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Why wouldn’t they? They are basically the most important people in all humanity.
Probably because they’re a symbol and symbols have to be ‘seen’. They can’t run away and hide. Not really.
Lions are pretty much the best side story IMHO. So I’d like to see it updated. Followed by the Tech Guide, Cerberus Files and Memories with Ahern’s Guide and No Single Rain Drop closing the list.
Ahern’s stories are fun to read but the man can be a bit much and while the overview is great and not as ‘dry’ as CF it’s also not as interesting as CF which is a much more detailed document, and I think a more engaging one.
NSRD I don’t really have an opinion beyond that it doesn’t hold as much of my attention as any of the other stories you’ve written, Henry.
A really good chapter. I enjoyed it greatly and Vigil rocked with his musings about his creators and the overall plans he had been tasked with.
I think Shepard lost some of her steam and the burial showed that nicely. Her conversation with Pressly was a bit short but the following discussion with Trudy did a lot to let us see how Sara was dealing with everything.
I think this fic needs more Petrovsky?
BTW: how ‘badass’ is he actually?
Follow up question, would that neutronium layer act as a self-destruct if the reaper died and lost its hold on the godpower?
And does it have something to do with the strange phenomena of bizzaro place from Biotic Mysteries? Aka Reaper dies strange things happens in the area of space.
More questions.
@Mr.Green, well you’ve been sleeping on the job. 😉 So I decided to take a stab at organizing the next round of pestering the author and pumping him for information – wait that came out wrong, forget I said that. I meant to say, opening a new topic where curious readers ask polite questions. Yes. Much better. 😉
I have a few more questions:
4. Virtual reality
Is it a thing that actually exists or did it turn out to be nothing else but Sci fi dreams of the late XX century and early XXI? I tried to remember if we had it in the games and we did have the Armax Arena and the Pinnacle station combat simulation. But that’s about it.
What about the Premiverse? Is VR a popular thing, does it even exist? I’d think someone would corner the market for cyber sex, gaming and interactive ‘movies’ if nothing else.
5. Alien races in the Terminus systems
Are there any new species that have been discovered, and or, exploited by the denizens of the Terminus?
6. Is it possible the Alliance will get something on the order of war Titan(Warhound from WH40K) mech?
The turians have their monster truck, and you mentioned something about siege mechs being developed by the Alliance in tandem with the Salarian Union in the chapter where Sara gets her bearing after she woke up and started catching up with what’s new in the world.
7. The STG file about the Odd Couple mentions that Kai’s blade, Silence, is not only a monomolecular sword but that the edge is also energized.
Energized with what? Some anti-biotic pulse frequency?
8. How good is the Harrier assault rifle / battle rifle and when are we going to see more of it? It was one of the more broken rifles in the MP before the developers started nerfing things.
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@NPC, correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t that about Citadel races picking up fights with Terminus warlords? IIRC, he either said that in chat during beta reading one of the chapters, or in one of the previous Brain Droppings topics.I was inquiring about lessons learned from the Rachni War and Krogan Rebellions.
My money’s on Cerberus. Certain elements of the Commissariat go way back to working with or along Cerberus. Jason Dunn and the mess(and especially the aftermath) that was Cerberus HQ in the first story, just to name one instance where the two organizations worked together in one fashion or another.
But there’s another player in the game, @findorlol. Richard Williams who wants to clear his path of that geriatric obstruction that is papa Manswell. While it’s a long shot it’d not surprise me if he had a hand in all this. He’s already stirring shit within the Manswell family by allying with Helga Manswell and the two sabotaging papa Max’s tissue samples needed to convert him into cyborg.
If Windsor is involved and I think he might be then he has the motive and drive to see his vengeance delivered upon those who hurt his family and derailed his plans. In fact, he might be the front man of the coming turmoil. Between Cerberus and Commissariat, as well a number of noble families he would be able to pull off a lot and accomplish more.
I think we can all agree that a lot is happening behind the scenes.
Perhaps the author is willing to shed some light on this matter? / nudge-nudge, wink-wink /
I suspect the Commissariat is working their own angle in all of this. Very likely one that is irrespective, or maybe even contrary to the agenda pushed by the High Lords of Sol. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case.
