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[dowhatittakes]

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[sturmhond]

I’ll speak to Armada myself, make the suggestion. If they hear it from more than one of us, perhaps they’ll listen.

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And if not, I’m still a gunsmith, Liara. If they can’t give it, perhaps I can build it instead.

[dowhatittakes]

That should help, especially if they start hearing it from more people than the level 1 group.

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I didn't know you could build weapons, that's a very unique skill to have. I'll admit I'm impressed.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

I studied with a gunsmith and a shipwright before I took to the seas myself. I find it pays to know what you’re doing, and I don’t like being idle.

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Admittedly, it’s come in useful once or twice.

[dowhatittakes]

I'd imagine it would be quite useful if you were on the sea so often. I cannot say I have many skills other than gathering information.

[sturmhond]

Understatement is overrated, Liara. I've seen you do more than that myself.

[dowhatittakes]

I'm not sure what you've seen but I can assure you that most of my skills are not exemplary.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

You can change your own weight with a thought. You can move things with your mind.

[ Does he really need to go on? Biotics are hardly commonplace here. ]

[dowhatittakes]

There is another person here that is a biotic, I'm not the only one. Although I'm surprised that so many people are interested by my abilities.

[sturmhond]

[ Is there? That’s surprising. He’ll have to remember that. ]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Well, of course you are. They’re commonplace to you, always have been. For the rest of us, that’s more than a little novel.

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

I come from a world where power is varied and coveted, and I’ve still never seen anything like that.

[dowhatittakes]

The world I come from isn't very different when it comes to power, just the forms that they come in are so varied that it has many faces.

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By far I'm not the strongest biotic in the galaxy. I'm young for an asari, perhaps in another 700-800 years I'll have strong biotics and endurance with them.

[sturmhond]

[ A pause. ]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Seven or eight hundred years? That’s rather a long wait, lovely. That’s an entire age of the world.

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Generally I wouldn’t ask a woman her age. But what counts as young, for you?

[ Because he’s fairly sure they don’t have the same idea about that. Not even close to it. ]

[dowhatittakes]

I realize it does seem like a very long time for most people.

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Asari can live to be over 1000 years old, if disease, famine, or war doesn't kill us first. Anyone under 300 is considered young, anyone under 100 it's surprising that they're still not living with their Mother or at least close to home.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

I suppose it's all relative, in the end. Ravkans are drafted at fourteen. That must seem like barely out of the womb to you.

[dowhatittakes]

Not entirely, we've been friends with the turians for millennia and their people are all drafted into their military at fifteen. Our military is volunteer but the turians is mandatory and all about serving their hierarchy.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

The latter structure sounds familiar to me.

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

But a volunteer force sounds kinder. You never find it's a problem, that you have too few coming forward for service?

[dowhatittakes]

No, asari with strong biotics tend to go toward our military. It's seen as highly respected work for talents that require a great deal of training.

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Although, we're not designed for war. We don't have the infrastructure. It's why my homeworld fell within hours of being attacked.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

By Reapers.

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

I'm sorry, Liara. What will happen to your people now?

[dowhatittakes]

We're spread fairly widely through the galaxy, if the reapers aren't stopped we will be the ones to witness the fall of our cycle.

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As for the people on Thessia, they'll likely be harvested as reaper troops to attack other worlds with.

[sturmhond]

[ He doesn't know what that means, so he pauses for a moment. He'd assumed the Reapers were a killing force.

But if they're harvesters... ]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

That sounds unpleasant. Some form of brainwashing?

[dowhatittakes]

They have that, it's called indoctrination and they entirely take over your mind and make you believe in their cause. The rest as killed and reanimated with Reaper tech and deformed into husks. It's something out of the worst nightmares to imagine.

[sturmhond]

[ It is. Even he thinks that, and he tries not to take anything seriously. ]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Husks. Not a very flattering name. Do you think they remember what they were, where they're from?

[dowhatittakes]

No, they're whatever race they originally were but mutated with electronics. All they know is attack and kill to take the bodies and make more husks.

[sturmhond]

[ Silence, for a moment. ]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

That's a ghastly business. War of any kind always is, of course, but to lose people like that is a worse fate than death. No doubt that's why they do it.

[dowhatittakes]

It's horrifying, especially when most people are still alive when they're turned. It's even worse when they start mixing parts from different races together into new and more terrifying creatures.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

I can't imagine a great lot that's worse than that. You've seen this happen, personally?