#hendel mitra

[nesonkin]

I know it's a lot to hope for but if only new Mass Effect game would feature Gillian Grayson and Hendel Mitra and their quarian gang because Deception never happened and because I wanna see more of Gillian again

[sky-ham]

Playing around with the flycam in ME3 and saw some interesting stuff (note: heavily modded game so I’m not sure if these textures were added or already present in vanilla). [1 / 2]

1 - 2) Recurring note textures found in almost all areas on the Normandy. 

The yellow paper has handwritten text describing events in the ME novels in the Grayson arc. Some of the stuff I could make out are; “the quarian Migrant Fleet”; ”Illusive Man”; closer to the bottom, “decided to [...?] Cerberus and intended to send Gillian and her tutor Hendel Mitra to the Collectors. During a Cerberus attack on the Flotilla, Grayson [...?] his daughter, but decided to abandon Cerberus ... that they would use Gillian as a weapon.” On the left side, “Shepard’s body [...]”

White paper also mentions some lore, like: 

“turian occupied Shanxi”

“Eva Core”

“Eldfell-Ashland Energy”

“Michael Moser Lang, who would go on to gun down United North American States president Enrique Aguilar and Chinese People's Federation premier Ying Xiong in 2176 and sabotaging the starship MSV [...?]“

3 - 5) Books in the medbay and Captain’s cabin, and Starboard Ob Deck library. Kinda funny cause they Normandy seem to have stocked up on every book talking about the next xxx years or so. Titles include:

The Next Ten Thousand Years, by Adrian Berry

The Next 200 Years

SPACE: The Next Twenty-Five Years

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, by Taylor

The Next 25 Years: The new Supreme Court and what it means for Americans, by Garbus

America's Next Twenty Years

The Next Fifty Years of Flight

Energy: The Next Twenty Years

The Next Four Years, by Phillips

Over 1600 Years Ago in the Roman Empire, by Sauvain

Pompeii 1000 Years Ago and Today

Looking Forward: The Next Forty Years, by John Marks Templeton

The Next 70 Years

The Next 100 Years, by George Friedman

Man: The Next 30 Years

The Next One Hundred Years, by Jonathan Winer (?)

Greece: The Next 300 Years

First Person

A Royal Duty, by Paul Burrell

 6 - 8) Papers found on James’s workbench in the Cargo Bay, in the Captain’s Cabin, and weirdly, used as the textures on what I thought would be poker cards in the Port Ob Deck. 

Paper on top describes the Lazarus Project. The paper underneath with the Cerberus logo and TIM’s signature talks about Project Phoenix (from the Rebellion DLC for ME3MP). 7th pic shows that the text is the same as transcribed in the wiki link.

9) In the gun battery, never really noticed the alien text before. I’m guessing it’s probably turian since the Normandy is a joint project?

[ahmadsabilalfaqih]

Kinerja Dan Dilema Bayu

"Assalamualaikum Bayu. Gimana kabar hari ini?"

"Alhamdulillah baik Pak."

"Gimana MoU kita dengan CV. Citra? Apakah lancar tanpa hambatan?"

"Alhamdulillah lancar Pak. Aman."

Setelah satu tahun kepergian Joni, Posisi manajer diisi oleh Bayu. Staff ahli sekaligus penasehat spiritual Joni. Bayu paham betul celah dan peluang di divisi tersebut. Sehingga dia bisa memainkan peran dengan baik. Bahkan beberapa perjanjian kerjasama bisa dia hendel.

Termasuk perjanjian dengan CV. Citra. Meskipun kondisi saat ini, pandemi yang terus memberi dampak terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi dan beberapa sektor industri. Tapi Bayu bisa berdiplomasi dengan baik dan mampu meyakinkan mitra terkait prospek kedepannya.

Sehingga mitra merasa puas dengan pelayanan dan kerjasama dengan perusahan ini.

Pak Broto sebenarnya sudah sejak lama mengamati gerak-gerik Bayu. Mengamati cara kerjanya. Ia melihat Bayu seorang pekerja keras, pantang menyerah, pantang putus asa, mampu mengelola emosi menjadi energi positif.

