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Mass Effect scenery screenshot dump: Citadel Apartment Edition. PART 1 of 3 This is the apartment as you first get it with no furniture changes. A reshade has been used, colours are more saturated than og game. (Reshade is my own edit of this sinomatic preset) Improved photo mode used
Bioware’s Plotholes are AWFUL
So in case anyone’s wondering, I failed NaNo this year. Bad. Like, I only wrote 18,000 words. And they were all terrible words and a bunch of them don’t even count bc it was dialogue from Nexus: Uprising.
So I read Uprising bc it was relevant to the prologue of this NaNo.
And I STILL cannot stop thinking about this motherfucking plothole that's so big you can fly the Tempest through it.
Here's a list of some of the krogan clan names I came across on Elaaden: Jorgal, Ganar, Jair, Korten, Kariss, Ravanor, Gulnaz, Kohrr, Kormer, Wik, Chaman, Urdnot.
It makes no sense for ANY of these clan members to be here. I don't know how or why they are here. Bc literally. LITERALLY. The only krogan who are woken up in the first wave are the Nakmor clan. The only krogan who put down the uprising are the Nakmor clan. The only krogan who join the exodus at the same time as the exiles are the Nakmor clan.
About 300-500 krogan are initially woken up (the numbers are a little nebulous, as you'll see below -- half of the station is Kesh's krogan, but the number of crew members jumps from 600 to 1000 -- some renegade assholes did wake up some non-critical personnel, but not like, 200 people worth??). These krogan are Nakmor Kesh's workers, all members of her clan. The engineers and construction crew who built the Nexus and are in charge of the manual labor and repair of the station. The mutiny happens. Tann and Addison go behind Sloane's back and wake up Morda. She demands that the rest of the clan be woken up so that she can have her warriors by her side. Spender's a slimy sleazeball who makes a promise he can't keep, Morda gets pissed, and the Nakmor clan decide to leave and start a new life for themselves out in this deadly galaxy.
So here are the facts and their locations in my ebook:
"Roughly half of the list [of the people to wake] consisted of krogan workers, all members of the Nakmor clan" (location 1739)
"An hour later, still desperate for that coffee, a sharp headache pressing at the back of her eyes, Sloane stood atop a desk and faced more than six hundred Nexus crew." (location 1855)
"'The Nakmor clan put muscle and bone into this place. When it neared completion, we received an invite.'" (location 2133)
"'If you get ten [volunteers to go into cryo] out of the thousand currently awake, I'd be shocked.'" (location 3396)
"'Is the entire clan awake?' 'Only the workers,' Spender said. 'I shall have my warriors at my side for this, to share in the glory. Wake them.' [...] 'We stride into a bloody field, Nakmor.'" (location 5461, 5688)
"'You killed members of the Nakmor clan--' 'They came at us, guns blazing!'" (location 6013)
"The Nakmor Clan would be victorious with or without the Nexus. It seemed that some things on this so-called 'other side' would not be so different after all. [...] Ranks of krogan filing into the small armada of shuttles being provided them, Nakmor Morda at the head of the group, arms folded in defiance and resolve, overseeing the exodus." (location 6184)
"Kesh was not idealistic. She'd worked to the bone for this station, this Initiative, and she would die for it if she had to. Or, as it turned out, leave her clan for the betterment of it. [...her work] was to rebuild. Preparing the Nexus, she thought as she turned away from the last glimmers of her only people, for the eventuality of peace." (location 6272)
Like there's literally no other way to read it. There were no other clans involved in putting down the uprising -- it's the Nakmor who strode into the bloody field, it's the Nakmor who died in battle (far, far less than the number of exiles tho, o o p s), it's the Nakmor who say they'll be victorious with or without the Nexus. There's at least 500 of them (if you lowball and say there's 300 workers and that Morda, her warriors, and the rest of the clan are only 200 strong) but it's probably closer to like. 600-1000 Nakmor imo, I have a feeling that the warriors and the rest of the clan aren't gonna be smaller than the subsection that worked in construction. That's so many!!! So many Nakmors!!! We didn't need to see other krogan clan members in the game, everyone could have been a Nakmor and it'd make perfect narrative sense!!!
