Nightsolo's Mass Effect Optional Assignments




Contents


Citadel

Asari Consort

How to Get: Go to Presidium: Consort Chambers, and Talk to Nelyna, the receptionist. As you try to leave, she gets a message asking you to speak to Sha'ira, the Cosort herself. Go to the back of the locale and do so. Agree to speak to General Septimus.

How to Complete: Go to Wards: Chora's Den, and Talk to General Septinus. Tell him to either Straighten up, or Get a grip. He also gives you the Assignment "Citadel: Xeltan's Complaint." Do that first, then return to Presidium: Consort Chambers, and Talk to Sha'ira. You can tell her Glad to help, or Let's talk payment.
She gives you a Prothean Artifact, which you can use on the big floating orb on Attican Beta Cluster: Hercules: Eletania. You'll get some EXP and some info on the Protheans.

Doctor Michel

How to Get: After you've taken care of Fist, and helped the Quarian, go to Wards: Med Clinic, and Talk to Dr. Michel. She wants you to deliver medical supplies to Morlan. In order to trigger this, you may need to let her thank you for your earlier rescue, leave the Wards, and come back.

How to Complete: Agree to help Dr. Michel, then go to Wards: Lower Markets and Talk to Morlan. A krogan blackmailer shows up, and you can tell him You should reconsider, or Talk and you're dead!. You can then choose Let's work this out, or Kill him. In either case, you must return to Dr. Michel to learn who Banes is. She tells you to ask Captain Anderson about him, and the Assignment concludes.
If you want to learn about banes: From here, go find Anderson, either at the Wards: C-Sec Academy: Docking Bay or in the Presidium: Embassies: Human Embassy. Anderson tells you to ask Rear Admiral Kahoku. The Admiral is only in the Presidium: Tower if you haven't completed "Citadel: Missing Marines."

Family Matter

How to Get: After you've completed one of the major plot worlds (Feros, Noveria, or Therum), go to Presidium: Financial District. Just west of the Bank are Rebekah and Michael Petrovsky. Talk to them.

How to Complete: The two siblings-in-law are arguing over whether to get gene therapy for her unborn child. You have to convince one that the other is right. Your first option is either It's still her choice or You're not helping. Next, you say either It's worth it, or Think of the child. The Assignment is over when you exit dialog.

The Fan

How to Get: Before you leave the Citadel for the first time, Talk to Conrad Verner across from the stairs in the Wards: Upper Markets. No matter whether you give him an autrograph, you'll get the Assignment to meet him again.

How to Complete: There are two more times you can meet with him.
1) After you complete one of the main plot missions: Feros, Noveria, or Therum, return to the Citadel: Upper Wards, and Talk to Conrad again. You choose whether or not to let him take your picture. Regardless of your choice, you'll meet him again.
2) After completing a second plot mission, return to the Citadel: Upper Wards, and Talk to Conrad again. This time he wants to become a Spectre. Tell him either There are other fights, or There are no good fights.

The Fourth Estate

How to Get: After you've completed one of the major plot worlds (Feros, Noveria, or Therum), return to the Citadel: Wards: C-Sec Academy. Khalisah bint Sinan Al-Jilani with Westerlund News ambushes you. and you enter dialog.

How to Complete: You can refuse the interview from the get-go, but if you take the interview you can earn some Paragon or Renegade Points. Your first opportunity for such is to cut the interview short with This interview is over or Time to shut you up. If you keep the interview going, when you get back to the Normandy, Admiral Hackett will comment on your performance. He'll be pleased if you choose the Charm options with the right-side middle neutral "I can't confirm or deny that" when asked about Saren. He'll be annoyed if you chose the Intimidate options, or you tell the reporter about Saren's involvement. You'll then get the choice of telling Hackett either The crew is still Alliance or I command the Normandy.

Homecoming

How to Get: Samesh will ask for your help as you exit the Embassies for the first time, but in order to complete this Assignment, you must either have the evidence against Saren, or have turned it in already. Talk to Samesh Bhatia at Presidium: Embassies: Lobby to learn that the Alliance is withholding his wife's body.

How to Complete: Go into the Embassy Lounge and Talk to Clerk Bosker. You now have two choices:
1) Get the body released with This isn't right or I'm releasing the body. Return to Samesh and give him the good news.
2) Side with the Alliance and return to Samesh to console him with This is important or This is war.


*I Remember Me

How to Get: You must have chosen a Colonist pre-service history during character creation. After you've completed one of the major plot worlds (Feros, Noveria, or Therum), return to the Citadel. On your way there, you'll be contacted by radio from Lieutenant Girard and asked to help.

How to Complete: Upon exiting the Normandy in the Docking Bay, Talk to Girard. He gives you a sedative to use on a suicidal woman named Talitha. Approach her at the end of the walkway and Talk to her. You need to get close to her, one small step at a time, so use the Investigate options and take a step forward when you can. When you're close enough, you can Give her the sedative, Use the sedative, or order Girard's sniper to Shoot her, that's an order. Return to Girard for your reward.

Jahleed's Secret (Jahleed's Fears)

How to Get: Go to Wards: C-Sec. On the north side of the C-Sec Offices, you'll find the volus Jahleed talking to a human C-Sec officer. Talk to him to learn that he thinks his business partner is trying to kill him.

