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Deck 5 - Shuttle Bay

  • 1 of 8: Talk to Lieutenant Cortez to get a couple of paragon points before checking out the four nearby terminals.
  • 2 of 8: There's an armor locker like the one in the captain's cabin, and a weapon bench like the ones you used on Mars to change your weapon loadout and apply weapon mods.
  • 3 of 8: There's also a terminal you can use to upgrade each of your weapons from quality level I all the way to quality level V if you have enough credits, plus a terminal you can use to shop at the Citadel's stores remotely.
  • 4 of 8: It starts out with the two stores that you've already seen on the Citadel, plus another one that you can't access except through this terminal until after finishing this mission. (Note that buying items through this terminal makes them cost 10% more than if you went to the actual stores.)
  • 5 of 8: Go past the terminals and look to the left for James' area. Talk to him and agree to "dance," then watch for paragon and renegade interrupts to appear.
  • 6 of 8: They'll only appear very briefly, so be ready to click the instant they do. Note that you don't need to choose between paragon and renegade in this case -- you can do all four interrupts, two of each kind.
  • 7 of 8: After that's over, talk to James for more info if you want, then look to the right of his area for a model of the original Normandy.
  • 8 of 8: You can then return to the crew deck and use the medical lab's "Reassign Bonus Power" bed to get the Fortification power that you unlocked by sparring with James (if you think it's worth 5000 credits). Note that when you unlock other bonus powers, you can switch to one of them, but it'll cost 5000 credits every time you do that.