And when you had to make a choice between the quarians and the geth during the Reaper War, what happened?\n\n[[I stopped the upload of the Reaper code. The quarians wiped out the geth.|rannochquarians]]\n\n[[I allowed the upload of the Reaper code. The geth wiped out the quarians.|rannochgeth]]\n\n<<if $tali is 1>>[[I allowed the upload of the Reaper code, and with Tali's help I brokered a truce between the quarians and the geth.|rannochbest]]\n<<endif>>

<<display kasumi>>\n\n<<set $samara to 1>>

Was Kasumi recruited for the Collector mission? Did she survive the mission? \n\n[[Yes.|kasumilives]]\n\n[[No.|kasumidead]]\n\n<<set $kasumi to 0>>\n<<set $spectres to 0>>\n<<set $greybox to 0>>

<<display miranda>>\n\n

<<display squad>>\n\n<<set $romance3 to "Cortez">>

<<set $romance2 to 0>><<display romance3>>\n\n

"It's going down!" calls Major Coates over the comm. \n\n"Hit it with everything you've got!" comes a familiar voice in response - Shepard. \n\nThe whole squad cheers as the tanks they've protected fire off their missiles, and the Reaper slowly collapses before them. \n\n[[Next.|trueend]]\n\n

Dozens of Alliance troops scatter for cover in a cramped, narrow street. Fire rains down from the buildings all around them; ahead, a towering Brute bellows, blocking their progress. \n<<if $jack is 1>><<if $grissom is "support">>\nJack watches, teeth bared, as fire from above cuts down soldiers all around her. She looks around, calculating, then takes a deep breath, and slowly raises her arms. A barrier coalesces above her hands; it spreads out, creating a safe area beneath for the Alliance troops. \n\nBut there are two many of them, spread over too wide an area, even for Jack. The spread of the barrier slows, then stops. But suddenly there are flashes of light behind Jack; Prangley and Rodriguez are there, arms raised, joining their power to hers. Then a dozen more flashes as the whole squad of Grissom Academy biotics work together to form a barrier. It extends outward until the whole street is covered by a shield of brilliant violet light.\n\nThe Alliance soldiers give a cheer, and open fire on the Brute. It collapses under the barrage, dead, and the advance continues. Jack walks forward, arms still raised to maintain the barrier, straining with effort. \n\nShe still manages a smile when Prangley and Rodriguez fall in beside her.\n\n[[Next.|squad setup]]\n<<set $victory to $victory + 2>>\n<<else>>\nJack watches, teeth bared, as fire from above cuts down soldiers all around her. She takes a deep breath and her hands start to glow; she raises them to her chest and then extends them outward. The glittering blue shockwave that shoots out strikes the Brute, breaking around it like the sea against a cliff face. \n\nThe attack draws more fire from above, and she's extends a barrier upward. Her students, clustered around her, do the same - all except Rodriguez. \n\nRodriguez falls, dead, a moment too late in bringing up her barrier. \n\nJack and Prangley lock eyes. She sees the shock in his face, knows she needs to keep him moving, before it really sets in. She starts moving at a deliberate pace, like she's training. He recognizes the mneumonic gesture and copies it, moving to mirror her. A dozen biotic auras ignite behind them as the other students join, faces grim, all moving together. \n\nThis shockwave is double the size of the first, or triple. Even the massive brute is hurled like a rag doll.\n\n[[Next.|squad setup]] \n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>><<endif>>\n<<else>><<if $rodriguez is 1>><<if $grissom is "support">>\nEnsign Rodriguez and the biotic recruits from Grissom Academy are here, working together to maintain a barrier overhead, protecting a small pocket of marines. \n\n"Keep it steady!" she yells. One student drops to their knees, exhausted, and a hole forms in the barrier. Another is hit by a marauder taking careful aim from across the street. "Tighten up!" Rodriguez commands, and the students step closer together, filling in gaps but covering a smaller total area. \n\nMeanwhile the soldiers focus their fire on the Brute blocking the advance. Finally, a soldier with a rocket launcher takes aim and manages to finish the creature off. The students drop their barrier as the marines surge ahead. \n\n"Got to... keep moving," Rodriguez says, so exhausted she can barely stand. "Fall in." A pause; she looks around. Only two other students stand beside her. "Where is everyone?" she says, disoriented. \n\n"We're it," one of them says.\n\n[[Next.|squad setup]]\n<<else>>\nEnsign Rodriguez and the biotic recruits from Grissom Academy are here. Rodriguez focuses and sends out a biotic attack, which flies through the air and impacts the Brute. It doesn't seem to notice. \n\n"God!" Rodriguez says, feeling a powerful need to swear but not quite finding the words. \n\nShe turns; the other students have become disorganized, taking biotic potshots at the Reaper forces firing down at them. They're more effective than the marines, whose return fire is largely useless against the Reaper servitors' superior position, but they're also drawing a lot of fire. One of the other students, Michaels, goes down before her eyes.\n\n"Hey!" she shouts. "Remember what we practiced! //Focus fire//, you guys. The Brute's blocking the way - let's take it down!" \n\nShe turns back to the creature, and this time half a dozen other biotic projectiles fly out beside hers. They all impact practically together, the unstable warp fields melding together until they result in a powerful blast. The Brute falls.\n\n"Yes!" Rodriguez shouts, once again feeling like stronger words are called for, if she only knew quite what. "Come on!" She hustles forward, joining the press of marines pushing their way out of the kill zone. As she passes the Brute, she looks back, grinning, giving the thumbs up. \n\nThe other students are all dead behind her, a trail of red uniforms through the kill zone. Rodriguez stops and stares, letting the other marines push past her as the Reaper forces above continue to fire down.\n\n[[Next.|squad setup]]\n<<endif>>\n<<else>>\nBut there's no cover to be found. The angles of the Reaper servitors' fire are murderous, and make the marines attempt to shoot back futile.\n\nOne marine with a rocket launcher takes aim at the Brute blocking the advance, only to be shot down by an alert marauder above. Some of the marines turn and try to run, to turn back and run out into the no-man's-land, but even they are shot down before they can get more than a few steps.\n\n[[Next.|squad setup]]\n<<set $victory to $victory - 1>><<endif>><<endif>>

<<display jacob>>\n\n<<set $miranda to 0>>

So let's kick off with a bang, huh?\n\nDid Wrex survive your confrontation with him on Virmire?\n\n[[Yes.|wrexvyes]]\n\n[[No.|wrexvno]]\n\n<<set $wreav to 0>>\n<<set $wrex to 0>>

<<if $p1 is 0>><<set $p1 to $vs>><<else>><<if $p2 is 0>><<set $p2 to $vs>><<endif>><<endif>><<if $p2 is 0>>And who else?\n\n[[James]]\n\n[[Liara]]\n<<if $garrus neq 0>>\n[[Garrus]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>[[EDI]]<<if $tali neq 0>>\n\n[[Tali]] \n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n<<if $javik neq 0>>[[Javik]]\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n<<else>><<display begin>>\n<<endif>>\n<<set $kaidan to 0>>\n<<set $ash to 0>>\n<<set $vs to 0>>

<<display mordin>>\n\n<<set $jacob to 0>>

<<display squad>>\n\n<<set $romance3 to $vs>>

<<if $liara is 1>><<set $party to $party + 1>><<if $james is 1>>A half-dozen cannibals take the opportunity to sprint from cover and raise their weapons at James. But Liara is waiting for them. She steps from behind a bit of ruined wall and makes a regal mneumonic gesture; all six of the cannibals rise uncertainly into the air as she summons a singularity behind them. She pivots, and gestures again. This time a packet of warped gravitational space shoots out from her hands, and heads in a graceful curve for the heart of the singularity. \n\nThe blast that results when the two gravity fields meet is enough to shake loose from Liara's decrepit cover. Afterwards, the cannibals are gone, and there's a distinct gap in the rising tide of husks.\n<<else>>Liara stands calmly in the chokepoint. She's not unafraid, but her mouth is set, her eyes narrowed, in resolve. \n\nThe husks grow nearer, speeding up as their prey nears. Still Liara doesn't move. It's only at the last possible moment that she explodes into motion: a sweeping mneumonic gesture creates a shimmering singularity a few meters before her, and suddenly the front ranks of husks are floating several meters off the ground, their momentum carrying them awkwardly forward. \n\nLiara pivots, reverses the gesture, this time warping gravity near the singularity; the result of the clashing gravitational fields is a sudden blast of force and blue light that obliterates the captured husks, and dozens of their tight-packed companions behind them. \n\n<<endif>><<endif>><<if $edi is 1>>[[Next.|edisquad]]\n<<else>><<if $garrus is 1>>[[Next.|garrussquad]]\n<<else>><<if $tali is 1>>[[Next.|talisquad]]\n<<else>><<if $kaidan is 1>>[[Next.|kaidansquad]]\n<<else>><<if $ash is 1>>[[Next.|ashsquad]]\n<<else>><<if $javik is 1>>[[Next.|javiksquad]]\n<<else>><<if $james is 1>>[[Next.|theend]]\n<<else>>The detonation has brought her a little more room, a little more time. But there are still hundreds of husks - maybe thousands. And among them she sees other shapes, more powerful Reaper servitors - not such easy prey for her biotics. "Many years from now," she says to herself, "when I write the definitive history of the Reaper War, this part is going to be very exciting for my readers."\n\n[[Next.|soloend]]\n<<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>>\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>

Did you recruit Thane for the attack on the Collector base? And did he survive?\n\n[[Yes.|thanealive]]\n\n[[No.|thanedead]]\n\n<<set $thane to 0>>\n<<set $kirrahe to 0>>\n<<set $stg to 0>>\n<<set $salarianfleet to 0>>

