing's giving way!"
The dish slowly began to fall apart as they ran across it. They managed to reach the end and jumped and landed on the gang way just before it collapsed in on itself.
Then a scientist who Shepard assumed to be Archer approached them. "Over here!"
"What the hell is going on around here?" Shepard demanded.
"Man's reach exceeded his grasp," said Archer. He then gestured for them to follow him. "Come on, I'll explain."
Once they re-entered the complex Shepard followed Archer while the others began to move the bodies.
"You have my thanks, Commander Shepard," said Archer. "You bought us some time, though probably not much. This isn't over yet."
"You always that explanation," said Shepard.
"This is Project Overlord. An attempt to gain influence over the geth by interfacing a human mind with a VI. The result has been… less than satisfactory."
Shepard looked at all the dead bodies. "I'd hate to see what you call a disaster."
"You can't dismiss the entire project. We did succeed, at least partially. My brother David volunteered to serve as a test subject, but his mind couldn't handle the VI connection." Archer then led Shepard to his office. "He's like a virus now, infecting our network and seizing control of any technology he finds. It's why you had to destroy the dish. Imagine if his programme got off-world."
"How does he take over electronics?" Shepard asked.
"This is a hybrid intelligence the likes of which I've never seen. I don't know whether man ends and the machine begins."
"What's the worst-case scenario?"
"A technology apocalypse. Every machine, every weapon, every computer could be turned against us. If he had the extranet, who knows where it would end."
"You should have considered that before you started the experiment," said Shepard angrily.
"We couldn't be expected to account for every outcome! Certainly not the abomination David has become. Davi…" Archer himself. "The VI has fortified itself in the main laboratory at Atlas Station. It's in lockdown now."
He then walked over towards the computer terminal. The terminal had three separate red lines that resembled walls.
"To enter, you need to manually override security from our facilities in the Prometheus and Vulcan Stations."
"How does the lockdown work?"
Archer then made his way to the computer terminal. "It's a fail-safe procedure in the event of an emergency. Normally, all three project leads have to agree to cancel the lockdown." He then grabbed hold of a switch and pulled it up and at once a one of the lines vanished and turned green. "And the only one left now. I forgive my authorisation, but you'll have to manually reset the other two yourself."
"And what happens if I have to kill your brother?"
Archer then sat down at his desk and Shepard noted a picture of himself and a young man, who he guessed was David.
"Let's just hope it doesn't come to that."
"Tell me more about Project Overlord."
"We wanted to turn the geth's religious impulse into a weapon. When we saw them following Saren, we realised they could be swayed. And if a proper figurehead was created—a virus with a face, if you will—the geth might be controlled."
"That's an unambitious undertaking."
"It would be the perfect weapon—victory without casualties! We could avoid war with the geth altogether. That was the plan anyway."
"What went wrong the experiment?" Shepard asked.
"David volunteered to interface with the VI to give genuine consciousness. Theoretically it should have been safe, but…" He pauses he looked at the photo. "With artificial intelligence there is no such thing as safe."
"Then you shouldn't have attempted it."
Archer raise an eyebrow. "And what if you had never attempted to find the Reapers, Commander Shepard? Where will the galaxy be then? Sometimes you have to ignore the risks."
Shepard got a little information from the other stations so that he would know what he would be up against. They didn't sound very promising and Shepard knew that he would encounter heavy resistance.
"I'm heading out now."
"The other stations are all within driving distance," said Archer. "Best of luck, Commander."
Shepard and his companions boarded the Hammerhead and made their way towards Vulcan Station. Getting to the station itself proved difficult as they have to traverse over flowing lava and he was the automatic defence systems with the VI took over.
David or the VI had managed to hack into the mechs and have them shooting at them. Getting past them was tricky, but it was nothing they could handle. Shephard then encountered a terminal which was a recording of an engineer reporting how the VI was taking over the automatic systems.
Shepard encountered the VI interface along his journey towards the control station. He could have sworn that the VI was trying to communicate with him, in fact it's prize at he sounded like shouting.
"Do you think the VI is communicating with us?" Shepard asked.
"I don't know, Shepard," said Tali. "This VI is a lot more unpredictable with a human mind of its hard drive. To be honest I can't imagine what Cerberus was thinking."
"Have to agree," said Jacob. "Trying to control the geth? That asking for disaster, after all within go so well for Saren."
"We can discuss the finer points of the project once we shut down the VI," said Miranda.
They were so close to the control centre, but then blocking their path was several rocket launchers and a heavy mech. Shepard had to use his Collector beam weapon to take down the mech while Garrus took out the rocket launchers.
