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Brucipher
  • 7/25/2025
Part 23 of the walkthrough of Mass Effect 2 for the PC.
Transcript
00:00You killed them, but there are more every day. They want to fight, but I just want to go home.
00:05She's lost. We need to find someone who can make sense of this.
00:30I'm stripped for parts. Tech's wearing out. Those hunters must be laying on the pressure.
00:46Is that a settlement? They better be friendlier than the beach group. I need answers.
01:00I need to find someone who can make sense of this.
01:08Clearly docile. Sane uniform remnants as those who attacked, however.
01:15There aren't any men here. Maybe it affects genders differently. Makes males get violent.
01:21Previous females said hunters were exiled. Behavioral or gender-driven.
01:26It doesn't matter right now. One of these people must know what my father has to do with this.
01:30You have his face. He promised to call the sky, but he sends nothing.
01:35He forced us to eat. To decay. You are cursed with his face.
01:42Not the best reaction to the family resemblance, Jacob.
01:45Why would my father force his crew to eat toxic food? Whatever's happening here needs to stop.
01:56Look at these spoiled food stores. They've been eating only that toxic local food for who knows how long. Like that wasn't obvious enough.
02:05He has a cruel face. His cruel face.
02:09Go away. You are like him. You will keep us here.
02:14I can't talk to you. I don't want punishing.
02:17The hunters will kill you. They fight because he exiled them and waited too long.
02:30He keeps us. Protects us. And we please him like he demands.
02:36He is bad. He has a bad face like the other. Like him. You'll hurt me.
02:42I don't want to kill you.
02:42I don't want to kill you.
02:47What the hell? Somebody had to push them to make that. That's borderline worship.
03:12Your captain demands obedience. Weapons are forbidden.
03:16Killed that one.
03:28I'm not.
03:29Your captain demands obedience. Weapons are forbidden.
03:32Not familiar with a protocol that condones crew suppression via lethal force.
03:36Well that would make them hate him. Maybe it was just for defense.
03:46Please. Here. You could end it. You have his face. But you fight his machines.
03:59You might stop this. This. I forget how to read. But this was the start. What he promised.
04:06And what they did to us. We need the sky. Take us back to the sky.
04:13Jacob. What does it say?
04:15It's a crew log book. Some of them thought the beacon repair was taking too long.
04:20They were afraid they'd run out of supplies and lose their minds to the decay.
04:26My father restricted the ship food for himself and the other officers so they wouldn't be affected.
04:31Everybody else had to eat the toxic food and hope for treatment later.
04:35The rest is a casualty list. A few mutinied over the decision.
04:40My father and his officers turned the mechs on them.
04:42It wasn't command material when it got to him. Couldn't keep the crew in line without violence.
04:49It didn't stop there. More incidents. Harsh punishments.
04:52It's like they're cattle. Or toys.
04:55In a year, all the male crew members are flagged as exiled or dead.
05:00They separated out the women.
05:03Assigned them to officers. Like pets.
05:06And after the beacon is fixed, the officers appear in the casualties too.
05:10After. My father took control and didn't stop it.
05:16Anything in there about whether the effects of the toxic food can be treated?
05:19Nothing. But it seems like the right call.
05:23If everyone gets it, who's left to fix the beacon?
05:26You'd never get out. But they did fix it.
05:29And the signal wasn't sent until now.
05:32I'm starting to see why.
05:35Does it say why he separated the men and the women?
05:37Or is it as bad as it seems?
05:40No, it turns to gibberish.
05:42Maybe the men got violent early on, but from the state of this place, I'd say the Hunter thing is recent.
05:47What he allowed here, Shepard?
05:49I don't see any justification.
05:52We haven't seen any other officers.
05:55He killed them?
05:56There were five after the crash.
05:58Medical, engineering, bridge staff.
06:01Should have had no problem fixing the beacon and keeping people safe.
06:03All killed within the same week.
06:06About a month after the beacon was repaired.
06:08Do you see an explanation for this?
06:11He's your father.
06:13Is he?
06:14None of this fits.
06:16Maybe the initial decision, but the rest?
06:19Abuse of power doesn't get any clearer than this.
06:21I need to find this man.
06:23I need to find this man.
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06:47On my way, of course
07:06This is Captain Ronald Taylor
07:10Thank God you're here
07:11My crew went insane
07:13I only just got free
07:14God damn it
07:16It's really him
07:17Just got free
07:19He's covering his ass
07:20Old dead left posed
07:28Positioned
07:29Possibly a warning
07:30Recent corpses left where they fell
07:32The hunters started fighting back
07:34Have a nice trip
07:51On my way
07:53Careful, I will meet in my defenses
07:57After the groups are inviolent
07:58Then keep attacking
07:59I have no choice
08:00We have plenty of choices
08:02A little late to blame the fish
08:04Religion possibly
08:07I'm sorry
08:08I'm sorry
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08:47Here, enjoy.
08:49Draw left!
08:51Oh!
08:58Oh!
09:03Oh!
09:06Ah!
09:10I've got you!
09:17Take it!
09:21I'm going to keep them busy and distracted, but it's getting dangerous. Thank you, I'll never go.
09:42He had his fun. Now he wants out. Son of a bitch.
09:51Let's go.
09:56Let's go.
10:01Let's go.
