Battle for the Ark 2/?

Shooting the downed alien on the floor once more, to make sure it was dead, I went silent again, leaving my body shield next to its former ally. The final three would face very different fates, other than Reave, I have spent a massive amount of my near-infinite time researching the genetic ability of all Asari called Melding.

Usually, this ability is used between soulmates or partners to either conceive a child or heighten sexual pleasure however if an Asari has significant control over the ability. it can be used for much, much more. It can be used to infiltrate any sentient beings psyche, tearing information and memories from it, allowing the Asari to access their most hidden secrets.

There are massive side effects to doing this, through research, I have limited most of them and with the help of Reave, I can fix my physical state however the mental strain caused by the level of control you need to maintain can cause Asari to break. This is the true reason I have told the commandos to rest after I steal the information and memories of one of these aliens, it will take a while to digest and store the information safely.

Engaging in active combat while doing so may break my mind, something I don't want to happen. Imagine after all this time, I am the one to kill me?

*Bang,*

Two left.

*Bang*

*Bang*

<5 minutes later>

I have now dragged the two barely living aliens back to the location of the commandos.

"You three are to protect me while I gain information from these aliens, no matter what you hear, you are not to intervene in any way. "

The commandos nodded their heads as they set up a quick defensive parameter around the room I had dragged the aliens into. One of the aliens, I used Reave, making sure to slow down the power of the ability, if I kill him too quickly, then he can't be used to recover my physical state.

I then threw the second alien onto a table, my eyes went pure black as I stared into the alien's soul, memories, flashes of beings, worlds, wars and battles that I have yet to understand began flashing into my mind. The tale of the alien in front of me was displayed also, apparently, it was not born an alien of this species but was dragged through something called an exaltation, it was originally called an Angaran?

Must be another species native to this galaxy, which means the scans showing not sentient life were at least doubly wrong. As I delved deeper and deeper into the mind of the Alien, I discovered the name of its new race, Kett, they were brought to the Heleus Cluster by a being called the Archon, to subjugate it for their empire. It seems we have crashed his party, their language is hard to get a grasp of but given enough time, I reckon I could learn it.

I could copy the basics from the mind of the Kett before its brain shuts down, It would help going forwards, shit, I have overexerted, the Kett is beginning to shut down, do I steal the language or remove myself safely? I need the information but fuck.

My eyes reverted to their normal green colour as my mind shredded any connection it had to the Kett, staggering away from the body, I can feel the large amounts of foreign information begin to swirl around in my mind, opening the door to the room I was in, I shouted.

"I have done what I needed to do, I need you three to protect me while I digest the information I have gained, this could very well save our lives going forward."

The three commandos nodded, to me as I returned to the centre of the room, entering a deep state of meditation in an attempt to process the new information.

First things first, the aliens attacking us are called the Kett, they are not native to this cluster, they recently invaded it, the force here is a policing force, not an invasion one. There is a large amount of resistance from the species known as the Angara, they are using Gurrila tactics to fight back.

There is something called 'the scourage' that is making travel within the cluster harder than it should be, 'the scourage' is linked to what the Kett call the remnant. Artificial life that protects some old vaults on many different worlds in this cluster, I hope that they are sentient like the Geth are however based on the information I could 'Gather' I'm going to assume that they aren't.

The last piece of vital information I stole was the amount of Kett on this ship, according to my friend, there are two drop ships attached to the Ark, each one deploying around 30 troops. If we were ready, we could have fought these guys off easily, it seems though that the Kett stumbled into us too. This is a new batch of troops, their first piece of active combat.

Alongside the dropships, is a Kett cruiser that is hanging off to the side of the system, If I can get my hands on that then we would have a way to defend ourselves as the arks have little to NO defences. A sitting duck, ridiculous if you ask me.

"Commandos we move out in 10, we need to get to the control room ASAP and try to release as many still sleeping Asari as possible. I will also need to make an announcement to any that are still alive"