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[Arcian]

Just... This:

[General TSAR]

I wonder how people would react to a person like Corporal Upham in Saving Private Ryan. I liked the way he was depicted because he's just a regular dude scared out of his mind.

Upham! Love that guy.

 

People would probably hate him because he actually shows emotions like paralyzing fear in battle, he's not part of the wish fulfillment badasses. 

[ChaosMorning]

Name: Nicia Tantus

 

Species: Turian

Turians adhere to a strict moral code: “The needs of the group outweigh that of the individual.  A turian line never collapses; its troops fall back in order, setting ambushes as they go. You will only see a turian’s back when they’re dead.”

 

Age: 34

 

Gender: Female

 

Class: Infiltrator

 Infiltrators are tech and combat specialists with the unique ability to cloak themselves from visual and technological detection.  Deadly at any range, Infiltrators are trained in a wide variety of weapons, equipment, and powers that can take down any enemy.

 

Specialization: Ghost

Ghost Infiltrators are a part of the turian’s lethal 26^th Armiger Legion, a respected and feared frontline assault squad.  On the battlefield, a Ghost uses propulsion packs and advanced stealth technology to launch lightning-quick airstrikes on unsuspecting foes.

 

Appearance:

White bone-plating, blue eyes, approximately 5’10, no visible tattoos or common turian facial distinctions of a colony or clan.

 

Personality:

Noted throughout her career as a dedicated soldier Nicia’s psych profile is pretty small; the most there is to go on her is that she seems to have a bit of an existential crisis going on, and one she’s content to ignore, it seems. 

 

History:

Born on the turian homeworld of Palaven, Nicia was part of a deeply spiritual turian man’s foster home.  Nicia left the Turian Hierarchy after her mandatory military service, despite offers of a ranking position had she remained.

 

Nicia lived in the Terminus system, working as a freelancer with a reputation for always getting the job done, her vicious dedication to her work earned her creds and and a reputation of getting things done, but never found her a proper home – not that she honestly minded.

 

While on a particularly difficult mission involving recovering data about an 'Ark' she was captured. In return for amnesty from both her dissatisfied employer and those she attempted to rob, she has joined onto one of the Arks, gone into cryo, and is bound for Andromeda.

 

Summary:

Nicia is meant to counter Garrus. Where he claimed he was a 'bad turian' she is the model of a 'good turian.' She follows orders. She doesn't complain or voice concern. The job gets done, the mission takes priority, no ifs ands or buts.

She did not struggle under the Hierarchy, but thought there might be more for her in the greater galaxy. There wasn't.

 

Andromeda might be her last chance at finding meaning.

 

Recruitment: 'Absolution Down'

"A turian Ark escort ship, The Absolution, has been trapped and is currently being battered by junk in the debris field in which it has been snared. Recover it before more lives are lost."

 

Crassus Lex, the captain of the Absolution, has ordered the ship to stray from guarding the turian Ark to investigate what species could have left behind such an enormous debris field surrounding the post-garden world. Many of the crew have since perished, systems are damaged, and a rebellion has broken out against Captain Lex. His XO, Nicia Tantus, remains at his side. 

 

Journey into the debris field and either help maintain order - thereby gaining Nicia immediately - by putting down the resistance among the crew, or help them retake the ship from Lex - in this path Nicia will join you and the crew as soon as you kill Lex, remarking that while it was not her place to question him, she did not even remotely agree with his decision.

 

If you helped Lex, the ship will be saved in time to escape.

 

Siding with the crew does not leave time to salvage the Absolution, but more lives will have been preserved.

 

Either way Nicia will join your mission, as decided by the turian Ark's crew following 'Absolution Down.'

 

Loyalty: 'A Place to Belong'

Much later on you will receive notice that the turian Ark has established a colony, but is in need of assistance dealing with a problem left over from the Absolution/its crew.

 

Either Lex (if he survived) or other members of the crew will meet you upon arrival to the colony. Dissent has brewed between the crew from the Absolution and turians from the main Ark in the colony, with many of the Ark's settlers not being able to rely on the Absolution crew, who now are supposed to serve as the colony's protectors. Something must be done to bridge the distrust. 

 

Over the course of the mission you will deal with insurgents, but more so you will have to help Nicia find if this is the place she belongs, a home to call her own and to protect, or if her place is with the friends she has made aboard your ship.

[WittyUsername]

An extremely badass Volus cladded in an armored pressure suit. He can wreck a Korgan with his fists and the women knows he owns them and the room.

[corporal doody]

A  loose cannon CSEC officer 3 days from retirement that has crossed the line one too many times.

 

A volus hooker with a heart of cold.

