Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Citadel_Wrongly_Accused

Mass Effect 2

Shepard comes to the aid of another Quarian, Lia'Vael, when she is accused of stealing or pickpocketing a credit Chit from a grumpy and self-righteous Volus.

It doesn't take paticularly long to ascertain the Volus left his chit at Saronis Applications, cutesy of of official Shepard fan, Marab.


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Citadel_Anderson-Citadel_Council

Mass Effect 2

Commander Shepard pays a visit to the Citadel Presidium and attends a meeting with Councillor Anderson... and apparently also the rest of the Council too.

Her former Captain and friend is relieved to see her and welcomes her, as always still willing to help and protect her. At the end of the otherwise pointless meeting, Shep is reinstated with Spectre status - despite her ties to Cerberus - as a token of their appreciation at saving their lives during the Battle of the Citadel.

Regardless of what she says and what they have seen, they are still unwilling to accept the existence of the Reapers. They are also extremely displeased that she is working with Cerberus... and even vaguely threatens her with Treason - to which Anderson takes immediate offence.

Despite this, Shepard grits her teeth and magnanimously agrees to their terms and accepts the retention of her Spectre status.  Unfortunately, her day just keeps getting worse when Udina turns up. Still Human Ambassador, Donnell Udina is now an advisor to the new Councillor, and Anderson is more than willing to use him as required... but he was supposed to be staying out this one.

With Udina sent away, Anderson and Shepard talk. Her old Captain tells her what happened to the Citadel, the galaxy... and also about Kaidan. But with her working for Cerberus, she is no longer authorised to have classified information divulged to.

Unable to learn more, Shepard leaves... with a promise to be careful.


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Mass Effect 2_Ari'iaana-Citadel_Captain_Bailey_C-Sec

Mass Effect 2

Shepard must "resurrect" herself on the Citadel's systems and approaches Captain Bailey of C-Sec to do so.

In a conversation about him, he tells her about the Citadel, about what happened since she left. He also makes her aware about what it's like to police the Ward she is on - Zakera Ward.

Shep also finds a news screen with her old reporter acquaintance Emily Wong reporting on Freedom's Progress and the Hanar, then goes shopping and ends up with a couple of new pets (a Space Hamster and a few Illium Skald Fish) and model ships for her cabin.

When she finds an Avina to use, it tells her that she has been absent from the Citadel for 2 years, 3 months 17 days. A lot has clearly changed since then.

~ "I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite store on the Citadel" ~

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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Citadel_Meeting_Kasumi

Mass Effect 2

Shepard visits the Citadel to meet and recruit Master Thief Kasumi Goto.

It turns out it's not as straightforward as it should be, and that the thief also has some very strange ways of doing business...


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Omega_Archangel_Saved

Mass Effect 2

After a heavy fire-fight, Garrus takes direct fire before being hit face-on by a missile from the gunship.

Shepard wastes no time completely disabling the gunship, hitting it with her own missiles until it explodes. She finds Garrus somehow still alive and has him evacuated onto the Normandy and outside Omega space, where her friend can be safe.

It's a long and tense wait, but Garrus is Turian and bounces back quite well after Dr. Chakwas saves him and puts his face back  together.

Then Garrus faces Shepard down and questions her about Cerberus. But this is Shepard, so he doesn't really question her integrity and trusts her implicitly.

Having been to check on Joker in the cockpit... and referring yet another argument with EDI... she goes to see Garrus at the Forward Battery. He tells her about his time after the first Normandy went down, his own squad, and what happened to them.

Then he tells them about their fate... not just that they were dead, but precisely why they were taken down... A betrayal. The hurt is clear, and revenge is clearly the only thing on his mind about it.


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Omega_Archangel

Mass Effect 2

The true identity of Archangel is revealed.

Shepard then stands shoulder to shoulder with the vigilante to protect him from the mercs so desperate to annihilate him.


