video, backdated to pre-plots

[thebioticwoman]

[Shepard has settled into her quarters, and the background to her transmission is a thrilling expanse of undecorated wall with a little bit of couch cushion visible near the bottom of the frame. She herself is a red-haired, pale-skinned human woman with green eyes and a calm, no-nonsense demeanor, wearing what looks like it could be a military or merchant marine uniform, though it has no obvious insignia or rank.]

My name's Shepard. I just got here, obviously, and I have a question. The staff was polite about it, but considering one of them nearly dropped his datapad when I floated the idea, there's obviously something they're not telling me...why is "Spectre" a bad codename?

[She could just freakin' Space Google it, but this is a good icebreaker. Besides, she doesn't have her omni-tool and she finds the omnicomm interface unreasonably clunky and inflexible.]

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[thebioticwoman]

[Oh, uh. That actually does kind of sound like her job. She's a merciful special agent with near-unlimited extrajudicial authority, at least.

Maybe best not to mention that just yet.]

"Google?" Like the number?

[Unspoken question: what does that have to do with what she asked?]

[unrecovered]

Like the search engine.

[No sarcasm; turns out dimensional differences are A Thing, and he occasionally needs a moment to remember that.]

It might not exist in your dimension.

[thebioticwoman]

["Search engine" she can figure out, even though they don't use the term where she's from.]

Oh. We just call it an "extranet search."

[Shepard's nose wrinkles a little in distaste, but she's looking just enough down from the camera that it's clearly not at Wash himself.]

Gotta get used to a new interface, I guess.