"Haestrom. Keelah, I haven't thought about that in a long time. What a day that was! Haestrom used to be one of our colonies until the War, when the Geth forced us off all our worlds... but that's not important any more, is it? Anyway, We'd been sent there by the Admiralty Board, the Fleet government at the time, to do some scientific surveys. The system's main star was destabilizing faster than normal, and they wanted to know why. Probably more importantly, whether it could be stopped and the system re-colonized.
"We landed with a full team including science and technical crew, and a platoon of marines. Unfortunately, the Geth weren't far behind, and it wasn't long before I got trapped in a bunker, surrounded by Geth.
"We would all have died that day if Shepard hadn't shown up when she did."
- excerpt from an interview with Tali'Zora vas Normandy vas Rannoch, from the memoirs of Matriarch Liara