Darcy's Starry Sky

by Theodore Daniels

Otryadovtsy few hours scoured ship and Synthetic tried to hold it a complete scan using the full power of both systems Troop ships. Finally, it took really use many phones and devices that have traditionally supplied a spaceship, often performed and research functions. Much of the history and development of the race rachni becomes clear, but, of course, inevitably there were more and more questions.

  Otryadovtsy, back aboard the ship plunged into the work of processing the data obtained from the head, he was interested in everything that was associated with that ship, the first ship rachni, fell into the hands of organic reasonable. Of course, there were the first to formally Reapers and their supporters, but it is for volgovtsev and normandovtsev was little significant fact, but the ship and its contents are much more important and valuable.

  Whatever it was, but the confirmation of the capture of the queen, the confirmation of its heavy injuries and confirmation of the transition znachiteplnoy of the reconnaissance krogan behind the Reapers on utukku forced Command Troop as quickly as possible to complete the cycle of research and work on the ship rachni, immerse everything you need on board two ships, and as soon as possible to go behind the Reapers, who managed to capture the second queen of the ancient race. The fact that it will try to use as maternity machine to generate obedient soldiers Reapers have otryadovtsev there was no doubt. Because the ships are gone from an unknown planet as soon as the loading was completed. The navigators and pilots once again made almost impossible, in a short, very short period of time by calculating complete fan of possible ways to pass utukku.

  - We are dealing with troops of the Reapers. - Said Gryunt when he Yavik and Alix gathered in Shepard's cabin on a residential deck "Volga". - It is not particularly necessary to prove. The second queen was rachni field of organic - it is also a fully established fact. And, most likely, paradoxically, it is necessary to develop a variant Utukkku as a planet, designed for permanent residence, and a second queen rachni and its people. - Croghan went to the cabin without needing gestures, but faintly familiar porykivaya. - We have proof of all of this. I think that they are sufficient to put these points based plan our future work with the Queen rachni.

  - "Suan-two" option? - Shepard asked.

