Brain Droppings 8

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    • #941
      Mr.Green
      Participant

      Glad to see, you back again. So I can satisfy, this brain-itch I have about the series.

      xxx

      1) Starting with Torfan.

      What exactly happened there? From the snippets we’ve gathered. Somebody named General Tyrson, Shepard messed-up with some pretty ass – ‘the wish of the SA’ of messing up the operation and getting the SA more ships. And Dragunov, killing said General.

      Was there some other motive, beside wanting more ships against the Batarians? And, how did Dragunov manage to execute a General so easily – since as I’ve read, all high-ranked military commanders are supposed to be nobles. So wouldn’t Dragunov, have gotten a court-martial for simply killing a General?

      xxx

      2) What is the stint with Mindoir here?

      As it has been written, Mindoir had happened. More, to the scale – that the SA has written of their Officer Edition Manual; that any and all batarians are to get a bullet. And you become more reliable the more batarians you kill.

      So, what the heck did the batarians did to Mindoir?

      xxx

      3) Elysium and Admiral Branson

      Same question here. All the snippets have said – is that Elysium was a honey-trap/fake-glory moment for Branson. And that Branson, is more-so, somekind of puppet for somebody.

      What are Elysium’ skeletons?

      xxx

      4) Dirth

      No information ot this, in canon. Or much on the Cerberus Files.

      What did happen on Dirth? The only information the OSABC has revealed: ‘it might have been a cluster-fuck’, ‘some major fighting happened’, ‘marines went through the meat-grinder as usual and pulled the batarians along with them’ and ‘then victory-statue was erected’.

      xxx

      5) Suggestion: Batarian Squadmate?

      Any ideas or hopes, of Shepard recruiting a batarian as a teammate? Since it has been stated in canon, to gather the best fighters and agents in the Galaxy. So, wouldn’t there be somebody experienced and good among the batarians? Not all of them, could be butt-murdering slavers…right?

      xxx

      6) Speculation: Only Normandy

      Why was it a retarded idea, to only send the Normandy through? It had been stated that the Tartarus Debris Field, would demolish any ship coming through. Unless it had the Reaper IFF – and also added the Relay Drift. Any large fleet would be torn to shreds – so a single ship does seem, workable in theory.

      xxx

      7) Suggestion: Anti-Matter plus Eezo

      What would the result be? If you mixed eezo and anti-matter. Large explosion or nothing?

      There seemed to be some fuel-air-eezo mix bombs around. How do they work in practice? Fuel and air, well we know how those work. But how does the addition of eezo factor into this?

    • #944
      Logical Premise
      Keymaster

      1) Starting with Torfan.

      What exactly happened there? From the snippets we’ve gathered. Somebody named General Tyrson, Shepard messed-up with some pretty ass – ‘the wish of the SA’ of messing up the operation and getting the SA more ships. And Dragunov, killing said General.

      Was there some other motive, beside wanting more ships against the Batarians? And, how did Dragunov manage to execute a General so easily – since as I’ve read, all high-ranked military commanders are supposed to be nobles. So wouldn’t Dragunov, have gotten a court-martial for simply killing a General?

      Mindoir was basically a mess.

      General Tyrson was a very highly placed general who was also involved with certain black projects, specifically ones that were not covered in the Cerberus Files. Tyrson was extremely distrustful of the Citadel Council and felt limited by the funding given to the SA Military and the Treaty of Fairaxen.

      He felt that the SA was too confident in the forces they had, and if he could engineer a crushing defeat that he would be able to pitch the concept that they needed more money and to lift the treaty restrictions.

      Tyrson also hated Preston Kyle, since the woman Kyle married was one that Tyrson wanted, and that Kyle was rising through the ranks so fast after Mindoir.

      Tyrson was ultimately the pawn of several influential figures (no I’m not saying who) that wanted to profiteer from a wider war. They sent in an attack force that was woefully understrength to take out a Fist of Khar’shan base, and then they alerted the batarians to the attack, with a hint that if the batarians could crush the human forces, politically it might make the Alliance back off from the Skillian Verge.

