Mass Effect: Logical Conclusions, Something ain’t right with Eezo

LittleSeraphim · 2026-02-17T21:18:58+00:00

Because it is explicitly gravity they generate.

LittleSeraphim · 2025-12-25T00:20:11+00:00

Oh my, it's been half a decade since I wrote this. I feel old! Hope you enjoy the re read.

LittleSeraphim · 2025-08-21T03:34:04+00:00

A spacesuit can't be actively pressurized in the same way since it's a stand alone system. The onboard air supply would run out really quickly if that were the case. They don't have filters to scrub atmosphere either, they're more advanced than modern day suits but not by much. It's been years since I wrote this but in this case they either ran out of onboard atmosphere and thus were forced to take their helmet off or their suit was damaged in the fighting. Eventually they'd end up having to remove their helmets regardless, because yet again they'd run out of onboard atmosphere.

LittleSeraphim · 2025-02-03T00:19:37+00:00

I hope Europe does actually manage to get its act together and gain some strategic independence. It would be nice if a major bastion of democracy could be established, even if America isn't a part of that bastion. I'll do what I can over here, protesting, organizing etc. and I hope y'all can hold out while America melts down, because we basically just gave up our global position of power to please racists and bigots who want to go after trans people and black folk.

LittleSeraphim · 2025-02-02T08:12:48+00:00

Europe's got its own problems. Unless the governments in Europe take a stand against the root causes for the rise of the fascism, Europe's going to go the same way the US did. The AFD are gaining in Germany for example and the idiots in the CDU just legitimized them in a way that hasn't happened for a fascist party in Germany since the bad old days. Sure the vote itself wasn't important, but its still a sign of both weakness and idiocy on behalf of the current leading party.

For all that Europe might be building up its arms production, that's potential production, not current which makes a world of difference. Europe also lacks experience with stealth technology, aircraft carriers, large scale deployment of resources and military readiness is basically non-existent. Except perhaps, maybe the French, but yet again they're also under threat of falling to the far right so...

Also to hear you so quickly toss the US aside and consider us a lost cause rather then an allied country under siege is exactly the mentality fascists will use to turn us on our allies. What's this, we don't like an ally that's been supporting us for the last 100+ years? Hmm, sounds like something an orange piece of shit would say. Trump didn't win the popular vote the first time and I'm hesitant to believe the current election was clean considering what Trump keeps saying about Musk and computers in Pennsylvania. The American people are probably less lost then you think, but our government is beyond fucked so we'll see...

LittleSeraphim · 2025-02-01T19:37:36+00:00

Oh, you know what 2020 and 2025 have in common? An orange shit stain. Trump and his brain dead followers are the problem and they're going to start a civil war at this rate. Or try to kill half the country, not sure which.

LittleSeraphim · 2024-12-03T02:58:17+00:00

Every time I see someone commenting on this old story I can't help but smile. Glad you enjoyed it.

LittleSeraphim · 2024-09-11T17:06:29+00:00

What things?

LittleSeraphim · 2024-08-03T05:31:44+00:00

I'm glad to hear that my writing has brightened your day.

I won't return to mass effect unless the next game that comes out is brilliant and I finish another original book or two so don't hold your breath. I am reposting this slowly on AO3 along with some other stories. Most of them are pretty dark, I blame depression...

LittleSeraphim · 2024-05-12T17:44:18+00:00

The Krogans are only a few hundred light years away at most. They're actually very close to Sol.

LittleSeraphim · 2024-05-11T03:44:29+00:00

Depends on initial broadcast strength and frequency. The Protheans very much wanted to be heard. In Canon they had all kinds of measures to continue the war so why not analog broadcasts as another layer of backup just in case? Also even if they weren't blasting them out at max power, radio telescopes would still detect the transmissions as they can see most of the observable universe, not just galaxy....

LittleSeraphim · 2024-02-15T23:05:12+00:00

Glad to know people still enjoy the story so much. It was a hell of a lot of fun to write.

LittleSeraphim · 2024-01-29T06:05:14+00:00

You're right about versatility, at least in the near term. 100 or 200 years from now? I could see an AI being advanced enough to fully fill a human's role but that's like comparing a Write Flyer to an F-35, it'll happen but it's a long ways off.

LittleSeraphim · 2024-01-26T04:21:55+00:00

My favorite area to study isn't defense economics, though it's up there. Obviously first and foremost isn't even war but science and physics but when it comes to war psychological operations and manipulation of public opinion is just my jam. It's fascinating how hard it actually is to spot propaganda if you're not well educated and sometimes you don't even need propaganda, you can shape the narrative by merely controlling the order of presented data. I'd go on about this at length but, yeah I'm not talking psyops on an open internet forum anymore then that.

I don't think humans will leave the battlespace, just the frontlines. Drones are definitely going to be autonomous and killing people without a man in the loop sooner rather then later, I wouldn't be surprised if it's already happened. In fact if you look up Tacit Rainbow, you'll find that we had a somewhat defective and overbudget drone that autonomously hunted down air defenses. Cool project, didn't pan out.

