Lazarus Station

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Lazarus Research Station
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Location:

In orbit over Parnack / Remus / Roma Nebula / Milky Way Galaxy

Commissioned:

8 December 2150 CE (by the Alliance)
19 September 2183 CE (by Cerberus)

Decommissioned:

11 May 2180 CE (by the Alliance)

Destroyed:

4 August 2185 CE

Role:

  • Listening post (2150 CE - 2180 CE)
  • Research facility (2183 CE - 2185 CE)

Affiliation:

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Systems Alliance (2150 CE - 2180 CE)


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Cerberus (2183 CE - 2185 CE)

Battle(s):

Technical specifications

Length:

1.2km

Diameter:

2.8km

Population:

1,150

Defenses:

Type:

  • Listening post (2150 CE - 2180 CE)
  • Research and development (2183 CE - 2185 CE)

Power:

3 eezo cores.

Shielding:

Kinetic Barrier

Manufacturer:

Northrop Grumman

 
"Well, you've got two options: stay here and burn up with the station, or come with us and make these last two years of hell worth something. I'd urge you choose wisely, and quickly."
Miranda Lawson to Commander Shepard after surviving an attack on the station.

Lazarus Station (known more formally as Lazarus Research Station), and formerly known as the Perseus Listening Post R-22, was a space station orbiting Parnack in the Remus system of the Roma Nebula operated by Cerberus. Initially built as the Perseus Listening Post R-22 by the Systems Alliance in 2150 CE for use on the edge of the Sol system in an effort to find alien life beyond the solar system, the station was later repurposed by the military in 2157 CE to monitor turian fleet movements during the First Contact War, providing, along with the R-13 and R-23 listening posts, early warning for the Alliance navy of the turian invasion force prior to the Battle of Charon. R-22 would continue to operate after the war until it was decommissioned in 2180 CE, with the Alliance stripping it of all classified military technology and equipment before towing it to Mars for scrapping. Before the station could be scrapped however, Cord-Hislop Aerospace put in an offer to purchase it for use by their company as a research facility, and it was ultimately sold by 2182 CE. In actuality, Cord-Hislop, a shell company and front of Cerberus, had purchased the station on behalf of the pro-human organization, who wished to use it for research purposes, redeploying it to the Remus system of the Roma Nebula, which provided a discreet and secure location for the station's operations as the entire nebula was quarantined by the Citadel Council following a failed first contact with the yahg in 2125 CE.

In late 2183 CE, before the station was fully commissioned and staffed by Cerberus, the Illusive Man ordered the commissioning of the Lazarus project, an operation to resurrect Commander Shepard: considering the high profile and delicate nature of such a project, the Illusive Man thought the former listening post would make the perfect location for such a project, and had it officially named "Lazarus Research Station", with the ad-hoc Lazarus Cell that was formed for the purpose of the project being assigned to it as their home base, with the station possessing some 1,100 staff consisting of security personnel, medical and cybernetics experts, with Miranda Lawson as the commanding officer of the cell and Albert Wilson as her assistant and chief medical tech. For the next two years, Shepard's body (once recovered from the Shadow Broker) was housed at Lazarus Station and the operation to repair and revive him performed within its laboratories and state-of-the-art facilities. A security incident in mid 2184 CE occurred when Cerberus operative Rasa, who was visiting the station at the time, went rogue and attacked the station's growth lab, stealing the abandoned Shepard clone and attempting to escape with it, killing numerous Cerberus personnel in the way while hacking the station's security systems to cover her escape. Rasa successfully escapes, but the Illusive Man scrubs any attempt to retrieve the clone, deeming her and the clone irrelevant in the larger scheme of the Reaper threat and wanting to focus on Shepard: with some replacement personnel sent to replace the ones killed in the incident, and technicians quickly repairing the damage done in the attack, operations return to normal, as does Project Lazarus.

In mid 2185 CE, just before putting the finishing touches on Shepard's repaired body and after his premature revival a month before confirming the project's success, Albert Wilson, acting under orders from his new employer the Shadow Broker, hacks the station's security systems and turns the security mechs on the station's staff, hoping to trap and kill Miranda, and neutralize Shepard before he can wake up. During the attack, Shepard is woken up once again by Miranda in order to help him escape, and Shepard effortlessly blows through the mechs sent to kill him. Wilson is discovered by Miranda and executed when he reaches the escape shuttles with Shepard and Jacob Taylor, but by this point all Cerberus employees across the station were dead, with only the three of them surviving. The attack caused substantial damage to the station's superstructure, with fires raging across multiple levels and continuing to spread after Shepard's escape. A Cerberus retrieval team was sent a couple days later to clean up the mess, but found the station compromised across six levels, hull breaches throughout, no survivors from the attack and its orbit over Parnack rapidly decaying due to its engines being rendered inoperable. Knowing the station's destruction was imminent, the Illusive Man ordered all necessary data from the station extracted off-site and then purged locally, extracting the team shortly after to let the station enter Parnack's atmosphere, where it proceeded to break up upon reentry, its debris scattered across the planet.

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