Correct me if I’m not remembering correctly LP.

I don’t remember when/where LP told me this, might have been a PM, but the Council races did learn the lesson the USA didn’t learn in Vietnam. Just because you can take territory doesn’t mean you have the political will, manpower, and resources to hold it.

I guess that why the Council don’t feel the need to crush the Terminus Systems or the Turian Separatists anymore. They don’t want their enemies to become united or powerful but they don’t care to enforce their direct rule and why should they when they have a stranglehold on tech, heavy industry, and shipbuilding.

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Stop stealing my idea =D.

And I believe he asked about the Rachni Invasion. I am been also wondering, how did the Terminus System rise in power – when it likely got steam-rolled and nomed at by the Rachni.

As I also recalled, weren’t those Separtists funded by Asari or Salarian black-ops?

I will reply on these questions tomorrow at work, but I want to make one thing clear:

Monomolecular edged weapons are extremely difficult to get, dangerous to even touch (much less use) and are illegal almost everywhere. Given that they can cut through almost anything except warp swords and elcor meteorplate armor, they’re the assassins choice for weapons.

Remembrance Dancers use them alot, along with every other dirty trick in the book. Richard William’s pet psychopath assassin also uses one.

Himura wrote:

Could we get a quick overview of the First Krogan Rebellion? Losses in lives, the number of destroyed planets and what was the general aftermath of the conflict.

I plan to start making a stab at writing up the krogan pretty soon, but in general it goes like this.

When the Rachni were crushed, the krogan had suffered tremendous losses. Most of their Loresingers, Shaman and tribal leaders were dead, and their places taken by young, willful krogan.

The leader of the Urdnot at the time (Wrex’s great grand-dad) was, for a krogan, something of a visionary. The krogan had been given a handful of worlds in thanks for their defeat of the Rachni, but all of them were poorly suited to krogan life. Furthermore, with the exception of whatever Okeer was doing, the krogan only poorly understood the technology the salarians had given them.

When Okeer figured out what they’d been given in terms of ships, power generation and weapons was more than two centuries out of date, and that not a single garden world had been given to the krogan at all, the Krogan Emperor was infuriated. When the salarians began subtly hinting at taking their ‘rightful due’ from the asari, the STG backed this up by making sure the krogan intercepted the Thirty dismissively planning to keep the krogan at the fringes of Citadel society.

Ultimately, when the krogan acted, the asari and salarians were simply not ready for a fight. Okeer managed to stave off immediate war, but not for long. When war finally broke out, the krogan expected easy and crushing victories.

And they got quite a few. The Asari were (back then) outnumbered by the krogan, even with the losses the krogan had taken in the Rachni Wars, but had a much larger fleet. The krogan acted to cripple them by staging lightning raids against fuel and supply facilties and slinging asteroids into underdefended colonies, killing millions and straining asari logistics to deal with refugees and wounded.

At the same time, the krogan turned a slick trick on the salarians by baiting them into what looked like an ambush attack, allowing the salarians to trap almost a fifth of their fleet. Then the krogan revealed the ships were stuffed full of old nuclear weapons and VI piloting rigs and crashed them into the salarian fleet damaging many and killing a good third of Clan Solus.

The asari had sixteen worlds taken by krogan, and another twenty five destroyed by asteroids or orbital bombardment. Over ten million asari died, and over half a million were taken prisoner and, well, raped and killed.

Salarians only lost a handful of stations, but lost five dreadnoughts and almost seventy percent of their fleet.

When the turians showed up, they managed to fight the krogans off of almost all the captured worlds, and the Palavanus proved far more than a match for the best krogan warlords. Okeer angrily refused to fight, and the mighiest warlord of the time, Urdnot Vael was slaughtered in single melee combat with Praetor Calanxus Palavanus. This shattered krogan morale, and when the STG managed to fuck up their primary fuel refinery and take out their GTS defense networks on Tuchanka, the krogan prepared for a gruesome fight of attrition.

That raged for nine months before the genophage was launched. It took another year of heavy fighting before the krogan surrendered in horror.

The aftermath was pretty ugly. Most of the worlds bombarded by asteroids are still fucked up today, and there are millions of asari who hate krogans with a passion. Ironically, it was Okeer’s influence that kept the asari from simply having the krogans ‘accidented’ in some fashion in the years since the Rebellions.

The Krogan rebelled a second time (the Second Rebellion) when they discovered the gigantic fusion / antimatter bombs placed on Tuchanka by the turians. These Second Rebellions only lasted a year, and ended with horrific krogan casualties, the destruction of their capital city for the most part, and the CDEM building more things to lock the krogan down.

Himura wrote:

3) This one’s been bothering me for a while actually, Ashley sleeping w Kaidan. That’s not only flying in the face of SA regs pertaining fraternization but it also ended up with her becoming pregnant.

