Editing Zevin Raeka

{{Infobox character
|image       = Zevin Raeka.png
|name        = Zevin Raeka
|class       = Pathfinder
|race        = Salarian
|gender      = Female
|voiceactor  = [[imdb:nm2247629|Gemma Whelan]]
|appearances = [[Mass Effect: Andromeda]]
}}
[[Zevin Raeka]] is the designated [[Pathfinder]] of the [[Andromeda Initiative]]'s [[Ark]] [[Paarchero]].

{{Spoilers (Andromeda)}}
== Background ==
{{see|Codex (Mass Effect: Andromeda)/The Andromeda Initiative#Pathfinders: Salarian Pathfinder}}
Upon arrival in [[Andromeda]], the Paarchero was attacked by the [[kett]]. When the situation turned desperate, the ark's captain, [[Lumont Hayjer]], persuaded Raeka to fake her own death, hide amongst the normal population in cryo, and dismantle her [[SAM]]—all so they would not fall into enemy hands. She reentered [[cryostasis]] in the cryopod of Jeks Arlan, a deceased male salarian, and the latter was given Raeka's identity to further the ruse.

== Mass Effect: Andromeda ==
[[File:Hunting the Archon - Raeka revived.png|340px|left|Raeka goes to work immediately after revival]]
Raeka is [[Hunting the Archon|awoken]] by [[Pathfinder Ryder]] after the latter saw through the deception. She expects [[Alec Ryder]] to be the [[human]] Pathfinder, unaware of his [[Planetside|passing]], but nonetheless brings the younger Ryder up to speed on what happened to the ark. She works with Ryder's plan to discreetly wake up the ark's flight crew and ready it for escape while the other Pathfinder gathers intelligence on the [[Archon]]'s flagship tethered to the ark. As her own SAM is inactive, Ryder's SAM collaborates with her through comms, prompting her to remark she's back in the game.

Later, Raeka leads a landing party on the Archon's flagship, the [[Archon's Flagship|Verakan]], in order to save captured salarians. She later assists Ryder during a kett ambush, losing one of her crewmates. During their respective missions however, Ryder discovers that the Verakan's guns are trained on the Paarchero and will destroy it before they can even power up the Paarchero's engines. Raeka makes a plan to resolve the problem and has her salarian team rig an EMP device on the Verakan's guns while she independently resumes the search for the captured salarian colonists.

After Ryder successfully obtains information about [[Meridian]] from the Archon's private chamber, Ryder is discovered by a hologram of the Archon, who consequently orders the Verakan to destroy the Initiative's spaceships in order to trap them in his warship. In order to preserve their means of escape, Pathfinder Ryder orders the salarian team to detonate the EMP. While en route to the [[Tempest]], Raeka reveals she is pinned down with some of the captured salarians by an overwhelming kett force in the holding cells. Unable to save herself, she contacts Ryder and says her goodbyes as one Pathfinder to another. SAM also reveals that several [[krogan]] captives are still on the ship and are scheduled for [[Exaltation|exaltation]]. Ryder only has enough time to rescue either [[Nakmor Drack|Drack]]'s missing scouts or Pathfinder Raeka and her people before the kett are able to power up the Verakan again. 

If she isn't helped by Ryder, she is presumably killed by the kett. She is subsequently succeeded as a [[Pathfinder]] by Lumont Hayjer.

If Ryder chose to save Zevin Raeka over the [[krogan]] scouts, she acknowledges her fellow Pathfinder's difficult decision. During a gathering of the Pathfinders in the [[Nexus]], Pathfinder Raeka will reveal to her colleagues that she has been investigating the kett's [[Exaltation]] process in order to find a way to prevent it.

Raeka later assists in the [[Meridian: The Way Home|battle]] for [[Meridian]], shooting down kett fighters with the [[Moshae Sjefa]] powering her rifle.

Ryder can optionally support Raeka as interim ambassador to the [[Nexus]], which receives support from [[Jarun Tann]], though Raeka later tells Ryder that she will not be manipulated by him.

[[Category:Mass Effect: Andromeda]]
[[Category:Salarians]]
[[Category:Pathfinders]]