The meeting with the Shadow Broker/Liara T’soni

The information the Shadow Broker has

She does not know exactly where the Individual the group wanted is, but she knows exactly where they can get it.

There is an ancient world of Thera, in the Far Rim, Its primarily thick jungles, Its the location of an ancient Asari monastery that before the war housed Ardat-Yakshi, It was then taken over by the Reapers as a research outpost and ‘Game preserve’, The Monastery was used by the Reapers and now by the Batarians and the Hybrid as an out of the way location to capture Constructs and store secret and important information. It is fairly heavily guarded.

She has a low level functionary that will help them get to the upper levels then they are on their own, She also gives them a safe landing zone, about four days out.. and a low band frequency to contact this functionary, but she requests to not contact him until you are 1-2 days out, and he will meet them.

The group has to land about four days out and travel on foot to the Monastery,

Once the group landed and sent their shuttle away, they moved on foot, they had to cut their way towards the old Monastery, around dusk on the second day they heard the Banshee scream and got attacked by a Banshee and two unknown creatures, they where easily able to defeat the creatures the Banshee took a bit longer, but was eventually defeated as well.

The group continued to make its way and about a day out they contacted the contact they where given, who met up with them and took them close to what they sleeked. He also let them know that once they got to the information center they would have a short time before reinforcements would arrive and the best way for them to get out was to get picked up on the roof area, then he left the group.

The group finished making its way, able to evade most of the guards, and arrived at the entrance to the main room of the Monastery which had been turned into the information center. They had a difficult fight, but was able to win in the end.

That is where the night ended.

Planted, message effect.

Over the next weeks the group started to see some serious movement both on the ground and in the air, They saw a small fleet of ships either moving from there current locations or entering the systems, they also notice a large dreadnought entering the system as well and all the ships staging around it.

They also saw two courier ships leave the system and one return, you are also hearing some serious chatter, early on it was about making sure the message was legit, and the chatter says it is.. you hear constant and excited chatter up and down the line over the first two days.. then you started seeing the major activity, the Normandy sent spy teams with the proper equipment onto the ground to watch the ground and they found a flurry of activity of them getting ready. as the Normandy itself starts to detect ship arriving and shuttles of goods heading up to each ship.. as well as troop shuttles and large crates up to the cargo transport.

all told they saw the Dreadnought, two Cruisers, two frigates and about half a dozen troop transports a cargo transport and two squadrons of fighters. As they saw the ships leave the Normandy waited a bit then left itself arriving at Omega to see the fight having just begun.

The group waited a few hours to find the most opportune time to make their strike when the fighting as at its peak and the Batarians looked like they where in the best position.

The group took advantage of this to fly the shuttle, having to shift twice so they do not get hit by the ships guns, the group was able to fly to the Dreadnought and attach itself without much of an issue, other then to fly hard to barely miss getting hit by one shot. Once the shuttle was docked Shuul was able to get the first of the two doors open, the second one he failed, forcing the group to improvise using the fuel for the flamer to allow them to force the doors open.

Once inside the ship the group quickly made its way to the flag bridge, having to deal with a few groups, which was easy for them. Once they got to the flag bridge they where met with a blast door closed, but Shuul was able to get this one open without much effort, and a fight ensued. The group after a long and difficult fight was able to defeat and subdue the general. Then they quickly extracted themselves after hearing the scream of a banshee.

Back on the Normandy, the group put the general into unused quarters, during this point they had the Doctor look him over and remove two things a poison tooth and an implanted explosive. Then Zorii went in and questioned him.

The General was not the most receptive, and was trained against interrogation but eventually did give them some information.

The Hybrid is an amalgamation of most of the major races, he was a Reaper test subject.
The Hybrids plans where to take over the galaxy and once controlled move on to others, and that they could create and control practically all of the Reaper Constructs. The group figured they cant make more Ravagers as no one knows where the Rachni are at this point.
He then told them of an individual that would most assuredly know where, the Hybrid is.. and that he might be in one of two systems, he never stated where.

The Far Rim, or the Perseus Vale.