There’s also the fact that it looks like at least some of the goals of the Commissariat are in line with those of Jack Harper. How those two align with one another is a mystery but the relationship existed since before Ferros and the thorian debacle went down. The very fact that Shepard met with a high-ranking commissar shorty after she was resurrected and they did a fair impression of sharing intelligence between their respective organizations tells me the Commissariat, or at least a part of it, will play a role in the coming events.
One more thing. TIM would most likely reach to some of the commissars if only to stack the odds in Shepard’s favor when she reveals her survival/existence/new-lease-on-life.
Shepard’s favorable and working relationship with the Commissariat was mentioned enough time throughout the saga to make me wonder how long LP has been setting this thing up.
I guess in the end the question remains: what’s Susan’s role in all of this?
Hmmm. You raise an interesting point, @findorlol. I’m just going to add that Susan is an unreliable narrator in her segment of the chapter. In fact, she goes to acknowledge that she underwent chemical mind wipes in between her reporting to the board and the time since Sara died.
There’s another angle here. From the Cerberus files LP gave us we know that the Commissariat loves to play tricks with their people and feed them false memories to create a persona of the future commissar. That happened with Jiong, as his memories didn’t mesh up with what we were let know from his brother.
So chances are that what Susan think happened didn’t happen at all, and the commissariat constructed those memories to hide what really went down. Like for example her being injured while working with Ross.
I think it would be a child’s play to substitute one set of memories with another.
I’m a little miffed we didn’t get to see what happened to Traynor’s parents but ‘oh well’ – I’m sure it will come up in a discussion or scene further down the line.
Overall, the segment with Gerald felt good. No hero antics or bravado, just a simple man trying to get himself and his wife to safety. In a story full of raging badasses and conniving shits in nice suits and dresses seeing a regular man doing something was a breath of fresh air.
My one nitpick about is that the wife was a bit passive.
And yes, finally, Jack came up in a convo between Kelly and Shepard. Hell, it was about damn time these two touched upon that subject – even if only for Shepard to come to the conclusion Jack needs training and pronto.
In the game I was always a bit hacked off how non-professionals had the chops to hang around the big guys and galls(Shep, Samara, Zaeed) and keep up. So it was cool that LP made a conscious effort to portray Jack as struggling. She got messed up on Korlus and now on Horizon. Awesome. It goes to show that this is a serious business and there will be no learning curve and playing catch up for people like Jack who besides her biotics and sheer grit doesn’t have much else going for her. She’s a scrawny, traumatized kid with a chip on her shoulder and only her smarts and biotics to keep her alive and ahead of the folks that want to do her in.
The Council scene… it isn’t my favorite by a long shot but the way LP wrote the Collectors necessities certain things and behavior from characters that don’t have a clear picture of what is going on.
But holy fuck did Thin’Koris come off as insincere. I hope Udina punches him at least once in the coming chapters or before the story is over. I’m bloody sick of quarians and the goddamn geth. I still find it hilarious that the war is going on because what’s going to happen in the event the geth are defeated? The quarians are going to move back to Rannoch? How, there’re quarians already there. Another war? Civil war this time? The whole situation is messed beyond belief. Wonder how’s that going to pan out.
Right. So Susan. Apparently WOG is that what happened to her is my fault. Yup. Once upon a time I asked about her character on DLP and apparently that gave LP some ideas. So, yeah. Ouch. Still, I expected much, much worse.
At the core of her being she’s still Susan. They didn’t take that away and that’s enough for me. I was thinking we would get back some Samara-esque walking, talking statue, someone we wouldn’t be able to recognize as Susan from the first and second stories.
My own take on the mininova situation is as follow:
– The Collectors are ‘working on a budget’ and their resources are quite finite. Every loss of equipment, be that weaponry or ship hurts them.– They are somewhat petty and bitter and prone to: ‘No! Fuck You!’ scenarios as demonstrated with Horizon’s local star.
– They’re proud but also scared. Proud of their lost race and heritage but scared shitless of the Ascended and what they’ve done to their people.
The whole mininova situation is equal parts pettiness, fear, shock tactics and terror campaign designed to cow the Council races. They’re working on a schedule here and while stretching the time table as much as possible would be favorable it’s to be done delicately. Losing so much biomass is also a serious setback.
Note that Ishan wasn’t averse to a setback as that’d give him more time to prepare their game plan for when the Ascended entered the Milky Way.
But he’s also incensed about setbacks that cast him and the curator race in a bad light before his overlords.
