Roran Vas'Neema's Story

As the Salarians board the frigate they are meet by a hurt Vorcha guard leaning against the opposite wall. "Turn back. Ship broken, engines broken, most crew dead, no hope. Engines not ours, all going to die." Just then Volus tech emerged from a maintenance hatch, "We were boarded some how and they waited till we fell back to strike. They took what was left of engineering. With so much damage the crew is having a problem keeping the ship together and trying to retake engineering isn't going well. I recommend you if you have men to spare great other wise leave now. We picked up a ship in need, cant tell which frigate it is but it is better off then we are. Help them we got our ship." With that the Volus reenters the hatch, and the Vorcha starts down the whats left of the hall towards engineering.

Commander Elana and chief Neeha followed the Salarians.

As Gemli takes out drones, a Geth runs into the room well typing on its omi-tool, and yells out, "Hold your fire! The system activated when you landed with out authorization. One moment." just as he finishes deactivating the system four shot come through the door hitting the geth in the back. As it falls to the ground it yells out. "RUN! WAVE OFF! SHIP LOST!" It types a few things in to its Omni-tool and as it hits the last button it lays flat on the deck, motionless and its light slowly fades out. A second later everyone there receives coordinates of what looks like a powered down frigate.

Val runs you to Blake and Gemli, activating her Biotic Protector to cover the three of them. "Fall back, we are not here to retake her. That geth sent us coordinates of an other ship. I would rather try and help the other ship then try and clear this entire ship with just the three of us. Now fall back to the shuttle." She covers Blake regardless of what his next move is.

Jacoopi picks up a faint signal coming in slowly from off the fleets six o'clock. His ships VI reads it as a frigate class ship that's gone dark.

Othesat makes it to the med bay to a find a horrific scene. Crew laying all over the place in mixed conditions, with medics running from person to person in an attempt to help everyone they can. One of the human medics walks over to her, "Let me take a look... Ok... you seem fine nothing critical. You can stay and help or report back to your station." With a nod he ran off to help a hurt Turian with third degree burns all over his body.

After hearing the vorcha and the Volus' message Roran was very reluctant to delve further into the ship. "This Frigate...i dont think we should....i mean..." He was very nervous that a wall would open up or something would jump up at him "This ship isnt savable. We have to get out before were fried! The only way to save these people would be to convince them to get back onto your ship Captain Irgol." Roran said as he looked down the hatch the volus had climbed into.

He heard his Omni Tool beep slightly. "Oh what now..." he said as he raised it up to his mask. "We have heavier units inbound from FTL. This ship is lost if they land a Round on us, in this condition. Orders?" Roran looked Irgol

Over every com channel, with a Japanese accent "This is Admiral Katsumoto Yamamo to the Bailey and her fleet. I call you now as a courtesy from one worrier to an other. You are in possession of an item of great importance, stand down, turn it and its carrier over to us or be destroyed. If you hand it over we will leave you alone, do the honorable thing and live to fight an other day. We will withdraw for one hour, any ship that tries to flee will be destroyed for being cowards. I Await your response. Endurance out." With that every attacking ship disengages and jump into FTL.

Captain Siethis to all ships. "ALL HANDS! NOW HEAR THIS! ALL HANDS NOW HEAR THIS! All small craft find harbor. Begin fleet wide repairs if need be scuttle the ship. All away teams your on your own find shelter and hunker down. Frigates and cruisers to the rear. I will hold the Bailey here, everyone give us a wide berth and for no reason approach us. No matter what happens its been an honor to serve with you all." On board the Baily, the captain looks at a report, most boarders have been repelled on the baily.

Fleet started with status change
2 York class Cruisers 1 boarded
1 Berlin Class Cruiser badly damaged
1 Turian Cruiser no power or coms
4 Quarian Cruisers no fighters or shuttles left
6 Turian Frigates 1 boarded (has the away team on it for now), 4 destroyed
2 Alamo Class Frigates all lost
2 Geneva Class Frigates 1 badly damaged

As the remaining ships that can, move to the rear of the fleet, the captain, "Baily what do we have on the Endurance and this Admiral?" A holo image of Baily appears next to the captain. "Sir. All we have is a mention that he is a fleet Admiral currently attached to the Special Projects division, and who has never lost a fight since the rank of captain, nor has he back down from a fight regardless of the odds. As far as the Endurance goes there is a romor it was to be the biggest carrier ever built, not just having a larger capacity but have the fire power of a dreadnaught. Sorry sir but that's all I have."

