The door opened without a sound.
A middle-aged man walked into the room. He raised a hand to rub his brow, then sat down behind the desk. After thinking for a moment, he reached out and activated the communicator.
"Put me through to the SSV Normandy. Commander Shepard."
"Please wait..."
The mechanical electronic voice quickly vanished. A moment later, a young blonde white woman appeared on the screen before him.
"Hello, sir."
As she spoke, the woman gave the man a military salute. Seeing this, the man could not help but smile wryly.
"All right, Commander, you don't need to salute me. I'm no longer your superior. I'm a Councilor now..."
"All right, then, Councilor Anderson."
Hearing Anderson's words, Shepard promptly changed her form of address. They smiled at each other, then their expressions swiftly turned serious.
"Commander Shepard, how is the Normandy doing at present?"
"Everything is normal, Anderson. But our primary mission should not be hunting down and eliminating the remaining Geth. You know it—the Reapers are our greatest enemy!"
"Mm..."
Anderson's face darkened at Shepard's words. Naturally, he had not forgotten that name.
Anderson remembered clearly that not long ago, humanity's Eden Prime had been attacked by the Geth, and large numbers of humans had been taken captive. Shepard had been assigned to investigate the incident. In the end, she discovered a conspiracy led by the rogue Spectre agent Saren: to summon back a terrifying species known as the "Reapers" and destroy all life in the Milky Way Galaxy.
The situation had once been extremely dire. At the final moment, the Reaper Sovereign, aboard which Saren had traveled, led a Geth army that nearly seized the entire Citadel. It was then, at that critical moment, that Shepard and the Normandy stepped forward, destroyed Sovereign, and brought an