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Name: Tali' Zorah
Race: Quarian
Occupation: Admiral of the Admiralty Board, Crew member of the SSV Normandy.
Height: 5'5
Weight: 120 LBs
Age: 22
Personality: Somewhat Shy, Smart, Decisive, Kind, Adventurous, and Competent.
Equipment:
Omni-tools are multipurpose diagnostic and manufacturing tools as well as computers used for a variety of civilian and battlefield tasks, such as hacking, decryption, or repair. When activated, an omni-tool can appear over either of a person's forearms and/or hands, and occasionally both, as an orange hologram.
The M5 Phalanx is the product of the Alliance's Offensive Handgun Project that developed a close-in weapon to be used on armored or shielded targets with no loss of stopping power in comparison to the soldier's assault rifle, Which is Semi-Auto and deadly at close range.
Clothing:
Tali regularly upgrades her Enviro-suit software to scan for toxins and pathogens. She has to run decontamination procedures for even traces of infection and has to scan all her food and drinks for contaminants. Her Enviro-Suit protects her from common Illnesses and Infections because Quarians have a weak immune system. The suit also self-repairs in case of a breach and can be armored up.
Skills/Powers:
Though she may look a bit physically delicate to human eyes, she actually has good endurance and pain tolerance.
Like many Quarians, Tali is a machinist, tinkering with technical systems to keep the Quarian Flotilla running. Unlike most Quarians, she’s a genius when it comes to understanding technology. The Normandy's engineering crew was very impressed with how quickly she figured out how the experimental frigate’s systems worked. Within days she had learned enough to work alongside the team managing the prototype Tantalus drive core.
Tali is an expert hacker of software and hardware. She’s exceptionally competent at electronic warfare and intrusion. It is possible that she learned the more specifically military aspects of these skills set from Systems Alliance Marines, Presumably Staff Lieutenant Alenko.
She’s one of a limited number of persons skilled enough to take control of a VI or even an AI within seconds.
Tali can make machines attack anything or anyone nearby. She can take actual control of them, as she does in the comics. She needs her Omni-tool and her arsenal of custom-written attack programs to do that, though.
Backstory:
Tali was born in 2161. When Commander Shepard meets Tali on the Citadel, she is in the middle of a Pilgrimage, an important rite of passage among the Quarians. Such a rite doesn't just prove the young individual's worth; it's also a pragmatic mission to find something useful and return it to the Migrant Fleet. Tali hasn't yet found such a thing, but she did come across audio evidence of Saren's attack on Eden Prime. She arrives at the Citadel to trade it in for money and Fist the human mobster tells her to meet the Shadow Broker in the wards.
This is a lie; he's actually sending her to Saren, who is desperate to keep that audio file under wraps. Fortunately, Shepard and Garrus are both trying to take Saren dow, and the solution is to rescue Tali and obtain that evidence before Saren gets it. Once that is done, Tali presents that evidence to the Council and Saren's guilt is accepted as fact. Tali may then join Shepard's crew, both to help take down the Geth threat and complete her Pilgrimage.
During the mission, Tali provides insight on the Geth and the Quarian people alike, and she helps Adams keep the Normandy's engine running smoothly. She is fascinated by the Normandy, but it feels oddly quiet and sparsely populated compared to the ramshackle, crowded vessels of the Migrant Fleet. She also reveals that she is the daughter of the famed Admiral Rael'Zorah, so Tali is under a lot of pressure to succeed and prove herself. Rael'Zorah supports his daughter, though rather distantly.
Two years later, during the events of Mass Effect 2, the Illusive Man includes Tali on his list of dossiers for Shepard to look into. Garrus is another familiar face who's on board and now it's Tali's turn.
She is on the fringe world of Haestrom, working to collect evidence on a star that's dying unnaturally fast. The Geth have since muscled in and Shepard must fight to evacuate Tali from the world, then escort her to the Normandy-SR2. Once again, she helps maintain the engine, but soon enough, she receives a strange and highly distressing message from the Fleet. She is facing criminal charges of treason and must return home for a trial. Shepard flies her there and the truth is revealed.
For a time, Tali had been acting on her father's orders to bring back Geth pieces for study, but the pieces have since assembled themselves into functioning Geth platforms, threatening the fleet and capturing a ship. Tali and Shepard look into it and the horrible truth is that Rael'Zorah assembled those Geth on purpose, to practice fighting them in preparation for an upcoming invasion in Geth space.
Rael himself is dead and Tali is desperate to hide this truth, or else her entire family's name will be ruined. Shepard reveals that fact to the court, Tali had her name cleared successfully. She goes on to help disable some key components in the Collector base during the final mission.
She now works as an Admiral alongside Commander Shepherd and fights off Enemies of the New Earth with the Normandy's crew.
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