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Oh, believe me I know that’s what they’re hoping for. It’s the fact that once upon a time they faced Tetrimus with Team Badass right there with them. Tetrimus walked over all of them. Pel, Leng, Miranda, Garrus, Liara, Telanya, Aethyta, Tali and Thane. They were curbstomped.
I’m all for revenge, but as they are it’s poorly thought out. Liara and Tel are dying, you can practically feel it in how they speak. Their mental capacities are degrading. I don’t know about their biotics but Liara is suffering from hallucinations. It’s that bad.
This is suicide by Tetrimus.
That was some heavy stuff going around in this chapter. Rather depressing, too. But I think the writing verged just so on becoming overwrought with grimness. I say verging because it toed the line and only flirted with it, which I think was the key to creating a gloomy and depressing atmosphere for the parts with Liara and Telanya and to a lesser degree for Garrus, Shepard segment without going overboard and smothering everything in despair.
If I had to pick two instance I like the most in this chapter they would be the opening scene from Liara-Telanya part.
All their success laid bare, the Vantirius Information System and its raise to prominence to the point where they can cherry-pick their contracts. The wealth they accumulated, the prestige and respect that came with being successful and good at their job. Hell, they even got some rep with STG for pooling wool over everyone’s eyes. That made me smile.
Only for the illusion of success to come apart as we take a look inside their heads and see the desolation.
I’m sad we didn’t get a mention of Liara’s phantom pains from the bond she shared(shares) with Shepard. I think it would be a good addition to have it mentioned but I only thought about it during a reread :/.
Then there is their desperation to kill Tetrimus before they burn out and die. I couldn’t help but shake my head at that. Come on. They’re in no state to pit themselves against the murder machine that is Tetrimus Rakora. That’s just silly. Liara is coming at the seams. She’s suffering hallucinations for god’s sake! Can’t eat or sleep. She’s sick. And Telanya isn’t in a much better position.
In fact, I’d say Telanya is far off in a worse condition than Liara who at least enjoys the constitution of the Thirty while Telanya is plain, stock asari. Of the two of them I’d say the other is in a far worse condition even with Liara suffering from bond severance…
To think they want to go after Tetrimus is – I don’t want to say it but I feel I have to – beyond stupid. So what if they have anti-biotic gear? Didn’t Benezia just power through something similar? So what if Tetrimus is an old, crippled turian? Neither Telanya nor Liara are in peak physical, to say nothing of mental, condition.
I feel that part failed to be presented as tragic or desperate, and simply came out as stupid rearing its ugly head in Liara and Telanya. It kind of killed the mood for me which is a pity as their segment was my favorite of the whole chapter and bringing it to an end like that made me wince.
Aethyta also felt off somehow. I can’t put my finger on it but something didn’t mesh.
Garrus and Shepard banter was as good as always and reminded me of the best from the first story. There’s just this easy camaraderie between them that feels natural. Of course, Garrus took the cake with bringing up some personal info about the people Shepard already recruited and it ties nicely with the conversation they had in the previous chapter when Shepard told him she couldn’t trust anybody else but him. I failed to comment on that when Ch. 30 came out but Sara pointing how Joker and Tali are more than a bit compromised by TIM was a mind-blowing experience for her character and character development.
The old Sara would get violent and threatening is someone even insinuated Joker or Tali weren’t 100% behind her. Especially the Sara who just got enobled. Just to remind everyone how she reacted to Jiong talking about crew’s PRIDE rating.
Now she’s changed and despite all I’d say for the better. Hell, I think if we put Sara as she’s right now on the SR-1 when the first story took off I’m not so sure she would fall for Liara. Certainly she wouldn’t be so eager to let someone inside her head…
So yeah, this convo between Garrus and Sara and the one from the previous chapter start painting a really nice and vivid picture of who Sara is right now. And hell that was a better window into her soul than Kelly’s psycho-babble.
So, Author, enjoy the applause. You deserve it.
I’ll admit I wasn’t very keen on the previous chapter’s dialog between Sara and Garrus but with what we received with Ch. 31 I have to say everything tied up nicely and gave us lots of insight.
