Sorry it's taken so long. I was kind of busy for a while. Now I'm just bored. I can't go out on missions or anything anymore and the whole crew is off doing things and I'm stuck here until I can prove I'm a competent marksman because the Commander told me I had to pretend to be bad!!!
It's not fair.
It's all because I died. I mean, not really. Obviously. Since I'm still here. Cornelius actually died.
I just...had to pretend. Too many people were trying to kill me and the enemy - the council and/or whatever else is working with them - isn't putting any of its plans into data anymore because they're too scared I'll hack it. Which kind of defeats the purpose of me being a good tech and having access to their plans.
So I decided to die. It actually wound up being kind of complicated because Fenris was oddly opposed to the idea. The Commander had to talk it down (I really don't know how he did that but since Fenris got through that scrape without being shot in the head I'm grateful).
I disappeared, and reappeared as Ariel'Chaya nar Rannoch, a quarian engineer that blended in with the many others refitting our ship and bolstering our crew.
Somehow though everything went really wrong after we landed on Rannoch. Cornelius was assassinated and someone tried to damage our ship. When I tried to track down the people responsible I stumbled across a salarian STG team.
I - I scanned them and they noticed and they opened fire on the surrounding city. They didn't know where I was, but there was a lot of buildings and innocent people that got caught in the cross fire. My crew showed up after a bit and we took down the salarians. I managed to capture two alive.
Terryck was helping me bring one back when he dropped the salarian and ran away... I found out later his family is in danger, so I guess that's fair.
I asked another crew member I saw to help me take the salarian into the interrogation rooms. He said that he would help, pulled out a gun, and shot the salarian in the head! He said that's how the commander usually deals with these things. ARGH! It was so frustrating. And then apparently there's this other quarian who's pretty full of himself and was asking who I was and why I had my own room and he told the commander I'm not doing well enough at being undercover. I guess K-QO intercepted a transmission saying that I was still alive as well.
Which leads to my current problem. I'm bored. I've been stuck on the ship. The commander actually reacted to all of the above better than I expected. He has agreed to give me some autonomy to ensure that incidents like the one with the salarian don't happen again. But he's also getting me to "work" on my skills with the new quarian. And I'm all for this guy teaching me hand to hand combat, but having to pretend to learn how to shoot from someone? That's frustrating. And stupid. It means I've had a lot of time to work on my projects though. And a lot of time to research the council and their actions.
Terryck's had me doing background checks for him as well, which at least helps me feel useful. I feel bad I can't help him...
Anyway, back to work. I've been making good progress on K-QO's new chassis.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Mission 20
So I think that people may be trying to assasinate me. And by people I mean humans...and salarians...
It's not paranoia if it's actually happening, right?
Whatever, there's not a lot I can do about it anyway. Just need to see this mission through...
What is our mission now anyway??
A new mech stealthed its way onto our ship while I was in the engineering bay attempting to repair K-QO's engines. Thankfully my crew gave me a bit of warning so we were ready for it. Terryck was with me, and so was the other turian...Artemis? She's a decent shot.
Anyway, Joe came running in just before the mech made its way in through an airvent. It seemed to catch most of my squad by surprise but I got a shot off with my Widow that knocked down its shields. Then I had to duck. I tried to just duck behind cover, but apparently that wasn't good enough since Terryck body-checked me to the floor. The bullet passed by just overhead, so it looks like I owe him my life...again.
Fenris got off a beautiful shot that ripped through the mech's torso, but it had a really good self-repair system. Joe got it's arm and Artemis got in a headshot and they took the thing down, which was good. Nienna contained the explosion so I don't have to fix the engines...again, which is even better. It's pretty advanced, so hopefully I can use the chassis to make something shiny... if I can get what I need to fix it.
Yup. Pretty standard afternoon. Ship's working though, so onwards to Rannoch...
Except they expect us to go there. I'd like to do something they don't expect instead. It's not as if Tali'Zorah can't take care of herself, and there's a large probability this hit was ordered solely to make us come to Rannoch...
I wonder...I'll have to talk to Terryck and K-QO about it.
It's not paranoia if it's actually happening, right?
Whatever, there's not a lot I can do about it anyway. Just need to see this mission through...
What is our mission now anyway??
A new mech stealthed its way onto our ship while I was in the engineering bay attempting to repair K-QO's engines. Thankfully my crew gave me a bit of warning so we were ready for it. Terryck was with me, and so was the other turian...Artemis? She's a decent shot.
