
His experiments and Xen's subsequent breakthroughs were the direct cause of renewed hostilities between the quarians and their creations.

The rest of the Admirals haven't yet gotten around to naming a proper replacement when the quarian-geth war started up again. Rael's spot in the Admiralty Board is temporarily filled in by his daughter if she survived the Suicide Mission and wasn't exiled due to his actions. “There won't be an Earth left to save.” - Spoilers for Mass Effect 3 follow. If Han'Gerrel is told in secret after the trial (if the evidence was not presented), he becomes shocked and horrified, yet vows to keep the truth a secret, knowing how badly it would hurt the fleet and how Rael's daughter would have to pay for his mistakes. Whether Shepard presents this evidence to the Admiralty Board affects the outcome of Tali's trial. His respective reasoning was that the Admiralty would predictably bicker and he didn't want his daughter involved in any political blowback.Īccording to Tali, if Rael's deeds were ever revealed, his punishment would be far worse than posthumous exile: His name would be stricken from the manifests of every ship he had served on, and he would be remembered as the worst war criminal in quarian history, held up for future generations as a monster in a cautionary tale. However, he refused his assistants' advice to contact the Admiralty Board as a precaution and had Tali send back more working material. Evidence showed that Rael was deliberately activating geth to perform experiments in order to find a way to successfully hack their neural network, violating sacred laws that predated the quarians' flight from the homeworld. Tali tries to deny that he is dead, attempting to rationalize that he is trying to fake his death.Īfter breaking down crying, she finds a message recorded on his omni-tool explaining how to deactivate the geth and instructing her to show the data to Han'Gerrel and Daro'Xen. They find Rael's corpse, dead along with all of his research team. Tali returns to the flotilla to face trial, and she and Commander Shepard board the Alarei. Sometime after his message is sent, the geth he had reassembled attacks both him and the other quarian scientists aboard the ship, and Tali faces treason and exile on the charge of sending active geth into the Migrant Fleet.


When Tali completes her mission on Haestrom and joins Commander Shepard's crew, Rael approves her transfer. In 2185, Rael tells his daughter to send him geth components for a secret project on the Alarei. He was rather hard on Tali during her upbringing, making sure she grew up to be a capable representative of the quarian people. He was distant from his daughter Tali, determined to help the quarians reclaim their homeworld and build a house for his family on it.

Rael eventually rose to a position on the Admiralty Board.
