Nightmare Fuel / Mass Effect

"Nothing's ever simple, is it?"

• Fighting the rachni on Noveria is scary enough by itself, but the tactics used to fight them make them even scarier. Since biotics such as "Throw" and Lift" are the only ways to effectively fight the rachni without them trampling you, you're not just fighting poison-shooting spiders the size of tanks, you're fighting flying poison-shooting spiders the size of tanks.
• Many of the Kowloon Class vessels you can board are creepy. The unsettling music doesn't help.
  • MSV Worthington. A drifting, abandoned ship in space housing a brain-dead man by the name of Jacob, on life support systems. Turns out the crew planned on pulling the plug - the only problem being that it did not go that well with Jacob's biotic, PTSD girlfriend. The part where upon hearing the last entry in the Captain's log, which ends in his bloodcurdling scream, Julia suddenly appears and rabidly attacks you made it even more disturbing. And you can search every corner of the entire ship prior to hearing the logs and find nothing, not even a trace of where Julia might be. This means that she must've been hiding very well, watching your every move the moment you entered the ship, and trying to anticipate how much of a threat you were to Jacob before madly rushing in and attempting to kill you.
    • Your party members even mention once you enter the cargo hold that it feels like someone's watching you.
    • Audio logs claim that Julia's insanity is at least partly due to her biotic implant. It's not stated what configuration she uses, but the mention that her stress-induced implant flareups are causing intense migraines indicates that she's an L2. There's a reason Kaidan repeatedly states that he's one of the lucky L2s.
  • The derelict freighter Cornucopia. Your first clue something is wrong is when the Star Map description says that it's obviously adrift, but not broadcasting any distress signal. When you get on board, you find that it's been overrun by Husks who will rush you and try to overwhelm you in the claustrophobic crate maze of the cargo hold. Fighting your way to the cockpit, you discover the crew compartments are filled with Dragon Teeths. The ship's main computer reveals that the crew encountered an alien artifact, and then made a mad dash to geth space, where they presumably were turned into husks and sent back into the galaxy proper as a warning or trap for organics.
  • MSV Fedele, the private ship of Doctor Saleon. By the time you board it, it's overrun by a dozen of "test subjects" who look and act exactly the same as Thorian Creepers (the picture above). What kind of sick experiments did Saleon do to turn people into these things?!
• The VI on Luna instantly putting up barriers in all doorways after trashing the second processor cluster. Even more creepy: The binary code it sends just before it dies? It means "HELP!". Mass Effect 2 reveals that the VI was actually a sentient Artificial Intelligence. So, you basically killed a sapient being that was just trying to defend itself once the Alliance realised it had become self-aware. Humanity started their very own Morning War in miniature and you, personally, had a hand in it. What's more, in-game information you discover makes you realize that Cerberus, those goons you're working for, were responsible for hacking the VI and giving it sentience. Mass Effect 3 reveals that EDI used to be that AI, and she remembers what happened. Good thing she doesn't hold a grudge.
• Oh God, the Rachni Song! It can be observed on various planets and moons, up to and including Luna where no rachni could possibly exist! Creepy.
• The appearance of the Protheans themselves, in both visions and their statuary on Ilos, shows that they have tentacles coming from where you would expect eyes, and a head spookily reminiscent of Cthulhu.
  • To makes matter worse, this was taken from Ilos where the Prothean scientist was desperate trying to find out what the race before them was trying to learn what happened to them and that the vision they saw was in fact a second hand memory. As we learned the physiology of the actual Protheans themselves.
  • Those aren't actually the Protheans- Javik reveals in ME3 that they are an extinct race called the Inusannon who came before the Protheans. Still doesn't make them less horrifying, though.
  • The statues themselves are just... really unsettling. They're just sitting, sometimes on their own, sometimes in groups, and nothing more. Not even a faded plaque reading "dedicated to the memory of Jeff, beloved husband and aardvark breeder" or "look on my works". Somehow, this total lack of any context makes them all the more creepy.
  • Legendary Edition updates the Codex image for the Protheans with a picture of mummified-looking humanoids frozen in place and partially merged into the floor or wall. There's no explanation of why they're like this.
