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Post by Obliviousmiss on May 16, 2017 7:59:06 GMT
Gwyvian and kestrel, your fics give me life while I'm up feeding my baby in the middle of the night!!!
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Post by ninaskye on May 16, 2017 9:04:17 GMT
Am I the only one who finds it a little strange, and a little unbelievable, that the Angara are the only life forms in the Helius Cluster? I'm hoping that, if we go get sequels, they explore this. Because I agree, the Angara are definitely hiding something. Maybe Jaal will be the first one to crack and tell Sara everything?
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Post by Gwyvian on May 16, 2017 9:31:45 GMT
OH, just you wait!! I think I'll be filling some of your requests in my future... plans. I just drew up my outline a few hours ago that touches on some of these points, as it happens. Also, I'm secretly shipping the idea of Evfra writing poetry to Ryder but I just can't bring myself to canon it in my Evfra angst stuff, so... informal forum notes it remains. So looking forward to that! Then again, I look forward to everything you write As for that Ryder/Evfra email thing, some more of my weird ideas about how it goes - again, it is not a request and I do not expect anybody to fill it, I just feel the need to ramble and to throw some ideas out there. Anyway, in my headcanon Sara is somewhat traumatized by everything that is going on - yes, she had some Alliance training, and yes, she had some run-ins with the pirates at her digs, and yes, she knows perfectly well how to shoot a gun, but she has no command experience, and has never been in a situation where she has to be prepared to fight at any moment for a prolonged period of time. A mall cop to a soldier at war, if that makes sense. So eventually she'd kind of unravel, Evfra would of course recognize what is going on - he had seen it many times - and he would write (grumpily, of course) to Jaal telling him to freaking take care of it, otherwise the Pathfinder would be more liability than an asset (in my headcanon Jaal has been involved in training recruits and managing people who don't necessary know what they are in for and what they are doing). I can also imagine his reaction at learning just how defenseless Tempest is (I remember Jaal being pretty baffled by that), so he'd say in that "tolerating no argument" tone that if she has to cross a hostile space and if he considers it justified and important to Angaran interests, then Tempest is getting a freaking escort because WTF. And the poetry thing - I imagine Ryder sending a few midnight ramblings, which he does not hate as much as he should, and once she annoys him with it enough, he'd send a short, cutting but surprisingly decent response in kind. Hey, ramble away! You never know who you might be inspiring around here....... yikes, I have quite a bit to go back over and read today. kestrel You keep making me fall in love with Kandros! I'll admit he wasn't on my radar when the game first came out but your fics really made me see him in a new light and now I'm glad I have another alien to obsess over. Gwyvian I already mooned over Akksul but you're making my fixation on him worse (in a good way). It's going to be really interesting and steamy reading how they end up working together. I can't stress how busy I've been blegh but I didn't want you both thinking that I didn't appreciate your fics, they really lighten my mood. As for the weird creepy fics everyone mentioned when I was glancing through here quick; nothing squicks me out like incest, it also brings back the terrible thread flashbacks about people seriously wanting to romance Bethany as Hawke......I mean I don't want to judge anyone's fetish but that is probably the fastest way for me to nope out of somewhere, since you know I have a brother and Also, I approve of the Oberyn love I saw. Aww, thank you. It means a lot that you take the time to respond. Dammit Oberyn, stop being so beautiful and gone. GRRRRRRRR. Gwyvian and kestrel , your fics give me life while I'm up feeding my baby in the middle of the night!!! It is my absolute pleasure!
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Post by Gwyvian on May 16, 2017 9:36:18 GMT
Awww this is just so...!! I'm not sure I can express how much I adore this picture now!!
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Post by ninaskye on May 16, 2017 11:02:53 GMT
So does anyone else think there might be other alien species out there other than the Angara? Other then the Jardaan?
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 11:36:49 GMT
Am I the only one who finds it a little strange, and a little unbelievable, that the Angara are the only life forms in the Helius Cluster? I'm hoping that, if we go get sequels, they explore this. Because I agree, the Angara are definitely hiding something. Maybe Jaal will be the first one to crack and tell Sara everything? It was odd to me too, but I just chalked it down to BioWare trying to save money. After jettisoning so many MW species I had hoped for more new aliens to have been created.
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Post by beholderess on May 16, 2017 12:10:19 GMT
I am more confused by the fact that there is exact same wildlife on every planet. Those kaerkyn are everywhere!
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Post by yeah rip on May 16, 2017 12:51:12 GMT
"Same wildlife on every planet" has been a thing since OT.
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Post by beholderess on May 16, 2017 13:00:01 GMT
"Same wildlife on every planet" has been a thing since OT. Yes, and it is still weird
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Post by chococri on May 16, 2017 13:46:03 GMT
*Slams fist into table* MORE.
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Post by PenDev0us on May 16, 2017 14:07:33 GMT
*Slams fist into table* MORE.
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Post by Solas on May 16, 2017 14:12:32 GMT
Gwyvian and kestrel , your fics give me life while I'm up feeding my baby in the middle of the night!!! Awwhh that's so sweet humm. isn't the same wildlife thing explained by the whole biological seeding thing with the jardaan?
