Serenity Cove, Wednesday Morning

Tali was willing to hazard a guess that Fandom's recent misadventure in alien invasion was definitely not the Reapers' style, but that didn't mean there might not be something to learn from the situation. There was a lot to think about, actually: hacking into Zinyak's servers had given her a few new ways to look at the problem of the geth. They were efficient, almost impossibly so, and maybe she just had to . . . think a little more simply, like she had with the matrix server code.

She had taken a lot of notes over the course of all the hacking she'd done last week, and had a routine running on her omni-tool to cross-reference them with all the information she had on geth programming; maybe there would be something there she could work with. If nothing else, it might give her a few ideas for improving her AI hacking subroutines so they did more than just trick a synthetic combatant into attacking its allies for a few seconds. Maybe she could get them to put up their kinetic barriers for the duration, or figure out how to hack several at once? Come up with an applicable variant of the code fragments that gave people in the matrix superpowers? That might not be a massive breakthrough that could have them back on Rannoch within a year, but it could be something useful.

In the meantime, she was writing up an informal report about the whole situation; Shepard and the crew might find it amusing.

That she got to do all this while perched on a large rock on the beach, enjoying the sunshine and listening to the waves, was a bonus.

She might want to consider installing air conditioning in her suit, though.

( And then things got upsetting again, because Mass Effect canon. )

[OOC: NFI, OOC okay. Spoilers for the opening sequence of Mass Effect 2 behind the cut, as well as mentions of NPC character death. Thanks to fewerexplosions for the preplay assist!]