• It's bad enough when soldiers and police abuse their power and hide behind their respective agencies to avoid justice. But just imagine a rogue Spectre like Saren. Spectres can break almost any law to complete their mission. A good Spectre does his best to minimize collateral damage and innocent deaths, Saren not so much. If he doesn't like you, he will kill you and you don't even get the satisfaction of knowing that he will get in trouble, at least until Shepard kicked his ass. Reading Mass Effect: Revelation will add to your nightmares as you understand just how much of a dick Saren was in making sure that Anderson wouldn't get a chance to become a Spectre.
• The scene before the final fight with Saren twitching in the air, screaming as his flesh sloughs off, revealing the metallic skeleton beneath. Body Horror at its finest.
  • Before that, any close-up of Saren, where you see the metal bits and pieces that look to have been glued onto him at seemingly random places. One of them looks to be pushing through the skin of his mandible.
  • If you had enough Charm or Intimidate points, you get to see Saren blow his own brains out. As in, you can watch the side of his head explode as he pulls the trigger.
• The sidequest "I Remember Me", available to Colonist background players where Shepard must talk down a deranged former slave woman. To make it doubly so, the horrors Talitha describes? What she went through to drive her to the brink of suicide? Shepard was on the same colony the batarians raided and about the only one to escape, and that's only because they were buried in rubble and left for dead after witnessing their parents get killed by an artillery strike.
  • Talitha mentions the Batarians had "lights" and "hoses" and whatever it did to her parents melted them in front of her.
  • Add to this her line about how they "did things to her in the dark". Oh, and Shepard was sixteen when they were left for dead. Talitha (the young woman in question) was SIX. What did Slavers do to a six year old girl? Keep in mind Mindoir is also the event that caused Spacer Shepard's side mission NPC Zabaleta to suffer PTSD and hit rock bottom.
• When Sovereign reveals itself. Even better if you'd managed to not spoil yourself before then. The music, the voice, and the slowly building sensation of dread you feel as you realise just what it is you're up against.
  Sovereign: We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it. Your words are as empty as your future. I am the vanguard of your destruction. This exchange is over.
• Husks are the reanimated corpses of human beings with their nervous systems replaced with technology. The process is done by impaling them on a spike. In fact, they don't even have to be dead to be converted into Husks. The geth (killer robots) don't look creepy (they have flashlights for heads), but the noise they make when they spot your squad (HRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH) is horrific.
• Shepard's nightmarish visions of the Prothean war with the Reapers, which mainly consists of the Protheans getting torn limb from limb by evil cyborgs or forcibly fused with machinery. Further consider this: What you are actually watching in those visions is not the destruction of the Protheans per se, but their conversion into the Collectors. There's one side mission in which out of the blue you stumble across another Prothean artifact, which gives you the vision you know inside and out: except this time you are hit with the horrible realisation that one of the figures who is vainly trying to flee has four horizontally arranged eyes which are instantly recognisable. Believe it or not, there is a fate worse than extinction. And you're not just watching the Protheans' conversion, either. You don't even see all that much, but whatever you see is enough to know it's not pretty. And you hear mechanical sawing noises. And screaming. Lots of screaming.
  • The vision is a series of vivid, flashing and disturbing images, all tainted orange or red, with extremely unsettling and unnatural noises. The images go by too fast to really make sense of them, leaving imagination to fill in the blanks. The sequences showing flesh and machinery look all wrong and photorealistic compared to the rest of the in-engine cutscenes, since they're made from pictures Casey Hudson took of various cuts of steak, ribs, screws and printed circuits. It's a weird case of Uncanny Valley, highlighting the disturbing and unnatural nature of the images and how out of place they are compared to the rest of the series.
  • What's not immediately obvious about the vision, but can be gathered through the entire series, is that the imagery and sound is only a part of a greater message. Protheans can communicate through thoughts, as such their Beacons do more than simply sending images or sound like normal human communications. Human minds can't comprehend the full message, even with the help of the Cypher.
• Imagine it. You're peacefully going about your business in the wards of the Citadel when suddenly sirens begin to wail. Completely out of nowhere, unknown, gargantuan starships of unfathomable power emerge and exterminate everything, spreading out across your empire and slaughtering, subjugating or genetically modifying everything you hold dear, then using the liquefied slurry that used to be your bodies to produce and power more of themselves. This is the fate of the Protheans, and innumerable species before them. And it's going to happen again, and again, and again... Seriously, the Reapers themselves are the scariest thing in the game. Made even worse by several of Harbinger's lines in Mass Effect 2: "Sentient beings need never fear me." "We are your salvation through destruction." The Reapers believe that they are doing these species a FAVOR. The ending of the first Prothean message on Ilos springs to mind. "Cannot be stopped... cannot be STOPPED..." And turned into diesel was the lucky fate for most of them. The rest were forcibly mutated into the Collectors.
