The sniper rifle-toting thug suddenly got a taste of his own medicine: a flurry of sniper shots struck him from behind. They ripped through his shields in moments, and continued their relentless onslaught until muzzle climb brought their trajectory up to a final headshot. The grunt dropped with more holes in him than a hanar's t-shirt.

A little way down the street, a salarian raised his eye from the scope of an M-90 Indra with a 'boom, headshot' kind of smile.

"Sorry I'm late," came Jek's voice over the mercenaries' comm channel. "Took the liberty of patching myself in."

Tossing a small metal object through the doorway of Hergon's Dive, he glanced up at where Tasi was perched on the roof and gave the quarian a mild smirk.

"Your encryption's a little light."

As he spoke the grenade-like object revealed itself to be a compact sentry turret, deploying behind the black-clad attackers and immediately opening fire.