  - No matter how we call utukku, this planet will most often not be called Suan. - Said Gryunt. -Now There are many reasons to not lodge a second queen on the same planet, where there lives the first Queen with his people. If I understand correctly, Svetlana, then we should not put all your eggs in one basket rachni, that is to settle all rachni, including queens, on a single planet should not be. Utukku, I'm sure, very important to a lot of races and it is worth defending. I think Queen rachni quickly overcome the effects of a kind of post-traumatic syndrome, if it is, of course, you can exactly determine and agree that utukku well suited to the role of the world rachni revived, maternal rachni planet, one of the parent planets. I have a persistent belief that if we can save the queen rachni from death, she would not risk himself or his people, again getting involved in the war against the now existing races in the galaxy. I am not talking of course about the Reapers - they vnegalaktichny. - Said Croghan. - We have learned a lot, staying in the drift at the repeater, even more learned, while on an unknown planet, we have now the possibility and necessity - Raptor slashed the air with his paw - all completely scout. So soon, very soon we will cluster Ninmah, we go in and Mullah Zul zaymёmsya closely what is going on utukku. We can and must find our reconnaissance and save the queen. - New chop through the air Gryunt confirmed the determination to do everything possible for that. - If we are sent here - we will fulfill this task and make sure that our compatriots do not go missing. again getting involved in the war against the now existing races in the galaxy. I am not talking of course about the Reapers - they vnegalaktichny. - Said Croghan. - We have learned a lot, staying in the drift at the repeater, even more learned, while on an unknown planet, we have now the possibility and necessity - Raptor slashed the air with his paw - all completely scout. So soon, very soon we will cluster Ninmah, we go in and Mullah Zul zaymёmsya closely what is going on utukku. We can and must find our reconnaissance and save the queen. - New chop through the air Gryunt confirmed the determination to do everything possible for that. - If we are sent here - we will fulfill this task and make sure that our compatriots do not go missing. again getting involved in the war against the now existing races in the galaxy. I am not talking of course about the Reapers - they vnegalaktichny. - Said Croghan. - We have learned a lot, staying in the drift at the repeater, even more learned, while on an unknown planet, we have now the possibility and necessity - Raptor slashed the air with his paw - all completely scout. So soon, very soon we will cluster Ninmah, we go in and Mullah Zul zaymёmsya closely what is going on utukku. We can and must find our reconnaissance and save the queen. - New chop through the air Gryunt confirmed the determination to do everything possible for that. - If we are sent here - we will fulfill this task and make sure that our compatriots do not go missing. of course, about the Reapers - they vnegalaktichny. - Said Croghan. - We have learned a lot, staying in the drift at the repeater, even more learned, while on an unknown planet, we have now the possibility and necessity - Raptor slashed the air with his paw - all completely scout. So soon, very soon we will cluster Ninmah, we go in and Mullah Zul zaymёmsya closely what is going on utukku. We can and must find our reconnaissance and save the queen. - New chop through the air Gryunt confirmed the determination to do everything possible for that. - If we are sent here - we will fulfill this task and make sure that our compatriots do not go missing. of course, about the Reapers - they vnegalaktichny. - Said Croghan. - We have learned a lot, staying in the drift at the repeater, even more learned, while on an unknown planet, we have now the possibility and necessity - Raptor slashed the air with his paw - all completely scout. So soon, very soon we will cluster Ninmah, we go in and Mullah Zul zaymёmsya closely what is going on utukku. We can and must find our reconnaissance and save the queen. - New chop through the air Gryunt confirmed the determination to do everything possible for that. - If we are sent here - we will fulfill this task and make sure that our compatriots do not go missing. we have now the possibility and necessity - Raptor slashed the air with his paw - all completely scout. So soon, very soon we will cluster Ninmah, we go in and Mullah Zul zaymёmsya closely what is going on utukku. We can and must find our reconnaissance and save the queen. - New chop through the air Gryunt confirmed the determination to do everything possible for that. - If we are sent here - we will fulfill this task and make sure that our compatriots do not go missing. we have now the possibility and necessity - Raptor slashed the air with his paw - all completely scout. So soon, very soon we will cluster Ninmah, we go in and Mullah Zul zaymёmsya closely what is going on utukku. We can and must find our reconnaissance and save the queen. - New chop through the air Gryunt confirmed the determination to do everything possible for that. - If we are sent here - we will fulfill this task and make sure that our compatriots do not go missing. - New chop through the air Gryunt confirmed the determination to do everything possible for that. - If we are sent here - we will fulfill this task and make sure that our compatriots do not go missing. - New chop through the air Gryunt confirmed the determination to do everything possible for that. - If we are sent here - we will fulfill this task and make sure that our compatriots do not go missing.

  Appearing above the planet, squadron destroyed concerted volley drifted in orbit Destroyer Reaper, with everything done to any vehicle or its driver could not send a signal to any content. Four kiborgess and Mark have done the impossible - background information sharing Reaper has not changed one iota. So the fear of the inevitable arrival of the Reapers ships did not have to.

  - "Volga" block area. - Said Titov, where Shepard went to the commander's console in the control room of the cruiser. - According to the latest data on the planet only four landing craft accomplices Reaper - normal pelvis. Converted to the needs of Synthetic, of course, not without it, but without an
y new features. - He gave the captain, sitting in a chair, a stack of readers. - Recent data. I've already read them landing party.

  - Hmm. So, it was dragged into the ground ... - Shepard got a grasp in the abstract.

  - Well, the conditions on the planet just suitable for rachni, John. Remember that krogan attacked queens on "acid" planets. And for these synthetic accomplices Reapers almost all conditions are equal. - Said Titov. - So Gryunt I handed the refined information. - He has brought to the screen panel card. - It's - the area of our operations. The cave entrance. This is - a plan diagram of the cave, very preliminary. We are not scanned in detail the thickness of the planet, not to arouse paratroopers Reapers and not force them to go to extreme measures.

  - Good. Keep. - Shepard realized that under the extreme measures Titov primarily meant killing captive queen rachni. Reapers and their supporters in a desperate situation, and in many ways for them today evolved precisely this, because the destroyer was destroyed quickly and almost imperceptibly, and could destroy the immobility queen.