How to Complete: Go to Wards: Lower Markets and approach Chorban. If you've already spoken to him up in the Tower, he'll just talk to you. Otherwise he'll pull a gun and fight you, then surrender. In either case, during the conversation he reveals that Jahleed was the one who betrayed him. As you exit dialog,
1) if Chorban attacked you, then you can either kill him or accept his assignment to scan the keepers.
2) if you'd already spoken to him, but didn't accept his assignment to scan the keepers, you can get it now.
3)Otherwise you just walk away.

Return to Jahleed in Wards: C-Sec:C-Sec Offices. He reveals that he was hoping you'd kill Chorban for him. You have some options:
1) if you refuse to help him, you can turn him in right then and there.
2) if you refuse to help, and don't turn him in, you can get him to give the data back to the people he stole it from with Then do it legally or Take it back!
3) if you keep him out of jail without using Charm or Intimidate, you can accept his bribe.
4) if you don't already have the scan the keepers assignment, he'll offer it to you.
If you let Chorban live, and you completed scanning the keepers, you'll get an email of his results in ME2.


Negotiator's Request

How to Get: You must have completed all four of the plot worlds: Feros, Noveria, Therum, and Virmire. You will have automatically returned to the Citadel. As you go to meet Anderson at Citadel: Wards: Flux, Elias Keeler will be at the base of the steps leading to the entrance. Talk to him.

How to Complete: He wants a stimulant to help him through some tough negotiations.
1) You can end the conversation now with either You need help or No, you'll go now.
2) If you agree to help him, go to the Med Clinic, Buy either the Mental Stimulant or the Depressant from Doctor Michel. Return to Elias. If you give him the Mental Stimulant, you get some credits and that's it. Or you can Give him the depressant for some Renegade points.

*Old Friends

How to Get: You must have chosen an Earthborn pre-service history during character creation. After you've completed one of the major plot worlds (Feros, Noveria, or Therum), return to the Citadel, and go to the Wards: Chora's Den. Just outside will be Finch. Talk to him.

How to Complete: Finch wants you to get one of your old gang-mates out of jail. Go into Chora's Den and talk to the Turian Guard. You now have some choices:
1) Convince the guard to release the prisoner with either I need your help or I don't care. Give him to me.. Return to Finch for your reward.
2) Don't convince the guard, and Finch will show up to confront you. You then have some real choices:
  a) This won't help you or So what will make him go away.
  b) Shoot him. The guard then compliments you for ridding the galaxy of such scum.
  c) I've got a warning, followed by This changes things, will bribe Finch.

*Old, Unhappy, Far-Off Things

How to Get: You must have chosen a Spacer pre-service history during character creation. After you've completed one of the major plot worlds (Feros, Noveria, or Therum), return to the Citadel, and go to the Wards: Access. Talk to Zabaleta.

How to Complete: He claims to have served with your parents, and asks for some spare change. You can tell him I'll give you the money or You're just a drunk. After that, go back to the Normandy: Comm Room and Access the Comm Terminal to have a conversation with your mother. She wants you to convince him to go to the Veteran's Affairs Office. So return to Zabaleta and you'll have two conversation branches.
1) The Veteran's Affairs Office, and I'll give you 20 for food for the Paragon way, which will convince him to get help.
2) Or for the Renegade way, to get him to stay a drunk: No one understands! Waaah!, and Screw you.

Our Own Worst Enemy

How to Get: You must have completed all four of the plot worlds: Feros, Noveria, Therum, and Virmire. Return to the Citadel: Upper Wards. Talk to Charles Sarcino.

How to Complete: Charles wants you to support his Earth First party with its anti-alien platform. You can respond with I won't support you, or You have my support. If Garrus and/or Ashley are in your squad, they'll have some comments if you use the Investigate options.

Planting a Bug

How to Get: After you've completed one of the major plot worlds (Feros, Noveria, or Therum), AND you've done "Citadel: Reporter's Request," return to the Citadel, and go to the Presidium: Tower. Talk to Emily Wong, who's at the base of the stairs opposite the Rapid Transit Terminal.

How to Complete: She wants you to plant a bug in the citadel traffic contol room to help her with a story. After you exit dialog, you have two choices:
1) For the most Paragon or Renegade points, re-enter dialog right away and tell her I've changed my mind, or I already did it.
2) Go to Wards: C-Sec Academy: Traffic Control, and plant the bug in the corner near the keeper. Return to Presidium: Tower and tell Emily It's a good cause or You're welcome.

Presidium Prophet

How to Get: You must have become a Spectre. On the Presidium, east of the elevator to the Tower, and in front of the stairs to Wards Access, is a C-Sec Officer talking to a Hanar Evangelist. Talk to either one of them to learn the Hanar needs a permit or has to leave. You'll exit dialog and get the Assignment.

How to Complete:
1) Talk to the Hanar and tell it either This is unworthy of you or There's trouble anyway, and it'll leave. Talk to the C-Sec Officer for a reward.
2) Talk to the C-Sec Officer and tell him either It's not causing trouble or This is dangerous and the C-Sec Officer will go away. Talk to the Hanar for a reward.
3) Talk to the Hanar and buy him the permit for 150 credits.

Reporter's Request

How to Get: Go to the Upper Wards and Talk to Emily Wong.

How to Complete: After you've gotten the Optical Storage Disc from Fist's office, return to Emily and give it to her. If you forget to pick it up before you leave his office, you can return at any time later to get it, despite the door showing a red light. You can then say either I can offer you more, or You owe me more.