• The corpse puppet asari commando jerking about like a marionette as the Rachni Queen talks through her.
  • Speaking of the rachni, there is also the part on Illium in Mass Effect 2 where you're greeted by an asari acting as a messenger for the Rachni Queen if you set her free back on Noveria.
• On Noveria, Matriarch Benezia's dying words. To make it more nightmarish: after being significantly weakened in attempting to stop Shepard and their squad, she manages to break free of indoctrination long enough to explain Saren's plans involving the Rachni queen, and, if Liara is with Shepard, to say her final goodbyes to her daughter. Beforehand, according to her, her true self was locked in a dark corner of her mind as Saren imposed his will upon her through Sovereign. And she just manages to overcome the indoctrination just so that she could die as herself. And then the very last comforting thought she clung to as her life slipped away turned out to be nothing but an empty void.
  "No light? They said there would be a... ah..."
• Species 37. The Thorian is a sentient Botanical Abomination that controls minds through dispersing spores which when inhaled turn the victim into a thrall to the Thorian subject to Mind Rape. Then you find out that it produces hideous zombie-like humanoids called Thorian Creepers, and promptly lose your lunch. The horror might be somewhat alleviated by the fact that the asari clones it spits out are somehow still quite lithe, but then you realize that the fact that this thing can spit out powerful biotics at will might not be a good thing.
  • The literal swarms of Thorian Creepers crouched fetal position on the floor, just waiting for you to walk closer, before jumping up, skipping at you, and then just standing in front of you for a moment, swaying slightly, then vomiting acid all over you. The fact that they look like ReDeads don't help at all. Remember too that they don't all get up when you get close: they're invulnerable while they're inert, but you could be fending off a wave that's swarming from the next room only to realize that you're surrounded by inert creepers...and they're waking up. It's little wonder Garrus considers the Thorian the creepiest thing he and Shepard ever fought.
  • Speaking of Creepers, it's not clear at first if they're constructs created by the Thorians, or horribly infected human beings. And there's something incredibly unsettling about how such an alien plant God creates creatures that look surprisingly human.
  • Speaking of Mind Rape, that mind control! Normally, the Thorian is quite pragmatic, and lets its slaves live a normal life unless they're required for a task, and even then it takes care of them in the same way a craftsman cares for his tools, as a twisted and pragmatic way of Petting The Dog. The Thorian causes debilitating pain at even the thought of resistance. Ian Newstead tries to drop hints and seems to take a perverse joy in "invoking the master's whip", but even he can't do anything. If you save the colonists one describes the control as making any pure thought into agony. Another says it was like being slapped every time she started to raise her eyes.
  • And this is something that the company funding the colony just let happen so they could study it! And they don't appear to suffer any kind of consequences for their crimes. Depending on how the Feros quest goes they either take a non-negligible hit to their finances (not enough to bankrupt them) or increase funding to the Feros colony so it prospers and they gain good PR.
• Ammo that goes under the category of 'fire' or 'poison' in the game will disintegrate enemies upon killing them, while 'ice' ammo will cause Literally Shattered Lives. And it can happen to you.
  • Some of these bullet mods are explicitly mentioned to be made of polonium, or covered in toxic chemicals, and they're a favorite of criminals. Something that would be a clear violation of The Laws and Customs of War in real life is apparently normal in the Mass Effect galaxy, and you can use these mods with no consequences. Polonium-210 in particular is one of the most toxic substances known to humanity, because it's horribly radioactive. Getting even a tiny amount in you would basically doom you to a slow and painful death by radiation poisoning.
• Also, Han Olar telling the story of how he escaped the rachni. The scariest part is hearing how the rachni in the labs are beyond saving. Essentially, the gist is that the rachni are a telepathic sentient species. As long as the smaller ones are within telepathic range of the queen, they become intelligent and sentient. If they're outside the queen's range of influence, they go permanently feral. Just thinking about what that must be like, feeling your connection to the queen go, and then your mind following it, is chilling. Humans need contact with others to stay sane and so do the rachni. Imagine a human child that has never had anyone hold it, comfort it or even talk to it. That's the rachni you now face.
