Day 13
Omega:
home to the galaxy’s most infamous criminals and mercenaries… and Lúthien. Once
we arrived in the Sahrabarik System, we quickly became aware through some quick
scanning of the presence of several Ascension-class dreadnaughts in deep orbit
around the star, which is never a good sign. Even worse, the scans revealed
several Sovereign-class Reapers in the asteroid belt. I can’t imagine what
would bring them to Omega, but I’m guessing that the Asari dreadnaughts
probably have something to do with it.
As
we approached Omega, we were contacted and told about the state of affairs on
Omega. The station had been hit with a fatal plague affecting all species
currently living on Omega except for Asari, and a group of Asari commandos had
invaded and taken over and stopped all mining on the asteroid. This just keep
going from bad to worse don’t they? There has to be something fundamentally
wrong with this galaxy… We suited up, docked and were quickly escorted to
Afterlife, Aria’s headquarters.
Once
there, Aria debriefed us herself on the situation and what she needed us to do.
She asked for our help instead of calling in actual doctors and researchers (as
I’m sure she could have en force being the ‘Queen of Omega’ and all) was due to
the fact that the Asari team that had invaded the asteroid and lodged their
ship deep into the rock and was rigged to explode at any moment Asari High
Command saw fit. So she had us brought in to use the medical ‘expertise’ of Lt.
Cornelius Joe. Of all the people in the galaxy, she could think of only Joe to
save her rock! Lúthien must not be doing a very good job of reporting the state
of this crew to Aria, or their both insane which I guess you would have to be
to have run Omega for centuries. But, she does have a good point, that given
his knowledge he should be able to use all the equipment here to synthesize a
cure… I hope. Aria also told us the hidden agenda of the Asari in creating the
plagues: they created each plague as they came in contact with a new species to
ascertain Asari dominance in the galaxy. She also explained a bit of what
happened to the Shepard: apparently he is in control of the Reapers, by somehow
becoming their ‘conscience,’ through the use of the Crucible. She explained
that the Asari were a little… pissed off, that the Shepard had effectively
become the most powerful force in the galaxy and that he was human, not Asari
and that they are planning on somehow replacing him.
How they thought this up is beyond
me. I guess the Reapers have become too meddlesome for their politics. I don’t
know. It seems pretty dim witted to me. I mean, he Reapers have been destroying
galactic life for eons, they almost succeeded a few years ago, what makes them
think that they can just waltz in and rebuild the crucible and reprogram the
Reapers to do their bidding. This is just going to cause another Reaper war in
which we will probably lose. What a stupid idea.
Anyway, Aria wanted us to route
the Asari commandos in charge of stopping the mining operations, and Joe to
begin curing the various plagues on Omega. Aliya was ordered to stay behind
with the LT to help him stay focused. The rest of us went to a fortress the KQO
found in the station’s systems.
Once there we rebooted the turrets
and set everything up to funnel the commandos in to our line of fire. We
signalled KQO to start bringing the 200+ commandos in waves toward the fortress
while hiding the existence of the turrets. It quickly turned into a blood bath,
as the Asari came through the corridor into the line of fire of our
rocket-firing turrets.
KQO then proposed a plan to cause
the Asari to retreat and clear off of the station. While poking around the
enemy systems she was able to find the command codes, and with our help, she
composed an order from ‘high command’ to evacuate the station the Reapers were
coming. Thankfully they fell for it, and they eventually all cleared off the
station. And were subsequently blown out of the sky judging by the explosion we
heard a while after they left, poor bastards.
While we were engaged with the
commandos Joe was able to synthesize a cure for all the races, with some
motivation and help from Aliya, but the LT being who he is decided to run the
cure out himself while screaming at Aliya, which resulted in him getting shot
in the leg by some commando who had missed their ship spying on Joe’s progress.
Aliya made quick work of the Asari while Joe went sprinting away blood just
gushing away to distribute the cure. I took a sample of the Turian cure to send
to the Hierarchy with a little explanation of what it is and why it was
necessary; just in case.
Aria then thanked us for saving her station and
we all went for some well-deserved rest and relaxation while Lúthien had a
little chat with her mother.
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