Due to the recent frequent "Geth attacks" in various galaxies, many people are worried that the Citadel, the capital of the Galactic Alliance, will be attacked. As a result, there have been many fewer ships traveling to and from the galaxy. If it is said that various civilizations have entered and exited here before
The flow is like a big river, so the current frequency of ship traffic is like the river entering a dry season.
Although the Citadel Council did not believe that the geth would brazenly attack the Citadel, they still arranged for the Galactic Alliance United Fleet to replace the ordinary Citadel Security Department fleet to patrol near the repeater. However, the most powerful "Destiny Extraordinary" among them
However, it was arranged to be docked in the ring area and stand by. If nothing could be done, as the most powerful dreadnought in the galaxy, it would be responsible for assisting the Citadel Council in retreating.
This decision was equivalent to cutting off an arm at the beginning of the war, which naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many other civilized parliamentarians who had no means of escape. However, they did not have the veto power to interfere with this resolution, and Asari, who had the veto power,
It is strange that the ambassadors of the three major races, Turian and Salarian, would vote against being taken away and evacuated.
Human Ambassador Nick Fury took the opportunity to launch diplomatic mediation on the premise of "we are in the same boat" and announced that the human-based "C-SEC" police department under the Citadel Security Department will do its best to protect the safety of Citadel residents when the geth invade.
Since John Shepard dug out the moth in CSEC, Secretary Allen and other police officers are holding their breath under pressure to prove themselves. In the past few months, the reputation has improved to a considerable extent after a short-term decrease.
Indirectly, Nick Fury's promise became more credible, and the reputation of mankind in the Citadel was greatly improved.
However, if the geth do not invade in the end, this unfulfilled promise will be forgotten by other civilizations after a period of time, and the Citadel Council's attempts to flee will also be ignored.
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Customs space station.
The space station is in the same orbit as the Mass Effect Repeater, and instead of maintaining the same orbital speed, it is responsible for deciding whether to accept the "application" of each ship trying to pass through the Repeater.
Because the repeater itself will automatically allow every ship synchronized with it to pass through, there is no security at all. Therefore, most civilizations will build such "customs" at the border or near relatively important repeaters. According to the creator
Conduct access review based on requirements.
However, even the customs of a repeater with a large throughput like the Citadel has basically no chance of clearly rejecting which ship, because whether it is smuggling or piracy, it is completely impossible to tell simply from the received ship identification signal.
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"Waller, Turian, Asari, Salarian..." Turian Arstotzka was looking boredly at the ships passing through the mass relay.
His responsibility is to receive ship identification signals and press the "pass" button to assign docking areas to them. The rest will be taken care of by other customs staff.
Of course, you can only press "Pass". If the "Don't Pass" button were physical, it would have been covered with dust long ago.
He complained more than once, if every ship can pass, why put a person here to watch, it is not difficult to directly automate all the passes - but it doesn't work.
The criteria for "failure" are clearly defined, that is, "ships of civilizations whose ambassadors were expelled from the Citadel". Except for some strange civilizations that I have never heard of, the more well-known ones are "Batarian" and "Quali"
", the former is because it refuses to fulfill the Citadel Convention, and the latter is because it has created a major threat to the geth. Any ships marked with these two civilizations are not allowed to land on the Citadel.
But the problem is that what is banned is "civilized ships" rather than "civilized individuals". When they clearly know that they are prohibited from landing, how stupid do they have to be to drive their own civilized ships over and be rejected?
As long as members take the ships of other civilizations, they can hang out in the Citadel without hesitation - no matter what they are discriminated against or alienated from, it is another matter.
In order to be on the lookout for a fool trying to apply for this position so that he can be rejected, it is better to withdraw as soon as possible. The fate of turians should be to die on the battlefield, not to die in an office.
Ashtozka approved another batch of applications that were probably cargo ships. He looked at the clock on the wall, picked up the cup and walked to the coffee machine in the corner of the office: "Kora! It's time to change shifts!"
"I've said it a hundred times, my name is Koles. Any abbreviation means it means something different," a Vocha who looked like a fox dropped the puzzle pieces in his hand and stood up and walked to the workbench.
"Okay, Cora," Ashtoszka started to make coffee: "I will change my words next time."
"Huh, I've said this a hundred times," Colokia sat down in front of the workbench, quickly processed the slightly blocked applications, and then glanced at him sideways: "As a creature with left-handed genes, you drink
Are human things okay?”
"The nutrition itself will not be absorbed, but the refreshing effect can be enjoyed," Ashtozka held up the coffee cup: "Human technology and culture are quite average, but luxury goods are really good."
"You call that thing a luxury product? Huh?" Colokia was mid-sentence when his attention was suddenly attracted by the newly applied identification signal: "Geth Cruiser? Is today April Fool's Day?"
"Perhaps who captured the Geth warship and planned to sell it?" Ashtozka sipped the black liquid without paying much attention.
"That should also be the identification code of the cargo ship... Oh! Here comes the Fox God!"
At this moment, a dense number of "Geth Battleship Passage Applications" suddenly filled Cologgia's operation panel, and even began to spread to other unrelated information boards.
"The information that the Geth are preparing to attack the Citadel is actually true!" Kolokia was frightened for a few seconds, then raised his hand to slap the "Do Not Pass" button projection: "I must stop -"
Boom!
There was a bullet hole in the foxman's head, and blue blood splattered all over the workbench.
"Finally -" Ashtoszka pulled away the corpse of his colleague with a sick smile, and began to tap the "Pass" button frantically like a timer: "The war has begun! I don't have to press this stupid button here anymore.
Got it!"
Buzz, buzz, buzz buzz——
Following his movements, gray-white battleships that looked like grasshoppers without wings and legs appeared near the Serpent Galaxy's relay one after another. Soon, their number was so large that they even obscured the Customs Space Station.
All space in the universe that can be seen.
When the alarm inside the customs sounded in vain, Ashtozka was still frantically tapping the "pass" button that had long been taken over by the geth.
Behind him, the panel of the coffee machine, which was supposed to only have standard text such as temperature and timer, was quietly displaying a line of turian text: "[Kill your colleagues and put the geth into the Serpent Galaxy.]"