  - Metal in the interior of a lot, John. - Said Titov, moving to another display table. - I suspect they are attended to in order to to obstruct access to the Queen and also hinder access to the surface for her unruly children.

  - Ship-processor? - Shepard fumbled look at the screen, but did not find any appropriate mark.

  - Alas, we combed the entire surface of the planet. - Said Titov. - He is not. Chances are accomplices Reapers used worn equipment or something very fabricated, equipped with wearable set of instruments. Other ideas we do not have. I received similar information from the "Normandy". - Titov pulled Shepard reader. - Everything is on this issue. The search produced no results, and climb scanners and radars deeply, we did not. There is a suspicion that they are on our arrival in orbit, as well as on the Elimination of destroyers Reapers known. We blocked the area. - Titov received by the Speaker PHONES report metrista and lokatorschika, gave some orders in a low voice familiar patter Imperial business. - Will be planted almost all the available cruise landing, because everything points to the possibility of active resistance. Here, beneath the earth there are signs of the presence of hundreds of transformed beetles and at least a thousand haskolyudov. It is also expected that as we go on we will have to go out and have some fierce resistance from opponents of the wave. Their mission - to give us a free pass to a place of detention Queen rachni, and then - not to leave the planet.

  - We will act. Time to place?

  - Twenty minutes. Landing cruiser - in canoes, landing "Normandy" under the command of Alenko - by loading into shuttle. "Arallah" checks weapons and equipment, five minutes later, they also go to the loading.

  - Clear. - Shepard stood up. - We'll figure out. - He nodded farewell Titov and left the control room of the cruiser. Going into his cabin, he took extra sets of arms, ammunition, equipment, checked again spacesuit systems and weapons systems, then moved into the hangar.

  Staff Squad tried without using deep scan of the planet, gather as much information and now, overcoming the distance to the entrance to the transport hangar "Volga" Shepard from the middle of the screen of his instrumentrona read data, building for themselves a picture of the upcoming operation. Titov rights - modified beetles rachni and haskolyudy will have a fierce resistance to attempts to break through to a place of Troop conclusion Queen rachni, and then ... then they will do everything to the queen did not run away from the camera, and could not come to the surface and try to otryadovtsy to save her.

  Shuttles cruiser took off from the spacecraft swarm. To hide its presence in orbit longer there was no way - should not be considered any Reapers or their accomplices finished pathological fools and laymen. He waited until the shuttles to join fregatskie cruising, a swarm of ships has decreased over the area of the landing, is not far from the entrance to the cave.

  - I see the same mucus. - Audio-Alenko reported. - I suppose that the captive queen drove here toward throat of the cave and continued to beat. And charges and beam weapons.

  - Maybe. - Shepard also saw a trail of drops, I go back to the cave. - Could well be. Prepare for landing. Mode - "Carousel". The height of the landing - one and a half meters. With freezing. - Said the first mate.

  The first landed "arallahovtsy". Krogan quickly scattered in the surrounding caves, wanting to find traces of their tribesmen.

  - John. - The relationship with Shepard, already embarked in the hatch of the shuttle and watched the landing teammate, came Gryunt. - Bad news. Almost all of the scouts went inside. On the surface there is nothing. No signs of a struggle, no traces of the battle. They were not found. Near the entrance to the cave from the inside there are traces of clashes. I assume that they tried to reach the place where the queen kept.

  - Maybe. - Noting that almost all otryadovtsy already landed, Dawn Shepard nodded and Lexie, then left aboard the shuttle. Kiborgess, landed behind the captain, ahead of Saren and Nihlus.

  - Yeah. - Held Nihlus, first heading to the entrance of the cave, near which gathered almost all the members of the landing party. - I would have counted the bones of him who wrote in public materials that utukku suitable for life. Here, as the temperature jumps sbrendivshy Warren! Extreme temperature range, the hard climate - that it had to withdraw in the first lines of the characteristics instead of mesmerizing ubayukannostyu its position that the planet suitable for life. There is little water and to preserve the necessary heat and surface temperatures - it's something. From plus to minus seventy sixty day night. Oceans are few and small. But sandstorms in abundance.

