Mass Effect category
Batarian
7 entries tagged Batarian, 7 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Skyllian Blitz and Batarian Hegemony.
- Kishock Harpoon Gun: Batarian Harpoon RifleThe Kishock Harpoon Gun was a single-shot batarian sniper rifle that launched a harpoon-like spike instead of a conventional round, inflicting massive internal bleeding on organic targets while miniaturized disruptors destroyed synthetics. It became so closely identified with batarian mercenaries and slavers in the Terminus Systems that its silhouette alone told defenders what kind of attack they faced.
- Ka'hairal BalakKa'hairal Balak was a batarian terrorist who attempted to crash Asteroid X57 into the human colony of Terra Nova in 2183. Driven by hatred of human expansion into the Skyllian Verge, he survived to resurface during the Reaper War, where his fate and allegiances hinged entirely on his earlier encounter with Commander Shepard.
- Batarian HegemonyThe Batarian Hegemony was the oppressive, isolationist government of the batarians, native to Khar'shan. A rogue state hostile to the Systems Alliance, it sponsored deniable piracy and slaving across the Terminus Systems before the Reapers overran it.
- Borbala FerankBorbala Ferank was the retired matriarch of a powerful batarian crime family who joined the Andromeda Initiative and crossed to a new galaxy aboard the ark Keelah Si'yah. Listed as a former security officer, the old smuggler served on a maintenance crew that periodically woke during the long voyage to keep the ship running.
- Jalosk Dal'Virra: Batarian Sleepwalker of the Keelah Si'yahJalosk Dal'Virra was a batarian weapons dealer and member of the Sleepwalker crew aboard the Andromeda Initiative ark Keelah Si'yah. Born into the lowest caste of batarian society and dismissed by his betters as a lout, he proved unexpectedly insightful even as he became one of the first victims of the plague that struck the ark.
- Khar'shan: The Batarian HomeworldKhar'shan was the homeworld of the batarians, the center of an empire whose boastful propaganda masked a state hollowed out by Citadel sanctions. The Reapers struck it early in their invasion, severing its communications and likely dealing the empire a death blow.
- Skyllian BlitzThe Skyllian Blitz was a massed pirate and slaver assault on the human colony of Elysium in 2176 CE, partly funded by batarian financiers in reprisal for human expansion into the Skyllian Verge. The colony's defenders held off the attackers until Alliance reinforcements arrived, and the Blitz later prompted a major Alliance offensive against batarian pirate bases on Torfan.