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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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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I know.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I lived it and some days I still can't believe it.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I didn't come here by intention, but maybe I can change a few things from here. Help back home even as I destroy worlds.
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I hope you can. There's got to be something we can do from here.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Maybe now that I know what's coming, maybe I can as well. Change things, whenever I go back.
['If I go back' isn't something that's occurring to her just yet.]
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FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The more of us seeing it like that, the better. Really doubt the Reapers have contingency plans for if the CDC starts interfering.
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FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Can you imagine? People who can bring back the dead, mess with time and destroy planets taking on the Reapers.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Not that I think that would happen. Actually, do the Reapers HAVE a homeworld?
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FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
The only concern is couching it in terms that mean we don't then have to deal with the CDC. And yeah. Reapers had a homeworld. They were created on a world we call Despoina.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Species called the leviathan wanted to find a way to eliminate pain from their lives. Created the first reaper to solve that. It came back with its solution - if they were dead, no more pain.
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That's the kind of thing they write cautionary tales about to scare children.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
Whatever these leviathan are, I want to kick them in the... head? Thorax? I'm not sure.
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Gotta wonder if those cautionary tales are leftovers. Things tucked away in the galaxy's subconscious, aware of how easy it could be to make more of these things.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Large, underwater species. With mind-control abilities, which explains why the Reapers can indoctrinate. Basically, once we deal with the Reapers, we might have another problem on our hands.
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Goodness, this has been such a nice conversation.
FROM: vasneema.talizorah@cdc.org
I feel a lot better about everything.
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That's why you came to me. Garrus "Ray of Sunshine" Vakarian. Only slightly less cheerful than Wrex after he's been shot.