#object rho

Shepard. You have become an annoyance.You fight against inevitability. Dust struggling against cosmic winds. This seems a victory to you. A star system sacrificed. But even now, your greatest civilizations are doomed to fall. Your leaders will beg to serve us.

Maybe you're right. Maybe we can't win this. But we'll fight you regardless, just like we did Sovereign. Just like I'm doing now. However "insignificant" we might be, we will fight, we will sacrifice... and we will find a way! That's what humans do.

Bro shep 🤝 Fem shep

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sy4ej5JYcU)

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Mass Effect 2

~ Arrival ~

Shepard lands at Project Base, at  Arcturus Station, with Dr Kenson... and is shown the cold reality of something she had never wanted to see - proof the Reapers were coming. In just two days.

The Project was supposed to destroy the Mass Relay they were planning on entering through... and the proof was within the Project Base.

Shepard takes a moment to collect herself after thart chilling news, then spends some time hunting around the shuttle area. She needed to see what this place was really about - all of it.

Unfortunately, it isn't too long until she finds out the horrifying the truth... when Dr Kenson introduces the Reaper artefact that is her "source" for the Reaper invasion as "Object Rho"... and Shep sees that it's sitting out in the open. She finds out that Kenson received visions from it, and it indoctrinated her. Then as Shepard stands there, it attacks her.

A moment later, Dr Kenson is standing over her, telling her the Project cannot commence - which doesn't help her much as it fuels Shepard to leap into action to survive an onslaught of Project Guards also indoctrinated and intent on stopping her.

A Super-soldier to the end, Shepard survives the human attacks... but then is taken out again by the Reaper artefact.

Waking up again, she comes to in another lab... Deja vous all over again from her resurrection - something that doesn't fill her with much hope, given what she had to do to survive that ordeal.

You have the Reaper artifact just sitting here?