Day 18: Backroom Politics

Day 18

     We did it! We opened trade between Irune and Palaven, now we just need to fix the other problem in the galaxy: the Council.

     After arriving at the embassy station orbiting Irune, I was escorted, along with Artemis, to see my brother. After protecting our conversation from any type of eavesdropping, I told him the plan: That we could open up a new route through the relays from Irune to Palaven directly and that we needed him to ready the Volus relief efforts. Arian informed me that the Asari are watching everything that is going on in the station, especially him and the Turian dealings. He isn’t sure, but he suspects an Asari spy is in deep with most things going on in this station. So we’ll need to think of a way to distract the Asari while we set up this new route.

     Once I debriefed the crew on the situation we all agreed that we needed to infiltrate the Asari embassy. This would be the most direct way to distract them and allow Adrian sufficient time to prepare the supplies and get them to Palaven. KQO scanned the Asari embassy for the security systems and revealed something startling: the Asari have an AI spying on the station. The Asari just get crazier and crazier.

A few members of the crew made some BS extranet news accounts of the Asari’s depravity on the station. Some of that stuff was ridiculous, why would you ever want to eat Volus babies? How would that even work? This was incredibly successful in getting an angry mob in front of the Asari Embassy’s doors to distract the Asari from our covert entrance via the air ducts. Nienna, dressed in her dancing outfit, walked into the embassy so we could have some eyes on the inside. Lúthien and the Geth stayed outside to keep the Volus riled up and the guards distracted. I don’t really know what the Krogan was doing.

     Once inside we wound our way to the elevator shaft and descended to the level with the AI. All was silent as we exited the elevator; the floor was abandoned. We cautiously made our way forward when we heard the whine of a weapon charging up to fire. We hit the deck and attempted to take the AI firing a spitfire down. KQO informed us that the AI was drawing power from the ship to boost its shields and maintain a ridiculous rate of fire. After a few intense moments KQO was able to cut off the AI’s access to the station power and Artemis blew the bloody thing’s head half off.

     Somehow a riot broke out above us and the Volus found a way into the same air duct that we came in. There were more than a few Volus casualties as a result. They died for a good cause. They helped save Palaven, although no one will ever know that.

     We hurriedly left the station and used the confusion to mask our flight from Irune to Palaven. KQO asked the relay AIs for passage to Palaven and Aliya was able to capture the request code and pass that on to Adrian and the relief fleet. The siege on Palaven is being relieved even as a type. This was a successful mission, and that brings us a little bit closer to ending a little bit of the craziness in the galaxy.