Fandom Mass Effect: Contagion Eclipse {IC}

[Morgaine Kri Chya]

Seira Nereon the "Ghost" aka Nere​

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Location: Wards -> Hanger Bay 01
Interactions : Aquanette (Elesi), ThatGuyWithSouvlaki (Nessa)
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Seira's smirk grew as she caught Nessa's quip about lost thank-you cards and pens. The Asari's humour was sharp, a rare trait among the usual staunch rule-followers in C-Sec, and it was refreshing to see someone who didn't take themselves too seriously. Seira offered a dry chuckle, meeting Nessa's gaze with a raised brow and her head tilted.

"You know, I've been told I'm better off as a rumour anyway," she replied, her tone light. "Besides, I'd never survive the paperwork if you filed the 'Kaldera' affair by the book. I'll give you a few details if we get the time.

Seira returned attention to Elesi. "Perfect memory recall, huh?" she replied, her tone laced with amusement.

"I'm sure that comes in handy for patching us up, but I'm not so sure about never losing an argument. It could be a challenge there, depending on the outcome of the argument.

She folded her arms, giving Elesi an appraising look. "Guess I'll just have to see if that memory recall holds up under pressure. But hey, I'll take your word for it—until proven otherwise."

With a playful glint in her bright teal eyes, she added, "Though, if you ever do forget anything, just make sure it's not the part where you keep me breathing."

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Location: S.S.V. Valkyrie -> Docking Bay -> En Route to Quarters
Interactions : Aquanette (Ve'Nalia)
Mentions: Nothingness (Councilors and Crew) ​

She then fell in line behind the Turian Councilor. As they moved through the ship, Seira couldn't help but take mental notes, observing the crew members stationed along the corridors and the subtle but significant upgrades to the ship's systems. She didn't engage much, other than a few nods as eye contact was made. Finally, they arrived in the docking bay.
Seira kept her expression neutral as the Turian Councilor detailed the Valkyrie's specifications and the features of the Firewalker. She listened carefully, absorbing every detail about the upgraded shielding, seismic radar, and the electrical pulse designed to ward off the galaxy's larger predators. Internally, she was both impressed and a little sceptical.
The Firewalker sounded impressive. A vehicle that could withstand a Thresher Maw? That was no small feat, but she'd seen enough "improved" tech fail under pressure to know it was better to wait and see how it performed in the field. The seismic radar was a nice touch, though—she could already see the value in being able to detect threats and terrain anomalies long before they became a problem.

As for the Valkyrie itself, she felt a grudging respect. The Normandy class had been a legend, and this ship seemed like a worthy successor. They wouldn't have equipped a vessel like this if the Council weren't taking the mission seriously. The realization steadied her and reminded her that they weren't going in under-prepared; they were being sent with everything the Council could throw at this threat.

Alright, Council, she thought. You gave us the tools. Let's just hope they're enough.

As the Councilors split off, Seira decided to follow the Asari Councilor toward the living quarters. The thought of staking a claim to a specific room didn't interest her much, but the prospect of checking out the kitchen and its provisions certainly did. A well-stocked kitchen would be more than just a luxury on a mission like this—it'd be a small, reliable escape from the grind of constant duty. Good food, something beyond standard-issue rations, kept people grounded, giving them a sense of normalcy no matter how dark the mission got.

She thought, " If the supplies are good enough, maybe I'll make a round of sushi some nights. The crew might appreciate a decent meal when the time allows."

Heading in the same direction was Ve'Nalia, the Asari Sentinel. Seira had noted her calm but curious presence during the briefing, and from what she'd overheard, Ve'Nalia seemed resourceful—a good trait in the unknowns they'd soon be facing.

As they moved through the hall, Seira glanced over with a slight smile. "Here for the best view in the quarters or just seeing what the Valkyrie has to offer?" she asked lightly, her tone friendly. "Personally, I'm hoping the kitchen's got something worthwhile. Mission's heavy enough already; a bit of decent food wouldn't hurt, right?"

 

[Nothingness]

柚子 高橋

Yuzu Takahashi

location

S.S.V Valkyrie -> Main Deck -> Med-Bay -> Research Lab

Interactions

@Guppy Franz ThatGuyWithSouvlaki Morgaine Kri Chya Aquanette

The tour of the ship lasted approximately half an hour to an hour long, those that followed the Councilors were given a full explanation regarding the parts of the ship that they were given a tour about, introductions were given to the diverse members of the crew. Whether friendships or rivalries were formed was up to those that were met but, in the end, it was to be expected that everyone was to work together and respect one another for the sake of the mission at the very least. By the end of the orientation, everyone would gather back on the main deck of the ship where they all came around the large galaxy map/table which happened to have in an arrowhead shape with all sorts of console controls surrounding the edges while the master control for the Commander of the vessel was located at the base of the arrowhead.