I’ll touch upon Kasumi for a moment before moving on to the Vasir, Delacor, Broker parts.
So our space ninja is as dirty as the rest of the crew? Good. I like Kas enough in the games but then ME3 did her the disservice of painting her as a bit of a coward, content to let the galaxy bleed as long as she could steal… Yeah, not my most favorite part of the ME3. It could have been handled in a different way but alas, spotty characterization. Who knew it could happen in a video game? :/
Vasir/Delcor/Broker parts were all building up to what we’re going to see in the next couple chapters so I’ll just say that they’re good and did what they were designed to do. Marching orders from the superiors and creating good plot points to be exploited in the future. Essentially, setting the stage.
This is a bit Off Topic as the thread is about the latest chapter but I thought the title Vengeful Iron Sunset rang some bells.
So I checked the Officer Edition file and lo and behold:
Vengeful: rescue operations
Iron: no retreat authorized. Can be any posture but units are to fight to the last ship and last man.
Sunset: planetary invasion or insertion
So yeah.
Something tells me the Liara/Sara second edition of their relationship won’t be as smooth as the first. The recriminations alone will be horrible and given how Shepard thinks and acts when confronted with somebody who killed innocents, or just prayed on them…
Sara: I died and you decided to become a terrorist.
Liara: You have no right to judge me.
Fun, fun, fun.
I’m really interested how the Council and the various powers that make Citadel Space will deal with the Broker vs SoV war on Illium.
The SA admirals already suspect the SoV, Archangel, Butcher are all connected somehow.
And we can’t forget the Collectors.
I confess Aria’s call to her mother caught me off guard but in a positive way. The interaction between them had enough tension to convey the bad blood between them without degenerating into name calling.
Seeing them working together and in close proximity would certainly be fun.
I’m less thrilled about the scenes taking place on Shepard’s base station. They weren’t the most engaging. Except for the bits and pieces where TIM passed on some interesting information about the events on Illium.
I’m not so sure about Tazzik buying it. I remember something about the Broker saying they would fake it or some such. I don’t remember rightly.
10)
In regards to the tenth answer Himura – only one word: anti-matter.
Debatable. There was this chapter in the first story where Shepard and Normandy take out Cerberus base and Harper sabotages the M/AM warheads – magnetic bottles – resulting in Florez and Richard Williams, among others, get a nice dose of hard rads.
I always took it as to mean anti-matter presented a problem of contaminating area when used to trigger detonations.
From the opening quote for the OSABC: Lions:
[…]We may disagree with the politics of Saracino, the rogue actions of Chu, the violent rejection and slaughter at the end by Kyle. We may curse Yonis Chu for his actions at Arotaht with the batarian relay. Many, I suspect, have already cursed Ahern for beating them into the ground during training.[…]
I think we can guess that it’ll be Chu and not Shepard who pulls the trigger on the Alpha Relay in the Premiverse. In any case, canon variant of the events was yet another example of rank-A stupidity and poor storytelling. To say nothing how that plot point was handled in the ME3 and its opening scene and dialog with Anderson which had me sitting almost slack-jawed in front my screen, listening in mild disbelief at the exchange between Shepard and Anderson and then later the Admiralty board, or whatever that was supposed to be.
It was so bad that at first I almost completely missed Ashley ‘I had a Beverly Hills makeover’ Williams and am considering career in the porn industry.
I agree with you that this particular mission should have been handled by someone else than Shepard. Moreover, I’ll add that Hackett was often used as something of a toxic uncle in the story. First we have the debacle with Kyle in canon which pretty much translates to Shepard being little than a glorified trouble-shooter. I’m sure we have something in the ME2 involving Hackett but I can’t remember. Then of course we have the Alpha Relay BS as a personal favor to the ‘more trouble than he’s worth’ Hackett.
I also loved his speech about hitting the Reapers where they aren’t expecting it he drew for Shepard in ME3. It was weak and cringe-worthy.
/rant end.
I feel better now. ^_^
I’m going to add a few questions.