  Rachni Queen: Fear has shattered their minds.
  Liara: A child locked in a closet for sixteen years would hardly be sane.
• The Hot Labs. Once you trigger the neutron purge, the main part of the chamber is instantly filled with rachni. Dozens of them, and they don't stop. Your radar screen is full of red dots.
• It gets worse in a similar side mission in Mass Effect 2. While you're out scanning planets for minerals or side missions, you receive an anomalous distress beacon. EDI tells you there's signs of movement, but no organic life, so you assume either rogue robots or geth, so you create your team appropriately to deal with that. WRONG. The landing cinematic shows a "Blink and You'll Miss It" moment of a husk wandering past the entrance, ignoring you. You decide to go back to the Normandy to reform your team appropriately, but the auto-nav makes it fly away, giving you no choice but to press onwards. Once inside, you find a Resident Evil style file telling you to get the hell out of there, ASAP. That's when the fun begins. Heading deeper into the mines, you find more Husks than the first Mass Effect ever had, and their exploding cousins the Abominations. Deeper in, you find more files telling of the miners' fates, along with some Husks dropping down from the ceiling, before going through one more mass of Husks to destroy the mines and complete the mission.
• Indoctrination is the worst thing to happen to anyone. Let's take a situation like Benezia's example, assuming the Reaper has an organic commander like Saren. You initially despise him, can't believe you have to put up with him. And as time goes on, you start agreeing with his commands. You sit at his feet, and smile and nod, while he details all his plans of torture and galactic annihilation. Now, imagine after a while, you are now in a glass box hovering above the world, your arms bound but you are still able to move. It hovers over a man or a woman who looks just like you, as they walk through a town, slaughtering innocents. Men, women, children, he kills all of them because the man in the angry mechanical cuttlefish says to. And you try so desperately to stop it, to break the glass by throwing yourself into it, but not even a crack appears. You just keep making yourself weaker, the wo/man quickens their step. And then, when you've finally exhausted yourself, they stop, and stand. Just stands, and does nothing else. Maybe mumbles some nonsense. And you lie there, bruised and broken, sobbing until the wo/man dies, and you're finally released. That is the true definition of Hell. Worse if you consider that, if you aren't like Benezia, you will feel your mind crumbling bit by bit, until you're just a zombie. Imagine every memory, dream, feeling and desire, being slowly erased, while you're unable to do anything except waiting for your mind to be consumed by the void, leaving nothing... Remember that hanging around a Reaper is not the only way to get indoctrinated: Shepard's "paperweight" can do it as well.
  • Benezia's description of the effects is also disturbing. There's just enough of herself left to know what she's become.
  Benezia: His teeth are at my ear. Fingers on my spine... I am not entirely myself. I never will be again.
• Ilos. Think about it, and take the music out. A massive, abandoned city, overgrown with the vegetation of 50,000 years. Completely silent. The only thing you can here is the sound of your own squad's breathing, the sound of wind, and the electronic squawks and clanking of the geth moving around the ruins. Then add horrific statues of Cthulhu that silently watch you, put in malfunctioning computers that scream "Can not be stopped! CAN NOT BE STOPPED!!!" at you and tell you about the creatures currently eating the brains of the now-dead inhabitants of the planet, and THEN fill it with unspeaking, homicidal robots with plasma weapons who, once they've beaten you down, will stab you onto a ten-foot-tall pole and wait for your organs to dry out in order to turn you into a cyborg zombie.
  • The description from the galaxy map mentions that the planet has been devastated by means unknown and its entire surface has turned to the color of rust. Atmospheric oxygen levels are high and there are massive wildfires consuming the surface, which means most if not all breathing animal life is extinct. Then there's what your team will say if you talk to them:
    Garrus: There are secrets here that were meant to be forgotten.
    Kaidan: Feels like I'm walking on someone's grave...
    Tali: We don't belong here. Not us, not Saren, not the geth.
    Ashley: Feels like something's watching us, and I don't mean the geth... Let's just find the Conduit and get off this damn planet.
  • The countless cryo pods... all of them filled with 50,000 year-old-corpses.
