A muffled beep alerts Kaidan that a message had hit his omnitool. Not expecting any news from Earth for another few hours he steps away from the Observation Deck and pulls it up. Frowning he pulls up a work request that Shepard had signed off on for Cortez before her latest mission. Looking over the specs he frowns. Odd terminus system requisitions made in Jane's name for some pistol. On a hunch he pulls up the image scan. All weapons have an individual chip that can trace its history. Running the gun's ID goes back over thirty years. While it was listed as upgraded by Shepard years back with some good specs the original owner was one Robert Shepard last known habitance Mindoir.
When he bugged Shepard's terminal he had put out a lose net and this was the first real hit that had meant anything. She must have dropped that pistol off to Cortez before he had dropped them off at Tachanka. How had she managed to hold on to a gun from her parents over two decades? Keeping it in working order must have been a small fortune let alone how had she gotten it back after the first Normandy had been destroyed?
Another idea hit him. Not only were guns registered but service orders could often be tracked if anyone was interested. With so many large scale trades few people ever bother but if this was something Jane had cared enough about he wanted to help if he could.
Just as he had expected the service orders were spotty at best. Long periods of inactivity but some very interesting updates. Purchased by who could only ben Jane's father years before the slaughter that would cost him his life. Nothing else recorded until a police record a decade later. Used by unnamed human in self-defense against Batarian slavers. Weapon confirmed in four deaths, subject and weapon released. Jane had been a young teen at the time. All reports he had seen said she had hidden away but this report more resembled the Jane Shepard he knew.
Unnamed human brought in for servicing and heavy fire upgrade. Service Station Omega 2171, just a few months after the raid on Mindoir. The fact that any information had come up that pirate den was odd. The fact that it had not been more carefully monitored was just outright foolish.
That's why she gave the gun to Cortez. She knows he is not about to run the tag.
His interested peaked he heads down to the one person on the ship who could acquire anything. Cortez was good but he was no Quarian.