As Baily gives his report Blake's datadrive gives off a low beep.

Commander Selani turns to Roran, "Back to the ship." Turning to Irgol, "With respect, lets head to the unknown contact and holdup there, if there are any other teams out or survivors looking for shelter they might head there."

"Yes Commander." Roran said as he turned and ran back to the ship. "This is chaos!" he muttered to himself. "Weve been given orders to go find shelter, but we have no Regroup location. We have a massive ship headed our way. Ive met humans, they never retreat from a battle or let there enemies go without firing a few shots at them..." Roran continued complaining until he was in the ship, among a few other Salarians.

"Bah....So much for assisting the Human Rebbellion..." he said as he looked around before seating himself at a gunners chair. "Wow is this old..." he said as he looked through the Firing Screen "This must be Pre-contact War..." he said as he chuckled. He quickly removed his hands "This needs calibrating. Dont want to put a hole in the ship now do i..." He said as raised up his omni-tool and linked it to the gun to begin Calibrating.

As they were heading back, Blake could not help but notice the blinking light and the beep. He opened it as he listened to the message from the Admiral. And once he was done, fear suddenly entered his eyes. He played the message for Val and Gemli as well, so they knew how urgent it was. "Val! I need to get to the Commander now!"

He tried hailing the Commander, but moved quickly enough he reached her first. "Do not trust him! A part of the drive just unlocked, a message from my father. See for yourself..."

He sent the message to the Commander now. "Son... if your reading this without me then one of two things has happened. First, you 'found' this drive in my safe. or I am no longer with you and for that I am sorry. If it is true that I am no longer there then I leave you with my friends Elana Selani and Valarirae Saburo, they will look after you. Knowing Elana she has not told anyone including Val who you are or why you are so important to her. Also if your looking into Admiral Katsumoto Yamamo, he is the fleet Admiral of my Terminus Systems defense and security fleet. Chances are that you took the dive through a relay and now facing his fleet. He knows of you but will be after this drive, its designed to send a signal should it pass through a relay without prior authorization. With the network in disarray I could not send to codes but they are buried in this drive. Katsumoto will do anything to protect our sites through out the Terminus Systems and to get this drive, but attached to this note is a code to grant you my level clearance. DO NOT LET HIM OR ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE GET THIS DRIVE. You can trust my two friends but no one else from the SPD.I love you son and am very proud of you. Keep up the good work and stay safe. -Dad"

"Do not trust him!" Blake mentioned. "We need to get out of here now, make a dash for the Mass Relay or somewhere safe! We need to move now!"

Blake was aware he was essentially giving the commander an order, but frankly given the importance of the message he figured at the very least they could discuss that issue later. If it was an issue, technically his father just promoted Blake, at least elevating his clearance level.

Gemli was more or less half confused, half angry, and half protective right now. It occurred to his intelligent Krogan mind three halves makes no sense, but he could think about semantics later. Right now, he just had this overwhelming desire to punch the admiral and protect Blake, Val, and the Commander.

At least he knew Blake trusted him. That made him also feel half happy with himself.

The turian leads the Doctor to a shuttle in the main hanger just as a fire brakes out. Lt. Natasha starts directing the damage control teams as the turian loads the Dr. onto the shuttle. The shuttle quickly takes off, making the turian who had no time to sit fall out. Part of the celling collaped, killing the turian, as the pilot closes the doors and flies out of the hanger as fast as possible. The shuttle makes a quick landing in a hole in the unknown frigates hull.

