That son of a gun stole my wallet!

But as was the case with pacemakers, external defibrillators were unwieldy, and the shocks they delivered—in the rare cases when patients were still conscious—were painful.

Finally, though, he laid it on the line. “I said to her, ‘You gotta tell me if you still love me.’”

The krogan have had a love-hate relationship with varren for millennia, alternately fighting them for territory and embracing them as treasured companions.