Planet Philos, the airspace near the "Pearl of the Orient" colony.
Boom! Bang!
The Normandy had just entered the atmosphere when it was hit by a mass effect cannon.
Fortunately, this attack was not very powerful, and it was only a side attack. It was not a targeted fire on the Normandy. It just exploded a giant firework outside its mass effect shield.
"[Don't panic!]" Thanos used the ship's internal communication to stop the crew members responsible for controlling the ship's defense weapons from overreacting: "[We are still in stealth mode! Kaiden! Stay evasive, and others will confirm the battlefield situation as soon as possible!]"
"[Copy that, Commander.]" the pilot Kaiden Alainco responded, while deftly maneuvering the Normandy to draw an arc to avoid the trajectory of the mass effect cannon: "[Ha, those council members should really be allowed to
Guys, look, this is what they call 'the geth have never left the Perseus Veil for 300 years.'"
At this time, whether through the portholes or external surveillance, everyone could clearly see the strange-looking warships outside the window.
They are silver-gray in color and have a very unaerodynamic shape with a large head and narrow body. They look like...a grasshopper with its wings and limbs retracted.
"Geth! Kill them!" Tali was the first to react, and then attracted the attention of the crew on the bridge: "Uh, I mean...if it's convenient, please kill them all."
"We have killed a lot of geth in the past two months, and it's not like we haven't wiped out geth warships. Don't get too excited," Galax reassured.
"Every quarian has been taught three things since they were sensible: kill geth, kill more geth, kill all geth," Liara said: "It can be understood from a rational point of view."
"Hmph, Asari, as the largest civilization in the galaxy, naturally cannot understand the fate of a race that has had countless of its compatriots killed, lost even its home planet, can only live on a wandering fleet, and has been revoked from establishing an embassy in the Citadel.
Pain." Tully turned and glared at Liara - maybe she glared.
"I deeply sympathize with the situation of the Quarians, but the reason why your Citadel embassy was revoked is because the geth rebellion also caused all Quarian intelligent machines to go berserk, causing major casualties to more than 200 Galactic Alliance civilizations.
Property damage," Liara said: "If you are willing to compensate for those losses and reapply to join the Galactic Alliance..."
"Our population was reduced to one percent by the geth! We have nothing but the escape fleet! You are taking advantage of others' danger! Only a ghost would join that cold-blooded organization again!" Tali said angrily.
"Your anger is unreasonable. The "Citadel Convention" is signed by all participating civilizations. Moreover, considering your actual difficulties, the Citadel Council has proposed to provide Quaili with a special loan without interest and no repayment period.
I asked for a loan to compensate for the loss, but you refused." There was an incomprehensible look on Liara's face.
"It's just a loan for compensation! Nothing but debt will fall into the hands of the Quarians! We wanted to apply for more to expand the fleet and rebuild our home, but there is not a dime in this regard!"
"That's because you caused a 'major disaster' like the Geth, and your credit rating in the Galactic Alliance has been significantly downgraded. According to the Citadel Convention, all active loans will be rejected."
"To hell with that damn convention!"
"Well..." Grant took a few steps back and stayed away from the two "girls" who were arguing: "Grant felt that the fighting inside was more intense than the one outside."
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After a while, the two alien girls finally discovered that neither of them were born when that incident happened. They just argued about the ancients for a long time, looked at each other awkwardly, and then shut up in anger.
At this time, navigator Preliss also completed scanning and analyzing the basic conditions of the planet.
"More than 80% of the planet's surface is covered by Prothean ruins, but because they are all agricultural ruins and have no archaeological value, they have been abandoned by the Citadel for development, but there are still some speculators settling here.
Trying to discover some valuable Prothean relics that were missed by the Citadel archaeologists," Jay Kings read the information given to him by the first mate: "The current public information is that the planet has a total registered population of 3109 people.
, more than half of which belong to a company called...'Exgeno'."
"'X Gene'?" Liara interjected: "This is an Asari biological company. It was one of the first companies to abandon the Philos research project. Its employees should not be here at all."
"Obviously, those Asari discovered something, hid those things and then made a gesture of evacuating, deceiving other colleagues." Although Tali gave up arguing about the original matter, when she heard that it was Asari Company,
It was still a subconscious sarcasm.
"Then what's going on with these geths?" Gallas directly interrupted in order to prevent them from arguing again.
"Well...according to our rough scan results, the targets of the Geth warships and the dropped infantry are all buildings controlled by Exgenor." Jenkins continued to flip through the information: "It seems that the Geth
It's true that Si's target is this biological company, but they don't know what they are looking for and where, they are just blindly attacking and trying to occupy all the territory belonging to the company, and Exgeno seems to have been prepared.
All the research buildings have fortress-level coastal defense guns, and the personnel are relatively well-armed. They are relying on the buildings and terrain to fight the geth, but since the geth will not fatigue and make mistakes, they may not be able to hold on for long."
"Well... our mission is to rescue the Philos colony from the geth attack, and it does not include finding out what the company that attracted the geth is secretly doing," Thanos said, stroking the slight stubble on his chin.
: "With the Normandy's stealth function, we can sneak attack one by one to kill all the Geth warships, and then send ground teams to eliminate the scattered Geth infantry, but..."
"Commander, I think we should investigate what it is secretly studying. That should allow us to further our research on Prothean."
"I also agree that things that make the geth want to rob or destroy must be a major threat to themselves. Maybe after we control it, we can eliminate the geth like mowing grass!"
Liara and Tali spoke one after another, and after they finished speaking, they realized that they had the same opinion as the "enemy" who had been arguing fiercely before. The two looked at each other for a few seconds, as if they wanted to say something but couldn't.
After thinking about what to say, he finally turned his head to the other side.
"Women are really difficult to understand." Grant said, grabbing his lower back.
