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forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
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Great. That's exactly what I wanted to deal with by the third day here - Cerberus.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
He's messaged me. Nothing threatening right now, just irritating.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Maybe I'll wait and ask you about losing Thessia and the CDC hiring dead people when we don't have shipboard murders to deal with?
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I'll give you all you wanna know. There's a lot to cover, really don't know how much of it you want or need, but I'll fill in anything I can.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Should've warned you earlier. Sorry about that.
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You couldn't have known. Say sorry when you've really done something wrong.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
If I know you, that's in about 10 minutes.
[Couldn't resist. OKAY, ragging on Garrus time is over, time for the burning question (one of them).]
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
OK - hiring dead people?
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Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up. I won't share my dextro brandy.
[Though considering he's in some trouble right now...]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
They do it semi-often, seems like. I listed who was here from our crew before. Two of the ones you haven't met are also dead. One of them by Leng. Seeing them, talking to them, that was a shock.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Not as much of a shock as running into Leng on Selena, though. When you help kill a guy, you figure he'll stay dead. But I guess death doesn't take as well with indoctrinated assholes.
[Saren had had trouble staying dead too, after Garrus shot him in the head.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
That brings me to something else. No telling when it happened, but Cerberus got indoctrinated from the head down. Leng's probably already dealing with some of it.
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... Totally worth it anyway.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
I remember when I thought some part of this whole thing would be straightforward. Do you have any idea how they're doing it?
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Indoctrinated - that's what happened to Saren, right? Sovereign had some kind of influence on him.
[That last text came after a relatively long pause for Tali. That was the time she spent staring at the blackglass in no small amount of horror.]
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How they're doing time travel and possibly alternate dimensions? If I had a clue of that, I'd be the engineer on the Normandy.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Talk to Noh-Varr when you get the chance. He's on Orange. He's done dimensional travel, knows a lot about it. You might be able to grasp the parts I couldn't.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Though it doesn't all have to be that. They can bring people back from the dead. They just don't, most of the time.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Do you remember on Virmire, the salarians in the cell who weren't themselves anymore? They'd been indoctrinated. Saren too, to a lesser extent since he still could make some choices on his own.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
And Matriarch Benezia. Different levels of brainwashing and falling under control of the reapers. Some husks didn't die before they became husks, too.
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Sounds like something I'd want to hear - I'll talk to him sometime. He's a friend of yours?
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Is it anything like what Cerberus did with Shepard? I still don't know just how that happened, either.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
I remember them. I remember it was a field emitted by Sovereign itself, but we destroyed Sovereign.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
It happened, didn't it? What Sovereign was talking about, the Reapers coming.
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He is. I'd count him as trustworthy.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Those aren't related. Shepard is definitely Shepard, and thankfully I'm sure that the project group that worked on her wasn't dealing with that particular issue.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
All reapers, dead or alive, and all pieces of them, give off that field. It only started getting discovered too late for it to be prevented. And there are too many people who think they're immune.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The Reapers came. The collectors are former protheans, modified over millennia to mindlessly serve Reaper goals. We beat them back, then the Reapers try to come through a relay in batarian space.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
That gets stopped. A lot die for it, but less than would have died if the Reapers made it through then. Finally, about six, seven months after that, the Reapers show up.
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Great. I'll contact him... maybe when we're not investigating murders. But at some point.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
I don't even know what to say to all that. I've been sitting here writing and deleting replies for 5 minutes.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Things are really about to fall apart, huh?
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He might not be bad to be in touch with now, too. I mean, he's been here for a while and is digging as much as anyone else.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Things might fall apart. They might not. We dug up a blueprint for a weapon against the reapers, something that was tucked away until Liara came across it. Multiple cycles have worked on it.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
They all fell short of making it. But we've constructed the half that needed to be built, and we're on our way to attach it to the other piece. We've got a shot. Provided this actually does what it's supposed to do.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
No real way for a test run.
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Good point. OK, I'll get in touch. If he's in Orange as well, he'll be a big help. Thanks.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
How big is this weapon? It took a whole fleet just to bring down Sovereign - it's going to need to be enormous to work on a horde of them.
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The part we're attaching is the Citadel.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
So it's pretty damn big. And that's not something Leng can ever hear. Not that I figure you'd chat with him, but if he gets home somehow, he can't have that info early.
