Zaeto'Yaell

**Zaeto'Yaell vas Qwib Qwib nar Nessar** is a researcher and member of the Council Recovery Corps.

## Biography

Zaeto was born on a live ship to a Quarian marine squad leader and researcher mother. His mother was more well known than his father was due to her work with the small amount of Geth tech that was available. He started about six months before he was going to turn 7 on his duties on the ship he was on due to his parents seeing his desire to want to help out. The basic cleaning he was doing was truly boring to him but he took it as a necessary step in life after doing it for a couple of years.

Zaeto was ready for jobs outside of cleaning at the age of 10 and he was able to get a small job of copying data to a computer that a scientist would give him. Unlike the cleaning, he enjoyed this job a little more because he could read the information and learn something close to what he enjoyed. During this time when he wasn't at work entering the data, he would get small lessons from his mom and some of her coworkers on what they could teach him. It was also right around this time that he had truly decided that he wanted to get into the research and development for the fleet to help better the lives of people on the fleet.

Approximately six months before Zaeto was going to turn 16 and around when he was due to leave on his Pilgrimage he had applied to become an assistant to a Salarian researcher on a small Salarian colony, this was all thanks to an old contact his mother had. About a week before leaving he found out he was accepted as the assistant and became more nervous than excited due to knowing he would be in a whole different world. Upon arriving at the colony and meeting up with the Salarian he was going to be an assistant to, he soon learned he was working in the section of researchers who were trying to increase the efficiency of the equipment that produced the food.

After eight months of working with the equipment and trying to test new ways, Zaetos boss began to see a certain affinity that he had for this type of work. Eventually, his boss tested him with dummy models of old tech and would give him objectives to achieve before he could take a break or go back to working with the original equipment. Over the next six months, he began to cut the times down on the dummy models earning a compliment of his affinity for this from his instructor finally. Little did he know some of the work he had done on the food equipment had helped increase the efficiency of it by a very small percentage.

A Salarian scrapper ship had stopped off at the colony for a quick rest before heading off and Zaeto had applied to be transferred to the ship. After a debate over three days and some recommendations from his boss and another coworker, his transfer was accepted and he moved into a small room on the ship. After a couple of months, he had learned here to truly remain open to ideas from others on how to do his job with many different ways to do it due to each person working on the ship having different ways to accomplish the job with the same end goal in mind. Over the next year and three months, things were simple with nothing exciting happening. Though during that time he had learned to work around different types of ship builds and how the layouts of some ships were and he learned to go into each job without expectations.

Zaetos biggest stroke of luck happened when he and two others from the ship boarded a ship that was just drifting in space with no signs of life onboard. The three had split up with Zaeto making his way to the captain's quarters and cargo hold. He didn't find anything of note beyond simple cargo that was tagged for retrieval from the retrieval team. The item of interest was found in the captain quarters being clutched by a dead Quarian female. The deceased Quarian was holding a device that shielded a data drive on the inside, unknown to him at the time the data drive was Geth in origin. Zaeto took the device and put it into his pack as well as a small necklace the female Quarian was wearing as something to bring back to the fleet and hopefully a next of kin.

After two weeks of debate with the captain of the scrapping vessel and proving he should be granted this it was finally decided that he could take the data drive back to the fleet. In exchange for being able to keep the drive and the meet up with the fleet, Zaeto gave them any credits he had earned. Once he was finally back with the fleet he went before the captain of the Qwib Qwib offering the data drive and was then allowed to join. He had chosen to go into the research and development section of the marines. Just before going through the basic training of the marines he found out about there was still a next of kin to send the necklace to on the fleet and sent it off.

Zaeto struggled with some of the physical tests of the basic training due to not having focused on certain physical aspects. After he passed through basic training he was assigned as an assistant under an older researcher named Shile'Veesar that had worked with many different types of tech, but in her ladder years worked primarily to further the fleets understanding of Geth tech. Little to Zaetos knowledge the person he was now an assistant to had heard about the drive he brought back and some of his childhood and saw a little of herself in him.

The first couple of years under Shile where just Zaeto looking over her notes from her career and not being allowed to touch any tech to try and research things from them. Occasionally he would be tested on some of her notes to see if he was keeping up and actually reading and learning from it. It was also during this time that Shile had informed him that the data drive was Geth in origin and it was being looked at to try and further understanding of Geth tech.

