#normandy sr-2

[the-mic-drop]

Which ME2 Squadmate is most likely to earn a discount at any given store?

Miranda Lawson

Jacob Taylor

Mordin Solus

Garrus Vakarian

Jack

Urdnot Grunt

Thane Krios

Samara

Tali'zora vas Normandy

Legion

Zaeed Massani

Kasumi Goto

Remaining time: 20 hours 6 minutes

Let's assume a few things:

They have to get the discount thru a speech check/quest like Shepard does.

Shepard is not with them.

They can't name-drop Shepard.

[no-fast-travel]

[shadesofmauve]

Alliance Normandy SR2 redesign: Deck 3

The crew deck sits in the middle of the ship, where the hull is widest. This is where design for a larger crew really comes into play.

Sleeping and other bodily functions

The main bathrooms are roughly the same shape and location as in-game, but people walking by no longer have a great view of the showers every time the doors open.

Enlisted racks

24 enlisted racks line the corridor to the main battery, housing the bulk of the rank-and-file. Bunks are stacked two high, with uniform lockers to one side and coffin-lockers under the mattress.Footholds in between sets of bunks let you can reach the top without stepping on the one below.

Junior officers' quarters

I assume a spaceship needs more technical expertise and less grunt work, so the crew is weighted towards officers and highly-trained technical specialists. These specialists fill non-command roles and bunk with the junior officers. Joker (flight lieutenant) and Traynor (comms specialist) berth here. So does Kaidan, because at the point he came aboard the guest stateroom was occupied by Khalisah Al-Jilani, and bunking with marines would muddy command waters because he seriously outranks Vega.

Bunks are two-high with coffin lockers just like the enlisted racks, but officers rate four inches more elbow room and two inches more to stretch out their toesies. They also get a bit more privacy, a little more storage, and access to the lounge overlooking the eezo core*.

*I gave them a lounge because in ME3 you occasionally find officers chatting at a table in the middle of the bunk room, and if anyone did that while I was trying to sleep three feet away I'd commit murder.

Senior officers' country

Miranda's old quarters, which Liara claims in ME3, are large enough to house the entire senior staff in staterooms, with one extra for guests and a shared head. Each room has one permanent bunk (two inches wider and four longer than junior officers; swank) and one fold-out upper-bunk in case of extra passengers.

In Sunset and Evening Star the first thing Shepard does on the Citadel is sign on a first officer**, old navy hand Lieutenant Commander Nguyen. The first thing Nguyen does is fill the missing weapons and ops roles (she heads the navigation department herself, since it's a small ship).

With Shepard in the admiral's quarters on deck 1, First Officer Nguyen gets what would have been the captain's cabin on the crew deck (except while Primarch Victus and his aide were aboard; when she gave up her quarters to the turians). Mukerjee, the head of ops, gets the slightly-larger-than-standard cabin intended for the XO.

Garrus has the 'extra' stateroom, as their liaison with the turians. He keeps the desk folded for space and sleeps crouched in one corner; the bunk is useless to him.

**Shepard delegated something! It's a Mass Effect miracle!

Vital ship functions

Main battery

The main battery looks exactly the same, except Garrus isn't sleeping in the corner or constantly fiddling with the guns. In fact, he's never fiddling with the guns. He and Silva were spending hours re-calibrating the thanix cannon to their own preferences whenever the other person's back was turned, and Nguyen stepped in and banned Garrus from the armory before it moved from passive aggression to murderous-interspecies-diplomatic-catastrophe.

AI core

Access to the AI core is from the battery corridor, not through the medical bay.

Medical bay

The medbay is divided into a front office, the main med bay, and an area for major surgery or isolation. There's also a small private cabin for the two members of the medic corps who assist Chakwas.

Life support

The life support corridor has another four enlisted racks, bringing the total enlisted berths on the crew deck to thirty. Life support itself is basically unchanged, except for some added Important Keep People Alive machines. Like engineering, life support systems are also spread throughout the ship.

Food & leisure

Mess & galley

The mess seats 32. It's also all-watch meetings are held, and occasionally movie screenings. Crew can grab shelf-stable snacks, cereal, or recent leftovers from self-serve areas outside the galley, or collect the meal currently on offer at the counter.

The galley feeds three shifts three times a day each, and one watch's breakfast comes immediately before the previous watch's dinner. About a week out, stores of fresh produce are gone, so a lot of food is frozen, freeze dried, or reconstituted. There's always something to eat; one of the two big pots is almost always full of soup, if not both Bread is made from scratch (flour keeps indefinitely, bread doesn't), and there's a flat-top as well as a six-burner range. The food storage in the galley and nearby walk-in are only what the cooks expect to need for the next two days or so; food actually makes up most of the Normandy's cargo, stored on deck 4.

Observation lounges

The observation lounges, important for crew morale and sanity on longer missions, are differentiated by volume. Starboard is generally used for quieter conversation, reading, solo gaming, or study. The Port lounge is for parties and games. (There is no free wet bar, this is a military ship).