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What do you
[She actually slammed down on send by accident mid-typing, she's so flummoxed.]
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
mean, the Citadel's a part of a weapon? How? Do we have any idea who designed this thing?
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Of course I won't tell Kai Leng. That goes without saying.
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The reapers made the Citadel. By using it as the power source, connecting it, it's making the weapon itself focus on the reapers. Somehow. I don't completely understand. Never saw the blueprints myself.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Been a bit busy. When the reapers fully came through, they sent a high percentage of their forces to two homeworlds. Earth, and Palaven.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Point is, the weapon's been worked on through multiple cycles. The protheans got it to where it was before we found it. Whomever came before them did some work, and the cycle before them, and so on.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The remnants of whatever species originally designed it are out there, in the form of a ship. Here's hoping we end that, for them and for us.
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FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
I suppose that's logical. At least, it's the most logical thing you've said so far.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
If so many other cycles have been working on this weapon, how likely are we to finish it before the Reapers finish with us?
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
The species that designed the Citadel is still out there?
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We've got it basically done. We need to attach it now. And we had help, thanks to a prothean recording found on Thessia. Everyone's built on the graveyards of the past with this thing.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
And our additions should make it operational.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The other's another headache of info. Keep dumping these on you without meaning to. When reapers take people and don't turn them into husks or other variations, they're turned into ships.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Every reaper vessel is made of billions and billions of members of a species, disintegrated and reformed, cultural history stored in the banks. That's why they took the colonists.
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Maybe I just won't talk to you anymore, how does that sound.
[The emptiest of threats, but wow if every conversation with you isn't a short-circuit to the brain,
GarryGarrus.]FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
So... all those people on Freedom's Progress. They're dead. Worse than dead. I knew the Reapers were monsters, but...
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
You mentioned Palaven and Earth. How are they holding up? Are they doing this to the turians as well?
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You would break my heart if you stopped talking to me.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
They're not dead yet in your time, probably. But they are in mine.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Reapers seem to have two levels to their approach - take out resistant factors, build another one of their ships. Unfortunately neither part is pretty, Tali.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Humans get turned into husks. Turians, marauders. It goes from there.
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Am I reading sarcasm from you, Vakarian?
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
So the Reapers fight on the ground using our own people against us. We're fighting ourselves.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
That weapon had better work.
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I'm never sarcastic.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
And it needs to work. Tali, we don't have any other hope. We pulled together too slow. Weren't prepared.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I worked so damn hard on the Hierarchy, even got somewhere, but if the weapon doesn't work, we're not winning this war.
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Of course not. I don't know what I was thinking.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
What are the other races doing? The krogan, asari, my people. They're doing something, right?
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The krogan are helping fight on turian front lines and elsewhere. Basically, wherever it looks like there's a good fight. The asari aren't fighters. They've got commandos, but they're falling apart.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Your people attacked Rannoch and the geth, Tali. After the reapers invaded. Peace is established, there's rebuilding and some quarians are helping with the weapon and the war, but attention's divided.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Salarians are divided - the krogan cooperation was based on curing the genophage and they hate that we did that. Humans are scattered; Alliance fighting the Reapers, Cerberus sabotaging everything.
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So the only races working together and putting all their effort into fighting this thing together... are the krogan and the turians.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Now I know you're making things up.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
The fleet attacked Rannoch? Right then? I hate to say it, but: idiots. Even if there's some kind of truce or alliance now, the Reapers are the real threat. I could have told them that.
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The asari are doing what they can, but Thessia fell. The humans are doing what they can, but Earth is on the brink of falling. And I agree with your opinion on the Flotilla.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Some salarians are helping despite what the dalatrass wants. Kirrahe, for example, and the men he's gone. But the krogan and the turians have always been the fighters of our galaxy.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
And the reapers entered through batarian space. Unless something drastic happens, the batarians are finished entirely.
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This is almost too much to take in. I mean, I understand what you're saying, but.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
I just can't imagine Thessia falling, or the batarians just being gone.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
The Admiralty Board ignoring the rest of galaxy because they want to shoot geth? I can imagine that.
[Maybe that would have been her a couple of years ago, but Sovereign? The reapers? That's bigger than their war, so much bigger. And ignoring it is a fatal mistake.]
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