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Mass Effect: The Milky Way
DIR By: Huston
Date: January 7, 2014, 4:28 am
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Re: Mass Effect: The Milky Way
DIR By: CapTon
Date: January 7, 2014, 10:54 am
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Can't wait :)
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Re: Mass Effect: The Milky Way
DIR By: Huston
Date: January 11, 2014, 5:42 am
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CapTon
Cool, then here's an update. ;)
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[center]Note: The third episode of the Mass Effect: The Milky
Way Series.[/center]
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Ferust's hapless moon. Elmere.[/b] Airless, dead, but far from
lifeless.[/i] The moon Elmere is home to a few stellar colonies.
Though most of the establishments here are majorly military
based and are a part of the Ferusian Defense network that
operates to insure the planet's safety for it's 2.9 million
human inhabitants. The moon's mix of communication hubs and
military outposts scan the perimeters of Ferusian space, to
insure that threats, violations such as smuggling and criminals
are detected and kept off from reaching the surface of Ferust.
It's almost like border patrol, but far more extreme. It's also
a training ground for military units as well as harboring
various docking stations for the Aerene System's industrial
transport network.[/center]
[center]Here, we are visiting one of Elmere's most vital
communication hubs and military outpost. Being one of Elmere's
main stations, it works to manage and maintain the moon's busy
communications network as every station works to update their
status, to highten and insure the awarness of all bases on
Elmere. The station is known primarily as the Tharastis Comm
Station. It's located at a reasonably large valley called the
Uzbek Sea, an area that's been pummeled by rock and debris,
forming nearby craters, some which have long existed before
discovery. As night falls, lasting over 3 and half days, the
extreme temperatures and total darkness experienced on Elmere
often means, that activity outside the station is kept to a bare
minimum. [/center]
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[center]The intensity of darkness on Elmere allows for
zero-visibility outside unless you have a reasonably bright
torch or a pressurized vehicle equipped with various fog-lights.
A night on Elmere would be one of the blackest of nights you
would every experience. Besides that, all you would be able to
see visible from the outside is the illuminated station and the
stars in the clear night sky. It'd be over 25 days until the
light of Aerene and its reflective parent planet, Ferust shines
in the airless sky.[/center]
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[center]As you can see, outside of the Tharastis Comm Station is
nothing more than rocks. Activity on the outside is at a low,
whilst inside Tharastis, are dozen, even hundreds of people
running the station, living life, in the station, equipped with
whatever anyone would want and need; be that recreation &
leisure, good food, a gym and crew quaters etc.
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Re: Mass Effect: The Milky Way
DIR By: Huston
Date: January 12, 2014, 5:13 pm
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Note: The fourth official episode of the Mass Effect: The Milky
Way Series. First time encountering the system Kanaze.
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[center]We've now left the Aerene star system and headed for the
a not so distant star system called Nesu'luun.[/center]
[center]In this solar system, a marginally habitable planet is
situated 0.89 Astronomical Units from the star Nesu'luun. It's a
world choked in Carbon Dioxide, and flooded with polluted and
toxic oceans of water and significant amounts of ammonia;
Kanaze. As a result of rapid industrialization by corporations
putting profit first, dirty mining operations and sub-standard
industrial factories are scattered all over the planet in small
colonies, slowly destroying the planet and increasing it's
already scorching temperatures to higher and more intense
averages.[/center]
[center]But there is more to this scorching globe that's riddled
in swampland. Besides companies and crooks dwelling on Kanaze
Archaeologists, scientists and galactic historians alike have
flocked to the planet to take advantage of the many still intact
ruins of an ancient civilization which were mysteriously wiped
off the face of Kanaze - Such ruins as the Ruins of Selutz,
located only a mere hundred kilometers north of the planet's
largest city and capital; Ark'bor. [/center]
[center]Today, we'll visit the very ruins of an ancient city
with the given name, Selutz. Currently being researched and
explored by a group of independent scientists, historians and
archaelogists who take a prime interest in Kanaze's many
millenia old ruins; ruins that have somehow endured the test of
time.[/center]
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[center]The ruins of Selutz are situated higher up on a mountain
and what remains visible above the thick flora is only a tenth
of what really once stood here. Although many of the researches
based here speculate that the city extends further down
underground, and that what is currently visible is only 5% of
the entire Selutz city complex.[/center]
[center]But most of the people based here are still more
intrigued by the temple, labeled The Sanctum of Selutz, that
stands almost completely intact with no extensive damage or
faults on the building. Historians after making an extensive
survey of the structure believe that it stands as the city's, if
not, the mysterious ancient civilization's possibly most holy
symbol, being an ancient religious structure. By considering its
location, there are further beliefs of the city being built
around this ancient temple. As researchers get in deeper into
the history and reality of Selutz, uncovering the city's hidden
secrets; findings become more intriuging and peculiar.[/center]
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Re: Mass Effect: The Milky Way
DIR By: Huston
Date: January 19, 2014, 5:34 am
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[center]Note: This is the fifth official episode of the Mass
Effect: The Milky Way series. This deviates from the forested
regions of Kanaze's wilderness and crumbling ancient cities to
the planet's disputed planetary capital city.[/center]
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[center]We're still on the same island of Ark'bor, which is just
another part of the greater continental plain of Ilego-Ark'bor.
