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I am not even sure, what forced me to ask these things. Guess its that time of the week again.
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1) Why did humans, get the short end of the biological stick?
(In that regard, I mean – why are humans biologically inferior to the current races? I’ve read, what the Cerberus Files, and some other ‘racial benefits’ of the others.)
As it is currently, humans could once long ago ‘chase down their prey, until it simply croaked’. Nowadays, we have lost that – but we were the #1 on the food chain, because despite being a dinner on legs, we got had guns and brains to kill our predator-dinners.
Now Earth being a spicy cesspool – we got mutant zerg-dogs running around. And mosquito-mutalisks. And don’t even mention the slug-larva either.
Now around the Galaxy, we don’t have the better guns either or better brains. This gives the vibe, that humans are literally walking dinners on legs currently – or is that my opinion.
Since Turians can outrun us, claw us, and can hear our ‘heartbeats’ – asari got ‘jedi sense’ and biotics – salarians can matrix our butts to dust – even the Volus, I read can smash our spine, and they are usually the butt-jokes.
I am wondering, if we have some other biological thing over the rest of the races. Or are we simply ‘too stupid to die, and dying in the most stupid ways possible’.
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2) What is the damn deal with those Dreadnoughts?
(Sure, they got big guns, big armor and big shields. But it has been said – they are sitting ducks usually. The Treaty of Farixen, stated these big ships were limited due to their ‘op-firepower in the Krogan Rebellions’)
(And I ask why? They can orbital bombard a planet? So can a cruiser, and there isn’t a limit to making those – they are cheaper too and more quickly made. Bioware, never explained it why – Dreadnoughts are limited ‘because’….)
So what is the deal, with the Treaty of Farixen, in the PremiseVerse?
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3) What made Kai Leng, what he is?
Nobody has given us the ‘look into chest’ – on why Kai Leng grew up to be such, a badass. You mainly mentioned riots, and at some point he exclaimed ‘fuck it all, lets play universal blender’.
This guy, has so much potential – that he was simply wasted in ME3. Plus, he so totally could and should have been a teammate in ME2.
So what’s the deal-o with Mr. Ninja?
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4) Why does the Council have a ‘AI-kill-it-kill-it’ fetish?
(This kinda made my head scratch in canon; and after having read through several fanfictions. I never, ever got – a simple answer on why the Council disliked and almost forbid research into Artifical Intelligence. A few tried to explain this, yet their answers made the Council look like a bunch of kids – not worth the effort either)
(This attitude, couldn’t have cometh from the Morning War as I read – that the Quarians were ‘accused of making illegal AI’s’. So something before-hand, must have happened or similar)
The question, being why. They are useful, and better than VI’s by a big leap. But what is the score in the PremiseVerse? AI research is ‘allowed’ in a few places, as I’ve read – but mostly I haven’t seen anybody big, openly reserach into AI’s.
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(One for the lulz-factor, xD)
5) Why are there no pets?
Its the 22nd century people. Have dogs and cats gone extinct? Why is it, that the only pets we might see are handled by krogans and are usually – either varren or pyjaks?
I can’t assume either, that humanity yolo-swagged all pets and animals out of Earth. I mean, we do have a space-cow, who steals your credits…
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6) How did Premise!Cerberus and its bases, fall so rapidly in OSABC?
(Why did Cerberus manage to elude the Council and Shadow Broker, STG and Spectres – so well. And then when Shepard’ says ‘lets kill them all’ – they Council says ‘meh’ and then rapes every Cerberus base off the Galaxy. Including MinuteMan Station – which was supposed to hidden until ME3)
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1) Why did humans, get the short end of the biological stick?
There are two main reasons, one in-story and one out of story.
The out of story reason is that I hate the whole “Humanity, fuck yeah” thing with a passion. I hate stories where you have aliens who’ve been in space since humans were fucking around with swords and yet we catch up to them technologically in no time at all and then surpass them easily. I’m also sick of making humans out to be special.
In both physical and mental terms, humanity has three advantages: First, we are far, far better at improvising and adapting technology, or the creative use of technology, than most other races. Second, humans are the most resistant to indoctrination out of any of the Premiseverse races. Third, human can survive on less food and water, and under higher levels of pollution, than other races.
These things will be very valuable when the Reapers come.
2) What is the damn deal with those Dreadnoughts?
Concentration of firepower, forward basing and psychology.
The cruiser and heavy cruiser are actually the main killing power for most massed fleets, but only so many ships can transition a relay at one time, and with drift comes the chance of collision or emerging from a relay inside another ship. A dreadnought carries enough firepower and armor that no single ship of the line or even group of ships can take it out in the time it can hold the relay steady for other ships of the line to show up.
DN’s also carry specialized facilities and equipment smaller ships don’t have space for — asari and salarian DN’s carry ship repair facilities, turian DNs carry Palavanus-manned medical clinics and spirit shrines, human DNs carry large amounts of fighters, etc. They also carry staggering amounts of both supplies and generation equipment, specialized C4I gear, etc. They can therefore act as forward mobile bases, supply depots and repair facilities.
Finally, dreadnoughts are psychologically powerful. Most of them were modeled after the huge ships the Hanar fielded in the very first combat they had with the asari and salarians, and the images and impact that had stuck with the races. The refit and creation of the Destiny Ascension also played a role.
The Treaty of Fairaxen was mostly put in place to give the turians the feeling they were ‘important’ or in charge. Salarians and asari focus much more on crusers than dreadnoughts, and so giving up an advantage in that regard didn’t mean much. It also allowed them to cripple the military forces of associate races to the point where none could hope to build enough military power (in DNs’) to perform a rapid decapitation strike on the Citadel.
3) What made Kai Leng, what he is?
I can’t answer that question yet, Dave.
4) Why does the Council have a ‘AI-kill-it-kill-it’ fetish?
They have had several scares, but when I get around to writing up the Salarian stuff on the Group of Zero this will make more sense. To put it shortly, AI + nanotech + lots of unmonitored stars off the beaten path = Von Neuman machine nightmare.
The Geth were not the first time they’d been threatened by AI, as both salarian and turian experiments with it went out of control and threatened their races.
5) Why are there no pets?
Because I am a shit writer and have not included any in the story. They exist (well, cats do. Most dogs … did not survive. Rabbits are actually the most common house pet on Sol.)
6) How did Premise!Cerberus and its bases, fall so rapidly in OSABC?
The AIS knew of some. The STG knew of some. The Shadow Broker knew of some. The Shifter knew of some. All of this data was combined and Cerberus, despite its cell structure, did not maintain good information security at some of the Iron and Shadow facilities.
But when you think further, there is only one person inside Cerberus who could have benefited from the destruction of most of the organizations physical assets and the death or removal of The Shadow Hand and the Iron General, and it wasn’t Jack Harper.
Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.
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