  • The computer messages are not only fragmented but also in Prothean, which only Shepard can understand; to the rest of the squad, it's just gibberish. Even if Shepard translates them word for word, their meaning is left to the imagination...
  • Word of God is that Ilos was based on the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński, one of the most famous Surreal Horror painters ever.
• Dr. Saleon's experiments. This was Garrus' That One Case that severely traumatized him. To elaborate, Saleon grew artificial limbs and organs inside of his employees and surgically removed them when they were done growing. To make matters worse, if the organ wasn't good, he would just leave it inside. When C-SEC tried to apprehend him, he fled the Citadel with some employees. Garrus tried to have the Citadel's defense shoot him down, but they refused because of the hostages on-board. Garrus mentioned those hostages were good as dead anyway. What do you run into when you find him again? They are simply re-labeled Thorian Creepers. These are the end result of Saleon's medical experiments. These are one of only three "zombie" enemies you run into. The first are made with Reaper technology, the second by a 50,000+ year old sentient plant. These? Victims of a fucked-up salarian organ thief. And when you find the man, there is absolutely no explanation given as to what he did or what reason he was doing it for. And there are well over a dozen of these victims. Is it any wonder Garrus is itching to rid the galaxy of this scumbag?
  Garrus: I'd harvest his organs, but we don't have enough time.
  • In the same dialogue string where Garrus mentions Dr. Saleon, he also mentions an elcor diplomat and Serial Killer on the Citadel who dismembered his victims.
• The fact that only Shepard can understand the malfunctioning Prothean VI first encountered on Ilos. Shepard does not merely understand it as one would a language that has been learnt, but literally hears it as English! Hell, Shepard doesn't even notice this until its pointed out! This is possibly one of the clearest depictions (aside from visions) that the Prothean Beacon has fundamentally altered Shepard's brain in some way and the sheer power of what effect this has even on a subconscious level.
  • That wasn't the beacon's doing; that was the result of a Thorian cramming 50,000 years worth of Prothean essence into your head over a single mind-meld.
• For every thousand krogan women, one is capable of bearing children. Roll that one around in your head a bit. As of this writing, approximately 7 billion humans are alive, which would translate into only 3.5 million fertile women — less than are currently living in New York City right now. The remaining billions of women wouldn't even know they're sterile until their children are stillborn. How long before even the barest pretenses of civilization collapse, with the handful of fertile women being little more than chattel for over half the world to fight over? Worse, the condition perpetuates even among the surviving children of fertile women — how long before the population lacks enough genetic diversity to survive?
  • It's worse than that. According to Mordin, the genophage is not a sterility plague, and all krogan women can conceive children successfully. No, that one in a thousand statistic is the number of children who survive. The vast, vast majority of krogan children are born dead - so, to have any chance at success, a krogan mother must have hundreds, if not thousands of stillborn children in order to have one success.
  • What makes the genophage even scarier? The fact that, according to Mordin and other salarians, even despite that horrific birthing rate, the krogan would actually be having positive population growth if they weren't all rushing off to get killed as mercs and thugs. The krogan breed so much that, even if only one in a thousand children survive, their population would still rise rather than decrease over time. Gives you some horrifying idea as to just how easily krogan can strip a world bare, and why the other races decided that the genophage was their only option besides genocide. This is also why Mordin specifically mentions his work in modifying the genophage and releasing said modifications on Tuchanka, just to make sure that the krogan weren't adapting to the original strain.
  • After the release of the genophage and the de facto end of the Krogan Rebellions, Urdnot Wrex wanted the clans to stop fighting and focus on breeding, if only for one generation (exactly what the turians and salarians intended the genophage to do to krogan population). In response, Wrex's father tried to have Wrex and the krogan loyal to him killed, during a truce at sacred grounds where violence is forbidden. Even when faced with extinction from warfare and irrecoverable losses, some krogan wanted to keep fighting anyway.
  • It also puts into perspective just how much of a horrific Death World Tuchanka is if this rate of reproduction was necessary to allow the krogan to survive. And Mass Effect 3 shows that krogan aren't even at the top of Tuchanka's food chain. The top predators there are the Thresher Maws, including the biggest Maw ever, Kalros. Outside Tuchanka the krogan are a deadly enemy, but in their planet's own ecosystem they're basically reduced to rabbits.
