Mass Effect: Incursion

Mass Effect: Incursion is an eight page mini-comic that follows Aria T'Loak's encounter with the collectors one week prior to the opening events of Mass Effect 2. The events of Incursion link into the events of the comic mini-series Mass Effect: Redemption. Incursion was made available on June 21, 2010 through IGN. It is also included in the graphic novel release of Mass Effect: Evolution, and in a two-comic collection with Mass Effect: Inquisition on Dark Horse Digital.

The comic is written and scripted by BioWare lead writer, Mac Walters and drawn by Omar Francia. With contributions from the Colorist, Micheal Altiyeh, and letterer Micheal Heisler. According to Walters, Mass Effect: Incursion was created to flesh out a conversation between Liara T'Soni and Aria T'Loak in Mass Effect: Redemption: "We wanted to continue to explore the original comic book, Redemption, and find a snippet in there. The idea I had was that I had a moment [in Redemption] where Liara meets Aria on Omega, and Aria has a very negative reaction to a mention of the Collectors. And I thought that I didn't really mention why that is. It makes sense if you think about it, but maybe there's a story behind it. So that's the genesis of these 8 pages."

Story
The comic opens one week after the Collectors attack the Normandy and kill Commander Shepard. On Omega Aria T'Loak and two Batarian body-guards are checking out reports of a disturbance on Omega. Aria senses something worse and insists on dealing with it herself.

When she arrives they interrupt a meeting between the Blue Suns Merceneries and a group of collectors with a Praetorian. The Blue Suns are selling several humans to the collectors, Aria orders her guards to kill everyone, and 'make sure nothing leaves.' and joins the fight herself using Biotics. After the fight all Collectors and Humans are dead, while Aria lost one of her bodyguards. Some Blue Suns survive, but Aria asks for them to be interrogated. Later at Afterlife Aria is handed a Datapad with information of Human populations of Horizon, Omega, Freedoms Progress, The Citadel, Eden Prime, Terra Nova and Earth. Aria notes that Humanity has made a dangerous enemy.