Yaroslev Tartakovsky

Yaroslev Tartakovsky is a human researcher for Binary Helix at Peak 15 on Noveria.

If Commander Shepard enters the Hot Labs at Peak 15, Yaroslev is there but he has some unidentified condition that seems to weaken him. Why he is still down there despite working elevators or how he survived the rachni attack is not stated.

He will tell you about how they found the rachni egg and their plans to clone the rachni and make an army. The egg they found was, however, a queen, and they chose to separate the children from the mother. This did not work, and now they rachni are uncontrollable.

Yaroslev has the codes that Mira uses to activate a neutron purge, which can be looted from his body after he is impaled through the chest by a Rachni Soldier. His workstation in the dining area of Central Station (where the rachni are first encountered) can be accessed for an assignment.

Trivia

 * A designer on Mass Effect has stated on Bioware Community Forum that "When written, Tartakovsky was supposed to be sitting on the floor with one leg torn off, kept alive by a tourniquet. A year later, we were told that wasn't technically possible."


 * The code for the neutron purge that Shepard recieves from the body of Tartakovsky is 875-020-079. This perticular sequence is featured in an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series entitled The Mark of Gideon. However, in Star Trek it was used as coordinates given to Captain Kirk.