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If the Quarians lived through Rannoch, at some point Xen would mail Shepard with a request for SPECTRE authorization on geth experimentation (built from geth platforms if you destroyed them, or from stolen geth if you made peace). If permitted, she would start developing suicide AI bombers - effectively the kind of sha'heed/kamikaze type that would enter proximity of the intended target, upload an AI-eating virus, and self-destruct (or get eaten by the virus also).
After which she would fly off the handle, and start experimenting on EVERYTHING, including the Citadel, so that Shepard would have to go to the Citadel and either arrest her or shoot her dead.
There's also a lot of choice dialogue there that is probably a hoot to listen to. Haven't yet checked if it's present in the game files as voiceovers or not.
Here are the relevant bits from the TLK file (doesn't really spoil the game, but who knows if it will spoil potential DLC?)
From the horse's mouth:
The letter if you united the geth and quarians:<string> <id>722553</id> <position>100069</position> <data>Assistance Request from Admiral Xen</data> </string> <string> <id>722554</id> <position>100070</position> <data>Admiral Xen has requested leave to perform additional experiments involving attacks on synthetic intelligences. While the experiments are purely theoretical, the nature of the experiments includes creating suicidal semi-AIs that infect other AIs and then self-terminate, which raises possible legal and ethical concerns. Xen has promised that this will improve defenses against Reaper attacks. Spectre authorization could bypass Council law on AI experimentation and give Xen access to the resources she has requested.</data> </string>
If you eliminated the geth:<string> <id>722777</id> <position>100214</position> <data>Help Needed: Urgent</data> </string> <string> <id>722778</id> <position>100215</position> <data>From: Admiral Daro'Xen vas Moreh
Shepard, the Council won't listen to me and is threatening to have me jailed. The Alliance is making noise, worried my experiments will offend the geth, but we can't afford to be choosy with defense plans against the Reapers. You're a Spectre. Use your authorization to get me the tools I need to complete my experiments and drive the Reapers back.</data> </string>
And some dialogue:<string> <id>722779</id> <position>100216</position> <data>From: Admiral Daro'Xen vas Moreh
Shepard, the Council won't listen to me and is threatening to have me jailed. For all the geth resources we found on Rannoch, we still don't have the technology it will take to hold off the Reapers, but what we found did give me ideas for experiments that could help halt the Reaper advance. You're a Spectre. Use your authorization to get me the tools I need to complete these experiments... before it's too late.</data> </string>
Xen: We had victory in our grasp until you betrayed us!
Tali: Shepard stopped the war!
Xen: Are you sleeping with him, Tali? Did someone get her induction filter popped on Pilgrimage? Or are you just stupid?
Xen: Because I can see the rest of our spineless leaders accepting peace, but not Rael'Zorah's daughter.
Xen: Have the geth loaded themselves into your suit yet, Tali? How long until they're talking for you? Until they run you?
Xen: I did not work for years to become a slave to the synthetics!
Shepard: Xen, whatever grudge you have with me, it doesn't affect anyone else.
OR Shepard: I figured it was only a matter of time until you cracked.
Fact: Reaper technology could control the geth. Fact: per your reports, the Citadel is Reaper technology. Ergo...
So far, all I've managed to do is shut down a few keepers and kill some rabble, but if I can unlock the Citadel's secrets...
(judging from other snippets that are harder to reconstruct into viable dialogue, she is given an option to surrender and be effectively chained to a research station on the Crucible project, or to be shot on the spot, the choice is ultimately Shepard's and apparently based on a Para/Rene check)Bailey: It's over, Xen! You'll never get out of here alive unless you surrender!
Shepard: I'm sorry for what happened to you, Xen... but your tests are done.
Xen: But if I surrender, I don't get to continue the tests, now, do I? The tests that can defeat the Reapers? That can build the Crucible?
Xen: You'd put me in a cell while the galaxy burns!
Xen: You small-minded, incompetent fool!
Xen: When the Reapers reduce your homeworld to dust and vapor, you will beg for my help!
Xen: Tali'Zorah... what would your father say?
Tali: He'd say, "Good work. That bosh'tet was crazy."
A variation apparently made for if Xen flew off the hook DURING the war:
War Assets menu quotes:Hackett: You did an impressive job ending the war between the geth and the quarians. Unfortunately, Admiral Xen didn't see it that way.
Shepard: She attempted to re-enslave the geth. We stopped her--permanently--but her viral attack destroyed hundreds of geth ships.
Hackett: The quarians had a hell of a time smoothing things over. Fortunately, the geth are still willing to work with us.
Admiral Xen, incensed after losing control of the geth, introduced a virus that shut them down in the middle of a pivotal battle. The virus was scrubbed, but not before the geth lost half of their forces.
When Xen's research began to cost lives, Commander Shepard killed her before she could turn more people into test subjects.
So, I understand that this was cut is one of the following:
a) it's already gruesome, as it sounds she was experimenting on humans, not just keepers; and the role of "gruesome on the Citadel" was to be reserved for the ending
it furthers the anti-geth views of the game (although seeing the ending, it's weird it DIDN'T get kept, as it throws every pro-geth argument you may have had into the incinerator by ignoring the outcome of the war completely)c) it requires a firefight on the Citadel which would be hard to implement with its role as a hub, unless the "shot and killed" is covered entirely in dialogue wheel/interrupt scenes like the Aria quests.
d) it's similar-sounding to the necromancer quest chain from DA2, although this time out, nobody's mother gets turned into a zombie
e) it allows for a rather high chance of a conventional victory against the Reapers by introducing an ID4-style resolution
f) it allows to predict and prevent the Starchild (dealbreaker, IMO)
Thoughts, complaints, remarks on how you always knew Xen was crazy?
EDIT: Here's the quest's beginning.
Modifié par Noelemahc, 01 mai 2012 - 08:53 .
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