Interrogative Verification 2

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    • #1332
      Daniel
      Blocked

      Even though i’m still waiting for the complete answer in the first, i decided to post this anyway.

      1. NGO powers

      This applies to the Mercenaries and Megacorps. How did they get away from government scrutiny, i mean… governments wouldn’t want organization outside their sphere with that much influence(militarily and economically). Take the Megacorps for example, aren’t antitrust laws supposed to keep them in a leash?

      So… why did the governments permit their existence?

      2. Red Sand

      What does it do exactly? All we know is that it’s the contemporary cocaine.

      3. Leviathan power struggle?

      Given how every single Ascended bore a god-complex so much that they stopped reproducing to hoard power, how come the entire race didn’t descend into a… cataclysmic FFA for the title of ‘true’ god?

      4. Thrall races

      Being able to do virtually anything without effort, why bother with having other races serving them and giving ‘tribute’. From what i can garner from Fear Unrelenting, all races evolved from Itharian lifeforms seeded by them on countless planets.

      Is it because they’re downright lazy or just overwhelmingly egoistic to be worshiped?

      This makes me wonder what would they do if they actually did meet ‘alien’ lifeforms, particularly if on-par with their god-like status.

      5. Jack’s friends

      Being the main reason why Jack Harper became TIM in the first place, how did they die enough to change a man. The only thing i know is that both of them perished brutally over the course of the FCW.

      PS: Can anyone tell me what to use (along with the format) in placing a quote at the end of each post.

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      Banned.

    • #1334
      Logical Premise
      Keymaster

      1. NGO powers

      This applies to the Mercenaries and Megacorps. How did they get away from government scrutiny, i mean… governments wouldn’t want organization outside their sphere with that much influence(militarily and economically). Take the Megacorps for example, aren’t antitrust laws supposed to keep them in a leash?

      So… why did the governments permit their existence?

      Mercs and Megacorps have very different beginnings.

      Mercenary security companies were originally brought into being by the salarians, who had a long history of experts selling themselves to the highest bidder. Asari maidens were quick to join up looking for adventure, and while the krogan were extant before the Rebellions, they too added cachet and drama to mercs.

      Mercenaries had to (and still have to) apply to the Citadel for licensing, as well as the governments of the space they wish to operate in.

      The primary reason for their growth was twofold. First, military forces were strictly limited in activities beyond their own borders, and were ‘official’ in nature — merc groups were deniable in who hired them. Most merc work was carried out in support of mega corps, separatists and revolutionaries, and governments who wanted to keep things quiet.

      Bigger mercenary corporations didn’t really evolve until the formation of Azure’s Kiss, an asari outcast group based in Omega. At first derided as criminals, they worked very hard to establish legitimate business contacts on Ilium and Vol Prime. Eclipse followed shortly thereafter, using a different model of ‘chapters’ with loose obedience to Jona Sederis usually shaped by the ‘co-founder- of the time period, which was always her lover — when one died she ‘remade’ the organization with a new one.

      Megacorps evolved organically from the need to have independent legal enclaves when interacting with highly alien species, and extraterritoriality to protect certain government actions. They were primarily a focus of the Volus, and the turians copied them like they did in most things financial. Asari megacorps are almost non-existant outside of Ilium, as most large concerns are run by ‘councils’ (like the Armali Council with weapons, or Serrice Council with bio amps) that combine clan and Thirty together.

      Earth megacorps were given a pass by the Manswells, who wanted the richest and most powerful individuals on the planet outside of the Lords of Sol to back them and their endeavors.

      2. Red Sand

      What does it do exactly? All we know is that it’s the contemporary cocaine.

      Red sand is a substance that provides a euphoric high, amplifies both the power and stability of biotics, denudes ionic discharge channels in the nervous system to make cooldowns almost zero, and provides a baseline biotic field boost to strength and speed. It can make a non-biotic a weak demibiotic for a short time, or turn a powerful biotic into a nightmare.

      Red sand CAN be used by the otherwise non biotic elcor, but does nothing for hanar except make them very ill.

      3. Leviathan power struggle?

      Given how every single Ascended bore a god-complex so much that they stopped reproducing to hoard power, how come the entire race didn’t descend into a… cataclysmic FFA for the title of ‘true’ god?

      There were two main reasons. The first is that the most powerful of the Leviathans, the All-Highest, literally held that position. He was at least twenty or thirty times as strong as the next nearest competitor, and he had organized society into a tier of pantheons. Each Ascended was a ‘god’ of a specific aspect that concerned them.

      The second reason is that the Ascended did not have any instinct to fight one another, aside from in their very ancient days feeding on elders too large to support their own weight before they became gods. Ascended were linked by a psionic network of incredible complexity and power.

      A third, lesser reason is most of them were simply too busy to pay much attention to other Ascended. Aside from the moratorium on having offspring — which they planned to rescind as soon as their experiment had succeeded — the Ascended despised limits and laws…and were adept at placing themselves in positions where interactions were limited.

      4. Thrall races

      Being able to do virtually anything without effort, why bother with having other races serving them and giving ‘tribute’. From what i can garner from Fear Unrelenting, all races evolved from Itharian lifeforms seeded by them on countless planets.

      Is it because they’re downright lazy or just overwhelmingly egoistic to be worshiped?

      This makes me wonder what would they do if they actually did meet ‘alien’ lifeforms, particularly if on-par with their god-like status.

      Their egoism was incredibly titanic, to be sure. And they had a huge taste for being worshipped.

      They were the first life that developed, and on occasion they ran across true non-Ilthorian life (silicon based in several instances). Anything with potential for Godpower they destroyed utterly, in some cases incinerating entire galaxies in sheer rage at the effrontery of something daring to evolve to counter them.

      5. Jack’s friends

      Being the main reason why Jack Harper became TIM in the first place, how did they die enough to change a man. The only thing i know is that both of them perished brutally over the course of the FCW.

      Basically, Desolus used them to get Jacks’ insurgents to surrender. Then he killed them. Then the SA used a hidden tracking beacon to blow up Desolus’s camp and blew the fuck out of the bodies.

      Eva Core was Jacks’ fiance and pregnant with his child. Ben was his best friend, and the woman who’d helped raise him was also killed.

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

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