  - Soon it will just be the only one in the area. The height of the waves is expected within three kilometers. - Saren said, consulting the instrumentronom. - Data from the "Normandy". The local specialists podsuetilis.

  - Minerals bit, so this is unlikely to be interested in planet Miners. - Continued Nihlus.

  - Uh-huh. Now. - Jenkins said, stepping up to Shepard. - Captain, we found confirmation care of all scouts in the cave. Here, on the surface it is very uncomfortable, so ... it is not surprising that even accomplices rushed to get out of the Reapers inside.

  - Entry height - less than twelve meters and we have found on the surface of the stones forming the arch traces of chitin, which can belong only to the queen. - Approached the XO reported Gryunt. - John, my warriors are eager to reckon with the torturers of the Queen and they feel the death of their kinsmen. If we in the near future Let us enter into all that I ask permission "Arallahu" lead column. I will not hold their tribesmen. They need to know the truth about the missing scouts and will do all that is necessary for this purpose.

  - Inputs. - Shepard made a short chopping gesture with his hand and took an assault rifle at the ready. - Weapons cook recharge. Perhaps the clash. And - not one. The problem you all know - to find and bring the queen to the surface. Hold your pursuers. Forward. - And the first entry crossed the border.

  A few meters otryadovtsy passed, guided by the illuminated entrance aperture. Then the lights were lit, included in the fourth of the filament.

  - Body krogan reconnaissance. - Jenkins said, squatting on his haunches at the corpse and activating instrumentron. - Identify. - He looked at Gryunt approached also included instrumentron.

  - Yes, this is one of the missing scouts. - Gryunt careful reading of the text on the screen of instrumentrona. - They agreed to deliver heavy weapons that appeared to them, as far as possible in the cave. Apparently, they knew that this is where the Reapers and their supporters will hold captive queen and decided to do everything to free her. - Commander "Arallaha" turned instrumentron. - Smell rachni ... I recognized him. But he did some not so ... not clean. So, still accomplices Reapers made captive queen give birth to "empty" bugs ... It should expect surprises. - Croghan stepped into the twilight. - To leave the body. He died with honor.

  Mate realized that Gryunt hurt to give such an order. Under normal circumstances, he, as a commander, was obliged to do everything possible to scout the body carried to the
surface at least - was buried with full honors, and at best - taken on the shuttle aboard the cruiser.

  - They were able to carry a sufficient number of heavy weapons. - Lexie reported. Together with her sister she always passed on all otryadovtsev deep into the cave. - Here, look. - She gave John a weapon. - Flamethrower em-four hundred fifty-one, otherwise known as - "Tornado". I suppose that it is useful to us. On my locators, and Zara is confirmed on the basis of data from its radar, located in front of incubators, capsule with spores and the web. Incubators, as we found out at the approach of organic reasonably can detonate from capsule with spores also at reasonable approximation of organic hatch roeviki and web blocking further passage or cuts from the puffins of sight, which, incidentally, may lie chto-to useful. There are also indications that there are places here

  Exhaustive full report kiborgessy liked otryadovtsam. Now it was more or less clear, which could be expected ahead of the landing group.

  - Prepare. - I commanded Shepard. - Reload. We leave in two minutes.

  Capsules otryadovtsam met first. Roeviki were small, but very harmful, so ognemёtnoe handy weapons to members of the landing party to the fullest. Having familiarized with the technology Zhntsov at first encountered snap otryadovtsy picked up in the alley, not cobwebs tightened, the new flamethrower "Twister."

  - Ahead - ledge. - I reported on the audio-Zara. - I give you my picture.

  Shepard looked at average instrumentrona screen, panorama twisted this way and that, then ordered:

  - The height of the safe. Let's jump. Bypass is long and can be dangerous. We need to take the time to servants of the Reapers have not been able to organize enough resistance.

  As soon as the lower level of the cave were several otryadovtsev, which included Shepard, two Turian and Gryunt as of the side aisles they have got the Huskies, while the opposite ledge to land otryadovtsev attacked the spoiler, from the egg cells which quickly began to hatch quite quickly roeviki. Firing from the pursuing husks, otryadovtsy formed a protective arc to break through that no roeviki nor Husky has failed.