If Shepard treats Tali with respect, she is very grateful, explaining that her people are usually treated like second-class citizens. Tali enjoys visiting the crowded, noisy Wards on the Citadel because it reminds her of home, and she particulary likes the music at Flux, hoping to take a copy back to the Migrant Fleet when her pilgrimage is over. She also says that compared to the crowded conditions of the Migrant Fleet, the Normandy feels so empty and that 'it's like half the crew is missing.' She manages to adjust overtime, and becomes much more cheerful. She soon begins having trouble getting to sleep, saying it is too quiet (to a Quarian, a silent ship means a dead engine, or worse, a malfunctioning air filter). Shepard can debate this with her, pointing out that the Quarians basically attempted Genocide against a fellow sentient race.ДЄt first Tali is very excited about being onboard the Alliance's most advanced starship, but she begins having problems. She explains that her people struck first to try to avert a all-out war, but this was failure waiting to happen and they underestimated how far the Geth had developed. Tali also offers some insight into the Geth: why the Quarians created them, how they rebelled, and how their neural network functions. She also reveals that her father is head of the Admiralty Board, meaning everyone has high hopes for her pilgrimage. She says she is sad over her mother's death, she however states that infected deaths are a common thing in the Flotilla. Tali talks about her life as a Quarian nomad, her Pilgrimage and the ramshackle three-hundred-year old vessels in the Quarian Flotilla. Shepard can chat with Tali about her fascination with ship technology and the Normandy's unique design, especially the enormous drive core.

They often work together to disassemble or assemble any objects/items/artefacts found on Recon missions. Adams is very impressed by her knowledge of ship technology, saying he wished half his crew were as smart as Tali. Tali spends her time in the Engineering Sector of the Normandy, helping Chief Engineer Adams and his team. The Geth apparently worship them as 'the pinnacle of synthetic evolution' and they are 'synthetic gods.' Wanting to fight the Geth herself, she joined Shepard's team. Tali's data also revealed the existence of the Reapers, a sentient race of hyper advanced starships that wipe out all organic life in the galaxy every 50,000 years. This lead to Saren's Spectre Status being revoked. To repay the Commander for saving her life, she presented the proof to Ambassador Udina and Captain Anderson. Tali threw a tech proximity mine to defend herself, and soon helped by the timely arrival of Commander Shepard and his squad. However, she was double-crossed by Fist, who was working for Saren, and lead into a trap set by his assassins. Michel's Clinic in which she revealed the evidence she has and what it reveals and that she plans to trade the information to the Shadow Broker in exchange for a safe place to hide. She managed to get medical treatment at Dr. She was found out and pursued by Saren's forces until she went on the Citadel, but one of Saren's assassins managed to shoot her.

She recovered a audio file from it's databanks that revealed Saren Arterius, Matriarch Benezia and a Super Dreadnought named 'Sovereign' was behind the attack on Eden Prime, but possessing the file put her in grave danger. She entered the Perseus Veil, followed a Geth patrol to a uncharted world, waited for one to become seperated from it's unit, and then disabled it and removed it's memory core. On her travels, she began hearing reports of Geth, who had never ventured outside the Perseus Veil for 300 years after they exiled her people, and became curious. Once Tali had embarked on her pilgrimage, she decided to immediately head into the Sparta System, hoping to end her pilgrimage quickly. Her father then brought her up to become a Admiral on the Board and hoped this could be after she reached maturity and left on her Pilgrimage. Unfortunetly, her mother died of a spaceborne infection that wiped out the majority of the crew on the Shuttle, Yasmoy. Once out, she grew up alongside her father, Rael'Zorah vas Alarei and her mother, Zato'Zorah vas Moreh. She was placed in a tank of Medi-gel for years of her life, until a suit could be produced for her (contamination for a Quarian is lethal).

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