Unless the player imports a Mass Effect 2 saved game where Tali cannot appear in Mass Effect 3, Tali shows when the Commander moves to recruit the quarian fleet in the fight against The Reapers, powerful sapient synthetic-organic starships with intentions to harvest all organic life in the galaxy. Tali joins the squad, and her conversation options tell of the quarians' new attack on the now Reaper-allied geth, in a bid by the quarians to try and reclaim their homeworld. Depending on the player's choices in the second game, Tali may either be an Admiral or merely an advisor on how to defeat the geth. Eventually, the player must choose between saving the geth or the quarians, or, if certain conditions are fulfilled, negotiating a stand-down and saving both parties. If the player sides with the geth and lets the quarians die, Tali commits suicide by jumping off a cliff; otherwise, she fully joins the squad and can be found interacting with other Normandy crew members. Both Admiral Daro'Xen vas Moreh and Admiral Shala'Raan vas Tonbay fulfill Tali's narrative role in saved games where Tali is deceased by the events of Mass Effect 3, and neither character join Shepard's squad.