      Tyrson used a woman to distract Shepard, and bribed one of her teammates to turn on her. Shepard ended up killing both, and once the N7s managed to pull off a victory, Tyrson’s nominal allies cleaned up anything that lead to them and threw him to the wolves — i.e. Dragunov.

      Tyrson was not a noble — he achieved his rank via being made a Knight of Grace.

      2) What is the stint with Mindoir here?

      As it has been written, Mindoir had happened. More, to the scale – that the SA has written of their Officer Edition Manual; that any and all batarians are to get a bullet. And you become more reliable the more batarians you kill.

      So, what the heck did the batarians did to Mindoir?

      Mindoir was the very first raid batarians made on humans. They massacred hundreds of children because they felt they were not worth taking captive, same with pregnant women. And they broadcast the shit, thinking it would terrify and cow humanity.

      Kyle tore them apart, along with enraged marines, and that got transmitted too, which resulted in a lot of bad blood as batarians got to see their elite solders getting owned before the propaganda filters in the Hegemony went up.

      3) Elysium and Admiral Branson

      Same question here. All the snippets have said – is that Elysium was a honey-trap/fake-glory moment for Branson. And that Branson, is more-so, somekind of puppet for somebody.

      What are Elysium’ skeletons?

      Elysium was a setup.
      The SA knew the batarians were going to raid the world, and the general in charge was out of favor. They could have easily shattered the raid en route, but instead they allowed it to hit, and then rushed in six DACT units to back up Branson, making him look like a hero despite the fact that the batarians killed thousands.

      As to the why? Branson’s father had discovered the same things Shepard did about Victor Manswell and had blackmail material.

      4) Dirth

      No information ot this, in canon. Or much on the Cerberus Files.

      What did happen on Dirth? The only information the OSABC has revealed: ‘it might have been a cluster-fuck’, ‘some major fighting happened’, ‘marines went through the meat-grinder as usual and pulled the batarians along with them’ and ‘then victory-statue was erected’.

      That’s pretty much it, except that the SA wanted to write off colonists and Shepard wouldn’t do that.

      5) Suggestion: Batarian Squadmate?

      Any ideas or hopes, of Shepard recruiting a batarian as a teammate? Since it has been stated in canon, to gather the best fighters and agents in the Galaxy. So, wouldn’t there be somebody experienced and good among the batarians? Not all of them, could be butt-murdering slavers…right?

      Not … likely.

      6) Speculation: Only Normandy

      Why was it a retarded idea, to only send the Normandy through? It had been stated that the Tartarus Debris Field, would demolish any ship coming through. Unless it had the Reaper IFF – and also added the Relay Drift. Any large fleet would be torn to shreds – so a single ship does seem, workable in theory.

      It’s retarded for a couple of reasons. First, no one could have known about the debris field before they went through, so planning for that would have made zero sense.

      Second, it assumes the Collectors did not put up any static defenses around the relay. Which would be pretty stupid on their part. If you have one ship and its taken down by defenses on the way in, now what?

      Finally, and most importantly: You’ve spent billions on bringing back the dead and gathered up some of the most impressive fighters in the galaxy in a one-shot attempt to take out the Collector HQ…and you send them in BLIND? With no recon? No attempt to replicate the IFF and send in a probe? No backup?

      No military commander would go along with that plan.

      7) Suggestion: Anti-Matter plus Eezo

      What would the result be? If you mixed eezo and anti-matter. Large explosion or nothing?

      There seemed to be some fuel-air-eezo mix bombs around. How do they work in practice? Fuel and air, well we know how those work. But how does the addition of eezo factor into this?

      Eezo wouldn’t really react any differently than any other matter, big boom.

      Fuel-air-eezo explosives work because they use eezo to power compression fields. The fuel is supercompressed and when the bomb goes off, the eezo detonates and releases the fields. The rapid expansion means a higher fuel air mix and a much more powerful explosion that also scatters eezo contamination everywhere.

      Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

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