Before landing on the planet Novelia, the Normandy had recently experienced a sad tragedy.
In fact, the main reason was that Shepard was sad. When she was making the decision in the Citadel, she met a colleague from the Star Alliance, a major general, Mr. Kahoku.
This man recently died in a secret Cerberus base.
Prior to this, Major General Kahoku hoped that Shepard could arrange on his behalf to investigate the reasons why some of the investigation teams dispatched in certain hotspot areas had lost contact.
As a result, when the Normandy arrived, all these investigation troops were left with scraps. Not surprisingly, the thing that killed them was the Sand Devil.
Shepard drove the infantry tank to kill the sand devils hiding nearby, and after examining the remains in detail, he found that they all strayed into the sand devils' hunting grounds due to wrong distress signals.
After receiving the results, Shepard immediately returned to the Citadel Council and delivered the results of the mission to Major General Kahoku, which immediately caused panic in the old major general.
Major General Kahoku made an excuse and left hesitantly.
But by the time Shepard heard from the major general again, it was Lieutenant General Hackett, the supreme commander of the Fifth Fleet, who had entrusted her to go to a secret Cerberus base to rescue the missing major general Kahoku.
But Cerberus obviously did not have the habit of leaving enemies alive. By the time Shepard and his men arrived at the base, Major General Kahoku had stopped pulse and closed his eyes forever.
This incident made Shepard feel so indignant that she even followed the clues and went to several secret Cerberus bases to carry out destruction operations.
She obtained some encrypted files and planned to decipher them later to find key information that could overthrow Cerberus.
However, there is not no good news on board the Normandy. During another operation to repel the geth invasion of a certain base station, Shepard happened to obtain some encrypted data about the geth, which was rare for the little girl Tali. Something of value.
She could legitimately return to her wandering fleet, but she still planned to go back after defeating Saren with the Normandy.
It was in this mood that the Normandy arrived at Novilia, the second intelligence area provided by the Citadel Council.
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Noveria is a cold, mountainous world with most of its water in the form of large glaciers. It is a privately owned colony owned by the Corporation (Noveria Development Corporation) holding company. The NDC It is invested and established by 24 high-tech development companies, and an Executive Board is established to manage and represent the interests of these companies.
Investors built isolation units on Noveria and set up small thermal laboratories (radioactive materials laboratories). Because Noveria is not technically part of the Council space, the laws of the Council do not apply to it, so these facilities on the planet are almost invisible. They are all used to study experiments that are extremely dangerous or would cause controversy elsewhere.
Due to the special agreement signed, the special elites of the Council enjoy special treatment on Noveria without jurisdiction, but how much the Executive Committee can deliver remains to be seen. With such unique conditions, it is not difficult to understand that Noveria often involves all kinds of people. Conspiracy theory.
Xie Yuan's own X Technology Development Company was also listed here, becoming the 25th high-tech development company. It has now established small laboratories and workshops on the planet. Its main products are MEC security robots and spark auxiliary robots. In a few years The plan for this year is to bring level 2 rail acceleration weapons to the table.
At the same time, it is also charged with another task, the localization of X's technology, especially the proliferation of alien alloys and transuranic crystals - this is the basis for the development of level 3 beam and plasma weapons.
The secret laboratory responsible for carrying out this task is also placed here.
However, when the Normandy orbited the planet Novilia, the Novilia tower directly gave Shepard a big blow.
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"Normandie, you are here without prior reservation. Our defense system is being activated and we are tracking you. Indicate your intention!"
The clown immediately brought up the name of the parliament: "It's a matter of the Citadel. We have a special "ghost" from the parliament on board."
Just like that, the Novilia tower allowed the Normandy to land and place it in the Novilia starport hangar.
This shows how domineering Novilia is.
After getting off the ship, Shepard took another blow.
In addition to himself, the ones who were selected to accompany him were Liana and Tully. One had a background bonus, and the other was a master hacker.
After getting off the ship, in front of the port customs, a three-person assault team quickly blocked the road.
The leading captain was an Asian named Matsuo Maeko. She asked Shepard to explain the purpose of the sudden visit.
But after Shepard explained that he was a ghost sent by the Citadel, a female guard named Keira Sterling said contemptuously: "It's all bullshit, sir."
Shepard didn't say anything, but Xie Yuan felt uncomfortable after hearing this, and responded directly: "Ms. Matsuo, pay attention to your words. Can I think that Novilia no longer respects the parliament?!"