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 14:45:58 GMT
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Post by lilyenachaos on May 16, 2017 15:00:24 GMT
Gwyvian and kestrel , your fics give me life while I'm up feeding my baby in the middle of the night!!! Awwhh that's so sweet humm. isn't the same wildlife thing explained by the whole biological seeding thing with the jardaan? Yes. That. Also, humans were the only ones in the Sol system. That is just one system in the Milky Way though, just like Heleus is one system in Andromeda. I am sure if we ever expand to some of the other systems in MEA2 we will encounter more.
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Post by janalilith on May 16, 2017 15:46:34 GMT
This is really adorable! I love that he was a skinny little thing too. Aww!!! I agree with others that it was a bit disappointing that we didn't encounter more than the Angara and Kett, but at least the Angara are so awesome. I'm going to go and read some fics now - so much reading to do!! Poor, poor me LOL.
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Post by Sable Rhapsody on May 16, 2017 15:56:25 GMT
Awwhh that's so sweet humm. isn't the same wildlife thing explained by the whole biological seeding thing with the jardaan? Yes. That. Also, humans were the only ones in the Sol system. That is just one system in the Milky Way though, just like Heleus is one system in Andromeda. I am sure if we ever expand to some of the other systems in MEA2 we will encounter more. Heleus is a cluster, not a single star system like Sol. (Yes, sorry, I'm being THAT GUY ). And in IRL astronomy, cluster is actually used to describe a grouping of GALAXIES (and that terminology can vary to make things even more confusing). Though the way the devs used "cluster" in Andromeda, I think it's supposed to mean the large grouping of stars around the black hole. Again, sorry. Back to your regularly scheduled Jaal.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on May 16, 2017 16:25:21 GMT
I am more confused by the fact that there is exact same wildlife on every planet. Those kaerkyn are everywhere! To be fair, that can be explained by all those planets being ones with Vaults so the Jaardan most likely introduced those creatures on all those planets. The Jaardan are also why I'm not surprised that the only sentient species in the Heleus Cluster are the angara.
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Post by lilyenachaos on May 16, 2017 16:30:58 GMT
Yes. That. Also, humans were the only ones in the Sol system. That is just one system in the Milky Way though, just like Heleus is one system in Andromeda. I am sure if we ever expand to some of the other systems in MEA2 we will encounter more. Heleus is a cluster, not a single star system like Sol. (Yes, sorry, I'm being THAT GUY ). And in IRL astronomy, cluster is actually used to describe a grouping of GALAXIES (and that terminology can vary to make things even more confusing). Though the way the devs used "cluster" in Andromeda, I think it's supposed to mean the large grouping of stars around the black hole. Again, sorry. Back to your regularly scheduled Jaal. Yeah yeah, correct terminology and all that. Still, Andromeda is much larger than the Meelky Way. It does make me wonder what was in Heleus life-wise before the Jaardan started tinkering. I mean, none of the planets had life before they got there? If there was life on the planets, what did they do with it?
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Post by kestrel on May 16, 2017 16:37:22 GMT
*Slams fist into table* MORE. I'll have more at some point this week. I try not to overwhelm people too much haha.
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Post by fadburger on May 16, 2017 16:41:42 GMT
Heleus is a cluster, not a single star system like Sol. (Yes, sorry, I'm being THAT GUY ). And in IRL astronomy, cluster is actually used to describe a grouping of GALAXIES (and that terminology can vary to make things even more confusing). Though the way the devs used "cluster" in Andromeda, I think it's supposed to mean the large grouping of stars around the black hole. Again, sorry. Back to your regularly scheduled Jaal. Yeah yeah, correct terminology and all that. Still, Andromeda is much larger than the Meelky Way. It does make me wonder what was in Heleus life-wise before the Jaardan started tinkering. I mean, none of the planets had life before they got there? If there was life on the planets, what did they do with it? I don't think the planets were habitable before the Jardaan started to mess with them. The way they are when we arrive in Heleus is their natural state aka how the Jardaan found them, that's why they needed the vaults to make them habitable. I think. I guess that would have to mean the Jardaan is quite an ancient race though, for the planets to have seemed viable when the Initiative designated them for colonization though...so maybe I'm wrong? Also I suppose we don't know if the Jardaan were native to Heleus or not too...
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Post by fadburger on May 16, 2017 16:52:39 GMT
Yes. That. Also, humans were the only ones in the Sol system. That is just one system in the Milky Way though, just like Heleus is one system in Andromeda. I am sure if we ever expand to some of the other systems in MEA2 we will encounter more. Heleus is a cluster, not a single star system like Sol. (Yes, sorry, I'm being THAT GUY ). And in IRL astronomy, cluster is actually used to describe a grouping of GALAXIES (and that terminology can vary to make things even more confusing). Though the way the devs used "cluster" in Andromeda, I think it's supposed to mean the large grouping of stars around the black hole. Again, sorry. Back to your regularly scheduled Jaal. Yeah I think the devs wanted it to feel like we had a specific boundary rather than using actual terminology since we can't explore all of Andromeda (at least not yet...or at least not more of it since we don't have the relays).
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Post by fadburger on May 16, 2017 16:56:01 GMT
Also regarding other aliens, I have a feeling that in the future when we go deeper into the main kett background/storyline we'll hear about more aliens from different places, after all there were some kett that were clearly not angara initially and they didn't start with Milky Way races until later.
PS. I get a very strong feeling that the kett are like the borg lol
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