Rita's Sister and Chellick (Rita's Sister)

How to Get: Go to Wards: Flux and Talk to Rita, next to the bar.

How to Complete: Rita wants her sister back from the dangerous Chora's Den. Go to Wards: Chora's Den and Talk to Jenna. She doesn't have much to say, but on your way out, a turian bumps into you and whispers to meet him at C-Sec. Go to Wards: C-Sec Academy: C-Sec Offices, and Talk to Chellick. He explains that Jenna is undercover, but you can persuade him to let her go immediately with You don't need her or Pathetic. He still needs you to help him, though. You need to go down to the Wards: Lower Markets and confront Jax. You have a couple options:
1) Kill Jax and his goons either because you try to arrest him or you just don't like him. When you return to Chellick, he'll be pissed, and you won't get as much a reward.
2) Do as you were asked and get the mods. Bring them back to Chellick and he'll be so pleased he'll give you a spare mod for helping.
Either way, you can then go back to Rita in Flux and she'll be happy her sister is back. Mostly.

Scan the Keepers

How to Get:
1) After speaking with the Council for the first time, you'll see a salarian kneeling next to a keeper. Approach him, and Chorban will ask you to scan twenty-one (21) keepers, located throughout the Citadel.
2) During the "Citadel: Jahleed's Secret" Assignment, either Chorban or Jahleed can give you this Assignment.

How to Complete: Scan all the keepers on the Citadel. You don't have to turn the Assignment in to anyone, it just completes when you're done, and you get credits and EXP every time you scan a keeper. Here are the locations of all of them. (If you start in the Tower, this is also a relatively efficient way to get them all.)

Schells the Gambler

How to Get: After you've completed "Citadel: Rita's Sister and Chellick," leave the Wards, then return to Flux, and as you approach the stairs from the Upper Wards, you'll see a salarian get tossed out by the bouncer. Talk to Schells, and he'll ask you to help him scan the Quasar machines.

How to Complete:
1) Give the device immediately to Doran, who is now upstairs beyond the banks of quasar machines. He'll reward you. Return to Schells and tell him you gave it to Doran.
2) Use any of the Quasar machines. Win five times. If you win seven times, Doran will bounce you out. Return to Shells with your results.
Either way, you can go back in to Flux and Dance with Doran.

Signal Tracking

How to Get: Examine the Suspicious Gambling Machine in the back of the upper level of Flux.

How to Complete: You need to Examine two Relays before you can find the Source. The first Relay is in the large room of Wards Access. The second Relay is behind Barla Von on in the Presidium: Bank. Now go through the Emporium and hang a right. Access the computer, and the AI inhabiting it will start a dialogue. You can learn about its motives, but eventually it'll initate a self-destruct. You can shoot the nearby Power Junction, but in order to get any credits, you'll need to disarm it through a mini-game. The code varies, and your reward increases with the amount of time left on the timer. OmniGel won't work on this type of minigame.

Xeltan's Complaint

How to Get: 1) During "Citadel: Asari Consort", General Septimus in Wards: Chora's Den asks you to speak to Xeltan.
2) Talk to Xeltan the elcor in the Embasies, then talk to General Septimus.

How to Complete: Go to Presidium: Embassies: Volus/Elcor Embassy, and Talk to Xeltan. Tell him that General Septimus was responsible for betraying him, and Don't worry. You can then go to Presidium: Consort Chambers and tell Sha'ira about the mixup at the same time you complete "Citadel: Asari Consort."


Feros

Data Recovery

How to Get: On your way out to ExoGeni Headquarters, you come across the Regugee Camp. There will be some dialog with other characters, but before you leave, Talk to Gavin Hossle. He's standing off to the side behind a counter.

How to Complete: Once at ExoGeni: Main Level, after the room with the ship claw and the Glowing Orb, continue and you'll kill some geth. There are two stairwells up. Take the eastern one (with the force field on your left), and you'll fight some krogan. When they're dead, Use the Console to get the data. On your way back to Zhu's Hope, stop by the Refugee Camp. After some other dialog, Talk to Gavin again to give him the OSD.

Geth in the Tunnels

How to Get: After you've cleared the immediate threat of the geth for Fai Dan, return to him and he'll give you this Assignment.

How to Complete: Head back up the stairs, past the elevator, and down some more stairs into the Tunnels. Follow the tunnel and take the first right. Down this branch to the east are some krogan guarding a Transmitter Tower. Destroy it, then return to Zhu's Hope and tell Fai Dan the good news.

Power Cells

How to Get: After you've cleared the immediate geth threat, return to base and Talk to May O'Connel near the eastern end of camp.

How to Complete: Head back up the stairs where you cleared the geth, go past the elevator and down the stairs into the Tunnels. Follow the tunnel and take your first left. In this room to the west are a bunch of varren. Kill them, then take the Power Cell from the broken-down vehicle. Return to Zhu's Hope and give the Power Cell to May O'Connel.

Varren Meat

How to Get: After you've cleared the immediate geth threat, return to base and Talk to Davin Reynolds inside the pre-fab structure.

How to Complete: Head back up the stairs where you cleared the geth, go past the elevator and down the stairs into the Tunnels. Follow the tunnel and take your first left. In this room to the west are a bunch of varren. Kill them, including the Alpha Varren. The Meat will automatically be looted. Return to Zhu's Hope and give the Meat to Gavin Reynolds. You get a choice to tell him either The alpha male is dead or Just pay up.