Anyway, Joe came running in just before the mech made its way in through an airvent. It seemed to catch most of my squad by surprise but I got a shot off with my Widow that knocked down its shields. Then I had to duck. I tried to just duck behind cover, but apparently that wasn't good enough since Terryck body-checked me to the floor. The bullet passed by just overhead, so it looks like I owe him my life...again.
Fenris got off a beautiful shot that ripped through the mech's torso, but it had a really good self-repair system. Joe got it's arm and Artemis got in a headshot and they took the thing down, which was good. Nienna contained the explosion so I don't have to fix the engines...again, which is even better. It's pretty advanced, so hopefully I can use the chassis to make something shiny... if I can get what I need to fix it.
Yup. Pretty standard afternoon. Ship's working though, so onwards to Rannoch...
Except they expect us to go there. I'd like to do something they don't expect instead. It's not as if Tali'Zorah can't take care of herself, and there's a large probability this hit was ordered solely to make us come to Rannoch...
I wonder...I'll have to talk to Terryck and K-QO about it.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Mission 19
I'm in the med bay. Again.
But we have a quarian doctor now!!! Not quite sure where he came from, but still. It's nice, and makes me feel a lot safer. I'm also very grateful for my new medical interface, apparently it came in quite handy.
I say apparently because I was passed out at the time and therefore unaware of my surroundings. Taking a bullet in the gut can do that.
And no! I did not run and jump into a fight again. Some salarians decided to board our ship...well, to attempt to board our ship. I guess my squad managed to repel them and now we're running.
To what, I don't know. The salarians obviously set a trap for us with the kill order on Tali. And there's a couple of dreadnoughts out there looking for us now that we got away from them and their boarders. Are we just supposed to run and hide forever now? That seems futile and pointless. I refuse. There has to be something more I can do.
But we have a quarian doctor now!!! Not quite sure where he came from, but still. It's nice, and makes me feel a lot safer. I'm also very grateful for my new medical interface, apparently it came in quite handy.
I say apparently because I was passed out at the time and therefore unaware of my surroundings. Taking a bullet in the gut can do that.
And no! I did not run and jump into a fight again. Some salarians decided to board our ship...well, to attempt to board our ship. I guess my squad managed to repel them and now we're running.
To what, I don't know. The salarians obviously set a trap for us with the kill order on Tali. And there's a couple of dreadnoughts out there looking for us now that we got away from them and their boarders. Are we just supposed to run and hide forever now? That seems futile and pointless. I refuse. There has to be something more I can do.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Mission 18
I think that maybe I sort of need to take a step back. Probably. Lately I seem to be getting into some really stupid situations that I could possibly have prevented if I had only...thought for a moment.
Like today. We broke into the asari embassy on Irune because they had an AI monitoring everything going on at the turian embassy. Which is just...well, clever actually. But not so productive for us when we were trying to arrange for the volus fleets to secretly transfer resources to the besieged Palaven.
Anyway, we got caught in a gun fight with the AI while the geth and Luthien started a riot outside the embassy with the volus. I tried and I tried to sabotage the geth spitfire the AI was using...and it didn't work.
I got part of the AI back on the ship to analyze and spoke to K-QO - it turns out the AI was drawing on the base's power supply...
If I could have figured that out myself I would have just shot the damn thing with my Widow and not wasted time trying to sabotage it!
Add that to the whole stumbling around on the mass relay and almost dying...
Yeah. Maybe I need to start thinking things through a little more.
New rule. Rationality and reason must be the order of the day. I've been too sensitive lately, letting things get too close to home. Especially given that the Commander still doesn't trust me. It's so frustrating! I've tried and I've tried to be a part of this team but he insists on treating me like a liability and an outsider - unless he needs something.
Well, I'm done.
And while we were on the base? I managed to make a back door into the asari computer network. And I'm not going to tell the commander about it!
...Other than that I found a letter ordering the execution of President Tali'Zorah. I've forwarded that onto her as well. Not happening on my watch!
Monday, February 10, 2014
Letter to President Tali'Zorah
Hi President Tali'Zorah vas Normandy!
It's me. Aliya. Obviously.
Anyway, you probably heard about the situation with the asari and the turians. My crew is...taking measures... to ensure that the Turians won't die/starve to death or anything. Keeping some supplies flowing and stuff. But that's only prolonging the problem if we don't have another plan as well. The quarian fleet - especially if the geth dreadnoughts join in, RO7-K8 is messaging them - is the only one that really could stand up to the asari. So maybe if you offered to negotiate between them or something? Somehow got involved. That could help.