"As for what Kate said, I don't think it's that serious, and we still need to confirm your identity."
Matsuo Maeko was neither humble nor arrogant, but also reminded: "Also, I have to remind you that it is forbidden to carry any weapons in Novilia."
Then he glanced at his subordinates: "Sergeant Sterling, go check their weapons!"
This order was like disarming Shepard. She directly pulled out her pistol and faced off. Liana next to her had already filled her body with psychic energy, and Tully was also holding a rifle... Only Xie Yuan was speechless, and then went to There was a steel stick in his mouth.
In addition to Matsuo himself, Kate and a turian guard were also on guard with guns.
Liana disagreed with the rules regarding confiscated weapons: "It's not a wise idea to search for geth with bare hands."
But Shepard put down his gun at this time: "Put down your weapon, this is their territory, follow their rules."
If it weren't for the benefactor in front of her who helped her get the secret files of geth computing, Tali would honestly not have disarmed her.
But now that Shepard had spoken, Tali could only listen, but she agreed reluctantly: "I...I support you, but is the condition of our armor okay?"
However, the operation of confiscating weapons was eventually stopped by a supervisor named Jaina Parasini on the radio and confirmed Shepard's ghost identity.
Ghosts can carry weapons here and walk freely, so the procedures for collecting weapons are automatically terminated.
So Matsuo Maeko stopped his order and stepped aside to let Shepard go see Jaina.
However, Sergeant Sterling's words of "pay attention to yourself" still made Xie Yuan angry for a while.
"Hey, this conscientious Miss Sterling, I really want to know, if Saren, the most legendary and most hostile to human beings, came here to do business, would you dare to hand over your gun to him?"
Xie Yuan looked at the three people who had given way, with a trace of sneer on his face: "Do you have the courage to raise your gun? I don't know how much you have to bow with fear, for fear that Saren will try to trick you!"
"You!" Sterling angrily wanted to step forward, but was held back by Matsuo Maeko.
Xie Yuan was also patted on the shoulder by Shepard, "Yuan!" she said angrily.
"Agent Shepard, I hope you can control your men. I hope you will not be so uncooperative during the next visit." Matsuo Maeko advised righteously.
"We will." After saying this, Shepard clasped Xie Yuan's shoulders and walked into the building.
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"What are you doing?!" After walking for a while, seeing that the people behind him couldn't hear what was being said, Shepard criticized in a low voice with a puzzled look on his face, "This is not your normal self, why are you so out of control? !”
"I just can't bear to see Miss Kate being so disrespectful to you. I mean nothing else," Xie Yuan explained nonchalantly. "You have to know that you are the first ghost of mankind. As a compatriot, you have no manners at all. This is too much." excuse me."
"This is their territory, and they have their own rules." Shepard persuaded, "Although I appreciate your protection, I don't think it will be offensive."
“But the rules are strict, and if the NDC executives knew that one of their subordinates almost offended a ghost, they might punish her.
The rules of a company like this have a set of final interpretation rights, so she must be careful. "
At the same time, Xie Yuan said helplessly, "And I'm not choking simply because I'm choking. I'm warning Miss Matsuo in disguise to be careful of her subordinate Kate, who is not a good person."
"Huh?!" Shepard was stunned and scolded with a smile, "Yuan, this is your first time coming to Novilia, right? You don't know Kate, how could you think that she is not a good person at first sight?"
Xie Yuanxin said that this is not the first time I have come here, but it is indeed the first time I have seen Kate. However, Xie Yuanxin has his own reasons: "Do you still remember her reply after you first declared that you were a ghost? ?”
"It's all bullshit, I remember it." Shepard nodded, she remembered clearly what she had just experienced.
"If she really thought about the commander, she wouldn't have misled the commander by saying so," Xie Yuan explained in a low voice. "The correct approach should be to stabilize us and report to the superiors for confirmation immediately. The response should be appropriate and not rude. Count, rather than requiring us to implement it."
"Maybe they are just arrogant." Shepard did not agree with Xie Yuan's theory.
"Maybe. But if you dare to reveal your noble identity and come to a place armed with arrogance instead of treating it with caution...this is not abiding by the rules."
Xie Yuan added: "This is stupid!"
"I still think this is making a mountain out of a molehill." Shepard said this and stopped talking, because they had already arrived at the front desk.
At this moment, the surrounding drones suddenly started ringing loudly!
"Woo! Woo! Woo!"
The people around him immediately became nervous.
