Mass Effect 3 Dr Chakwas

"I wanted to travel the stars, disposed the wounds of tough soldiers with piercing optics and sensitive souls. Turns out war machine life isn't quite as romantic as I'd imagined."

Dr. Karin Chakwas is the human doctor of the SSV Normandy. She enlisted in the Alliance soon afterward she graduated from medical school, originally seeking "exotic adventure". Even afterwards the realities of service sobered her outlook, she stayed with the Brotherhood out of a sense of duty to humanity, eventually earning the rank of major. Though she sometimes considers starting her own individual practice, or going to work at a medical center on ane of the colonies, she feels that "there is something special about working on soldiers", and believes she would be abandoning them if she did not stay. Like nigh Alliance doctors, she has taken courses in alien biological science, enabling her to treat any non-human being crew members.

Mass Effect

Commander Shepard encounters Doctor Chakwas when she and Corporal Jenkins are chatting exterior the comm room. The doctor finds Jenkins amusing - she teases that the 'action' he craves unremarkably ends with her patching soldiers upwardly in the medical room. Later the mission on Eden Prime, when the Prothean Buoy knocks Shepard unconscious, Kaidan and Ashley acquit the Commander back to the Normandy to exist treated by Doctor Chakwas, because she has more experience than the noncombatant clinics on Eden Prime. She has a very at-home bedside manner, assuring Shepard that everything looks normal, though she is perturbed by the Commander'southward vision and decides to add it to her study.

Shepard can talk to Doctor Chakwas later. She has worked with Captain Anderson on several missions, and respects his judgment: "he knows when to let things slide and when to fissure the whip." The Commander can also ask how well she knows Lieutenant Alenko, just Chakwas responds that she hasn't worked with him before. She can offer an explanation of the medical problems L2 biotics suffer, which provides some background for assignments later on. Shepard can replenish the squad's medi-gel stocks from the infirmary where she is commonly working.

After the wildcat, Doctor Chakwas says it is strange being a fugitive from the Alliance. She tells Shepard that the crew has sacrificed everything for the Commander's mission: "don't let us downwards."

Mass Result 2

Dr. Chakwas is present on the SSV Normandy when it is destroyed by the Collectors. She managed to evacuate the send via escape pods, along with several crewmembers. After Shepard's death, Chakwas was posted at the Mars Naval Medical Center. Missing the excitement of a starship, Chakwas joins Cerberus, getting a position on the Normandy SR-two every bit the ship'due south Main Medical Officeholder and tin can be institute in the Medical Lab. She explains that she'due south not working for Cerberus, just for Shepard, in club to aid the fight against the Collectors, and making information technology clear that she has no regrets about it, having lived through the liberation of Shanxi, the Skyllian Blitz and more.

When Shepard asks Dr. Chakwas if she needs anything, she mentions a bottle of Serrice Ice Brandy she had lost on the SSV Normandy which she regrets never opening. If Shepard purchases a bottle and gives it to her, she'll invite the Commander to have a drink with her. Some time later, a drunk Dr. Chakwas is shown reminiscing most Corporal Jenkins and Lt. Kaidan Alenko. It is during this event that Shepard learns the real reason Dr. Chakwas joined Cerberus; it is because of Joker who will always demand her aid with his Vrolik syndrome, even if he never admits information technology. She feels that she needs stability in her life, and serving on the Normandy with Joker and Shepard brings her comfort. Afterwards the conversation, Dr. Chakwas is establish passed out on 1 of the medical beds. The side by side fourth dimension Shepard goes to have a conversation with Chakwas, she apologizes for existence a little unprofessional. Depending on how much Shepard got her to open up almost her feelings, she may also give Shepard a chance to "vent." Regardless of how Shepard responds, Chakwas volition then ask Shepard to promise that they'll share a canteen every twelvemonth.

Email: Healing of your facial scars

Considering some of Shepard's scars weren't fully healed while aboard Lazarus Station, Chakwas did some research about it and sends Shepard an email about the results and a request for some resources for the medical equipment to completely heal the Commander'due south scars.

From: Principal Medical Officer Chakwas

Commander,

I've done farther investigation regarding your facial scarring, and the old aphorism of "mind over affair" holds truthful. Negative attitudes and aggressive acts create agin reactions with your cybernetic implants, while peaceful thoughts and empathetic deportment promote healing. If you maintain a positive outlook, I believe your facial scarring volition heal on its own. Otherwise, there is surgical equipment nosotros could utilize to insulate your cybernetic implants and advance your healing regardless of your mental outlook.