[Ballax]

I have three ideas:

 

• Hagrah the  Batarian runaway: After the fall of Kar'Shan the Batarian people made their great bid for freedom. Freedom from castes, freedom from slavery, freedom from tyrany. And they failed. The rebellion was crushed, it's members killed or scattered to the edges of the galaxy. When news the exodus to Andromeda reached one of these rebels they decided to falsify their documents and make passage to the one place the New Hegemony cannot reach. This guy is kind of like Space!Dorian, at once an example of what Batarian society is and what it could be. Hagrah gets misty eyed telling you about the eel pools and ziggurats of Kar'Shan's capital and talks endlessly about their cultural practices, their faith and everything else. But at the same time he hates the darker aspects Batarian society. Any time you come across slavers in the game he's the first one to propose violence. He's an infiltrator with his tech-heavy, hit-and-run approach to combat honed by years on the run from the Batarian armed forces. Hagrah fights with a sniper to pick off his enemies at a distance and a shotgun for cloaked ambushes as well as a traditional Batarian ripper-knife for hand-to-hand combat.
• Varo the drell Paladin:  There is whole new galaxy ready to hear the story of the enkindlers and this missionary is going to bring it to them. Varo's old and with the Drell's perfect memories they can remember talking to Javik, the Living Enkindler before he vanished. In that moment his fairth was changed. The Enkindlers--the protheans were not gods but people. A great and enlightened people who had many lessons to teach the universe. I picture them as an odd combination of extremes, much like Thane the assassin/holy man. In this case they represent the drell equivalent to a Knight-Templar, a memeber of the faith armed and trained as a soldier to defend the faith and its charges. I picture him on the one had a gruff, stout chain smoking, pragmatic old soldier in heavy armour who's seen too much of war to believe that faith alone can see you though a battle yet at the same time he still believes in the teachings of his religion and in helping others no matter who they are. I picture them as a vanguard--a holy warrior given the biotic gift of the Enkindlers and trained to fight as a soldier. I imagine Varo and Hagrah spend ages arguing whenever Varo tries to 'enlighten' him whilst Hagrah bases his life around the Pillars of Strength. But at the same time they're the best of friends. Varo respects Hagrah's willpower and his drive to better his people whilst Hagrah swaps war stories with the only member of the crew he's seen as much as him. Varo fights with an assault rifle and shotgun suited for toe-to-toe combat as well as an omni-shield as a melee weapon.
• Jin, the human Spectre: The third or fourth human spectre appointed by the Council she joined the Andromeda expedition to project the council's wishes and to bring back any discoveries that the Citadel might find important. She's a reserved sort, as you might expect of Spectres. She speaks little and much of what she does say is terse and clipped. She's highly inquisitive and constantly presses the leader to go explore and chase down exotica in this new galaxy. I picture her as a sentinel: A flexible combination of cutting edge science and powerful biotics she goes into battle with a mono-edged sword and light weaponry, relying more on her flexibility and power usage than heavy firepower.

[Chardonney]

A Turian like Garrus and a sexy Drell like Thane, thank you.

[L. Han]

 

I wonder how people would react to a person like Corporal Upham in Saving Private Ryan. I liked the way he was depicted because he's just a regular dude scared out of his mind.

 

Upham! Love that guy.

 

People would probably hate him because he actually shows emotions like paralyzing fear in battle, he's not part of the wish fulfillment badasses. 

 

Or Reiben. He was a massive ****** at times and even revolts against the captain. I still think his character was well-rounded enough and his rationale was understandable.

[Silvair]

Pro tip: there is some extra meaning if you are Quarian saavy.

 

A Quarian Exiled.

 

A Female Quarian exiled by some crime, which could be latter be known by the loyalty mission.

 

Khara’Bosh’tet vas Nedas a Quarian Mercenary

Around her 30s she is and exquisite sight to behold, but also a very distant and hostile. Once you are inside the inner group though, she will be protective and silly –just like on a mercenary gig-.

An Exile by all means, a lady that carved out a path herself as a mercenary. She has all the knowledge on how to perform assassinations and is one tough being.

She is a distinct sight to behold considering how Quarians usually are. She has a very noticeable grudge against the Quarian people, at first you are taken back, because this is highly unusual. She even names herself as bosh’tet. You begin to see glimpses of information from time to time shed out of the things she talks about. Apparently all leads to a reactor failure on the ship she used to Captain in the Flotilla.

Loyalty Mission:

You receive a distress call from a Quarian ship, stating that Berrot’Lon, and its crew are stranded on the ship. Moreover you learn that the ship is losing the little atmosphere left. Once you are briefed Khara signs up taking no for an answer. Once in the derelict the squads realize that the spaceship is losing the precious atmosphere therefore the other squad mate is sent to contain this issue at the bridge, therefore it will be just you and Khara. On the way you begin to find various Quarians lying on the floor obviously damaged by radiation, and Khara begins to squirm and to hesitate –she is not her usual tough lady-. You begin to find some pieces of information, which details that the Core went critical. And the before finally blowing up, it irradiated the unproductive parts of the ships killing those without shielding.

Finally you reach the survivors to find them in very rough shape. A male quarian –Berrot you assume- sees Khara and calls her with almost a whisper “flower, I sincerely never thought I would see you again, and in such circumstance.” With a loud grunt in agreement you still sense a tremor in her voice, and you believe you see a tear.

You finally get everyone on a shuttle, only 15 Quarians out of 370 that were aboard the ship. A few days later Berrot dies.