The Salarian ship makes its way to one of the few docking ports thats still working. As the commander orders Roran and Neeha off the ship, a damaged escape pod collides with the Salarian ship. The impact renders the bridge crew including Irgol unconscious and damages the docking tube. Neeha grabbed Roran and ran into the frigate incase the tube depressurizes. The commander ran to the bridge grabbing Irgol and carring him to the docking tube. Once there she could see that the tube was going to break at any moment and that she couldn't make it well carring him so she used her biotic push to throw him. Just in time for the tube to break, and due to age and damage the Salarain ship couldn't seal the door so she was spaced along with most of the surviving Salarian crew. Luckly Neeha was standing by to seal the door on her end with a tech override and some juice from her suit.

As Gemli throw Blake into the shuttle Val turns and carfuly uses her shockwave to push Gemli into the shuttle. Thankfully the co-pilot had grabbed his sidearm and was waiting by the door. So when Blake was thrown he was there to catch him and get him out of the way, as Gemli lands on his stomach on the floor of the shuttle. sortly there after before Gemli can more Val uses her biotic charge to bridge the gap and uses him as a landing pad. Once she pulls herself off of him she yells to the pilot, "Ok We're on let go." With that order the co-pilot jumps to his seat closing the door and launches the shuttle. They make their way to the frigate in time to see the commander get spaced. The pilot goes to bring them in for a landing in the hanger but notices the wreck of a fighter, but due to the damage cant pull away and instead aims the nose away and crashes into the wall. Both pilots are killed on impact and the shuttle is beyond repair as it is half in the interior wall of the hanger.

Roran had heard Irgol's plan to return to the damaged frigate. Of course it would be the one he didnt want to be in, with his luck, anything could happen.

He watched as the shuttle from the bailey Docked with the frigate through the gun visor and Irgol docked with the damaged frigate. As it docked the entire salarian frigate was rocked and Roran was thrown out of his seat. "Woa! Are they still shooting at us?" he said as he stood up, But before he could regain his foothold Neeha took him and they ran across the boarding tube that was most definantly going to implode.

And to make it better he got to watch Commander Elana and the Salarian Crew get spaced as Neeha sealed the door. Roran sat down and sighed. then looked up at Neeha and murmmered "What the hell just happened?"

Neeha was frozen hand still in a fist on the button staring at the now sealed hatch. After a few minutes she slowly dropped to her knees, in a sad and hopeless voice, "Not again. Ancestors forgive me." She slowly looks up at Roran, even through her mask he can feel the pain and hopelessness. "The... war... the fleet... Keelah. We're all dead... again." As flashbacks of the battle of Rannoch, and the battle for Earth flash through her head.

The Docs pilot calls back to her, "Ma'am I'm not sure how good these reading are but Im picking up a downed gunship in the hanger with inconsistent life signs. There is also a faint reading of resent gun fire from a corridor between us and what's left of the bridge. Possible faint life sign in that same area. Also got three life signs moving on the bridge with two more near the remains of a docking port. I'm gona stay here and try to coordinate with the incoming shuttles since I cant raise dock officer Heal or anyone on the Bailey."

Val tried to reach the commander on all channels well following Blake to the bridge. "Cant reach her. She'll be fine. She knows how to handle herself and I'm sure she will call when she can." Inside she felt that some thing bad had happened but kept a positive out ward appearance.

Blakes call to the bridge goes through but there is no response.

Roran stood up and put is hand on his head. "No no no....I promised myself after the Battle at earth and Rannoch Id never do anything like this again!" Roran said as he began to pace back and forth "This all has to be another figment of my imagination, right? Right!?"

Although he denied it, he knew that all around him was real. He didnt know how to react to any of this because he had tried to forget anything that had happened in the previous battles he had participated in with the Quarian Navy. He remembered no training, and had no longer obtained the mind set he had.

Neeha's thoughts were broken when she heard Roran. Snapping back to reality she jumped to her feet and ran towards the stern. As she carefully but quickly navigated the damaged unlighted corridors, she couldn't help but have flash backs to both wars. Her flash backs came at her so vividly that well still able to navigate and interact with the real world, she saw everything as if she was back with the flotilla. Once at engineering she started trying to get the emergence backups on line. From there she could try and jump start the main core, which thou damaged looked like it had just shutdown and was salvageable. Unfortunately the backups were out of juice, so she hooked up every power cell from her suit and pack she could, and using her suit as a bypass started the system.

