#rachni

[lingle-dingle]

“Siding with the giant spiders again, Shepard?”

Okay fuck you lizard boy, I’m always gonna ride hard for the bitches. You cannot expect me to kill a queen.

[thefloatingstone]

Here's one that completely BAFFLES me.

On a frozen world, right on ground level, on top of a frozen lake, there's THIS sound.

This is..... not the Rachni Queen...

I have no idea what this is...

[berryshiara]

N7Month Day 14 Rachni (Little Fen)

Just a happy family moment shared. (I almost made myself cry with such yearning. XD Dont mind me! Enjoy!) Term Explained (my term XD I made it up)

Sýndesi - connection - the act of sharing ones energy through touch. An equalizing, and shared empowerment. In a healthy family and community it is something that happens naturally. On Omega it is not unusual for Asari to be lacking in this department. Heteria prescribe cuddle sessions between needy people. Sýndesi therapy can help stabilize asari of all ages who are going through a difficult time. A necessity for their continued happiness. It is community and care. Not sex. Though between lovers it can be both.

@n7month

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 52 2023 - Week 44 - 'Sing'

It was N7 day yesterday and I had to do some mass effect fan art. So have the Rachni queen singing the song of the Shepard to her new brood.

I hope that if there is ever another game, we get to interact with the great space bugs.

[mysweetlambkin]

Inktober Day 2 Spiders

I absolutely LOVE Noveria, it is my fav ME mission, creepy and spooky in a good way!

And the Rachni queen voiceover is hella cool

[spindlephysalia]

mass effect (1) is so irritatingly off with how it uses the rachni, the way it'll say in the big moments "hey genociding them is bad" and then turn around and say "but it's good to slaughter them in general, just as long as you make the right choice on novaria specifically"". It's like watching starship troopers and saying "well yes, obviously this is insane fascism but it looks fun!"

[veshialles]

salt and burn

[konigs-left-pec]

Anyone getting Rachni vibes from the Ahamkara? 👀 Anyone? Like they weren't inherently evil and it was all just a big misunderstanding and they didn't deserve to be hunted to extinction?

Just me?

Also this whole thing just destroyed me...

Bonus...

...why our boy have to moan like that? 😂 I'm not bothered. It was hot.

[sol-consort]

Humans having just discovered that the gaint metal tongs in space unlock fast travel through the galaxy: oh boy, can't wait to activate every mass relay we can find, whoever turned these off must be an idiot lol

Turians opening fire without warning at first sight of relay 314 glowing again:

[ultrakatua]

Food for the fish: 200 credits

Data: 150 credits

Rent: 800 credits

M-98 Widow upgrades: 1,500,000 credits

Utility: 150 credits

Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. The galaxy is dying.

[death-rebirth-senshi]

"You let the Rachni Queen go!?!?" Yes I support women's rights. But I guess y'all aren't feminists.

[thefloatingstone]

I managed to stumble onto another spot where you can hear the Rachni queen singing. Apparently a lot of people had never heard these before, so here's another one for you.

[agirlking]

"What happened to everyone you know and love in the games? Who really died? Who had kids with whom? What does a baby volus sound like? What about all the galaxies? The endings! What the heck is going on with our asari scientist-turned-Shadowbroker? What about S— nevermind...you get the idea. And of course, to those questions, there are answers"

I still cannot believe this is a real quote. No, I don't want to know who "really" died and who "really had kids with whom" and what ending is "really canon." What the hell is the point of an RPG if you're just going to tell me what did or did not happen? What is Mike Gamble on?

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: the rachni... 🤤 especially the rachni queen 😩

too many ppl be discriminating against non humanoid aliens but they just as sentient as any asari and they be twice as fine... show me what them tendrils do bbygirl

[dragonflight203]

Oh man, I completely missed that. Any weird noises you hear now are my groaning. :)

Hmm. I've never actually heard the song of the Rachni before.

I assumed it wasn't the Rachni because the wiki didn't mention it and the threads I found did not either, but I just listened to the song of the Rachni on YouTube and it is at least very similar to the sounds I heard.

I suspect the Doylist answer is that there was a coding error that made it occur all over the map.

For Watsonian... How do we know the song of the Rachni is actually by the Rachni? The Heretics are running all over the Atticus Traverse as well.

I put forth that we might actually be hearing the Heretics instead. Given that we don't hear the song in ME2 or ME3, it fits the narrative more that it was strange music made by the Heretics, rather than the Rachni.

The Heretics die in ME2. The Rachni always reappear in ME3. There's certainly an argument to be made that the Reaper modifications are why there's no song, but there's no in game reason. (Doylist reason for that is most likely Bioware forgot or ran out of time.)

