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[cannedcream]

Azint wrote...

She is the most responsible one on the Admiralty Board, or so what was revealed. Daro'Xen wants to reclaim the geth as property, she wants them to become a labor force again because she believes that is the right of the quarian people. Daro'Xen is proud of her peoples engineering and technological prowess, her concerns are on restoring their titles and respect. While she is restricted by her role as an Admiral, she takes her job seriously and is considerate of what is best for the Fleet. She actually is the one most capable of keeping her own views seperate from her role, Shala'Raan is yet to reveal her own views.

I think Shala is going to be quite the X factor for the fate of the quarian people in ME3.

[RiptideX1090]

Azint wrote...

Lividity Jones wrote...

Alright... I'm starting to re-think this whole Xen business.

She's a seriously tough one to read.

She gives absolutely no ground as to her motivations.

Rannoch or the Flotilla doesn't even come into the equation. Only the geth seem to matter.

She is the most responsible one on the Admiralty Board, or so what was revealed. Daro'Xen wants to reclaim the geth as property, she wants them to become a labor force again because she believes that is the right of the quarian people. Daro'Xen is proud of her peoples engineering and technological prowess, her concerns are on restoring their titles and respect. While she is restricted by her role as an Admiral, she takes her job seriously and is considerate of what is best for the Fleet. She actually is the one most capable of keeping her own views seperate from her role, Shala'Raan is yet to reveal her own views.

This. Use what you know. Add pretense, motive, caricature, twist and mold what was into what has become.

[Azint]

RiptideX1090 wrote...

Azint wrote...

RiptideX1090 wrote...

Right. So I think I got it right.

Don't make me relive Geometry...

Sorry.

Don't be.

It's just... I don't want the migrane...

"Nummers hurt mah brane?"

[Lividity Jones]

Azint wrote...

She is the most responsible one on the Admiralty Board, or so what was revealed. Daro'Xen wants to reclaim the geth as property, she wants them to become a labor force again because she believes that is the right of the quarian people. Daro'Xen is proud of her peoples engineering and technological prowess, her concerns are on restoring their titles and respect. While she is restricted by her role as an Admiral, she takes her job seriously and is considerate of what is best for the Fleet. She actually is the one most capable of keeping her own views seperate from her role, Shala'Raan is yet to reveal her own views.

So she gets the entire geth collective under her heel and then...

What?

Carve a bloody swathe through the galaxy?

Rebuild Rannoch?

[awpdevil]

I know this might be treason against Miranda for doing this, but I just had to link this for you tali fans. This is the funniest damn me2 video I have seen yet. Don't be put off by the title, it does involve tali.

[Azint]

Lividity Jones wrote...

So she gets the entire geth collective under her heel and then...

What?

Carve a bloody swathe through the galaxy?

Rebuild Rannoch?

That is not revealed. What is obvious though is that she wants the quarian people to reclaim what was lost to them, not necesarrily Rannoch but their capabilities. The geth are simply the most obvious factor.

[RiptideX1090]

Lividity Jones wrote...

Azint wrote...

She is the most responsible one on the Admiralty Board, or so what was revealed. Daro'Xen wants to reclaim the geth as property, she wants them to become a labor force again because she believes that is the right of the quarian people. Daro'Xen is proud of her peoples engineering and technological prowess, her concerns are on restoring their titles and respect. While she is restricted by her role as an Admiral, she takes her job seriously and is considerate of what is best for the Fleet. She actually is the one most capable of keeping her own views seperate from her role, Shala'Raan is yet to reveal her own views.

So she gets the entire geth collective under her heel and then...

What?

Carve a bloody swathe through the galaxy?

Rebuild Rannoch?

That's open to interpretation, isn't it?

So. What are you waiting for? Interpret! Unless you want our opinions on the matter.

[Lividity Jones]

Azint wrote...

Lividity Jones wrote...

So she gets the entire geth collective under her heel and then...