Bc seriously, where the FUCK did the other clans come from. Who woke them up. When did they leave the Nexus. Like, they're leaving the next day, as far as I can tell. The life support team, the people who KNEW how to operate the stasis pods just mutinied, the head of life support is fucking dead, Kesh is the only person left who knows how to do this stuff. One person physically cannot open that many stasis pods in that short a timeframe. Also, there's already too many mouths to feed, that's why the mutiny happened in the first place. And Morda doesn't want any more krogan clans woken up!!! She “not all krogan”s Kaje bc she doesn't want her clan lumped in w the rest of the krogan. ("Better to take [the Nexus] over," Kaje added, "and claim it for all krogan." "My krogan," Morda corrected.) And you know they didn't just wake up all the different krogan and were like "yo I know you just woke up but hey everything sucks and we're leaving our new home, you're not even in our clan and you weren't even betrayed, but come with us into the deadly wilderness even tho you have no idea what the fuck is going on" like there is absolutely zero justification for that, that's not a theory that even begins to hold water.
OH and the krogan names that I saw on Elaaden? Kormer Ryn posted in the “New Fathers” group on the terminals. So. It’s not like it’s a few isolated clan members amongst a bunch of Nakmor. There’s a ton of other clans in the game and those other clans have children, and it makes NO sense with the narrative established in Uprising. Why the FUCK would the Nakmor clan wake up members of other clans AND those clan members’ children???? They wouldn’t.
How do you fuck up your lore this badly, Bioware.
I'm so pissed off.
hiiiiiiiii!! sorry i haven't checked in yet. i just wanted to say i'm your holiday harbinger person and i am so excited. i loved your questionnaire answers!! i have some pretty good ideas already but is there anything else you want to tell me about your favorite shepard and/or ryder??
Aah thank you!! I'm sorry I missed this, my inbox doesn't give me notifications so I literally never know if I have messages dhsjgdkw
Anyway! My Shepard was a short-haired, Sentinel, black Shep named Andromeda, aka Andi (laugh it up, Garrus 😂), and my Ryder was a tiny Asian woman with an appreciation for All Aliens, Ever (and she looked good from Day 1 release in Andromeda, too, no weird face glitches or anything. she's the best??).
I really wanted OT3 options when I finished ME3 and Andromeda, though. Shepard/Tali/Garrus and Ryder/Vetra/Jaal. (gimme all the alien friends and datemates 😍)...
ANYWAY -- thank you, friend, and I hope you're having a lovely day!!
Devil’s Backbone: the fic where Cham Syndulla is head of the Twi’lek Migrant Fleet. Does that mean Hera=Tali? Hera’syndulla vas Ghost?
We are Krogan. No, seriously.
Kate: I can't
Kate: I can't get my fucking thoughts in order
Sabastian: I'M SORRY
Sabastian: I THOUGHT I JUST HEARD A WHINY SALARIAN
Kate: ....
Sabastian: HMMMMMMMMMMMM?
Kate: I will headbutt you into next week good sir.
Kate: just wait till my Renegade option pops up
Sabastian: Heheh.
i can hear my neighbours, uuh... having a tie-breaker... *garrus voice* more than one way to work off stress, i guess... well, they're definitely kicking the year off with a... loud noise that ain't a 'bang'... not as a sound, exactly...
"I should go."
Really, BioWare?
REALLY?
Liara: It was odd to see an entire academy just for biotic children. Shepard: Don't asari have biotic schools? Liara: Every asari school includes biotic training programs. It's basic education. Still, those children in the academy were very impressive. I'm sure Jack's proud.
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