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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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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You can’t touch him here. You know that. It’s like Roxas and Ansem, you’ve got to leave him alone. No matter what he deserves.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
But are we any better? He worked for the Reapers, now he works for the CDC. We work for the CDC. Every planet we go to, that’s what they’ll say about us. We’ll be the murderers.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Perhaps Kai Leng is where he belongs.
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I know. That's why neither of us have shot the other yet. Though I did tell him where my bullet goes through his brain.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
And we're not doing this out of hatred. We're not approaching these species with a sense of superiority, or the attitude that this is how things should be. That's why we're better.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
You said it yourself. It's about love. We're driven by love for our worlds. He's driven by hate for mine and disdain for every other one we land on.
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Then he’s wrong, Garrus, and it’s not as if you’re the only one here who’s not human. If that’s his attitude, he’ll destroy himself before long.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
You just need to give him time to show his true colours. Everyone does in the end.
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They do. And I've got a Red watching him too. It's prudent, I figure. There's, what, a fourth of the crew who isn't human? Sooner or later he'll react to that fact.
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He's Red Team, isn't he? Let Dagger deal with him. I don't imagine he'd enjoy a hatred of non-humans, given that he is one.
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Leng wants to kill, but he's also smart. He's not gonna cross Dagger for a good long time. I'll keep my distance, don't worry, but I'm still keeping tabs on him.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
When he makes a move against someone who isn't human, I'll have a warning. Hopefully.
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Speaking of warnings. I’ve got to tell Athos, Garrus. He’s living with the man. I have to let him know this, all of this.
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That's fine. Tell him also that Leng's a professional assassin as well as terrorist, and avoidance is a billion times safer than confrontation.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Athos is no weakling. But Leng has no compassion or compunction.
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He'd want to know. I'll tell him, and share your warnings.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
I have faith Athos can handle him. He has dealt with assassins before.
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Forewarned is forearmed, and all that. He'll have that as well as his skills over Leng too. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the Red knows who all is on my squad.
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What do you mean?
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Kai Leng knows I kill him. I've got someone keeping an eye on him. There's no way he doesn't have someone keeping an eye on me right back, telling him everything he wants to know.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Means Leng might already know Athos is one of ours. Means that he undoubtedly knows that the two of us are co-leads.
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In a sane world. ]
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
It doesn't matter how close we are, Garrus, or for what reason. We're all recruits. He won't get away with threatening recruits.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
But I'll tell Athos, all the same. If Kai Leng is watching him, at least Athos can watch him back.
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FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
If Athos ever wanted to get Leng talking, on the other hand, all he'd have to do is go back to the rover and start muttering about me.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Anyone not human, really, but obviously Leng's gonna have bigger issues with people from the Normandy.
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FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Do you want Leng to be talking? Athos might be willing. I know he'll want to be watchful, especially once he knows all of this.
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No. It was a side comment more than anything. There's not point in stirring up the nest of whatever the human things are that sting.
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All right. If you're sure.
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I'm sure. But thank you, d'Artagnan. Let me know if anyone doesn't respond?
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Of course.