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What was your femshep doing before Mass Effect 1?
Prior to her December of 2182 transfer to the SSV Normandy, Maddy was serving aboard the Lexington class frigate SSV Yorktown (Registry No. SR NC-1812) as XO. She had been promoted to Lt. Commander midyear and had originally been assigned to supervise the Yorktown's extensive 14 month refit, to be completed in December of 2183 (In preparations her eventual promotion to captain and taking over as the Yorktown's CO)
Maddy had been assigned to the Yorktown (her first command assignment) since her graduation from the Westfield Officer Candidate School in February of 2176 as a lieutenant. Prior to her assignment aboard the Yorktown, she served aboard the pre "First Contact" era Chicago class cruiser SSV Southampton (Registry No. SR NC-210), until it’s decommissioning in 2174 after 21 years of service.
She had been aboard the Yorktown for only 8 months when "The Blitz" occurred. The Yorktown had put into Elysium for overdue "shore leave" with 2 other Alliance Navy warships when the fighting started, as illustrated in this excerpt from Lt. Madeline Shepard's testimony to the Alliance investigation committee, December 4, 2176:
Admiral Doyle F. Strauss: "You are stationed aboard the SSV Yorktown...and it says in your report, that you and your crew were...on Elysium for..(Papers rustling)...shore leave correct?"
Lt. Madeline Shepard: "Yes...the crew had been overdue for shore leave for a little over 8 months. we had put in the request and were given two weeks of leave....so we put in at Elysium for few days of service time on the Yorktown before departing for the Citadel for the rest of our leave. The frigates’ SSV Gettysburg, SSV Waterloo put in with us...the Gettysburg being on leave as well and the Waterloo coming in for emergency repairs after striking a old deep space mine that damaged her port side forward hull. The cruisers SSV Kitty Hawk and SSV Melbourne were already in port when we arrived.
Admiral Cynthia S. Henning: "So there were 5 Alliance warships in port at the time of the attack?"
Lt. Madeline Shepard: "Yes... all sustained heavy damage from ground fired ordinance during the attack…The Melbourne took the most damage…she sustained several hit to her port side and lost power…. As a result, she broke her anti-grav docking clamps and fell…pinning the Kitty Hawk‘s starboard wing and damaging both outboard and inboard engine nacelles.."
Admiral Cynthia S. Henning: "All of the ships present were badly damaged, from what we've seen of the repair holo-images. What type of ground fired weaponry was used that could have caused that much damage?"
Lt. Madeline Shepard: "They used Alliance XT-90 Mark Two “Warhawk" guided torpedoes fried from mobile platforms. According to a serial number found on a piece of wreckage found after the attack, these torpedoes were from a lot of 14 stolen from an Alliance Navy installation on Mars six months earlier"
After Elysium, the Yorktown put in to the Arcturus Alliance Navy Yard for a 6 month rebuild and refit. During this period, Maddy served as an assistant instructor of the N7 program at the F.T. Lancing Alliance Military Special Forces Academy.
She also as much time as possible on her 15 1/2 acre "ranch", as she calls it, in Montana that she inherited from her late father.
After her decommissioning in 2174, the SSV Southampton and her only surviving sister ship the SSV Milwaukee (Registry No. SR NC-206) languished in mothballs until they were stricken from the Alliance Navy Registry in 2177. The SSV Milwaukee met her fate in a scrap yard at the tip of a plasma cutting torch in 2178, but a group of investors and historians’ persuaded the Alliance Navy to donate the Southampton to their non-profit organization to restore and preserve her as a museum on Gravenstien. Due to her notoriety after Elysium and Torfan, Maddy and 6 other former crewmates, were asked to be on hand for the public opening. Madeline cut the ribbon during the official public opening ceremony on March 4th, 2180.
Sorry, I'm a detail nerd....and I tend to get carried away
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