Mass Effect: Dawn of Tomorrow (IC)

[cider]

Durant nodded in acknowledgement and excused himself. He had to contact the admiral, who would not be happy about these news. Krogans had replaced humans on the Council. Upon entering the communications room, Durant quickly linked up with the admiral, who was in company with some of Durant's other superiors. Durant told them what the spectre had told him. The people in the hologram reacted as expected. Some with anger, some with worry. The admiral seemed disappointed but calm and composed. This was not an unexpected circumstance.
"How do you want me to proceed, sir?" Durant asked.
"As planned. We will arrive shortly." The hologram disappeared. Durant appreciated the directness of the admiral. He left the room and talked with the pilots through his omni-tool, telling them to go through the docking process as soon as the spectre had left the ship.

Roughly ten minutes later, Durant left the Normandy through the airlock and set his foot on the Citadel. The first human to do so in almost two hundred years, as far as he new. The first human ever, more precisely. A salarian dock worker had stopped in his tracks and looked at Durant with similar curiosity to that the Normandy crew had shown towards Velia Si'ona. The man quickly averted his eyes and continued strolling along the path. Two turian C-Sec officers approached Durant. One of them presented himself as Captain Tyzuris, and said he was there to escort Durant.
"Will more of your crew visit the Citadel?"
"Yes, five more", Durant answered and soon enough Yates came walking through the airlock along with three more N7-guys and an Alliance infiltrator named Reilly Jones. Much to Durant's dismay, the officers insisted that the humans left their primary weaponry on board, bringing only their side arms. Citadel policy. The party started walking along the path while Captain Tyzuris gave them information about the places they passed, before they took an elevator straight to the Council chambers. They stepped out of the elevator and found themselves in a very large, plaza-like room complete with luscious trees and bushes. The oval roof was completely transparent and let in an immense amount of light. The place was completely devoid of people, save from the party that had just arrived.
"The meeting with the Council will start as soon as your admiral has arrived", Tyzuris said, before walking off to a console at the far left, along with the other C-Sec officer. Durant nodded and ordered the men to spread out in two-by-two:s.
"Stay sharp."

[Lunacent]

The Citadel had been, for most part, rebuilt from it's past. After the events that destroyed the Reapers, turning the once central hub of galatic life, into a Crucible. A weapon forged by the ancient race of Protheans that wiped out artificial intelligence throughout the universe, taking along the reapers with it. The Citadel became a husk of it's former self, a derelict relic suspended in the middle of the Serpent Nebula.

It took several generations and decades of combined effort from the Council races to terraform, once they relocated it, and rebuild it to the semblance of civillization we see today.

As the humans looked out the many glass walls around the room, they could see pockets of the Presidium under the holographic sky that kept the atmosphere in. Buildings, offices and various structures dotted the landscape, many of which are a mix of the past with the present built upon in. Such as the Huerta Memorial Hospital, architecturally preserved by the Council for historical purposes and only ever so slightly renovated. To this day it remains as a functioning facility and as a keepsake of our history, standing tall in the complex, reminding all who view it of the adversities they had to overcome to get to where they were today.

While surrounding it were many other completely new buildings, replacing those that were destroyed in the events that transgressed here.

And even though the living areas were sparsely populated as compared to before, due to it's still recent re-introduction as the hub of galactic life, the Citadel was still a beautiful place and growing in number day by day with ship that landed in it's docks. People could be seen sitting around the fountains, engaging in small talk with each other and going about their life.


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"Good day. Captain Tyzurius, several Human Alliance ships have arrived at the Citadel space station through the Widow Mass Relay. The Council believes it to be the human ambassadors and prompts you to greet their arrival." A V.I., resembling a purple asari, blinked into existence above a nearby console, her mechanical voice expressed artificial cheer and her holographic limbs gestured and pointed in a way that would somehow make the dullest conversations bearable.

"I will, Avina." Tyzurius replied, nodding to the interface as he lifted his three digits off the console.

"I shall update the Council on your behalf." The V.I. then turned to few who wore the uniform of the SSV Normandy. "Welcome back to the Citadel." With a smile. "And thnk you for using Avina." Before the holographic image faded away to tend to the inquiries of another Volus tourist somewhere else.

[Reececr]

Reilly didn't feel much excitement anymore, but even the thought of being one of the first humans onto the citadel made what was left of his heart race. He overheard some conversations and realised a citadel spectre was coming aboard. He had only seen holovids of Turians so he knew what to expect but this one had some amount of grace to her. After a quick meeting were the Captain and The Spectre seemed to have a bit of "whos got the bigger/more threatening gun" pissing contest in which he felt they the captain had won. Next minute he was readying up but had to leave his primary weapon on board. Taking an accessory scope he clipped it to his pistol and aimed down the sight. Once he was happy him and 4 marines and the captain set off out into the citadel.

Reilly took it in instantly and was filled with wonder, however he knew he was supposed to stay sharp who knew what could be waiting for them. Watching all corners and learning all points of escape he took in as much details as his cybernetic eyes could, picking up slight details and a mixture of c-sec guards amongst the normal civilians. They reached the plaza which was empty. Captain Tyzuris who they had followed left to access a terminal and his order from his captain was to stay sharp.

"Sir" he replied in affirmative watching channels and searching for cover points. He stood looking quite relaxed as he wandered around with the marine, he barely knew who he was and wasn't going to find out unless it mattered all he knew was he could count on him if needed. When he was satisfied with watching all channels he walked to the stairs the slightly raised platform at the back of the plaza nodding to the captain as he walked passed. He was looking for a vantage point, he didnt like were they where it was killing ground.