On Zaetos 23rd birthday Shile surprised him with the fact that he was now ready to start working with tech. He and Shils were then tasked with a team to start developing a couple of different weapons. Even if he didn't need to, Zaeto always was willing to test out the prototype weapons when they are ready. One thing he quickly revealed he was good at due to thinking back to his time with the Salarians and how development went there was spotting the issue with prototypes and fixing the issues. Once both the Anti-Synthetic rifle and Arc pistol we're in full production he obtained one of each for his own being proud of all the work that had gone into the weapons and having been apart of that.

Once Zaeto was around the age of 25 Shile was finally happy with where he was and allowed him to become a scientist working on his own without her. He applied to be on the team working on the data drive he brought back and was put on smaller teams while he was under review if he was going to be transferred to the team. After a couple of months of being under review, he was accepted and transferred to the team to help extract data from the drive. It was here that he was informed that the device could only be plugged into a computer for a short time before the computer would get completely corrupted and have to be scrapped when it wasn't in a computer it was to be placed in it's holding case for safekeeping.

In the short time left leading up to the reaper conflict Zaeto with the help of a couple of others spotted an algorithm that kept getting repeated. He took the algorithm and figured out it was able to be applied to the shield recharge times of ships. The other scientists were able to apply it to the ships of the fleet as the fighting really began. During the fighting, Zaeto didn't know it but the ships his parents were on were destroyed with all life on board being lost.

Once the fighting settled he finally got the news of his parents, he felt a bit of depression hit him like a truck. During this time some of his work was slow in certain areas while the others were either neglected or just forgotten about. Shile had heard about how he was and confronted him about this after his attitude had gone on like that for a couple of weeks. After hours of talking with different range of emotions coming out from Zaeto, Shile finally got through to him. She had told him that neither of his parents would want him to get into a state where his work would suffer because of them. He then decided to keep working harder to make up for his mom now being gone and wouldn't let himself fall behind on work as he did again.

In a couple of years in the wake of the Reaper conflict Zaeto started a project that would require a lot of trial and error. He wanted to develop a computer that could hold the data drive for longer or indefinitely without the drive completely corrupting the computer. While he didn't end up making one that could hold it indefinitely he made one that could end up holding the drive for more than double the time of the original type of computers that held the drive.

Once the project was settled away and things calmed down in between projects Zaeto heard about a new group forming. When he heard what this group that was called the CRC stood for he went to have a talk with the captain of his ship. After some talk, he had gotten permission to join up with them as well as having the freedom to come back and help with research if he wanted.

## Personality

In most Situations, Zaeto is calm and able to keep himself level headed due to the basic training he received from the marines. Even during his own work, he tends to remain calm even when setbacks happen. Even though at first glance he may seem arrogant he is very open-minded to hearing new views or ways to work if especially if it gives him the chance to learn something new. His main focus is more work than leisure. He does what he needs to keep himself healthy with fitness or eating but doesn't do more than the bare minimum for it.

When Zaeto gets into something particular with his work he will tend to tunnel vision in on it and not pay any attention outside that spot. Usually, once he realizes he has tunnel-visioned and caused some possible damage or neglected something he apologizes truly feeling bad. When truly getting into his work he can seem to not have emotions or show much but he does feel them.

In more social settings such as parties, Zaeto is slightly more withdrawn until he gets along with someone and can open up. When he has time to himself he would rather learn something but won't push his way to it. When it comes to political anything Zaeto won't take sides unless he either has to or feels strongly about the subject at hand.

### Exceptional Skills

* **Reading Notes** - Zaeto like to read the notes of other researchers to try and learn something new or to gain a different perspective on things
* **Drawing** - he likes to draw out ideas and different bits for things he is researching to make better

## Physical Description

Zaeto wears an average Quarian suit by the basic looks to it. The basic metal parts of the suit have a shinier silver to them with some accents of red to them. The cloth parts of the suit on his hips, chest and head cowl are a crimson red with some basic simple designs on the cloth. The glass part of his mask is a mix of blue and purple with the yellow of his eyes being the only different color. When he does have his weapon on him he will add pouches to hold the ammo on his utility belt that already holds his tools and done a darker red then the cloth of his suit.

His suit unfortunately still has most of the same common issues as other quarians with their suits. The forearms of the suit are a little bit slimmer than average so it allows him to reach in and maneuver a little deeper when working with technology. The trade-off for Zaetos armor being slimmer in those spots means it is a little bit weaker there, meaning he is more susceptible to having a suit breach.

### Armament

* Adas Anti-Synthetic Rifle

* Arc Pistol

### Abilities

* AI Hacking
* Neural Shock
* Submission Net