#nodacrux

[bagog]

No one loves the Mako like I love the Mako. I hate the Legendary control scheme, but the Mako's still my best buddy.

That said, and I mean this,

Get stuffed, whoever designed Nodacrux.

[cerberusdailynews]

[CRIME] Court Rules Sunflower Pollen Snorting Legal, But Idiotic

via Errithis Articles Systems Alliance courts overseeing the nascent colony of Chasca have delivered a ruling which may seem plain common sense, but we assure you requires some additional context. The ruling comes after a long and convoluted case of suspected drug trafficking and transportation of hazardous materials from another colonization candidate world in the cluster known as the Maroon Sea. Authorities at Chasca were first alerted in June to the possible smuggling of drugs, with a passing scientific expedition making a layover at the colony acting as unwitting couriers. However, the situation was judged far more severe when reports of colonists experiencing allergic reactions reached Chasca’s healthcare provisioners. The scientific expedition was part of an ongoing research campaign into Nodacrux, a potential colonization candidate world hampered by dangerous airborne pollen. Chasca’s authorities were soon concerned that an opportunistic researcher had sold deadly pollen at the colony, passing it off as a new drug. However, forensic examinations determined that the mystery ingredient afflicting the colonists was merely pollen from the Earth sunflower, an entirely legal substance with no narcotic properties. The courts subsequently found the Chascan con men not guilty of trafficking in drugs. Instead they were found guilty of counterfeiting and fraud.

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Jennifer Shepard. Nodacrux.

[shiftylookingspacecows]

Speculations about Space Cow History

As discussed in my previous text post about space cow ecology, it is likely that space cows are in fact an intelligent species. However, they appear to maintain a naturalistic way of life that does not make use of technology, and we have yet to observe direct evidence of linguistic ability. So what can be deduced about their history? Note: all information is derived from the wiki.

In order to make any such deductions, let us first try to deduce the identity of the space cow homeworld by analyzing the conditions of the planets which they inhabit: Ontarom, Nodacrux, Chasca, and Aite. Fascinatingly, two of these planets, Ontarom and Aite, possess close-proximity downspiraling satellites, although Aite’s is much closer to impact (within several hundred years). As one of the planets they inhabit, Chasca, is known to have a Prothean pyramid, it is possible that their interplanetary dispersal was effected by the Protheans, who might have recognized their intelligence and assisted in their travel through space. But when choosing new planets to colonize, it would not have made sense for the space cows to ask the Protheans to move them to an obviously doomed planet, making it likely that either Ontarom or Aite is their homeworld. However, Ontarom’s impact event could be impending in only geological terms, whilst Aite’s is going to occur within only several hundred years -- perhaps the Protheans offered to relocate some space cows to Ontarom temporarily, understanding that they would evacuate them when the time came. One possible reason for space cow settlement on Ontarom is the fact that Ontarom possesses two satellites, like Aite -- perhaps the colonists-to-be desired to retain a sky with two moons over their heads in their prospective new home. 

The probability that Aite is the space cow homeworld has several interesting ramifications. Firstly, Aite is a very diverse planet geologically, with habitats ranging from deserts to jungles to tundra. However, the other planets which they currently inhabit seem to be characterized mostly by vast grasslands, even if other biomes exist, such as the shallow seas of Nodacrux. So this seems to add more credibility to the idea that the space cows were transported by the Protheans to worlds whose dominant habitat type suited their lifestyle.

Secondly, Aite is unusual amongst terrestrial planets in possessing a large ring system. Where else do we see a rocky world with a ring system? Chasca has one. Below is a quote from the wiki:

“Chasca's ring is unique. It appears to be, for lack of a better term, a massive piece of alien "installation art." The rings are made of small pieces of synthetic material, and are almost invisible from space. From the ground, they catch and scatter the light of Matano in picturesque ways. It is not known who created the ring or when.”

It seems most likely that the Protheans created this ring system, if they were in fact the ones who transported the space cows. The reasoning behind such a monumental undertaking is not clear to us today, but it seems most obvious that they would do so as a means of replicating the sky conditions to which the newly-displaced space cows, having just fled their doomed homeworld, were most used to. The picturesque scattering patterns of the ring system might have additional, obscure uses, however, perhaps relating to some form of communication between these two species or maybe it served to represent some calendrical or ritual system in space cow culture.

It is worth noting that the only Prothean pyramid known to exist on a space cow planet is found on Chasca, the same planet with the ring system. It is therefore possible that it serves as a monument to the friendship between these species, making it heartwarming that one can still find space cows in close proximity to it today.

[dgcatanisiri]

Seriously, who designed this angular hellhole? I need to kick them in the crotch until they cough up their kidneys.