<hr/><strong>NPCs:</strong>Cato Lacres, Fera Lacres<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Vigilant Briefing Room, one hour later<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Everyone<br/><hr/>The briefing room was considerably less crowded than the rest of the ship. It had a big empty space surrounded by seats in the classic turian amphitheater style. Right now the holograph in the center of the room just projected a schematic of the ship, so that any of the newcomers could get to know the vessel better. Fera sat off to one side with Cato by her side, while Foresythe was nowhere to be seen. From the tone of their conversation it was clear that they were discussing something wholly unrelated to the mission, since they were smiling and occasionally even laughing. Or at least one could hope it wasn't about their mission.<br/><br/>"...I'm sure you'll do fine, brother." the Spectre finally exclaimed as the last of the group had entered the room. She stood up and walked up to the middle of the hall, fiddling with the holo-controls a little before turning a gaze towards Raven. "I'm guessing you know who this is."<br/><br/>The hologram changed into the visage of a turian, his eyes seemingly replaced with synthetics, a complex teal pattern tattooed into his carapace. The image progressed, changing gradually to show more synthetics breaking through until finally the turian seemed wholly replaced with a mechanical monstrosity that Raven had faced down ten years earlier. "Casca Corvinus. Warlord, terrorist, madman?" Fera glanced briefly at Veyle before looking around at the others. "Ten years ago Lieutenant Hart was part of a mission to hunt down this turian. Much like this team, it was mixed in race and progressed the new integration policies greatly. The team was successful in their mission and managed to capture Casca before he became this." The image of the monstrosity panned out and showed the full extent of the change. The turian's frame was fully synthetic, as if a Geth sculptor had decided to depict his own version of the turian species. "In the end Casca was killed as he rampaged through the SSV Arnhem. Mission successful, as that was the original objective. However, it seems we didn't stamp out the corruption of Corvinus entirely..."<br/><br/>The hologram changed once more, showing security footage from the Citadel docking areas as a mech breaks out of a large shipping crate and crush several customs guards before running of. "At the start of the mission, the team had encountered Casca in the sense that he was remotely controlling this mech. It tried to make contact with J'alara, an Asari which had been associated with him earlier, and ultimately as she refused his offers he tried to assassinate her. While the team successfully destroyed the mech and saved her life, later recruiting her to their cause, they never followed up on the mech. It had been shipped from here..." The image changed to show a planet, seemingly a tropical paradise with extensive human colonization. "Fulci Phi in the edge of the Terminus Systems. Capitol of the small Fulci Fascista, a successful secessionist state that broke out of Alliance control and settled several planets in the sector to avoid Alliance pursuing them. As their name implies, they are a fascist dictatorship, lead by Lucio Lambert, who succeeded his predecessor, Velma Fulci, some five years ago. Now you may ask what relevance this has on us."<br/><br/>Fera paused for a moment and the image changed into a newscast that had become widespread since the incident a week earlier. "<em>It is unknown at this time how many were killed in the terrorist bombings that shook the outer Wards this afternoon, but a religious terrorist organization known only as Symbios has taken responsibility for the attack, claiming that for every synthetic enhanced life form that is martyred by the Citadel Council, a thousand impure will die.</em>" The newscast started to rewind as Fera manipulated the controls and paused in the middle of it, image showing the bombed area. Further fiddling enlarged the upper right corner of the picture until one could see graffiti on one of the fallen walls. It read<strong>CASCA LIVES!</strong><br/><br/>"The Symbios erupted on Fulci Phi some years ago and instantly became earmarked for destruction by the Fascista for their religious tones and violent acts against non-enhanced beings. It has spread significantly since then, seemingly with a cell here on the citadel. Which brings us here. Our mission is to go to the bottom of this. Which means we are going to Fulci Phi to infiltrate Symbios, find out its ties to Casca Corvinus and destroy it from within. Any questions so far?"