Garrus Vakarian (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
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IC Contact - Consignment
vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
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[Garrus nods. Sometime, when he's feeling better, he's going to rib her about having elcor opera, even if it turns out she doesn't. It's something that's deserving of teasing. For now he'll simply be relieved that the patching is going to work for now, and she's not already curled up with a horrible fever.]
You're welcome, Tali. And I'll take water, unless you've got something to be doing.
[He's already had a drink, and he doesn't need to use alcohol. Some of the edge is gone. That's enough. The rest he'll work on.]
Don't wanna be the dark cloud hanging over your head, or however that goes.
You're welcome, Tali. And I'll take water, unless you've got something to be doing.
[He's already had a drink, and he doesn't need to use alcohol. Some of the edge is gone. That's enough. The rest he'll work on.]
Don't wanna be the dark cloud hanging over your head, or however that goes.
[When he gets around to teasing her for it, she'll know he's feeling better. For now, she bustles around the rover getting water for them both, rations for herself. When she sits back down again, she's trying not to eye him so carefully, so critically, looking for any cracks in his figurative armour. She slides a cup of water over to him.]
Here you go. And don't worry about dark clouds - I'm wearing a hood, remember?
[She picks at it and grins a little. Sometimes commiserating and talking it out is the best thing to do. Right now, she's not sure it is.] I was just going to eat, so...
[The haroomba, she notices when she looks around for it, is active and sitting on top of the weapons locker. She clicks her tongue as if hailing an animal, and it bounces over to her; she reaches to take it and put in her lap like the strangest pet any person ever had. Unpackagaing the rations - and somehow she manages to act like this is totally normal - she gives the food to the robot to sterilise.] If I take my mask off to eat, will you spend the whole time panicking about infections?
[Because she needs to eat, she needs to test that the haroomba can keep the air sterile, and besides, she'll be thinking about panicking enough without Garrus vocalising it.]
Here you go. And don't worry about dark clouds - I'm wearing a hood, remember?
[She picks at it and grins a little. Sometimes commiserating and talking it out is the best thing to do. Right now, she's not sure it is.] I was just going to eat, so...
[The haroomba, she notices when she looks around for it, is active and sitting on top of the weapons locker. She clicks her tongue as if hailing an animal, and it bounces over to her; she reaches to take it and put in her lap like the strangest pet any person ever had. Unpackagaing the rations - and somehow she manages to act like this is totally normal - she gives the food to the robot to sterilise.] If I take my mask off to eat, will you spend the whole time panicking about infections?
[Because she needs to eat, she needs to test that the haroomba can keep the air sterile, and besides, she'll be thinking about panicking enough without Garrus vocalising it.]
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Kai Leng? He's Athos' roommate. I didn't like him, either.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
What did he do to you?
Kai Leng? He's Athos' roommate. I didn't like him, either.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
What did he do to you?
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Human supremacist from my universe. Killed one of the Normandy's crew. And is part of the group responsible for making the survival of every species in the galaxy a lot more difficult.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
It's not like we have great chances to win to start with. But he made them worse, for humans and non-humans alike, all in the name of trying to make the galaxy human-ruled.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I helped kill him back home. Really not glad he didn't stay dead.
Human supremacist from my universe. Killed one of the Normandy's crew. And is part of the group responsible for making the survival of every species in the galaxy a lot more difficult.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
It's not like we have great chances to win to start with. But he made them worse, for humans and non-humans alike, all in the name of trying to make the galaxy human-ruled.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I helped kill him back home. Really not glad he didn't stay dead.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
So he's a murderer.
This group he's a part of, what did they do? I didn't realise there was a problem between humans and your people.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
You've never acted like there was.
So he's a murderer.