Let me know!
Thanks for everything,
Aliya'Irit nar Rannoch
It's me. Aliya. Obviously.
Anyway, you probably heard about the situation with the asari and the turians. My crew is...taking measures... to ensure that the Turians won't die/starve to death or anything. Keeping some supplies flowing and stuff. But that's only prolonging the problem if we don't have another plan as well. The quarian fleet - especially if the geth dreadnoughts join in, RO7-K8 is messaging them - is the only one that really could stand up to the asari. So maybe if you offered to negotiate between them or something? Somehow got involved. That could help.
Let me know!
Thanks for everything,
Aliya'Irit nar Rannoch
Mission 17
So, I finally got to apologize to the Mass Relays, but not really.
Seriously, the Commander made me do it through K-QO and he still won't let me have the frequencies! He point blank said that it is because he doesn't trust me too. After all that I have done for this crew I expected...I don't know... More... Better... Different.
Anyway, I sent them my apology, and I have continued to attempt to contact them further. Well, K-QO has been sending them for me. So that's kind of good.
I found out what Terryck wanted me to look into - Nienna's background. I know who she is know, but honestly, it's not a threat to the crew and none of his business. So I didn't tell him.
We have come up with a sort of plan - Palaven is in trouble and we hope to use the mass relays to prevent the blockade from leading to starvation and buy us a bit more time and then I'm going to write a letter to President Tali'Zorah requesting the aid of the quarian fleet in negotiating a peaceful alternative. Because really, the asari are just throwing a temper tantrum. It's kind of annoying.
Anyway, I should really write that letter. But then I want to get back to work on tactical cloaking. I'm pretty sure this invisibility thing could work.
Seriously, the Commander made me do it through K-QO and he still won't let me have the frequencies! He point blank said that it is because he doesn't trust me too. After all that I have done for this crew I expected...I don't know... More... Better... Different.
Anyway, I sent them my apology, and I have continued to attempt to contact them further. Well, K-QO has been sending them for me. So that's kind of good.
I found out what Terryck wanted me to look into - Nienna's background. I know who she is know, but honestly, it's not a threat to the crew and none of his business. So I didn't tell him.
We have come up with a sort of plan - Palaven is in trouble and we hope to use the mass relays to prevent the blockade from leading to starvation and buy us a bit more time and then I'm going to write a letter to President Tali'Zorah requesting the aid of the quarian fleet in negotiating a peaceful alternative. Because really, the asari are just throwing a temper tantrum. It's kind of annoying.
Anyway, I should really write that letter. But then I want to get back to work on tactical cloaking. I'm pretty sure this invisibility thing could work.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Mission 16
I may have miscalculated.
Slightly.
Although, it may not be entirely my fault.
Just mostly.
But it shouldn't have been!
But really, I shouldn't expect more from my team mates either.
It turns out that the mass relays aren't just these really cool machines that have been floating in space for the past who knows how many thousands of years. They're AI's. Apparently, they're freakishly advanced and powerful AI's.
How was I supposed to know that? You know, if they're supposed to be so awesome I don't see why they couldn't predict that I DIDN'T KNOW THAT and maybe tried to tell me instead of trying to KILL me.
Doesn't seem that hard to me.
And what are they doing, anyway? If they're supposed to be so brilliant and powerful and just all around better...then what are they doing with their lives? What is their purpose? Why do they continue to shuttle all of us around the galaxy but only to the predetermined points? Why do they exist? WHY ARE THEY SENTIENT? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me... why haven't they communicated with us before now? And if they don't want to be involved with us, then why do they help us with the whole relay thing?
I wouldn't have done what I did if I had known they were sentient. I do respect all forms of life - both organic and inorganic.
Well... I wouldn't have done it exactly that way...
Here's the thing. I am sorry that I ticked off the big scary robot. Keelah, yes, I'm sorry. I mean I almost died! If Terryck hadn't saved my life and the Commander hadn't come to get me and K-QO hadn't talked to the AI... then I would be very, very dead. The AI (it didn't even share a name, so no, this is not be trying to be rude) not only had some very powerful mechs in its control, it also completely powered down all my tech! No omni-tool, no nanites. Even Fenris was turned against me.... Terryck blew him up, but I can't be mad at him since he did it to save me.
The stupid robot killed my dog!! That's just rude.
