<div class="floatleft">(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/053/1/6/16765d6dbbab2fe707faca3315a8cea2-d5k4jy8.png)</div><strong>Jeanette Gagarin<br/>Maxilos Arena, Mass Impact</strong><br/><br/>Fenris was certainly familiar to the squad. They had been a thorn in Jeanette’s side for years, and it didn’t help that the Alliance couldn’t settle on what exactly they were. It was on record that Fenris was, at least at one point, the Alliance’s top-secret dark project organization. They had never been officially sanctioned, but instead were created by top brass to pursue projects the public, and even their fellow officers, wouldn’t approve of. They received military discretionary funds, and very large amounts.<br/><br/>The word was that some years ago Fenris had gone rogue, under the leadership of whomever it was that had founded them in the first place. And yet, their cash flow was uninterrupted, and perhaps enhanced since then. Jeanette had never been convinced that they had truly broken off, and had instead made a show of it to save face for the Alliance once word got out of their existence. In their run-ins with Fenris during the<em>Monarch</em>Incident, there had been plenty of evidence that the Alliance hadn’t truly cut ties.<br/><br/>When the Cultivators had made themselves known shortly after Monarch had been defeated, Fenris had taken a special interest in studying and defeating them. More than once they had approached Jeanette looking for a partnership, but Jeanette, together with Admiral Hatchet, spurned their advances. Unfortunately, the admiralty excluding Hatchet had been more interested in taking the Cultivators down with raw force; the Eighth Fleet had been completely lost in the attempt.<br/><br/>Mr. Elusive was emphatic that if Jeanette had worked with him from the start, the fleet would still exist, and there would have been far fewer casualties. Jeanette hadn’t denied that it was possible, as her “dream team” stealth approach was almost exactly what Mr. Elusive had originally suggested. She was quite aware that Fenris had secretly enabled much of her success with their maneuverings, as well. They had never stopped pursuing her cooperation.<br/><br/>Jeanette was fairly well versed in Fenris’ dealings, but the three standing before her now were alien to her. Regarding them with a skeptical gaze, she pulled her Reckoner from her back, expanding it to full size. “I guess I don’t,” she said, noncommittally, looking to her allies and only receiving shrugs in return. “Never heard of you.”<br/><br/>The HUD that she, but not the player, saw pinged that she had gotten a message from Roxi. She couldn’t answer it now, which pained her a bit, and she hoped it wasn’t urgent.