This group he's a part of, what did they do? I didn't realise there was a problem between humans and your people.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
You've never acted like there was.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Because generally there isn't. His group, Cerberus, is a terrorist group. Not representative of humanity at large. Long story about what they did. Let me try to condense it.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Got a species called reapers back home. Every 50 thousand years or so, they return to our galaxy and harvest spaceflight-capable species.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Living captives get indoctrinated, brainwashed into empty shells of themselves who serve only to follow reaper orders. The process can be fast or slow, depending on how it's done.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The dead get turned into genetic matter to build more reaper ships. Each reaper ship is a species that got wiped out millions of years ago. And anything the indoctrinated know, the reapers know.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Cerberus decided it wanted troops like that. Unresponsive to pain, mindless, always under control. And they wound up indoctrinating themselves in the process.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Nearly done with the history lesson, sorry. Previous cycles were building a weapon to destroy the reapers, never finishing it in time. We found out where info on the last piece we needed was. Went.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
An indoctrinated Kai Leng was there. He's probably in the early stages of indoc. already. We had to fight him and the reaper forces swarming the planet: former humans, turians, asari, etc.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Cerberus, and the reapers, got the info. And the world. Liara's homeworld fell to the reapers that day. And they also grabbed the last piece and stationed it above Earth, before reinforcing there.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
There's plenty more that they've done that's sabotaged everyone's chances of survival. But that's what could end our hopes, right there.
Because generally there isn't. His group, Cerberus, is a terrorist group. Not representative of humanity at large. Long story about what they did. Let me try to condense it.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Got a species called reapers back home. Every 50 thousand years or so, they return to our galaxy and harvest spaceflight-capable species.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Living captives get indoctrinated, brainwashed into empty shells of themselves who serve only to follow reaper orders. The process can be fast or slow, depending on how it's done.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The dead get turned into genetic matter to build more reaper ships. Each reaper ship is a species that got wiped out millions of years ago. And anything the indoctrinated know, the reapers know.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Cerberus decided it wanted troops like that. Unresponsive to pain, mindless, always under control. And they wound up indoctrinating themselves in the process.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Nearly done with the history lesson, sorry. Previous cycles were building a weapon to destroy the reapers, never finishing it in time. We found out where info on the last piece we needed was. Went.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
An indoctrinated Kai Leng was there. He's probably in the early stages of indoc. already. We had to fight him and the reaper forces swarming the planet: former humans, turians, asari, etc.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Cerberus, and the reapers, got the info. And the world. Liara's homeworld fell to the reapers that day. And they also grabbed the last piece and stationed it above Earth, before reinforcing there.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
There's plenty more that they've done that's sabotaged everyone's chances of survival. But that's what could end our hopes, right there.
[ garrus please that's some incredibly mom behavior ]
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
No I'm typing with my feet
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
You got someone spying on me, Garrus?
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
No I'm typing with my feet
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
You got someone spying on me, Garrus?
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
That sort of image. Right.
[He needs to stop making assumptions.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
There's a pretty primitive drawing program, yeah. Should I drop over where you are and give you a hand with it?
That sort of image. Right.
[He needs to stop making assumptions.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
There's a pretty primitive drawing program, yeah. Should I drop over where you are and give you a hand with it?
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
You have very talented toes.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Nope. Arbuckal messaged me earlier, asked how my group did. You came up, but mostly because I'm just trying to find out where people are, if it's three points again or more this time.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The more we know as far as standard operating procedures go, the better.
You have very talented toes.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Nope. Arbuckal messaged me earlier, asked how my group did. You came up, but mostly because I'm just trying to find out where people are, if it's three points again or more this time.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The more we know as far as standard operating procedures go, the better.
Yeah?
[That's... actually a topic he's a little nervous about. Mordin isn't here. None of the doctors here are familiar with turian or quarian medical needs, and probably not many of the other species either.]
The Medical squad. Is it training in other species?
[Vampire, dragon, demon, whatever Sylvanas had been... Humans outnumber them about ten to one, but that doesn't mean they should be neglected.]
[That's... actually a topic he's a little nervous about. Mordin isn't here. None of the doctors here are familiar with turian or quarian medical needs, and probably not many of the other species either.]
The Medical squad. Is it training in other species?
[Vampire, dragon, demon, whatever Sylvanas had been... Humans outnumber them about ten to one, but that doesn't mean they should be neglected.]
Yes. I'll panic and act like a quarian doesn't know what she's doing with her own mask.
[His voice is very dry as he lifts his glass of water in her direction before sipping His subharmonics aren't quite right, yet, but he can manage that, at least.]
Go ahead, Tali. I trust your judgement there. Can I eat too? Not your food. I've got some with me.
[And this way if the haroomba started messing up or not performing as expected, Garrus would be there to help check out the programming. Plus if things go really wrong he's got nanite shots. Garrus tucks away his soldering kit, pulls out the jerky, and checks the location of the nanites just in case before closing up his armor. It's the least he can do, keep an eye out for the crew.]
