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I decided to take on Jack's loyalty mission next. It's a walk down memory lane from her childhood as a test subject in the least ethical scientific project in human history. I brought Thane along with me, but thinking back, Mordin might have been the more interesting choice.

Jack is the most powerful human biotic in existence as far as we know, and the entire intention behind the experiment was to maximize her potential. Children were imprisoned, tortured, injected with drugs, and pitted against one another like fighter dogs for the sake of this project. It smacks a little of something that would only be invented in a poorly-written story trying to emphasize the horrors man is capable of - but even worse things have been done in real life. Jack wants to blow up the facility in order to gain some kind of emotional closure. As the gang travels through the old place, they find out that some of the more twisted experiments were done for Jack's sake. Any method of increasing biotic potential was tested on the other kids first so it wouldn't hurt her. In what is probably the most interesting part of the mission, Jack is upset by this because it conflicts with her image of being an ultra-tough survivor. She doesn't want to believe that any of the others had it worse than her.

Another one of the test subjects survived and is squatting in Jack's old room. He wants to restart the project, so that the suffering he went through will be worth something. Of course, that's a ridiculous idea, and Jack goes through the loyalty mission cliche of threatening to kill someone only to be talked down by Shepard. Like every other character, she questioned whether letting the guy go was the right choice, but I look forward to hearing her thank Shepard for making it in the near future.

After the mission is complete, Jack and Miranda get into a fight over whether Cerberus should be blamed for what happened to Jack. This is a recurring element in this game. When you gain the loyalty of two conflicting characters, they'll have a little spat, and unless you have enough Paragon or Renegade points you have to pick one to side with, and you'll lose the loyalty of the other. This one could happen quite early on, but since I delayed Jack's and Miranda's missions for so long I was already at max Paragon, which is probably like twice as much as you need.

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