
Shepard and their squad must fight through Geth troops and Mass Effect's feared Krogan warriors bred by Saren. When Shepard travels through the Conduit, Saren has already had a head start and is moving toward the Council chambers in the Citadel Tower. Shepard then follows Saren through the Conduit, attempting to stop the former Spectre before he can initiate the genocide. While his Geth fleet and the Reaper vanguard Sovereign assault the Citadel from space, Saren will slip onto the station while the defense fleet is distracted to activate the Mass Relay and bring the Reapers from dark space. With this information, Saren's goal is revealed. Related: Mass Effect 1: Which Citadel NPCs Are Worth Ignoring The Prothean scientists emerged from their stasis pods after centuries, and traveled through the Conduit to alter the signal that alerts the Keepers on the Citadel to activate the dormant Relay within the space station. The miniature Relay on Ilos, the Conduit, was a one-way transporter to the Citadel. Ilos had previously been the construction site of a prototype Mass Relay - an effort to reverse engineer the FTL technology. Though the Prothean race was already doomed, 12 scientists at the laboratory on Ilos came out of stasis in an attempt to thwart future harvests by the Reapers. With the help of Captain Anderson, Shepard retakes control of the grounded Normandy and uses its advanced stealth technology to pursue Saren through the lost Mu Relay and discover the nature of the Conduit. With evidence of Saren's final goal of reaching a device called the Conduit on Ilos, Shepard informs the Council, who don't believe in the Reaper threat, and are mustering a fleet to defend the Citadel from Saren's Geth forces. Related: Mass Effect 1's Best Crewmates In Legendary Edition Shepard has slowly been able to uncover Saren's motives to facilitate the Reaper invasion, a key part of which appears to be Ilos, a planet that has been unreachable because of a lost Mass Relay. Up until this point Shepard has been traveling the galaxy investigating recent Geth activity.
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The beginning of Mass Effect's climax takes place on the planet Ilos, when Commander Shepard learns from a Prothean virtual intelligence about the plight of the extinct race and the full extent of the Reaper harvests.