Miranda and Jacob laid out cover fire to give Shepard an opportunity to break through the mechs armour. Tali tried to hack into it, but the VI kept on blocking her. Eventually Shepard was able to destroy it.
Shepard then made his way to the door and hacked the lock. Inside they saw one single mech shooting at the controls. It then turned around and noticed them before they could give it a chance to shoot they fired several shots destroying its arm.
It then raises arm which was holding a pistol. However, before it could shoot them they shot at it first destroying both arms. The VI then left it systems and it began running around the place.
Shepard made his way to the override and activated it.
"Override of Atlas Station lockdown accepted," said the computer is a never line vanished and turned green.
The VI then appeared on the monitor and began to speak with its unknown language.
"…are you receiving this?" said Archer's voice over the radio. "Commander Shepard, this is Dr Archer. Please respond."
"I hear you, Doctor. We've hit the override at Vulcan Station and are moving on," said Shepard he then pulled out his pistol and shot the head of the mech. "Shepard out."
After exiting Vulcan Station their made their way towards Prometheus Station and that was a lot harder to get in. Archer had and joking when he said that the station was in fact a crashed geth ship.
The VI had placed some sort of for shield around it and had activated the cannons. Dodging the cannons and shooting at the force field generated was extremely tricky. In fact they had more than once been nearly blown up by the cannon.
Shepard then got the idea of actually losing the geth cannon to destroy the shield generators. The timing have to be perfect or otherwise they would have been destroyed by the cannon. It took some terrible manoeuvring but eventually they were able to destroy the shield generators using the ship's own cannon. With the shield now off-line Shepard fired everything he could ask the cannon destroying it completely.
They then entered into Prometheus Station and found that all the geth were off-line. Shepard had a feeling that it would last and had a strong feeling that to get outside they would have to fight. Shepard found a new records of a nervous Cerberus researcher, who was in fact worried about the geth reactivating.
Shepard then reached a large chasm and had to rearrange them platforms across the other side. The other side of the chasm was the computer terminal and the override switch and he instantly activated it.
"Override of Atlas Station lockdown accepted," said the computer has the last line vanished and turned green.
The screen went blank and the image of the VI appeared with its strange screeching sound. Suddenly they heard the sound of robotics moving and turned to discover the geth body behind them had been activated.
"And there's the catch," said Shepard. "I knew this was too easy." His companions then shot the geth before it got a chance to attack. "Come on. Let's move!
"It's probably activated all the geth aboard the ship," said Tali.
"We need to get to Atlas Station before this VI uploads itself off-world," said Shepard. "It is able to do this will a small fraction of the geth imagine what it could do if it uploaded into the extranet."
"I'd rather not," said Jacob.
"The Commander's right we need to get to Atlas Station fast," said Miranda.
They soon reached the room that they first walked through. Unfortunately for them, a geth prime was blocking their path towards the exit. They instantly took cover as it fired at them and soon more geth appeared troopers and hunters.
Shepard signalled to the others to flank it while he distracted it from his position. Tali assist with the distraction by unleashing her drone. Garrus uses sniper rifle to take down the geth troopers that try to find them. Kasumi used her stealth tech to fight the hunters on their own terms. Eventually they were able to whittle down the geth prime's armour destroyed it.
With all the geth finally destroyed they made it back the Hammerhead and left to the geth ship.
"Commander, you've done it!" said Archer over the radio. "The lockdown has been cancelled. You can now reach Atlas Station and end this nightmare. You'll need to find the main server room there to shut down the VI experiment. Good luck."
They soon reached the entrance to Atlas Station and drove the Hammerhead into it. They had to use the Hammerhead's thrusters to gently bother down towards a landing.
"Looks like you're in, Commander," said Archer over the radio. "Good. I'm getting some troubling readings here, though. The VI is trying to upload its program directly from your location. Get to the server room and shut down the core before it can—"
The radio then went dead no doubt it was the VI jamming the transmission.
"Sounds as if we better hurry," said Miranda.
"I have a feeling that the VI will try and stop us from reaching the core," said Shepard.
"It's never easy as it," said Garrus.
Shepard managed to get the machinery working to get the lights back on then they heard a one of Archer's reports. From what he was saying that his brother had some sort of condition and they discover that it gave him the ability to commune with the geth.
"Assuming that commune with the geth," Tali stared. "I've never heard of such a thing."
"Serendipity," said Miranda.
"What does that mean?" Garrus asked.
"It's a human term that scientists use when they discover happy accident," said Shepard. "Strange that the good doctor did mention this before."
"Doesn't sound much like volunteer work if he's the only one able to commune with the geth," Jacob noted.
