Attack on Suri-Kara Hotel
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- "One of my people betrayed me...a turian named Sidonis. He drew me away just before the mercs attacked my squad, then he disappeared. Everyone is dead because of him...and because I didn't see it coming."
- — Garrus Vakarian describing his squad's fate to Commander Shepard in 2185 CE.
The Attack on Suri-Kara Hotel was a surprise attack on Archangel's hideout in the Kima District of Omega staged by the then-newly formed Kima Alliance in the concluding weeks of Archangel's war against crime. Following a failed ambush by Archangel's Omega Squad on the Blood Pack in an attempt to kill Weyrloc Garm, as well as a failed assassination attempt by Archangel on Krefin Tarak, the head of the Blue Suns, Archangel's squad had begun to slip up from their usual victory streak, something Tarak had not failed to notice, who had grown fed up with the constant attacks, raids, assassinations and overall harassment of his business operations. Following the attempt on his life at his very own home, Tarak had become paranoid, insisting on a fully armoured escort to and from his headquarters, and armed guards at his house to protect his wife and child: this made any further attempt on Tarak's life unlikely, especially when Tarak began spending most of his time on the base, surrounded by a battalion of his best men and obsessed with bringing down Archangel. Knowing he could not do it alone, Tarak realized that he would need allies, and begrudgingly reached out to Weyrloc Garm with an offer of an alliance. Garm, also wanting Archangel dead, agreed, and the two of them formed the brief Kima Alliance, an alliance of PMCs where both the Blue Suns and Blood Pack would pool together their resources, manpower and money with the sole purpose of destroying Archangel's squad once and for all. This alliance was kept within their organizations so as not to alert Archangel to this development, and together the two organizations began making their plans for locating their adversary's hideout to launch a decisive surprise attack. Despite both commanders being partners, this was in name only, as Tarak was considered the strategic brains of the operation and therefore the de facto leader of the Kima Alliance. Not long after, Tarak was able to secure the Eclipse membership as well, and together the three PMCs established a military alliance that represented a rare moment in galactic history in which the top three PMCs in the galaxy worked together. Gaehok Jaroth readily accepted Tarak's command of the alliance, while Garm begrudgingly accepted it, doing so only under the promise that he got to kill Archangel personally. Tarak understood the alliance was volatile, wanting to win the war soon before the alliance inevitably broke down, and he was determined to ensure the threat to his life was ended before he was willing to relinquish command over the other two PMCs. Despite the unlikelihood of such an alliance coming together, Tarak knew his rivals and was an expert negotiator, making maintaining their allegiance all too easy with the promise of riches, their enemy dead and their business free to resume as it had pre-Archangel.
With the manpower and resources secured, Tarak needed to locate the hideout, and knew that to do so would require capturing one of Archangel's men and getting them to talk. Tarak, once a former Feksogar agent and a torture expert, would handle the torture, but first needed a subject, and so he contacted he assigned Jentha Renmark, his second-in-command and most trusted and capable commander, to head a mission with some of his men to go undercover at every gun store, market and any other location the squad would need to visit in order to resupply. Using his old Feksogar skills and experience, he trained Renmark's men in who to look out before, with equipment to photograph and monitor everybody who came and went. Through this, the team finally hit a breakthrough when Lantar Sidonis was identified, with Garm identifying him as a turian that he had been contracted by a loan shark to hunt down on the Citadel, only for his men to end up dead shortly before Archangel was first sighted and began his campaign. Believing this wasn't a coincidence, Tarak authorized Jentha to abduct Sidonis when he made his next visit, and ordered the Kima Alliance forces to begin discreetly mobilizing at the Blue Suns HQ using unmarked vehicles for transport. Sidonis was subsequently captured and tortured by Tarak, finally broken down until he agreed to give up the hideout in exchange for being allowed to live, Tarak even offering to book him passage off Omega. Sidonis identified Suri-Kara Hotel as their hideout in the Kima District, right in the neighbourhood of the Blue Suns Omega HQ the whole time, and Tarak ordered their forces to converge on the district. At the same time, Garm added the condition that Archangel was to be lured away from the base with a false lead so as to make him watch his team die and break his spirit. Tarak viewed this as too risky, but was forced to agree when Garm threatened to hold his troops back, and Sidonis was forced to call Archangel and tell him about a Blood Pack smuggling operation in the Kenzo District. With confirmation that Archangel was on the move, Tarak waited a few minutes before giving approval to the alliance to commence their attack. While the Eclipse moved across the bridge and set up a position to block off any chance of escape for Archangel's squad, the Blue Suns would, with support from Tarak in his gunship, the Blue Scimitar, rappel down and up the sides of the building to attack from above and below, while Garm and his Blood Pack moved in across the bridge. When the attack commenced, Archangel's team was caught completely unprepared, and many were cut down in seconds, barely putting up a fight. Those that tried to fight were killed, one tried to escape and was killed, and some were killed before they could react at all. By the end, only one survivor, a quarian named Makk'Veshli, was left alive upon Garm's insistence, wanting Archangel to arrive just in time to be party to Makk's final moments, and so Tarak left him the quarian injured enough to kill him, but to survive long enough for Archangel to arrive. Tarak had their forces pull back across the bridge and lay in wait for the vigilante, waiting for confirmation he had returned. Sure enough, only half an hour later, Archangel contacted them over the comms, full of rage (instead of broken like Garm had hoped) and promising Tarak, Jaroth and Garm that he would not die before they did. The Kima Siege then succeeded the attack, marking the final encounter of Archangel's war against crime.
The Attack on Suri-Kara Hotel was a tremendous success for the nascent Kima Alliance, and a blow that crippled Archangel's operations permanently. With his squad wiped out, his hideout compromised and Archangel himself boxed in, his campaign to end crime on the station had been abruptly ended for good. Despite this, the PMC victory would be bittersweet, as the resulting Kima Siege ended in the deaths of Tarak, Jaroth and Garm, along with much of their forces decimated and disorganized. Regardless, the Attack on Suri-Kara Hotel was the turning point in the war that turned it in the PMC's favor, and ultimately spelled the end of Archangel's dream for a crime-free Omega.