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Go to Sergeant Cathka.
1 of 9: Go up the stairs and on past the first barricade, then go through a door to enter a room where some freelancer mercs are hanging around.
2 of 9: Talk to Jaroth if you want to, then pick up the "Message to Tarak" datapad from the nearby table to start the "Omega: Archangel: Datapad Recovered" optional assignment.
3 of 9: Leave the room through its other door to find a short corridor with two doors.
4 of 9: Go through the left one first to find a box of refined element zero and a datapad to hack for credits, plus a terminal you can bypass in order to sabotage the nearby YMIR mech. (This will come in *very* handy later in the mission.)
5 of 9: Move on to find a side room with a krogan named Garm that you can talk to, followed by the second barricade area.
6 of 9: Hack the datapad on the floor for credits, then look for a medical station on the wall to the right of a bypass-able door.
7 of 9: Farther down the same wall is a door that leads to a side area with a medical station and a strategy room.
8 of 9: Try to talk to Tarak to get a conversation in which you can earn a few morality points, then leave the side area and go over to where Cathka is working on a gunship.
9 of 9: Talk to his assistant to start a conversation cut-scene, and watch for a Renegade interrupt. You should do the interrupt even if you're more Paragon-oriented, since killing Cathka will weaken the gunship.
