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[BellaStrega]

Dean_the_Young wrote...

Frankly, I never understood why Cerberous wouldn't just kidnap him back.

I mean, his value doesn't go down if he's taken out. The same reasons he was useful in the first place still apply. The 'he's one in a few billion' thing still applies.

Even I'm puzzled at why Cerberus wouldn't take him back at the first opportunity. This is a school, not a high-security prison... and Cerberus has already shown it can bust those.

Have you read the second and third novels? They involve Cerberus' interactions with that school (the Grissom Academy).

The second novel covers it in more detail, and Cerberus did have an agent in the school for a time.  The third novel covers it a lot less and is more of an action sequence than anything.

Not really sure what may have happened, if anything, at this point.

[Dean_the_Young]

BellaStrega wrote...

Dean_the_Young wrote...

Bar the whole pointless visual-shock cruelty. Horror can come in so many more nuanced ways that torture-sadism shock.

Really, Bioware?

Yes, I agree with the visual-shock cruelty being a problem. We didn't need to have the guy suspended with cables with his eyelids held open, etc. It was unnecessary. Could have been handled in a less outrageous way.

Hell, respectfully on a hospital bed, eyes closed, and unmoving...

There's a reason that the early horror stories used to use the idea of surgury patients under paralysis drugs but for whom the anesthesia did not work. Alive, unmoving, unable to scream...

I also found the idea of becoming an infinitely infectious computer virus that would crash the entire galaxy was a bit ridiculous. Even without that element, stopping the whole project and getting him out should have been a priority.

Oh, yeah, definitely agreed.

Of course, I would have also liked it if Project Overlord were under attack by a Geth force. The Overlord uses those controled Geth to broadcast a distress that brings in more Geth, who the Overlord also influences...

Even if it was a purely system-based effect, that could be devastating. No need for galactic expansion.

[Dean_the_Young]

BellaStrega wrote...

Dean_the_Young wrote...

Frankly, I never understood why Cerberous wouldn't just kidnap him back.

I mean, his value doesn't go down if he's taken out. The same reasons he was useful in the first place still apply. The 'he's one in a few billion' thing still applies.

Even I'm puzzled at why Cerberus wouldn't take him back at the first opportunity. This is a school, not a high-security prison... and Cerberus has already shown it can bust those.

Have you read the second and third novels? They involve Cerberus' interactions with that school (the Grissom Academy).

The second novel covers it in more detail, and Cerberus did have an agent in the school for a time.  The third novel covers it a lot less and is more of an action sequence than anything.

Not really sure what may have happened, if anything, at this point.

I read them, but they don't really dismiss it, if you know what I mean. Cerberus left the Grissom Academy alone because it had no pressing interests there, and had nothing much to gain from it. Not because they couldn't.

But Archer is big. Like, galaxy-shaping big. We're not talking a mere super-biotic: we're talking about someone who could possibly rewrite the entire galactic balance of power through the Geth.

I can't think of a modern nation-state today that wouldn't try and secure that sort of advantage, even if only to deny it to others.