Tali

Known for her stubborn and sarcastic attitude, Tali is a squad member aboard The Bahamut MK2.

Born on the ship Rayya, part of the migrant fleet, Tali was raised by her father who specialized in Geth technology. Tali worked around Rayya until she was of age to embark on her journey, the Quarians expecting her to bring them back a piece of technology that would benefit the fleet. Tali embarked on her journey in 2144 and ended up on the Citadel, stuck without a ride anywhere else due to fund issues. Like most Quarians, Tali was stuck on the Citadel without a way out, judged by most of the races aboard The Citadel. Spending half a year roaming around the lower decks of the Citadels, doing dirt ywork for a low pay of credits, Tali was directed to a signup room by a C-Sec officer. Confused, the officer assured Tali that she would get her dream pay of credits if she was to head to the room and sign up, without hesitation, Tali did.

Tali was unaware on what she was in for, soon after she found out she was standing in a room funded by The Alliance, a new program to add alien races into the Alliance army. When Tali reached the signup sheet, she knew what she was in for, always wanting to be involved with combat due to her training as a child. Tali signed up and returned to the lower decks of the Citadel to see if she would be hired by The Alliance. No more than 3 days later, The Alliance hired Tali, gave her basic training and sent her off to a vessel to serve on.

Tali arrived at the vessel and was assigned a squad, Allison as her squad leader. She then began to know her way around the ship, highly interested in the engineering deck, something always fascinating to her. Upon arriving, she met another alien by the name of Garrus who she fell for deeply, not sure if it was his charms, his race or because he was the only other alien on the ship. Tali and Garrus grew close in situations where Humans overpowered them in certain settings such as the cafeteria or working decks. Regardless of the hate from Humans, Ebrown and Allison showed much respect and support for both Tali and Garrus. When working for more years all of them grew a bond, more between Garrus and Tali. Eventually, they were granted a break vacation from The Alliance and were sent to Omega, Tali and Garrus were planning on a "big event" if they were ever given leave, this time they rushed Allison and Ebrown out to do errands and left the door open in the process of rushing. Ebrown and Allison, confused of their objective sent by Garrus completed it and came back moments later, walking in on Tali and Garrus. Brought up for laughs or embarrassing memories, Tali always shows extreme embarrassment from the event.

Upon being booted from the new Alliance Program a year and a half later, Garrus set out for Omega and asked Tali to come with him and start a family. Tali, now having the money she needed had to decline, telling him she needed to head back to her Flotilla to finish her journey. Tali returned to her Flotilla on ship Neema with no technology that could help her fleet. Arriving to Neema, she was instantly questioned to see if she had any technology on her, not having any, the ship was ashamed of her and gave her 3 months to gear up and set out again. Tali confronted her father for help who directed her to investigate strange sightings out in the galaxy. Tali set out now a year later, granted by the Flotilla due to her father, headed for Illium to investigate, having enough credits for trips between planets.

Searching for Collector signs, Tali stopped at Human colony Horizon before commander Ebrown and Solaris who were still apart of the Bahamut MK1 arrived. Arriving just after the Collector invasion happened she investigated recordings and bodies that were left behind. A second crew of Collectors returned to collect the bodies and attacked Tali, forcing her to leave. Tali chased the Collectors all over Human colonies, doing research as she began to learn more and more about them. She made her final trip to Coppertown to try and find out what they really were, maybe to try and benefit her Flotilla. Commanders Solaris and Ebrown of The Ulyssey now arrived, crash landing on the colony. They eventually made their way to Tali's lab that she had kept for her own personal use for the past 5 months. She let them in and then discovered Ebrown after he realized that it was Tali. Tali and Ebrown talked about the days before they were booted out of the program, Tali talked how she had been chasing The Collectors movements and stopped at Coppertown to wait for them, now observing the gigantic ship outside. Ebrown convinced Tali to join the Ulyssey so she could help save the galaxy and meet up with Garrus again. She hesitated and realized it would be better, she could meet Garrus and then collect more information, agreeing to join with them. Tali set out to fix the commanders downed shuttle, they returned to The Ulyssey.

Tali gave the commanders a lead in their search to ending the collectors by synthesizing her information, she also let Solaris re-watch his Prothean dream, which helped them all realize that The Collectors are puppets being used by The Reapers, and just being a force to protect the Reapers before they actually show up.

Tali commands The Ulyssey through the Omega 4 Relay Journey, flying the ship through dozens of obstacles and eventually crash landing to prevent them from veering off into space. Tali wakes up after the crash and helps the crew down to the debrief room, assigned to Solaris and Ebrowns squad. Tali was the only one besides both Commanders that survived in their squad when they reached their objective. Before departing from the ship, Ebrown complemented Tali's engineering skills, saying she was the best engineer in The Alliance. Much to her liking she thanked his complement.

When meeting up with Tali again 8 months later, she had been on The Citadel explaining that she was kicked out of her Flotilla and had no where to go, demanding she deserved the Bahamut MK2, stating she had previously been with The Ulyssey and had proof. Before the commanders reached the stage they listened as the council denied her plead to have the ship. They then approached and defended Tali, Young telling the Council off by stating that Tali deserved it and she was in the crew before, and that they should have listened to their warning in the first place.

Tali joined up with the crew again on the Bahamut MK2, joining in with The Alliance as well. She resides in the Engineering deck, still sharing a bond with Garrus.