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ahmadsabilalfaqih · 3 years ago

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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.

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lefthanded-sans · 7 years ago

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Want to thank @nonposter for prompting me to talk about my perspective about why I believe a woman of color Commander Shepard notably enhances storytelling in the Mass Effect franchise. While I am totally a supporter of all Sheps - be it a custom Shep or Sheploo or whoever you want to play with - I do believe there is something distinctly, thematically important and augmenting when Mass Effect’s protagonist is a woman of color.

Namely, it:

Falls most in line with Mass Effect universe demographics.

Embodies the concepts of diversity espoused within the Mass Effect story.

Fills in the gaps of least-represented demographics in media and within the Mass Effect franchise itself.

Places a woman of color as the emblem of humanity and heroicism to everyone across the Milky Way.

Basically, TL;DR: Only with a WOC Shepard do we get the full sense of humanity embodying unified diversity, where any human can be a hero to save the galaxy, where Shepard as an emblem of humanity strays beyond media’s default depiction of white heroes and gives us a model of inspiration fit for us all. Commander Shepard is a hero written to be unmatched in her strength and sheer force of presence. A male white Shep can feel like prototypical white man savior complex. That takes away from the idea of people of all diversity working together equally. It takes away from the message that all people are to be respected and embraced. But a woman of color Shepard gives us a hero positively embodying power, optimism, racial unification, and the utmost heroicism.

Drew Karpyshyn describes Mass Effect’s Earth as a place with “pan-global cultural identity.” Humanity has come together and united; people from around the world have intermarried. In fact, according to Ascension, “Intermarriage between the various ethnicities of Earth over the past two centuries had made alabaster skin a rarity” - so people with lighter skin colors are statistically less frequent in the Mass Effect universe. Even in today’s modern world, the majority of the globe’s population isn’t white. And in a story like Mass Effect where a notably higher percentage of the global population isn’t white, the likelihood our protagonist would be white is even less.

Thus, from a simple world-building perspective alone, this means Commander Shepard is statistically more likely to be a person of color. Intermarriage, adoption, and other factors would easily explain how an English surname like “Shepard” can be matched to any ethnicity.

I mean, just look at how Ascension talks about Hendel Mitra - whose ancestry is Nordic and Indian - versus blonde-haired, blue-eyed Kahlee Sanders:

“The big man’s mix of Nordic and Indian ancestry was the norm on Earth now, and the inevitable genetic byproduct was a more physically homogeneous population. In the twenty-second century, blond hair like hers was a rarity, and naturally blue eyes were nonexistent.”

Next and more importantly: a woman of color Commander Shepard falls in line with the themes, values, and desires for diverse representation within the trilogy. For while Mass Effect is a story that contains its share of life’s darkness, ultimately it’s a story that carries strong optimism, too. It is a story about a human hero who defies all odds. It is a story of space exploration and building to a greater future. It is a story about kicking ass. And it is a story where, while xenophobia is still an ongoing issue, humanity has learned to largely level the fields of sexism, homophobia, and racism.

Mass Effect seeks to provide representation of people from all experiences. It especially seeks to create diversity for allies and “good guys.” A large percentage of squadmates, romance options, and key characters are queer: Liara T’Soni, Kaidan Alenko, Sha’ira, Kelly Chambers, Morinth, Samara, Diana Allers, Steve Cortez, Samantha Traynor, Gil Brodie, Suvi Anwar, Pelessaria B’Sayle, Jaal Ama Darav, Vetra Nyx, Keri T’Vessa, Hendel Mitra, Reyes Vidal, and... well... you get the idea. Through this, Mass Effect normalizes people of all sexualities, embraces diversity, and brings the idea across that all individuals are important.

For really, that is one of Mass Effect’s central messages: all individuals are worth saving. Even if you choose to play a hard Renegade route, in which Shepard can make a few xenophobic remarks, such unification themes are still resplendent. The geth are first depicted as dangerous enemies; then Legion allies with you in Mass Effect 2 as a squadmate in your cause; by Mass Effect 3, the geth are shown to be far more dimensional and sympathetic and understandable, with comprehensible motivations that make them not at all the black-and-white enemy. The route most satisfactory for geth characters and quarian characters is the one in which peace is reached between the two civilizations - and from a gameplay rewards standpoint, it’s the route with the greatest amount of War Assets. The greatest win is by embracing the geth, sparing them, and treating them with respect. Mass Effect shows that races-seen-as-enemies in fact need not be enemies: they can be invaluable allies worth not shooting, but saving. Don’t judge someone by their race.