10:07Let's go.
10:12Let's go.
10:21I've got him.
10:25It took you to train my guards. I'm afraid you'll have to fight them to rescue me.
10:30Throwing people away. This thing is not my father.
10:35Let's go.
10:42Let's go.
10:47Enemy, come back here.
10:49If I like this, that's fine.
10:54Let's go.
11:12Not difficult.
11:15Enough with the toys. I need to look my father in the eye here and justify this.
11:40Let's go.
11:50Let's go.
11:52Let's go.
11:55Let's go.
11:59Let's go.
12:29Let's go.
12:59I'll get you something nice when we get back to Alliance base. I've got to have some backbay coming.
13:05What about your crew, acting Captain?
13:08Total loss. Toxic food turned them wild. They propped me up here in some kind of ritual behavior. Waiting for a chance to signal it's been hell.
13:16That's the best you can do.
13:20You let all your people talk back like that? Who are you exactly?
13:25Commander Shepard of the Normandy.
13:30I believe you're acquainted with Mr. Taylor.
13:33Taylor? Jacob? No. Not Jacob.
13:38Why not me? Would ten years of this look better to anyone else in the galaxy?
13:43You have to understand. This isn't me. The realities of command, they change you.
13:49I wasn't ready for that. I made sure you were taught right. Before I left, I hoped to leave it at that.
13:54I'm not unreasonable, Captain. But ten years? What happened?
13:59God damn it! Why did you do this to your crew?
14:02There was resistance to the plan. Mutiny. We had to take a hard line to keep order. And things settled down.
14:13As the decay set in, we made sure the crew were comfortable. Some even seemed happier. Ignorance is bliss, right?
14:21And they were grateful for guidance. Like an instinct. Pure authority was... easy. At first. Months in, the effect lowered inhibitions. They got territorial. Rank, protocol. They couldn't understand. We had to establish dominance. After a while, the perks seemed normal.
14:45That's it? You created a harem and played king? Ten years in a juvenile fantasy?
14:50I can't point to where it all went wrong. But when the beacon was ready, revealing what happened didn't seem like a good idea.
14:58What happened to the other officers?
15:00Anders found his conscience a little late to step back. He had an accident. Things got tense. End of the day, I was the one with the mechs. I got a little basic in setting examples. But I was kind to my people once things settled down. Seemed like I'd earned some peace.
15:17You fought over people like they were toys. Things.
15:22The stories from the ship couldn't last forever. You had to know this would end one day.
15:27Dining for one can really stretch things out. Besides, I can think of a lot worse retirement plans than stripping down and joining the droolers. That was before the hunters, of course.
15:37Dumb or not, I'd feel it if they got their hands on me now.
15:40Well, they want blood. I'd prefer to keep it.
15:44It's all about you. Everything.
15:47You didn't feel any responsibility to get out of here for the sake of family?
15:51I gave them a good start. He was a smart kid and was better off not following me.
15:56We figured that out a long time before I took jobs in deep space.
16:00And after things escalated here, it seemed best to just disappear off the galactic map.
16:07Until you needed someone to save your ass.
16:10We can help these people. Cerberus can have ships here in days and pull everyone out.
16:15He's not worth the fuel to haul him out or the air he's breathing.
16:18He's damn lucky I don't think he's even worth pulling the trigger.
16:21I don't know who you are. Because you're not any father I remember.
16:30We'll secure him for an Alliance court. For every year here, he'll have ten to think about it.
16:35Give him all the time in the galaxy. The man who did this doesn't know right from wrong.
16:41I'm sorry, Jacob. I did the best I could.
16:44I'm ten years past believing that.
16:51I'm ten years past believing that.
17:12Alliant ships are inbound to secure Captain Taylor and his crew, Commander.
17:29We'll be long gone by the time they get here.
17:32Don't even give them the taillights.
17:34Roger that.
17:37What do you mean it wasn't you?
17:38Jacob, if I had leaked the information about the Gernsback, I would be smiling at your resolution of the situation.
17:48I am not smiling.
17:50Nothing goes through this ship, my ship, without a report to you.
17:54I had no more reason to believe Jacob's father was alive than he did, but I'm happy to know the situation is behind you.
18:01Fine, you didn't forward it, so who did?
18:04I did.
18:08Figures. Who else could get into Cerberus' channels?
18:12It was hardly classified, just obscure.
18:15There was a time when it mattered to you.
18:17Sending this along seemed like keeping an old promise.
18:21I keep my promises.
18:23Miranda, we'll discuss your liberal interpretation of security protocol in private.
18:28Shepard? Jacob?
18:29You good with this, Jacob?
18:42It's all bull, Shepard.
18:43Captain Taylor can rot in prison.
18:46It doesn't change who I am or what I know.
18:49I've already mourned the man he used to be.
18:51I guess he was a good enough father that even he can't screw up what he taught me.
18:55You had no idea Miranda was behind this?
18:57No, she's got a good memory.
19:01Selective, but good.
19:03I haven't thought about those days in a long time.
19:05Can't figure which promise she meant, though.
19:08Not sure I really want to know.
19:11She requires a better man than I.
19:15Come on, we've got work to do.
19:17Aye, Commander.
19:19Shepard.
19:21Thanks for the help.
19:22Anytime, Jacob.
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