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  • in reply to: Weapon idea- Exploding Kishock #560
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    Keymaster

    Given the batarian focus on biotech and biomorphic weapons it does make sense.

    The salarians have something like this well, called the Dissimulat Plague, that they use in bomb form.

    Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

    in reply to: Human Infantry and Surface Combat #559
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    Sorry I didn’t reply to this sooner, things have been a bit … crazy.

    Most of the innovation humanity has come up with is tactical, and in the use of mechs and battle suits. Human infantry simply aren’t really deployed much against anything but batarians, and unless they’re fighting the Fist or something, that means shitty Batarian State Arms weapons and armor — deadly to colonists and lightly armed militia but no match for even B-rate marines with decent leadership.

    Battlesuits are a big part of the change up, as well as the use of DACT troops dropping behind enemy lines, kamikaze mech attacks, and using the bigger mechs as pressure units to deform enemy lines and hit from a different direction. Some infantry boarding tactics have evolved to a degree but much of this is still room-to-room clearing with shotguns and melee weapons (to keep from blowing holes in the hull…or the fuel system.)

    Artillery is a tricky one — Elcor and volus are the big masters of artillery. Both Ahern and Florez (who wrote most of the current SA playbook) disliked static offensive points and felt that artillery was best fielded as highly mobile. There’s a MAKO conversion with the crew cab swapped to carry saturation missiles that’s about the closest the SA currently has to an artillery platform.

    The armor the SA fields is dangerous because unlike salarian and asari armor, it is very numerous. Salarian and asari tanks are supremely powerful but very rare, while the humans (taking a queue from the turians) are beginning to deploy MAKOs with all infantry. Dedicated units like the GREAT WHITE are a good match up against almost all turian and the lighter asari armored vehicles — although superheavy krogan tanks would trash them, there aren’t many of those left.

    I haven’t honestly decided what to do with Ash yet, aside from making her an Action Mom. I think ME3 tried to do the right thing but it would have made more sense if they had done so BEFORE ME3 — I’m not seeing why they would wait until the whole Reaper thing to even bother. I mean, the whole Spectre thing is about operating beyond the law to get things done, and when giant black deathrobots are eating everything who gives a shit about the law?

    Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

    in reply to: Weapon idea- Exploding Kishock #553
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    I will be expanding on the Kishock a bit in the batarian section, but yes, the batarians have a selection of both explosive and … other payloads.

    Bioinfested shrapnel and burning WP among others.

    Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

    in reply to: the word ''NO'' scrawled over and over in charred blood #550
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    That article is hilarious, by the way.

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    in reply to: Open Questions : Ask them here! #549
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    I’m afraid I can’t answer that question as cleanly as you might like.

    The best way to look at Uressa is that she is exactly what Aria would have become if her mother hadn’t derailed her life.

    Uressa has the capacity for … bad things. At this point in the story, her motivations baffle even other asari matriarchs of the Thirty.

    Anything more would spoil a core piece of the ME3 story.

    Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

    in reply to: Salarians and the Makana Thorian #536
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    I would say that the main reason I haven’t shown more up to this point is that Shepard and Co haven’t been in areas to see it, and that is one thing I plan to do a lot of in TWCD.

    But as far as the Makana Tho’ian goes, the salarians keep the experimental stuff in experimental areas, and did a bit of ‘cleaning up’ to keep things out of the eyes of what they consider a bleeding-heart in the person of Mordin. They are mostly experimenting with asari bought as slaves, but have done some work with cybernetically augmented turians as well.

    But in another sense, the main reason the vorcha are the primary fodder is that they lack useful skills. The Tho’ians absorb everything their thralls know, after all, and the salarians are being exceedingly cautious.

    However you raise a good point. I need to think of areas where I can show this more clearly. I had planned to have Ripper expound on some of the things the Hierarhcy did that drove him to Omega in the first place, as well as stories from Mordin and some of the things Liara finds out from Aria.

    Ideas where I can add more details?

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    in reply to: Vasir side story #535
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    Actually, from what little I’ve got down in my handwritten notes, Vasir’s frustrations with the Council only got to the boiling point about forty years ago.

    The Broker was mostly under salarian control until roughly sixty years ago (when the Yahg took over) and she was not involved with the Broker Network prior to that.

    I don’t know yet what would have set her off like that. I’ll have to think about it.

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    in reply to: Open Questions : Ask them here! #531
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    The fight at Noveria showed that a Commissar-crewed fleet command was not as viable a structure as they thought.

    The process used to impress Legionaries is not kind on their mental functions and that cuts down on responsiveness. Chipped ex-navy types can be used but aren’t trustworthy. Most of the new construction has command-level cutouts and even hidden scuttling charges at the dispoal of the Commissaars on board.

    But in a larger sense, the High Lords cannot afford to give TOO much power to the Commissars, either. While they don’t know that Chisholm is compromised by Harper, they have discovered at least one of the new-style Commissars was affected by some kind of salarian biowar weapon. Commissars are a limited commodoity and the more they make the less biotics they have for other purposes.

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    in reply to: Open Questions : Ask them here! #524
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    @Himura: A *lot*. Roughly seven to eight million humans and well over a million turians, with millions more wounded, crippled, or otherwise damaged. Another quarter million turians committed suicide due to the death of mates or failure to accomplish missions.