We've traveled several hundred miles across the island to the
very heart of Kanaze, considered the planet's capital. Ark'bor
City. It's a relatively small metropolis, compacted on an island
surrounded by two rivers. The East Glo'gahn River and its
counterpart, the West Glo'gahn River. It's the scum capital of
the swampy wasteland planet Kanaze, dominated by criminals,
gangs, factions and off-world pirates. It's haven criminal haven
in the lawless Terminus Systems, allowing its inhabitants to do
almost anything on Kanaze. Therefore, with a mediocre excuse for
a government, Ark'bor, as for the entire planet, remains a
corrupt, hectic and totally uncontrolled society. [/center]
[center]Crime in Ark'bor City is on a constant high, and ever
present brothels, bars, nightclubs as well as hideouts litter
the edges of the city's civilian accessible districts. In the
inner core of the city, off-world corporations base invasive
industrial operations, constructing an endless array of
structures, factories, refineries and storage tanks across the
inner metropolitan Ark'bor districts. No matter where you are in
this city, you'll always find yourself in the worst of
situations; but those many in the city tend to be used to this
form environment and ambience, triny, managing and succeeding in
enjoying themselves in a lawless city full of chaos and
disorder.[/center]
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[center]At first glance, the city looks like any other. But
underneath this is a bustling, never ending story of grief,
criminality and an underworld hidden from the surface of the
city. Its surrounding swamplands are often hiding bases, and
obscure the city's position at times. The overgrowth of plants
in this planet is often very radical, which causes for concern
about the future of the city on many occassions. But with the
amount of pollution it throws back into the environment like all
other industrial colonies located on Kanaze; many that of which
are unknown and unregistered on planetary maps, also causes for
question as to how much Stagnum's floral and fauna population
can take.[/center]
[center]And of course, on another note, Cerberus seems to have
found there way into the planet. Though what could possibly hold
much value on this dying rock that Cerberus would want to
retrieve?[/center]
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[center]As evening falls on Ark'bor, the hazy yellow atmosphere
begins to soften into a dark, maroon air. Time doesn't halt
operations on the planet, and so continues to spew out pollution
into the planet's already fragile environment. Industrial
factories like this cover almost 80% of the city's island area,
which has been fully developed. Many of these factories and
refineries run manufacturing operations which are of an unknown
nature, never released, due to the fact that most companies
which base manufacturing here operate anonymously on the planet
with no given records.[/center]
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[center]In the midst of a dark night, wild holograms and bright
seizure inducing lights appear out of nowhere; transforming the
city's civilian outskirt districts into a vibrant skyline of
color. Though a hard place to live, and difficult to access,
many people off-world enjoy the social sites of Ark'bor; clubs,
brothels and bars, with endless parties and continuous streams
of music playing throughout the night. Ark'bor essentially
becomes a nocturnal metropolis; A quiet sleeping city (but of
course, still full of noise, gunshots and criminal activity)
during the day, and a vibrant and cool, yet dangerous social
city during the night.[/center]
[center]Though one can never avert, nor avoid the dangers this
city contains. There's always something hectic, and
life-threatening hiding on the far corner of the street that one
walks through. Ark'bor will eternally be a city of danger,
criminality -- forever spiraling Kanaze into a chaotic world and
destined to be lawless for its foreseeable future.[/center]
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Re: Mass Effect: The Milky Way
DIR By: CapTon
Date: January 30, 2014, 2:52 pm
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Your stuff really is agree :) your writing intellect and graphic
design is impeccable! We hope you post again soon!