What?

Carve a bloody swathe through the galaxy?

Rebuild Rannoch?

That is not revealed. What is obvious though is that she wants the quarian people to reclaim what was lost to them, not necesarrily Rannoch but their capabilities. The geth are simply the most obvious factor.

"What was lost to them" is a ****ing huge range of possibilities.

Once I understand her motivations here and now, I can chart a course from where she was.

I just don't see this magnificent plan she has been constructing for who knows how long.

[Wolf Warden]

cannedcream wrote...

Wolf Warden wrote...


I don't like to see Quarians die...even ****s like Prazza.  There are so few of them left that it seems much more devestating to the species each time one dies...like in the Freedom's Progress fights.  The robot really went to town.

*edit* looks like the censorship Gnomes got me

That's one of the reasons why it would be so hard.

Hmm. . . if there was a antagonist quarian and you fought through the level to get to him or her, what do you think Tali would say about it? Would she agree to killing one of her own species if it had to be done or do you think she would try and talk Shepard out of doing it?

Quarians don't practice captial punishment in their society...there aren't enough left.  I think she would ask Shepard to spare him - unless he was REALLY bad then it woudl be death.  It would have to be Saren bad or something.

One thing I always thought was interesting was that to get back to the Flotilla, pilgrimage Quarians get two code/poems one gets the home, the other is used when returning under duress/hostage and it results in the fleet destroying the broadcasting code/poem.  That is the only form of capital "punishment" and it is more for the greater good.  

Still, I can just imagine....

Batarian Terrorist: Do it!  Say the damn code so we can get in!

Young Quarian: *in a shaky and mournful voice*  From shores of the void through the light of stars, the thanks of the people for sacrafice eternal shall never be silenced....

Quarian Security Gunner: Understood Fenn'Tal nar Kyra...we're sorry.

[RiptideX1090]

awpdevil wrote...

I know this might be treason against Miranda for doing this, but I just had to link this for you tali fans. This is the funniest damn me2 video I have seen yet. Don't be put off by the title, it does involve tali.

Genius.

[Azint]

Lividity Jones wrote...

"What was lost to them" is a ****ing huge range of possibilities.

Once I understand her motivations here and now, I can chart a course from where she was.

I just don't see this magnificent plan she has been constructing for who knows how long.

Well I already simplified her angle for you, that is all I can do for you. What you write is now up to you to decide on your own. You are asking us for things that have not been revealred yet, what do you expect from us?

[Azint]

RiptideX1090 wrote...

awpdevil wrote...

I know this might be treason against Miranda for doing this, but I just had to link this for you tali fans. This is the funniest damn me2 video I have seen yet. Don't be put off by the title, it does involve tali.

Genius.

Meh.

[Lividity Jones]

Azint wrote...

Well I already simplified her angle for you, that is all I can do for you. What you write is now up to you to decide on your own. You are asking us for things that have not been revealred yet, what do you expect from us?

Nothing...

I'm sorry.

I'm thinking out loud.

Or in text.

Or whatever applies here.

[NuclearBuddha]

RiptideX1090 wrote...

NuclearBuddha wrote...

“Tali!” I finally look up at Prazza, my finger already on the button. My wrist burns as I unleash the hacked guns. “Those solutions are all wrong!”

I turn back to the console in horror. The equations swim in front of my eyes, every detail mocking me. Was my error here? There? My suit feels unbearably hot. I’m dizzy. Squinting, I force everything into focus. No. No… the solutions are correct. Prazza’s the one making panicky mistakes. And it’s too late anyway.

Two of the hacked ships fail to fire. Another shreds itself, ancient systems coming apart under the load. Three more take so long to charge that the firing solution is completely useless. The rest, well, they work fine. Turian engineering: I hate to admit my respect.

