Mass Effect: Annihilation discussion thread

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It's possible, but perhaps her idea was the genetic data was added to the virus and would've overwritten asari DNA to give them the disorder. Kind of like how they are trialing virus' in the real world to treat cystic fibrosis, by overwriting the problem DNA.

Shit. I believe I found at least 20 fatal lore contradictions (probably around 30), and I can list around 10 off the top of my head. The book is boring until the end of Chapter 8., though it redeems itself partially in Part 2.

Considering the amount of lore errors and self-contradictions (is Iris Non finally a monotheist or a polytheist?), I don't have any hope for Mass Effect as long as Mac Walters or anyone responsible for releasing this thing without a review has something to say. This book is almost as bad as Deception and I don't foresee treating it as a canon source.

They are on their way to the Nexus but everything malfunctions before they arrive, they are 30 years out.

They are slightly ahead of schedule so the Nexus will not have even arrived in Andromeda at this point.

They send a message to the Nexus, who knows how long it took to get there, which we hear in the game. We do not, however, respond.

The book ends with a transmission coming in but it does not say who it was from, perhaps it's the same message the Hyperion received in transit from the milky way.

– crowds of refugees coming from attacks on Noveria and Virmire – even though both of them were uninhabited
– quarians waiting for the geth to "abandon" their homeworld – no quarian we see ever said that they anticipate anything like that.
That "most of them" never saw Rannoch on their eyes is technically true, "everyone" includes "most".
– quarians described as "bird-like", like why
– humans not caring about space at all as an insignificant minority. First counter-example: the protesters Cora meets in the first chapter of Initiation, seeming to be a common sight.
– Blasto 8 being the favourite movie of the drell Sleepwalker: There wasn't even Blasto 7 at the point they departed...
– ...and so weren't Arc Pistols, they were only created based on Rael'Zorah's experiments.
– the drell living poor underdog lives on Kahje, contrary to what the Codex says about them
– only one city on Kahje being able to support drell lives. I don't know what the description of Kahje on the Wiki is based on, but it clearly says "domed cities", in plural.
– krogans being inflicted with the Genophage "decades" ago. Well, technically true, 200 decades ago. But that's not what was indented to be said.
– mirroring surfaces described as a more human than quarian trait of ship desing, contrary to what was said in Initiation
– a grandmother of a quarian on the Arc dying on Rannoch during the geth uprising – quarians don't live that much
– weapons being fed using ammunition not blocks for ammunition to be produced right before the shot
– drell being adjusted to see the entire spectrum of hanar bioluminescence through a surgical operation not a genetic modification
– most quarians being single children: this would cause their population to dwindle while it's just zero-growth
– "Keelah se'lai" not simply "Keelah" as a screw word
– Irunean flora living in Citadel-standard atmospherical conditions
– all mass effect fields being called "biotic" fields – this is only the case of those fields produced by organics
– Keelah Si'yah moving at an approximate cruising speed of eleven light years per day – with this speed, they'd have reached Andromeda at that point
– the raloi thing discussed before, maybe not actually a contradiction
– drell choosing what to remember; I'll need to see through conversations with Thane to confirm whether it's actually a contradiction or not.