I've updated plans for the new medical equipment to your research terminal in the tech lab.

Sincerely,
Chakwas

Suicide Mission

After, Dr. Chakwas and the rest of the Normandy SR-2's crew are abducted past the Collectors and taken to their base. If Shepard and the team proceeds immediately to rescue the crew and destroy the Collector base, the squad will notice Dr. Chakwas with the rest of the coiffure trapped in pods inside the Collector base and manage to free them all before they are processed live by the Collectors. On the other hand, the longer the mission is delayed, the lower the number of the Normandy'south crew remains alive, eventually leaving but Dr. Chakwas, alongside a few colonists, to be saved by Shepard and the team. Dr. Chakwas volition be upset of having to watch her crewmates dissolved live and becomes angrier the longer the squad takes to discover her.

In any case, Shepard will then choose whether or non to assign a squadmate to escort Dr. Chakwas and any remaining survivors dorsum to the Normandy. If Shepard chooses a loyal squad fellow member to escort Dr. Chakwas back, they will safely render to the Normandy and evacuate the organisation at the end of the mission. Dr. Chakwas would then annotate that both Shepard and Joker are the most true friends she ever had. Nonetheless, if Shepard decides not to assign a squadmate to the task, Dr. Chakwas and any other survivors will exist killed en route to the Normandy.

Mass Effect 3

Dr. Chakwas returns in 2186, provided she survived the Suicide Mission in 2185. When the Normandy-SR2 was impounded past the Alliance, the Alliance had no clue what to do with Dr. Chakwas equally she has never officially been a role of Cerberus and she had a proper leave of absence from her previous job. Though she hasn't technically done any incorrect past joining Shepard to defeat the Collectors, she mentions the possibility of being tried as an accessory if Shepard was convicted as a war criminal. That aside, she has been working at an Alliance R&D lab at Shalta Wards, closely coordinating with Admiral Hackett.

When Dr. Chakwas learns of the injured squad member, she came equally fast equally she could to the Huerta Memorial Hospital. Shepard can find her talking with Dr. Michel at the hospital'due south lounge. If Shepard invites her aboard the Normandy, she thanks the Commander and she volition reside at her previous place in the Normandy's medical bay. If she does non get invited aboard, she volition continue her work at labs, assisting in the war against the Reapers.

When Mordin Solus/Padok Wiks is tending to Eve in the med-bay, Dr. Chakwas spends her time in the Crew Quarters, chatting with Engineer Adams. She provides words of comfort and encouragement to Adams when he blames himself for not helping the squad back in 2185.

Dissimilar Kelly Chambers who suffers from nightmares of the Collectors' abduction, Dr. Chakwas claims to have put the events of the abduction behind her; though she does wonder most the victims and tragedies of the state of war. Eventually, she emotionally succumbs to her thoughts, admitting to Engineer Adams that she lied most her condition.

Chakwas holds upwardly her annual hope to share Serrice Water ice Brandy with the Commander, even though information technology has non reached a twelvemonth since their concluding drink. If they share a beverage together, Dr. Chakwas does non pass out this time, having learnt her lesson from being drunkard the last time. She too jokingly comments that even a krogan couldn't match the Commander drink for drink.

After the mission to restart the reactors of a turian fuel depot on Cyone, Dr. Chakwas and Engineer Adams are found in the Mess Hall, arguing about the fundamental characteristics of sentient life with reference to the geth and the Reapers.

If Dr. Chakwas wasn't sent abroad to aid in building the Crucible, she misses out on attending Shepard's big party on Admiral Anderson'due south erstwhile apartment. An emergency medical consult somewhere on the Citadel demanded her attending, and Samantha Traynor relays her apologies to Shepard. Plain the doctor besides sent some fancy liquor, though Shepard never got to taste it.

If Shepard does non talk to Dr. Chakwas before Cerberus' attack on the Citadel, she will no longer be present at the hospital.

Trivia

• Carolyn Seymour likewise provided boosted voices for BioWare'south Star Wars: The Former Republic and Dragon Age: Origins.
• In Mass Result 3, if the role player chooses to take a drink with her, Chakwas makes an in-game reference as to why she never calls Shepard by the Commander's first name. She says that after all Shepard has accomplished, calling the Commander by their showtime name seems disrespectful.
• Co-ordinate to writer Drew Karpyshyn, Chakwas' name was created as an anagram of "hacksaw" to evoke the image of "an former timey saw-bones field surgeon."^[i]

References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/DrewKarpyshyn/status/497493406894292992

Source: https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Dr._Karin_Chakwas

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