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So you’re saying Nazara, much like the collector attack on Horizon, was using inferior weapons to limit what could be salvaged by the primitives in the event of his destruction.
Interesting, thank you.Spinoff question that I’m not sure how to word.
How does the darkness use those weapons?I mean does the darkness have ships, or do the beings themselves move through space like the Ascended and shoot anti-muon beams at things with their more formidable version of godpower?
For that matter can you see the darkness or only see the insanity-inducing effects around them?
I’m having difficulty deciding between the tech guide which ties in closely with equipment seen in the story, and includes reaper horror, and Ahern’s colorful descriptions of why pissing off the elcor leads to being turned to paste.
On a side note, if their infantry are tanks, how many guns do they put on their fleet?
I liked the chapter too. It’s a bit more of getting people where they need to be before the big showdown, detailing who will be present.
You know things will get messy when even Tetrimus of all people is feeling uneasy.
Other thing that jumps out the Vigil section, and the details of the large plan he has.
Question for H.V. – What’s the difference in composition between a broker kill team and heavy combat team?
Thank you.
That would result in an instant Bose-Einstein collapse too fast for the Reapers to react, and the neutronium would collapse and then destablize … violently.
Ouch. So like a massive number of Kyle torpedoes detonating inside the reaper, next to the critical parts.
Though I recall from fear unrelenting and a chapter of ATTWN that the crucible rings the space around the galaxy like a bell, which the Darkness notices.
So it sounds like the reapers are getting a combination of blown up by their own armor and eaten by the Darkness?Also sounds like the dead reaper mission, if that happens in the Premiseverse, is going to be really creepy.
I’ve got one about our favorite troll AI – is there any limit to how much primitive tech hacking he can do at once?
Interesting, thank you. I recall you also saying during one of the editing sessions that Grunt’s destabilized particle shotgun could actually dent reaper armor at close range – so this also give a better idea of that weapon’s power.
Like you suspected, Shepard’s sword inspired the question.Follow up question, would that neutronium layer act as a self-destruct if the reaper died and lost its hold on the godpower?
Interesting, thank you.
Looked at the hanar file again and was wondering something else. The part with soul names, linking a hanar to Katha, and godpower hax. Could Delan initiate the link to Katha if he got in a bad position?
Ithorex, I take it he just teleports himself past the target’s security, kills them (or sabotages their ship), then teleports back to the citadel?
I wonder, can we have details on how a Delanynder/Tetrimus fight would go?
I gather from the hanar file that he’s no shopkeeper, but hanar military, as well as connected to an ascended. But would he use overkill hanar weapons or something more subtle?Updated Nov 14 2018.
C36:
‘There is a certain power in truly righteous anger, but it is one that more often that not leads one down a shadowed path, full of regrets and over-reactions. It is all well and good to want justice served, but one cannot bring justice to the ocean if it drowns your lover, or to the earth if they die from a fall. Some evils are not evil at all… they merely are, and fighting them only leads to anguish and ultimately despair.’– Benezia T’Soni, No Single Raindrop Blames Itself For The Flood
C37:
‘I think Ilium was where the person I used to know as Sara Shepard finally died. Before that, she hated being called the Butcher. She felt like she had to be better, to make something of herself. After Ilium, after seeing what had been done to Liara, after seeing how sick the shit in the Broker’s files was… she wasn’t ever the same again. After Ilium… there was only the Butcher.’-Admiral Charles Pressly, ‘At the Right Hand of Justice’
C38:
‘When it first hit me that the Butcher was Shepard, I was actually kinda proud she’d managed to pull of what she had. Then she pulled that goddamned stunt on Ilium and I wanted to throw her out a fucking airlock.”-Admiral Tradius Ahern, interview with Emily Wong
C39:
‘Justice is merely a word, often misused by those who fail to understand their place. I do not believe in fairness, as that is all too often subjective. I believe in the traditions and ways that have guided our people for ten thousand years and more. If that offends or invalidates the lives of those who choose to live in the Republic, they should change themselves. Those who refuse to bend must be removed for the good of all. That is the only justice that can be real.’-Senior Justicar Samara, testimony before the Asari Republic Public Forum, on why she purged nearly half the population of the asari colony of Theone, 2180
C40:
‘Expectations are what get you killed faster than anything else. The more you figure you’ve got a good plan, the more likely you are to end up a stain if your intel is wrong. Plan for things not to go to plan.’– General Rachel Florez, ‘The Rules of Not Dying Like an Idiot’
C41:
‘I have always found people forget the first rule of the waves – they crash upon the shore, and sometimes drag you back out to sea with the undertow. Take care that your actions do not leave you adrift upon an ocean of unforeseen difficulties.’– Priestess of the Stars Trellani, 2144, presentation to the Assembled Clans
C42:
‘If the daughter fails and falls from the path of righteousness, who else could be to blame but the mother?’-Samara, when questioned about her reasons for joining the Justicar Order
C43:
‘Once, I said the alien was a danger, and Cerberus was the shield of humanity. Today, I see that the alien is as much a victim as my own race – a victim of leaders who prefer cruelty to justice, murder to law, and mindless obedience instead of freedom. Once, long ago, humans dealt with such rulers, and today, as Cerberus steps forth to protect those who suffer from those who profit from such suffering, I am reminded of their words.Sic Semper Tyrannis’
-The Illusive Man, ‘Second Cerberus Manifesto,’ in the wake of the Fall of Ilium
C44:
“…doomed. What kind of fucking idiot taunts Shepard when she clearly ran out of fucks to give a long time ago?” – Tradius Ahern, on seeing footage of the Butcher fighting Tetrimus.“…that’s my girl.” – David Anderson, on seeing footage of Tetrimus fighting Shepard.