A similar plot arc occurs with the krogan. Though branded as incredibly dangerous creatures who could wreak havoc across the galaxy were they to expand anew, the genophage arc can lead players into an optimistic krogan future. Only by killing off great krogan leaders - Wrex and Bakara - do the krogan not have this future laid out before them: a world in which they can be cured of the genophage, rebuild their civilization, but not return to their stereotyped brutality of old. The negative judgments of krogan are overturned. It’s not that the krogan are any less of a bold society... but they are also shown to be beyond their stereotypes. They are shown as a species which deserves to be helped, a species who are indeed powerful and respectable allies.

Even regarding the Reapers, the idea of them as thorough enemies is somewhat overturned with the ending options: the destroy ending is the easiest to attain (suggesting it’s “less desirable” [even though it’s my favorite ending]), while the control endings and synthesize endings don’t involve destroying what was always painted as the enemy. I could talk a long time about the endings, but... anyway. The point of all this that Mass Effect’s core storytelling points involve cherishing, celebrating, and teaching diversity.

It would be awkward or even short-sighted, then, to have the main character not espouse this diversity, too. A woman of color Commander Shepard is one of the greatest and most powerful ways to demonstrate the theme. Not only are lots of Commander Shepard’s allies people of all ethnicities, sexualities, backgrounds, and species... but Shepard herself can be a woman of color, touting the importance that the very hero of the story - the person we admire most - can be of any background. We all deserve to be heroes.

A woman of color also Shepard fills in gaps of representation from the Mass Effect franchise. One of the least-represented groups in media are WOC. And while Mass Effect overall does a pretty good job providing diverse representation, it isn’t perfect here, either.

Consider how the first game opens. For all that the Mass Effect world tries to paint a picture of optimistic diversity, look at what human characters we first meet in this fictional world:

Jeff Moreau - a white man

Kaidan Alenko - a white man (or, at least, a fairly white-looking man, and who was drawn so even from the concept art stage)

Charles Pressly - a white man

Richard Jenkins - a white man

Karin Chakwas - a white woman

Seeing a pattern? The first four characters we meet in this world are white men. The fifth is a white woman. Not much sense of diversity, of this humanity-come-together-from-across-the-globe concept that Mass Effect means to depict. Having only white characters feels out-of-place and awkwardly contrary to the ideals of this universe. And it’s only when we speak to Captain Anderson - the sixth named human character we meet - that we meet someone who, from clear canon, isn’t white.

There’s a challenge with this, too. Even though Anderson is a man of color, I don’t think they animate him as clearly POC as they could have. When I first met Anderson, I couldn’t figure out if he was white or not. I headcanoned he was mixed race, Caucasian and East Asian, because I couldn’t tell. It wasn’t until I got to the Mass Effect novels and the Mass Effect art books that I realized what the creators intended. According to Revelation, written by Drew Karpyshyn himself, Anderson is mixed race with a lot of African ancestry:

The lieutenant was a tall man, six foot three according to his file. At twenty years old he was just starting to fill out his large frame, still growing into his broad chest and wide, square shoulders. His skin was dark brown, his black hair cut high and tight in accordance with Alliance regulations. His features, like most citizens in the multicultural society of the late twenty-second century, were a mix of several different racial characteristics. Predominantly African, but Grissom thought he could see lingering traces of Central European and Native American ancestry as well.

Ashley Williams arguably is white, too, though her appearance and her concept art could suggest a more Hispanic origin. Either way, the story starts off by slamming us off with a bunch of white men and very little other representation. If we add a white male Commander Shepard to the mix, we find ourselves in a ship surrounded by white men - no sense of the progressive diversity and overarching sense of global humanity, no sense that this story will diverge beyond the action hero white savior male complex.

Frankly, if we do go with a default male Shep, we do get a decent sense of the white male savior. The white man saves all of humanity, all the alien sapient races, and all the galaxy.

I mean, with all respect intended to Sheploo... which of the following screecap sets really gives us a sense of unified humanity, accepted diversity, and stepping beyond the "norm” white male savior complex?

Versus...