After that the group and the Normandy went back to the Citadel, and delivered the General to the Council, and then went to figure out what to do next. Since they did not have much in the way of information, Shepard suggested to go speak with the Shadow Broker as she knows her.

The evening ended with the group on Illum ready to speak with the Shadow Broker.

The group spent the next few days enjoying themselves, three of them Shull, John and Gregor got arrested for getting into a fight in a bar with a bunch of Krogan, The next morning Zorii bailed them out, then they got contacted by the human Councler, for the next meeting that afternoon.

The group decided to go after the General Dran’fapos, and go to the base, Eagle Nebula/Amun System/Anhur, Military bases dot the place, with the Central and largest military command in the centrally located.

The group arrived in the Amun System, and found the place being fortified, with newly built ships, with living components. The group is listening in on the conversation, and hearing orders, The group narrowed it down to two locations, The group was able to narrow it down to the northern most base.

The group decided to have Shull make sweet sweet love to a military satellite, they did find at least an hour ago, the general was at the northern most base, and that the power is a core tap, which is drawing a higher capacity of power then it needs.

They found the commander of the base, Fanna Bak’Ropos. The group decided to go through the tunnels to the base itself, the group found a shack with two guards and heavy computer security. The Normandy did a run to drop the shuttle out and takes off, into a rain squall,

The group got to the guard shack and silently took down the guards, Shull looped the camera footage. They arrived in the base to a fight. The defeated the command and security of the base and downloaded the data, which took two hours… the group then added a backdoor into the system. And looted the area and got a few really nice weapons. Then moved on. They well more Zorii learned that they have started to modify their own troops, when two of the ones she attacked blew up almost killing her in the process.

The group also found out that this was one of the four places they are cooking up Reaper Mods and also humanoid mods.

Shull came up with an idea to maybe implant a letter about the Asari, but Zorii put a damper on that, so instead they sent a breadcrumb trail to Omega.

The breadcrumbs included, that Arias source of power is hoarding Reaper Tech, and a new Untouched Ezo mine.

The Night began with the group in a fight, during that fight during the fight Shull unleashed Shepard who helped out at the end of the fight, the group then looted the place and went back to the Normandy, Shepard was quickly moved to medical to get treated and the group dived up the loot they got, The group also gained a total of 3 levels.

Shepard spoke to the group thanking them for her rescue, and gave information to the group, about what she learned, and they gave her a bit themselves. The group then traveled to the Citadel, as the group arrived they found a media circus, that the group was also whisked to a council meeting,

The council session had some interesting revelations with Bills Character stating she is Shepard and Liaras child, which caused both shepherds to look at her, it ended with the Humans and the Turans help. It ended with Shepard taking the Asari and the Solarians to task for not helping and the Human Councilor requesting a private meeting in her office.

The meeting in the office Hanna Shepard, went well she reaffirmed the help and said she would probably be able to get the help of Rannoch, and Tuchanka, and she would be speaking with the Turian councilor about working together.

The Human Councilor stated that she was going to be assigning her daughter SPECTRE Commander Jane Shepard and SPECTRE Major Ashley WIlliams to lead this operation.. and asked if the group in question was willing to stay on as the Spearhead to deal with the situation, and take the van for their forces. the Group accepted.

At this point the group was given an apartment on the station, to stay in while Hanna Shepard was able to speak to everyone in question. The group broke up to do various things.

Zorii was requested to stay behind and speak with both Shepard’s about her revelation and to set up the proper tests to make sure she is not lying.

Shuul, went about getting an appointment with the Geth representative, and had a good meeting where he shard his information, and got a few upgrades.

The rest of the group went to the apartment and shopping.

The Evening began with the group having just gotten back to the Normandy after spending the last few days evading patrols getting back to the shuttle.

