Mass Effect 3 - Should You Spare or Kill Oleg in the Omega DLC?

Should you spare Oleg Petrovsky, let Aria kill him or do the deed yourself? Today we’ll be exploring all outcomes to the Omega DLC in Mass Effect 3. If you play your cards right you may even get a kiss from Aria ;)

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0:00 Introduction
2:17 Letting Aria Take Revenge
2:53 Aria Kisses Shepard
3:20 Preventing Aria from Killing Oleg
4:43 Aria Spares Oleg Herself
7:06 Shepard Kills Oleg
8:19 Aria's Victory Speeches
9:31 Omega War Assets
9:49 Conclusion

During the Omega DLC, Shepard works with Aria T’Loak to help her recapture the Omega station from Cerberus and Oleg Petrovsky. The mission will see us confronting a number of different moral dilemmas, as civilians get caught up in the war between Aria’s forces (including the Talon gang led by Nyreen Kandros) and Cerberus.

For instance, do we take Nyreen’s side in her arguments with Aria. Nyreen is more interested in helping civilians at all costs, while Aria is primarily out for revenge and power. And when we have to deactivate Cerberus shields throughout the station, do we simply cut off the power - dooming thousands of innocent hospital patients currently on life support or do we attempt to reroute the power to only deactivate the shields, at the risk of failing to bring them down.

The choices we make throughout the mission will have an impact on Aria. Will we indulge and encourage her thirst for revenge and blood? Or will we chip away at that hard edge and bring out a more compassionate side from the Queen of the Afterlife?

Near the end of the mission, as Aria and Shepard make the final push to Oleg’s headquarters at the Afterlife, Nyreen sacrifices herself to save a group of civilians from a swarm of Adjutants - monsters that Cerberus created and tested on Omega. Seeing Nyreen, who was at one time Aria’s lover, die in front of her eyes, throws Aria into a rage. She tears into the Afterlife with one goal in mind - killing Oleg Petrovsky.

Depending on your choices throughout the DLC, as well as in these final moments, the last confrontation can end four different ways.

[treopl]

You missed neutral ending. If you made mixed responses to Aria she will say that she can't figure Shepard out and that Shepard might be the most dangerous and difficult to read with two different dialoques with different outcomes if we kill or spare Oleg

[jeoh]

Bray just seems like a chill dude. Someone you definitely would want as second in command

[ENANDA]

Aria T'Loak : "Thank you for not... interfering. Killing that man was deeply satisfying."

Or Aria T'Loak : "I've been waiting to kill that man for months. Walk around with you for a few hours, and I go all soft. You're like a disease."

[josephcarranza]

I think Aria should've been invitable to Shephard's Citadel DLC party. After reclaiming Omega it could've made for interesting dialogues with Garrus, Liara, Wrex, etc.,

[liamcarnahan]

Playing an engineer during the reactor scene allows you to deactivate the sheilds and save the people.

[undyne]

I personally prefer the paragon ending for this DLC, i liked giving Aria a different perspective and having her think about what Nyreen would've liked for Omega and it's people since it's what she died for.

[zaguar]

He spared Aria, so I spare him - but I do enjoy using that renegade interrupt to "inspire" his future cooperation with Alliance interrogators!

[mostlydreams]

This quest line really makes you forget the entire galaxy is slowly being destroyed by robots

[coldfusion]

My favorite version is where aria kills him, then tells Shepard “I’ve lived for a 1000 years and you may be the most dangerous and baffling being I’ve ever encountered. I have no idea where I stand with you.” Hearing that at the end amuses me greatly since I play these games chaotic neutral half the time.

[Jagrofes]

You still get 30 war assets even if he dies, Arias Hacker finds Cerberus intel and passes it onto the alliance.

[Kampfmesser]

There’s a neutral ending where she calls you the most dangerous being she knows because she can’t figure you out. I’m not entirely sure if there’s a specific order or way to get that outcome.

[admiralzaalkorisvasqwib-qw]

“So, your going to execute me?”
Oleg right before being executed

[TheInfiniteSheldon]

Oleg broke Omega's *one* rule: don't f with Aria.

Aria decides his fate.

[kirbster]

Actually here's a fun thing you missed, if you did a certain side quest for one of aria's people that involves hacking cerberus terminals, then killing Oleg gets you the Aria's Hacker War Asset, which gives the exact same amount of points as Oleg. So the the decision ultimately comes down to the prefered morality.

[victoriasharpe]

I always did renegade walkthroughs because I liked the kiss at the end 🤣 but lately I like to play neutral where she can't figure Shep out, calling her truly dangerous. Makes me think Shepard is one of the few people in the galaxy she knows not to mess with, and I like that because it makes Aria realise Shep isn't one of her minions, she's not going to just bend over backwards for her and do whatever she wants.

[PartigradeCannon]

You get just as many War Assets if you kill or spare Oleg. It's just that if Oleg is alive, your allies interrogate him and his assets show up in Alien, while if he's dead you find files and the assets show up in Alliance.

[CommanderBroShep]

I spare Oleg but do the speech routes to tell him behave or he'll go back to Aria.

[bengunn]

Crewmates in Shepard's place when Aria chokes Oleg:
Liara: insists on sparing Petrovsky because it is right, takes two paragon interrupts.
Samara: insists on sparing Petrovsky because it is right, lectures Aria and takes two paragon interrupts
Garrus and Miranda: insist on sparing Petrovsky for intel, take two paragon interrupts.
Kaiden: insists on sparing Petrovsky because it is right, takes only one paragon interrupt.
Tali: insists on sparing Petrovsky for intel, takes only one paragon interrupt.
EDI and Legion: suggest sparing Petrovsky for intel, do not interfere.
Mordin: states that Petrovsky might be too dangerous to live, then states that intel might be valuable, contemplates aloud as Aria chokes Oleg.
Grunt: suggests letting Petrovsky die on his feet, doesn't bother interfering.
Thane: shoots Petrovsky himself to deliver a clean death.
Kasumi and Wrex: don't give an damn about Petrovsky fate
Zaeed: lets Aria have her goddamn pleasure.
Ashley: shoots Petrovsky before he says a word.
Javick: calls Aria primitive as she chokes Petrovsky, tells how they handled traitors and rebels in his cycle.
Jack: pushes Aria aside and chokes Petrovsky herself.

[Juiceboxhero]

"Im your prisoner, You cant just shoot me"

Shepard: loads pistol with malicious intent

[Anime-Doof]

Aria's kiss with Femshep is...much less stilted.