Through out the ship control panels and lights started turning on. It was about this time Blake and his crew arrived at the doors to the bridge. Since the system just rebooted the door seal also reset granting the group access to the bridge. Once on the bridge the group sees a some what working holo projection in the middle of the room. Just past it is the captain's chair and the pilot chairs (pilot and co-pilot). Upon further investigation, the group finds the ten year old remains of the bridge crew. The COD differs from crewmen to crewmen, some shot others natural causes. The last ones to go were the captain who died in his chair, the pilot also at his station, and a crewmen near the engineering station. One the captains console is an audio message, "To who ever finds this, I just wanted to leave a log about this fine ship and her great crew. It has been almost five years since we fought off Cerberus. Our ship is falling apart and I cant raise anyone on any channel. Most of my crew is dead dying, or have gone crazy, so I ordered my bridge crew to bring what little supplies we have left to the bridge and lock it down. I hoped by doing so we stood a better chance of saving the ship. But as our fifth years draws to an end I wonder if the reapers have won and we are the last... left here to die... alone in the silence of space. I want to note that thou the galaxy sees us as the lawless, this crew served with honor and I was proud to have served with them. Sadly in order to maintain control I have had to execute several of my staff and others... others have chosen the easy way out, and I have also had to seal off and power down several areas. Not all of them were empty... I have ordered my chief engineer to have the core shut down once we are gone. With the last bit of power we will send out one last distress call. Bray if you get this tell Aria we died well." Just before the message cuts out the captain is heard saying "Now" away from his console followed shotly there after by two quick gun shot, the a third one a few seconds later. An other look at the three and the story is clear, the engineer shut down the core the he along with the pilot we shot just before the captain killed himself.

Blake's mind had been rushing through his discover, and worries about the Commander, until he found that recording. "What the fuck....what can we.....this is....horrible. Okay, Blake. Focus on what you can change. Okay, what do we need? What are the issues we have right now?"

Meanwhile, Gemli was getting a little hot blooded. "THe kid is right, we need to get out of here as soon as possible. Val, what are our options?"

Suddenly, Blake looked back at his omitool. "We find wherever these coordinates lead. I never got to tell the Commander this, but one of the words mentioned in the part of the Blackfile I decoded was a mention to a dreadnaught being created. Something tells me we could use a new ship, anyways".

"Bigger guns sound fun" Gemli mentioned with a smile.

"Neeha, Wait!" Roran said as he chased after her. Although he was a Quarian Marine, he was kinda outa shape. Half way down the hall of twist and turns, he started to slow to a halt. "Nee....Neeha! Wai-Wait up!" he shouted as he halted and placed his hands on his knee's. "Damn, i shouldnt have spent all that time on Ichar...."

Roran stood back up and started running to the engine room, fueled by the thought of Neeha being endangered. He arrived at the door, that was glowing blue, a sign of instability. He stepped in side and shaded his suit visor. He saw Neeha and her power cord hooked up to her suit. "Neeha! What are you doing!" He shouted as he took a step forward but slowly, the Element Zero core was increasing the Gravity levels on the ship.

As Blake and Gemli moved into position the ship scanners along with the shuttles pick up a corvette class starship ship on intercept course. As it gets near a call is heard on all channels, "To anyone on board the unidentified frigate, this is the scavenger ship Crow. Heave to and prepare to be boarded. We mean you know harm. If anyone is still alive please respond. Again if anyone is still alive please respond." "Sir still no answer" "Very well, lets board. I will take the security team and head for the Bridge, I want a medical team to search the med bays, and scavengers to spread out, start with hangers and engineering. I also want a receiving team to hold the ship, no turrets this time but keep your suits on and sealed. Techs standby with barriers. Ok hock on." The ship attaches to the same hatch the Salarians were hooked to.

