The shuttle craft takes off from the landing. Flying to the nearest overlord. With your compulsion it calms as the craft draws near it. Claws are pulled tight and the rest of your forces watch. Perhaps you could spawn some scourge or a Hydraliks but Vespine was valuable and you had alternatives. So as the ship orbits the creature you wait listening to the communications inside.
Then the door opens and the overlord starts to drift off. You lack mobile anti air and for now showing your base is worse then any kind of sampling. The overlord is by no means slow, but it is unable to outpace the shuttle.
Then to much screaming by the other two individuals the female jumps from the open door of the shuttle and onto the side of your overlord holding onto the arm above the claw.
You are surprised by the action far from anything you would call rational.
Mother saw me as a precious glass figurine. A little bauble to be watched but given no room no place to grow.
I have no mother.
Adventure to do something that changed history to be more than a piece of eye candy my mother kept around to be seen. To be free.
Freedom is unnecessary
Alien life alien worlds, maybe one day I could have first contact with an alien species. New friends and adventure in the cosmos.
Friends are unnecessary.
Service, that is my nature, a mind bound to another eternally. I was born to serve, given purpose from birth. Unquestioning for what meaning does questions have when one knows all that they need.
Doesn't it chafe?
My broodmares speak with me, of the weather, of the clouds. We question what storms will come, what will happen. It passes the time as we direct the swarm.
Don't you want more?
The hive, my home, minds uncountable. Spirea of flesh and bone, directed by the Cerebrate. We carry the will of the Overmind.
A city of Flesh?
We are unnumbered unending. We are the swarm.
Oh oh no...
A psionic bond, for a moment she joins the swarm. This Asari hungry for adventure and discovery. The bond is unlike any others you have experienced, not like the surface inexperienced scans of ghosts probing the Hivemind, or the searing cutting gaze of the Protoss. Rather it is an open channel between her mind and the overlord and through it you.
Unprotected, undefended. She surely sees all the overlord knows, and through the overlord you are gaining a wealth of knowledge of the council and the Asari. The Terrains are here too, calling themselves Humanity. They are from earth, the Systems Alliance. Must be a decent state of the UED, humans are rife for nations and order to collapse.
You can see through other eyes as the shuttle tries to draw near. It would be easy to knock her off with the overlord's claws the others likely would see it as her own stupid actions leading to death. She could live though if the Shuttle is deft enough.
No
The mind is fragile a push of your own will could crush her. Leave her mindless even if saved she could not reveal anything to her allies.
Please no
An open channel you could try to twist her mind into an agent of your will. A spy though without the structures needed to reliably pass information to you.
I'm sorry
Leave her alone stands as an option though she represents a weakness.
Please.
Her allies are around as a threat too. Right now you could pass them over expecially if she dies in a way they would never link back, or you could ruin their camp and slaughter them on their return. Decisions.
What to do with the Asari?
[]Drop her
[]Kill her
[]Corrupt her
[]Take her
[]Leave her
Why take the risk?
Her companions?
[]Slaughter
[]Leave Alone