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Omega_Infilrating_Merc_Groups-Archangel

Mass Effect 2

Making their way to speak to Sergeant Cathka, Shepard sees first-hand the deadly accuracy of Archangel - as dead fighters are hit dead-on and flung to the floor in front of her. She also comes across Jaroth, who runs Eclipse and finds quite an interesting datapad Aria would like to see.

Shepard hacks mechs, turning their IFF to their advantage, then also speaks to the Blood Pack leader, Garm. Just before she finds where Cathka is, they come across the Blue Suns and their leader Tarek.

Funnily enough, as the former founder of the Blue Suns, Zaeed and Tarak are old "colleagues" and know each other well... which allows Shep a way into extracting further information from his Second, Jentha.


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Normandy_Jack-Into_Purgatory

Mass Effect 2

Shepard boards the Blue Suns Prison Ship Purgatory with a small ground team to retrieve Jack from them. When they arrive they are only greeted with hostility, but the Turian Warden Kuril allows them to board without animosity,

As they tour the ship they find out there is more to the ship than just being a prison. It's at least an extortion plot, given they blackmail homeworld governments to pay them to keep the prisoners on board (disguising it as "maintenance payment").

Immediately, Shepard and her ground crew are suspicious, but continue with the tour and pleasantries to ensure they retrieved this "Jack".


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Omega_PlagueZone_Suvivors

Mass Effect 2

Inside the Quarantine Zone, the place is clearly a mess... or more of one that it probably used to be. The situation is dire... Shepard gets the feeling it is perhaps more imperative than she thought to cure this thing.

In a corner of an alleyway is a dying Batarian... Shep can't help but go up to him to see if she can help, as well as get some more information.

After giving the Batarian some Medi-Gel and some hope, Shep leaves to go searching further in. After bypassing a door, she finds Turian victims locked inside, all dead from the Plague, and four heartbreaking entries into their deaths. A little further more and she discovers the body of a Batarian who was locked in his apartment by the Blue Suns... then died alone in there.

The situation was clearly much worse than she thought.

However, some light comes in the form of two human survivors - refugees - who had locked themselves in their apartment to keep themselves safe from the panicking and violent chaos that was occurring outside. Shep picks the lock of their apartment with a bypass hack, and is relieved to see people who are still alive.

The human refugees are relieved to see another human face - a soldier - who they can trust. Shep speaks to them about what is going on, then manages to talk them into going to Mordin Solus' clinic for refuge. That if they followed her at a distance, they would have a clear and safe path there, after Shepard had seen to whoever stood in her way.


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Omega_Aria

Mass Effect 2

Shepard enters heart of Omega and heads for Afterlife - a vibrant and colourful (in every sense...) club that the Pirate Queen of Omega inhabits and reigns from.

Aria T'Loak is getting the audience with Commander Shepard that she requested. Shepard opens up a conversation with the Asari, and manages to extract some ectremely useful information about the Salarian Professor Mordin Solus, and the elusive and enigmatic Archangel.



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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Normandy_Meeting_The_Crew

Mass Effect 2

Shepard familiarises herself with the Normandy and her crew... and takes advantage of being the captain of a non-Alliance ship and its dress code.

Joker is more interesting when he thinks Shepard isn't looking and he's alone in the cockpit... and he's very happy about having "his" Normandy back. Except for EDI. But perish the breathable leather seats makes up for that...

Shepard plays Twenty Questions with EDI, who divulges everything she has access to. How she's getting along with Joker is a question she seems a little confused over... As an AI, she clearly has yet to learn a lot about human interactions.

Shepard gets more joy... much more joy... out of Kelly Chambers. She's a cute and sweet redhead who clearly has a slight case of hero-worship when it comes to Shepard. With Kaidan goodness-knows-where... well, Kelly immediately grabs her interest, at least when it comes to harmless flirting.

She also speaks to Mess Sergeant Gardner, Miranda, and Jacob.


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-The_Collectors-Joker_Normandy-Reborn

Mass Effect 2

Shepard and her team push forward to attempt to save Tali's team from Vitor's reprogrammed Heavy Mech... but they don't make it in time. Shepard's team struggles to stay out of its range... but they eventually manage to take it down.

