


There are only three short entries on the datapad, but they catalogue Pressly's gradual acceptance, then embracement, of the alien crew members aboard the Normandy. When Shepard visits the Normandy crash site in Mass Effect 2, a datapad can be found that belonged to Navigator Pressly. In Mass Effect 2, Pressly ends up a much more sympathetic character than he appears to be in the first game, but he's given posthumous redemption in a way that's deeply unsatisfying from a narrative standpoint. He is a military man, and that duty seems to take precedence over his personal issues, as he serves the Alliance and Shepard faithfully despite his reservations about the aliens onboard.

Pressly ends up not getting a lot of lines, either in conversation with Shepard or otherwise, in the first Mass Effect's script, and as a result, he stays fairly flat throughout most of it. Related: Does Mass Effect's Human Citadel Council Choice Matter Pressly is understandably wary of the aliens that Shepard recruits for the mission to stop Saren and Sovereign, since he and his family have been at war with aliens for his entire life. Pressly mentions that his grandfather served in the First Contact War, and that he himself was serving in the Alliance during the Skyllian Blitz, a faceoff between a fleet of alien pirates and human colonies in a region of space known as the Skyllian Verge. One character that epitomizes this sentiment at the beginning of the series is Navigator Charles Pressly, the Normandy's executive officer serving under Commander Shepard.