Val turns to Blake, "Get to the pilots seat. Gemli stand near the door, but hold till I say so. Lets make it seem like we have control of the ship."

Just as everyone got into place, the door to the Bridge opened. In came three men, the first man entered from the right and crossed to the left side of the door. Well the second came from the left and crossed right both scanning the room with their guns. The third man came from the right going up the middle, as all three moved in a few feet one of the flankers spotted Gemli right away, "CONTACT KROGAN!" The man who moved up the middle spotted Val but not Blake whose chair sat lower then hers. Val spun her chair around as the man yelled, "CONTACT FRONT ASARI!" The group could see that their new "guest" were all human wearing Terminus Assault Armor and caring M-96 Mattocks. The flanking not facing Gemli flanks around his side to the front of the bridge to finish clearing the room, and spots Blake. "CONTACT HUMAN... KID!?" Just then a fourth man enters caring a N7 Typhoon, "No one do anything stupid, we are not here to hurt you. I am Captain Adham Sabatello of the..." He is interrupted by a beep from his omi-tool. He quickly takes a look and then fixes his eyes on Blake. "This cant be right. Techs verify. Copy. Sorry about that. MEN LOWER YOU WEAPONS! I am Captain Adham Sabatello of the SSV Crow, ASPD repair and recovery ship. One moment please. All teams this is now call sign SSV, medical teams do what you can all teams prepare for tow back to base." He turns to the three men, "OK LT you and your team stay here and protect the package till we're home then rejoin us. The rest of us will do a sweep and get out." With that the captain leaves and the three men post just outside the door.

A few moments later the medical team arrives at the shuttle and with an override opens the shuttle doors. Seeing the injured the team gets to work with Dr. Aves help. Jacoopi should still get to a med bay or hospital but will be fine same with Kearan. As soon as the team gets done with everything they can do, they pack up and leave.

At the same time an engineering team arrives near main engineering. But with one scan, they decide that whom ever is already inside can handle it and leave not wanting to risk more lives.

After the captain is done with his sweep, he re-boards his ship along with they team he had guarding it and the other two teams. Once on board he unhooks and moves to the bow were he hooks a tow cables to the frigate. They slowly and carefully tow the ship to a large asteroid. They unhook the cables and let the frigate drift towards the asteroid, but instead of crashing they pass through a shield and are greeted by unmanned drones that guide the ship to its dock. Once there the automated docking system kicks in and a tube is extended well the drones examine the ships hull.

The Stations Drones did more then guide the ship, but they opened all airlock doors that were connected to station docks, as well as turning on all the lights, as if its some sort of greeting. Further more, one of the drones came to them, and in a female voice, started talking to them. The station itself seemed old, yet strangely highly active. On

"Welcome to Shipcove Station. Please wait as you are scanned" it told them, before scanning anyone at the airlock, including Blake and Gemli. "Access Granted. Please be advised, a dangerous krogan is onboard. Please ensure there is no threat to station".

"Racist program" Gemli muttered.

"Please enter. Would the holder of the Blackfile please report to the control room for decoding and to reactive station operations" the voice told them. "Would the commanding officer please ensure the Krogan is properly restrained as well, and that any military personell would ensure all prisoners are accounted for in the Prisoner Containment Area and that no volitile components are at risk in the labs. Please do not enter sector D of the station without access from the Command Room, or the defenses of the station will be forced to purge all unregistered personell and destroy any ship without any of the specialized IFFs".

"Okaaay" Blake mentioned. "So, I think we should be really careful what we touch".

"I think we should blow up this stupid piece of crap VI who thinks all Krogans should be restrained!" Gemli yelled.

"Please restrain the Krogan!" the voice said. "It is displaying active levels of aggression!"

Gemli frowned.

After eight slow and slightly painful steps, he reached Neeha and pulled out the power cells. "Neeha! Thank god you hadn't Drained your Suit power...I have these..." he said as he pulled out a small cylinder and placed it in the place of the power cells on the Element Zero Engine Panel. " Kinetic Stabelizers." He stated and looked down at the Exaughsted Neeha.