Terkadang ia perhatikan Bayu, ketika melihat ada kesalahan teknis di beberapa unit dan person, Bayu tidak langsung menyalahkan dan menjust. tapi justru mendampingi dan memberi motivasi kepada karyawan tersebut. Hal kecil dan sederhana itu yang membuat Bayu dicintai dan disegani oleh rekannya. Juga berdampak pada kinerja karyawan dan peningkatan produksi.

Pak Broto menyadari bahwa nepotisme di perusahaannya memang sedikit banyak memberi pengaruh. Ia bersyukur beberapa keputusan radikalnya beberapa waktu belakangan ini memberi cahaya terang bagi masa depan perusahaan.

Sebenarnya dalam pandangannya Joni juga tak kalah hebat dalam menahkodai anak perusahaan, hanya saja kemampuan mengendalikan emosionalnya masih perlu ditingkatkan. Karena beberapa pekerjaan yang sebenarnya tidak terlalu rumit, tapi karena emosi tak terkendali sehingga waktu dan pemikiran tercurah dan terkuras ke internal.

Di sisi lain, tak bisa dipungkiri. Joni yang notabene lulusan Amerika tersebut banyak menganut ekonomi konvensional, ekonomi ribawi yang sudah banyak ditinggalkan baik di negara-negara Eropa maupun di benua lainnya.

Bayu yang notabene lulusan dalam negeri. Jurusan ekonomi syariah. Hanya bermodalkan prinsip-prinsip dasar ekonomi yang dia pahami. Tapi itu sudah cukup untuk memberi masukan dan pertimbangan ke stake holder di rapat-rapat maupun pertemuan lainnya.

Sebenarnya Bayu juga banyak membaca buku-buku ekonomi konvensional dan buku-buku manajemen moderen untuk menambah wawasan.

Tetapi modal terbesar Bayu yang selalu ia tanamkan. Kejujuran, kerja keras, pantang menyerah dan terus belajar membuat ia bisa terus mendapat kepercayaan. Masukannya selalu menjadi pertimbangan.

Inilah yang membuat pak Broto menaruh hati kepada Bayu. Ia melihat ada masa depan cerah di tangan Bayu. Hanya saja hal ini baru ia sadari setelah kepergian Joni.

Sebenarnya sudah tiga kali pak Broto memanggil Bayu terkait perjodohanya dengan Vivi, anaknya. Bayu selalu menjawab bahwa, ia ingin diberi kesempatan untuk memikirkan.

"Bayu gimana terkait pembicaraan kita kemarin?"

"Mmm... beri saya waktu Pak."

Sebenarnya Bayu sudah mulai merasa tidak enak, malu menolak tawaran pak Broto. Saat istikharah itu sebenarnya Bayu sudah ada petunjuk mengarah ke sana. Hanya saja ia ingin menjaga perasaan ibu. Ibu ingin menantu yang sholehah dan Bayu belum melihat itu di Vivi.

#Day10

#30dwcjilid33

#Kai2en

#ceritafiksi

[n7initiative]

Mass Effect: Deception

Mass Effect: Deception follows Gillian Grayson in her quest to avenge her father by killing the Illusive Man.

The book begins with Kai Leng on the Batarian homeworld. He's infiltrating an auction to obtain a bioweapon designed to kill the Illusive Man. Despite his injuries from the last book that are still hurting him, he manages to badass his way through enough people to steal the bioweapon in the most high-profile theft of all time and escapes. Upon delivering the weapon to the Illusive Man, he's given orders to steal back Paul Grayson's body and keep tabs on Kahlee Sanders and Admiral Anderson.

Later, Kahlee Sanders, David Anderson, and Nick Donohue petitioning the council to take the Reaper threat more seriously by using Paul Grayson's indoctrinated corpse as proof. The Council doesn't buy it, saying it was Cerberus who did the augmenting, and the technology that pervades the body is obviously theirs. Nick, who is reportedly still recovering from being shot in the stomach by Kai Leng at the end of the last book, runs off at some point during the presentation to the council to hang out at a biotic gym, and runs away to join a biotic supremacist group called “The Biotic Underground.” Kahlee and Anderson go searching but to no avail. While they're out tracking down leads, Kai Leng bugs Anderson's apartment and, to mark his territory, eats Anderson's cereal. I am not joking. This happens.