The first two hits flash into vapor on Viatrix’s barriers. The third blows an enormous cloud of spall from the hull, showing the shields are down already. Kinetic barriers have come a long way, apparently. Number four hits the exact same spot as the previous, followed by numbers five and six. Those two exit the other side. A waste of accuracy. We’re close enough to detect individual cooling bodies blowing out of the breaches.

The next three are grouped tight on the stern for some reason, knocking the ship on its axis. Stunningly, no breach. Damn, but they armored up back then. The next two probably would have blown the stern wide open, but they’re just glancing blows as the hulk rotates. Either way, it’s not going anywhere now.

The next clips the vessel’s chin, tearing a compartment off wholesale, and the last two drill it in the front quarter, going in deep at an angle. The Viatrix lists, bleeding vapor, and someone behind me gives a triumphant shout.

“Too little, quarians,” the Primarch’s voice caresses the word like an unwanted lover. Alarms blare in the background on his channel, and I think I can hear a fire burning, but the hulk is still coming on like a bad dream. “And now I see you.”

“They’re spooling up for another shot!” Bru cries.

“Evasive maneuvers,” I order, too aghast to shout, trying to start an all-new hack. There’s never going to be enough time.

The Viatrix is what saves us. By luck, we happen to be in its shade. One of the slugs, maybe number five or six, it doesn’t matter, kept on going. It must have hit the refueling station.

Capacitors there, holding all the static charge of a hundred ships for who knows how long, blow. Ancient safeguards and grounds fail disastrously, arcing electricity over huge reserves of eezo, touching it all off in an instant. Every ship in the fleet is backlit for a split second by white lightning, casting black bars of shadow into space as a hellstorm of unstable gravity fields ripples outward from the cataclysm.

The world is a blur of light. I think I'm shouting, but if I am, I can't hear my own voice. The windows burn with flames as ships slam into one another, as fuel lines are warped and disintegrated, as half of Nero's fleet goes up in flames, a gravimetric hurricane tearing it apart. We're pulled into the vortex, our small ship a child's toy caught in a monsoon.

Glancing at my instruments, I can tell that the mass effect fields are messing with our readings, but it doesn't really register to me. How could I have gotten the calculations wrong? Did I forget to set the targeting auto-calibration? Maybe I forgot to take down the automatic killswitch VI protocol. That can't be it. Prazza is screaming at me. I know I ran the targeting diagnostics, that wasn't the problem. Prazza is inches from me, shouting into my visor. If I failed to compensate for the forwar-

"Tali!" Prazza is shaking me. Why can't he leave me alone? It was so quiet a second ago. My skin feels like it's on fire again.

The world slides back into focus, and I can see half a dozen veiled glares staring into my mask.

Keelah...

"Raise rear shields, all remaining power to thrusters! Set positive Y-axis spacial distortion field to maximum density, set computer to auto-correct for spacial anomalies, lock down navi-" My orders are cut off as our small ship slides across an ancient crusier, tossing my unsecured form about the room like a ragdoll as the ship's a-grav module fails. My back collides with the ceiling with enough force to wreck a Mako.

Ouch.

The rest of the crew fortunate enough to have strapped down work frantically to pull the ship out of the vortex. As the ship levels out and I manage to grab hold of an a-grav handle to steady myself, I suddenly feel very small compared to the supernatural forces tearing the turian fleet, and our ship, apart.

Explosions rock the deck as systems overload under the strain, surge protectors too old to be of any use short out, sending sparks and shrapnel flying everywhere. I look to check for damage. My heart sinks at the sight of Moro's form resting in the pilot's seat, her visor smoking and cracked by a catastrophic system discharge.

There is no time left. Breaking through our own firewalls, I hack into the ship's control suite with my omni-tool. Easy. My fingers work frantically, the small displays no subtitute for a full interface. More explosions send my free-floating form crashing into walls and panels. My mind is blank. I'm not even thinking about the displays hovering over my hand, my hands just move, a lifetime as a quarian having hotwired my nerves with the correct patterns to manually steer the craft through the debris. I focus on staying awake, despite the aches and brutal pain coursing through my bones as I'm thrown from one end of the room to another.

