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It’s a bit late but something just struck me.
The whole thing in the last chapter was a bit too clean. Very sanitized and neat and way too scholarly. Where are the blood, guts, madness and indignation at what is being done on Makana, I ask?
I mean, salarians are a sneaky, vicious bunch of TURBOnasty LGMs.
What we should have seen there were some aliens other than vorcha. We should have seen asari and human and turian thorian creepers.
To be honest, I think if the situations were reversed and the humans got their hands on another thorian you would show how monstrous humans were in accommodating the thing.
Vorcha are just a step above from farm animals. Using them as creepers just doesn’t convey the same HOLYFUCK! factor as using some reader-friendly races.
I know(from reading the reviews) that you have been ‘accused’ of slamming humanity, coming precariously close bashing. That’s mostly because of Sara being such a unreliable narrator. She likes to pontificate a bit too much about what should and how things should be while holding the SA to a higher standard than is possible with the current state of galactic affairs. Goddamn double standards.
Anyway, I just think you should spread the stink to other races and show it plainly to the readers. Especially those too lazy to take a look at the supplementary files you’ve included.
Just my two cents. But comparing the Feros and Eingana Thorian messes with what we have seen on Makana is like comparing the Nightmare on Elm Street with Teletubbies. Entirely too tame.
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I would say that the main reason I haven’t shown more up to this point is that Shepard and Co haven’t been in areas to see it, and that is one thing I plan to do a lot of in TWCD.
But as far as the Makana Tho’ian goes, the salarians keep the experimental stuff in experimental areas, and did a bit of ‘cleaning up’ to keep things out of the eyes of what they consider a bleeding-heart in the person of Mordin. They are mostly experimenting with asari bought as slaves, but have done some work with cybernetically augmented turians as well.
But in another sense, the main reason the vorcha are the primary fodder is that they lack useful skills. The Tho’ians absorb everything their thralls know, after all, and the salarians are being exceedingly cautious.
However you raise a good point. I need to think of areas where I can show this more clearly. I had planned to have Ripper expound on some of the things the Hierarhcy did that drove him to Omega in the first place, as well as stories from Mordin and some of the things Liara finds out from Aria.
Ideas where I can add more details?
Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.
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We have had a lot of talk about salarians working some drug that would completely sterilizes humanity. Maybe show us the on of their of shore research centers for this? Mordin seems like the perfect fit for that kind of project.
Maybe let Shepard bust out a research center where the Salarians are experimenting on Asari? Hell, you can easily make up a reason why Sara would have to bust it. Maybe some kind of obscure docter in some kind of specialty? Or maybe have a Asari that is working with the Salarians, that Shepard needs because of her skill set. It would also be a easy out as far as getting to know shit about the things the Asari do.
That’s my 2 cents on it.
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They are mostly experimenting with asari bought as slaves, but have done some work with cybernetically augmented turians as well.
And we should see it. See how they fit asari ad turian prisoners with cortex chips so they are docile. Vivisections. Not treating them like sentients beings but like one treats cattle or monkey in lab tests. Make us feel disgusted with the Salarian Union. Make us want to see them fail an pay for their hubris. Show us that they regard every other race as inferior to them and living only because the salarians haven’t yet found a way to discreetly destroy it. They’re a bunch of psycho aliens ruled by fear.
The STG shore lab on Sur’kesh we saw in ME3 was kinda tame, too. Yeah, we saw how dirty the salarians were. What with covertly uplifting the Yahg and thinking about using varren as germ warfare carrier platform. But it all got drowned in the krogan affair and Cerberus making an appearance(And can I just say how much canon Cerberus was pissing me off with their rank stupidity?).
Show us salarians testing bio-weapons on captured humans and making calm notes about how fast some nerve gas or viloent and fast acting nano-plague works and having to make adjustments so it’s even more effective. Give us a scene where a dalatrass is shown, viewing a recording where a human is subjected to some air-dispersal carcinogenic substance and literally being consumed by the tumors within minutes, and her remarking that this is a step in the right direction if they ever have to pacify humanity before moving against the asari. It has to hit us when we read that.
Everybody on the Council readily jumped at the chance to shit on humanity about Cerberus. When in fact Flores and Williams were really patriots who got shafted and maybe became too extreme and too blinded in pursuits of their goals. Were they dirty? Of course. Crazy? Probably. Were they wrong about asari and salarians and turians being out to get humanity when no one was looking? Kinda yeah and that’s the tragedy of the whole situation. They were the products of the time they were living and grew up. Muddy the waters. None of this Sara Shepard: here is the line. They are the evil guys and over there are the good, just and right beings. That’s premium social justice warrior BS philosophy at its worst. Fortunately, by the time the marriage rolled by Shepard was finally seeing the galaxy for what it was and not what she wanted it to be.
However you raise a good point. I need to think of areas where I can show this more clearly. I had planned to have Ripper expound on some of the things the Hierarhcy did that drove him to Omega in the first place, as well as stories from Mordin and some of the things Liara finds out from Aria.
Exactly, show us Aria bitchslapping verbally Liara by disclosing some damning knowledge about the Republics – maybe even Benezia and Aethyta(who casually called Lidanya a clanless trash right before meeting Anderson about the impending wedding and getting into his face about Sara. That was such a: hello, hypocrisy moment.). Something that can’t be refuted. Go further and have Liara grudgingly agree with the Pirate Queen because of the things she saw about the asari society during her work as a information broker and assassin.
And those can’t be fairly sanitized and clean cut events like bankrupting some turian or human company. They have to be stomach turning actions taken by the Republics for no other reason than simply because they can.
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