#And you might be wondering. Yes. The Admiral is Fenn LMAOOOO

[twist-assist]

Okay well not to be cringe but here's a summary on the Logkeeper Arc, AKA TWSIT AU but with An AI, AKA The Squad Finds Out Aliens Exist

Prologue:

The Logkeepers (an intergalactic organization that's basically like Starfleet without the military and diplomatic stuff, just exploration and science) send an expedition team to Thedas (known as Ward 13)

Expedition team settles in the Frostback Basin

The Second Blight happens

Expedition team learns about the Blight, wonders if they can find a cure to it with their own tech and research

This is what is known as a protocol violation

The Logkeepers order them to evacuate because the Blight is dangerous and there's something else brewing in the Frostback Basin (Hakkon). The expedition team refuses

They abandon their facility and leave extra orders to their AI, ANN13 (Artificial Neural Network of Ward 13), which is also left behind. They don't tell the Logkeepers their reasons for abandoning the facility, just that they are

Logkeepers are unable to dismantle the facility themselves, but considering the other stuff happening in the Frostback Basin it's difficult to even go in. It's concluded that it's hidden enough to leave behind and write off the world itself

With the exception of one captain, the rest of the Logkeepers basically forget about Thedas

BASICALLY 800 YEARS LATER, 9:41 DRAGON:

The Squad™ (Kaaras, Malika, Ellana, Maxwell) are in the Frostback Basin post-Jaws of Hakkon

They're hired to clean up any other pockets of demons and Venatori in the area before scholars can come in and study the space

They find themselves in the hidden corner of the basin, surrounded by cliffs

There's nothing there but it's noticeably warmer and drier

Malika slaps a cliff and it wakes up ANN13

ANN13 scans them and immediately clocks Ellana as an elf, Maxwell as a human, and Malika as a dwarf. It thinks Kaaras is an unknown entity (he's kinda miffed about it)

Technically, ANN13 is not supposed to let Locals into the facility. It lets them into the facility due to "Omega Protocol"

The squad explores the facility. A bunch of things look unfamiliar to them. Other things do look familiar

They push buttons on a terminal and bring up some video logs, which ANN13 allows them to watch. They learn about the people who used to live there and what they did, and also what was happening in Thedas during that time

They see the final log that was sent to the Logkeepers (it announced their departure from the facility). However, there was a final final log, meant to only be given to Locals that would eventually discover the facility in the future, which would actually reveal why they left

Someone accidentally activates the facility's emergency beacon

The one (1) person who was constantly watching for any potential Logkeeper activity on Thedas notices it, and sends a team over to investigate

The squad panics. ANN13 tells them to hide in an ESC shuttle (basically an escape pod), but then also launches it (they didn't know that was gonna happen)

ANN13 assumes it was fine because ESC shuttles have stealth tech and would not be detected

The Logkeepers detect them (the stealth tech is 800 years out of date) and captures the shuttle

The squad gets interrogated

The interrogation is intervened by an admiral who, and this is important, is a furry an anthropomorphic fox. The squad is like. wtf

However she sees an opportunity because the squad has managed to communicate with ANN13 after the Logkeepers' failed attempts

She persuades them to have it answer the questions they were looking for. The squad refuses at first but then realize that ANN13 also refused to tell them. Even though it was willing to tell them everything else

Eventually, ANN13 reveals the info (and is like :( the whole time)

The admiral sends the squad down to the area where it's theorized the expedition team might have gone. It's west of Thedas

While trying to find the team, they run into some Grey Wardens (Elissa and Alim)

They too, are looking for rumours about a cure for the Blight

idk how it ends. They eventually find something of the team, whether or not it's the people (Logkeepers can live a long time) or whatever they left behind. Elissa and Alim decide to stay, Kaaras et al. leave

They say their goodbyes to ANN13. ANN13's fate is unknown, but it's likely not great. Miraculously, they don't get their memories erased. It's not like anyone would believe them anyway

They're dropped back in the basin, now completely silent

Then they're like "Soooo….do you think we'll still get paid for that job?"