Story of my life.

I can finally see open stars on my display. no more debris. The ship has stopped shaking. I think that means we're clear. I don't know. Everything is surreal, like I'm watchiing a movie with my eyes closed. At last, the fever takes me, and I fall back into darkness.

Shepard.

I wake not long after the storm.  The shuttle is quiet, has been for a while now. There's no argument or recrimination. They probably think I’m not going to live, so there’s no point. It’s a reasonable guess. I turn off my speaker so they don’t have to listen to my coughing.

Moro doesn’t last an hour after the explosion. Someone notices her life signs are flat while we're trying to get our transmitter working.  Prazza just shakes his head and shrugs when the rest of them look to him to say something for her.  Her omnitool makes a good secondary processor, a part we need.  The pilot, a ten-year veteran, died of shock earlier.  Both his shins had been sheared by a bad ripple of gravity.

We're finally considering trying to scavenge what scrap we can to get a thruster operational when the Noveria Development Corporation shows up. The corporate freighter is suspiciously up-armored and has an Elanus Risk Control escort. Even so, they’d have had a rude surprise if the Primarch had been here instead of us. What they did get is probably a rude surprise anyway.

At least they're not above helping stranded quarians out.  The Parasini woman greets us after the security team checks us over.  She still only knows me as the quarian who put in the medical alert those long weeks ago.  It's clear she's trying to talk to me about what happened, but I keep fading in and out, and she keeps being interrupted by her aides.  They're getting NDC's salvage rights to the wreckage established. 

Someone, maybe Prazza, protests.  It gets him a lecture on the drawbacks of not being a Citadel race.  The ERC goons have to draw their guns before he calms down.  I feel like I should stop him but...  I'm just too tired.  Too tired even to keep my eyes open.  Certainly too tired to worry about going home empty-handed.

Is this what Shepard would have done?  Maybe.  But he didn't have a father to answer to.  He'd had have stopped the Primarch's little war and to hell with anyone who wanted more.  I hope he'd be proud of me.  Slipping further away, for a minute I don't care what daddy's going to think.  I just want to tell mom all about the human I met on pilgrimage.  When I see her.

Modifié par NuclearBuddha, 23 juin 2010 - 06:53 .

[RiptideX1090]

Lividity Jones wrote...

Azint wrote...

Lividity Jones wrote...

So she gets the entire geth collective under her heel and then...

What?

Carve a bloody swathe through the galaxy?

Rebuild Rannoch?

That is not revealed. What is obvious though is that she wants the quarian people to reclaim what was lost to them, not necesarrily Rannoch but their capabilities. The geth are simply the most obvious factor.

"What was lost to them" is a ****ing huge range of possibilities.

Once I understand her motivations here and now, I can chart a course from where she was.

I just don't see this magnificent plan she has been constructing for who knows how long.

Jones, it's totally up to you. Revenge? Lust for power? Maybe she wants to be a hero for her people so she'll be loved, because she's alone inside. Maybe she's insane.

It's up to YOU to figure it out.

[Dark_Helmet]

Deep discussion?

On Talithread? Bah we have dismissed these claims!

Naw I'm kidding.

[NuclearBuddha]

Mood Music.

[Dark_Helmet]

Azint wrote...

RiptideX1090 wrote...

awpdevil wrote...

I know this might be treason against Miranda for doing this, but I just had to link this for you tali fans. This is the funniest damn me2 video I have seen yet. Don't be put off by the title, it does involve tali.

Genius.

<_<.

Fix'd:police:

[Azint]

Lividity Jones wrote...

Azint wrote...

Well I already simplified her angle for you, that is all I can do for you. What you write is now up to you to decide on your own. You are asking us for things that have not been revealred yet, what do you expect from us?