Meanwhile the Quarian ship The Idenna is attacked by Batarian slavers. With the help of Gillian Grayson and Hendel Mitra, the Quarians defeat the slavers and take control of the ship. One of the former slaves reveals that he was a Cerberus operative and that Paul Grayson, Gillian's father, is dead. Gillian swears revenge on the Illusive Man and takes the slave ship and the slaves to the Citadel to start looking for answers. Upon arrival, Hendel, who has never met Anderson and knows nothing about Anderson and Kahlee's romance, tells Gillian that he knows where Anderson and Kahlee are living, and can take her and the ex-Cerberus goon, who we will callsurvives-long-enough-to-serve-the-plot , to them (forget that the whole point of him and Gillian being on the Idenna in the first place was to be out of comm range of anyone else in the whole goddamn galaxy so that Cerberus could never get their hands on Gillian, so he would have NO way of getting this information).

They all meet up, survives-long-enough-to-serve-the-plot tells his story, Gillian gets angsty and runs away to get new implants (which she does from some shady, back alley doctors who defy all logic and are actually honest and give her better implants than she did before as opposed to killing her for her implants and selling them on the black market). Survives-long-enough-to-serve-the-plot leaves, Kai Leng kills him in a toilet, and he is no longer relevant to the plot. After Anderson and Kahlee are told he's dead by C-Sec, he is never mentioned again, and I honestly forgot that he existed for the rest of the time I was reading the book. Kai Leng then steals Paul's body.

Everyone then runs to Omega. Nick to be with the Biotic Underground where he murders a person, robs one of Aria's banks, and generally acts out of character. Gillian to find leads on the Illusive Man's whereabouts, eventually eviscerating some of Aria's people in Afterlife which makes her a wanted woman, and joining the Biotic Underground to use their burgeoning power to lure the Illusive Man to Omega and kill him, and generally acts out of character. Anderson, Kahlee, and Hendel to look for Nick and Gillian and generally behave out of character. And Kai Leng to keep tabs on Anderson and Kahlee, kill Gillian, and generally behave out of character.

Kai Leng is kidnapped by the Biotic Underground to bait the Illusive Man. He enlists Aria to get Kai Leng back, but Aria learns from an ex-Cerberus contractor who worked for a rival gang that Kai Leng's alias Manning killed her daughter and that Manning is Kai Leng from data stolen from Kahlee, so she plans to kill Kai Leng instead of recovering it. The Illusive Man learns about this from one of his moles on Omega and arranges a hologram to stand in for him. Aria assaults the Biotic Underground's base of operations with Kahlee, Anderson, and Hendel, which results in, because everyone in this book isn't in character, Hendel and Nick dying. Gillian, however, is out with a small squad to exchange Kai Leng for money and kill the Illusive Man. When it's clear that the Illusive Man really isn't there, Kai Leng makes his escape and kills Gillian. Anderson and Kahlee arrive to late to save anyone, they mourn, the end.

HOLY SHIT was this bad. This was intended to be canon, but there are so many inconsistencies and flaws with the writing that there is no way that these events could have transpired. For one, William C. Dietz, the author, has no idea how the passage of time works. Nick and Gillian are introduced in the second book, Ascension (which we will get to in time and is actually fairly decent for a video game tie in). In that book they are twelve. Fast forward to the third book and Nick (Gillian isn't in this one) is fifteen. Considering that Kai Leng and Nick are both recovering from wounds inflicted in the third book (which couldn't take much time with the advanced treatments available in this universe), this book can only be set, at most, a few months after the last book. Nick and Gillian are eighteen here. They grew three years in a matter of months (if we're being generous).

Do you remember that bioweapon from the beginning? If so, you have a better memory than our author because it's never mentioned again. Chekhov's Gun is left unfired. This prologue was just one of many instances of Dietz puffing Kai Leng up to be more of a badass than he has any right to be. Kai Leng in this reads like a villain from the Silver Age of comic books. He's cartoonishly evil, hyper badass, and hilariously one-dimensional. Not to mention that he has places he likes to visit on Omega, despite him HATING the place due to all the aliens. It's out of character for him to have any usual haunts, let alone ones run by aliens, which could lead to him getting ambushed and set up for a kidnapping (HINT HINT).

