Corporal Toombs

Corporal Toombs was one of the Alliance marines at Akuze. He is encountered as part of the UNC: Dead Scientists assignment - the situation takes a different angle if Commander Shepard has the Sole Survivor background.

Toombs was a survivor of the thresher maw attack at Akuze. He claims that Cerberus was responsible for setting the thresher maws on his unit as part of an experiment. When he was found after the attack, Cerberus were delighted that he had survived and hauled him off for further study. Toombs was subjected to horrific ordeals including being injected with thresher maw acid. Somehow Toombs managed to escape Cerberus and began systematically hunting down the scientists responsible.

Investigating the deaths of the scientists, Shepard encounters Toombs on Ontarom, about to kill the last scientist. Shepard can listen to Toombs' story and either talk him down (putting the scientist on public trial for his crimes and allowing Toombs to get psychological treatment) or allow Toombs to kill the scientist, believing he has earned his revenge. Depending on circumstances, if Shepard is a Sole Survivor, Toombs can point out that the vids say Shepard was the only one to escape Akuze, adding "who am I to argue with history?" before killing himself.