6) Human currency
We know that Credit is the official e-currency of Citadel Space but does it extend to encompass the entirety of human economy and has it replaced Dollar, Euro, Pound Stirling on Earth?
7) Salarian insurrection against the SIX
What are the chances of a salarian civil war erupting before the arrival of the Reapers in the galaxy? From the files unveiled by Kasumi we know elements of asari clans and salarian SIX are angling to deprive the Thirty of their patsies, humanity, by engineering tensions between humans and asari.
What if the Thirty turned the tables on the SIX and engineered a short, brutal(to the point of horrifying of the rest of the galaxy) uprising against the SIX by other elements of the Salarian Union(clans, families pretty much everyone but the big SIX gearing up and doing a fair impression of torches and pitchforks)?
Given how insidious asari spies are I wouldn’t put it past them to be aware what Dalatrass Solus is plotting. The leak could come from asari Clans as gathered by asari inverted sleeper agents instead of someone on the salarian side spilling the beans.
8) President Windsor making a come back like a boss
How defanged is this guy really? I know his daughter has a cortex bomb but he never struck me as someone who would leave debts unpaid and scores unsettled.
9) Does the SA posses the Office of Naval Intelligence or does the SAIS cover all their bases?
Humans loves their Secretive agencies, does the SA have more in their cap than just the SAIS and Black outfits like Cerberus and later Hades? Or is everything rolled up into SAIS?
10) IDK how well versed you’re with the Neon Genesis Evangelion but NGE had several pieces of interesting hardware
One of such is the N2 mine
http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/N%C2%B2_Technology
Does the SA posses something like that or its equivalent to use on the surface of Earth or their colonies without risking fallout contamination or dust in the atmo after a kinetic bombardment?
http://logicalpremise.org/?topic=open-questions-ask-them-here
Third to last post in that thread has LP answering a question about the FCW and general outlook of the participants on that conflict and its resolution.
@Mr.Green: You rise a very good point with the first question. I’ve scratched my head a few times, thinking about that.
Rasa and Brooks are sisters. (Remember that LP tries to patch as many plot holes as he can. In canon they were they were the same person. In Premiverse they are sisters and Brooks killed their mother.)
I think it’s Pel who notes that cold bitch that she is Brooks would still slit the throat of anyone threatening Rasa. It’s in one of the Files – I think.
I also think someone said that Brooks can assume roles as are needed for Cerberus. A good actress, obviously. Something between a social butterfly if needed and a identity chameleon.
That’s nice. The Saren bit, I mean. I half-expected the Palavanus to claim his corpse and maybe even some Sprit shenanigans.
Here’s a thought. How many units like Benezia and Saren could the Reapers field? Because either of them was a game changer.
The Reapers are Broken power-wise and the Old Ones even more so. Sahu noted the SA suspects that the batarians have access to that kind of technology – which plays into the whole bait and switch with batarians and their overlords. I don’t want to speculate wildly here are the Old Ones lacing batarian population with that kind of tech in preparation for the Reapers?
Likewise, the Hanar Ascendency has fought at least two Wars of Refusal over Protehan technology and their resistance to sharing what they know with the asari and salarians.
Look at the balls on those jellyfishes. And here I thought they were nothing but freaky fetish accessories spawned by a mind of some otaku working on ME1. Kidding.
I would really like to hear more about the 2 WoR. Sounds interesting in it self. What did the hanar have that the salarians and the asari wanted so much? Some beacon? Prothean shuttle? A life pod with a dead leaf-head?
Agents (like Spectres) often do find buildups, but increasingly Aria and the Terminus systems are making money by accepting raw resources to build ships for separtists, terrorists, independant types who want to found wildcats, etc. It’s not so easy to shut the docks down at Omega.
Maybe if the asari stopped dragging their heels and got to work, the Aria situation could be resolved a long time ago. As it is the longer she lives the more dangerous and competent she becomes. I wonder if anyone will ever call Tevos on that or just blows the news that Aria is Thana’s child to the media and let the circus spiral out and see what happens. Maybe Hades could do it?
