A salarian businessman named Ish needs packages picked up. The packages are near Marab's shop on the Citadel and in Eternity on Illium.
Acquisition[]
This assignment will be available upon completion of the Stop the Collectors mission on Horizon.
Upon entering Omega, you can find two salarians on the right before the entrance to the Market/Apartment. Talking to Ish will allow you to take on an assignment that involves traveling to the Citadel and Illium to find two packages to bring back to him.
Walkthrough[]
Note: If you have Jacob in the party when you interact with Ish for the very first time and select "You're acquainted?" as your first dialogue choice, an additional outcome for the assignment will be available; see below for details.
Note: Having Jacob and/or Miranda in the party while dealing with Ish will reveal additional backstories for the characters; see Jacob and Miranda's unique dialogue pages. They have worked together on a mission before although Ish was a coward and a liar. Additionally, if you have played and completed Mass Effect Galaxy, a few extra lines of dialogue can be heard during conversations with Ish. Both Jacob and Miranda must be in the party for the full extra dialogue to appear, however. This extra dialogue is also heard in Legendary Edition.
The packages in question present as interactable datapads. The Citadel package is in front of Marab's shop, Saronis Applications, on Zakera Level 26. The Illium package is in Eternity across from the quarian and friendzoned turian sitting at the table.
You only need to obtain one package to complete this assignment; while getting both packages does open up an additional possible reward, this will render another reward path impossible. After finding one of the packages, Shepard learns about the clandestine dealings of one of Aria's men: Anto. You now have three main options to complete the assignment, each with dialogue choices that will impact the outcome and rewards: (1) you can find the second package and then deliver both of them to Ish as you originally agreed, (2) you can return to Ish and convince him he's in over his head, or (3) you can inform Anto about Ish's scheme.
Option 1: If you collect both packages and then deliver one to Ish, the other will automatically be delivered as well and you will gain +5 Renegade points, +40 (50) experience, and +4500 credits. If you bring just one package to Ish, you can hand it over to him for +1125 credits, and he will continue waiting for you to bring the other package. Bringing the other package later will grant +5 Renegade points, +40 (50) experience, and +3375 credits (for the same total reward gained by delivering both at once).
However, if you deliver just one package without picking up the other, the other two options to complete the assignment will remain available, allowing you to gain 1125 credits in addition to the rewards listed for options 2 and 3 below.
Option 2: Instead of handing the package(s) over to Ish after you find them (or at any point after handing over the first package), by picking investigate options on the left, you can eventually unlock the option to convince Ish that Aria is far too dangerous to interfere with and that he should flee for his life for +40 (50) experience and +3375 credits. Alternatively, if you heard the details of Ish and Jacob's shared background the first time you met Ish, you will also have the option to threaten him into leaving Omega for the same reward. Neither of these options reward any morality points. Also, as there is no real downside to handing over the package to Ish first, you should do so as that will leave you with a total of 4500 credits. Note: If you choose either of these paths, the assignment will remain open in the Journal afterward, unable to be completed. In Legendary Edition some players report successful completion, others report the problem remains.
Option 3: If you rat Ish out to Anto, you can either make a neutral choice pointing him at Ish for no reward; or, with a sufficiently high morality score, you can make a Paragon or Renegade choice to gain +5 of the respective morality points by mentioning how the package(s) could impact Aria. After bringing up Aria, you have the choice to make him pay for your silence as well, gaining +40 (50) experience and +2250 credits; or, you can let him have the information for free (either by telling him to "Just be careful" or "Take care of Ish"), granting you no rewards and no experience. In all cases, after you tell him about Ish's dealings, the assignment will be marked complete, Anto will depart temporarily to handle Ish, and you won't hear from Ish again. As with Option 2, there is no downside to first giving just one package to Ish for 1125 credits, so you should do so before informing on him to Anto.
Tip: After picking up one or both packages and speaking to either Anto or Ish, it's possible to back out of either conversation without committing yourself to any of the mission-ending outcomes detailed above as long as you pick a non-committal sounding response, which is usually a middle option on the right. However, to be on the safe side you should save before talking to either of them.
Mission Summary[]
If you played your cards right, you can earn 40 (50) experience and a maximum of 4500 credits and 5 Renegade points, or 3375 credits and 5 Paragon points. If you don't want to earn any Renegade points but still maximize credits, give just one package to Ish and then convince him to flee.
Packages[]
Illium package
Citadel package