Nothing...

I'm sorry.

I'm thinking out loud.

Or in text.

Or whatever applies here.

Then what do you intend to do about it?

[cannedcream]

Wolf Warden wrote...


Quarians don't practice captial punishment in their society...there aren't enough left.  I think she would ask Shepard to spare him - unless he was REALLY bad then it woudl be death.  It would have to be Saren bad or something.

One thing I always thought was interesting was that to get back to the Flotilla, pilgrimage Quarians get two code/poems one gets the home, the other is used when returning under duress/hostage and it results in the fleet destroying the broadcasting code/poem.  That is the only form of capital "punishment" and it is more for the greater good.  

Still, I can just imagine....

Batarian Terrorist: Do it!  Say the damn code so we can get in!

Young Quarian: *in a shaky and mournful voice*  From shores of the void through the light of stars, the thanks of the people for sacrafice eternal shall never be silenced....

Quarian Security Gunner: Understood Fenn'Tal nar Kyra...we're sorry.

Is that info from Ascension?

[Wolf Warden]

cannedcream wrote...

Wolf Warden wrote...


Quarians don't practice captial punishment in their society...there aren't enough left.  I think she would ask Shepard to spare him - unless he was REALLY bad then it woudl be death.  It would have to be Saren bad or something.

One thing I always thought was interesting was that to get back to the Flotilla, pilgrimage Quarians get two code/poems one gets the home, the other is used when returning under duress/hostage and it results in the fleet destroying the broadcasting code/poem.  That is the only form of capital "punishment" and it is more for the greater good.  

Still, I can just imagine....

Batarian Terrorist: Do it!  Say the damn code so we can get in!

Young Quarian: *in a shaky and mournful voice*  From shores of the void through the light of stars, the thanks of the people for sacrafice eternal shall never be silenced....

Quarian Security Gunner: Understood Fenn'Tal nar Kyra...we're sorry.

Is that info from Ascension?

Yes...the imprompto conversation with security was not...that is the horrible result of attempted Quarian poetry/fiction at 3am

Modifié par Wolf Warden, 23 juin 2010 - 06:55 .

[Dark_Helmet]

cannedcream wrote...

Wolf Warden wrote...


Quarians don't practice captial punishment in their society...there aren't enough left.  I think she would ask Shepard to spare him - unless he was REALLY bad then it woudl be death.  It would have to be Saren bad or something.

One thing I always thought was interesting was that to get back to the Flotilla, pilgrimage Quarians get two code/poems one gets the home, the other is used when returning under duress/hostage and it results in the fleet destroying the broadcasting code/poem.  That is the only form of capital "punishment" and it is more for the greater good.  

Still, I can just imagine....

Batarian Terrorist: Do it!  Say the damn code so we can get in!

Young Quarian: *in a shaky and mournful voice*  From shores of the void through the light of stars, the thanks of the people for sacrafice eternal shall never be silenced....

Quarian Security Gunner: Understood Fenn'Tal nar Kyra...we're sorry.

Is that info from Ascension?

The not using the capital punishment is from a Tali discussion in ME2.
Not sure about the rest.
I think that the dialouge was just made up for effect.

[Lividity Jones]

Azint wrote...

Then what do you intend to do about it?

It's strange having this much open space to work with.

I think I'm going to just have to pick a place to start and use my instinct.

[cannedcream]

Wolf Warden wrote...


Yes...the imprompto conversation with security was not...that is the horrible result of attempted Quarian poetry/fiction at 3am

It happens. I've done the same .



Man, I need to get my hands on a copy of that book.

But first I need money.

But before that I need a job.

Damn you, economy.

[Dark_Helmet]

Lividity Jones wrote...

Azint wrote...

Then what do you intend to do about it?

It's strange having this much open space to work with.

I think I'm going to just have to pick a place to start and use my instinct.

Oh?
This should be interesting.
No really have fun!