    The general aftermath was muted. The war was mostly fought by the families and the ‘core colonies’ — the outer colonies didn’t participate. Most turians are divided. They understand why the Primarch did what he did, and what he was aiming to do, and they feel it was slightly dishonorable. But they also felt the humans acted dishonorably in the war up until the end.

    On the other hand, the insane defiance of the Solguard, who were at the end willing to kamakaze themselves or eject in battlesuits with bombs strapped on just to stop a single turian ship, impressed them. They grudingly admire humanity for not buckling, and they are sincerely confused that humans attempted to heal the wounds of the war instead of clinging to them like the krogan (and batarians).

    The First Contact War was and was not caused by asari manipulation. The salarians were actually planning to ‘uplift’ humanity (they could not reach the system using the mass relay since it was iced but their FTL ships had explored Sol repeatedly) when their dominion stretched far enough, and the asari discovered hints that the salarians were interested in that region of space. So they had hinted that the turians might want to keep a close eye on relays in the region.

    That being said, the asari did NOT expect anything like humans, and if the turians had managed to subjugate humanity, that would have totally ruined the balance of power as they knew it. Even so, the asari were perfectly willing to allow humanity to die if it meant losing the turians, except for Uressa T’Shora, who suggested that humans did not deserve such a fate. As it turns out, her defiant intercession has resulted in the asari having to change their plans multiple times.

    Aside from the Legacy Team, not really. There are other minor badasses out there but most of the real heroes are already known (or are dead).

    Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

    in reply to: Open Questions : Ask them here! #523
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    @Metaladdict: Interesting.

    Again, keep in mind that Vigil sadly sees most of the cycles as incrementally important. His overall battle plan is to hopefully destroy more Reapers than are created to the point where the Reapers simply wipe the galaxy, giving him the chance to resurrect in the Inusannon in a location the Reapers won’t be looking for them in. He was not given the longer range and more important elements of the plan and has programming preventing him from seeing it’s flaws.

    As to why the Inusannon instructed him in this fashion…that’s a secret.

    Vasir plays a role, but not the role anyone is expecting. 😀

    The High Lords of Sol are somewhat divided on the issue. Without any counterveiling evidence, and with all current understanding of FTL travel suggesting that if the Reapers left their locations the moment Nazara died it would still require two centuries to reach the galaxy at the soonest, they feel they have sufficient time to deal with things. They are more interested in using the build up to increase control over certain aspects of society and hoping that the increase in tensions will result in conflict between the salarians and the asari. Most of what Hades is up to right now is attempting to stir up that pot.

    Short term the nobles don’t want to build up the fleets TOO big, because they worry a charismatic fleet commander might be capable of turning the fleets against them. That’s the main reason why they have Commissars hidden in every ship, but the second-phase commissar is developing a lot of issues (which is one reason they came up with the third-gen Commissar type) and they are not sure if the commissars can keep the fleet in their control of news like Novensiles ever got out.

    This, by the way, is why they overreacted so badly with Anderson, and why they WOULD have killed Liara given time to do so after Shepard died. The ‘powers that be’ don’t know that Henry Lawson is feeding TIM information (or that Miranda was an actual NOVENSILES prototype and not just a ‘genetic test run’ for Oriana). They think the plan is still intact and secret.

    Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

    in reply to: the word ''NO'' scrawled over and over in charred blood #522
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    …that’s pretty sick. It’s going in. 😀

    Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

    in reply to: Open Questions : Ask them here! #513
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    No, the year is not the same, it happens a little later, due to things going on elsewhere. Taking out the Milky Way is a real low priority for the Reapers since there are at least two races in other galaxies capable of putting up Inusannon levels of resistance.

    In canon, I think Vasir was used and using the Broker, and she did what she did because she felt it was the right thing to do. Without any hard evidence that the Broker was in league with the Collectors, trying to destroy such a figure must have seemed like lunacy to her. She WAS a ruthless opportunist, but based on what we’ve seen of canon Spectres, she probably had no choice.

    Miranda’s fate is sort of up in the air. The only people GUARANTEED to survive the mission right now are Garrus, Tali, Grunt, and Kasumi. (And of course, Shepard). The only person who DEFINATELY dies is Zaeed. I would think her fate depends on more how I fit things with Cerberus, which is still working out.

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    in reply to: Open Questions : Ask them here! #512
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    Mrosera : A lance cannon is basically a mass-effect railgun that hurls a ‘lance’ of exploding particle packets. It is a very hard hitting weapon, designed to take out heavy armor and krogan.

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    in reply to: Discussing the latest chapter #507
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    That trick isn’t even the extent of the bullshit they can pull with a relay. It’s a directional , focused wormhole generator that creates tunnels of fucked-up false space where light goes faster. There isn’t anything stopping them from using every mass relay in the galaxy as giant rail cannons, or to have them fling unstable strings into the nearest sta cluster.

    Garrus…eh. I’m not happy with it but not sure how to handle it either, since Garrus takes more from the Punisher than Batman in my opinion, and the Punisher was ALWAYS in his own head.

    Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

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