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Sara Ryder ([personal profile] profallsional) wrote2021-08-08 05:27 pm

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[personal profile] earthborn 2021-09-28 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Probably for the best. Even if the sheer time didn't kill everybody's families, the Reapers probably cut them off early. I stopped looking at the casualty reports before long, but it was something like a trillion dead in the first day alone.

[A trillion is a number that doesn't feel real, isn't really possible to imagine, but— but you think about it on the scale of planets. Even at it's miserable, polluted, packed-in height, the population of Earth never got to even a tenth so many.]

There isn't a Batarian Hegemony anymore; if they could scrape together a breeding population large enough to keep from going extinct it'd surprise me. Palaven was a shit-show, and Thessia; the Asari had been holding out on us, but they wasted their advantage and went down as hard as any of us. I was there that day. Humans were hit pretty hard too— we lost Earth early. Surkesh never even stood a chance.

But you know what? The Krogan are doing just fine. Funny how that works.

[She's quiet a moment. This is... probably not reassuring, any of it. Jesus, her standards really have shifted, huh?]

Sorry, this is... uh. Kinda grim.
earthborn: (we fight or we die)

[personal profile] earthborn 2021-09-28 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
The Reapers are dead. And we killed them. Countless cycles of harvest and genocide, the Protheans and untold numbers of others before them— and we won. We inherit the galaxy, now.

[She's not as proud of it as she should be, but her voice is resolute, firm. For a minute, Shepard is the vision on all those recruitment posters, back in the day.]

We lost a lot to do it. But if it's any comfort at all, we were all marked for dead from the beginning. So technically we are way in the black on this one. My only real hope is that the Reaper Problem is limited to the Milky Way alone. Then again, I'm sure you'd have said something if you showed up in another Galaxy and stumbled across a Relay.

[You would have, right Ryder? Right? Right?]

But enough about Reapers, they've had more than their share. Tell me about Heleus.
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[personal profile] earthborn 2021-09-28 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Sound Reaper enough to me. [Though when she says it like that, it's more like a threat: Reaper enough to die.] That's what the Reapers do; they process people. Turn them into husks, or worse. You ever hear of the Collectors?

[Most colony kids had; if not from recent events, then from the old spacer's tales. But unlike star-eaters or mothmen, Collectors were very real.]

They're Protheans. Or, they used to be, before the Reapers got ahold of them. It's probably not very xeno-friendly of me, I'm sure there are people that would say that it's wrong to judge aliens for having weird life cycles.

But fuck 'em up, Pathfinder. If what you're saying is true, then a dead Kett sounds like the best kind, to me.
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[personal profile] earthborn 2021-09-30 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Tell you what. You run with me until then, we'll send you back fit for an N-school graduate. Better than new.

[Ah, if Ryder only knew the backroom deals Shepard's been offered in her time. But then, those stakes had been very different.]

Heard you mention a brother in there.