Garvug Plotline Synopsis
In case you’re wondering what happened and how everything fit together.
Little is known about Hailot Wrund until the story in Cerberus Daily News Garvug Invaded By Corporate Forces. He is basically a blip with no history. So I wrote a little background for him. I made him a tragic character. As leader of the largest clan on Garvug, he had good intentions similar to those of Wrex on Tuchanka, but he lacked Wrex’ character, because well… Wrex.
When the corporations invaded the planet, they backed him into a corner. This being the Terminus Systems, the Batarians caught wind of the situation and saw an opportunity. They offered him a cure for the genophage in exchange for an alliance against The Council. The Batarians promised him that the cure was imminent. All of this happened prior to our first mission to Garvug, but I didn’t want to post any of it because I didn’t want to let the cat out of the bag. None of our POV characters knew any of this.
Then we did our first mission to Garvug to recover that Prothean Artifact. As far as we knew it was a simple grab and go. But things got complicated. Wrund had taken the Batarians’ offer and double-crossed the Council Representative, Naleena, during the negotiations with the corporate invaders. The mission ended with Naleena getting critically wounded and a Batarian Frigate hovering over the city, and the first appearance of Machaera fighting Essul.
After Naleena recovers, she had a mission to evaluate Todd Roman and pick up a Batarian traitor on Lorek in the Fathar System in the Omega Cluster at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation refinery. Corporations do not care with whom they do business as long as they make a profit. They are not patriotic. This was another simple grab and go mission, however Roman jumped the gun and triggered an alarm. Roman escorted the Batarian back to the shuttle while being pursued by Batarian Special Intervention Unit personnel. Seeing he needed a diversion, Naleena decided to blow up a building, and the Research Lab seemed like a good target. While in the lab building security patrols forced her to take cover in an office. There she decided to scan some of the documents and discovered that they were working on a cure for the Krogan genophage. With the building on security lockdown, she overheard researchers discussing that the cure was finished and ready to be weaponized. It was then she decided to blow up the building with everyone inside and make sure the samples were all destroyed.
Aboard the shuttle, while interrogating the traitor, she learned about the reason for the cure, and she gave the information to the Council. She saved them another Krogan Rebellion. Of course the Batarians protested that some terrorists had blown up a research facility on Lorek that was doing humanitarian research.
Several months later, this brings us to Vayne’s mission “It Will End In Blood.” The purpose was to end the blood oath against him. For this to succeed not only did we have to turn one of Ganar Slayt’s own kin against him, but we also had to kill Hailot Wrund. Naleena was going to kill Wrund anyway, but Ganar Shinaga demanded it as well. Naleena’s reason was personal under the guise of Council business. Vayne’s mission also was personal which Naleena manipulated to be Council business. Naleena still knew nothing about the political situation on Garvug. Given the fact that the Batarians had traditionally been so underhanded and dishonorable, Wrund also kept knowledge of the alliance within his inner circle. Not even Ganar Slayt knew.
We arrived on Garvug this last time. Everything had gone perfectly according to plan. Morgan found out about Ganar Shinaga. Slayt and Wrund destroyed the Sonax forces. Naleena turned Shinaga. Naleena and Jenus killed Hailot Wrund. Vayne and Shinaga killed Ganar Slayt. Now it was time to evacuate as many as possible. Naleena’s task was to evacuate Wrund’s females. She had to meet with the Shaman. I asked myself, “would the Shaman abandon tradition, embrace cowardice and leave while the others of their clans stayed behind and fought?” The answer to that question was a resounding “no.” Shamans are about tradition.
So I had the Shaman provide Naleena with the information that she had been missing. And thus the Garvug story line indeed ends in blood.