Anyway, I've never felt so useless and so terrified in my life. All I could think of was that I had to get to the computers so I could fix whatever had done this... I had no way of knowing that this had happened precisely to stop me from getting to it's brain (said computers). Seriously! If it had just tried to talk to me this would have all been so much simpler. I mean, I would have tried to talk to it, but I didn't know it was sentient! So I think the blame lies with the robot this time.
But I still have to apologize. For my team. The Commander wants to be able to use the mass relays more effectively, and if the stupid robots are going to act like five year olds then I guess I can be the one to make the first move. I'll apologize, and see if there is anything I can learn from them. They obviously know some pretty cool tricks, and I am genuinely interested in learning them. And I am sorry I was rude, even if it wasn't exactly my fault. So I will apologize, and I will fix this.
And I owe Terryck. I don't know how I'll repay him, but he could have left me - it would have been much safer for him - and he didn't. He literally carried me away from the mech and then tried to heal me and keep me safe. I owe him big time. Much more than I owe that bosh'tet our crew calls a doctor. He opened sixteen contact points on my suit while attempting 'surgery.' Sixteen!!!! And my whole crew was standing nearby to learn. So many germs. I caught what I believe the humans refer to as "the common cold." It is disgusting. My suit has been working overtime to deal with all the phlegm and mucus.
Also I'm bored, which is why I have so much time to waste updating this log. I hate being stuck in the hospital. At least it gives me some time to work on my new Fenris.
Slightly.
Although, it may not be entirely my fault.
Just mostly.
But it shouldn't have been!
But really, I shouldn't expect more from my team mates either.
It turns out that the mass relays aren't just these really cool machines that have been floating in space for the past who knows how many thousands of years. They're AI's. Apparently, they're freakishly advanced and powerful AI's.
How was I supposed to know that? You know, if they're supposed to be so awesome I don't see why they couldn't predict that I DIDN'T KNOW THAT and maybe tried to tell me instead of trying to KILL me.
Doesn't seem that hard to me.
And what are they doing, anyway? If they're supposed to be so brilliant and powerful and just all around better...then what are they doing with their lives? What is their purpose? Why do they continue to shuttle all of us around the galaxy but only to the predetermined points? Why do they exist? WHY ARE THEY SENTIENT? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me... why haven't they communicated with us before now? And if they don't want to be involved with us, then why do they help us with the whole relay thing?
I wouldn't have done what I did if I had known they were sentient. I do respect all forms of life - both organic and inorganic.
Well... I wouldn't have done it exactly that way...
Here's the thing. I am sorry that I ticked off the big scary robot. Keelah, yes, I'm sorry. I mean I almost died! If Terryck hadn't saved my life and the Commander hadn't come to get me and K-QO hadn't talked to the AI... then I would be very, very dead. The AI (it didn't even share a name, so no, this is not be trying to be rude) not only had some very powerful mechs in its control, it also completely powered down all my tech! No omni-tool, no nanites. Even Fenris was turned against me.... Terryck blew him up, but I can't be mad at him since he did it to save me.
The stupid robot killed my dog!! That's just rude.
Anyway, I've never felt so useless and so terrified in my life. All I could think of was that I had to get to the computers so I could fix whatever had done this... I had no way of knowing that this had happened precisely to stop me from getting to it's brain (said computers). Seriously! If it had just tried to talk to me this would have all been so much simpler. I mean, I would have tried to talk to it, but I didn't know it was sentient! So I think the blame lies with the robot this time.
But I still have to apologize. For my team. The Commander wants to be able to use the mass relays more effectively, and if the stupid robots are going to act like five year olds then I guess I can be the one to make the first move. I'll apologize, and see if there is anything I can learn from them. They obviously know some pretty cool tricks, and I am genuinely interested in learning them. And I am sorry I was rude, even if it wasn't exactly my fault. So I will apologize, and I will fix this.
And I owe Terryck. I don't know how I'll repay him, but he could have left me - it would have been much safer for him - and he didn't. He literally carried me away from the mech and then tried to heal me and keep me safe. I owe him big time. Much more than I owe that bosh'tet our crew calls a doctor. He opened sixteen contact points on my suit while attempting 'surgery.' Sixteen!!!! And my whole crew was standing nearby to learn. So many germs. I caught what I believe the humans refer to as "the common cold." It is disgusting. My suit has been working overtime to deal with all the phlegm and mucus.
Also I'm bored, which is why I have so much time to waste updating this log. I hate being stuck in the hospital. At least it gives me some time to work on my new Fenris.
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