"Best keep pressing forwards and maybe we can find some answers and stop this disaster," said Shepard.
As they made their way through the complex and they discovered that several doors were open and closing by themselves. The VI looked as if he was herding them somewhere which didn't bode well for them.
They encountered another recording from Archer and it told them that the Illusive Man was planning to shut down the project. He mentioned that he was going to tap David directly into the geth network.
"He uploaded his own brother to the geth neural network," Tali gasped. "There's no telling what could happen."
"I think we have a good idea what happened," said Shepard looking over the dead bodies that littered the place.
They tried to activate the elevator, but that proved difficult. The elevator kept on bouncing from one elevator to another. Eventually they managed to get stop it on their floor. Once the elevator doors were open they entered into it and began to descend to the lower floor.
Unfortunately, David had other plans and the elevator began to malfunction and they pretty much crap on the bottom floor.
"Is everyone all right?" Shepard asked.
"No bones broken," said Garrus.
"Commander I recommend a really careful," said Miranda.
Shepard nodded. "Noted."
They came across another recording of Archer and informed them that he knew about the risks it could cause to his brother, but carried out regard. Shepard was slightly concerned that no geth tried to them, but they carried on regardless.
They soon entered into a corridor and some and suddenly the door in front of them slammed shut. Then the door next to them open, but fortunately it led to the server which was where they wanted to go.
Shepard approached the control. "Get ready. I wouldn't be surprised if this button summoned a Reaper."
Shepard then press down on the button and for a few seconds and it looked as if it had work. Suddenly Shepard felt something entering into his body and everything around him changed into some thought of virtual reality.
Then his body began to move on its own toward the corridor. Once he was out of the room the door slammed shut behind him and his companions tried to open to no avail. He then saw digital images walking down the corridor and began to follow them.
As he walked down the corridor he encountered several virtual geth that began shooting at him and he gladly return the favour. Shepard had no idea how he entered into virtual reality, but he suspected something to do with his cybernetic.
He then entered into another group and saw holographic images of Archer and David.
"Square root of 906.01 is 30.1… Square root of 912.04 is 30.2…" said David.
"Time on this project is running out. There is no options left," said Archer. "How to get the geth's attention?"
Suddenly the geth they were working on began to create it's usual noise and then approach David it and mimicked the sounds.
"The robot says hello," said David looking at Archer.
"Eureka." Archer exclaimed. He then pressed a hand on his brother's shoulder. "David, you're a miracle worker."
Suddenly the scene changed and David and Archer were surrounded by other scientists and a geth.
"David, I want you to order the geth to take a step forward," said Archer.
David mimicked the geth's language and the geth took several steps forward.
"How does he do it?" a scientist asked.
"David is a mathematical savant. Do autistic mind can interpret the geth language at the most basic form and mimic their phonetics. With his photographic memory, cross-referencing the meaning is a snap. He's literally a human computer."
"And you think you can interface with the geth's neural network?"
"I do."
"Is that even safe, Doctor?" an engineer asked.
"I see no harm in finding out."
The scene changed once again and this time David and Archer were alone with one another.
"Square root of 906.01 is 30.1… Square root of 912.04 is 30.2…"
"David, can you repeat my notes from Thursday's experiment?" Archer asked.
"Square root of 918.09 is 30.3."
"David! Please pay attention!" Archer yelled.
David grasped his head. "Loud! It's getting loud in here."
Archer placed a hand on David's shoulder. "I'm sorry, you didn't deserve that. Would you mind repeating my notes from Thursday's experiment?"
David nodded. "'Log 137.3. The experiment yielded no discernible patterns of geth obedience. End dictation now, David. Hell, the Illusive Man will have my head for this.'"
Archer nodded. "Thank you. And how are you feeling today?"
"Square root of 924.16 is 30.3… earplugs would be good."
The images faded and soon Shepard was attacked by virtual geth. He then saw the same virtual of David that he had encountered through a window.
"…MAKE… STOP!" David's voice yelled.
Shepard must have been able to understand him since he was now he in a virtual reality. Shepard had to destroy a VI connection in order to enter the next room and no sooner had he entered that geth appeared from the lift.
They instantly attack him, but there many so it was easy for Shepard to destroy them. Once they were gone he access the lift and descend towards the VI core which was green. Once there he saw the VI core, Archer and several scientist operating computers.
"Square root of 906.01 is 30.1… Square root of 912.04 is 30.2…" said David's voice.
"We're ready," said Archer, who appeared not to have heard his brother. "Open a connection to the geth network."
Archer and the scientist operating the control.
"QUIET!" David yelled.