Gillian here is a hot headed, single minded, emotional tornado of destruction who jumps from one act of mayhem to the next unintentionally. This could not have happened because, due to the AUTISM that this character has (or at least did in the second book), she is quiet, emotionally distant, shy, and doesn't think like other people. Dietz decided to completely ignore that Gillian, the most powerful human biotic in the galaxy, has autism, just so he can have an easier time writing her and so that her actions make sense.

Nick is established as a trouble maker in the second book, but has matured in the third book. He's a model student who looks out for the other kids and will not put them in harms way. He'll break the rules, but only if he believes that doing so will help people. Here he's a willful teenager with no maturity, who doesn't realize that the people he's working for are bad when they decide to ROB A FUCKING BANK, and willingly stays with them. He gets engaged, off page, to a girl he has two interactions with on page, and kills Hendel because Hendel shot her in self defense during the raid on the Biotic Underground's base.

Hendel is a calm, no nonsense soldier who happens to be gay in the second book (just a tip, that's how you write an LGBT character, you make them a person, THEN you give them a sexual orientation, gay, straight, or otherwise. Sexual orientation should not be the primary trait of a character. I'm straight and I know this, come on people). Dietz decided to make him straight. Dietz erased this character's sexuality, and replaced it with another. In the second book, Kahlee tells her fling that she isn't Hendel's type, but he might be. That's not explicitly confirming that the character is gay, but it's pretty obvious. In this book he's “ogling” Asari dancers in Afterlife. The use of that word implies that he is captivated entirely by lust for these all female dancers. That is a goddamn travesty. Not only this, but Hendel is reduced to some hot headed, shoot first, ask questions later type asshole who's ready to shoot someone at a moments notice.

Kahlee and Anderson are cardboard cutouts with no personality. Their motivations are in character, but their actions are not.

The Illusive Man is isn't nearly as suave and sophisticated as he is in anything else, and is entirely one dimensional. I blame this lack of sophistication on Dietz's inability to write, and not on any ill intent the author had for the character.

Aria is the closest to being in character of anyone in the book. She's still haughty and self important, she's still a badass, but she isn't entirely in character here. When she finds out that it was Cerberus who killed her daughter, nothing could have bridged that divide to allow Cerberus to use the station as a staging ground for their research past the Omega-4 relay and then take it over in the comic book miniseries “Invasion” (which we will also cover, and is also pretty good). One of the bigger oversights in regards to Aria is that she isn't in Afterlife almost 24/7. She's stated in other works to almost never leave the club.

Besides characters acting out of character (or being built up entirely too much for entirely NO pay off), there are a few events that don't add up. In addition to the aforementioned innacuracies there's the Illusive man not knowing that Kai Leng killed Aria's daughter even though Kai Leng told him he killed her in the previous book, Batarians letting anyone onto their homeworld, let alone a human (after the events of Mass Effect 2's Arrival DLC no less), a fundamental misunderstanding of biotics, and a plethora of other issues (if you really want to know all the inaccuracies, there are google docs FULL of them that are open to the public, and I'm beating a dead horse here). Not only that, but Dietz seems to only have the grasp of the English language that a fifth grader would have.

This book was so bad that Bioware and Del Ray (the book's publishers) apologized for it. They said they will be making changes to the book and re-releasing it, but it has been five years since that statement with no updates on that updated version, and my hopes that it comes are nonexistent. Suffice to say that it's not surprising that Dietz never played the games.

Well, I'll see you next time for our first foray into the canon entries into the series with the earliest story in the Mass Effect canon, the four part comic book miniseries, Mass Effect: Evolution.

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[drelldreams]

how I picture the ME novel characters to look like

paul grayson & kahlee sanders

hendel mitra & dr jiro

liselle t‘loak & gillian grayson

[drelldreams]

hendel mitra from the mass effect novels went at the same camp that kaidan went to right?