After arriving they looked at the information they acquired during there attack on the Batarian stronghold, and found more information on the Station. that is located in Erzbat

The Space Station information

The station has four floors to it, bottom floor is engineering which is mostly automated with mostly droid guards and turrets,

The third floor is taking up with crew quarters and cells large enough for Reapers

The second floor is Science and engineering,

The first floor is command, and Communications

The station at full capacity has at most 30 people plus a number of Reaper Constructs

The compliment as far as the computer can tell the current compliment is as follows

Commander: Rorrk Dem’marr
Head of Security: Fane Dem’marr
Cerberus Assault Troopers x6
Blood Pack Troopers x6
6 Salarian Scientists
6 bridge crew
4 Engineer crew

Cannibals x2
Marauders x2
Ravager x1
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After a bit of conversation they decided they had to quickly make there way to the Station in Erzbat in hops to be able to find both the general and Shepard there, It took the Normandy a week to arrive, so during that time they did some crafting and modification to their gear.

Once they arrived, they took the shuttle with two marines in toe, and tried to stealthily make there way to and attach to the station. the group arrived on the second floor, crew quarters, and Shull was able to get the airlock to accept them and they entered, only to find themselves in a combat, within a few minutes of entering the place.

The group found a group of 6 Cerberus Assault Troopers, 3 Blood pact troopers, 2 Cannibals and 2 Marauders, waiting for them, there attempts to a stealth entry where not as successful. The fight wasn’t easy but they defeated there enemies. During the fight they found that at least one of the Marauders was not standard and exploded after being killed. and then quickly went into the local security office, and locked down Engineering and Science and Engineering levels, also cutting off the cameras to those levels as well, the only level they found they could not access was command, something they where not surprised at.

The group was also able to find a request by the command officers to transport both Shepard and the Ravager up to command level. they also found a message from something called the Hybrid, requesting the generals presence, dated about about a day ago. The General had left about the same time, leaving Shepard behind. The group was also able to gain access to the fabricators on Science level, looking for patterns they could use but found patterns for items to upgrade the Reaper Constructs they are creating.

After they where done the group talked about what they where going to do next, came up with a few plans a few they did not have the ability to do so. they eventually did find a workable plan and made their way up to command. (Session ended there)

The evening began with the group bumping into a group of Repaer constructs which included 2 marauders, 2 Cannibals, 5 Husks. This caused a fight which the group defeated, After the fight ended the group checked to see what they could loot from the corpses and found nothing salvageable, At the same time Zev noticed a strange protrusion on one of the Marauders neck and was able to surgically remove it only to find a strange chip in its neck, at first the group thought it might have been leftover Reaper technology for them to keep control but after careful checking they realized It was not Reaper tech but they believe Batarian technology, purpose unknown. After removing the chips the group moved off a ways and decided to wait the next two hours to see what happened, about the hour or so mark they noticed a ship leave the fortress and head this way, the Batarian shuttle hovered for about 20 minutes before head back to the fortress.

After this instance the group decided to move towards the fortress their ultimate goal. Once they arrived they spent the next few days examining the place to find a way in, during their examining of the place, they noticed that the place has a standard cap of two assault shuttles, that do their rout then land for thirty minutes, which puzzled the group until Shuul noticed in the distance two Harvesters also flying a much wider cap dart fast into the area during those 30 minutes. At the same time they where listening to the chatter over the radio and noticed fairly standard chatter. Much of it in a code they couldn’t decipher. They also noticed an out door landing pad where shuttles where landing and taking off, which large crates being put on but nothing coming off them. After this they continued to look until they found what was described as a Sally Port into the place, that had been overgrown and un-guarded and un-used.

The group eventually decided to use this door as it seemed to be the easiest and stealthiest way in. They send Shull forwards in stealth to check it out and he found it completely unguarded, which did put them in a guarded position but he was quickly able to open the door and peer inside, inside he saw a dimly lit hallway that was extremely dusty, it was at this point he waved the rest of the group through. The group moved through this area finding it unused before opening a door that was brightly lit but was used for storage. So the group moved and found an elevator, which they manually opened the doors for to find an empty shaft as the climbed the ladder a few floors up, and found another empty hallway that was active and found an access port to get some information. This information included a map of the place, which they found goes a ways down a couple of hundred floors, most of them taken up by housing. and a number of floors just labeled cells. They then found a number of floors above them is the local Security office for this sector, which is where the group went.

