While this choice seems like building up the events following after, it is not really.
The first part of your mission there will put you to choose between the two, who will accompany Captain Kirrahe and who will go to the ‘bomb’ run with you.
That’s also where you need to decide if you want to keep Ashley alive, or Kaidan. The Virmire sequence is a very important point in the whole franchise, since you can end up losing a lot of allies as you progress through the story there. How to save Kaidan or Ashley in Mass Effect Legendary Edition That said, the point where you will have to choose one of them is inevitable, so if you are interested in finding out more about this, take a look below. There isn’t any option to keep both of them alive, although this was the original intent of Bioware as they included a third option of being able to do so, but it was scrapped in the process of finalizing the game.
Not because it is that complicated to do so, but because in reality, you can only save one of them, unfortunately. You have a lot of important choices to make in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and saving Ashley and Kaidan in Mass Effect 1 will soon become one you will scratch your head about a lot.