After being extra bitchy and horrendous to everyone, she finally drops by at your place, some turian brandy in one hand, and two glasses in the other. “I know it may not be the best for you, but if you are to hear me you will drink with me.”

After agreeing, and expecting a very very bad day tomorrow.

“I was indeed Captain of a ship back in the Flotilla. The Ship was the Zamna. And my name was actually Khara´Roa vas Zamna. It was a small volus cruise ship –not a cruiser- a couple of hundred was the population, we even replaced the old recreation area with a barrack to train our marines. This cruiser was a good vessel on most of its aspects but one: the Core had extreme fluctuations from time to time, most of our engineers where always considering to change it for another, but I was always believing in them, and I always believed we were the best in the galaxy, “who could we be bested by a faulty core?”. And so we kept going, until a day when the core spiked and ruptured. That day most of the vas Zamna was killed if not by the blast, by the radiation.

I was taken to court, still baffled unsure, and with the blood of most of my crew in my hands. In the end I was Exiled.

I began drifting through different background colonies hating myself for the damage I did to my people, which in the end were right. But I could not bear the guilt, therefore I always blamed them for my shortcomings.

The remaining 14 Quarians, at the sick bay, I will nurse them back to health and I will protect them, I have done my mourning and my self-pity is not helping from now on I shall come back to my people and help them even as an exiled, as a bosh’tet.”

After the loyalty mission Khara turns to a whole different person, she shines with happiness, and helps everyone she cans, a heavy weight was lifted, she no longer carries the dead on her shoulder as a weight, but as way to help others, “learn from your mistakes” taken to a whole new level.

 

 

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Note: this was writen in a rush.

Also Note: I would totaly romace Khara

Another Note: I hope my text makes sense

 

Just... This:

I am all for both of these quarians.  Especially that gunslinger one, who looks AWESOME.

I also wouldn't mind another Quarian Juggernaut like Tali could be in ME1.  That is, Geth Juggernaut level shields on a quarian who can just run in with a heavy duty armor piercing shotgun, blowing everything away.  Not all Quarians have to be fragile, yaknow.  Just like there was that one Salarian working for the Shadow Broker who was almost the size of a Krogan Warlord.

Also works in lore, as only a Quarian would know how to overclock their shields like that.


So let me rephrase.

My ideal squadmate would be a Quarian Exile who, rather than being a scavenger, decided to become a bounty hunter, who has turned their envirosuit into heavy combat armor, with heavy shields more on par with a starship's than regular personal shields, and able to wield heavy weapons like Krogan weapons (Executioner, Claymore, Stryker, etc) due to their suit being customized to enhance strength with hydraulics.

 

Lets say its a Male quarian for variety.  Their powers could be

 

Fortification/Tech Armor (On top of Juggernaut level shields)

Devastator Mode

Tactical Scan

A variation on Hawk Missile Launcher, where it can be specced between Missiles or a cerberus Turret style minigun, a la War Machine.  That or Multifrags.

Still has low health, however.

 

 

Quarian Exile/Quarian Annihilator

 

 

Well dangit, now I have an OC, 3 years after Mass Effect ended lol.  Well at least now I have cause to make a story to keep my interest in mass effect

[Avaflame]

I suppose until we get actual characters to discuss this is the best we've got, yeah?

Not going crazy on names and places, but for humans I'd like to see perhaps a rookie-esque male, perhaps with a bit of a naively optimistic view of the galaxy. Or even a medic/doctor-type, though that wouldn't necessarily be a squadmate. For a female I'd kind of like a rough-around-the-edges military type. I suppose like a ME3 Jack but with a little more discipline. A Jack if she had joined the Alliance after Pragia.

I also wouldn't turn down a military-type Salarian, a male Quarian (though the one in my head would be too similar to Tali, really) or some variation of Asari/Turian we're less exposed to. Like an Asari in her maiden stage when they're all mercenaries and headstrong and **** (except for Liara for some reason). For a Turian, they've all seemed kind of cut from the same cloth, so I'm not really sure how one wouldn't come across the same as Garrus. Maybe someone a bit darker, like an assassin or bandit? I could go for another Drell as well I suppose.

As for Batarians, Krogan (I know there's almost certainly a krogan), Geth, Vorcha, Volus etc., eh. I hope to see them in the game, but on my squad I'd prefer some new species and when not, the species I already mentioned above.

[BabyPuncher]

It would nice to see a person or two making suggestions about actual writing in terms of what conflicts and resolutions would be explored though these characters.

 

You know, the actual important stuff. That makes good characters.

[Silvair]

It would nice to see a person or two making suggestions about actual writing in terms of what conflicts and resolutions would be explored though these characters.

 

You know, the actual important stuff. That makes good characters.

Character concept first.
Then story integration based around that concept.

 

Like since my last post I've already thought up a story for my Quarian OC.  Not Andromeda related, though, since there's not enough for me to work with there.

 

[Mirrman70]

I want a Vorcha that has some kind of life-debt towards the protagonist and while it has renegade tendencies it will go along with whatever we say.