Luckily for him, Shepard's dormant biotic abilities were awoken, and was able to, at that last minute, generate enough dark energy to cushion his fall, walking away with only a few broken ribs, a broken arm, and a broken wrist. It was during one of these exercises that Shepard's chute failed to open on him due to a general hardware failure. Shepard's strong point other than leadership skills was combat diving and military free-fall where he was taught the proper position of reentry should he find himself in a situation where he is injured and in free-fall, the program focused on atmospheric reentry from the upper atmosphere of a planet. Shepard, once again, didn't do too stellar in zero-G combat, or jet-pack flight, but just as the gunnery instructor had pointed out, Shepard was a natural leader, excelling in team-building exercises, combat instruction, and front-line trauma control, excelling in both human and alien biology.
Shepard was one of only 116 to return for further N7 evaluation. Shepard, at first, contemplated not returning, but the Gunnery Chief managed to convince him otherwise, seeing something inside him that none of the other marines had. Out of 300 only 150 made their N1 and were invited to return. The aspiring Lieutenant went for the "N" MVC rating, being selected out of a pool of 750 candidates for the Interplanetary Combatives Academy, one of only 300.ĭuring his training he was one of the least physically adept, and was usually well behind in the ratings, but when it came to leadership, Shepard excelled the most. At the age of 18, sometime after April in 2172 and prior to 2173, Shepard enlisted in the Alliance Navy as an officer. The exact details of his exposure remain classified, but it has been speculated that Cerberus may have had a hand in it. Friendship was hard to come by living the spacer life.Īt some point between 21, Shepard was exposed to element zero in utero. Shepard didn't make any long-term friends, anybody he grew close to was ripped away from him at the last second. Growing up, Shepard was never in one place for more than a month as his parents moved from posting to posting, he also didn't get to know them very well. You have that fire that makes one willing to follow you into the gates of hell itself, that's something nobody else has.”īorn on Arcturus Station both of Shepard's parents were in the Navy. “You may not be the biggest or the strongest, but its what's in here that counts, and I see it in you.
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