Normandy redesign posts

Intro

Loft

Command

Crew

Engineering

Hangar

[lelibug]

Mass Effect Legendary Edition - Mass Effect 2 - Engineer Anasar'iia - Re...Mass Effect Legendary Edition - Mass Effect 2 - Engineer Anasar'iia - Recruiting Tali p.2 (v.2)

It's a bloody warzone by the time Shep, Miranda & Jack touch down on the burning planet. Bodies are littered everywhere they go, heavy casualties taken on both sides. There's a horde of Geth to fight through, too... So, after they're done, there's even more.

Everywhere they go, Quarian casualties are strewn, left where they lay, no survivors to be seen at all.

And in the end .... Tali is the only one left.

...The only one out of her entire team to make it out alive.

The sole survivor of the massacre that the research expedition they were all sent out to make turned into.

The Quarian’s had enough, and immediately joins Shepard this time - that the Admiralty could effectively go to the dogs... If they cared about it at all.

When she goes to leave, though... Kal'Reegar appears, walking into her little hidey-hole cave, much to her relief. She lets him know she's going with Shep and hands over everything she learned about this mission to him, to hand over to the Admiralty Board in her stead.

Once aboard the Normandy, Tali may have been even more incensed when learning Shep actually wasn't undercover with Cerberus, but is actually "with" them. But her trust and love for her close friend is absolute, so she takes it out on Jacob instead, then heads off to see what they've "done" to The Normandy [during the ship's "upgrade"] in her absence.

**[in this Version, Kal'Reegar Survives]**

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[ladymarinamart]

[mass-effect-anonymous]

CONFESSION:

My brother got me into Mass Effect and I don't think he realizes how much of an impact this game made on me. My Hotspot and wifi names are The Normandy and I truly think the game got me through the worst years of my life.

[dr-ladybird]

Tali vs stealth tech

I tend to ignore the canon implications that Tali stole Alliance stealth technology.

Reasons:

It’s only mentioned in a one-second Easter egg and then canon completely forgets about it. That’s too important to chuck in for one second without unpacking! Either discuss it properly or leave it out! (It could, theoretically, have potential re Tali’s divided loyalties and struggle to decide what’s right... but I’ve never seen anyone write that. Someone should.)

Quarians have enough Space Roma coding that having them as sneaky thieves seems a bit mean to the Actual Existing Roma.

Everyone I’ve met so far who actively likes the idea (as opposed to “I don’t hate it and it’s canon so I’ll keep it”) has been on team Tali Stole My Boyfriend so I Want To Kill Her. Those guys can duel me for the honour of every woman who’s ever been attracted to a friend’s exclusive partner, fantasised a bit, and never even contemplated trying to seduce the guy IRL because they’re not complete assholes. 

The idea could have potential if someone actually wrote it out and thought through it... but I’d rather go with Tali stealing the tech from Cerberus (definitely her enemy!) during ME2, or some random fleet quarian stealing the tech during Tali’s loyalty mission by getting Ken drunk and having him brag about it, or just ignoring the not-very-plot-relevant fact that the quarians have the tech at all.

[bagog]

N7 Month, 2017 - Day 11: Rebuild

It should come as no surprise that I am still trying to catch up on prompts from two years ago.

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The pieces weren’t coming together.

Heinrich Dodson looked over his schematic for the thousandth time: a frail orange hologram of the Normandy SR2. He’d walked the decks of his ship a hundred times in the facility simulator, knew every curve of her bulkheads and every crevice in her deck plating. Every detail had been painstakingly precise.

And yet, looking out the window at the dry-dock where the skeleton of his creation glimmered against a backdrop of stars, he had to face the reality that the pieces were not coming together. It was no small task to take a ship—a turian human hybrid vessel, no less—and scale it up to double the mass. But that’s why Cerberus had hired him. What Dodson had originally loathed as a too-turian looking frigate had since become the most beautiful shape in the galaxy to him. The Illusive Man had spared no expense in his quest to rebuild the destroyed Normandy: Dodson could’ve built a fleet of fighters with the resources for just this one frigate, and the Tantalus core could power a ship many times its size.

All the latest stress tests indicated that jumping to FTL with the Normandy’s massive core would shake it to pieces, but in simulation everything had been fine. Why weren’t the pieces coming together? He had every resource. Dodson had never before felt more like he was building someone’s hobby ship than he did designing the SR-2. He’d never had this kind of money before, either.

“Come on, baby,” he whispered to the little hologram, then out the window to the framework of the ship. “If you don’t come together, the Illusive Man’s going to have my head.” He’d been assured when he first began his designs that this ship would be the one to save humanity—destined to be a legend, had to be ready for the harshest of battle conditions and the most grueling tests. He believed it, too. He believed in Cerberus. And if they told him his ship would save humanity, he didn’t need to ask ‘from what?’ he just had to build it.