Desolas Arterius

Tazzik is a turian general that operated during the years of the First Contact War. He is first introduced in issue #1 of the Mass Effect: Evolution comic book series.

In 2157 during the war against the Systems Alliance, Desolas holds the position of general within the turian military and is tasked with a secret assignment on Shanxi. This involves a discovery made by a research team who's vessel crashed on the planet with the general being tasked with recovering the sensitive material present within it. This led to him leading a squad into the abandoned human settlements on Shanxi to find the vessel where he got ambushed by human mercenaries Jack Harper, Ben Hislop, and Eva. After his squad is killed, Harper keeps Desolas alive and learns that he can speak English. Later, the mercenary team decide to find out what the turians are up to and take Desolas with him who reveals his name and they deduce that he is in fact a general within the turian forces. Using a device Desolas had, they trace the signal to the turian camp where Harper uses a fake message from the general to capture a team sent out to meet him. A ploy that the general felt was quite clever and he told him men to stand down when the mercenary team found the site of the artifact that the turians intended to find down. He claims that Harper should be careful what he wished for as it might come true and tells his men to let the humans into the cave as he was curious to see what they discovered. Harper and Hislop travel into the cave where they find the strange relic and its guardians which they manage to kill. However, Hislop touches the device and is seemingly killed in the process whilst Harper is blinded. The distraction caused Eva to be ambushed by her turian captors and general Desolas manages to capture the humans where he exclaims that now he would study them. Harper and Eva are captured whilst the turians decide to take the body of Hislop away for study.