Got back from a trip and did some marathon ME2 action, finished up Hal Shepard.
Wrapped up the loyalties remaining with Mordin, Grunt, Garrus, Thane and Tali. Found a talking geth platform, sent it to Cerberus for analysis. Maybe it will help the stalled Overlord program. Installed the IFF, Collectors took the crew when me and the dozen were out joyriding; headed on thru the relay to get them back. Was convinced that saving the base would be a great asset for the war effort, most had reservations but we need to seize every available resource for the coming struggle. After leaving Collector space decided that everyone could use some shore leave so we left for Nos Astra. Reserved the Empress' Suite at Azure for myself and Miranda, some R&R well earned. A few days into shore leave, TiM gets on the horn; turns out a Cerberus ELINT cell intercepted some Shadow Broker comms and has a partial fix on his location. Passed the intel unto Liara and went to meet up with her to discuss the situation.
Vasir, an Asari SPECTRE was at her apartment explaining that someone attempted to kill Liara, after dismissing the local gumshoes we scoured Liara's place for clues leading us to the Drakon Towers. It turns out Vasir is a Shadow Broker agent and was the brains behind the attacks. Dispatching her after a vigorous vanguard dance, we head off to confront the broker. Miranda, Liara and myself succeeded in taking out the broker, a monster from the yahg species. We set up Liara as the new broker and head back out.
Without any pressing goal, the Normandy patrols the dark corners of the Terminus encountering a husk infested archaeological dig, rescuing a downed quarian exploration crew and saving a research station's shield generators. In between, mining claims of valuable resources were established. I've been asking TIM for some progress reports on the work beyond Omega IV, it's been a few months now. Citing operational security, we've been kept out of the loop. It seems the IFF freqs for safe access have been changed as well.
A few months later into the patrol, Alliance Admiral Hackett gets in touch, requesting my aid on a secret operation in Batarian space. It seems an old friend had got herself captured and Hackett wanted her rescued. He also said that she had information about a possible Reaper invasion. I couldn't ignore this. I needed to go in alone, with no official sanction to avoid Batarian reprisals.
Dr Kenson proved to have an incredible tale: an imminent Reaper invasion was at hand but we could slow them down and buy some more time if we take out this Alpha relay, forcing them to cruise at FTL to the next relay. However she was acting very suspiciously on the ride back and soon my worst fears were confirmed; the whole project crew was indoctrinated. I fought like a demon, bringing down wave after wave of project goons and their war bot but a surge of energy finally took me down. I woke up in a project med bay, apparently sedated but not enough to overcome my Lazarus assisted metabolism. I fought free, smashed a path through the resistance and activated the project, sending a small planetoid into the relay killing over 300 000 Batarians and vaporizing the system. What a day.
A stealthed Alliance VIP shuttle brought Hackett for the debrief. He was somewhat upset about how a black ops rescue turned into the galaxy's worst act of mass destruction since the Krogan rebellions. Satisfied with the evidence, he promised to do his best to cover my ass from the fallout. Why do I trust brass? Two weeks later, the story, or at least a version of it leaked to the press. ANN, Reuters, hell it was everwhere and all flashing my holo. Goddamnit. The Batarians are howling for my skin and claim to be mobilizing in the Traverse. No one believes the Reaper angle, the holos are playing it up as the genocidal criminal Shepard taking revenge for the slaver attack on Mindoir, which was of course merely a reaction to the imperialistic Alliance expansion... DAMN THEM TO HELL!
We have a year at the outside before the Reapers can start to spread out and it seems that we are worse off than when we started. Hackett is recalling me now, High Command needs me on ice to avoid war with the Batarians as they scramble behind the scenes to prepare. BUT THEY ARE STILL NOT TELLING THE PUBLIC. Fine. I'll take the hit but there is no way my team is. Kasumi and Tali expertly forge IDs for the team members that need them and we scatter to the winds, to do what we can in the lead up to apocalypse. Miranda and I say our goodbyes for now, she is on the Alliance hold and detain list and I'll be damned if I let that happen. We need the Alliance and Cerberus to work together but the bureaucrat faction along with the ambassadorial corps has the military by the quads for the moment in the wake of Arathot. I bring in the Normandy along with a skeleton ex-Alliance crew to Omega but on the way there, we had a strange power surge that fried a few systems, though EDI got it under control. I surrender my command to an Alliance marine detachment led by my old captain, Admiral Anderson.
Who the hell is this guy?
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This is with ease the longest post I've ever done on here (seriously, it's f*cking long!!!), it includes maaajor headcanon... and if you don't like the way the one-night stand between Shepard and James is developed and presented during the party I'd suggest you don't read it, though I tried my best to make Shepard's horrible flirting lines seem more harmless; my Shepard is a horrible and desperate person though anyway, ahaha.
). Haven't drawn in forever, but it turned out okay I think. I just finished it today 
I searched the forums a bit and it's clear on the alien languages part, but... now I pretended Shepard doesn't understand what James says because for example MShep definitely doesn't get "Loco" translated, as he refers to the exact word, so it seems these kind of words don't get translated. Same as the James/Ashley hook-up where James has to say a Spanish sentence 3 times or so because Ash apparently likes hearing it in Spanish and doesn't get what it means... So... ideas? I didn't get it? Retcon? Nonsense? I shouldn't worry too much? 