Water Restoration

How to Get: After you've cleared the immediate geth threat, return to base and Talk to Macha Doyle at the east end of camp.

How to Complete: Head back up the stairs where you cleared the geth, go past the elevator and down the stairs into the Tunnels. There are three total Valves you need to open. In the first passage there are two Valves you need to manipulate, one at the south end and one at the north end. Continue north into the other passage, and there's one more Valve. When you return to Zhu's Hope, tell Macha Doyle the good news and you'll earn some Paragon points.

Noveria

Espionage

How to Get: Mallene Calis in the Hotel Lobby on the northwestern side of Port Hanshan will ask for your attention as you enter. Talk to her.

How to Complete: She wants you to distract Rafael Vargas over by the bar while she uploads a virus to his company's network. You have several choices:
1) Turn her down with Not this time.
2) Accept her Assignment. Talk to Rafael Vargas and tell him what Mallene Calis asked you to do. Return to Mallene and tell her I told him about you.
3) Accept her Assignment and ask her about anything else she knows about him. You'll have to make four Charm or Intimidate choices, then the device Mallene gave you will beep. Return to Mallene and tell her It's done. You can then Charm or Intimidate her into giving you more credits.
4) Accept her Assignment. Talk to Rafael Vargas and tell him what Mallene Calis asked you to do. Return to Mallene and tell her [Lie] It's done. You can then Charm or Intimidate her into giving you more credits.

Lorik Qui'in

How to Get: From the elevator down from Customs, take a left and go southeast into the Administration Office. Talk to Gianna Parsini, who will direct you to Administrator Anoleis. After speaking with him, return to Gianna and she'll mention a way to get the Garage Pass.

How to Complete: Leave the Administration Office and go northwest across the Plaza. Enter the Hotel Lobby and Talk to Lorik Qui'in. He wants you to get some data out of his office. You can disable the security systems at the Synthetic Insights office by hacking a terminal upstairs here in the Hotel. Leave and go south across the Plaza. Take the corridor to the west and use the elevator to enter Synthetic Insights.
Upon entering, you'll be confronted by some guards. You can get them to leave peacefully with You're here illegally, or you can fight them by saying You can't take us. In either case, you'll have to fight a second set of guards as you make your way upstairs and to the office at the end of the walkway to grab the data. On your way out, Kaira Stirling tries to stop you, and you'll have to kill her no matter what you say. When you exit the elevator back in Port Hanshan, Gianna Parsini stops you and asks you to meet her in the Hotel Lobby and speak to her before speaking to Lorik Qui'in. You then have some choices:
1) Go to the Hotel Lobby and Talk to Gianna Parsini first. Then convince Lorik Qui'in to testify against Aneolis. Meet Gianna Parsini in the Administration Office to have Anoleis arrested. Gianna will then give you the Garage Pass.
2) Go to the Hotel Lobby, snub Gianna and go directly to Lorik Qui'in. He'll give you the Garage Pass.
3) Snub both Gianna and Lorik, and present the evidence to Anoleis in the Administration Office. You can then blackmail him, and he'll give you the Garage Pass and a bunch of credits.
4) Go to Anoleis in the Administration Office, and tell him Gianna is an undercover agent. He'll call her into his office, and they'll both be killed in the shootout. Loot the Garage Pass from Anoleis's corpse.

Smuggling

How to Get: Talk to Opold just to the right of the entrance to Port Hanshan from Customs.

How to Complete: Opold wants you to smuggle in a package for him. Tell him either See it my way or Tell me or I won't help to learn that the package is for a krogan bounty hunter name Inamorda. Go back to the Docking Bay, and pick up the package near the Normandy. There are several ways to finish this:
1) Simply go back to Opold and give him the package for the promised credits. You can then say either You needed me or I hope that's a joke to double your reward.
2) Go back to Opold and tell him you're keeping the item. You'll get an upgrade item. Return to the Docking Bay, and you'll have to fight Inamorda and his gang.
3) Take it directly to Inamorda in the Hotel Lobby. He'll admit he was paying Opold too much and is happy to pay you less. For more credits, tell him either This is worth more or Be serious.
4) Take the package to Administrator Anoleis in the Administration Office. If you go this route, you'll never be able to buy anything from Opold. Aneolis will give you some credits and the Garage Pass. He'll also take the item unless you say either I'll keep the upgrade or The upgrade is mine. This option also means you can't do the "Lorik Qui'in" Assignment.

UNC

Asari Diplomacy (Investigate Mercenaries)

How to Get: Available after you've completed one of the major plot worlds (Feros, Noveria, or Therum), there are two (2) ways of getting this:
1) When you approach the Citadel, you may receive a transmission from an asari diplomat requesting your assistance. Go to the Citadel: Presidium: Embassy Lounge and Talk to Nassana Dantius.
2) Go to Artemis Tau Cluster: Macedon System, and Land on Sharjila.

How to Complete: If Nassana Dantius gave you the Assignment, follow step two. There is a base to the north guarded by Pirates. Kill them all, then go inside and kill everyone there. Upstairs, access a desk, and you'll get information proving Nassana set you up. Return to Citadel: Presidium: Embassy Lounge and Talk to Nassana. She confesses, but gives you a reward anyway. If you tell her I've got a better deal or Credits won't cut it, She'll give you the Armali Council Liscence.