<<display jacob>>\n\n<<set $miranda to 1>>

<<if $tali is 1>>"Yes!" Tali shouts, throwing a hand into the air - and is caught offguard when a husk leaps over the low wall she was covering behind, getting her in a tackle. She kicks it off and struggles to her feet, but winds up facing off with the husk - with her shotgun on the ground between them.\n\nBut then there's a burst of blue, and the slightly queasy feeling of gravity twising, and the husks falls twitching to the ground. "Easy, Tali," Kaidan says as he advances and takes cover beside her. "I think there might be a couple left"\n\n"Well, I wanted to leave you a few," Tali replies. \n\n"I appreciate the thought," he says. His smile is weary. "But honestly? I wouldn't mind at all if you want to take the rest."\n\nShe laughs softly. He shrugs and closes his eyes. A blue light springs into being around him, a biotic barrier. \n\nHe rises, grabbing the light assault rifle from its slot on his back and firing out into the wave of advancing husks. A few incoming shots impact harmlessly on the barrier, cannibals in the back ranks. He sights one carefully down the barrel. \n<<else>><<if $garrus is 1>>"Not bad, Garrus," Kaidan says, advancing and taking cover behind a bit of low wall near <<if $james is 1>>James<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>Liara<<else>>EDI<<endif>><<endif>>. \n\n"Well, I've got to be on my toes if I want to catch up with your kill count after the biotic detonation in the middle of that group of cannibals, Alenko," Garrus answers, lining up another shot.\n\nKaidan pops up from cover and <<if $liara is 1>>makes a mneumonic gesture at a husk caught in one of Liara's singularities; there's a blast as local gravity is pushed past its limits, and the energy expends itself outward into the surrounding Reaper servitors. <<else>>keys his omnitool; there's a burst of arcing electrical energy in the midst of a cluster of husks ignited by one of <<if $james is 1>>James' grenades<<else>>EDI's rockets<<endif>> The unstable energy of the overload attack catalyzes the chemical reaction driving the incendiary attack, and there's a sudden, violent explosion in the middle of the Reaper servitors.<<endif>>\n\n"Hey!" Garrus protests.\n\n"What can I say, Garrus? I want to help you be at your best." \n<<else>>Kaidan crouches behind cover behind a low wall not far from where <<if $james is 1>>James<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>Liara<<else>>EDI<<endif>><<endif>> holds down the chokepoint. He pops up, studies the battlefield carefully, and then <<if $liara is 1>>makes a mneumonic gesture at a husk caught in one of Liara's singularities; there's a blast as local gravity is pushed past its limits, and the energy expends itself outward into the surrounding Reaper servitors. \n\n"Well done, Kaidan!" Liara exclaims.\n\n<<else>>inputs a few commands on his omnitool, launching a cryonic projectile which freezes several husks in place. <<if $james is 1>>The flash-frozen husks shatter a moment later, as James opens fire on the group with his Revenant. \n\n"Nice, Major!" James yells.\n\n<<else>>The flash-frozen husks shatter a moment later, as EDI carefully hits one after another with her heavy pistol.\n\n"Assistance appreciated, Major Alenko."<<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>>\n\n<<if $javik is 1>>[[Next.|javiksquad]]\n<<else>>[[Next.|theend]]\n\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>

So the research was lost. That means "Eve," the Urdnot shaman who was immune to the genophage, didn't survive to become a leader among the krogan.\n\n<<display thecure>>\n\n<<set $genophageresearch to 0>>

<<set $romance2 to "Miranda">><<if $miranda is 0>><<set $romance2 to 0>><<endif>><<display romance3>>\n\n

Operation Hammer Fanfic Generator

So Maelon's research was saved - despite his questionable methods. That means "Eve," the Urdnot shaman immune to the genophage, survived and became a leader among the krogan.\n\n<<display thecure>>\n\n<<set $genophageresearch to 1>>

And during the Reaper War, did you evacuate the students of Grissom Academy?\n\n[[Yes.|students]]\n\n[[No.|grissomno]]\n

And after the Cerberus attack was ended, did you invite <<if $vs is "Ashley">>her<<else>>him<<endif>> to rejoin the crew of the //Normandy//?\n\n[[Yes.|yesyesvs]]\n\n[[No.|novs]]\n

<<if $wrex is 1>>Wrex moves with a large force of Urdnot warriors, leading them in the center of the offensive on the shortest route straight to the Beam. They cut through the husks, cannibals and marauders in their path almost casually. \n\nEven a charging brute is a momentary setback; the krogan give way before it, but only so they can envelop it, and suddenly the great monster finds itself pelted in fire from all sides. Wrex himself finishes it with a shotgun blast to the base of its spindly neck. "Come on!" he shouts, and the offensive is on the move again. <<set $victory to $victory + 2>>\n\n<<if $genophageresearch is 1>> The Urdnot warriors are just the vanguard; behind them is a vast force of krogan warriors, the power of Tuchanka on the march. <<set $victory to $victory + 1>>\n<<endif>>[[Next.|zaeedclip]]\n<<else>><<if $wreav is 1>>Wreav moves with a large force of Urdnot warriors, leading them in the center of the offensive on the shortest route straight to the Beam. They charge through the husks, cannibals and marauders in their path with a vicious enthusiasm \n\nEven a charging brute is a momentary setback. The krogan rush to meet it; the great beast swipes attacker after attacker aside, but it's blasted all the time with the warriors' heavy guns, roaring with frustration and pain. Wreav himself finishes it with a shotgun blast to the base of its spindly neck. "Come on!" he shouts, and the offensive is on the move again. \n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>><<if $genophageresearch is 1>> The Urdnot warriors are just the vanguard; behind them is a vast force of krogan warriors, the power of Tuchanka on the march. <<set $victory to $victory + 1>><<endif>>\n\n[[Next.|zaeedclip]]\n<<else>><<display zaeedclip>>\n<<endif>>\n<<endif>>

<<display javik>>

<<if $p1 is 0>><<set $p1 to "James">><<else>><<if $p2 is 0>><<set $p2 to "James">><<endif>><<endif>><<if $p2 is 0>>And who else?\n<<if $vs neq 0>>\n[[<<print $vs>>|thevs]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>[[Liara]]\n<<if $garrus neq 0>>\n[[Garrus]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>[[EDI]]<<if $tali neq 0>>\n\n[[Tali]] \n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n<<if $javik neq 0>>[[Javik]]\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n<<else>><<display begin>>\n<<endif>>\n<<set $james to 0>>

<<display rannoch>>

<<display garrus>>\n

<<display romance>>\n\n<<set $javik to 1>>

And Jack - did she survive the Collector Base?\n\n[[Yes.|jackalive]]\n\n[[No.|jackdead]]\n\n<<set $jack to 0>>\n<<set $rodriguez to 0>>\n<<set $grissom to 0>>

What about Jacob? Did he survive the mission to the Collector base?\n\n[[He survived.|jacobyes]]\n\n[[He didn't.|jacobno]]

<<if $p1 is 0>><<set $p1 to "Tali">><<else>><<if $p2 is 0>><<set $p2 to "Tali">><<endif>><<endif>><<if $p2 is 0>>And who else?\n\n[[James]]\n<<if $vs neq 0>>\n[[<<print $vs>>|thevs]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>[[Liara]]<<if $garrus neq 0>>\n\n[[Garrus]]\n\n<<else>>\n\n<<endif>>[[EDI]]\n<<if $javik neq 0>>\n[[Javik]]\n<<else>><html></html><<endif>>\n<<else>><<display begin>>\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $tali to 0>>

The tanks shelter on what used to be a broad street lined with high buildings. The buildings are mostly rubble now, but they still provide limited shelter from the Reaper, and crude fortifications against the oncoming Reaper infantry.\n\nA huge crowd - a mob, a //tide// - of husks is rushing the tanks across open ground, zeroing in on the source of the unsuccessful missile barrage. But as they grow closer, the piled debris and remaining walls siphon them towards one spot. It's the one spot in the line of buildings where the walls taper off completely, leaving a narrow gap - a natural chokepoint.\n\n<<if $james is 1>><<display jamessquad>><<else>><<if $liara is 1>><<display liarasquad>><<else>><<display edisquad>><<endif>><<endif>>

And did you encounter Jacob again during the Reaper war? \n\n[[Yes.|jacob2yes]]\n\n[[No.|jacob2no]]

So the ancient conflict between the geth and the quarians was finally settled, and you won the geth as allies.\n\n<<if $tali is 1>>Tali, however, unable to cope with the almost total annihilation of her people, took her own life on Rannoch.\n\n<<display thane>>\n<<else>><<display thane>><<endif>>\n<<set $geth to 1>>\n<<set $tali to 0>>

<<display grissom>>\n\n<<set $jack to 1>>

<<display kirrahe>>\n

<<if $thane is 1>>So Thane saved the salarian councilor from Kai Leng, at the cost of his life. <<if $ascension is 1>>The councilor pledged a salarian fleet to the attack on Earth in thanks. <<set $salarianfleet to 1>>\n<<else>>The councilor committed additional resources from salarian special forces in gratitude.<<set $stg to 1>>\n<<endif>>\n<<display samara>>\n\n<<set $thane to 0>><<set $kirahhe to 0>>\n<<else>>So Kai Leng killed the salarian councilor on the Citadel.<<set $thane to 0>><<set $kirrahe to 0>><<set $STG to 0>><<set $salarianfleet to 0>>\n\n<<display samara>>\n<<endif>>\n\n

And when the genophage cure and was about to be deployed with the Shroud, and you received an offer of additional aid from the salarians if you stopped it - did you sabotage the cure, or let it go forward?\n\n[[The genophage was cured.|cure]]\n\n[[I stopped the cure.|nocure]]

<<if $garrus is 1>>"If we survive this, I'll buy you a drink myself," Tali answers. "None of these levos know anything about dextro liquor."\n\n<<else>>Tali is crouched in cover, holding her shotgun to her chest, watching her omnitool. The progress bar on her minifacturing unit is crawling as it synthesizes drone components. "Come on, come on," she murmurs. Finally, her tool gives the completion chime. "Yes!"\n\n<<endif>>She pops up from cover behind a low bit of wall near <<if $james is 1>>James<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>Liara<<else>>EDI<<endif>><<endif>> and downs a husk with a shotgun blast. "Get out there, Chatika!" she cries, gesturing and lighting up her omnitool. \n\nHer drone flies out over the crowd of husks. Its close-range protocols activate and send a stream of fire down onto the crowd; husks cry and leap up at it, further slowing the crowd behind it. When one finally gets its hands onto it, the drone detonates, taking out all the husks around it. \n\n<<if $kaidan is 1>>[[Next.|kaidansquad]]\n<<else>><<if $ash is 1>>[[Next.|ashsquad]]\n<<else>><<if $javik is 1>>[[Next.|javiksquad]]\n<<else>>[[Next.|theend]]\n\n<<endif>><<endif>><<endif>>\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>

<<display garrus>>\n\n<<set $mordin to 0>>

At the Battle of the Citadel - did Alliance forces save the Destiny Ascension, or save their firepower for Sovereign?\n\n[[They saved the Ascension.|ascension]]\n\n[[They didn't save the Ascension.|noascension]]\n\n<<set $ascension to 0>>

What about Garrus? Did he survive the Collector mission?\n\n[[He did, yes.|garrusyes]]\n\n[[No, he didn't.|garrusno]]

