The Runaway – Miranda Lawson – 3 ½ weeks after the battle for Earth
"That's it, they're all back online." Miranda announced. The best minds all species had to offer cheered. They'd just made history… again. The whole room had just proven what a unified galaxy can achieve. They'd restored the mass relays, all of them. Miranda had just watched the last relay's blue lights flicker on again. Everyone in the room had had experience with the relays. Each species had all studied the relays in their own way, Asari scientists who'd spent hundreds of years trying to figure out the secret behind the relays, operatives from STG and a trio of Turians who'd been shunned by their own government for "unpractical, incorrect and useless theories". There was even a Batarian who'd researched a way to convert mass relays into a weapon, while his previous work played to the Batarian's stereotypes as terrorists; his work now, literally connecting a galaxy, is one of the Batarian's many steps into re-joining the galactic society.
Miranda herself was the lone human aside from her alliance contact on the other end of her comm.
"Samantha, tell Hackett all the relays are back online" She said, barely containing her excitement, she'd was part of the team who'd conquered the biggest problem post-war.
"Oh my god, how did you, I…I don't even, how?" Traynor responded from the other end of the comm.
"Traynor, I'll have to tell you about it another time, there's still work to do." Miranda lied, there was work to do but she had no intention of doing it right now. Just as Miranda was about to cut the line, Traynor asked another question. Miranda liked Samantha but she did notice that she rarely knew when to stop speaking.
"Wait, wait, wait, one question. Is it true that the Alliance had a plan for the Relays all along? An Admiral said they had these plans all along but nobody could tell if he was serious or not." She asked. Traynor was lucky that Miranda was the one of the only people who could reveal that information.
"Yes, we knew that the crucible would release a massive amount of energy and that energy would be distributed via the relays. The only solid information we had on the relays was that they had a limited amount of energy storage. So, massive amount of energy going into limited energy storage was going to be a problem. That problem caused the relays to explode so our friends at the Alliance made a backup plan: collect resources and minds in case that happened." Miranda responded, everything she said was true. Although she wasn't trusted by most of the Alliance members she met due to her being ex-cerberus, she was respected which got her many assignments, those assignments earned her trust. That trust, got her on this project.
She actually was the one who suggested species home worlds should be prioritized. The whole team looked at her oddly when she said that, they thought, due to limited time and resources, it would be better that they started at the star systems closest to the crucibles detonation point, Earth. That the fleets could slowly spread while combining and sharing anything they had spare, instead of sudden free-for-all for resources which the team believed could spark another war. Miranda convinced them otherwise, that a sudden free-for-all wouldn't happen. So far, everyone was getting along rather well, all things considered.
"Yes! I knew it! You owe me 100 credits Michael!" Samantha said happily, she cut the connection immediately.
Miranda got up from her desk and celebrated with the rest of the team well into the night. She'd been working, non-stop it seemed the moment she joined Cerberus, those xenophobes actually had indirectly saved the galaxy in more than one way. The only reason Miranda knew so much about the relays is because she spent most of her time at Cerberus researching them. She relaxed, let her guard down and toasted to a new and unified galaxy.