Asari Writings

How to Get: The first time you use Survey and find an Asari Matriarch's Writings.

How to Complete: You'll need to Survey a bunch of places to complete this. Some are on the surfaces of planets, some you get when you Survey a planet. There are more than enough to complete the Assignment.

Besieged Base

How to Get: Fill 75% of your Paragon Bar. When you access the Galaxy Map, Admiral Hackett will radio you and give you the assignment. You can refuse the assignment by telling him That's not my problem.

How to Complete: Go to Hades Gamma Cluster: Cacus System, and Land on Chohe. Drive the Mako to the nearby Science Station. Enter, and kill all the biotics. You get more Paragon Points for not letting any civilians die, only a few if between one and four die, and some Renegade Points if you kill more than four civilians. Assigning your squadmates positions out of the way will help.

Cerberus

How to Get: Complete "UNC: Missing Marines." When you return to Rear Admiral Kahoku in the Citadel: Tower, he'll leave. Upon leaving the Citadel and going anywhere else, Joker will play a message for you from Kahoku, and you get this Assignment.

How to Complete: Go to Voyager Cluster: Yangtze System, and Land on Binthu. There are three facilities you must infiltrate. Each is guarded by two heavy turrets on the outside. Inside, you'll have to kill the guards, then release their test subjects and kill those as well. You can tackle them in any order. The last facility will have Admiral Kahoku's corpse in the force field. Examine the body, and that will complete this Assignment, and start "UNC: Hades' Dogs."

This quest can sometimes bug out and become uncompletable, as Kahoku's body never appears. Therefore, I recommend starting by destroying all six turrets before entering any of the buildings. Save in a seperate slot before entering the first one. Clear out all three buildings, and if indeed his body doesn't appear, reload the earlier save and start at a different building. If necessary, do it again, starting at the building you haven't tried first yet. It is also possible that you missed one enemy in one of the buildings, so it may be worthwhile to revisit previously cleared buildings to double-check that they are indeed empty.


Colony of the Dead (Investigate Samples)

How to Get:
1) Head to Maroon Sea Cluster: Matano System, and Land on Chasca.
2) On Feros, in the ExoGeni Headquarters: Upper Level, Access a server node to learn about a connection between ExoGeni and Cerberus. this leads you to the planet above.

How to Complete: There are two Civilian Structures and a Science Facility on the surface. All are guarded by Husks both outside and in. In the back room of the Science Facliity, Use the Terminal to learn that Cerberus is resonsible for transforming the sorry souls you just killed.

Dead Scientists (Doctor at Risk)

How to Get:
1) Hack the Terminal on the upper level of Noveria: Port Hanshan: Hotel Lobby.
2) Go to Kepler Verge: Newton System. Admiral Hackett will contact you and ask that you look into this.

How to Complete: (Side note: if you chose the Sole Survivor background, you'll have good reason to be here.)
Once on the surface of Ontarom, go south and find an underground facility guarded by Mercenaries. Clear them, then go inside. In a back room is a soldier named Toombs holding a gun to the Doctor's head. You can talk Toombs down with This isn't Justice, shoot the Doctor yourself with Let me do it, or shoot Toombs yourself with [Shoot him]. Admiral Hackett will debrief you the next time you access the Galaxy Map on the Normandy. He doesn't seem to have a problem with however you chose to resolve the situation.

Depot Sigma-23

How to Get: Complete Noveria. Finish "UNC: Listening Post Alpha" and "UNC: Listening Post Theta" and access a computer at the Theta site.

How to Complete: Go to Argus Rho Cluster: Gorgon System, and Dock with the Unidentified Space Facility. Make your way through the cargo hold. Note how you got through the maze of cargo crates, because you'll need to get out in a hurry. The room to the north of the bridge has a Terminal where you can learn why there are rachni on the ship. In this room are also some Demolition Charges. Set them off and run back to the Normandy. You probably don't have time to kill all the new rachni that have appeared in the cargo hold.

Derelict Freighter

How to Get: Board the Derelict Freighter in Maroon Sea Cluster: Caspian System.

How to Complete: Kill all the Husks on the ship, then Access the Logs in the Cockpit. Return to the Normandy when you're done exploring.

Distress Call (Unusual Readings)

How to Get:
1) After you first arrive on the Citadel, you can Decrypt a computer in Presidium: Embassies: Human Embassy, and it'll give you this Assignment.
2) Go to Argos Rho Cluster: Hydra System, and Land on Metgos.

How to Complete: Go to Argos Rho Cluster: Hydra System. You'll receive a distress call from the surface. Land, and drive south. You'll be ambushed by geth. Watch out for the mine under the beacon itself, and kill all the geth that pop up out of the ground.

Espionage Probe (Investigate Shipments)

How to Get:
1) On Feros, Access a computer inside the pre-fab structure.
2) Go to Voyager Cluster: Amazon System, and Admiral Hacket will give you the Asssignment.

How to Complete: Go to Voyager Cluster: Amazon System, and Land on Agebinium. Drive northwest in the valley you're in and enter the Mining Tunnels. In a room in the back is a nuke, and you need to disarm it. There's a timer, but it doesn't run while you're playing the minigame to disarm each of the three hardpoints. You can also use Omni-Gel on each hardpoint. When you're done, a bomb goes off blocking the way you came in, but opening up another. Back out on the surface, cautiously aproach the Mercenary Camp down the hill and pick off the Mercs. Even though they were trying to kill you, someone was kind enough to move the Mako over here for you, and you can run down and hop in to use its gun on the bad guys, if you prefer.