Mass Effect 1 replay, wrapping up Armstrong Nebula:

Gagarin

-Junthor - It has the remains of the colony of an ancient space faring race. Another victim of the Reapers?

-Antirumgun - Interesting description. Pirates come to "trade slaves and stories". That's some jovial alliteration for dark scene setting.

-Some also drill through the ice crust to recover the world's natural alcohol. That's some of the most realistic world building Mass Effect has provided yet.

-Pressha - So Turians do have admirals. I think this might be the only time they're mentioned. Does the Alliance have Generals hidden away somewhere?

-Rayingri - Two planets orbiting each other will result in their mutual destruction in a few hundred years. The Asari are already selling tickets. Good way to highlight how different the Asari lifespan is from humanity's.

Also, whoever wrote the descriptions for this cluster was having fun.

-This is the second planet in the Armstrong Nebula where Geth have killed people who were nearby. Given how huge the galaxy is, how did there just happen to be people in the vicinity of the Geth twice on these four random worlds?

-Well, this is a change of pace. There's an actual base and its surrounded by Dragon's Teeth. Empty - where did the husks go?

(The base, obviously. But how did they get in? Why drag them out, kill them on the Teeth, then put them back inside?)

-Bit foreboding that there are so many weapons and storage lockers, and all but two are presumably empty (since you can only open two)

-Aaaand there are the husks.

-And Geth on the way out. Where were you earlier?

-The Geth outside were the easiest to take out... Thank you, Mako.

Grissom

-Grissom Cluster, Grissom Academy... I'm noticing a pattern here.

-Notanban - So the bioluminescent life that developed forever flees the sun. Until I started writing these notes I did not realize just how much of Mass Effect world building is depressing.

-Solcrum - But there's beauty, too. The sun is gorgeous from this moon. The constant swirling is mesmerizing.

-The Geth coding language isn't known to the Citadel races. So they've developed their own since the Morning War. Why? Deliberately so the Citadel races couldn't monitor them, or was their original language just insufficient as they became more advanced?

-This is the first time I've heard strange noises on Solcrum. According to Google, others have as well. The wiki doesn't mention them, oddly enough.

What are they? The Geth?

-Why do I have to get close to survey Uranium? I feel this violates safety regulations, even if the suit is space proof.

-Descriptions keep labeling ancient artifacts as worthless. Liara is right there. Are you seriously telling me this archeologist isn't carefully recording all these old artifacts we come across?

-Those sounds have to be related the Geth. I also heard them when I entered the base.

-How does Liara keep dying when she has decent armor and barrier? Tali has neither and survives just fine.

- Tali is the one that decrypted the console with the Geth data and makes no comment about it.

It's odd she doesn't. Both Wrex and Garrus have extra dialogue for their loyalty missions.

-It would have been interesting if taking Tali with you on this option means she always makes a copy of the data for herself. Whether you freely offer it or not to her later only would only have impacted your relationship with her.

-Is the Quarian music related to the sounds somehow? Is that what Quarian music sounds like?

-I still want to know more about that Quarian song that plays when the last Geth fall. Why did the heretics use that for their communication, of all things? We've already established they have their own language that the Citadel races don't know.

-On that note, is the Geth language mentioned here the same for the Geth and the heretics? Would have added some flavor if the heretics had created their own.

It sure would have been nice if we could have asked Legion about any of this.

Squad

-Tali's loyalty mission is so odd. It's five parts long, it's not recorded in the journal as for her until you find the Geth Data in the fifth part, and it's very easily missable if you go to the world map instead of talking to Tali immediately. Again, why is this so different from Garrus's and Wrex's?

-Also, after all this work it should have made an actual difference in ME2 and ME3.

-If you go renegade, Tali comes across as very weary. She fully expects the Alliance to refuse to help the Migrant fleet, and recognizes this is just Shepard placing humanity first. She just wishes it wasn't at the Quarian's expense.

Considering she later supports the Quarians going to war with the Geth because she won't not help her own people... At least she's consistent.

Tali and Ashley are both similar in that regard: They expect people to always prioritize their own species and don't hold it against them on a personal level. They just keep it in mind when planning. Tali just has much better tact.

Also, she still sticks around to help stop Saren, so points to Tali for seeing the big picture.

-This is another example of where Shepard's loyalty being to the Alliance is considered renegade. I do think this is intentional; it occurs too frequently not to be. I'm very curious what the original plans for this theme were.

-The neutral option is to give Tali the data.

-Hmm. If you go paragon when discussing giving Tali the data, you say she needs it to destroy the enemy. If you go neutral, you tell her its encrypted. Interesting dichotomy there.

Is the paragon option supposed to be some kind of criticism? It doesn't come off as such.