As soon as they opened the door and walked out they where greeted by a fight, a bunch of Krogan, Vorcha and a bunch of Varren, The Fight itself was not easy as there was no cover, Shull was taken down, but quickly revived. The group eventually won the fight, They where easily able to get into the security office and close down the sector they where in. which gave them time to look at the security files. they found quite a bit. They had control of the cameras which showed them rows upon rolls of cells some of which have occupants and in these cells you see what look like docile Repaer constructs, bruits, Marauders, Cannibals and others. If they keep watching they would see a group of Batarians and Krogran and Vorcha taking a group of Brutes and a Marauder out of the cages and moved them to awaiting crates and taken to an awaiting transport. They also found a memo to get the sole human occupant of the cells with the name Shepard, dated a week ago requesting by the General to get her ready for transport to a space station, in orbit around Erzbat. They also learned that the Batarians are both harvesting and creating them, but not at this location. they couldnt find that location in the system they had access to.

The group also thought about blowing it up themselves but quickly disabused themselves of that notion when they realized it wouldn’t be easy. So the group took advantage and got off the planet and back to the Normandy where they let SPECTRE Williams know to contract the Alliance or the Citadel about what’s going on and hopefully get them to send a fleet to destroy the place.

Before the group left Omega they got this information, on General Ecray Dran’fapos

Ecray Dran’fapos,

Was the top General in the Batarian Hegemony, Ran all there military operations, and their slavery operations, and was rumored to be the next in line to run the Hegemony before the Mass Relay was destroyed, destroying the Hegemony.

He is extremely well respected among the Batarian populations.

He then took over control until the reapers went through destroying what was left, Ecray Dran’fapos was thought of as dead. Until about a year and a half ago when he was seen back out in the galaxy, He has been seen recruiting from among the disparate Batarian population, he has also recruited amongst many others.

It is rumored that he is not working for himself that he is working for someone else someone much bigger.

He is known to have three different fortresses where his people have congregated. These locations are known to be.

Kite’s Nest / Indris System/Camala

Kites Nest/Indris System/Erszbat
Eagle Nebula/Amun System/Anhur
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After looking over the information Zorii decided to contact one of her old Mercenary contacts to see if she could possibly hire on with to try to get near him, as they found out there target is hiring on mercenaries. Her contact an Asari told her that she could get her the information she wanted but tried to talk her out of it as he was intending on using them as cannon fodder, she also let her know that he is only hiring Vorcha, Krogan and Batarians.. and that he has a loathing for humans and would never hire them. Zorii pressed her old friend who eventually relented by giving her a name.

Two names to be exact Ecrays sister and his cousin,
Apenine is his sister:
Okerem is his cousin:
she said they where the ones running the operation but they where doing it out of cutouts and factors, So Zorii decided to use one of her aliases to contact them and a few days later while sitting in Afterlife she had a visitor the rest of the group arrayed in various places around Afterlife expecting a short conversation then a fight happened, ending up with the factor a batarian captured by the group and the rest of his hired guns dead.

Zorii and John took the factor out the back way and to an apartment secured for this specific job while the rest of the group looted the bodies for whatever they could in a short amount of time.

Once inside the apartment an interrogation ensued which did not amount to much other then the group learned of the name of the individual that the factor knew one named Pravile and that he was the only one able to send the message. Threats being made to the factor of what would happen if he betrayed the group. The factor sent a message in code, and not fearing for his life as his life was already forfeit he sent a message but not the one the group wanted him to send, a warning to his people, which ended up with his head splattered. A quick trace by Shuul, got them the system but couldn’t get any closer.

The group then left Omega to allow things to cool down, and not knowing exactly where to go they enlisted the help of EDI and others of the crew of the Normandy that had more experience at this then they do, with there information and the help of the Normandy they where able to narrow it down to the planet Camala.