How did all that affect her career? She was always very concerned about redeeming the Williams name and proving that they were trustworthy. Yet she ended up sleeping with her immediate superior during a critical mission. And it was hardly a secret, so what happened after the SR-1 got shot down and Ash was left without cover of a friendly Spectre?

I just can’t believe it all went smooth for her. Between the Commissariat, the SA officer cadre and her being a Williams there had to be some serious blow back. To say nothing of the rumors about her getting into OCS on her back.

First, the fact that her kid was a result of a liason with her superior officer was kept quiet by Shepard, who never formally reprimanded Kaiden or Ash. Jiong knew about it but was more distracted at the time and his job was not to enforce military discipline in any case.

As far as the Alliance knows, Williams had a one night stand on the Citadel and got knocked up. She told Kaiden’s parents, of course, but they’ve kept everything very quiet. And Kaisen was born on the Citadel, and Chakwas pulled a few strings to make sure the father’s name was never connected to Alenko.

While it was not exactly a secret, the truth was that after the events of the Benezia Incident, the good word put in by Shepard, and the fact that she was ‘officially’ credited with the kill for Saren mean that no one really looked that hard. And she’s come more to terms with the fact that the Williams name is never going to be ‘redeemed’ in a way that gives her family back what they lost.

She’s been attached to Delacor’s team since he was tapped for Spectre. While they didn’t always get along, Delacor respected Ash’s combat skills and faith immensely, and recommended her promotion twice. Given that Delacor is a morose ass who rarely if ever gave recommendations, and that his coloring is somewhat similar to Kaiden’s, there was an accusation made that he was the father.

Delacor, of course, exploded. Williams exploded. Udina, who had been told the father was a marine who died, was outraged, and the issue was dropped like a hot potato and never brought back up.

She’s gotten lucky. Her luck will run out to some degree if Kaisen ever tries to join the marines, as a genotype test will identify his father very clearly. She hasn’t thought about that yet.

If it were to come out, what would happen would depend very much on existing testimony. IRL, I knew a LtC who was banging an ensign under his command. This didn’t come out until the LtC died over in Iraq. THe ensign was basically told “don’t do that again or we’ll DDC you”

Himura wrote:

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.

There is ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ VR, as well as ‘haptic feedback systems’.

Haptic feedback systems are like what you see at the Armax Arena and at Pinnacle. They are not developed for much beyond combat sims.

‘Weak’ VR uses a VR headset and pressure-generative bodysuit and can be used for a wide array of generally stupid things (porn, entertainment)

‘Strong’ VR requires cybernetic interfaces, and actually hooks directly into the nervous system. From the point of view of the player, the VR is ‘real’. Again, this is mostly used for MMO’s, but some companies use it for remote teleoperation in research as well.

Himura wrote:

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?

There’s six sub-technological (I.E., pre-Atomic) civilizations in the Traverse, and two pre-historical ones. Several have been enslaved by the Terminus groups.

The most interesting of the races would be the ‘puffball’ creatures seen in Fear Unrelenting, which are now entering into the Industrial Age sort of — they don’t have atomic theory but have transitors, and their military is strong enough that enslavement is too much of a pain in the ass.

There’s about ten more prehistoric and eight or nine pre-atomic civs in the rest of the galaxy.

Himura wrote:

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.

The Salarians are the ones pushing siege-mech technology the most right now, along with the elcor. The Elcor do not typically use mechs for combat (most mechs are used as servitors to do things that are hard for the elcor to do … like, with hands) but the elcor have ‘combat forms’ that stand twenty five meters tall.

The Alliance is focused more on upgrading weapons and electronics on their current generation of mechs — they don’t have the technology as of yet to create walker-style combat mechs much bigger than the ATLAS battlesuit.

Himura wrote:

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?

The blade is equipped with a ultrahigh frequency vibrafield, an electrical discharge battery, and (if needed) a kinetic reinforcement field. These three can be swapped out by removing the core of the handle behind the smoke grenades. The first one is useful for piercing heavy armor. The second is designed to destroy mechs. The third allows Leng to even parry warp sword blows.

Himura wrote:

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.

The Harrier in the PremiseVerse is the same OP Harrier seen at the start of ME3 MP. Generally speaking, the Harrier has superior penetration, power, accuracy and heat management than the Avenger or Phaeston. The Phaeston has better range, damage to soft targets, and durability. The Avenger has nothing. 😀

Mr.Green wrote:

I am been also wondering, how did the Terminus System rise in power – when it likely got steam-rolled and nomed at by the Rachni.

The Rachni actually hit through mostly salarian and elcor space, not the Terminus, due to the layout of the mass relays.

Some Rachni did go at the Terminus, which was not very pretty for the Terminus, but when the krogan hit their hiveworlds those rachni were withdrawn for defense.