Helius Cluster Aliens - Designs

They're deeply corrupt because they force all other species to share the prothean technology they find, the prothean beacon on Eden Prime being the prime example, while at the same time hoarding prothean technology of their own to keep themselves one step ahead of everyone else.

Just goes to show all their talk of peace and diplomacy is bogus. They have no real interest in a symbiotic relationship with the other species in the galaxy. They will exploit anyone and everything in their power to gain even more power. In that way, they are the anti-thesis of the protheans, who made themselves more powerful by making everyone else more powerful, albeit at the price of their cultural identities.

The asari are much like the US, a parasitic organism slowly killing the civilization it inhabits.

Charge and overload are too fast to even dodge, singularity doesn't need a direct hit and they are vulnerable to explosions.

If you're going to imagine the battle as a in-gameplay encounter, then I'd say the mimics would be an armored unit, so most powers wouldn't be very effective against them. But that's beyond the point.

Honestly, I'd expect anyone who watched Edge of Tomorrow would reach the conclusion that the mimics, especially in large groups, would be to much for Shepard & Cia. The speed with which they move combined with the power of their attacks and their sheer brutality has no worth comparison in the trilogy. Indeed, an enemy like them is more fit to a game like Bayonetta or Ninja Gaiden than a TPS. 

Anyway, back to what matters. Their design is awesome. So seeing something like them in Andromeda would be welcomed. 

Mimics have long range attacks, they are capable of shooting down aircrafts or individual soldiers. Although for the former they seems to go in an "artillery mode". And the way mimics move is miles beyond what the Adjutants have shown. In fact they are quite slow, with some ability to quick burts of speed. 

For reference:

See I always pictured the Mimics from Edge of Tomorrow to be more akin to an octopus in that they can camouflage themselves, fit into incredibly small openings, and can twist and contort themselves for multiple angles of attack. In watching the film, I always loved how they would move, zipping between several targets twisting their 'bodies' into crazy shapes to better get at their opponents.

If only the Hanar were like that, after all, they meet all the criteria: Invertebrates, strong gripping power in their tentacles, naturally produced neurotoxins, etc. If anything, their cultural politeness, and reliance on Drell as bodyguards and assassins is nothing more than a clever deception. Let the galaxy think that the Hanar are nothing "but big, stupid jellyfish", let the people of the galaxy look towards the Drell as the true martial threat of the two aliens. Meanwhile, that overlooked Hanar has squeezed through a pipe the size of a quarter, strangled the security team in their barracks and then moved on towards the main objective.

Nah, look how she moves:


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She is more like Mario jumping on top of his enemies than Shepard shooting his way from cover to cover. With enemies like the mimics, you either kill them or they kill you. A sharpened helicopter blade allows her to do just that. 

The source material is even more bonkers.