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.]

Comments

[thebioticwoman]

Yeah, one of the Spectres before me back home was no prize, either.

[saltsweet]

So Spectres are just as great in your universe too. [ The sarcasm is blatant. ] So why pick a code name with so much stigma?

[thebioticwoman]

[If Videl being a bit aggro is bothering Shepard, it doesn't show.]

One MP getting tossed for taking bribes doesn't discredit the whole parliament. Same thing holds for any organization, Spectres included. The Council revoked the guy's Spectre status as soon as they had proof he'd gone rogue, and sent me to take him down.

[Shepard can't honestly claim to be a fan of the Council, but she's not getting into her universe's politics over one person being weirdly confrontational.]