OOC: Oh for fuck sake, I just lost a massive post. This will take a while.
"I'm sorry. Your galaxy sounds like an unpleasant place. Things look bleak for my own, but there is always hope. Like I said, many races who should be mortal enemies have also shown that they can be allies, even friends. My own people have suffered 300 years of persecution, even after being driven close to extinction, but I have still seen that there is some good in the galaxy. Perhaps the Eldar can find it too, either in their own, or in another." She looked at Joe.
"Sure. That big silver orb is the mass effect core. What that does is..."
OOC: I can't type this description again. To summarise; mass effect shortens and expands space. Core connected to FTL drives, which project mass effect in front of ship. Ship travels through shortened space faster than light through original space. Effect can be reversed to greatly increase space through which bullets must travel, hence kinetic barriers.
OOC: Kelly Chambers didn't survive the Normandy's crash in NYC, I'm afraid.