<<display mordin>>\n\n<<set $jacob to 0>>

"It's going down!" calls Major Coates over the comm. \n\n"Hit it with everything you've got!" comes a familiar voice in response - Shepard. \n\n<<if $james is 1>> James falls back. His Revenant is out of heat clips, and he discards it; his armor is beat to hell and not all the joints are moving properly, and its a relief to have his hands free. He's long since out of grenades, but he fires a heavy incendiary round from his Eviscerator shotgun, causing carnage in the first husks to rush through the chokepoint. \n\nHe closes his eyes in gratitude and relief when he hears the tanks firing behind him. "I did it." Whatever happens next - he did his duty. \n<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>Liara retreats. She runs unsteadily, constantly on the edge of collapse; she's pushed her biotics dangerously past their limit, and she's utterly exhausted. She manages to drop a singularity in the chokepoint as she goes. It's feeble and it won't last long, but it does buy a few more moments as the husks hesitate at the edge of its radius. \n\nShe closes her eyes in gratitude and relief when she hears the tanks firing behind her. "I did it. Thank the Goddess." Whatever happens next, she'll know she did everything she could.\n<<else>>EDI pulls the drone back, projecting a decoy holographic projection in the chokepoint. The husks waste time approaching it cautiously as she retreats,\n\nShe is not sure the drone is salvageable. It's still operating for now, but its armor is pierced repeatedly, its mobility severely impaired. She does not need it, but it has been a useful tool. It has showed her the world from a new perspective. \n\nThe tanks fire their missiles. EDI doubts the Destroyer will survive the barrage. She regrets the likely loss of the drone. But if it can save Shepard, and Jeff, and Dr. T'Soni and Specialist Traynor and Lieutenant Vega and the rest of her crew, it will be more than worth it.\n<<endif>><<endif>>\n[[Next.|trueend]]

So the ancient conflict between the geth and the quarians was settled, and you won the quarians as allies. \n\n<<display thane>>\n\n<<set $quarians to 1>>

<<display mordin research>>\n\n<<set $mordin to 1>>

<<set $romance2 to "Garrus">><<if $garrus is 0>><<set $romance2 to 0>><<endif>><<display romance3>>\n

Was Samara recruited for the attack on the Collector base? And did she survive the attack itself - and during the Reaper War, the attack on the Ardat-Yakshi monastery?\n\n[[Yes.|samaralives]]\n\n[[No.|samaradead]]\n\n<<set $samara to 0>>

So the queen you saved was the reaper's creation, and ultimately they turned against the war effort. And you lost Arlakh Company.\n\n<<display tali>>

<<display squad>>\n\n<<set $romance3 to "Liara">>

It's only a few minutes later - but for <<if $james is 1>>James<<else>><<if $liara>>Liara<<else>>EDI<<endif>><<endif>> it feels like forever - when there's a bright light in the sky. \n\nTwo Thanix missiles are streaking through the night sky towards the Reaper.\nBut these don't veer aside and impact harmlessly somewhere in the ruined city; they fly true to the Reaper itself.\n\nNot only do they hit; they hit precisely on the Reaper's open firing chamber. \n\n[[Next|soloend2]]

"All Hammer squads," comes Anderson's voice. "Rendezvous at the Beam, now! This is the only chance we're gonna get." \n\nAnd from all over the chaos of the battlefield, they come. \n\nThe street-to-street fighting has been vicious. Even worse, the infantry that opened fire on the Destroyer itself to buy time for the tanks to find a way to hit the damn thing has been almost entirely wiped out. <<if $victory gte 13>>But Hammer is still unbowed, and soon soldiers from every species are pouring past the remnants of the Reaper Destroyer. So many have died - but many are still alive. \n\nThis is it. And despite the losses, despite the horror, every member of Hammer left is absolutely committed to going the last mile.\n\n<<else>><<if $victory gte 8>>But Hammer still isn't defeated. Soon soldiers from every species are streaming past the remnants of the Reaper Destroyer.\n\nThey're disorganized, dirty, many are walking wounded. In any other battle, the losses would be unimaginable. But this isn't any other battle. And despite the losses, despite the horror, every member of Hammer left is absolutely committed to giving everything to this one last push.\n\n<<else>>But Hammer still isn't licked. Everyone who's left starts fighting their way to the Beam. \n\nReaper forces are still everywhere, and for every soldier who arrives there are many who don't. The ones who do are disorganized, dirty; many are walking wounded. In any other battle, the losses would be unimaginable. \n\nBut this isn't any other battle. And despite the losses, despite the horror, every member of Hammer left is absolutely committed to giving everything to this one last push.\n\n<<endif>><<endif>>[[Next.|coda]]

<<display romance3>>\n\n<<set $romance2 to "Thane">>\n<<if $thane is 0>>\n<<set $romance2 to 0>>\n<<endif>>

<<display squad>>\n\n<<set $romance3 to "Traynor">>

<<if $romance3 is "Traynor">>Up on the //Normandy//, the whole crew is working hard to keep the ship flying and fighting in the skies over Earth. Traynor is working as hard as anyone, routing messages to other commands, forwarding tactically important updates to Joker and EDI. \n\nThe message doesn't go out on anything like general channels, but //Normandy//'s many QEC hookups make it a hub for the whole fleet, and Traynor has access to everything passing through. "Anderson and Shepard have done it," Hackett is saying to a few senior commands. "They're making the last push now." \n\nShe wants so badly to send a message. A quick text, or a quick holorecording. She wonders what Shepard's seen so far, what Shepard's had to do. She wonders what horrors lie ahead. She shudders as the fact hits her - not for the first time - that there is no limit to how bad the end of this battle could be. Assuming she even survives. \n\nShe bites her lip. She doesn't send a message. She settles for a quick prayer - to whom, she doesn't know, but just saying the words in her head helps. //Please. Please bring her back to me.// \n\n[[Next.|thisisit]]\n<<else>><<if $romance3 is "Cortez">>Hammer's Forward Operating Base is a ghost town; nothing's been held back. There is no fall back position. There are a few techs, restless now the last minute preparations they were brought here for are complete, a few comm operators keeping Hammer talking to the fleet, some medical staff, and the wounded. Including Steve. \n\nHe's mildly concussed from the crash. An hour ago he felt dizzy, nauseous, and flying out with Hammer seemed obviously foolhardy. Now, sitting and listening with the rest of the infirmary to confusing reports coming back through the comms, he feels fine. When the word comes back - "the Reaper's down! Everyone who's left, they're charging the Beam!" - he wants so badly to be out there, doing whatever he can, even if that just means crashing in the middle of a bunch of husks, that he wants to hit something. \n\n//Deep breaths, Steve.// He thinks about Shepard. Mistake. Now he wants to hurl himself out the window so he can go find a ship. \n\nSteve's always prided himself on patience. He sighs deeply, relaxes his hands, which he's made involuntarily into fists, and closes his eyes. \n\n//Come back to me, Shepard. Come back to me.// \n\n[[Next.|thisisit]]\n<<else>><<if $romance3 is "Jack">><<if $jack is 1>>A cannibal on a rooftop fires down at a crush of Alliance marines rushing toward the Beam - until it's abruptly yanked off its feet by a biotic pull. \n\nJack scans the rooftops, looking for more potential attackers. Seeing none, she turns her eyes to her kids. Prangley is up ahead leading the way.<<if $grissom is "support">> Rodriguez is moving down the column, handing out their last energy drinks.<<endif>> The kids are keeping it together.\n\nFor a moment, there's nothing to worry about, nothing to do.\n\nFor just a second, she closes her eyes. //Be alive, Shepard. I'm gonna fucking kill you if you aren't.//\n\n[[Next.|thisisit]]\n<<else>><<display thisisit>><<endif>>\n<<else>><<if $romance3 is "Miranda">><<if $miranda is 1>> Miranda sits behind the counter of a burned-out store as gunshots; a whole team of Reaper servitors is focusing fire on her. She picks her moment carefully, listening to the staccato rhythm of gunshots, and then rises and fires twice. Two cannibals fall. But there are more. A grenade flies behind her, and she reacts, running out from cover.\n\nSeveral shots impact off of her shields before she gets behind a solid shelf that once held electronics or groceries or some damn other thing. She hustles along the shelf and then pops up, hurling a warp attack. It catches a third cannibals head on, which goes flying. \n\nShe has her pistol up; she would have sworn there are more, but no more attacks come, and she can't see any movement. She glances out the store's wrecked window; the Beam is close.\n\n//I'm coming, Shepard//, she thinks. //You'd better stay alive 'til I get there.//\n\n[[Next.|thisisit]]\n<<else>><<display thisisit>><<endif>>\n<<else>><<if $romance3 is "Tali">><<if $tali is 1>>Tali advances with the rest of the //Normandy// team. Her drone is up ahead, scouting the way. \n\n"That's a dead end," she says about one particular turn. "Come on, let's try this way."\n\nShe goes out ahead of the main group. She looks down at her omnitool, calling the the drone back. She lingers over the tool for an extra moment, then keys a quick command that pulls up a small 2-d image of Shepard. \n\n"See you soon," she murmurs softly. "I hope."\n\n[[Next.|thisisit]]\n<<else>><<display this is it>><<endif>>\n<<else>><<if $romance3 is "Garrus">><<if $garrus is 1>>Garrus sights carefully through the scope of his sniper rifle and pulls the trigger; it's a neat headshot, and his marauder target goes down. A quick sweep of the path ahead through the scope reveals no movement. "All clear," he says. "Move up, I'll cover you."\n\nThere's a long, quiet moment as the rest of the //Normandy// team moves up. Still no movement. \n\nGarrus makes a quick flick over his omnitool, and an image appears in his targeting visor. It's a picture of Shepard. \n\n//I'll be there soon,// he thinks. //Please, stay safe.//\n<<else>><<display thisisit>><<endif>>\n<<else>><<if $romance3 is "Kaidan">><<if $kaidan is 1>>Kaidan walks out ahead of the //Normandy// team. There's a sudden burst of fire from up ahead - but the shots ping harmlessly off of his barrier. \n\n<<if $garrus is 1>>"Got it," Garrus says simply. His rifle cracks, and the shots stop.\n\n<<else>><<if $tali is 1>>"Deploying drone," Tali says. There's a small point of light up ahead. "And... target down."\n\n<<else>><<if $james is 1>>"Let me take care of that for you, Major," says James, firing special ordinance from his shotgun's launch rail. The shooter explodes in carnage."\n\n<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>"I've got it," Liara says. Kaidan sees a bright point of light up ahead, and a cannibals lifts up into the air, thrown about but the gravity of a singularity. \n\n"I'll finish it off," Kaidan replies. He focuses, and //reaves// the space around the Reaper servitor. There's a flash of violet light, and then the cannibal is gone. \n\n<<else>>"Deploying incineration tech," EDI says. A rocket arcs out past Kaidan and curves to hit a cannibal that was lurking behind cover. "Target down."\n\n<<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>>"Nice one," Kaidan says. He doesn't mind his job as bait; better an ambush land on his barriers than a teammate. \n\nRight now, he just wishes he could extend the same protection to Shepard.\n\n[[Next.|thisisit]]\n<<else>><<display thisisit>><<endif>>\n<<else>><<if $romance3 is "Ashley">><<if $ashley is 1>>Ashley sights carefully through the scope of her sniper rifle and pulls the trigger; it's a neat headshot, and her marauder target goes down. A quick sweep of the path ahead through the scope reveals no movement. "Looks clear," she says over the comms. "Move up. I'll cover you." \n\nThere's a long, quiet moment as the rest of the //Normandy// team moves up. Still no movement. \n\nSatisfied for the moment there will be no attack, Ash murmurs softly to herself something she's been repeating quietly every spare moment during this battle.\n\n//"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust."//\n\nShe runs through the psalm over and over again. She likes to pray with psalms; just like anything else, she finds that someone's usually said what she wants to say better than she has herself. The Soldier's Psalm is one she's used a lot. But this time there's one thing she can't get out of her head, though she can't find the right words.\n\nAnd suddenly it hits her.\n\n//"I will rise now and go about the city in the streets,"// she says. //"And in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth. I sought him, but I found him not.\n\n"The watchmen that go about the city found me, to whom I said, 'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?'\n\n"It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth. I held him and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me."//\n\n[[Next.|thisisit]]\n<<else>><<display thisisit>><<endif>>\n<<else>><<if $romance3 is "Liara">><<if $liara is 1>>"Go on!" Liara cries. "I've got this!" \n\nShe throws up a singularity in the middle of the cannibals charging after the //Normandy// team; they fly upwards, floating aimlessly. She gauges the distance; the team will be around a corner and out of view by the time the singularity fades. She can save her energy, not set off a biotic detonation; she may need every biotic display she can muster before this is all over. \n\nShe turns to run after her companions, taking a moment as she runs to look up towards the Beam.\n\n//I'm coming, Shepard,// she thinks. //We're finally going to end this. Together.//\n\n[[Next.|thisisit]]\n<<else>><<display thisisit>><<endif>>\n<<else>><<display thisisit>>\n<<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>>

