inherit
6511
0
Jan 19, 2018 10:28:58 GMT
5
djwolf
10
March 2017
djwolf
|
Post by djwolf on Apr 23, 2017 16:39:56 GMT
Unfortunately Ryder misses the mutiny followed by the exiles leaving. I'm trying to picture this. So, Fred Blogs is identified as one of the mutineers and like the pirates of old he is forced to walk the plank into the great unknown. Oookaaay... But before they were exiled, in order for them to be exiled the mutiny had to be defeated by a superior force of arms. After that the villains were herded into shuttles at gunpoint and told to leave. They were exiles and not deserters, right? If they were deserters then the initiative could well have been overpowered and those who CHOSE to leave may well have raided the armory and everything else.
The mystery here is how a lot of people forced to leave at gunpoint were able to steal many hundreds of tons of equipment in shuttles resulting in initiative-style buildings scattered over Kadara especially. They ended up with more gear than the initiative has.
How did these exiles manage to set up a mining facility on some out of the way planet that I can't land on because it has a surface temperature of 396 degrees centigrade?
How can I not laugh when every gang leader or cannibal is ex-Nexus Security?
Maybe that should be the next installment, game or DLC. How Tann and Addison, the most incompetent pair in the Milky Way's history could immediately fare worse than the people they'd exiled. Of course, there is a far darker scenario. The Initiative program was NOT one of exploration at all. The shadowy "benefactor" managed to collect every scumbag, every incompetent and every shallow, boring person in the known universe, tell them they were pioneering heroes, and ship them off out of the gene pool. It worked for "the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" for the hairdressers and Tann was an accountant.
|
|
inherit
6868
0
Nov 26, 2018 12:44:17 GMT
57
klijpope
48
April 2017
klijpope
|
Post by klijpope on Apr 23, 2017 17:02:34 GMT
Read Nexus Uprising, it's all there. Does a good job of getting into the head-space of the principal players in the mutiny, how it is resolved, and how the exiles are exiled and can take the gear they have.
|
|
inherit
6511
0
Jan 19, 2018 10:28:58 GMT
5
djwolf
10
March 2017
djwolf
|
Post by djwolf on Apr 24, 2017 8:50:47 GMT
Then they were not exiles, they were deserters. And Tann should be sacked for incompetence. Why would you allow criminals to "take the gear they have" thereby depriving the authority of valuable resources but even worse, set up lawless criminal enclaves on the worlds the initiative needed to colonize. Tann and his morons didn't know if there was indigenous life that needed a careful and measured approach that would require strict policies. They knew nothing of the available space at that time and they had a realistic solution. Send all mutineers back into cryo-sleep and wake replacements who would understand the consequences of rebellion.
The Krogan exodus was understandable. They weren't exiles and since they were the "muscle' that put down the rebellion no one was around to stop them. In addition, they had every intention of continuing the initiative's directives by forming a colony. And, since the Krogan were valued enough to be brought along on a 600 year journey who decided to not give them a pathfinder? Giving Krogan fair grounds for a discrimination complaint was whose decision?
I realise that Bioware needed re-spawning "enemies" like raiders and outcasts made up of gangs, cannibals and the worst that the Milky Way could possibly scrounge up, but natives of the Andromeda Galaxy should have been used. What they did compromised my pride in the initiative because I was fronting scum and incompetents.
Finally, I was annoyed by the assertion of the criminals that they owed the initiative nothing. I wonder how much it cost for each colonist to put them in cryo-sleep for 600 years, keep them alive and get them to Andromeda. Ryder never brings this up. None of this is realistic in a space Western where the Marshal announces that these new territories now come under Federal law. The mutiny was a device that wasn't thought out.
|
|