Private Character Introduction: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy
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fadewalkTali'Zorah vas Normandy woke to the intense feeling that something was wrong.
It was rather obvious what was causing some of that - the Engineering deck was dark, only the orange-red emergency lights glittering in the darkness. With a start, Tali realized that the deck was also silent - no beeping consoles, no whirring computer modules, no gurgling pipes...
...no humming drive core.
She was on her feet and in the drive core chamber in moments, staring up in horror at the silent machine. Dead silent - not just sleeping, like they had set the ship down for an emergency landing; or offline, as if they were in the midst of repairs. The drive core made no noise at all, as if someone had cut the eezo which powered it out of the core and ejected it into space.
Tali spent an hour or so trying every way she could remember, and some she invented on the spot, to reboot the core and the Engineering consoles which regulated it, before giving up. It was well and truly dead...which meant the Normandy was either drifting in space on her emergency generators, or was landed somewhere...hopefully safe.
She giggled as an irrational fear crossed her mind, and continued to laugh somewhat hysterically as she began rewiring the door out of Engineering. I hope Shepard didn't assault the Collector base without me...
It was rather obvious what was causing some of that - the Engineering deck was dark, only the orange-red emergency lights glittering in the darkness. With a start, Tali realized that the deck was also silent - no beeping consoles, no whirring computer modules, no gurgling pipes...
...no humming drive core.
She was on her feet and in the drive core chamber in moments, staring up in horror at the silent machine. Dead silent - not just sleeping, like they had set the ship down for an emergency landing; or offline, as if they were in the midst of repairs. The drive core made no noise at all, as if someone had cut the eezo which powered it out of the core and ejected it into space.
Tali spent an hour or so trying every way she could remember, and some she invented on the spot, to reboot the core and the Engineering consoles which regulated it, before giving up. It was well and truly dead...which meant the Normandy was either drifting in space on her emergency generators, or was landed somewhere...hopefully safe.
She giggled as an irrational fear crossed her mind, and continued to laugh somewhat hysterically as she began rewiring the door out of Engineering. I hope Shepard didn't assault the Collector base without me...