<<set $romance2 to 0>><<display romance3>>\n\n

<<display squad>>

Meanwhile, on Earth, Operation Hammer's troubles have just begun. \n\nCrossing the no-man's-land was supposed to be the hard part. But the buildings that were supposed to provide cover are filled with Reaper servitors. \n\n[[Next.|mirandaclip]]\n

<<set $romance1 to "Ash">><<display romance2>>\n\n

I always loved the big space battles that the Mass Effect games reward you with, right at the end of the game! Sovereign's attack on the Citadel, the SR-2's desperate attack on the Collector Base, and (of course) the counterattack on Reaper-occupied Earth - all totally awesome!\n\nHowever, I always thought that Operation Hammer - the huge infantry attack on the Beam at the end of ME3 - wasn't presented in quite as much depth as it deserved. A lot of the resources and allies you gather in ME3 are really about the land battle, and that's how most of Shepard's many friends take part in the war, so it felt like we should get to see some of that. \n\nThis is a fanfic I've written to fill that gap. But every playthrough is different, and those differences are what makes the game Mass Effect. So this is a fanfic that can reflect at least some of the things that are unique about Operation Hammer in //your// game. \n\n[[More.|somenotes2]]\n\n[[Back.|credits]]

So you saved the same queen a second time, and gained rachni allies - but lost the elite soldiers of Arlakh Company.\n\n<<display tali>>\n\n<<set $rachni to 1>>

<<display arlakh>>

<<display squad>>\n\n<<set $romance3 to $romance2>>

<<display jacob>>\n\n<<set $miranda to 0>>

<<if $thane is 1>>So Thane saved the salarian councilor from Kai Leng, at the cost of his life. <<if $ascension is 1>>The councilor pledged a salarian fleet to the attack on Earth in thanks to Shepard, and Kirrahe joined the fight against the Reapers.\n\n<<display samara>>\n\n<<set $salarianfleet to 1>>\n<<set $kirrahe to 1>>\n<<set $thane to 0>>\n<<else>>The councilor committed additional resources from salarian special forces in gratitude, and Kirrahe joined the fight against the Reapers. \n\n<<display samara>>\n<<set $stg to 1>>\n<<set $thane to 0>>\n<<set $kirahhe to 1>>\n<<endif>>\n<<else>>So Kirrahe saved the salarian councilor from Kai Leng, at the cost of his life. <<if $ascension is 1>>The councilor pledged a salarian fleet to the attack on Earth in thanks to Shepard. \n\n<<display samara>>\n\n<<set $salarianfleet to 1>>\n<<set $kirrahe to 0>>\n<<set $thane to 0>>\n<<else>>The councilor committed additional resources from salarian special forces in gratitude. \n\n<<display samara>>\n\n<<set $stg to 1>>\n<<set $kirrahe to 0>>\n<<set $thane to 0>>\n<<endif>>\n<<endif>>

So Wrex became the leader of Clan Urdnot.\n\n<<display VS>>\n\n<<set $wrex to 1>>

<<display zaeed>>

Hammer is as ready as it will ever be. Forces are assembled, gear is prepped, orders have been given. Finally the word goes out: head toward the Beam. \n\nAll the military might the galaxy has been able to get to this spot rolls out in a wave across the no-man's-land surrounding the Beam. Alliance and turian marines, asari commandos, krogan warriors, salarian STG teams, and other, less regular forces as well - no help has been turned away. \n\nEven after everything they've seen, the human resistance fighters who stayed behind on Earth have been stunned at the incredible diversity of the force that has been assembled. \n\n[[Next|begin3]]\n\n<<set $victory to 0>>

You heard me, hack it! Use the questionnaire as a basis for making a completely playable new version of the ending! Or rewrite that part of the OHFG you didn't like - you know, the awkward part with your favorite character that didn't quite work. \n\nYou can download the .tws file for the OHFG <a href = "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/160198987/me3%20end.tws">here</a>. You can open that file with Twine, which you can download <a href = "http://twinery.org/">here</a>. <a href = "http://www.auntiepixelante.com/twine/">Here's</a> a great tutorial to get you started, by master gamemaker Anna Anthropy (or feel free to get in touch with me if you want). And hey, sky's the limit, maybe you want to make your own game too!\n\nConsider the game under a non-commercial, attribution, share-alike <a href = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">license</a>. \n\nIf twine seems neat to you, you can play some games I made in it <a href = "http://davecity.tumblr.com/games">here</a>. You can play some other really cool games <a href = "http://philome.la/kaittremblay/lights-out-please/play">here</a>, <a href = "http://scoutshonour.com/madison/">here</a>, and <a href = "http://mkopas.net/files/bubblegumslaughter/bubblegumslaughter.html">here</a>. \n\n[[Back.|credits]]

So you rescued Jacob and the other Cerberus defectors, including Dr. Brynn Cole, and they joined the Crucible project. \n\n<<display mordin>>

<<display zaeed>>

Operation Hammer Fanfic Generator is by me, David N. Rogers.\n\nYou can play some of my games <a href = "http://davecity.tumblr.com/games">here</a>.\n\nYou can get in touch on <a href = "http://www.twitter.com/cityofdave">twitter</a> or <a href = "http://davecity.tumblr.com">tumblr</a>. Please do, I'd love to hear from you.\n\nYou can read about why and how I built the OHFG [[here|somenotes]].\n\nAnd you should totally [[hack this game|hackthisgame]]!\n\nYou can go through the OHFG again [[here|before]]. There's a lot of alternate content available! FYI, OHFG doesn't track EMS or anything like that (as you may have noticed); the main thing that will give you different content is having different characters alive or dead. \n\nThanks for playing!

<<if $zaeed is 1>>Cannibals and marauders kneel in a crater, using it as a trench, firing out at advancing Alliance troops. But a point of bright light arcs over their heads, lands in the crater, and then explodes. \n\nSuddenly everything is on fire. The reaper servitors twist in anguish until, one by one, they fall down, lifeless. Only one, a particularly large marauder with a deep scar on its face, survives until the flames die down. It struggles to its feet - and is immediately consumed in another burst of flame. \n\nZaeed stands at the crater's edge, holding a massive Firestorm flamethrower in his hands. Alliance marines pour past him. "You're goddamn welcome," he mutters, but he smiles, and moves on to find the next target.\n\n[[Next.|gruntclip]]\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>\n<<else>>Alliance marines charge across a killzone, as gunfire rains down on them from Reaper forces in cover behind the lip of a crater. One marine throws a grenade before she's cut down; the Reaper guns fall silent just long enough for the rest of her squad to reach the edge and fire down, eliminating the surviving cannibals and marauders. \n\nAnother marine, wearing a red command stripe on his armor, kneels beside the woman who threw the grenade. Her vitals are completely flat; medigel won't do her any good now. \n\nHe looks back; she's just the last in a long trail of bodies. More marines are surging past them now, and the offensive moves on. But for a moment, he sits and hangs his head. \n\n[[Next.|gruntclip]]\n<<endif>>\n

<<display arlakh>>\n\n<<set $grunt to 1>>\n

And during the Reaper War?\n\n[[Samantha Traynor.|romancetraynor]]\n<<if $vs neq 0>>\n[[<<print $vs>>.|romance3vs]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>[[Liara.|romance3liara]]\n<<if $romance2 neq 0>>\n[[<<print $romance2>>.|romance32]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>[[Steve Cortez.|romancecortez]]\n\n[[No one.|noromance3]]

And during the preparations for the Collector mission?\n\n[[Garrus.|garrusromance]]\n\n[[Tali.|taliromance]]\n\n[[Jack.|jackromance]]\n\n[[Jacob.|jacobromance]]\n\n[[Miranda.|mirandaromance]]\n\n[[Thane.|thaneromance]]\n\n[[No one.|noromance2]]\n

<<if $p1 is 0>><<set $p1 to "Garrus">><<else>><<if $p2 is 0>><<set $p2 to "Garrus">><<endif>><<endif>><<if $p2 is 0>>And who else?\n\n[[James]]\n<<if $vs neq 0>>\n[[<<print $vs>>|thevs]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>[[Liara]]\n\n[[EDI]]\n<<if $tali neq 0>>\n[[Tali]] \n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>><<if $javik neq 0>>[[Javik]]\n<<else>><html></html><<endif>>\n<<else>><<display begin>>\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $garrus to 0>>