• Somewhere between actual nightmare fuel and fridge horror lies the situation that the scientists on Noveria find themselves in as the rachni break free. Just imagine: you are in your lab, doing your everyday job, getting those last few tests done before you go on vacation. Then, out of the blue, alarms flare up, landlines (and thus communications) are disconnected, leaving you isolated in your lab. Then the power goes out, emergency generators kick in so lights and environmental controls work, but everything else is dead. No VI, no communications, no equipment, nothing. Then you hear those screeching and scurrying sounds coming from the pipes and ducts, screams and gunshots in the distance. You run for your life, trying to regroup when the co-worker you had breakfast with this morning gets cut in half by some alien creature from hell. If you happen to work in a different team, you will not even know what that thing is. So you regroup and wait for help. And you wait and wait, but nobody comes, and you know that if the situation is not controlled within a certain time frame, the managers back in Hanshan will order the place nuked from orbit. The screeching and crawling continues and every time a security team goes to deal with the situation, they come back with fewer people. Hours pass, nobody sleeps. You know the guards are overworked and on stims and then you see their fingers twitching...
  • Yaroslav Tartarovsky, he's been stranded in the Hot Labs and was unable to flee due to the rachni causing a lockdown of elevators. He'll give you some exposition on the rachni, how Binary Helix found an egg in cryo on a derelict ship, that there's a neutron purge that could wipe out the loose rachni, etc... Then out of nowhere a rachni sneaks up on him and impales him through the chest with one of its tentacles. That's not all. The poor bastard is still alive for a few seconds and gazes down in horror at the tentacle piercing his chest, before the rachni just tosses him across the room violently like it was nothing.
    • Word of God is that he was supposed to be missing a leg and have a tourniquet keeping him from bleeding out, but engine limitations prevented it.
• The final battle on the Citadel takes you up the outside of the tower along the elevator shaft that leads to the Council's chambers. No big deal, nothing too staggering, you're fighting enemies you've been dealing with for most of the game...but then you look up. And you see Sovereign. And you realize up close just how huge this thing really is, as previous cutscenes never really got that point across. And you realize that if it knew where you were on the tower, it could crush you in an instant simply by moving a leg. It all makes you feel very small and very weak despite how much damage you've been doing up to that point.
• There is a track that was never released on the official soundtrack called "Abandoned Facility". It plays in the prefab bunkers on uncharted worlds and in some parts of Noveria's Peak 15 facility and it's creepy to no end, Nothing Is Scarier in music form.
• Thresher Maws. These particular crawling nightmares suddenly sprout out from the ground, are about as high as a two storied building, and attack with a combination of acid spit and infrasound. These worms are the apex predators on the krogan homeworld and even the krogan fear them. And they spread via spores. So you could be a colonist just going about your daily life farming, tilling the soil, mining, building, hunting or foraging, and unbeknownst to you, a thresher maw is growing underneath you - conceived by spores that landed there probably a millennium ago. You remain blissfully unaware of it growing - and growing - until one day the earth shakes and it bursts forth to feed. They're not just incredibly dangerous animals, they're incredibly old animals that are virtually impossible to ever truly get rid off.
• Every planet has some Flavor Text when you access it from orbit. Some planets have unsettling descriptions, especially Junthor:
  Surveyors found the ruins of a technical civilization near the equator — evidently the colony of an ancient spacefaring race. The ruins had subsided to almost nothing — merely wind hollowed husks of arcologies and other megastructures. In the center of the ruins was a single column whose inscriptions defied translation for several centuries. When asari linguists finally managed a translation, the elaborate relief carvings said merely, "Walk among these works, and know our greatness." The crude scratches on the base of the reverse side said, "Monsters from the id".
  • There were theories that this was the genesis of the Reapers, but this was Jossed by the time of Mass Effect 3. Still, what the hell happened there?
• The labs on Virmire, where some of Major Kirrahe's squad have been held for days. Some of whom were experimented on. The lucky ones are dead, the rest... are all indoctrinated. That's how quickly the process works - in less than a week, a salarian can be reduced to a screaming, gibbering wreck. Some are so far gone they're just standing around, completely unresponsive, and Shepard has the option to put a bullet in their heads.
  • The music that starts playing if you talk to the indoctrinated salarians. The previous kick-ass theme that was playing suddenly becomes slower and a hell of a lot more sinister, and keeps playing until you have your chat with Sovereign.