"...a female quarian."
*Tali and Shepard are standing in the forensics laboratory, checking the large computer display. A human forensics expert and a quarian medic are standing next to them, both with the obligatory datapad in hands*
Forensics expert: About 16 earth years old...
Tali *touched*: Oh, so young...
Forensics expert: Born in space, came here with the life ships, was living with her parents...
Shepard: I can read, Gen. Don't waste my time. All quarians are spacers.
Gen: Not all of them...
Shepard: All sixteen year olds! Now how did she die?
Medic: We don't know.
Tali: What do you mean, you don't know?
Medic: Well, we know the cause of death.
Shepard: You've been around Gen too much. How did she die?
Medic: Stroke.
Tali / Shepard: What?
Medic: She shows all signs of a severe stroke. You can see the intra-axial hemorrhage here in the orbital and dorsolateral...
Shepard: Write the details into the report. How can she have a stroke?
Medic: That is what we don't know.
Shepard: So if it was an i-a-hemorrhage, there must be severe bleeding. Where does it come from?
Medic: As you can see on the scan here...
Shepard: All I see is a big black spot.
Medic: Well...that's about it.
Shepard: Could you per chance specify that?
Medic: There is nothing left in the orbital and dorsolateral frontal lobes. When we opened her up after scanning, we found ... goo. Literally.
Tali: But...how is that possible?
Medic: From a medicinal standpoint, there are several possibilities, all equally unlikely...
Shepard: Gen, how is it possible?
Gen: Not really sure. But I have a pet theory here...
Shepard: Spit it out.
Gen: Well, there is one big plus on those envirosuits. They log everything.
Tali: You read out her logs?
Gen: Of course. She died from a stroke, at age 16.
Tali: But those are very intimate details!
Gen: Especially here. If I may direct your attention to the software logs...
Tali: Shepard, I really think we shouldn't...
Shepard: Okay, for the record, you had the parents permission for this, right?
Gen: Right.
Shepard: All right then. Seems she had some environment enhancers, massage software, S...scent alterators? Weird.
Gen: Oh, rather common for young quarians, I assure you. Now, you see this software here, "Nerve Stim"?
Shepard: Yeah.
*Tali gets beet red*
Gen: Well, that is, how to phrase it best, a pleasure software.
Shepard: Yeah, I read about it.
*Tali's expression changes from embarassed to irritated*
Gen: You did?
Shepard: Yeah, some files. Anyway, how is this important? It says "deinstalled" right here.
Gen: Yeah, because she got Nerve Stim Pro.
Tali *getting a grip*: Wait...that is really expensive.
Gen: It's a bootleg software.
Tali: What? Those are dangerous, everybody knows that!
Gen: Which is why this is my pet theory.
Shepard: How can you get bootleg software into an envirosuit system? Aren't those too specific to alter the normal procedures?
Gen: Yeah, most bootlegs are just the normal demo software with the trial period removed. But this one was never a demo, it's the full thing. Also, it was not downloaded from extranet or something, but manually installed.
Tali: What? Who even does that, except hackers who don't want to be traced?
Shepard: And seeing her software choice, she obviously was more of a ditzy.
Tali: What's a ditzy?
Shepard: I'll explain later. Did she use the software?
Gen: Extensively. She got it two days ago, and used it 27 times according to the logs.
Tali *turning completely red*: Thats...impressive.
Shepard: How long?
Gen: Some just seconds, some very long...she used the crap out of it, given the time.
Shepard: Any reports on any software causing strokes or severe brain damage?
Medic: Not to the day, no.
Shepard: Okay. Keep us posted, you two. If you find any other reasons this could've happened, let us know.
Gen: Will do.
Shepard: Let's go.
Tali *while walking out with him*: How do you know Nerve Stim?
Shepard: Shadow Broker had files on your extranet history. Sent the term through Centil afterwards.
Tali *turning even redder than before*: I will kill Liara for this.
Shepard: It was saved by the former Shadow Broker.
Tali: She killed him, so I kill her!
Shepard: That don't make no sense.
Tali: You want me to kill you, too?
Shepard: Later, love.
Tali: Oh, shut up...
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And I never read or even heard of Ace Attorney before you mentioned it, Revan. All I know is -
everything I learned about life I learned from shoujo manga.
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