All along the broad front of the offensive, the galaxy's forces finally reach the end of the no-man's-land, beginning the final approach to the Beam. \n\n<<if $victory gte 7>>Already Hammer has taken heavy losses, but the attackers are prepared and determined, their units and their resolution intact. \n\nA horde of husks has been lurking in the first line of buildings to greet the attackers at close range, but as they charge out they encounter massed, disciplined fire, and fall before their attack has properly begun.\n<<else>><<if $victory gte 4>>Already Hammer has taken heavy losses. The attackers have become disorganized as officers died and units scattered in the face of overwhelming counterattacks; soldiers who have lost their units, fall in with whatever friendlies they find nearby and keep pressing forward, hoping that determination and weight of numbers will be enough to complete the offensive.\n\nA horde of husks has been lurking in the first line of buildings to greet the attackers at close range. They charge out with eerie unity, hitting the attackers as one giant wave. There are still too many fighters in Hammer for them to be overwhelmed by such a brute force attack, but they inflict heavy losses on the unlucky first rank of the assault.\n<<else>>Already Hammer has taken horrible losses, and the attackers have become disorganized as officers died and units scattered in the face of overwhelming Reaper response; in some places, the survivors fall in with whatever friendlies they find nearby. Many units find themselves alone, isolated, beginning the treacherous final phase of the offensive with no support beyond the few soldiers at their side.\n\nA horde of husks has been lurking in the first line of buildings to greet the attackers at close range. They charge out with eerie unity, hitting the attackers as one giant wave, inflicting still more casualties. \n<<endif>><<endif>>\n[[Next.|crucible]]

So the ancient conflict between the quarians and the geth finally ended - and you gained both as allies.\n\n<<display thane>>\n\n<<set $geth to 1>>\n<<set $quarians to 1>>

Speaking of the rachni - during the hunt for Saren, what did you do about the rachni queen on Noveria?\n\n[[I killed the rachni queen.|badrachni]]\n\n[[I spared the rachni queen.|goodrachni]]

David N. Rogers\n<a href = "http://davecity.tumblr.com">davecity.tumblr.com</a>

So Kaidan was the Virmire survivor, and eventually became the second human spectre.\n<<set $vs to "Kaidan">>\n<<display VS2>>\n\n

<<display javik>>\n\n<<set $volusbombingfleet to 1>>

A combined force of humans, turians and krogan has broken the last line of defense in no-man's-land. They jump down into a makeshift trench filled with dead cannibals and marauders. The relative safety of unleveled buildings and streets lies ahead, and beyond them the Beam reaching up to the heavens, and a Reaper standing beside it. \n\nSuddenly, there's voice over the com: "Look out!" But the warning's too late: a powerful explosion in the midst of the advancing column. Bodies going flying; when the smoke clears, there are at least a dozen dead turians, humans and krogan around the impact crater. \n\n"Harvester above!" shouts a turian commander. "Bring it down!" she orders. The whole column opens up at once, but the harvester is undeterred as it turns and lands in the troops' path, preparing for another attack.\n\n[[Next.|quickcuts2a]]

<<if $quarians is 1>><<if $geth is 0>>Three quarian marines hold a position behind a ruin wall, facing overwhelming fire. Two return fire as best they can, rising for quick bursts; another works desperately at her omni-tool. Most of their squad lies dead around them.\n\nNearby, a marauder stands with several cannibals, firing recklessly at the quarians makeshift fortress. None of them notice the drone that materializes behind.\n\nThe quarian pushes a button on her omnitool, and her comrades hit the deck as a huge blast silences the reaper forces.\n\n[[Next.|jackclip]]\n<<else>>A team of quarian marines is pinned down behind improvised cover, taking heavy fire from inside a ruined storefront up ahead. One of them rises with her weapon at the ready, trying to return fire, but a shot catches her and she collapses.\n\nThe team's medic kneels beside her, scanning her with his omnitool. "Suit breach!" he calls. "Applying antibiotics."\n\n"Look!" calls another marine. The medic looks up; a geth prime is visible in the gap between two buildings. It turns, and blasts the storefront. The whole building collapses, burying the Reaper forces. \n\nThe quarians cheer, except the medic stares, struggling to process that his unit was just saved by a geth. "Help me up," the injured quarian says. "I can still fight." She reaches up a hand, and he hauls her up. \n\n"Keelah selai," he says softly. And then, as they continue down the street, he turns in the direction of the prime. It's already moved on down a parallel street. "Keelah selai," he says again. \n\n[[Next.|jackclip]]\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>\n<<endif>><<else>>A geth prime moves down a ruined street, surrounded by other platforms. Reaper fire pours down on them from all sides; a red rocket platform gets a shot off before its shields fails and it's ripped apart. A hunter appears behind a marauder and kills it with a careful blast, only to be swarmed a moment later with husks. It cloaks, but they already have a hold of it, and start tearing it to pieces. \n\nThe prime's shields light up from constant enemy fire, but it stands strong as it targets two cannibals firing from a ruined storefront. Its siege pulse obliterates their cover and, presumably, the creatures themselves. \n\n[[Next.|jackclip]]\n<<endif>>\n

<<if $tali is 1>>"Yes!" Tali shouts, throwing a hand into the air - and is caught offguard when a husk leaps over the low wall she was covering behind, getting her in a tackle. She kicks it off and struggles to her feet, but winds up facing off with the husk - with her shotgun on the ground between them.\n\nSuddenly there's a burst of sound, and the husk goes down under a barrage of well-placed shots. "Easy, Tali," Ashley jokes as she advances and takes cover beside her. "There's still a couple left."\n\n"Well, I wanted to leave you a few," Tali replies. \n\n"Appreciate it," Ash says, slotting a new heat sink. She gives Tali a nod, and rises to her feet, firing into a surge of husks advancing on <<if $james is 1>>James<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>Liara<<else>>EDI<<endif>><<endif>>.\n\n<<else>><<if $garrus is 1>>"Aw, come on, Garrus, you're making me look bad," says Ash, advancing and taking cover behind a bit of low wall near <<if $james is 1>>James<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>Liara<<else>>EDI.<<endif>><<endif>>. \n\n"Ha! Well, you ought to be used to that by now, Williams." \n\n"Not likely. You're not bad with that rifle, but I've got a few tricks of my own."\n\nShe shoots up from cover and hurls a grenade into the husks. It detonates, leaving a vast gap in the line bearing down on <<if $james is 1>>James<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>Liara<<else>>EDI<<endif>><<endif>>.\n\n"Oh, because chucking a grenade is so hard," Garrus complains. \n\n"Yeah, but you gotta get close enough..." Ash said, as she meets a tackle from a husk leaping over the low wall serving as her cover. She catches the creature, resisted its momentum (the servos in her armor's joints activating to grant her extra strength) and slams the husk hard on the ground. "...to chuck it." \n\n"Well, I won't argue with you, Williams," Garrus said. His rifle cracked, and a second husk fell just short of the wall. "Whatever gets you up in the morning."\n\n<<else>>Ashley shoots up from a low bit of the wall beside <<if $james is 1>>James<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>Liara<<else>>EDI<<endif>><<endif>>. She hurls a grenade into the line of husks, which makes a huge gap in the advancing mass when it goes off. \n\n"That's for Eden Prime, you creepy shits," she murmurs, sighting down her assault rifle into the crowd. "And everything since." \n\n<<endif>><<endif>><<if $javik is 1>>[[Next.|javiksquad]]\n<<else>>[[Next.|theend]]\n\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>

Login complete: Commander Shepard. Spectre status confirmed. \n\nPreparing Operation Hammer Special Record. The OHSR is a holographic reconstruction of the historic Operation Hammer at the end of the Reaper War. Based on eyewitness testimony and documentary evidence, the OHSR presents episodes from the battle in full cinematic detail. NOTE: Holographic playback is currently offline. Text description only. \n\nERROR: Data corruption. Recovering... recovery failed. \n\nCommander, please reconstruct the historical profile in order to view the OHSR.\n\n[[Next.|before]]\n\n

<<display romance>>

<<set $tali to 1>>\n<<set $garrus to 1>>\n<<set $vs to "Kaidan">>\n\n[[EDI]]

Welcome to the Operation Hammer Fanfic Generator! \n\nThe OHFG is exactly what it says on the tin! \n\nPart 1: Profile Reconstruction. Answer some questions about about the playthrough of the Mass Effect games (one you actually did, or one in your imagination) that you would like to generate Operation Hammer Fanfic for.\n\nPart 2: Your Operation Hammer Fanfic. Read all about what was going on during Operation Hammer everywhere but where Shepard was. \n\nLet's get started!\n\n[[Next.|before]]

And did Zaeed survive his encounter with a team of mercenaries during the Reaper War?\n\n[[He did.|zaeedlives2]]\n\n[[No, he didn't.|zaeeddead2]]

And did Shepard recruit Javik, the last prothean, the incarnation of Vengeance? \n\n[[Yes.|javiklives]]\n\n[[No.|nojavik]]\n\n<<set $javik to 0>>

And did Kasumi survive the beginning of the Reaper War, and ultimately join the Crucible team? \n\n[[Yes.|kasumilives2]]\n\n[[No.|kasumidies2]]

The no-man's-land is crowded with hordes of husks, the basic antibody of Reaper control that has made any movement within London hazardous until today. Now they are cut down en masse; their desperate charges are no match for the disciplined fire of Alliance and turian marines or the sheer ferocity of teams of charging krogan. \n\nBut the Reaper forces are quick to respond; monstrous cannibals and marauders move into the no-man's-land and take cover behind debris or in craters and trenches, stalling the offensive. Brutes and ravagers and banshees push past these fortifications, pressing the attackers, turning them back in places. \n\n[[Next|samaraclip]]

<<set $romance1 to "Liara">><<display romance2>>\n\n

Variables:\n-Zaeed-\n-Samara-\nMiranda\n-Wrex-\n-Jack-\n-Grunt-\n\n-Jacob-\n-Mordin-\n-Kasumi-\n\nKirrahe\n-Spectres-\n-Volus Bombing Fleet-\n\nVS\nGarrus\nTali\nLiara\n\nThane\n\n

The marauder stumbles; electric blue energy plays across its skin. Its shields are down. There is a shot, and it falls down dead, revealing Miranda in sleek black armor with a smoking Talon pistol. \n\nThe cannibal charges her; she gestures, and it rises into the air, carried up by a violet aura, and then slams down to the ground, where it lies there, twitching. \n\nMiranda looks out on the salarians, who have reached the end of the alleyway and are laying down fire at another force of Reaper servitors up ahead. She nods in satisfaction and moves up, staying low behind cover.\n\n[[Next.|quickcuts3]]\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>

So they joined the war effort, led by <<if $jack is 1>>Jack<<else>>young Ensign Rodriguez<<set $rodriguez to 1>><<endif>>. \n\n<<display grunt>>\n\n<<set $grissom to "support">>

Javik has taken position atop one of the idle tanks, ignoring a hesitant objection from its crew over the comms. It's a perfect vantage point for him to send long, searing blasts from his particle rifle across the husks, clearing out wide swathes of the creatures. \n\n"//Die//," he says, once, and then nothing else - the avatar of vengeance has no time or thought to spare for anything else.\n\n[[Next.|theend]] \n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>\n

