Data Log Entry: 21840527
- 1015
Now where was I? Oh yeah. After taking down a couple of geth troopers and juggernauts, much to Tali's satisfaction, we found Juliana's daughter or rather she found us by firing first. I swore if one more civilian pointed a gun at my face, that I was trying to help, I was going to shot first and ask questions later.
Anyway, it took a few minutes for me to lower my pistol after Liara barely got out of the way. I fought the instinctual urge to shoot back. She fired a shot at Liara, my Liara. Thankfully the young woman was scared half to death and I believed it when she said she thought we were geth coming after her. Willing to help stop the attack, she offered up information she thought might be have some use.
She told us about an ancient plant, called subject 37, the Thorian. She wasn't entirely sure why they wanted it but thought that since ExoGeni was studying it, perhaps they wanted to as well. Her info was vague but she seemed eager to help and gave us her ID badge to get inside. Just as my mind was about to stray back to Liara almost being shot, we were suddenly attacked by a pack of wild varren. Again having two of the best squad mates possible, we quickly put an end to those varmints and continued on our mission. The distraction was exactly what I needed to stay focused.
As we entered Exo Geni's Headquarters, there seemed to be geth invaders around every corner as we headed into the main level. Liara was really bothered by all the dead bodies left lying around; thanks to the initial geth attack. She said that Feros was once a great place for learning, and now it had become a place of slaughter. I could hear the terror in her voice. Unlike me, she hadn't see death on this scale before. I tried to remain strong but when she revealed that this place would haunt her dreams, it cut me to the quick. I know all too much about bad nightmares. It killed me to think she would have them as well. Pushing onward I thrust the disturbing thoughts away.
Heading up another stairwell, we heard a krogan arguing profusely with an A.I. He was furious with the console unit when it didn't answer his questions. Fearing that he might destroy the A. any second, we attacked. The krogan merc didn't stand a chance.
I used Lizbeth's access card to activate the A.I. where I was charmingly warned how it is not permitted to discharge a fire arm on company property. That cracked me up. No one said A.I.s were very smart, Tali commented. I was finally able to learn about ExoGeni's pet project; subject 37.
The synthesized voice said that ExoGeni was interested in subject 37, what he kept referring to it as, because it demonstrated mind altering characteristics in which the company wanted to study at length. Unknowingly the colonist at Zhu's Hope were their test subject. ExoGeni was working well outside the borders of council space and were using the Thorian for their own personal sick experiments.
Miss Baynham was also involved with the program, but had recently been placed on probation for her outburst; protesting the experiment. It was all starting to make sense. The reason the colonist were so itchy and they way that senior officer was behaving. He had more than his ass to cover. And the cherry on top was that the geth must have been sent after the Thorian. If Saren could control one person like Matriarch Benezia, I couldn't imagine what would happen if he could control hundreds of people with the help of 'Subject 37'. He had to be stopped right away. This kind of technology or pathogen, could not fall into the wrong hands.
We had to prevent the geth from reaching the Thorian, which I found out, without another weapon in my face, was located under Zhu's Hope. And to do that, I needed communications back up and running as soon as possible.