#mea meta

[earthenterran]

its interesting in the first mission in mea with liam, u can find that isolated tree in the cave, suggesting the environment changed drastically in the last 600 years.

and you find the creature killed with the trap. ryder and liam talk about the kett.

and liam is pretty aggressive here. he's mad and worried and freaking out a bit to be sure. but we can get an auto dialogue with ryder, about how the kett are probably just like... attacking anything just bc they can.

and liam replies with 'or maybe they're starving'

we get to find out through the game the way liam wants to bring ppl together, to help everyone survive and succeed.

it feels like a glimpse here, during the mission of liam seeing this maybe proof that these aliens are just trying to get by. it doesn't change the situation, but it's interesting to note

[benevolenterrancy]

tbh I’m really emotional about the krogan so far in Andromeda.  Just... we’re finally being shown a side of them that’s different than the hurr durr big bad mercenary attack dog.  We got hints of it in the second game, when you get to go to Tunchanka with Grunt and learn a bit more about their culture, and then a little more in the third when you have Bakara with you, but this fucking game oh my gosh

Out of every single Milky Way colony -- every goddamn one -- the krogan colony is, at this point, really the only one thriving.  Even Kadara Port is a dog-eat-dog world, it’s basically Andromeda’s Omega at this point.  And the frustrating thing is that Kadara is, arguably, much more livable than Elaaden -- heck, it was already an Angaran settlement, whereas the Angaran had considered Elaaden uninhabitable!  Even with undrinkable water, they still had filtration methods there, it should have been so much easier for people, exiles or no, to integrate with that society and start to really thrive.  Except the exiles stomped in and big, aggressive boots and turned it into a fucking mess.

The krogans on the other hand?  The oh-so-scary, can’t-trust-em-as-far-as-you-can-throw-them krogan?  They set up a settlement on a barren wasteland -- a really well-built one two, one that goes right into the rock itself to help deal with the heat -- figure out how to secure water, and for all intents and purposes seem to have a system set up for everyone to share resources as necessary.  (Sure, they’ve got Some Shit going down with leadership but all in all... New Tuchanka is functional.)

More than functional, actually, the krogan seem to have something that even the my colonists on Eos don’t have much of: leisure time.  That is how well set up they are.

And what does half of their terminal chatter talk about?  PSAs on how to work together, and how to get use to living together with the males and females, how to coexist happily.  I’m on a mission right now from their shaman to help a couple of krogan settle their differences in a peaceful (for krogan, it still involves fighting large animals) manner.  They have botanists.  They have research.

It’s such frustrating, delicious irony.  They were kicked off the Nexus because they wanted more say in how things were run and it was basically decided that krogan are only grunt work and shouldn’t be allowed to have say in policies, that they can’t be trusted with that sort of thing.  So what do they do as soon as they’re off the Nexus?  Run shit way fucking better than the Nexus ever managed untill the Pathfinder came to hold their hands.

AND THEY ARE ACTIVELY REACHING OUT TO CONTACT THE NEXUS AGAIN.  Racists fuckers on the goddamn nexus can’t get their heads out of their asses, but at least the a large number of the krogan seem to realize that holding a grudge in this case is stupid and it would be better to work together, as equals.

Besides that, which is already enough to make my heart swell, how about my favourite krogan: Kesh

because she is fucking amazing

Out of all the leadership on the Nexus -- Tann, Addison, Kandros, etc -- she is the most reasonable, most compassionate, and most connected with her people.  She is constantly working for the best of her people, of the station, and even of the krogan now that they’re off the station.  She’s a granddaughter, she knocks back hard liquor like it’s apple juice, she has a sweetheart who sends her flowers, and she’s resiliently holds her own even though she’s basically the only krogan left on the Nexus.  She is such a wonderful character, and just cheerfully flips krogan stereotypes on their head.

So yeah, this was just basically my love letter to say that I love krogan and I love them even more now after playing andromeda and I’m so happy that they basically got the metaphoric chance to spit the faces of the neysayers and make something amazing.

[fiannaai]

Thoughts regarding my compilation thread of NPC Angara:

Most of these Angara pictured who are either on active mission or who could be deployed at a moment's notice (particularly Commander Heckt's team, which is going on an unusually dangerous mission not particularly expected to succeed) are not wearing their rofjinn (exception: Jaal, who is on a detached assignment with the Pathfinder and could not/should not be expected to leave his behind semi-permanently).

So where are their rofjinn? And what happens to them if they don't come home one day?

Jaal already said that his rofjinn was made for him by his father (who was a civilian and would likely be wearing his when he went to work the day he didn't return), but imagine if someone in his situation were wearing their parent's rofjinn left behind when they didn't return from a mission. Perhaps it's returned to the next-of-kin; a spouse, eldest child, or clan elder, to be bestowed where it feels appropriate.

[earthenterran]

i have to figure out seea’s relationship with their pronouns and i think what i got so far is that

they is the preferred, but game only used she because translators and so many genders exist within humans but also across species and it’s hard to keep track of so like... it defaults to the bs binary. 

so she’s a work term. a term everyone hears, or at least seea does. there’s no batting a eye, and they are... do, use she. they feel like she works. but she would rather more often to use they.