All around the Beam, the battle rages. \n\nA force of cannibals and marauders advances across the no-man's-land, looking for hostiles to attack.\n\n<<if $stg is 1>>There's a sudden explosion as one steps on a proximity mine, and then another and another. The Reaper servitors try to spread out, only to find themselves practically encircled by explosives. \n\nSome of the marauders catch on and stand their ground to avoid the mines, only to fall moments later. Only when the Reaper force is eliminated altogether do the salarians make themselves visible; between cloak technology and old-fashioned camoflauge, a team of ten suddenly emerges on the battlefield.\n\n<<if $kirrahe is 1>>"Excellent work," Major Kirrahe says softly over the units comm channel. "Now doubletime, and we'll set up the next ambush closer to the Beam. We'll make sure the galaxy remembers the salarians were here this day!"\n\nSome members of the STG team roll their eyes, but nonetheless there's a certain spring in their step as they fall in behind Kirrahe - he's a legend in STG. If anyone can get them through this, it's him.\n\n[[Next.|quickcuts2]]\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>\n<<else>>[[Next.|quickcuts2]]<<endif>>\n<<else>><<if $kirrahe is 1>>There's the sudden sharp crack of a sniper rifle, and one of the marauders falls. The whole unit looks around for the source of the attack, and catches sight of a salarian crouched at the lip of a crater. He disappears from view a moment later, some sort of active cloak technology, and the unit fans out in his direction, searching.\n\nMajor Kirrahe repositions with care. The game has been going on for a while now: take a shot, let them get a look, reposition, repeat. All the time moving this group away from the Alliance platoon advancing about two hundred meters north. \n\nHe's not sure how much longer he can keep it up, but this will be the second unit that's slipped through thanks to his timely intervention. He just hopes it's enough.\n\n[[Next.|quickcuts2]]\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>\n<<else>>They come across an Alliance platoon, and suddenly the whole area explodes in the noise of weapons fire and brilliant flashes from grenades and impact shots. The firefight ends when a marine creeps close to the center of the Reaper's makeshift position and hurls a grenade that takes out two marauders and a handful of cannibals. He dies moments later, hit on all sides, but the Reaper forces are in disarray and quickly enveloped by the Alliance marines.\n\nTheir commander, a young lieutenant with a red command stripe and an "N1" painted on her armor, orders the advance with cool efficiency. But her face, safely hidden behind her visor, betrays her concern. Her unit is behind schedule, its losses already so heavy that, on any other mission, she would turn back. \n\nBut there's no turning back this time.\n\n[[Next.|quickcuts2]]\n<<endif>>\n<<endif>>\n

<<display mordin research>>

<<display volusbombingfleet>>

<<display Destiny Ascension>>\n<<set $vs to "0">>\n<<set $kaidan to 0>>\n<<set $ash to 0>>

<<display jack>>\n\n<<set $garrus to 0>>

<<display miranda2>>\n

<<if $p1 is 0>><<set $p1 to "Liara">><<else>><<if $p2 is 0>><<set $p2 to "Liara">><<endif>><<endif>><<if $p2 is 0>>And who else?\n\n[[James]]\n<<if $vs neq 0>>\n[[<<print $vs>>|thevs]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>><<if $garrus neq 0>>[[Garrus]]\n\n<<endif>>[[EDI]]<<if $tali neq 0>>\n\n[[Tali]] \n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n<<if $javik neq 0>>[[Javik]]\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n<<else>><<display begin>>\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $liara to 0>>

And did she survive Sanctuary, during the Reaper War?\n\n[[Yes.|miranda2yes]]\n\n[[No.|miranda2no]]

The OHFG doesn't do everything and isn't meant to. It's NOT, for instance, a response to the end of the game, neither a defense nor an indictment. It doesn't tie in every little thing in the game I would love to see included - like gosh, I would love to have a bit with elcor infantry if you did that fetch quest. \n\nIt also doesn't really explore anything outside of ME canon. That's just a result of me setting boundaries for the project. There were some things I'd love to have as options in the OHFG that aren't in the game - for example, content for Shepards who are romantically involved with Joker - but to keep the size of the project down I made the call early on to keep it tied to the games as we have them.\n\n(That said, the principle of simplicity cuts both ways - there's nothing to stop you from picking Miranda as the romance in ME2 for your femshep; I didn't see any need to go to extra effort to add that kind of restriction.)\n\n[[Back|credits]]\n\n[[Hack this game!|hackthisgame]]

And as part of that incident, did Shepard gain the use of of a volus bombing fleet for the war effort? \n\n[[Yes.|fleetyes]]\n\n[[No.|fleetno]]

<<display Destiny Ascension>>\n\n<<if $vs is "Kaidan">>\n<<set $kaidan to 1>>\n<<set $ash to 0>>\n<<else>>\n<<set $kaidan to 0>>\n<<set $ash to 1>>\n<<endif>>

<<display kasumi>>

A small force of salarians moves covertly down a small alleyway. One sights down his sniper rifle, ready to lay down cover fire while the others advance, then another returns the favor while he rejoins the group. Their movements are precise; these are experienced STG operatives. \n<<if $miranda is 1>>\nBut they do not realize they've been detected. A marauder and a cannibal watch them from cover a good distance off. The marauder rises, takes aim - and suddenly there's an explosion of blue light. \n\n[[Next|mirandaclip2]]\n<<else>>\nThe cannibal flings a grenade, which lands in the middle of the main group of salarians. They scatter, some of them not fast enough. They one in the rear who was covering the others takes the cannibal out with a precise shot to the head, but his second shot impacts on the marauder's shield, failing to finish it. The marauder sights carefully down its rifle and fires a quick burst. \n\nThe salarian falls dead.\n\n[[Next.|quickcuts3]]<<endif>>\n

But their rhythm is suddenly broken by a hideous scream. They both wheel around; a banshee has appeared, seemingly from nowhere, beside them. \n\nThe violet asari raises her shotgun, but the banshee lashes of with its long arms and flings her off her feet. The blue asari launches a warp attack; it impacts the banshee and plays around its barriers, but causes no real harm. The banshee looks at the blue asari with its vicious, mindless slash of a smile, and walks deliberately toward her. \n\n<<if $samara is 1>>Suddenly, a powerful biotic attack hits the banshee; there's a brilliant violet explosion as all the gravity fields in play violently react, and the banshee stumbles, its barriers gone. \n\nSamara stands regally over the violet-skinned commando, who struggles to her feet. She and her partner look wonderingly between the impressive justicar and the hideous monster. \n\n"Head for the Beam," Samara says, her face curling, for the first time in centuries, into a look of pure //hate//. "This one is mine." \n\n[[Next.|kroganclip]]\n\n<<set $victory = $victory + 1>>\n<<else>>The banshee lifts her off her feet, take a hold of her head, and //twists//. \n\nThe violet asari watches from the ground, speechless with shock, shotgun forgotten at her side. All she can do is stare as the horror tosses her partner aside - and turns to her. \n\n[[Next.|kroganclip]]\n<<endif>>\n

Did Grunt make it out of his lifepod and survive the Collector mission?\n\n[[Yes|gruntyes]]\n\n[[No|gruntno]]\n\n<<set $grunt to 0>>\n<<set $rachni to 0>>\n<<set $arlakh to 0>>\n\n

And did he survive his mission with Arlakh Company during the Reaper War? \n\n[[Yes.|gruntlives]]\n\n[[No.|gruntno]]

By the way - did you find and save the genophage research that Mordin's old student did?\n\n[[Yes.|researchyes]]\n\n[[I destroyed it.|researchno]]\n\n[[I never found it.|researchno]]

So Kasumi benefitted the Crucible team - and, Commander Shepard won support from among the Spectres, as well.\n\nIncidentally, did you tell her to save Keiji's greybox?\n\n[[Yes, she kept it.|greyboxyes]]\n\n[[No, she destroyed it.|greyboxno]]\n\n<<set $kasumi to 1>>\n<<set $spectres to 1>>

<<if $p1 is 0>><<set $p1 to "EDI">><<else>><<if $p2 is 0>><<set $p2 to "EDI">><<endif>><<endif>><<if $p2 is 0>>And who else?\n\n[[James]]\n<<if $vs neq 0>>\n[[<<print $vs>>|thevs]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>[[Liara]]<<if $garrus neq 0>>\n\n[[Garrus]]\n<<else>>\n<<endif>><<if $tali neq 0>>\n[[Tali]] \n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>><<if $javik neq 0>>[[Javik]]\n<<else>><html></html><<endif>>\n<<else>><<display begin>>\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $edi to 0>>

<<if $edi is 1>>"I believe," EDI announces over the comms, "that there is about to be a development."\n<<else>><<if $james is 1>>"Holy crap!" James yells.\n<<else>>"By the goddess!" Liara exclaims.\n<<endif>><<endif>>\nThere's a bright flash of light in the sky. Two Thanix missiles are streaking through the night sky towards the Reaper. But these don't veer aside and impact harmlessly somewhere in the ruined city; they fly true to the Reaper itself.\n\nNot only do they hit; they hit precisely on the Reaper's open firing chamber. \n\n<<if $edi is 1>>"That was rather satisfying," EDI says smugly, as the heart of the Reaper is ripped by an immense explosion. The firing solution she calculated for Shepard worked.\n<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>"Yes! We did it!" Liara yells, as the heart of the Reaper is ripped by an immense explosion.\n<<else>>James //whoops// in celebration as the heart of the Reaper is ripped by an immense explosion. "Eat that, //cabron//!"<<endif>><<endif>>\n\n[[Next.|theend2]]\n

<<display volusbombingfleet>>\n\n<<set $zaeed to 1>>

<<if $volusbombingfleet is 1>>There's suddenly a powerful roar from overhead, and blinding light passes over the column, settling on the harvester. The turian commander looks up, holding her hands to block the light - there are three ships, big blunt arrows kept aloft by straining engines, hovering above them. "The volus!" she cries. \n\n"Great," a hulking krogan says nearby, reloading his shotgun. "What are they gonna do, //roll// at the thing?" \n\nThe turian smiles. "You've never seen the bombing fleet in action." \n\nAll three ships fire at once, letting out brilliant red projectiles that stream out at the harvester. There's a powerful explosion; the turian and krogan brace themselves against the shockwave.\n\nThere's nothing left of the harvester.\n\n[[Next.|phase2]]\n\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>\n<<else>>"Stand your ground!" the turian commander shouts, and the whole column does. But it's not enough; the harvester takes careful aim, and powerful explosions rip across the column, leaving only a few alive, running back out into the no-man's-land. \n\n[[Next.|phase2]]\n\n<<endif>>\n