The ship made its way to the system and once they arrived at the Indris System, Spectre Williams sent her son and a team to the planet to scout it out. A few days travel the Normandy trusting in its stealth systems arrived in system and moved as close as it dared to the planet finding the systems defenses being rebuild and new stations being built, at this point the scout team returned with its information.

Henry, the lead of the operation gave the group the information, that there was a fortress about the size of a standard old Earth Castle but designed with modern technology, it had gun emplacements and stood on a hill overlooking the area, as they where not designed as an infiltration team they did not have the tools to get inside, he also let the group know the area was surrounded by dense jungle and to watch out for reaper constructs, Husks, Marauders, Ravagers, and Canniibal’s as they are prowling around the planet. They also set up a landing site an old landing pad 4-5 days from the fortress.

It was after the meeting and before the team left when Zorii dropped the bombshell that she was actually Asari, since she knows she wont be able to keep it a secret during the mission.

The group took the shuttle down to the planet and made there way on foot through the jungle, the evening ended with the group about to be attacked by a group of Reaper constructs.

The group, waited till later to

The group looted the bodies and got a few weapons, they also took the coms gear with the specific frequency. John found a trapped door, and found it was locked, with an electronic lock, Zorii thinks she was able to persuade those on the radio that they were the guards up top. The group found a lit Ladder that is a tight fit for them. The group unlocked the door and walked out and found mostly bedrooms, in another hallway, they found a gymnasium the other side had a storage room and a room with a lot of computers in it. They were about to hack into the computers and got a map of the place.

The group, Shull was able to hack the door open, The group walked into the Doctors lab and found a Brute and Ravager corpse, They found a room of corpses that where older then a room of fresher corpses. They found swarmer’s in the bodies, The fight ended with the doctor unconscious, and everyone else dead.

The group looted the bodies, and acquired two full sets of armors some weapons and two vials of unknown liquid, then took the shuttle back to the ship, to relax for a bit, and divvy up the loot. The Doctor in chains.

John wanted to speak to the Good doctor, St, Ignatius Orphanage, You had issues, Ran away from multiple orphanages, and was going to enhance him into a superman, the vials create a Brute without the negatives.

The group sold the weapons,

The group arrived back on the Normandy and where wondering where to go from there, they decided to check out the pads and found messages between Stonard and a figure named Mia Brooks.

Zorii remembered, who she was and was not flattering.

The early messages where about being contacted by Mya Brooks about picking up shepherds body and delivering, it to a Batarian, and that Stonard wanted in.

The name of the Batarian had a name Ecray Dran’fapos, a General in the Hegemony’s military,

One of the pads was correspondence with her Husband and children, in the Ismar Frontier, in the Hito system.

Ecray Dran’fapos a Batarian General a well-known and respected one, within the Hegemony and tried to keep it going after the Reapers destroyed the Hegemony, after that it gets muddled.

Zorii sent a message to her friend on Omega, She got back a message saying that Aria would want to speak with them when and if they come back and the group would not want to run afoul of the bloodpact but they won’t be arrested or shot on sight.

The group decided to head to Omega, They were met, by three individuals… a Batarian a Krogan and a Asari, and the Asari spoke telling them the Empress wishes to speak to them. Zev decided to stay on the ship as the rest of the group is escorted to Aria herself, She requested a scientist that she wishes to speak with him. And she has tried to be diplomatic but has been rebuffed.

The Scientist was a Human Genesist, The group is getting 45,000 credits plus not being harassed, plus the information in question,

The information on the Scientist, a Human named Raymond Friendly, with an image of a human male shock white hair full beard cybernetic eyes, in a doctor outfit, at this point John had a debilitation headache taking him to his knees, and got a flash back of the future in a medical gown with a scalpel telling him he will become his greatest creation. Then the flash ends.

The Scientist, is deep in the bowls of Omega, Akoram Can’dabar, who styles himself a warlord with a bit of an army of, Batarians and Vorcha.

The group went down to the level he was hold up, not knowing if the doctor was a guest or a prisoner and found a veritable fortress waiting for them with quite a few Batarian and Vorcha guards, the group eventually defeated the guards but not without a protracted fight.