From the journal of David Shepard:
This is the first entry in my new journal since the last one was lost when the Normandy was attacked by an unknown force. That was over two years ago.
Two years ago, a unknown ship attacked the Normandy. I ordered everyone to abandon the ship. Joker refused to leave, so I had to go and convince him to get to a lifepod. I manage to secure Joker inside the lifepod before an explosion knocked me away and the Normandy was destroyed. My suit was punctured in several places and I soon ran out of air and lost consciousness.
I woke up on some table somewhere to the sound of gunfire, explosions, and screaming. The place was already on fire. A woman was yelling at me over an intercom to get moving. I grabbed a pistol and some armor from a nearby locker and ran out of the room. I made way way through the facility. I watched helplessly as some big mechs killed some guys; they shouted at me too save them but I couldn't. I don't know whose Omni Tool I was using but it had a pretty cool Combat Drone program that seemed pretty effective.
I ran into a guy named Jacob. He said he was head of security at the facility. I helped him destroy some hostile mechs, before he got a call from some guy named Wilson who seemed hurt. So we took off and found Wilson who had a badly injured leg, but we fixed it with some medi-gel. Jacob then told me that they worked for Cerberus.
I remembered Cerberus from when I was hunting down Saren. A former Alliance Black Ops organization, they had been running some strange experiments on alien creatures, and were responsible for the Thresher Maw attack on Akuze where I lost my whole squad. Last I heard, they had been branded as terrorists. Not sure why they were there -- or even why I was there -- so I figured it would be better to play along and see where this goes.
We fought our way through some mechs to get to the escape shuttles, only for a woman to come out and kill Wilson. Her name was Miranda and she was the same woman who was yelling at me earlier. She said Wilson had betrayed us and was responsible for the attack on the station. I was in no position to argue (it would take days to investigate) and decided that it would be better if we left the station. Before we left, she told me the station was called Lazarus Station and that it was designed to "bring me back", whatever that meant. I'm hoping 'Lazarus' was just a convenient name and not a metaphor for actually resurrecting from the dead or something.
We took a shuttle to another station where I would talk with The Illusive Man, the Cerberus Leader. Along the way, Miranda and Jacob told me they wanted to aske me some questions since it had been two years since I was gone. Two years? I was stunned. They asked me about Akuze and Ashley, then told me that Udina was now a councilor on the Citadel. Cool.
At the station, I talked with The Illusive Man over holo. He's got freaky eyes. He said they brought me back to find out who was abducting human colonies and why. I asked him why the Alliance was not doing anything and he said they were spread too thin after the attack on the Citadel. He also said that he believed the Reapers were behind the attacks. That got my attention. He said to take a shuttle to Freedom's Progress, a small colony that just went silent.
So Miranda, Jacob, and I went to Freedom's progress. It seemed deserted until some security mechs started attacking us. And then we ran into some Quarians led by Tali! It was good to see she was still alive. She told the Geth data I gave her helped her with her pilgrimage. She was leading a team looking for another Quarian named Veetor who had been working on the colony for his pilgrimage. Apparently he had gotten scared when he had seen our shuttles and reprogrammed the mechs.
We split up to cover more ground but the Quarians -- who really hate Cerberus because of an attack some time ago -- went on ahead and ended up getting slaughtered by an YMIR mech. I used my new drone buddy to distract it while we took it down and got to Veetor. He showed us some security footage he pieced together showing an alien race called the Collectors abducting the colonists. He said they froze the colonists with swarms of insects so they could take them away on their ship. Miranda wanted to take Veetor with us to Cerberus, but Tali showed up and objected saying we could take his Omni Tool data instead. I volunteered to take the data since the Quarians would know how to treat Veetor.
Back at the station, the Illusive Man was pleased with our work, then gave me a pilot and a ship: Joker and a new Normandy! Wow! I still cannot believe it. He also gave me some dossiers for some combat specialists we would need to take the fight to the Collectors.
Anyway, this journal entry is a lot longer than I intended. Time to go talk to the new crew and then go see if I can recruit this Mordin Solus guy. Maybe I will make a stop at the Citadel first, see if I can get the Alliance or Council to help.
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