ExoGeni Facility (Investigate Facility)

How to Get:
1) On Feros: ExoGeni Headquarters: Upper Level, Access a Terminal.
2) Go to Maroon Sea Cluster: Vostok System, and Land on Nodacrux. Joker will tell you about a distress beacon.

How to Complete: From the landing zone on Nodacrux, go southeast and kill some Thorian Creepers surrounding a Facility. If you've been to Feros, you can use the Thorian Gas Grenade to one-shot them. Kill some more inside, then find Dr. Ross in a back room. If you choose not to accept her bribe, say I can't do that, or I should kill you right now, and you'll be forced to kill her and her team.

Geth Incursions (Geth Activities)

How to Get:
1) On Feros: ExoGeni Headquarters: Upper Level, Access a Terminal.
2) Go to Armstrong Nebula and Admiral Hackett will ask you to eliminate all the geth in the region.

How to Complete: You have to visit four planets in four systems and elimiate all the geth on each one. This opens up a fifth system and a fifth planet to complete the Assignment. After each is clear, one of your characters will mention that this is so.
1) Vamshi System: Maji. The geth ouptost is due north of the landing zone.
2) Tereshkova System: Antibaar. From the landing zone, drive northeast, and the base is between some hills.
3) Gagarin System: Rayingiri. The geth base is located to the south-southeast of the landing zone.
4) Hong System: Casbin. The geth are located northeast of the landing zone.
5) Grissom System: Solcrum. The last base opens up when all four of the others are wiped out. It's east of the landig zone. Inside in a back room is a Terminal you can Access to get the Assignment "Tali and the Geth."

Hades' Dogs

How to Get: After you find Admiral Kahoku's Corpse in the third facility on Binthu, as part of "UNC: Cerberus."

How to Complete: Go to Voyager Cluster: Columbia System, and Land on Nepheron. Southwest of the landing zone in a small valley is an Underground Facility. Kill everyone both outside and in. Access a Terminal in the facility to find information on Cerberus. When you get back on the Normandy, access the Galaxy Map, and an agent of the Shadow Broker will contact you and offer you money for the information. You can refuse with I don't trust you, or accept with Sounds good.

Hostage

How to Get: In a random elevator on the Citadel, you'll hear a news report that Chairman Burns has been kidnapped by biotics.

How to Complete: Go to Hades Gamma Cluster: Farinata System and Board the MSV Ontario. It's hidden, so you'll have to look for a sparkling light and click your cursor on it. Once on board, enter the cargo hold. As soon as you're spotted by hostiles, a three-minute timer starts, indicating how long you have before the Chariman is executed. This may or may not be enough time for you to kill all the enemies. You'll have to get to the opposite side of the ship and go in the north room. This will end the timer and initiate a dialog with the leader of the rogue biotics. You then have the choice of You don't have to die to get the biotics to surrender, or Take them down! to fight them all. If you don't fight them all right away, you can choose You need Burns! or Don't be stupid to convince not only the bad guy to let the Chairman go, but the Chairman will also reconsider his position. If either the timer expires or you fail to convince the rogue biotics to let the Chairman go, he'll die. When you return to the Normandy, Admiral Hacket will comment on the result.

Hostile Takeover (Person of Interest)

How to Get:
1) Decrypting a computer console in the Citadel: Wards: C-Sec Academy: C-Sec Offices tells you about someone they're keeping an eye on near the Presidium: Emporium. Whether you pick this up or not, go directly to 2).
2) Talk directly with Helena Blake, standing along the railing in front of the Presidium: Emporium.

How to Complete: To get the Assignment, you can accept it right away with Not a problem and I'll do it. You can also try to refuse with No. I won't do this, and she'll give you the coordinates to the two places you need to go anyway. Either way, there are two crimelords you need to kill before you can meet Helena on a third planet.
1) Go to Gemini Sigma Cluster: Han System and Land on Mavigon. The first hideout is on a hill to the southeast. Take out the exterior defenses, then kill everyone inside.
2) Go to Hades Gamma Cluster: Dis System, and Land on Klensal. The second hideout is to the south. Again, take out the exterior defenses, then kill everyone inside.
3) Lastly, go to the Horse Head Nebula: Fortuna System, and Land on Amaranthine. Helena's in an Outpost to the south. Upon entering, Helena will thank you with some credits. You can then convince her to quit the businiess with either Walk away or Disband the group. If you try to arrest her with You're under arrest, or any other option, she and her gang will fight you and you'll have to kill them all. You better stay clean causes everyone to stay friendly, and you can loot the building with them looking on.

Listening Post Alpha

How to Get: You must have completed the plot on Noveria. Then you can either vist the Erebus System where you recieve a transmission, or complete the "UNC: Listening Post Theta" Assignment.

How to Complete: Go to Styx Theta Cluster: Erebus System. This triggers a distress call from Nepmos. Land there, and drive southwest. Talk to Lieutenant Durand and agree to help her squad fend off some rachni. You can either hook up the Mako to their generator to power the defense guns, or you can hop in the Mako itself and use its firepower. After the waves of rachni stop, talk to Lieutenant Durand again to learn that the bugs are coming from a nearby Mine. She'll also tell you about "UNC: Listening Post Theta."
Disconnect the Mako if you connected it to the guns, then drive west and enter the Mine. As you advance, more rachni appear. So to make the fight easier, advance a couple steps, retreat and kill the rachni that appear, then advance again. Repeat all the way through the mine, being sure to clear the side rooms as well. If you've already completed "UNC: Listening Post Theta," the Assignment "UNC: Depot Sigma-23" will be available.

