<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/unTX8vd.jpg)</div><div align="center">(https://fontmeme.com/permalink/210128/2dbbbdb83f81e86eb7c97538c683a9ea.png)</div><br/><br/>“Thank you, Samantha.” The woman took her seat again, avoiding having to look at the screen any more than she had to, and returned to staring at the designated spot on the floor. The councilor picked up where she had left off.<br/><br/>“We know this is a fungus of some sort, but nothing on record matches any spore on the human colonies,<em>or</em>any of our own for that matter. We've stretched out our resources, followed leads, all indications are pointing to the Shrike Abyssal. We want you -all of you- to go with the team and recover samples so that a counteragent can be engineered. You have our full support, a full crew, and weapons and tools at your disposal. But the unfortunate reality is that we suspect that the Batarians are somehow involved -three years after choosing to close their embassies here on the Citadel, it’s no secret that they harbor a grudge against the humans. So, although we support you and have supplied you with the best -you'll be alone out there. No Citadel security, no military support. No backup.”<br/><br/>If you excluded the Krogan.<br/><br/>"Any questions?"