Mass Effect C-sec

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ArvenRuun (full name Sur'Kesh Qivue Yana Hob Ruun Arven) was a salarian officer originally with the Citadel Fleet, and later a veteran detective attached to C-Sec's Investigation Division. As the head of a decorated unit charged with investigating unsolved or incomplete crimes, Arven specialized in the deduction of cold cases.

Born on the salarian homeworld of Sur'Kesh around 2150, Arven was a descendent of the dalatrass of the Ruun clan, a powerful bloodline that had powerful connections within the Salarian Union. Despite being very intelligent and observant for his age, Arven was often looked down upon by his brothers and sisters, primarily because of his relatively low prospects for breeding. At some point during his early youth, however, Arven got into an argument with the clan dalatrass over his chances at securing a breeding contract. This then escalated into a political dispute between his parents' clans, as the family on his father's side, the Wilbor clan, felt he was suitable for breeding. The debate eventually motivated Dalatrass Ruun to unofficially ostracize Arven from the family, leaving him to be raised by his father, Narl Wilbor, a middle-ranking administrator who worked for Binary Helix. As such, the Ruun clan played a relatively minor part in the remainder of his upbringing. Arven himself never revealed the reasons behind his disconnection from his bloodline to others.

Despite this, Arven was able to successfully convince his tutors otherwise, who subsequently recommended him for a military enrollment. After much consideration and pressure from the Wilbor clan, Dalatrass Ruun very reluctantly agreed to back off. Following his graduation from university, Arven returned to his homeworld of Sur'Kesh. There, he enlisted into the Salarian Third Fleet, though after five years of active service, Arven left the military and journeyed into Citadel space. Prior to his departure, Arven was personally offered a "desk job" in the Special Tasks Group due to his notable talents in forensic pathology, though he turned down the offer because of his views on groups that chose to operate above the law. Captain Kirrahe would later remark that Arven's refusal had been particularly disappointing. Whilst Arven would come to somewhat regret his refusal to join the STG due to the opportunities it would have presented, he remained firm in his final decision.

After moving onto the Citadel and purchasing his own residency in the Zakera Ward, Arven decided to join the Citadel Fleet. Eventually, he received a promotion that made him a captain, and he participated in a number of military tours that took him as far as the borders of the Terminus Systems. Although the Citadel Fleet was primarily concerned with safeguarding Citadel space, Arven's assignments usually functioned as scouting missions, whereby he would venture out to alert the Fleet of threats that could potentially endanger the Citadel in the future.

A year after his recruitment, Arven's father passed away, which had a profound impact on the salarian. The fact that he did not visit his father in the last few years of his life did little to ease his grief. However, his death did motivate Arven to fully commit to his role in the fleet so as to honor his deceased parent. He soon gained an impressive service record, though never received any promotions above the rank of captain. Despite this, Arven still served the Fleet to the best of his ability. During one operation, Arven was assigned to track down the murderer of a high-ranking turian officer, who had apparently been partaking in some particularly shifty dealings.

After months of investigation, Arven's assignment brought him to crime-ridden space station of Omega. Since the Citadel Fleet had no authority in the Terminus Systems, Arven was forced to carry out his investigation mostly independently. Not long after arriving, Arven turned to Omega's "de facto" ruler, Aria T'Loak, for information on the turian's activities. Though she had the details Arven wanted, Aria forced Arven to pay a considerable fee in exchange for the information. Satisfied, Aria told Arven that the galaxy's most powerful and enigmatic informant, the Shadow Broker, had been involved in the turian officer's death. Using her intelligence, Arven managed to get a lead on an elusive information trafficker known only as "Watcher", whom Aria suggested was actually a Shadow Broker agent. Aware that his allegiances had now been discovered, Watcher hired a pair of Eclipse mercenaries to take out Arven, though to no avail. After a three week chase, Arven was able to capture Watcher, though at the cost of seven hostages' lives.