They seem a little less irritable this time. The haroombas.
[That's about as useful as talking about the weather, he realizes a moment later. And then a moment after that he realizes that no, it's worse, because Tali might find actual weather interesting seeing as she's quarian.]
[His voice is very dry as he lifts his glass of water in her direction before sipping His subharmonics aren't quite right, yet, but he can manage that, at least.]
Go ahead, Tali. I trust your judgement there. Can I eat too? Not your food. I've got some with me.
[And this way if the haroomba started messing up or not performing as expected, Garrus would be there to help check out the programming. Plus if things go really wrong he's got nanite shots. Garrus tucks away his soldering kit, pulls out the jerky, and checks the location of the nanites just in case before closing up his armor. It's the least he can do, keep an eye out for the crew.]
They seem a little less irritable this time. The haroombas.
[That's about as useful as talking about the weather, he realizes a moment later. And then a moment after that he realizes that no, it's worse, because Tali might find actual weather interesting seeing as she's quarian.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
More than just the animals?
More than just the animals?
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Thank you. Did you get it to all Green Leads?
Thank you. Did you get it to all Green Leads?
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Makes sense. Stay alert, call if you hear anything else.
Makes sense. Stay alert, call if you hear anything else.
[ Give him a minute, Garrus. That's a lot, and many of those terms are new to him. Also, there's the fact that the scale of all of this is so grand. Kai Leng is no ordinary zealot, it seems. ]
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Wait, so. You're saying he's actually a servant of these creatures who want to kill you all, these Reapers? And he's being controlled by them now?
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
What does that mean, Garrus? Are the Reapers more powerful than the CDC?
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Wait, so. You're saying he's actually a servant of these creatures who want to kill you all, these Reapers? And he's being controlled by them now?
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
What does that mean, Garrus? Are the Reapers more powerful than the CDC?
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
He'll brainwashed enough to be one, yeah. All of Cerberus will be. Chances are it's already started, but I'm not sure. Even if it hasn't, he's still a hate-filled terrorist murdering piece of shit.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I don't know who is more powerful. Both have powerful ships. It'd probably come down to numbers - how many ships the CDC has versus how many the reapers do.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The CDC can recruit more people, but the reapers can then turn a portion of those people into shells for their own use, so that's not gonna make a difference.
He'll brainwashed enough to be one, yeah. All of Cerberus will be. Chances are it's already started, but I'm not sure. Even if it hasn't, he's still a hate-filled terrorist murdering piece of shit.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I don't know who is more powerful. Both have powerful ships. It'd probably come down to numbers - how many ships the CDC has versus how many the reapers do.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The CDC can recruit more people, but the reapers can then turn a portion of those people into shells for their own use, so that's not gonna make a difference.
Edited (Forgot I'd edited for character count and something didn't make sense anymore) 2015-02-25 05:07 (UTC)
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
I try
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
Wonder why they've split us up like this both times now
You'd think keeping everyone together would make it easier to survive the drop
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
Or maybe it just makes a bigger target?
[ ... ]
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
It's been a while since the first time, hasn't it
I try
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
Wonder why they've split us up like this both times now
You'd think keeping everyone together would make it easier to survive the drop
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
Or maybe it just makes a bigger target?
[ ... ]
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
It's been a while since the first time, hasn't it
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Ajna was a test. Maybe the drop is the test for the new arrivals. The ones who survived fun and games on the ship.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
It's been something like nine months. Seems longer and shorter all at once.
[There's a delay before the next message is sent.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Glad you and Yamanaka have stuck around. Piper too. Only a few left of the people I met that first week or two here.
Ajna was a test. Maybe the drop is the test for the new arrivals. The ones who survived fun and games on the ship.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
It's been something like nine months. Seems longer and shorter all at once.
[There's a delay before the next message is sent.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Glad you and Yamanaka have stuck around. Piper too. Only a few left of the people I met that first week or two here.
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
It looks like we all did pretty good, if that's the case
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
Then again it's kind of sad when a cat outlasts a quarter of the crew
It looks like we all did pretty good, if that's the case
FROM: kirstein.jean@cdc.org
Then again it's kind of sad when a cat outlasts a quarter of the crew
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
It's probably because of the buttered bread. Toss a cat out a window, it lands on buttered bread and lives.
It's probably because of the buttered bread. Toss a cat out a window, it lands on buttered bread and lives.
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