

I say “supposedly” because I haven’t finished ME yet. Supposedly picking up sometime after the story of the game Mass Effect and before its upcoming sequel Mass Effect 2, Redemption follows Liara T’Soni on her search for Commander Shepard (or his body, at least in this issue). But Shepard’s enemies are searching for something, too. Now, Shepard’s friends – including the intrepid Asari, Dr. Commander Shepard, one of the few elite agents known as Spectres, was lost in a mysterious attack on the Normandy. But tragedy struck one of Earth’s greatest heroes just weeks after rescuing the galactic capital, the Citadel, from a devastating strike. Welcomed into the Citadel Council, the people of Earth have proven adroit and adaptive – to the consternation of some longer-established species. In the generation since discovering the mass relay near Pluto, humanity has used the ancient device to make its presence felt in the cosmos.