After an intensive interrogation, Arven learned that the murdered turian officer had actually been a Shadow Broker agent himself, though was eliminated once it became clear that he planned to expose his allegiance and turn all his information over to the Citadel Council. This decision occurred when the turian began feeling guilt for double-crossing his superiors, resulting in Watcher being assigned to organize his assassination. Little else is known about what Arven did to Watcher, though it is known that after learning all he could from the informant, he was forced to hand him over to the Blue Suns as he was leaving Omega. The Blue Suns subsequently interrogated Watcher and handed him over to Warden Kuril and had him imprisoned in their security ship, Purgatory. Following this particular assignment, Arven retired from service in the Citadel Fleet after the Shadow Broker retaliated by organizing a series of events that forced him to leave the Fleet. Despite all the trouble he had caused for the Broker's operations, Arven was not assassinated by the informant's operatives, as it was felt killing him would attract too much unwanted attention.

Upon returning to his home on the Citadel, Arven was unable to find any work that either engaged or challenged him, causing him to have serious thoughts of leaving the station to return to his homeworld of Erinle. In the end though, Arven instead chose to join C-Sec, the Citadel's voluntary police service. Because of his previous military service, Arven was able to swiftly pass through recruitment. Although he initially attempted to join the Special Response Division, Arven felt that his earlier handling of Watcher's hostage situation made him ill-suited for the job, so he instead applied for C-Sec's Investigation Division.

Not long after being recruited, Arven found himself appalled by the percieved flaws he found in C-Sec's systems and policies. In response to this, he attempted to change the foundations of C-Sec from the inside, though his revolutionary ideas were met with criticism and distaste. After a year of pushing for change, Arven gave up, though still made a conscious effort to ensure C-Sec's services could not be exploited so easily. Despite his opinions, he enjoyed a strong working relationship with Executor Pallin, who often gave positive accounts of Arven's work, yet was also quick to disagree with his controversial views.

Although he was popular with those he worked with, opinions on him within C-Sec were deeply divided and his viewpoints were often met with a mixed reaction. Whilst some agreed with his way of thinking, others (such as Garrus Vakarian) accused him of being a hypocrite, criticizing his willingness to adhere to the rules, despite his demands for change in C-Sec's policies. Arven himself countered such criticisms by claiming that he wanted to create change without breaking regulations and resorting to radicalism.

As time passed, Arven began to take an interest in the 'cold cases' that his department were presented with; cases or crimes that had not yet been completely solved by C-Sec detectives. Through his keen analytical abilities, Arven solved a large number of these cold cases, which eventually resulted in him being placed in charge of specialized team intent on investigating these specific crimes. Most of the assignments that were given to them were solved in great detail, resulting in Arven's team gaining recognition and respect from the rest of C-Sec. Despite his radical views, Arven at some point became a friend of Garrus Vakarian's father, a respected C-Sec officer who shared his "by-the-book" outlook.

One of his most notable cases was in 2175, when he was tasked with investigating the death of an influential volus banker who had been killed seven years prior. Although a law-abiding official, the volus was notable for his extreme prejudice against humans, which instantly pointed suspicion towards extreme Systems Alliance supporters. Through extensive use of forensics, C-Sec resources, incomplete evidence and psychological profiling, Arven and his team was able to deduce that the volus had actually been killed by a human assassin, though they were unable to determine his exact identity or allegiance. Despite this, the team were able to discover that the assassin had actually been an operative of the human-supremacist organization Cerberus. Apart from the volus' anti-human attitude, Cerberus' political reasoning for killing the banker were never determined. Despite this, Arven's unit was still praised for solving the murder.

Another noteworthy case was when he stopped a small red sand drug cartel from expanding within the Zakera Ward, an encounter made famous by the fact that he had to single-handedly kill two Blood Pack bodyguards to arrest the ringleader. A popular rumor amongst C-Sec officers was that after shutting down the cartel, Arven celebrated by drinking two glasses of Noverian Rum, a shot of uncut batarian ale and a pint of Ryncol. Whether there was any element of truth in the tale was neither confirmed nor denied by high-ranking C-Sec officials and even Ruun himself. In his limited free time, Arven was occasionally spotted drinking at the nightclub Flux. Despite this, Arven was able to control his drinking issue enough to prevent it from interfering with his work.

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