Ilos: Security Station – Mass Effect

This guide will help you explore the security station area of Ilos in Mass Effect.

Ilos: Security Station Map

Legend

1. Arrival
2. Geth Resistance
3. Hardened Crate
4. Security Panel
5. Exit to Upper Ruins

Ilos: Security Station Overview

1 – Arrival

Descending from the Ilos: Upper Ruins map, your search for a means to open the door Saren sealed will continue in this ancient Prothean security station.

2 – Geth Resistance

Make sure you have a solid plan worked out before entering the station’s main chamber. Here, you’ll be facing a towering Geth Prime, two Geth Destroyers, and three Geth Shock Troopers. These six can easily reduce your squad to cinders if you go rushing in unprepared. If you’re having trouble taking them down, I’d recommend taking position atop the stone catwalk above you or even sprinting around to any of the Armature Repair Stations to enlist the aid of as many as four Geth Armatures. Keep in mind that you’ll need a good amount of Decryption skill or lots of Omni-gel (25 each) to pursue the latter route.

3 – Hardened Crate

A single container’s worth of loot is your only reward for the battle you just participated in.

4 – Security Panel

Activating this security panel will override the security system and open the previously sealed door to Saren. It will also trigger a fifty thousand-year-old Prothean hologram containing a damaged message that only Shepard can understand (thanks to the Cipher you obtained on Feros). You can’t make out many of the words, but it’s obviously a warning of some kind that involves the Reapers, the Conduit, and the Citadel.

5 – Exit to Upper Ruins

After disabling the security system at area #4, you can use this elevator to reach the plaza area back on the Ilos: Upper Ruins map.