Mass Effect: Discovery #4 - Discussion

Well BenefactorS. Yes, I caught the plural. So we're dealing with more than one person, or the perception of more than one person ala The Shadow Broker? There seems to be some hinting at some of the conversations in Leviathan to the point where I am seriously suspecting the AI on Voeld, and that there is more under those frozen oceans than we think. Maybe more of Leviathan's kind? He did say that they were scattered all over the Universe. If so, am I really correct in thinking that the Scourge is alive or part of a living organism?

I am guessing that Luna is one of the people killed when the Nexus hits the Scourge. Where is Sloane? I mean, Luna would have had to been her agent if she was Security Director from the beginning unless she doesn't give a shit, is being left out, or wasn't the original Security Director. Uprising makes it seem that she was it prior to launch, but she never talked to Jien Garson until the day of. Hell, she'd had more contact with Addison in the sense that she knew enough that she wanted to avoid her.

In the comics, Kandros has routine contact with her. Was he always intended for Sloane's job?

Leviathan makes the statement in 3 that they have been ever-present. Regardless of who knew about them, they were always in the Milky Way and beyond. Andromeda's present-day storyline is 600 years in the future. The fact that the writers slipped up and had Nyreen talk about the Heretics is really telling.

The Council is too stupid and too sloppy to keep something like that a secret. I suspect the Asari which would tie in Keri and the Leusinia, The Shadow Broker (not Liara), and Cerberus. Aethyta makes a comment in 2 or 3 acknowledging that she and the Asari, in general, have been working on replicating the Mass Relay technology to build their own, as well as plans for the Citadel. Jien Garson would have had to have gotten the plans from them. Really amazing if you think about how invested Liara and her family are in the Andromeda Initiative. o.o

Luna Shanks. Jien Garson's hired goon that is supposedly a Security Agent, but Sloane is curiously absent. Luna is in all of the issues.