[ThunderFox]

Alex wasn't too surprised to hear humans lost there council seat they were MIA for two centuries anyone that thought otherwise needed to learn common sense. he decided he would rather not anyone on the citadel see his face just in case hardly believed all the aliens would be so happy they return wanted to be ready. Looking at his surroundings grinning some behind his mask was in awe of the place was just like the stories of "The Shepard" he read. Frowned when reaching the check point having to give up his weapon not something he was fond of but shrugged kept his sword at his side refusing to leave it on board. was eager to separate and when durant gave the order was the first to scatter alone worked better on his own.

[Shoryu]

Kell remained quiet and still as he watched the personnel wandering about logistics center he was peeking in on, waiting for that crucial detail he wanted to hear, then he got it, notice that the human ship Normandy NR-7 was approaching to dock, and a grin spread wider across his lower mouth as he whipped about through the vent to make his way there.

Given the vast Size of the Citadel, it was a miracle he made it all the way to the dock in question before the 'visiting crew' had left already, and early enough to be able to track them through the vents. One vent at a time he followed alone, observing for a time, willingness to give up their best weapons for diplomatic reasons, some were agitated or uneasy by this choice, though also they seemed decidedly 'wowed' by the contact with alien life after so long, though he only knew anything about them from stories from before. Once they entered the elevator to head to the council chambers he headed back to the larger main vents and made his way up, taking a little while to move about and try to find a suitable vent to get into the room.

It seemed however that in the reconstruction some suitable changes were made, and the vent layout minimized easy access to the council from within, after a little while he stopped at once vent to see the visitors leaving the elevator and began to consider ways to get down there, he was curious, in many ways, about these fleshy humans and wanted to get down there before they ended up talking to the council, from what little time he'd spent seeing council meetings, he'd discerned that they had a habit of putting people in bad moods... For which reason he formulated a bold little manuever to get there much quickly.

He couldn't use his armor very well from within the vent though, so he slipped out of the vent, though it was quite high, much too high to be safe to simply jump, and clung to the underside of it as he deployed his armor, then leapt off of the wall and proceeded to fall towards the main path a handful of meters behind the humans that were, at the time, separating the wander the area until the meeting started. At the last second the boosters built into the armor flared and stalled his drop for an instant before cutting off and letting him land safely with a mad little giggle as he turned to the humans and Captain Tyzuris, who was in the midst of a sigh that implied that this had happened before.

"Hrm, Hope I didn't startle anyone too bad, that was the only way I could see to get down here fast enough... can't climb these shiny smooth walls for piss. Hrm, I'm Kell, I was just really curious about you humans, hoping to get a little interaction in before the council starts gettin you busy, heheh." He seemed very much excited and smiley, though inside he was also playing cautious, his shield was up for a bit just incase one of them was 'too' shocked and shot when he showed up suddenly, though once there was no potential risk there his armor would retract and pack itself back up.

[IAmZero]

Velia remained aboard the Normandy until they came within docking range. Then, she returned to her ship, disengaged it from the human ship, and docked at the next docking port over. She was waiting for the humans by the time they finished their docking procedures. She greeted Captain Tyzuris briefly - the two had met on a couple of occasions - and let him do his job. As a Spectre, she was permitted to carry both of her weapons at all times, and into any section of the Citadel.

She turned, her hand twitching near her pistol, as Kll'eth bounded down to meet the humans. She had expected he would show up, given his natural curiosity. She relaxed her hand. He wasn't considered a threat by the Council, though certain members of C-Sec disagreed. Thus far, he and his people hadn't shown any signs of hostility.

"Kell," she said to him, using his simplified nickname rather than his more complicated true name, "I'm afraid that the Council is expecting the human delegation. They have a lot of business to tend to."

[cider]

Durant along with the rest of the human squad had whipped out their pistols, but didn't raise them as Velia Si'ona answered the strange little creature.
"What is that?" Durant asked. He had never seen nor heard about a specimen like this, which meant it had most likely been discovered sometime 'recently'. To Durant, it sort of looked like a furry vorcha. The armor it was wearing looked advanced, leading Durant to believe it was either a more intelligent species than the vorcha, or a species that cared equally little about who this or that belonged to.

[IAmZero]

Velia smirked at the humans' startled response. She'd almost forgotten that they'd never encountered the Kestraai before. She exchanged an amused glance with Captain Tyzuris before turning her attention back to Durant.

"This," she said, "is Kell - don't try to pronounce his proper name, you'll never quite get it right. He is a member of the Kestraai. To be frank, we don't know much about them, either. We've only met them recently, and I haven't had many personal interactions with them."

Tyzuris set his jaw, obviously impatient. "You can exchange cultural information later," he told Durant. "The Council is expecting you, and you should not keep them waiting. A vehicle has been arranged to take you directly to the meeting chambers. Velia and I will accompany you."

[cider]

Durant looked at the little one. Kestraai. It sounded as odd as it looked.
"I don't have time for this", he said and turned towards his men. "You heard Captain Tyzuris, it's time to go." The humans confirmed the order and the party quickly gathered and entered their ride. Time to meet the Council.

[Shoryu]

Kell blinked wildly for a moment but never lost that perhaps creepy smile "Oh dear, I thought I had time, I thought I'd heard that the meeting would wait until your... uh, it was Admiral right? until that person arrived." He gave a slight playful bow as Velia introduced him "A pleasure as always Velia and Tyzuris... and that is indeed true, we're new here... But I won't hold ya up, I'd hate to annoy the council by getting in the way of such an important meeting. I'd look forward to learning about humans if you're willing to share sometime." with that he 'got out of the way' and picked a spot on one of the area's observing balcony's to watch the festivities.