shellphones | Tutoring Request | VIDEO

Type: Video
Sender ID: forgeabettertomorrow | (Darin Altway)
To: Everyone
Subject: Darin needs some added perspective for his studies
Warnings: He's stupid

[Darin pulls back from the camera sitting at a drafting table in his home. However, instead of blueprints and sketches and diagrams, things you'd normally see on his drafting table and workstation, there's...an awful lot of textbooks. Darin reaches up and pulls the small pair of reading glasses from his face and pinches the bridge of his nose. No, he's not wearing them for show, he actually does wear reading glasses when he needs them.]

Okay, this is going to sound really really weird coming from me but...I guess I could use some help.

Does anyone understand how like...government works? Like, at all? Because it seems like a whole bunch of rules and guidelines that should be common sense until they aren't and the more I read, the more I feel like I've either understood this my entire life or I'm going crazy.

Plus? I never went to school so...anyone up for a spirited debate? Something? Anything? If I spend anymore time reading I think I might eat the next book.

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Nice lenses. Trying to copy my look?

[#helpful]

Last time I checked if I wanted to copy you I'd shove the right side of my face in the forge.

You never know. Zelda might prefer a man with facial scars. I'm told they're popular like that.

Pretty sure Zelda doesnt want to see me with any more scars at all.

Hey remember that talk we had about the council or whatever that was made up of humans being jackasses because you had the audacity to be born something else?

How did that all work out

Mm, you're right. You'd probably somehow attract a krogan woman. The Council? You mean the Citadel Council? Where humans joined up recently?

Yeah that thing

Sounds like humans were throwing their weight around. Howd it work before humans came and started being asses?

I wouldn't say they were being asses... One of them accomplished something pretty damn significant for it to happen. There were three Councilors - asari, salarian, turian. The major powers in Citadel Space. They made the decisions for the majority, appointed Spectres, that kind of thing. But every species had some kind of autonomy in their borders. Didn't always work out that well... Slavery, for example. It's outlawed everywhere outside batarian space, but because it's "their culture", inside their borders, it's still going strong.

So each race had a representative on the council? And that representative would report back to the respective governing bodies? That kinds sounds similar to the guilds in my world. Each guild had a representative that took on negotiations between other guilds and lawmakers. Someone who had the interests of their people at heart.

Problem was that sometimes self-interests kicked in. It's really easy to have one man in your pocket as opposed to a group.

Just a few. Only the ones who "made a contribution to the galaxy". Humans pushed back an invasion, asari found the Citadel and founded the Council with the salarians, and turians... well. We bombed the krogan into submission and released the genophage on them. But it's got the same problems as you're talking about. And the war just made that more obvious. None of them would help the effort until their own people were secured. Against the Reapers, that just wasn't possible.

I dont think you ever actually told me what Reapers were. Worse than a planet destroying god?

Didn't I? Damn. They're... yeah, I'd say they're worse. At least if a god destroys your planet, it's quick. They're sentient machines, probably the size of these Leviathans. And there's an army's worth of them. Organic beings are, to them, the same as livestock, or farm crops. They let them mature, evolve, develop technology and culture and history and then bam. They pop back up again, and harvest anything with an IQ. To process into more Reapers. Or turn into shock troops - husks. Indoctrinated, techno-organic monsters controlled completely by the Reapers. You're not fighting them half the time, you're fighting your own people.

Thats what you guys were dealing with?? Whats even their end game? Why keep doing this? Wont they eventually

I dunno

run out of life??

They see themselves as the dominant species. Harvesting, reaping, organic life to maintain themselves. Once the galaxy's wiped clean, they go back to wherever the hell they stay between cycles. And let life evolve again until they're ready to come back.

So they just swoop in every several eons, clean house, then hope their bumper crop grows back?

Yeah pretty sure if I lived in your universe Id use all of my strength to fight them off too.

Yeah. That's pretty much it, exactly. Or it was... until recently. We could have used you, truth be told.

What really? What makes you think I could stand up to something like that?

And what happened recently?

... Are you serious? Do you not remember throwing an entire ship? The shark men?

["What happened"]

[Well, that gets him to actually smirk a little, on his end.]

Shepard happened. She... they were actually afraid of her. She'd killed more than one of them, and they knew it. And in the end? She managed to find a way to take them all down at once.

I mean yeah but I dont know what I could do against something like that.

Thats incredible. Shes really amazing.

Break a hole in the underside, give ships a chance to fire through a gap in their armor. … Yeah She was There’s no one like her in any galaxy.

Wait how big are these things??

Anywhere from... about from 160 meters to over 2 kilometers. I think that's all the ones we'd catalogued.

THATS A LOT BIGGER THAN I WAS IMAGINING GARRUS

How big were you imagining?

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