AN EYE FOR AN EYE - [modplot]

[relativityspeaking]

I'm also getting word that the Spectre has decided to grace the UP with his presence again -- with the worst timing ever.

Takron-Galtos is under attack, and he's killing many of the inmates inside. Due to the attack and the tech failures, the prison's security team is also failing at securing the inmate population, and need help preventing the uprising that's fomenting.

I'm sending a team to defend the lives of the inmate population and use the Spear of Destiny and trap the Spectre once and for all. You'll also be responsible for securing the prison to make sure none of the prisoners take advantage of the chaos being caused by the Spectre and the Brainiac to escape.

You'll be operating with very little chance of backup. With the mechanoforms, we're already outnumbered several hundred thousand to one on Colu. This team is going to have work independently, with little outside assistance, and may have to contend with emergency t-gate failures causing extraction to be impossible until the Brainiac crisis is over.

Due to the...theological implications and the Spectre's MO being affected by personal history, this mission is going to rely on volunteers.

For those that haven't faced the Spectre before, I'll be sending you a case file on our past encounters and how he operates.

[She draws in a deep breath.]

Releasing him to defeat Galactus was one of our only options, but this is still our mess. It's time to clean it up once and for all.

[ooc: Locked to characters participating in "An Eye For an Eye." All others can be assumed as being on missions. This can be used for IC planning against the Spectre itself and the characters deciding who should wield the spear.]

Comments

[thebioticwoman]

Just 'cause it's calling itself a god doesn't mean it is one.

[calibrates_big_guns]

I know. All I'm saying is that this is a lot to wrap your head around even by our standards. God or not, there doesn't exactly seem to be an upper limit on what it can do if it puts it's mind to it.

[thebioticwoman]

Hey, if you didn't wanna get shot at by things above your pay grade, you shoulda stayed with C-Sec.

[It's affectionate trolling.]

[calibrates_big_guns]

Believe me, I'll take this any day. [He grins.] Just missing the days where bullets and biotics actually got the job done.

[thebioticwoman]

Biotics, bullets, the entire Citadel and Fifth Fleets, an experimental mass relay built by a dead civilization...

[Let's not undersell what a pain in the ass Reapers are to kill, pal.]

[calibrates_big_guns]

Can't just let me have one, can you?

[He's still grinning, but it's a little strained. He's under no illusions. He hasn't forgotten seeing Sovereign climbing the Citadel Council's tower like a jungle gym after cutting through half the Citadel fleet. Even then, that seemed ... maybe not more manageable, but bullets, bombs, and mass drivers could hurt it. Something impervious to all of that - not just resistant - is an off-putting concept.]

[thebioticwoman]

I'm not trying to one-up you, Garrus.

[The joking tone is gone and she leans into the comm a little.]

Sovereign seemed like too much for anyone to take out, but we still won. Then it was just us against the Collectors. We won that one, too.

[If it requires stabbing the angry personification of an attribute of a god she doesn't believe in with a spear possessed by the spirit of a mass-murderer to resolve this one, well, that's just what they have to do.]

[calibrates_big_guns]

I know.

[The case files definitely put him on edge, but they've always done their best work fighting from below. They'll manage this like they've managed all the rest.

[But it's still nice to hear her say it. Makes it seem just a little more possible.]

I'm ready to see this thing through. Just feeling a little ... useless, is all.

[prettycoolguy]

Or if someone else is calling it a god.

[ OH HOW HE KNOWS. ]

[thebioticwoman]

Why is this a common problem?

[She honestly did not consider "religious veneration of actually existing murderous entities" to be something she would have to face in her career and yet.]