In the first set of pictures, I get this surreal sense of “Why are there so many men? Where are the women in command? Why is everyone white? Where is the diversity in space this story is supposed to have?” It feels uncomfortably male and white heavy. In the latter set of pictures, there’s more balance. I see an intimidating woman in power people defer to with respect. There are aliens, there are humans from across the globe. You see more diversity of humanity and aren’t left with questions of “Where are the women? Where are the non-Caucasians?” because you see firsthand how humanity has come together, and how some of the greatest aren’t male and white. And frankly, a female Shepard doesn’t feel any less “realistic” or more “out of place” - because she convincingly emanates with just as much, if not more, sense of power and presence.

Even if we go with a default fem!Shep, we still have a sense that everyone is white. But with a woman of color Commander Shepard, we step beyond the uncomfortable lack-of-diversity in a storyline that’s supposed to espouse and depict diversity.

The rest of the franchise helps build a better - if not perfect - sense of diversity. About half of our squadmates are women, and a decent number of people of color are introduced. Still, if you look at this list of characters who are either 1). squadmates or 2). serve aboard your ship (Tempest or Normady), check out where we have the greatest gap of representation:

I have marked all POC in red. There are two women POC - one who is only in a DLC, and one who doesn’t get introduced until ME 3 - versus seven men POC... half of the named male human characters aboard the Normandy/Tempest. There is definitely some debate in my graphic, but even if we drop Gil Brodie and add Ashley Williams, we still only have three women of color (out of nine, 33% of women characters) versus six men of color (out of fourteen, 42% of men characters). The only way to get a woman of color squadmate is by spending extra money.

The point is, there are very few significant women of color in the franchise. We can mention more minor characters who don’t serve on the Normandy - Maeko Matsuo, Gianna Parasini, Arcelia Silva Martinez, Khalisah al-Jilani, Nozomi Dunn - but it remains to be a population that isn’t the best-represented.

Unless we put a WOC Shepard in command.

Then, finally, we can get conversations between humans where none of the people are men, where none of the people are white, helping remove audiences from the idea that white people are the norm, or that there’s always at least some white person around in an important moment. (Reminder: this is also refreshing in ME:A). Then, we can see a strong woman of color demonstrating heroicism alongside all the other butt-kickers in the Mass Effect universe.

But what I think is most important in all of this is that a woman of color Commander Shepard places this as the emblem of humanity. The first human Spectre becomes The Example Human not only for humanity, but for all the species in the galaxy. When they think of what humanity is and what it can accomplish, the first human Spectre will be one of the greatest and most influential examples. If we put “the model human” as a white man... what does that say? The face of humanity becomes the stereotyped action hero we always expect. But when we make humanity’s chief emblem be of another ethnicity, when we show the great Spectral pinnacle of strength be a woman who truly does feel like utmost strength... that is something that truly speaks to the optimism and inspiration of a future humanity.

I struggle to relate to women in action movies, shows, and stories because of how they are written (and I’m someone with boobs, too!). They’re extremely hard to relate to because they often follow certain stereotypes where they are cold, badass, sexy, and romantically involved with the main male lead. It’s artificial, flat, redundant. But Commander Shepard is someone who inspires me. She’s legitimately strong, powerful, fucking damn intimidating, and commanding of respect. Everyone immediately catches onto that charisma and dangerousness without a thought of her biology. No one questions her leadership or personality or credentials because of her biology. They immediately see she’s someone to be respected. She isn’t written within that cookie cutter action woman stereotype because Shepard’s dialogue was written for someone who could be a man or a woman. She expands beyond... into someone who I find profoundly relatable and motivational.

To have a character with such powerful inspiration be a woman of color... being the prime representative of humanity... being the emblem of all humanity can accomplish... is so, so, so powerful.

We lose much of that if Shepard is white and/or male. We lose the sense of humanity being unified through diversity. We lose some sense of women being just as influential and in-the-game as men. Through a woman of color Commander Shepard, we get a transformative role model who truly is unique, memorable, and inspiring. It’s not that any other Shepard isn’t inspiring - but what a WOC Shepard says is something that I find quite important.

#long post #non-UT #Mass Effect #ME #Commander Shepard #Shepard #analysis #my analysis #racial representation #diversity #feminism

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n7initiative · 8 years ago

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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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#Mass Effect #Mass Effect Deception #Novel #Mass Effect Novel #Bioware #William C Dietz #One of the worst books I've ever read #non canon

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