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Post by cmdrshep2183 on Oct 19, 2017 2:29:16 GMT
Do you think Mac Walters read it?  "The first intelligent species to Earth attacked without warning, and only three colony ships escaped. 150 years later, planet Darien hosts humans at peace with indigenous scholarly Uvovo. Buried on the forest moon are secrets of an epic battle between ancient races. In a galactic war, what will Uvovo choose, when their nature is revealed, and the enemy comes?" One of those ships was named Hyperion. Do you think the story writers for Andromeda got the ideas for the Angara and the battle between the Jardaan and the ones who deployed the scourge from this novel? |
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Post by pessimistpanda on Oct 19, 2017 2:36:41 GMT
There's dozens, literally hundreds of books and films and comics and other media that use this same basic premise. The people behind Mass Effect are doubtless aware of at least some of it.
Hyperion is a titan from Greek mythology, and literally every sci-fi novel ever has re-purposed names from Greek and Roman myth for ships and planets and the like. What's surprising is that they didn't call it something even lazier and more on the nose, like Gaia.
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Post by suikoden on Oct 19, 2017 2:49:07 GMT
Pretty crap reviews on goodreads. So that would fit with Andromeda.
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Post by colfoley on Oct 19, 2017 3:54:12 GMT
Its a pretty generic synopsis really.
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Post by Steelcan on Oct 19, 2017 4:05:12 GMT
Mass Effect has always borrowed heavily from other Sci-fi works. Did they use this particular one as inspiration? No clue, and unless you want to subpoena the writers' library cards I don't see how we can know.
Its enough that the work was wholly unoriginal and repetitive.
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Post by Atemporal Vanguardian-Debugger on Oct 20, 2017 1:58:13 GMT
All sci-fi these days seems to be Cliche` laden.
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Post by Jeremiah12LGeek on Oct 20, 2017 20:05:02 GMT
I'm pretty sure the story in Andromeda is a natural extension of the need to mention the events of ME 3 as little as possible. I think that's probably 90% of the reason the story is what it is.
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