Can I just say . Yay ! Prompt 1 I get the impression that Shep generally hasn ' t had much exposure to aliens . Scott Has heard about turians , salarians and asari and most of what he ' s heard is wrong . Having grown up a series of Alliance vessels , Scott first heard of the turians following the First Contract War , which his parents fought in . They were pretty much the villians of his childhood games , he stalked them round the cargo bays and plotted battles against them with action figures and toy spacships . This will amuse Garrus Vakarian in years to come , who did pretty much the same sort of thing , only fighting off the dreaded humans in the local park . Scott first encountered actual asari and salarians , briefly , while on shore leave in Elysium . He also ran into some batarians , but they were shooting at him . He didn ' t really have time to chat , and so the first aliens he really got to know were Garrus , Liara , Wrex and Tali . Jenna The first alien she ever met was a Thresher Maw , it didn ' t end well . Prompt 2 Scott The Alliance has been an ever present fixture in Scott ' s life . It ' s virtually been like another parent to him . He had always dreamed of being a starship captain , but had assumed it was just that , a childhood dream . He grew up somewhat interested in science and engineering and might have gone down that route had his estranged father not been killed along with the colonists of Mindior . Scott ' s a spacer , but his father left the Alliance and settled on Mindior This sparked something off in Scott , who had never gotten along well with his father , but would have liked the chance to have known him better , he decided that he was going to become a Marine and defend the defenceless . His mother , Hannah , thought this a waste of his intelligence at the time , but she ' d never dreamed he ' d be awarded the Star of Terra one day , become an N 7 or save the whole damned galaxy , so it turned out for the best . Scott is fiercely loyal to the Alliance , and struggled to work with Cerberus , he knows that the Alliance raised him , along with Hannah and feels like he ' s betraying everything he ever stood for . For him , there was no before the Alliance . Jenna Jenna grew up in Edmonton and joining the military never crossed her mind as a kid , and it was a last , desperate attempt at self preservation that made her sign up . A gang war had broken out in Edmonton and Jenna ' s friends were dying . As a rare biotic , Jenna was in great demand , and the rival gangs either had a huge bounty in her head or orders to capture her alive . They used her friends to get to her , and the death of her boyfriend and best friend was the final straw . Get out of town , get out of the gang or die . She fled to the Alliance recruitment office and the rest is history . Jenna has changed beyond recognition , she was wild and aggressive , she used to love starting fights , but the Alliance gave her something solid to base her life on , a chance to win the respect of others and some for yourself . It gave her the discipline and order she ' d never had before . She became a better , nicer , much stronger person .