Day 15: Escorts

Day 15

     Well shoot. It’s one thing to suspect something like this (even with some incredible evidence) and to then have it actually confirmed: the Council really is trying to rebuild the Crucible. This cannot end well.

     After we arrived at the location of the ship, Aliya failed in gaining control of the ship’s systems (something about a redundant security system) and they tried to bolt. We opened fire on their engines, aiming to only disable the engines, which probably wasn’t the best idea considering the cargo and amount thereof on the ship. I’m pretty sure if that had exploded we would have cause the system’s star to go nova and I wouldn’t be here to write about it. Or see my family again…

     After the ship was disabled we interrupted their distress signal and convinced them that we were really the ship that was there to escort them to the location of the crucible and sent KQO and Aliya’s Fenris mech as ‘repair drones’ to speed up repairs and also do some covert intel recon. This is how we found out the Council’s plans for the eezo. The ship’s Asari commander had the blueprints to the crucible on her main computer, which Fenris was able to hack into.

     After the repairs were completed we escorted them through the relay and to the system. We wanted to keep this visit as short as possible so no one would suspect we weren’t who we said we were. While there we found the code the crucible uses to use the mass relays, or rather Aliya found it by rifling around their systems. So we reprogrammed it to atomize once it jumps through the relay.

We quickly left the system, on the other side of the relay we were approached by platoon of Reapers! Apparently they are grateful for our intervention with the crucible and bequeathed us with a cannon, apparently an adaptation of the very cannons they use! That’s a pretty big gun! Everyone was pretty excited, especially Lúthien. They then departed from the same relay that we exited from, apparently that was of great interest to Aliya.

     After a while of hypothesizing she asked an interesting question: what if we could program the relays to transport us from one relay to anywhere in the galaxy instead of following the determined relay system destinations. The commander agreed to let us explore a relay. Something that hasn’t been tried, or at least it hasn’t been publically stated that it has been tried.