Listening Post Theta

How to Get: You must have completed the plot on Noveria. The marines from "UNC: Listening Post Alpha" can tell you abou this, or you can enter the Styx Theta Cluster: Acheron System and Land on Althae.

How to Complete: Go to Styx Theta Cluster: Acheron System and Land on Althae. Drive east from the landing zone and pick off the rachni outside the Listening Post. Once they're down, enter the post and kill all the rachni in there. Access the Emergency FTL Comm and a Terminal in a back room to get "UNC: Listening Post Alpha" if you haven't already done it. If you have, you'll get "UNC: Depot Sigma-23."

Locate Signs of Battle

How to Get: You'll get this the first time you Survey a Medallion or a Salarian ID Tag.

How to Complete: You'll need to Survey a bunch of places to complete this. Some are on the surfaces of planets, some you get when you Survey a planet. There are more than enough to complete the Assignment.

Lost Freighter

How to Get: After you've completed one of the major plot worlds (Feros, Noveria, or Therum). Go to Gemini Sigma Cluster: Ming Sytstem, and Dock with the MSV Worthington.

How to Complete: Make your way through the cargo hold, being careful not to apprach the Explosives, because they'll explode when you get too close. In the room south of the bridge, play the logs to learn about what's up with Jacob. Next go in the room to the north a and play the medical log. In the cockpit, you can listen to the logs to hear what happened next. A woman named Julia will then attack you. After you kill her, you'll have the option of disconnecting Jacob.

Lost Module

How to Get: Go to the Attican Beta Cluster: Hercules System, and Admiral Hackett will ask you to recover a data module from a downed probe on Eletania.

How to Complete: Land on Eletania. If you kill any of the monkeys on this planet (even by driving over it), you'll earn Renegade points. If you manage to locate the Data Module without harming any monkeys, you'll earn Paragon points. Drive northeast from the landing zone to find the Downed Recon Probe on a small hill. Get out of the Mako and Examine the Probe to learn that the Data Module is missing. One of your squad mates suggests one of the monkeys in the area might have it. Due north, around a mountain, is a mining complex. Go in and Search the monkeys in the back right room. One of your squad mates will exclaim "That monkey dropped the Data Module!" But it's actually in your inventory. Leave the room and some geth will attack you. Return to the Normandy and access the Galaxy Map to send the data back to Admiral Hackett.

Major Kyle (Strange Transmission)

How to Get:
1) Decrypting a message from a Console Computer in Citadel: Presidium: Embassies: C-Sec HQ will give you this Assignment and tell you where to go.
2) When you approach the Century System in the Hawking Eta Cluster, Admiral Hackett will ask you to look into a group of fanatical biotics. You can choose to answer Maybe I can reason with him.

How to Complete: Go to Hawking Eta Cluster: Century System, and Land on Presrop. Drive southwest, over the mountain range, and you'll come to the Compound. Use the intercom on the larger building, and you'll have two ways to end this:
1) Persuade the voice on the intercom to let you in using He needs my help or He'll get you all killed, and the doors to this and to the smaller building will be unlocked. The only thing to do inside the larger building at this point is loot. Go inside the smaller building and walk to the back right room. Talk to Major Kyle and convince him to surrender with You can't help them now or Surrender or they all die!
2) Don't convince the intercom voice to let you in. Instead fight your way through the larger building and Use a console in a back room to unlock the door to the smaller building. You'll then have to kill everyone in that building, as well as Major Kyle.
Admiral Hackett will debrief you the next time you access the Galaxy Map on the Normandy.

Missing Marines

How to Get: You may be talking to Admiral Kahoku in the Citadel: Presidium: Tower after the Assigment "Citadel: Dr. Michel." Kahoku will give this Assignment to you regardless of whether you've helped Dr. Michel.

How to Complete: Go to Artemis Tau Cluster: Sparta System, and Land on Edolus. Drive north towards a Distress Beacon, and you'll be attacked by a Thresher Maw. Kill it, then get out of the Mako and Examine the corpes strewn about. Return to the Citadel: Presidium: Tower and tell Admiral Kahoku the bad news. When you return to the Normandy and access the Galaxy Map, you'll get a message from Kahoku and you'll get the Assignment "UNC: Cerberus."

Missing Survey Team

How to Get: While riding any random elevator on the Citadel, you'll hear a newscast about a missing survey team.

How to Complete: Go to Hades Gamma Cluster: Antaeus System and Land on Trebin. Drive northeast to a Research Base and enter one of the buildings. Check out a computer to learn that the team found some alien technology. Continue a short distance north and enter the Dig Site. Husks will attack you in the main chamber. As you approach the back rooms, Husks will pour out of the two rooms. Kill them all to end the Assignment.

The Negotiation

How to Get: When you get 75% of your Renegade bar filled, Admiral Hackett will contact you and request your assistance brokering a peace treaty.

