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[hider=Interactions]Directly speaking with Alexis ([@Rune_Alchemist]), an exchange with Ashton [@Letter Bee], quick thanks to Taria and Galm ([@KaiserElectric] & [@Senhara]), question to Geth Platform ([@Starlance]) and occasional radio chatter to all friendly parties[/hider]
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	As Lokea was setting up defenses in the control offices, she looked out through the small windows that peered into the hangar. She saw everyone take defensive positions, sighing in relief that no one was out in the open. She watched as Alexis made her way into the office, and started setting of fortifications. Lokea helped where she could, setting up a few choke points and barriers with her biotic abilities, placing the furniture and cubicles around to create some cover and choke areas. Once Alexis finished and spoke to her, Lokea nodded, giving Alexis the Alliance 'OK' signal. Those planted memories from the human colonists were infinitely useful. [color=02fc5e]"Thanks."[/color] Lokea said as she levitated the grenades to her, keeping them stashed right next to her. After Alexis left and notified the party of the turrets, Lokea took note of the ones inside and outside of the office, grateful that they were not completely fucked in defense. She spoke back into the radio to Alexis. [color=02fc5e]"Copy that, and much appreciated. Just give me a shout if you need covering fire."[/color] 

	Making sure her M8 Avenger rifle was ready one last time, she listened carefully on friendly communications and heard a rather unfamiliar voice. This 'White Glint', despite not even meeting or discussing strategy with the others, seemed to be asserting an air of dominance over the airwaves. Sounds a bit like a fool too, what did they mean by [i]liability to survival[/i]? Well at least Lokea got some solid intel on them. To confirm what this [i]White Glint[/i] said, the asari pulled out her rangefinder and scoped out the area far away. Indeed, there was a large contingent of Blue Suns infantry. Humans, batarians and turians all wearing their trademark blue armor, carrying shotguns, assault rifles and pistols, heading straight into the group's killzone as the White Glint predicted. [color=02fc5e][i]Perfect.[/i][/color] She turned to the kids. [color=02fc5e]"Got a huge infantry contingent inbound as I speak. Stay sharp."[/color] Lokea spoke, her face obscured by her helmet still. She turned back to the windows, the fortified position nicely arranged to allow firing ports in three directions, Lokea facing towards the empty space the hangar provided. Bringing her rifle to shoulder, she watched as the Blue Suns made their way towards their position, about ready to fire until...

	[b]BANG![/b] Lokea watched through the scope of her Elkoss assault rifle as one of the humans leading the assault took a round straight through the chest, having been killed instantly. [color=02fc5e][i]Damn. Clean shot.[/i][/color] Lokea smirked just a little, aiming down the scope once again. Having had plenty of target practice on cannibals, husks, marauders, pirates and terrorists, Lokea brought the rate of fire selector from 'SAFE' to 'SEMI', tapping two rounds towards a turian that continued to charge at them... one round in the neck, next in the head. The turian collapsed instantly, and Lokea smirked. [color=02fc5e][i]Wow, all of that weapon maintenance has really paid off this time.[/i][/color] Lokea took aim again, ignoring the two small holes she left in the glass and the gunfire from the turrets outside, until she heard a synthetic voice speak through their comms channel, letting the team know that it was joining the fight by 'engaging hostiles'. [color=02fc5e][i]Do we have a robot now?[/i][/color] Before she knew it, a Krogan charged into battle. 

	[color=02fc5e][i]Wait, not only did Saris bring a robot, he also brought a [b]krogan?[/b][/i][/color] Lokea hoped that he was one of the cool Urdnot guys that she met on Illium rather than the stupid ones she's already ran into just an hour ago. She caught sight of Drex, and seeing how he entered the fight almost right after the White Glint did, it seems as if they were much later to the party than Lokea herself was. She watched as he mowed down mercs left and right with his shotgun, smashing others with the hammer. While the krogan was already causing a lot of damage, he was also drawing a lot of attention to himself. She spoke into the radio. [color=02fc5e]"Lokea to team, we got a surprise guest out in the hangar. Mind giving him a little covering fire before-"[/color] [b]BOOM![/b] A grenade exploded, and quite a few of the Blue Suns mercenaries exploded into a gory mess. Lokea blinked before speaking again. [color=02fc5e]"-never mind."[/color] She then started letting off a few double taps, getting some mercs in the chest, a few in the head, gunning them down one by one, trying to keep the pressure off of Drex and Alexis. [b]POW-POW! POW-POW! POW-POW![/b]

	Suddenly, her omni-tool lit up, and after parsing the notifications, it turns out that it was the Blue Suns' communications channel that has now been decrypted. Every single text message, attachment, data piece and radio transmission was the group's to digest. Lokea put on the audio channel, listening into their communications on a separate volume so she could tell the difference between friendlies and enemies. 

	[b][i]"What the... they're gonna blow us all to hell!"[/i][/b] One Blue Suns merc called out over the radio.

	[b][i]"Don't be a wimp! There aren't that many of them!"[/i][/b] Another called out. 

	Lokea smirked a little, dimming down the volume just a little to where she can tone it out easily, but can hear important info if necessary. She turned to Ashton. [color=02fc5e]"You did the decryption, right?"[/color] If given an affirmative answer, she would smile underneath her helmet and give him a thumbs up. [color=02fc5e]"Good work, kid. Figured you were here for a good reason."[/color] She turned back to the fight, and squeezed off a few more shots at the enemy, downing another few mercs. One of them was a particularly nasty batarian with combat shields, but with about ten rounds to the center of mass, the batarian only had a split second to realize that his armor was only as good as its unprotected parts. A bloody hole emerged right between his four eyes, his head well exposed after his shields were dropped.

	Lokea looked up to the catwalk to keep an eye on their flanks, seeing two friendly turians up top giving them some fire support. She gave them both a little wave. [color=02fc5e]"To the friendlies on the catwalk, we didn't introduce ourselves, but I appreciate the fire support."[/color] She said to them, and once she turned around, she saw a [i]Geth Trooper[/i] standing right outside the office walls. Standing behind the pillar that held up the catwalk in front of the control office that Lokea fortified, the Geth Trooper seemed to have appeared there when Lokea was looking away. She blinked, looking to the geth platform. She was already having some light flashbacks to Zhu's Hope, memories of Saren's geth gunning down innocent civilians. She thought that almost all of the geth were destroyed when the Crucible hit, maybe this one was rebuilt and came here with friendly intentions? She had a hard time trying to comprehend just [i]who[/i] came to this fucked up party. She called out to the geth platform verbally, her helmet obscuring her face and filtering out her voice. [color=02fc5e]"Hey, Geth...uh, platform! You're friendly, right?"[/color] She asked it before she promptly returned fire at several mercs that fired at her position. She managed to keep them suppressed for now, as some of the Blue Suns had enough functioning brain cells to take cover. Unless all of them were tripped up on Red Sand or something.