Suddenly images of geth appeared and aimed at Archer and scientist.
"David, no!" Archer yelled. "Tell the geth to stand down!"
"QUIET! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!"
The images faded then vanished and David's VI face appeared over Shepard and the core turned orange.
"Node acquired: Normandy SR-2 is within range. Attempting to establish upload link," said the computer.
Shepard stared in horror if David was able to upload itself to the Normandy then it would be able to access the extranet. It could also control EDI and have full control of her capabilities.
Shepard began attacking the VI connection nods to prevent it from uploading. Virtual geth then appeared and began to attack him while he destroys the VI connection nods. Shepard then began to attack the core while he heard the voices of both Archer and David yelling.
Eventually he was able to destroy the core and everything returned back to normal. With the virtual core gone Shepard could see what they did to David. It was monstrous, David was completely naked and wires were sticking through his arms holding them in place. He wore a neck place that was welded to his skin, two pipes were in his mouth, his eyes, which were watering, were forced open and metal rods were inserted into his brain.
"Quite—please make it stop," David's voice begged.
Shepard approached him horrified.
"Wait! Commander!" Archer yelled running towards him. "I'm begging you. Don't do anything rash."
Shepard glared at him. "Rash? Life forcing your own brother into an experiment?"
"I know how this must look, but I never intended any harm to come to him. You must believe me. It's not like I planned this. It was an accident. Seeing David communicate with the geth… it all seemed harmless."
"And before you knew it, you were planning your own private hell."
"I had no choice!" Archer roared. "The demands were incredible. The Illusive Man doesn't broker failure! Any war we fight with geth will be bloody. I was asked to find a way to avoid."
Shepard narrowed his eyes. "And how many have already died for this?"
Archer looked at his feet. "More souls than will ever forgive me." He then looked at Shepard. "But I won't apologise for radical ideas. If my work saves a million mothers mourning the loss of a millions sons, my conscience will rest easy."
"Look at him—" said Shepard gesturing David. "Your brother will never be the same."
"The damage may not be permanent. You might recover some of semblance of his mind."
Shepard couldn't believe he was hearing this. "Cerberus will never leave him alone. Your brother will always be a lab rat."
"But a well-cared for lab rat. At least he's still be alive."
Shepard glared at him. "So you'll sacrifice your brother's happiness or your own ambition?"
Archer looked at Shepard and then back to David.
"Square root of 906.01 equals…" said David's voice.
"30.1," Archer finished. "What I've done to David is unethical. If he die, it's unforgivable." He then looked at Shepard with a pleading look. "Let me take care of him. Please."
"Quiet—please make it stop," David's voice begged.
Shepard narrowed his eyes at Archer. "I've seen enough of your cruelty to know he'll never be free from it here. I'm taking him away."
"No! Leave him! He's too valuable!"
Archer then pulled out a pistol and fired at Shepard. Fortunately, he was able dodge in time and quickly pulled out his pistol. Instead of shooting Archer he slapped him across the face with his pistol giving him a bloodied noise.
"You even think about coming after your brother, and this bullet will be waiting for you. Then we'll see who's valuable."
Archer could tell that Shepard wasn't bluffing. "Where will you take him?"
"Grissom Academy. They can help special cases like David—minus the torture." Shepard then reached for his radio. "Joker, contact the Academy, and let them know we've got someone who needs their help."
"Aye, aye, Commander," said Joker.
Shepard then looked at Archer. "Illusive Man can fire me if he doesn't like it."
Shepard then made his way over towards David, to release him from his restraint.
"Square root of 912.04 is 30.2…" said David's voice. "It all seemed harmless."
Rick was wearing his formal wear for his date with Rose and was already seated at their table. He started to wonder if Rose would show up, but then he saw her wearing a scarlet red dress and Rick suddenly felt very hot in the face.
"Like what you see?" she smiled.
"I would be lying if I said I didn't," said Rick regaining his composure.
Rose sat down and the two of them ordered some drinks.
"I've been following your exploits," said Rose. "I have to say there quite the page turner."
"Yes, I suppose trying to find evidence that an ancient mythological synthetic species is quite intriguing," said Rick as he sipped his glass.
"Yes, I know about the Reapers," said Rose. "Personally, I don't know what to think. I saw Sovereign first-hand and that any species could create anything like."
"Yes, I found it hard to believe myself," Rick nodded. "But ask yourself why would the first human Spectre disgrace himself by calming that they exist if they weren't real?"
"I suppose your right," Rose nodded. "But you don't mind if I keep hopping that they don't exist?"
"Believe it or not I'm hoping for the same thing."