Yuzu had decided to stand near the tip of the arrowhead table as he stared down towards the galaxy map, lost in thought. Wondering just what kind of threats they were going to face, who they were going to lose, if this mission would even be feasible, all these different thoughts flooded his mind as he gripped the edge of the table to the point that he nearly forgotten he was surrounded by others still in the room.

All the while after everyone had gathered around, the first to speak had been the Asari Councilor. "That is it for the orientation. For those of you who are still unfamiliar with any of the other systems of the ship, you may feel free to ask your fellow crewmembers for assistance. When it comes to tasks aboard the ship, I trust you all have your own specialties, so you may decide amongst yourselves who will attend to which task. However, the most important role shall be assigned by us. The role of Commander of this vessel." As the rank of 'Commander' was spoken, Yuzu's eyes widened as he was taken out of his thoughts and his attention was quickly brought forward. The last thing he wanted at this moment was to be given command of an entire vessel and crew, he wasn't sure if he could ever handle such a responsibility again, if he were to be selected he most likely would've asked to decline for his own sake.

This decision was had already been decided during the tour of the ship, while the Councilors had been giving the tour, they had still been in contact with one another using their omni-tools to make a vote while going through the records of each individual on the mission. While the vote was close a final decision was made and with that, each of the Councilors turned to face the Asari 'Nessa'. The Asari Councilor continued to be the one to speak to make the promotion. "Investigator Nisanyzia T'Sorus. This council has decided that you shall be the Commander of this vessel. Our decision was based on how your record has shown you grow up in struggle. You have shown that even those who turn to crime and injustice can one day find salvation and turn to the side of peace. From your time in the Terminus Systems, you have come to join C-Sec and have risen in the ranks time and time again. With this, we find that you are the rightful decision to lead this ship and crew to bring peace back to our galaxy." As the Councilor finished her statement, Yuzu gave off a silent sigh of relief before crossing his arms to see what would happen next.

With the promotion completed, the Turian Councilor spoke up once more, flicking a switch on the master control panel to bring up the galaxy map on the table. Pointing towards the planet of Eden Prime. "Commander, while we shall trust your judgement and decisions made upon this mission. We ask that eventually you investigate Eden Prime regarding this threat. See what information you can gather and report it back to us. Also, if you happen to find the S.S. Cairo while you are there, see if you can find it's blackbox. Maybe whatever happen to the ship might be connected to this Nexus." With the given orders, the Councilors gave their bows before taking their leave from the ship. "Our prayers are with you all." That being the last words from the Asari Councilor before the ship, and crew were left to their own decisions.

After the council had finally taken their leave, Yuzu kept his arms crossed as he shifted his gaze amongst those he would now be working with before finally landing his gaze on his new Commander. "If you wouldn't mind, Commander. I will be setting up in the research lab. Just holler if you need me..." With that said, Yuzu wandered off towards the elevator behind the galaxy map, if what was told to him was correct on the recruitment flyer, his gear should be loaded up onto the ship at this very moment along with everyone else's that decided to join. Aside from that, he wanted to get a head start on the possibility of needing to upgrade his filter if this threat might possibly be airborne as well.

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[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

Nisanyzia "Nessa" T'Sorus

Nessa unfortunately could not continue her conversation with Elesi for long, as soon the tour arrived to the research lab to gather the separated group and get to the main deck where the CIC was placed. With everyone gathered, the councillors began one last briefing before hopefully taking the show on the road. She kept herself near the back of the group, leaning against a wall, and was near Elesi as conversation turned to who will be leading the charge. She barely paid attention, with no expectation to be chosen or much chance that she would obey the command. She was halfway to opening her omnitool to see if she could hack into the ship's systems and have some backdoors that might proof useful before she heard her full name being called.

She looked up and saw the councillors looking at her and she had a brief fear that she might have been caught in the act and tried to think of way to cover. However, the reason of being called out soon filtered through and she looked at the councillors in surprise. "Your joking..." She said replied almost instinctually before realizing that they were indeed serious. Her leading the expedition? Sure she had some experience leading a team during the war, but that turned out to be a disaster. Not mention she liked being in the background, doing her work on the sly and acting alone so she was the only to face the cost of her actions. But what cans see say? Decline and cause an issue with expedition. Normally she would not mind but she felt Elesi eyes on her with expectation, whether real or not. She frowned at herself. Well you always said you could do things better that your bosses in charge now time to prove it, big mouth.

