After The Action

by Phygmalion

Everybody loves the missions - but what happens afterwards? Even as a Spectre, there are some things that no amount of extra-judicial authority can avoid - namely, paperwork.

7. After-Action Report 6: Athens System

After-Action Report: Re. Artemis Tau, Athens System

Attn. Admiral Hackett

Lieutenant Commander Revan Shepard (Spectre)

1/29/2183, 2355 hours (Earth Standard Time/Greenwich Mean)

Entered the Athens system at 2049 hours to finish searching the Artemis Tau cluster for any remaining geth. Scans of the system by Ensign Carlton Tucks revealed no trace of geth activity in the system. He did find a Helium-3 deposit on Circe and an oxygen deposit on Proteus. While scanning the system, Ensign Tucks discovered an abandoned base on the moon orbiting Pharos. A probe found nothing of interest, although much of the wreckage was marked with the Magna Colony insignia, revealing a hitherto-unknown turian colony. Presumably, it was destroyed by pirates – perhaps even the Red Nova crew. With the Athens system scanned, I can confirm that the geth presence in the Artemis Tau cluster has been eliminated.

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Captain's Log: I'm not sure whether to be relived or concerned that the geth are nowhere to be found in Artemis Tau. On the one hand, it's good that there are no geth bases from which to attack the colonies in this sector. On the other hand, the ability of the geth to travel halfway across the galaxy from the Perseus Veil suggests a disturbing capacity for subterfuge – not to mention the lack of information in the Mass Relay network reporting the geth's use of the relays to travel. There's no way for the geth to travel from the Perseus Veil to Artemis Tau without using the relays, so why aren't the relays recording any geth ships having passed through? Either the geth are using false transponders to fool the relay's ID records, or the geth can manipulate the relays to not record their presence. I don't need to explain how bad it would be if it proves to be the latter. Could Saren have codes that would affect the mass relay's ability to record passing ships? Any codes he possessed would have been issued by the council, and subsequently deactivated with the loss of his Spectre status. However the geth are doing it, I have a feeling that Saren's flagship – the one seen on Eden Prime – is somehow connected to this.

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