Mass Effect: Annihilation discussion thread

I agree with that order, I'd say Annihilation and Initiation were close but Uprising was really lacking.
I put Uprising down for months and just couldn't be bothered to pick it back up until Initiation was about to come out and I had to finish it.

*Spoilers*

Just on the ‘grandmother’ thing, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t meant literally. My impression was that Liat is many generations removed from Senna and is referred to as ‘grandmother’ affectionately.

Also, did the description of a Drell and Liat’s projection smoking cigarettes bother anyone else? I’m sure each species has its vices but why would they be human ones (particularly on Rannoch before humanity was discovered)? I don’t recall any references in the trilogy to non-humans smoking, although I could be wrong.

And I’m a bit unsure about the frequent descriptions of views of stars and comets etc (albeit distorted) out the Ark’s windows. I always understood that in FTL travel you couldn’t distinguish anything outside the ship - you can’t in the in-game FTL cinematics, at least - and this is faster FTL than in the game, at roughly 4,000 times the speed of light!

Otherwise I really enjoyed the book and the plot twist was well done. It got a little bit slow in parts but I absolutely loved how much effort Valente put into crafting such unique characters. They are probably some of the deepest characters anyone has created in the ME universe. I really want to see/hear more of Anax, Senna, Borbala and Irit now... :/

Thanks for clarifying the visibility thing!



I would have used a spoiler tag before but I was on my phone so it was a bit fiddly. Hence writing *spoilers* at the top.

Tom did an amazing job reading the book. He said there were no post effects added to his voice even for the Elcor, he's a talented guy.

If someone who has read the novel does not mind, can you tell me what the ultimate fate of the ark is and all the species? I am going to assume some hundreds of people die but ultimately they are saved and find some planet to colonize?

I appreciate that.

Huh. that's interesting and a little disappointing. 

Thank you, but can we talk about how much a hgue bomb shell that is? like i did a reading double take from the, just casually referencing the reapers like it no bloody big deal.

The menssage from the Quarian Pathfinder at the end of ME Andromeda was most likely related to what Senna said at the end of MEA:Annihilation. They would keep away from the Nexus until full decontamination protocols were followed to avoid infecting anyone with the virus and also to give them time to choose if they would either tell the truth or come up with a bullshit story for the decontamination.

About the Reapers, since the Batarian Hegemony was pretty much isolated from everyone else most people didn't pay mind to the "news blackout" from their sector of space until refuges started poaring through the Exodus Cluster. Even so people only start taking things seriously when later the Reapers atack both Earth and Palaven at the same time.

So most likely the people at the Keelah Si'yah had no idea that was the begining of a galactic wide invasion instead of some minor unknown species starting a war with the Hegemony.