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[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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[unrecovered]

There's currently a wrath-of-God entity running around the galaxy and dispensing whatever they consider to be justice in...interesting, creative ways. Not something you want to be associated with.

Also, Google still exists. So you know.

[AUDIO]

[kingtyrantranger]

Nice to meet you. I'm Jason.

[On to the question.]

Anyway, the Spectre's already around. They say he's the Wrath of God. Kills murderers and other criminals. Spooky powerful, too. I read that he destroyed an entire country because he figured they'd never stop their civil war.

All I really know for sure is that he let a teammate of ours die just to get a reason to kill someone.

[saltsweet]

Partly because someone already has it and he's kind of an asshole.

He also killed one of our own, so using that for a code name really wouldn't go over well around here.

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[mylawn]

Call yourself what you want. What'd you end up running with?

[headinjuries]

Well, unless you wanna go for that "reclaim the name and make it good again" thing like Brainy is...

[spacesharks]

See, if you ended up anywhere else, that'd probably be a great code name. But some people just have to go and ruin it for everyone. It'd kinda be like going by Joker at this point. It sounds innocent, but doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

[...okay, maybe that was a "worst case" scenario, but you know.]

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[superscholar]

... You've probably already had the Spectre explained, I imagine.

[ Gohan does not like talking about the Spectre, just on principle. He was against letting the guy loose from the very start. ]

Can I ask why you wanted to pick that as a codename?