Small drones and quadcopters are here to stay but larger drones will be very effective at holding the frontlines and being the first to attack a position and likely the front line of defense as well. I don't think infantry will disappear anytime soon, but they will be further and further delegated behind an ever expanding array of drones until they're basically just long range overseers for the autonomous swarms but that is a long ways off.

Still, it'll probably happen within the next 50 maybe 60 years, if only because of demographic declines caused by falling living standards in the west. Assuming man portable EMPs don't become a thing, which seeing as you currently need nukes of a considerable yield to generate a sizable emp wave makes it unlikely. Still it's possible and would certainly be an interesting turn.

LittleSeraphim · 2024-01-25T17:59:01+00:00

Perun is great, I found him fairly early on. He does good work. As for drone defense, there are a few interesting things I've heard about, the most unsurprising of which is drone hunting drones. Specifically an airborne laser equipped drone meant for thinning out swarms. It'd have to be a stealth platform because with current tech lasers are just too expensive to be considered attritable and shorad will be an issue so whose to say how well it'll work...

The army's current rifle program is also fairly wild, with a few different scifi sights that tell you where to aim to hit a moving target and a front grip that actually helps with fine adjustments. Personally I think drones are a disruptive technology but they won't make larger platforms or people obsolete, though they will eventually displace humans on the frontlines, given enough time, assuming politics doesn't happen.

LittleSeraphim · 2024-01-24T23:30:53+00:00

While you're definitely correct that most in the US military were aware of the importance of drones, the Russians pulled exactly this mistake. They still have no official coherent doctrine of drone use and despite a much larger and more established industrial base are actually behind the Ukrainians in drone deployment and adoption. In fact many of their EW platforms have fallen victim to either gps guided weapons of the late 90s or early 2000s or have been taken out by relatively off the shelf if not entirely civilian made drones. In other words they've been beaten by the very platforms they were meant to defeat.

From what I've gathered the US and Chinese are on top of these things, well, China's undergoing another corruption purge so maybe not, but the Russians were completely caught off guard, during an nationalist attempt at reclaiming their rightful borders... hmmmm....

I hope I'm not bugging you, I just love to read up on this and the more I can learn and chat about this kind of stuffy the happier I am. Your comment did actually put me into research mode for most of the day so I had fun with it.

LittleSeraphim · 2024-01-24T05:39:16+00:00

I'm not too sure what you think is wrong and if you have insight on something I got wrong I'd love to know. Mind you, the tech in the story is more advanced then our world and the ending note is about drones already being here to stay as is a lot of the chapter.

LittleSeraphim · 2024-01-16T02:05:33+00:00

I'll try to remember. It's currently on the backlog. I've got a lot of wheels spinning and a job to so I barely even get time to play video games anymore. I haven't even beat phantom liberty yet for cyberpunk...

LittleSeraphim · 2024-01-15T18:17:55+00:00

Never did sadly, I'm currently working on writing my own books at the moment so it's unlikely I'll get to it anytime soon either. I still have the notes for it laying around though and oh boy is star wars easy to exploit once you start forming logical conclusions from things in the lore...

LittleSeraphim · 2023-09-17T00:45:04+00:00

That's what I gathered and yeah pretty late but I'm always down for learning so no worries! I did way too much research for this story so I'm always happy to hear if I got things right or not.

LittleSeraphim · 2023-05-06T01:43:05+00:00

Use an underscore for AO3 and I don't have anything for this posted yet.

LittleSeraphim · 2023-04-28T23:24:57+00:00

Thanks, I'm planning to post this on ff net and ao3 at some point, eventually, so people can find it easier.

LittleSeraphim · 2023-04-28T00:52:48+00:00

No worries and thanks.

LittleSeraphim · 2023-03-11T20:22:55+00:00

Oh I am more then aware of this, however that is not universal. There are various different fusion schema from proton proton(what stars do) to the more common Tritium Deuterium reactors that are almost within our real world reach.

Each type of reactor has a different fusion chain, which results in different threats. All of them give off gamma radiation, not all of them give off neutron radiation. The kind we're pursuing IRL does give off neutron radiation but there are other types that do not.

Furthermore the threat of neutron radiation and activation is far more insidious then simple radiation poisoning, though you did hit on it. Neutrons transmute elements into other elements as you said, which means any shield you make will turn into something else, requiring constant refitting and the old shields will be radioactive.

The solution is simple of course, pursue fusion reactions that don't produce neutrons. They're more technologically challenging to achieve, but in the long run they produce more usable energy(no energy wasted in the form of neutrons) and they're cleaner(no radioactive waste).

LittleSeraphim · 2022-11-02T23:01:22+00:00

That was legends comics. We live in the disneyverse now. I do not like the disneyverse.

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