<<display jacob2>>\n\n<<set $jacob to 1>>\n

<<display jack>>\n\n<<set $garrus to 1>>

<<if $jacob is 1>>Jacob Taylor stares out at the Crucible blankly. He chose his assignment protecting and looking after the Crucible Project staff, but now that everything's done he can't help but wish he was on Earth, where he could do something other than wait. \n\nBrynn takes his hand and squeezes gently. He squeezes back, and manages a weak smile; he's never worn his heart on his sleeve, but she can always read his moods.\n\n//Good luck, Shepard,// he thinks. <<if $miranda is 1>>//And you too, Miranda.// He has no reason to believe she's on Earth, other than a strong conviction that there's no way she'd let the Reaper War be settled without her having a say in how it goes down.<<endif>>\n<<if $mordin is 0>>\n[[Next.|crucible3]]\n\n<<endif>>\n<<else>><<if $mordin is 0>><<display crucible3>><<endif>><<endif>><<if $mordin is 1>>Mordin leans against the wall in the back of the room; he looks exhuasted. His presence has been an increasingly open secret inside the project for months now; evidently he's decided there is no longer any point in keeping the secret, at least not from this small group.\n\n[[Next.|crucible3]]\n<<endif>><<else>>\n

<<if $kasumi is 1>>Practically everyone who took part in the Crucible Project is in //Rosalind Franklin//'s observation lounge. Kasumi, however, is not one for crowds. \n\n<<if $greybox is 1>>She sits in her temporary quarters, plugged into Keiji's greybox. In her mind she's looking out from Keiji's eyes, sipping really good coffee in a Paris hotel restaurant, watching a wonderfully young version of herself. That was a good job: robbing the Louvre felt downright nostalgic after a few jobs in asari space. \n\nShe loves this particular memory. But right now it feels hollow, and she's all too aware of the ship's bulkheads, the hard, thin mattress of her bunk. \n<<else>>She's gone to great lengths to keep her favorite painting with her, warm and cold colors in a spectrum between two abstract suns. She stares into it intently now. \n\nUsually it's a great comfort, but right now she can't keep her focus, and her mind keeps wandering to what she knows is going on outside.<<endif>>\n\n[[Next.|backto]]\n\n<<else>><<display backto>>\n<<endif>>

James stands in the chokepoint, a dyke against the flood, fearless in his massive armor. He has opted for a heavy Revenant machine gun for this mission; with its native power and custom-modded ammo, the giant gun fells husks in droves. There are always more, but they can't seem to make any headway against his one-man barrage. \n\nWhen the gun stops, its overwhelmed heat clip protesting, James reaches casually to his belt and tosses an incendiary grenade. All the husks in the radius of its explosion stop and claw helplessly at the flames spreading over their bodies as he reloads at his leisure.\n\n<<if $liara is 1>>[[Next.|liarasquad]]\n<<else>><<if $edi is 1>>[[Next.|edisquad]]\n<<else>><<if $garrus is 1>>[[Next.|garrussquad]]\n<<else>><<if $tali is 1>>[[Next.|talisquad]]\n<<else>><<if $kaidan is 1>>[[Next.|kaidansquad]]\n<<else>><<if $ash is 1>>[[Next.|ashsquad]]\n<<else>><<if $javik is 1>>[[Next.|javiksquad]]\n<<else>>"Come on, //pendejos//," James said. "I got heat clips for days." \n\nBut even the famous Vega bravado rings a little false against the sheer number of Reaper servitors bearing down on him. \n\n[[Next.|soloend]]\n<<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>>\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>

<<display romance2>>

And did <<print $vs>> survive your encounter on the Citadel, during the Cerberus attempt to take over the station? \n\n[[Yes.|yesvs]]\n<<if $vs is "Kaidan">>\n[[No, I had to kill him.|novs]]\n<<else>>\n[[No, I had to kill her.|novs]]\n<<endif>>

<<if $edi is 1>><<if $james is 1>><<if $liara is 1>>A marauder in cover some ways behind the front of the advance takes careful aim at James. Liara spies him and opens up another singularity, but it's gravitational pull just plays at the edge of the marauder's kinetic barrier, which cancels out the gravitational distortion. Alarmed, Liara raises a pistol - but suddenly the servitor's shield explodes in a flash of crackling blue.\n\nLiara smiles. "Nice shot, EDI." \n\n"I am happy to oblige, Liara," EDI responds formally. "I apologize for the delay. I am multitasking." With the marauder's shield disrupted, it rises into the air, flailing in an vain attempt to keep its footing. EDI follows up with an incendiary rocket, and the marauder goes flying out of the singularity's gravity well, falling to the ground. It doesn't get up. \n<<else>>A crowd of cannibals advance and raise their weapons at James. But but suddenly there's a flash of orange, and a fiery explosion in the midst of them.\n\nEDI's combat drone has emerged from cover, holding a heavy Cerberus pistol. Two of the cannibals were outside of her incineration tech's radius; she picks them off with careful shots. The rest are burning; they drop off one at a time as the chemically-induced fires gradually overwhelm them. \n\nEDI pivots and raises the drone's hand, sending another incendiary arcing through the sky; it lands in the midst of the tide of husks, and the advance slows as a large pocket of the creatures stumble and burn.\n \n<<endif>><<else>><<if $liara is 1>>Liara lays out another singularity in the midst of the husk horde, and then another; some husks fly into the air, others turn to avoid the pockets of altered gravity, and start crashing against each other, slowing their own advance. Liara takes a moment to lean against the ruined wall beside her; she's been using her biotics extensively already today, and she's tired.\n\nA half-dozen cannibals take the opportunity to sprint from cover and raise their weapons at Liara. But there's a flash of orange, and suddenly there's a fiery explosion in the midst of them.\n\nEDI's combat drone has emerged from cover, holding a heavy Cerberus pistol. Two of the cannibals were outside of her incineration tech's radius; she picks them off with careful shots. The rest are burning; they drop off one at a time as the chemically-induced fires gradually overwhelm them. \n\nEDI pivots and raises the drone's hand, sending another incendiary arcing through the sky; it lands in the midst of the tide of husks, and the advance slows as a large pocket of the creatures stumble and burn. \n\n<<else>>EDI has positioned the combat drone in the open space, the chokepoint. She waits as the husks advance; whatever she might be thinking or feeling, the drone's face reveals none of it. It's as still as if it was idling for maintenance back on the ship. \n\nOnly when the husks are closing in in an rapidly tightening semicircle around the drone does EDI suddenly spring into action. She fires an incendiary rocket directly ahead, where the husks are thickest; ten or more are caught in the explosion and stumble, torn between continuing the charge and making an effort to fight the chemical fires that are suddenly eating through their monstrous forms. The husks behind them, trying to keep pressing forward, find themselves struggling through a snarl of Reaper servitors; the confusion ripples back in the tightly-packed swarm, and suddenly the furious charge is a logjam. \n\nThe combat drone draws a heavy Cerberus pistol, and EDI starts downing husks at the front of the attack outside the area of that first attack with fast, precise shots. One or two get through to the drone itself, but EDI utilizes the platform's impressive agility and strength. One husk's head is smashed outright when EDI brings the butt of the pistol down on it; she pivots and unleashes a high kick at the other, and it goes flying back into the horde, causing further chaos as its comrades try to clamor over it. \n\n"Apologies for the delay, Shepard," EDI transmits. "Calculations of the firing solution are still in process. I am multitasking." \n\n<<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<if $garrus is 1>>[[Next.|garrussquad]]\n<<else>><<if $tali is 1>>[[Next.|talisquad]]\n<<else>><<if $kaidan is 1>>[[Next.|kaidansquad]]\n<<else>><<if $ash is 1>>[[Next.|ashsquad]]\n<<else>><<if $javik is 1>>[[Next.|javiksquad]]\n<<else>><<if $james is 1>>[[Next.|theend]]\n<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>[[Next.|theend]]\n<<else>>The drone stands poised, ready for the next attack. Miles above, as Jeff plunges //Normandy// into the heart of a flight of Reaper attack drones, EDI devotes additional processing power for use in calculating optimal tactics for the drone. It will need every advantage it can get.\n\n[[Next.|soloend]]\n<<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>>\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>

<<display zaeed>>\n\n<<set $greybox to 1>>

One of the tank columns successfully reaches its objective. The Reaper Destroyer towers in the middle distance. Its attention is focused mostly down at its feet, as advance elements of Hammer fire hopelessly up at it.\n\n"Give 'em hell," is Major Coates' gruff order to the rest of the column. A salvo of Thanix missiles flies up at the the Reaper Destroyer - but the missiles veer off; the Reaper's electronic warfare is too advanced for the tanks' guidance systems. \n\n"Well. Damn," says Coates. "Orders, Admiral?" he calls into the comm.\n\n"Standby," Anderson answers. "We're working on it."\n\n"Roger that," Coates answers. "We'll hunker down here. But make it quick as you can, Admiral. Scanners show Reaper infantry's closing in all around us." \n\n<<if $james is 1>>"No worries, Major," comes James Vega's voice over the comms. "I've got you covered."<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>"This is Liara T'Soni," comes a cool asari voice over the comms. "Major, I'll cover you as long as I can."<<else>>"I am available for infantry support," comes EDI's voice over the comms.<<endif>><<endif>>\n\n[[Next.|thesquad]]\n

So they joined the war effort, led by <<if $jack is 1>>Jack<<else>>young Ensign Rodriguez<<set $rodriguez to 1>><<endif>>. \n\n<<display grunt>>\n\n<<set $grissom to "artillery">>

A line of tanks moves slowly up a hill, advancing slowly on a winding road, forcing their way over the remnants of buildings where they must. Heavy missiles fly down from the hilltop; there are ravagers ahead in the dark. Some of their projectiles fly just overhead; others impact off of the tanks' barriers. \n\n"Taking heavy fire!" shouts an Alliance officer inside one of the tanks, as his display another of the tanks has gone offline. "Our shields aren't going to hold! We need support!" \n<<if $grunt is 1>>\n"Humans. Even your tanks are soft," comes a deep voice over the comm. "Don't worry, I'll see what I can do." \n\n[[Next|gruntclip2]]\n<<else>>\n"There's nothing coming," says Anderson over the com, his voice clipped. "Our infantry's still bogged down. Do the best you can." \n\n[[Next|quickcuts]]\n<<endif>>

So you didn't gain the rachni as allies, but you saved the elite soldiers of Arlakh Company. \n\n<<display tali>>\n\n<<set $arlakh to 1>>

So the cured krogan joined the war with <<if $wrex is 1>>Wrex<<else>>Wreav<<endif>> at their head<<if $genophageresearch is 1>>, and united by Eve's leadership<<endif>>.\n\n<<display garrus>>\n\n<<set $mordin to 0>>

