Tela Vasir

Tela Vasir was an asari Spectre and powerful biotic known across Citadel space for her investigative work and her long service to the Citadel Council. Behind that reputation, she had struck a bargain with the Shadow Broker, an arrangement that brought her into deadly conflict with Commander Shepard and Liara T'Soni.

Reputation and Spectre service#

Vasir built a respected public record as a Spectre. She was known for investigating the theft of confidential galactic economic data from the Council's Ministry of Finance in 2185, and for her role in dissolving a slave trading ring in the city of Aegohr on the salarian colony of Nasurn. In an earlier operation she received a tip from a Cerberus turncoat claiming to hold secrets about the organization. Meeting the informant on the Citadel, she took the offered data disc, then doubled back with reinforcements and caught the agent downloading Shepard's classified Spectre files.

Stripping away the disguise, Vasir revealed the informant to be the Cerberus operative Rasa wearing a blonde wig and lightened skin. Using her authority and Rasa's biometric data, Vasir offered the agent a choice between prison and turning against Cerberus, then sent her off with the information she had come for and a virus payload meant to force the Illusive Man into contact. The scheme was thwarted when Miranda Lawson took the disc and counteracted the virus, but the affair left Vasir alert to Cerberus's interest in Shepard.

Betrayal on Illium#

When Liara T'Soni asked Shepard to meet her at her home on Illium, the Commander arrived to find Liara missing and her apartment ransacked, with local authorities demanding that Shepard leave. Vasir intervened, using her Spectre authority to dismiss the officers, and allowed Shepard to investigate, explaining that Liara had fled only moments earlier. A recording revealed that Liara and a contact named Sekat had been discussing the Shadow Broker's next move and a planned meeting at the Dracon Trade Center, so Shepard and Vasir went there hoping to intercept her.

A bomb detonated inside the building as they arrived, and Vasir split off, claiming she would cover the structure from the roof. When Shepard's team reached the Baria Frontiers offices, they found Sekat dead and Vasir standing over a mercenary, claiming to have arrived too late. Then Liara emerged from the shadows with her weapon trained on Vasir, revealing that the Spectre had tried to kill her. Realizing they had been deceived, Shepard's squad turned on Vasir as well. Liara surmised that Vasir had killed Sekat to take his intelligence on the Broker's location, and Vasir, producing an OSD that proved it, shattered a window with her biotics and escaped.

The chase and her death#

Vasir's flight led to a running battle across Illium. Tackled out of the broken window by Shepard, she shook off her pursuers and fled with Liara chasing her, then escaped by skycar into the city's skies. After a pursuit through the air, she collided with another vehicle and crash-landed on the roof of the Hotel Azure, badly injured. Limping away and radioing for backup, she was cornered at last in a plaza, where she took a hostage before the final fight.

When she could fight no longer, Vasir crumpled against a wall, and Liara recovered the disk she had taken from Sekat. In her last words she rejected any comparison to Saren, insisting she was nothing like him and had merely done occasional favors for the Broker in exchange for information that, she argued, had helped ensure stability across Citadel space. She turned the accusation back on Shepard, calling the Commander's partnership with Cerberus no better than her own dealings with the Broker, and citing ruthless Cerberus deeds before she died.