How to Complete: Go to Hades Gamma Cluster: Plutus Sytem, and Land on Nonuel. Drive north-northeast to the Outpost. Once inside, Darius will yell down at you from the balcony and start a conversation with you. In order to end this peacefully, you have to agree to ALL of his demands. If you don't, you'll have to kill him and all his cronies. You earn a few Paragon Points for a peaceful outcome, or a ton of Renegade Points for killing them all. When you return to the Normandy and access the Galaxy Map, Hackett seems to be a bit dissappointed no matter the outcome.

Privateers (Missing Person)

How to Get:
1) After you've become a Spectre, go to the Citadel: Tower and Talk to Garoth. He'll give you the location of a ship his brother was on. Continue on to 2).
2) Even if you haven't spoken with Garoth, go to Horse Head Nebula: Strennus System. Look for a shiny object just northwest of the planet Xawin, and click on it. Scan the MSV Majesty. This will unlock Xawin to land on.

How to Complete: Land on Xawin. Drive east-northeast to an Abandoned Camp. Accessing the Computer will put a couple more areas of interest on your map. Drive northwest to the Mercenary Camp. Destroy the turrets and kill the defenders, then head inside and dispense some more indiscriminate justice. In the room upstairs is Captain Willem's body. Examine it, then return to the Citadel: Tower. When you give Garoth the bad news, you can console him with This must be hard on you or You were fooling yourself.


Prothean Data Discs

How to Get: You'll get this the first time you Survey a Prothean Data Disc.

How to Complete: You'll need to Survey a bunch of places to complete this. Some are on the surfaces of planets, some you get when you Survey a planet. There are more than enough to complete the Assignment.

Rogue VI

How to Get: Available after you reach Level 20. When you do, and you access the Galaxy Map on the Normandy, Admiral Hackett will give you the Assignment. Respond with Was anyone hurt? or I've heard that before.

How to Complete: Go to Local Cluster: Sol System, and Land on Luna. Drive southwest to the Alliance Training ground at the top of a plateau. Take out the exterior defenses, then enter each of three buildings in turn. Clear them of drones, then enter the back rooms and destroy the four Conduits in each room. Every time you clear a building, the VI will up the defenses in the remaining buildings. After you clear the last one, you get to choose a Specialization Class.

Turian Insignias

How to Get: You'll get this the first time you Survey a Turian Insignia.

How to Complete: You'll need to Survey a bunch of places to complete this. Some are on the surfaces of planets, some you get when you Survey a planet. There are more than enough to complete the Assignment.

Valuable Minerals

How to Get: You'll get this the first time you Survey a Mineral.

How to Complete: You'll need to Survey a bunch of places to complete this. Some are on the surfaces of planets, some you get when you Survey a planet. There are more than enough to complete the Assignment. There are four different types of minerals (Gas, Light, Heavy, and Rare). This list just shows locations and doesn't differentiate.

Virmire

Assisting Kirrahe's Team

How to Get: Virmire is available after you've completed two of the major plot worlds (Feros, Noveria, Therum). When you start the assault on the base, this Assignment is automatically added to your log.

How to Complete: During your run on Saren's base, there are four things you can do to help the other team.
1) From the start of the mission, go north. Up on the platform is a Console you can use to disrupt communications.
2) Continue west, and you'll come to another platform. Shoot the Sattelite Uplink Tower.
3) At the next fork, go north, and shoot the Fuel Tanks. Also destroy all the drones in the area.
4) Once inside the entryway of the base, you'll come to a Security Console. You then have a choice to handle some extra geth yourself with They've got enough trouble, or send them to Captain Kirahe with They can handle it. If you choose the Renegade option, Kirahe won't survive the mission.

Wrex and the Genophage

How to Get: You must have recruited Wrex. When you get to the Salarian Camp, Captain Kirahe and all your team mates mention that you should talk to Wrex.

How to Complete: Talk to Wrex. He's pissed that you want to destroy Saren's "cure" for the Genophage. You can talk him down with the Charm or Intimidate options. Or, you can either kill him yourself or signal Ashley to kill him. If you've completed "Wrex: Family Armor," it makes it easier to talk him down.

Squad

Garrus: Find Dr. Saleon

How to Get: The third time you Talk to Garrus in the Normandy: Vehicle Bay, he'll tell you about a crook who got away. This reveals a ship on your Galaxy Map.

How to Complete: Go to Kepler Verge: Herschel System, and Board the MSV Fedele. Make your way through the ship and kill the crazed test subjects. The room south of the bridge is where Dr. Saleon is hiding, though, he calls himself Dr. Heart. Regardless of whether Garrus is in your party, or how you choose to deal with the situation, you'll end up killing the bad doctor.

Tali and the Geth

How to Get: At the end of "UNC: Geth Incursions" Assignment, you can dowload some data off a terminal on Solcrum.

How to Complete: Once back on the Normandy, go down to Engineering and Talk to Tali. You can choose to give the data to her with All right and Take it, or refuse with I can't take that risk.

Wrex: Family Armor

How to Get: You can optionally get this the third time you talk to Wrex. Otherwise you'll get it automatically when you land on Tuntau and enter the base due south of the landing zone.

How to Complete: Go to Argos Rho Cluster: Phoenix System, and Land on Tuntau. Drive due south from the landing zone, and you'll come to a base. If Wrex is in your party when you enter, he'll tell you about his Family Armor. Clear out the base of bad guys, then head upstairs and open the locker. You'll get the armor. If Wrex is in your party, he'll take it. If he's not in your party, you need to head back up to the Normandy: Vehicle Bay to give it to him.

last modified 1 June 2021