006- Accidental Broadcast [video]

[renegadedriving]

[Today's broadcast is brought to you by Shepard's D-Terminal... But she's not on the screen. Nor is Monodramon. Instead, it's shaky footage taken from eye level, and it very rapidly becomes apparent that it's battle footage. From Shepard's helmet.]

[Of the first 7 and a half minutes of this. (Spoilers for the end of Mass Effect 2! Those who don't want to watch all 7 minutes can get the gist from the first thirty seconds and a quick glance at 6:10.)]

[Why? Well. Shepard figured out how to transfer files from her helmet's eyepiece to her D-Terminal, and determined that clip dangerously classified and disturbing enough to flat up delete, rather than risk anyone stumbling upon it.]

[And Monodramon has just broadcast it to the entire network by mistake.]

Comments

[renegadedriving]

[She sighs heavily.]

Just because I don't know the answer doesn't mean there isn't one.

[greatwork]

Which, incidentally, proves you to be smarter than roughly ninety-nine percent of humanity. Feel special.

You'd've done well to at least hold on to its corpse, though.

[renegadedriving]

It was either blow it up or let the terrorist asshole have the technology used to make it. Not much of a choice.

[greatwork]

Point taken.

... So was that the only factory? Or whatever it was.

[renegadedriving]

Everything we've figured out up until now points to it being their only reaper-in-progress, but there are enough of them already out there that it's still a problem.

[greatwork]

[this is legitimately terrifying!]

What do you have to fight them? Just you?

[renegadedriving]

Armies. We're not as prepared as I'd like to be, but we're not hopeless.

[greatwork]

That didn't look like an army.

[renegadedriving]

That wasn't the army, that was one squad.

[greatwork]

What was the rest doing?

[renegadedriving]

[HEAVY SIGH]

Solemnly refusing to listen to me.

[greatwork]

Why?

[renegadedriving]

Because I'm human. They're not terribly fond of us.

[greatwork]

... What. So your army isn't human?

[renegadedriving]

Most of it isn't. Some is, but humans are galactic newcomers. Most people aren't terribly fond of us.

[greatwork]

Well, fuck those cockmunchers, then.