"One step closer to getting this ship moving..." he said before taking a quick glance at the power cells he had removed. Then he looked away, then looked back. One, two, three, four...Five! all five Power cells were removed! Neeha's suit would soon suffocate her if he couldnt make some sort of airway.

Roran stood there. He raised his hand to his head and looked around. "Ah...Uhm..." he stuttered as he reached down and grabbed her mask. "Oh hope she will forgive me for this...." Roran took her visor and removed it from her helmet. Of course he had no idea she was still fully self aware...

Val smiled at Gemli, "Please don't make this any harder then it has to be. I'm sure we can find you something to destroy later." She the took a look around the room, "Excuse me, VI, who is the commanding officer on duty? And were is everyone? I know the Alliance likes its drones and VI but were is the staff? Oh and as the away teams leader, they all stay with me. Since there is no one to leave them with that is." Turning her attention now to Blake, "Kid stay close. I don't like this. Lets head to the Command Room and find out what is going on."

Neeha looked up at Roran in a panic and weakly tried to reach for him or her mask but her arm fell short. She had not expected to have her mask removed. As she slowly caught her breath, "What... have... I... What... Why... you...?" She was exhausted, winded, confused and embarest, she hadn't shown anyone her face in a long time. Now she lay in a strangers arms, with out her mask on a strange ship. She felt... well that was part of her confusion was, she had no idea what she felt.

"Uhm...now, Your going to get some Major Stomach Aches...But you shouldnt have any problems involving vomiting...or bacteria infections...due to the environment." Roran said nervously considering that this was of course the first time he had seen a Quarian without its mask, even Roran hadnt ever seen himself without the mask, as stupid as it sounds.

"Your suits power cells were drained and you had taken them out. Your suit would have sufficated you if i had not taken your mask off. So i....took...your mask off....We should probably get moving, ive stabilized the drive core, the ship should jump to FTL at any moment now so we can reach some place out of this battle field..." Roran said with a slight smile on his face. Ignorance is bliss, especially when your hooked up to another ship and about to FTL jump. The Ship they were in and the docked ship would recieve no damage, although anybody near or in the Docking Tubes would be sucked into space.

The Drone in front of them...well, it did the drown equivlent of frowning. "I am afraid, unregistered individual, you do not have clearance to enter. If you try to enter the control room, I will be forced to exterminate you, and the rest of your crew in order to ensure the safety of this station".

"I authorize them for entry, since apparently I do have authorization" Blake mentioned.

"You have authorization to enter, but you do not have authorization to give authorization. Not from here anyways. Once you initiate the New Commander Protocal in the Control room, you can give authorization" the voice told them.

"As for your questions, I am not authorized to answer those for...."

"Give us the answers. If I can enter the control room, you can tell us that".

"Very well. The people of this station left after the food supplies ran out. They sent people out, no one ever returned. When people started to die of starvation, the rest of them left too. There are currently no living personel on this station other then the one authoized individual here. As a result, only one person here can alter my programming, and only from the control room. That is the genetic son of Intelligence Officer Harrows, who holds the Blackfile".

"Well, what now? It looks like the thing has made up its mind" Blake mentioned.

Gemli stepped forward. "We could always rip the door...."

"Any damage to this station will be seen as an act of aggression, and I will be forced to poison the air and incinerate the halls for safety reasons. The only other way to alter my programming would be by enabling the hardlink connections that would allow your ship to connect to my ship" the voice told them.

In case anyone is still checking.
Neeha'Shiro (NPC Quarian engineer) & Roran Vas'Neema (Fallout Decree) are still onboard the heavily damaged ship that is about to be ejected into space cause its hull cant take a jump to FTL and the Quarians cant stop it.

Valarirae Saburo (My PC), Urdnot Gemli & Blake Harrows (Both Mr. Baneling Squishy) are onboard the Alliance station talking to a VI.

Dr. Aves Hennessey (Fear of a Female Planet), Jacoopi Kerdros (Jacoopi), Othesat (Capn Morgan), & Kearan Dekotovic (zeph_gm) are also still on the ship in the medbay.