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AUDIO LOG TRANSCRIPT
SOURCE: OMNI-TOOL OF DOCTOR MORDIN SOLUS
LOCATION: BASE OF SHROUD FACILITY, TUCHANKA
YEAR: 2186SENT TO PRIVATE INBOX: CMDR. SHEPARD, ALLIANCE NAVY
ENCRYPTED AUDIO.
DECRYPTION KEY USED BY CMDR SHEPARD: [ALLIANCE STANDARD ENCRYPTION FOR HIGH SECURITY CHANNELS.]FILE DESCRIPTION: Shepard! Hope this reaches you. In elevator. Just said goodbye. Going to complete mission. Need you to have this. Final conversation with Eve. Want vid makers to get it right. Know why I did this. Not just because of Reaper threat. Thank you.
-- BEGIN AUDIO --
MORDIN SOLUS: There. Cure complete. Almost humorous. Project of my lifetime with biggest impact is undoing project of my lifetime. New data, adjust goals, parameters. Could not have accounted for you. Projections, statistics never account for true outliers, random chance of the universe, of behavior.
EVE: I am not random chance, Doctor. I am not alone or an exception. Remember my sisters, their spirits that have brought me here. My people can be better. Many krogan already are.
MORDIN SOLUS: Hmm. Yes, important distinction. Lesson of this last year. Spent years formulating cure, running tests, simulations. All undone. Outliers not truly outliers. Forward thinking, communal nature, spirituality, arts, all present in you not genetic outlier. Yes. [UNINTELLIGIBLE] My apologies once again. Have underestimated krogan.
EVE: [Laughs] You and most of the galaxy. Including ourselves. No more.
MORDIN SOLUS: Yes. No more. How are you feeling? Vitals stable at last. No signs of irregular hormone production. Any nausea, difficulty breathing or -- no, no, different gland -- experiencing signs of blood rage?
EVE: If I were, you would certainly know. [UNINTELLIGIBLE] I'm fine. Indeed, I feel better than I have in many months. Perhaps better than I have all my life.
MORDIN SOLUS: Excellent! In need of any nutrition? Have packed protein bars, though usefulness for krogan limited. Had to take from Normandy supply. Mostly human ship. Smaller caloric intake, different vitamin needs -- although, biotic diets surprisingly demanding. Still, not enough for healthy krogan. Saw a dead varren outside if desperate. Perhaps husk corpse, though the flavor may be... unsavory.
EVE: You've said as much at least five times today! I am not as fragile as I look
MORDIN SOLUS: Do not look fragile.
EVE: [Laughs] Exactly. So stop trying to feed me every half hour. You need food and sleep as much as I do.
MORDIN SOLUS: You are my patient. My responsibility. Sacred oath. And you have endured much in these tests, both mine and Maleon's.
EVE: I have. Do not --
[UNTINTELLIGIBLE.]
[SOUNDS OF EXPLOSIONS, GUNFIRE.]
URDNOT WREX: Eve, Mordin? We're running out of time! [RAUCOUS LAUGHTER] Kalros did just as you said with the Reaper, but the Shroud's hit badly! We are not losing that cure after all of this!
MORDIN: Cure ready. Need to disperse.
URDNOT WREX: That's what I like to hear! Eve, are you okay? Did y--
EVE: Yes, Wrex. I'm going to be fine. Do not worry.
URDNOT WREX: Good! Let's -- DAMMIT! Hold on!
[CONTINUED GUNFIRE, YELLS]
MORDIN SOLUS: Running out of time. Once husks eliminated, you and Wrex get to safety. Perhaps back to Hollows. I must deliver cure. Ensure its safety. Unknown extent of STG sabotage. [PAUSE] Odds of personal survival low, Eve.
EVE: Urdnot Bakara. My name is Urdnot Bakara, Doctor. Thank you on behalf of myself and all of my people. A thousand years of grief end here.
MORDIN SOLUS: No, no, no, no. Thank you. Have received many awards, citations, commendations...nondiclosure agreements...in life. Have fought mercenaries, stopped Collectors. Hope...Hope that Mordin Solus biography vids will make known that proudest achievement is having made a friend in Urdnot Bakara.
[PAUSE]
Also theater performances. Comedies, tragedies. Never played valiant hero. True to life. Verisimilitude.
EVE: Krogan will sing your name in battle for as long as there are Krogan in this galaxy.
MORDIN SOLUS: Hope battles are deserving.
EVE: As do I.
WREX: We've got a clear path! Come on! Mordin, see you on the other side!
[GUNFIRE.]
[EXPLOSIONS. ]
[HUFFING BREATH. ]
[SCUFFING FEET, SOUNDS OF RUNNING.]
COMMANDER SHEPARD: Mordin! Is the cure ready?
-- END OF AUDIO --
ACTIVITY OF PERSONAL TERMINAL, CMDR. SHEPARD, ALLIANCE NAVY
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AUDIO FILE RENAMED: Someone Else Might Have Gotten It Wrong