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Re: Mass Effect: The Milky Way
DIR By: Huston
Date: January 31, 2014, 6:17 am
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CapTon
Thanks! I'll try to keep this thread as up to date as possible
:)
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Note: This is the sixth official episode of the Mass Effect: The
Milky Way series. This episode ventures away from the
conventional SC4 city perspective, into a third-person shot of
an orbital station on a gas giant, rather than a terrestrial
world.
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[center][Below is the map of an industrial, commercial and
civilian route between Ferust and Austra during their closest
approaches to each other] [/center]
[center]Welcome again. We've now departed the Nesu'luun star
system, and have arrived back at Aerene.[/center]
[center]Today, we'll be visiting a planet that you'd more than
least expect to visit. A gas giant world with a often chaotic
atmosphere and weather pattern; Austra, Aerene's largest local
source of Helium-3, rivaling the Asari mined colony world of
Lera, harbors many orbital stations that conduct mining
operations, solely collecting Helium-3 and extracting Hydrogen
from the very atmosphere of Austra. Like any gas giant, there is
no tracable surface discounting the planet's rocky and metallic
core, therefore surface colonies are not an option to establish.
So besides orbital Helium-3 mining stations, what could possibly
be of interest here to see?[/center]
[center]An irregular signature, showing an environmental
interference and dip in mass, possibly indicating the presence
of an orbital station with active mass effect fields was found
in Austra's higher atmospheric band, where weather is much less
intense, and gravity almost non-existant. It's determined
location was in Austra's Southern Hemisphere Zone S-43, one of
60 helium-3 mining zones which divide the Southern Austran
Hemisphere for practical reasons. The specific zone, Zone
South-43 is a helium-3 mining territory left unoccupied by Human
extraction teams as operations do not yet exist in this area.
With no operations occurring here, it can leave room for just
about anything to take the area, and a suspicious unidentified
station is one possiblity.[/center]
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[center]A group of Cerberus Kodiak transport ships are making
their approach to Austra. Their destination is unknown, as for
their reasons to even go to Austra.[/center]
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[center]As they continue through their designated route, they
begin to make contact with Austra's atmosphere. They've
approached Austra's Southern Hemisphere Zone particularly
referred to by Human Helium-3 miners as Zone S-43. It's one of
60 South Hemisphere divisons, used as reference to easily
allocate operating Helium-3 mining territories on
Austra.[/center]
[center]The transport ships begin to make their decent into
Austra's upper band atmosphere.[/center]
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[center]As they reach the calmer upper band of Austra's
atmosphere, a large mysterious space station is seen further
out. The space station's size and structure suggests a number of
things, but mainly that it's a private orbital research station.
Detection of Mass Effect fields around the atmospheric station
suggest that the station's mass is being decreased in order to
stay afloat, while shielding is operational as well to contain a
calm environment around the station. The low gravity in addition
to mass effect fields om this upper cloud deck also suggests
that the station requires minimal amounts of propulsion to keep
the station in its place above Austra.[/center]
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[center]The Cerberus Kodiaks approach ever closer to the space
station, and are in the midst of its calm environment maintained
by the prolonged use of Mass Effect fields around the station.
This unidentified orbital station is increasingly likely to be a
Cerberus facility; probably taken by Cerberus for the possible
presence of valuable Prothean artifacts and technology and
became an operational facility later on.[/center]
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[center]The Cerberus Kodiaks being their close approach and
eventually make contact with the possibly former Prothean
Station. It looms larger as the obscuring clouds being to shift
away from the station, and emphasizes the station's sheer
size.[/center]
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[center]The clouds obscuring the view of Cerberus' ancient
Prothean orbital station disappear, as more of the station
becomes visible. The Kodiak transport ships now begin to make
their final approach before making contact with the station and
landing in its various docking bays.[/center]
[center]Such a mysterious facility hanging over Austra's upper
atmosphere continues to go unheard and unrecognized by Helium-3
orbital stations and probes surveying the gaseous giant. Only
time can tell what this station means to Cerberus.[/center]
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Re: Mass Effect: The Milky Way
DIR By: CapTon
Date: January 31, 2014, 2:25 pm
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Great update Huston :) truly can't wait for the next one!
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