Elanos Haliat

Elanos Haliat was a human pirate and prominent figure in the Terminus Systems. Haliat was once the most powerful leader of the Terminus pirate bands, and planned a huge assault on the Alliance to increase his prestige. With the support of batarian funding, Haliat rallied the lowlifes of the Terminus Systems and attacked Elysium, an attack later known as the Skyllian Blitz. But Haliat's plans came to nothing as the Alliance repelled the Blitz and decimated the pirate ships from orbit. The Terminus pirates blamed Haliat for the Blitz's failure and he lost his position as their leader. Haliat retreated to a remote world in disgrace.

Haliat saw a chance to regain his prestige when he found an Alliance espionage probe left over from the First Contact War. These probes carried heavy nuclear payloads; he knew the Alliance would send someone to recover it, so he used the probe as bait. Haliat activated the probe's homing beacon and hid it in a mine on Agebinium. Just as Haliat hoped, the Alliance sent Commander Shepard to retrieve the probe. Wanting the prestige of killing the first human Spectre, Haliat waited until Shepard was inside the mine, then detonated a seismic charge and trapped Shepard's team inside. Haliat then appeared over a hologram to taunt Shepard (or if Shepard is a War Hero, blame the commander for Haliat's disgrace) and activated the probe's nuclear payload with a ten-second countdown.

Haliat then stole Shepard's Mako and brought it to his camp, only to be surprised by Shepard's team, who had deactivated the nuke and escaped the mine. Haliat and his people tried to finish Shepard off but were killed in the firefight.

Trivia

 * Elanos Haliat was intended to be a turian, but was accidentally made a human when implemented. His intended species is only hinted at by his "turian-esque" invented name and the distinctive turian sound processing applied to his dialogue.