Mission Five/Six

This was supposed to be the easy part. Track down the scientists responsible for all this mess and move on. Unfortunately, things never seem to be simple anymore. I received a message from President Tali'Zora nar Rayya instructing me not to allow the information the scientists had collected to fall into the hands of the Alliance. Sure, that's not a problem at all. I don't work for the Alliance now or anything.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't rant.
I was confused, and so I sent a response to the President outlining my feelings on the matter and asking her why she wanted me to betray my squad. Her reply was terse and to the point. "He sacrificed everything for us." Point taken.
K8 was given similar instructions, and seems to feel no qualms about lying to our squad. Maybe he's right. It's not as if they are an exemplary group of individuals anyway. If this is what the Alliance is made of, I can understand the President's concerns.
While waiting for the retrieval of the scientist who was supposed to be purchasing the Quarians we got in a bit of a gun fight. My holograms were perhaps partially at fault - they were not particularly comvincing on close examination. They noticed, and my ever trigger-happy squad mates were glad to get involved in the brawl. I tried to do better this time and not kill anyone, but I overdid the Neural Shock just a little and the Salarian died. Oops.
When the turian and asari (there are definitely two of them, by the way. Glad I have that sorted) brought back the scientist K8 and I interrogated him. We learned that he had all the information they had gathered on his ship, but did not want to divulge the ship's location. The krogan decided to amp up the fear factor in an attempt to force cooperation, which rendered the scientist unconscious. That simplified things though, I stripped the information about the ship from his omni-tool, and the captain is taking us there to gather the intel. I told him it would be better if I were on the ship before I did that.
That was a lie. I lied to my commanding officer. I wiped the computers on the ship already. All the information is stored in my suit. And locked up so tightly I don't think anyone else could ever hack it. The salarians haven't shared their conclusions with anybody - not yet. They have informed the Salarian government that they have narrowed down the location of the reapers, but not where they have narrowed it down to. And now they never will. If the Alliance can't have that information, the Salarians certainly can't as well. K8 agrees with me on that.
Then we'll get on their ship and...well, clean up all the loose ends. We'll have to eliminate everyone on the ship, so no one has this information. Then I'll destroy it. K8 wants us to look at it first, but I don't trust him. I'll destroy it. Then tell my Commander after when it's too late for him to do anything but kill me.
Am I doing the right thing? I owe allegiance to my people, but also to my Commander...even if he crazy and amoral.
Yes. It is the only thing I can do. I'll tell the Commander about the information and recommend we not turn it over to the Alliance. Hopefully he'll agree with me. If not, it will be too late anyway.

I'm sorry.