The team get to Vitor whilst Tali attends to the surviving Quarians. What they see when they get to him is beyond distrubing... Creatures called The Collectors seem to be... harvesting the colonists; injecting them via swarms of mech bugs and then taking them all away.

They take the data from Vitor and return to the Illusive Man, whilst Tali takes Vitor and the Quarians back to the Flotilla. The Illusive man confirms the Collectors are working with the Reapers, and that he's asking Shepard to stop whatever it is they're doing.

He offers her the dossiers for a new team. Her old team has moved on in the time she has been "dead"... and the Illusive man has clearly looked into all of them, since he knows precisely where they are and what they are doing.

But what she does get is the one person that she needs the most... and the ship that she loved.

Taking the helm once more, she boards the SR2 with amazement. However, her joy is soon outlived when an AI pops up. But EDI tries to be nice and understanding to her, which takes her a little by surprise.

And now it's time to make the Normandy's re-acquaintance.


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-FreedomsProgress_Tali_Quarians

Mass Effect 2

Shepard manages to stumble upon none other than Tali'Zorah nar Rayya. She and a few other Quarians are searching for one of their own that was on the planet.

Tali agrees to facing the mechs Vitor has reprogrammed together,  Shepard fights through more of the mechs to try and get to him with the Quarians.

Unfortunately, the rest of Tali's team break off and push ahead too soon to get there before Shepard's team. Shepard pushes through to try and get to them, making her way through the surreal prefab offices and homes that once housed so many people...


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-FreedomsProgress_Tali_Quarians

Mass Effect 2

Shepard manages to stumble upon none other than Tali'Zorah nar Rayya. She and a few other Quarians are searching for one of their own that was on the planet.

Tali agrees to facing the mechs Vitor has reprogrammed together,  Shepard fights through more of the mechs to try and get to him with the Quarians.

Unfortunately, the rest of Tali's team break off and push ahead too soon to get there before Shepard's team. Shepard pushes through to try and get to them, making her way through the surreal prefab offices and homes that once housed so many people...



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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Freedoms_Progress

Mass Effect 2

Commander Shepard accompanies Jacob and Miranda to Freedom's Progress, a colony that seems to have been left entirely a ghost town. Eerily, it looked like some catastrophic incident happened to the people there whilst they were in the middle of having dinner and coffee.

There is not one person there whatsoever.

... Not human, anyway.


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Cerberus_Illusive_Man

Mass Effect 2

Commander Shepard meet the Illusive Man. She finally finds out what this is about... sort of. Of course it's about the Reapers... but there why specifically target humans?

She goes back up and speaks to Miranda, who is hostile and aloof. Jacob is a former Alliance Marine, so is more relaxed and forthcoming... and respectful to the Alliance's formally-dead hero.



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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Meets_Jacob_Taylor

Mass Effect 2



Shepard continues her escape from the facility,  continuing to fight LOKI Mechs. On the way she finds video and audio logs regarding her... "reconstruction".

She meets Jacob Taylor, whom she helps fight off more mechs. In return, he tells her the shocking truth about her life and resurrection.


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Truth_About_Lazarus_Project

Mass Effect 2

Shepard finds out just who is behind her new life and resurrection...


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Mass Effect 2_Aura'anna-Escaping_Mec_Attacks

Mass Effect 2

Commander Shepard has woken from a death-defying coma to find the station that she is on is being attacked by Mechs. A voice over her (presumably in-built) comms system helps guide her out to safety.

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ME2Game_Aura'anna-Lazarus_Project-Shepard_Lives

Mass Effect 2

By some miracle, Commander Shepard lives, and wakes first in a haze, and then by yet anther attack and imminent disaster.


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[I'm going with "she's disorientated here"... but the fact of the matter is that if you change the key binding for "Use" from Spacebar, it messes everything up... which is annoying, having spent all of ME1 using it for Command HUD... Moral of the story: Do *not* change key binding for "Use"...]