![]() The geth's hexagonal energy shields bloomed as they advanced, laying down a hail of gunfire. The salarians were skilled, but a stand-up fight wasn't the kind of conflict their unit was meant for. Had the whole team been there, things might have been different, but Kaidan could feel immediately the tide was against them. The months of fighting them had given him a clear picture of which ones to prioritize as the synthetics poured down the gently sloping geothermal stills.Įverything became noise and mayhem. It only made picking them out as targets that much easier. Not for the first time, Kaidan wondered at the wisdom of mounting the geth's single, glowing optical sensor in the center of their heads. The geth drop-ship cast a long shadow over the sun-drenched power plant. That enemy had bought their diversion for a time, but now the beast was stirring. Virmire was a case study in the old proverb about plans never surviving first contact with the enemy. The half-insane salarians they'd found imprisoned in the extensive lab areas bore witness to the heretofore unknown depths of Saren's depredations. ![]() Kirrahe's team was a reminder that Shepard's team weren't the only ones fighting Saren. The quiet and meticulous sniper, Anatore, sighted down his long rifle laid along a concrete pier. Madar, the quick-witted engineer, readied several ECM grenades. The salarian commander's skepticism about this whole assault irked Kaidan, but absolutely no argument could be leveled against Rentola's execution of Kirrahe's orders. ![]() Off to Kaidan's right, Commander Rentola was pressed up against the concrete pedestal of a transformer block, scanning the approaching geth with wide amphibian eyes. But the Special Task Group on Virmire had a lot more to recommend them- courage, experience and cunning. Up until meeting the salarian STG unit, Kaidan's exposure to the fast-talking aliens had been limited to Citadel merchants and a few individuals of questionable motives. A drive core re-purposed as a bomb, the timer in his HUD linked to its detonation countdown.Ĭaptain Kirrahe's speech had been impressive to listen to. The thing that would take that army away squatted in the ankle-deep water behind him, ominous in its stark simplicity. The task was easy Saren could not be allowed to have an army of krogan warriors. Splashing through the murky water of the geothermal sink, he didn't have time to seriously contemplate the implications of that thought, and what fear he felt was surprisingly remote and unimportant. As the red-glowing number hovering in Kaidan's HUD counted down, it spoke in plain terms.
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