Finally she bowed her head. "I will get it done." She replied simply to their instructions. She watched the council leave as she considered her next move. "Just hang on a second there and everyone." She said firmly to Yuzu. Maybe a little to firmly than necessary but she felt she needed to assert her authority from the beginning. "Ok everyone, i am not one for speeches and we need to get to work. I know you all know your work and you know what we need to do and what the ramification of it and what we are investigating. We work together, we will get this done and maybe save the day. Found yourself a bunk, get situated and sort your gear ready for when we arrive. The trip there should not take long and likely it will be all hands on deck. We will have another meeting once we arrive and discuss what to do and what we know. Ok? Dismissed." She added making mental note to go through all the files on each member of the expedition and actually get to know their skills... Among other things.

Mentioned: Nothingness and everyone present.​

 

[Aquanette]

• Ve’Nalia
• Elesi
• Zylphia

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  Ve’Nalia smiled and simply shrugged “Eh, a little of this, a little of that,” She replied with a smile “My father was a Quarian so I was tempted to go and see the drive core, and a room with a nice view would be great but food quality is such a subjective matter so I wanted to see what we were working with, if it’s not up to snuff it’s something we should address before we get going shouldn’t it?” She asked. “I mean even military provisions can be tasty if you put enough thought into it, but it’d be nice to have some good quality provisions,” She said “We apparently have a hydroponics lap so we could probably grow some Keleven and some Cardacha Cthonis, I practically lived on those things, they’re good as ingredients and emergency provisions all on their own,” She explained. “I don’t think those are common things people think to stock up on so we’ll probably have to get some, but who knows maybe they’ll surprise us,” She said as they made their way to the kitchen.
  
  The facilities themselves seemed good enough, state of the art even “Looks good so far,” She said and started opening up the cabinets, pantry, even the fridges “Well, it seems like they actually went all out, we got some good stuff here to work with, but as I suspected there is no Keleven for Cardacha,” She said before pulling out two small sacks from her bag and smiled “Luckily, we have a hydroponics lab,” She said implying she had the seeds for said plants in those sacks. She has a small hydroponics garden on her little exploration ship so she kept the seeds on hand. Soon however, they were called back to the C.I.C. so she shrugged, turning to her new Seira “Well, I guess we’ll have to check out the living quarters later, just know I call dibs on an observation deck, I don’t care which one,” She said partially joking.
  
  Interactions: Seira Morgaine Kri Chya
  
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  Elesi blushed and gave a small chuckle “Don’t presume to be worthy of me,” She said jokingly as she crossed her arms.After they’d checked out the med-bay and made sure that it was more than up to snuff she felt satisfied. With the addition of the hydroponics, bio and simulation and research labs she felt like they had a pretty good chance of figuring this out.
  
  They were then called to the C.I.C. where they were informed of who their captain would be, which made sense, even if they all had spectre privileges someone had to be in charge to keep them organized or on some sort of task. Surprisingly enough Nessa was chosen to be the captain. Sure she was the most qualified on paper and she made the most sense, but still it didn’t stop it from being a shock, she just guessed she wasn’t prepared for it and by the looks of it, neither was she.
  
  “Well, congratulations commander, don’t go thinking this changes anything,” She joked giving the Asari a hug. "Anyway, as the doctor I will obviously be in the med-bay unless you wanted to talk about anything before I go?" She asked.
  
  Interactions: Nessa ThatGuyWithSouvlaki
  
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  Zylphia listened as the council made their choice and T’Sorus made her speech. She had no real opinion on their choice of command just yet, but had no real objection either. After all it wasn’t like she was dying to take command of the vessel and it’s crew and she seemed to be the best choice anyhow from a logical standpoint especially given it was the council that was choosing. She was likely the only one they knew well enough, she seemed to have the qualifications and the experience so you’d hear no complaints from her at this time. Hopefully it would stay that way.
  
  Once all things were said and done and people started to go off and do their own things, Yuzu made it known he would be in the research lab.
  
  “Similary I’ll be in the armory, think I might set up there. See you all around,” She said, going off to make sure their weapons stock was up to snuff and what resources she might need to call in if they weren’t. She was interested to see what everyone was capable of though and was kind of curious as to what Yuzu was doing in the research lab, but she would figure all of that out later. For now she just needed to set up.
  
  Interactions: Nessa ThatGuyWithSouvlaki
  Mentions: Yuzu Nothingness