C45:
‘We thought we’d seen the worst the geth could do at the end of the Benezia Incident. The horror of what they did to Ilium proved us wrong.’-Valsharess Senia T’Purice’a, Asari 2nd Fleet, interviewed 2185
I remember some bits of the cerberus files that stood out to me with respect to question 4.
Specifically, in the human economy chapter, it says that 82% of the SA’s heavy industry is in the Sol system, and that its destruction would cripple the entire SA.So Reapers eating the Solguard and blowing up most of the SA’s industry before landing on Earth and eating the arcologies…
Harbinger’s going to be thinking something like: “How nice of you humans to pack your population into enclosed cities for us to make reaper slushy out of!”
Meanwhile the colonies can’t get the supplies they would otherwise get from Sol, so they would have to get them from aliens or not at all.
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On a related note, wouldn’t TYPHON be triggered by a reaper invasion in Sol?So the freighter definitely was Liara.
That should be interesting when she and Shepard eventually meet up.
Unless there’s more to it, the answer to #2 can be found in Cerberus Citadel Ch31:
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When it comes to total raging badasses in the goddamned galaxy, nothing tops a Praetor.
They get their rank by going completely the fuck through ALL the military ranks to the very highest possible, something like Admiral of the Red or Lord General. Keep in mind that most people clawing up the meritocracy will get promotions that skip a few military ranks here and there – not these guys, they want to earn every rank. Same thing with the meritocracy – they won’t take more than one tier at a time.
They get tested into their final meritocracy tier by passing a special Trial called the Trial Supreme that’s a double-dose mix of the ALL of the other trials, plus taking down a goddamned vakar unarmed and with no fucking armor.
First, go read about the trials. Imagine doing all of that shit in one day. Then, you fight a vakar.
Since Trelly skimped on the description, I’ll give it justice. It’s a mutated cross between a giant bear and a severely pissed off lion somebody tried to drown in eezo. More than ten feet long and almost seven feet tall, with plates six inches thick, claws two feet long and harder than iron, and a mouth that can bite a krogan in half. Spits poison up to thirty feet away. Oh, and it’s fucking biotic, too. Uses them to increase it’s speed. It has a ground running leap that can hit speeds of 110 MPH and over ninety feet.
There’s footage of a pack of them tearing apart an armored column, batting a APC around like a cat playing with a oversized ball of yarn before peeling the thing open and eating everyone inside. More footage of three of them going after a turian reinforced patrol and killing half the spikes before they were brought down with lance cannon fire.
When the turians found a thresher maw on a planned colony, their answer was to dump twenty of these things at it, which literally tore it to bits. It’s like the mascot of the turian people – it’s on their money, lots of curse words, hell, even some families (Halvakar, Vakarian, Vakarenthus) named themselves after it.
Anyone who wants to be a Praetor fights one of these things.
In single combat.
On foot.
With his fucking claws and wearing not a piece of goddamned armor.
The only way to kill one without weapons or armor is … well, nuts. Somehow evade it’s spring and leap, and then do one of your own. Dodge it’s bites and claws, clamber up behind the thing, slash away at it’s tendons through the plating to hamstring it, then cut at it’s arteries and hope it bleeds out before it flings you away and tramples you into paste. A single hit will kill any turian trying it. Seen footage of that, instant blue chunky salsa.
Bossman, remember the fucked up failed hit on Admiral Tharaxis that I bitched so much about when I found out? The one where a single turian in plain clothes killed an entire strike team of six Shadow Cell assassins by himself with a kitchen knife while lecturing to his kids on the best way to kill humans, then went right back to cooking breakfast? The one who sent us the fucking skulls of said assassins, painted with his Clan colors, carved into drinking cups with a crate of turian brandy, and a note saying ‘send more next time’?
Yeah, that was a Praetor.
