UNC: Hostage

UNC: Hostage is an assignment aboard the MSV Ontario in the Farinata system, of the Hades Gamma cluster. It can be gained from Admiral Hackett or from a news report in the Citadel elevator.

A group of biotic terrorists have captured Chairman Burns from the Systems Alliance Parliamentary Subcommittee for Transhuman Studies and are holding him hostage on board the Ontario, protesting his vote against providing reparations for L2 biotics. Commander Shepard's squad boards the vessel to rescue Burns, but as soon as the biotics sight them, they prepare to execute the chairman. Shepard has three minutes to fight through the biotics and get to Burns.

Once the squad reaches him, they still have to deal with the terrorists holding him at gunpoint. The biotics are angry at how L2s are suffering and point out that a grand gesture like this is the only thing that works. Shepard can kill them or talk them down, explaining that the biotics still need Burns' political connections. This requires a high Charm or Intimidate stat to work because the terrorists no longer trust the Alliance. If Kaidan Alenko is in the squad, he says he's an L2 as well and they can trust him - Shepard can make sure Burns follows through. (Using this Charm option can earn +8 Paragon points while using Intimidate can earn a total of 9 Renegade points)).