So Wrex died, and his brother Wreav became the leader of clan Urdnot. \n\n<<display VS>>\n\n<<set $wrex to 0>>\n<<set $wreav to 1>>

<<display miranda>>\n\n<<set $ascension to 1>>

<<set $romance2 to "Tali">><<if $tali is 0>><<set $romance2 to 0>><<endif>><<display romance3>>

<<silently>>\n<<set $tali to 1>>\n<<endsilently>><<display rannoch>>

So you brought the krogan into the war under <<if $wrex is 1>>Wrex<<else>>Wreav<<endif>>'s command without losing the support of the salarians. <<if $wrex is 1>>But Wrex eventually learned the truth, and you had to kill him, leaving the krogan without a strong leader.<<else>>And no one was the wiser.<<endif>>\n<<if $wrex neq 1>><<if $genophageresearch neq 1>><<if $mordin is 1>><<set $mordinmiracle to 1>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<if $mordinmiracle is 1>>\nMordin really believed in curing the genophage - but with Eve dead and Wreav in charge, he had doubts about their future.\n\nDid you persuade him to go along with the sabotage?\n\n[[Yes.|mordinlives]]\n\n[[No.|mordingone]]\n<<else>>\n<<display garrus>>\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $wrex to 0>>

<<display javik>>

<<display grissom>>

A different question - who did you romance during the hunt for Saren?\n\n[[Ashley.|ashromance]]\n\n[[Liara.|liararomance]]\n\n[[Kaidan.|kaidanromance]]\n\n[[No one.|noromance]]\n\n<<set $romance1 to 0>>\n<<set $romance2 to 0>>\n<<set $romance3 to 0>>\n

So Kasumi died helping Shepard expose a Reaper agent. But at least Shepard made new allies among the Spectres.\n\n<<display zaeed>>\n\n<<set $kasumi to 0>>\n<<set $spectres to 1>>

Who accompanied you on your final mission, the charge on the Beam?\n\n[[James]]<<if $vs neq 0>>\n\n[[<<print $vs>>|thevs]]\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n[[Liara]]<<if $garrus neq 0>>\n\n[[Garrus]]\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n[[EDI]]<<if $tali neq 0>>\n\n[[Tali]]<<else>><html></html><<endif>><<if $javik neq 0>>\n\n[[Javik]]\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $james to 1>>\n<<set $liara to 1>>\n<<set $edi to 1>>

<<if $arlakh is 1>>Suddenly the mass of ravagers ahead of the tanks is swarmed with krogan. Grunt is at their head; the ravagers scramble to turn, but they are too slow, too unwieldy, to meet the flank attack. Grunt laughs low and long as he charges down a long line of the creatures, unloading blasts from his Claymore into each.\n\nIn a matter of moments, the fire on the tanks stops completely, and a moment later, when the column finally gets through the patch of rough terrain, they're greeted by several dozen krogan, cheering and firing into the air. \n<<else>>Grunt and a small team of krogan - only five, all that remains of Arlakh Company - look out over the huge mass of ravagers. Two of the krogan behind Grunt exchange looks uncertaintly. This is suicide. "What?" Grunt asks, without looking back. "Did you think you were gonna live forever?" \n\nHe doesn't wait for an answer. He charges out, taking out the nearest ravager with a blast from his Claymore. The other krogan let out a battle cry and join him, inspired and shamed in equal measure by his bravery. \n\nThe krogan run swiftly down the long line of ravagers, moving quickly as they can while the creatures scramble to turn and bring their powerful guns to bear. The odds are against them, but these are the best warriors Tuchanka has to offer. The ravagers fall by the dozens. \n\nOne ravager gets a shot off, then another, and another. One by one, the krogan fall. Finally, Grunt is left alone. His heat sinks are exhausted, and he throws his gun down, charging into a final ravager and knocking it, dead, to the ground. He looks up and sees himself surrounded by four of the creatures. All that's left.\n\nHe laughs. The tanks are still rolling. And he's not dead yet.\n<<endif>>\n[[Next.|quickcuts]]\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>

And, Kirrahe, the STG commander on Virmire - did he survive the assault on Saren's base?\n\n[[Yes.|yeskirrahe]]\n\n[[No.|nokirrahe]]

Ok - we're done. Thanks! \n\nSit back and relax, and let the OHFG do its (space) magic. \n\nWe pick up immediately after Shepard has given one last address to their companions.\n\n[[Next.|begin2]]\n\n<<set $p1 to 0>>\n<<set $p2 to 0>>

And did you steer the biotic students toward doing support work, or functioning as biotic artillery?\n\n[[Support.|support]]\n\n[[Artillery|artillery]]\n

And when you had to choose between saving Ashley or saving Kaidan, which did you choose?\n\n[[I saved Ashley.|ashley]]\n\n[[I saved Kaidan.|kaidan]]

Was Zaeed recruited for the Collector mission? Did he survive? \n\n[[Yes.|zaeedlives]]\n\n[[No.|zaeeddead]]\n\n<<set $zaeed to 0>>\n<<set $volusbombingfleet to 0>>

Let's talk about your team for the attack on the Collector base.\n\nMiranda - did she survive the attack on the Collector base?\n\n[[Yes.|mirandayes]]\n\n[[No.|mirandano]]

Garrus has located himself above the action, on the third story of a row of burnt-out houses behind the tanks. He sights with care above the husks, finding marauders and cannibals who come out of cover to take a shot, taking them out with one custom-modded round. \n\nHis eyes widen minutely as he sees a ravager come around the corner of a relatively intact building and advance toward the chokepoint; he knows that kind of firepower could put a very quick end to their makeshift defense. \n\n"Incoming," he breathes into the comm, and thumbs a switch on his rifle to change the setting. He deploys a prox mine in the creature's path. \n\n<<if $james is 1>>"Yeah? What've you got, Vakarian?" James asks.<<else>><<if $liara is 1>>"What is it, Garrus?" asks Liara. "What do you see?"<<else>>"Please clarify," EDI replies.<<endif>><<endif>>\n\nThe prox mine goes off. Garrus doesn't answer; he doesn't have a large window. He fires once, twice, three times; his ammo is customized to cut through Reaper armor, and those prox mines don't mess around, but he knows from experience that ravagers are tough. \n\nBut after the fourth solid hit, the ravager stops in its path and falls; a pool of green forms around it, its highly acidic blood. Garrus smiles slightly to see a husk blunder into it and stumble as the corrosive fluid eats away at its legs. \n\n"Oh, nothing you need to worry about," he says. "It's dead now, full of holes. You can thank me later."\n\n<<if $tali is 1>>[[Next.|talisquad]]\n<<else>><<if $kaidan is 1>>[[Next.|kaidansquad]]\n<<else>><<if $ash is 1>>[[Next.|ashsquad]]\n<<else>><<if $javik is 1>>[[Next.|javiksquad]]\n<<else>>[[Next.|theend]]\n\n<<endif>><<endif>><<endif>><<endif>>\n\n<<set $victory to $victory + 1>>

<<display kirrahe>>\n\n<<set $thane to 1>>

The atmosphere in the observation lounge of the Alliance science vessel SSV //Rosalind Franklin// is strikingly different from the vicious fighting on Earth - but through the windows, the personnel of the Crucible Project are watching a scene just as important to the future of the galaxy unfold. \n\n"This is Admiral Hackett," comes a voice over the loudspeakers. "Operation Hammer is nearing the Beam. It's time to deploy the Crucible." The assembled scientists and engineers watch as the engines on the patchwork space craft built around the Crucible itself fire, moving it toward the Sol relay. \n\nDespite the enormity of their accomplishment in building the thing, the atmosphere is tense. So much effort has led to this moment, and now they are sending their creation into the heart of a battle with so many unknown factors. <<if $rachni is 1>>Even the rachni workers feel the mood; they sit in small groups, chittering softly, subdued.<<endif>>\n\n[[Next.|crucible2]]

An immense object appears in the sky, and with speed that's still surprising even after all the wars many shocks, a Reaper capital ship settles from orbit. A name passes through the ranks, passing from mouth to mouth, frequency to frequency: Harbinger.\n\nAdmiral Anderson's voice crackles over the comm.\n\n"We gotta move! Hammer squads, go go go!" \n\nAnd everybody knows: one way or another, this is it.\n\n[[End.|credits]]

So Ashley was the Virmire survivor, and eventually became the second human spectre.\n<<set $vs to "Ashley">>\n<<display VS2>>\n\n

Which means they were captured by Cerberus <<if $jack is 1>>- along with their instructor, Jack<<endif>>. \n\n<<display grunt>>\n\n<<set $rodriguez to 0>>\n<<set $jack to 0>>

<<set $romance2 to "Jack">><<if $jack is 0>><<set $romance2 to 0>><<endif>><<display romance3>>

What about Mordin? Did he survive the Collector Base attack?\n\n[[He survived.|mordinyes]]\n\n[[He didn't survive.|mordinno]]\n\n<<set $mordin to 0>>\n<<set $genophageresearch to 0>>

When you had to make a choice between saving Arlakh Company and saving the rachni, which did you choose?\n\n[[Arlakh.|arlakhcompany]]\n\n[[The rachni.|rachni]]

<<if $p1 is 0>><<set $p1 to "Javik">><<else>><<if $p2 is 0>><<set $p2 to "Javik">><<endif>><<endif>><<if $p2 is 0>>And who else?\n\n[[James]]\n<<if $vs neq 0>>\n[[<<print $vs>>|thevs]]\n\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>[[Liara]]<<if $garrus neq 0>>\n\n[[Garrus]]\n<<else>>\n<<endif>>\n[[EDI]]\n<<if $tali neq 0>>\n[[Tali]] \n<<else>><html></html><<endif>>\n<<else>><<display begin>>\n<<endif>>\n\n<<set $javik to 0>>

<<set $romance1 to "Kaidan">><<display romance2>>\n\n

Did Tali survive her mission on Haestrom and the attack on the Collector base? \n\n[[Yes|talialive]]\n\n[[No|talidead]]\n\n<<set $tali to 0>>\n<<set $quarians to 0>>\n<<set $geth to 0>>

In one corner of the battlefield, a pair of asari commandos advance rapidly towards the cover at the other end of the battlefield. They move through husks and cannibals with flawless grace; one, with clear, sky blue skin, focusing on biotic attacks, the other, with violet skin and a complex dark markings on her face, carefully picking targets with a Disciple shotgun. \n\nThey fight with the effortless synergy of longtime partners. A cannibal draws a bead on the pair and is thrown off-balance by a biotic pull; when it recovers its balance, it looks up directly into the barrel of a Disciple.\n\n[[Next.|samaraclip2]]