Day 6: Know your limit, stay within it.

Day 6

    

     Well this is just great! All our carefully laid plans gone to waste all because of a stupid Krogan and the Commander’s inability to avoid a firefight! Doesn’t he know that there is a time and place for fighting and that sometimes you need to just play it cool and complete a mission without violence? If he had just waited for us to get there and just let us in all of this would have been avoided! But, I can’t actually say any of that to, or about my Commanding officer, I’ve worked too hard to be court-marshalled, especially by the Alliance.

So let me explain a bit further. While we were out, after relaying our message and getting the holos up they decided to open the cargo bay while we were still 5 minutes out! Who in their right mind would open a door, on Sur’Kesh with a paranoid Krogan and a bunch of Salarians who were ordered to pick up the cargo, so naturally as they go to board the ship and collect the cargo the Krogan goes ballistic a drops one of them right then and there! Which of course leads to an all out firefight on the cargo bay door as they rush to close it and trap the Salarians in. The LT, for all his skills and agility, decides it’s a good idea to get K8 to toss him into the fray! That man would build a house in an Invictus jungle if anyone would.  One minute you think he’s great, then the next you wonder how he survived zero-G training. Anyway, the battle raged on, with the obvious outcome of our victory. I guess the repercussions won’t be disastrous; only three Salarian mercs dead, and we got the doctor out hopefully unnoticed.

      The Asari and I pulled into the cargo bay full of carnage and unconscious Salarians. Nienna quickly, before adding the contents of her stomach to the carnage, ran to change into something more decent. Meanwhile, K8, obviously unused to skycars opened the trunk (which lies beneath the car) causing the good doctor to slam onto the blood-slick floor. With him yelling and generally fussing about his situation K8 gave him an ultimatum: shut up and answer our questions, or get shoved back into the trunk. He quickly shut up and was not very forthcoming with his answers. Braxis, our ever-so-polite Krogan brute, made some off-hand comment about the taste and quality of Salarian livers which very quickly rendered Dr. Re’lis unconscious. We really need to keep him away from our prisoners… We did learn, however, that most of his research was on his ship, and Aliya, in all her tech wisdom, stripped his omnitool and located this ship. And that is our next destination.

P.s- it isn’t wise to gamble against Aria T’Loak’s daughter, especially for a skycar. Let’s just say it wasn’t my best game of Skyllian Five…

Day 5: House Call

Day 5

     Well, this mission has gone surprisingly well… Maybe it has something to do with the LT not being here. I guess I shouldn’t be so hard on him. His range of skills is starting to prove useful, without him I wouldn’t have gone unnoticed through the streets of Sur’Kesh without every surveillance vid picking up that Major Terryck Corinthus was deep in enemy territory.

With that, the Asari and myself left the crew aboard the Batarian vessel in search of this Dr. Zevan Re'lis. Coming off the ship we were greeted by a motley crew of mercs who were easily… persuaded by the daughter of Aria T’Loak and a superior officer to stand down, disarm their turrets and allow us to “clear the funds” for the “sale” of the Quarians with the doctor.

As we approached Dr. Re'lis’ house we were stopped by a troop of the local police force, which weren’t too keen on being assigned guard duty of this “nobody.” So Nienna, dressed in her dancing outfit (and looked totally hot! But I’ve learned to keep things professional and in check when on a mission, as a soldier should), slipped a little cleavage and persuaded the officer to let us pass by to take care of the doctor’s… needs. We then persuaded him to keep this visit unrecorded, you know, for the doctor’s privacy.

Upon entering the house we were faced with four armed Salarians, not much of a threat considering my training and accomplishments and two very powerful biotics. The Doctor rushes up babbling like only a Salarian could about this intrusion into his home. We tried our story about Aria taking over the Batarian’s shipment of Quarians, but that was apparently the wrong thing to say. The Salarians really don’t like the Shepard or anything connected to him.  So we had to resort to more… physical methods to apprehend the good doctor. I tackled him to the ground and knocked him out with a solid punch the jaw while Lúthien dominated the minds of the guards and had them shoot each other.

Having the doctor safely in hand, we contacted the Commander with the news and made plans to get the doctor aboard the ship. I suggested that Aliya create a holo of the life pods that were on the ship to, as the door was lowered, trick the mercs that our story was true and we could just fly in in one of the doctor’s spots cars (apparently Salarian scientists are paid extremely well) and fly away without ever having to fire a single clip. It would be genius and a flawlessly executed mission.