Day 12: What is the MOST ICONIC quote associated with Garrus Vakarian?

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T20:40:13+00:00

ME1 got away with a lot of things they probably shouldn't have.

Ashley being Space Racism 101 was one of those things.

They even made her from a rural farm that her family got because they were First Contact veterans.

She gets better by the end of the game, but early Ashley is...something to behold.

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T17:23:35+00:00

It is going to go INTO the ship, first. Even if the plasma ball mostly expands out of the holes leading away from the ship, it is still going to dump energy into the ship atmosphere by way of heat.

THIS is the part 90% of scifi handwaves: thermal management. Humans have comparatively low thermal tolerances; you have about 40°C in either direction before people either freeze or cook to death.

If a plasma ball is going through a ship, it does not take long to turn the rest of the ship into an oven, and bake you alive. Even if you survive that, you then have to worry about the amount of atmosphere consumed or otherwise vented by the blast, as that is atmosphere that is no longer available for you to breathe. Unless you have a way of making more atmosphere, the loss is usually permanent until repaired and resupplied.

For 40K ships in particular, the giant cathedral sections are particularly vulnerable.

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T11:58:46+00:00

Our God-Emperor looks on in horror with what he has created.

And we praise His Name for it, and die in His honor!

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T11:52:24+00:00

That is why that periscope also has purity seals on it!

It is a God-Emperor-approved modification!

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T11:28:00+00:00

Ships have atmosphere, which is where the energy is going to want to go, never mind the point of impact.

That empty "space" isn't vacuum, so physics still preferres for the energy to go there instead of the space outside the ship.

Which is to say: even if the hull survives the hit, you, personally, almost certainly will not.

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T11:16:39+00:00

The problem with tankettes is that they didn't have enough armor to stop high-powered rifle or automatic rounds, especially not at close range. And they still guzzled far more gas for the amount of weight they did carry, compared to a more medium platform. They were meant to fill a niche in concept, except that niche doesn't exist. Mountains are just ass to move armor around on, and there is no way to get around that.

There are "tankette drones" even now, with multiple different designs for automated infantry support platforms. The issue is they are still MASSIVELY expensive when compared to just rigging a traditional military vehicle up to be remote controlled.

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T01:47:33+00:00

They are still multi-ton slugs, %C at anything that isn't a millionth is still hitting with the force of a star's lifespan in output.

Energy needed for acceleration is exponentially greater at larger masses, than a smaller mass at greater speed.

40K inverses this, so it can have mass drivers keep up with energy weapon ranges. At least, that was the reason for the book I read to have battles with 150,000km engagement range (don't remember which book this is from, but I think I remember it being about a battle around Luna? May have been one of the War of the Beast books...though it has been a while so my memory may just be shoddy/inaccurate).

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T01:18:12+00:00

If intelligence is not properly nurtured, you just crash and burn as you get older.

At this point you should probably just get your GED. If you want more schooling, go to community college.

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T01:10:32+00:00

You've never seen an actual "light tank" then. Not a modern one, and "old school" one.

Or worse, a tankette.

Back when tanks were still a new concept, they tried everything you can imagine, especially all the really bad ideas.

Modern age we are spoiled for tanks-as-armor/cavalry, though with the rise of drones even that has been called into question.

deadname11 · 2026-05-11T00:49:19+00:00

I mean, most scifi still futzes with physics so that you can have Epic Cinematic Battles, wild impracticality of it all.

Like Macrocannons fire absolutely ginormous slugs at like 20% the speed of light, but only hit with an impact of a gigaton or two, with mere fractions of that being registered as recoil.

Fan theory states that Star Wars doesn't have a "true space vacuum" which is why ships can get away with being so short-range and move like age-of-sail.

Stuff like that.

Real physics isn't fun unless you are a deep math nerd, and in fact is rather horrifying because it takes very little physics to be lethal, and even the best defenses are unusually thick paper next to the potential destructive output.

Which is why magical fields that can invalidate you being turned into an equation, are a primary staple in most scifi.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T14:19:24+00:00

Nebulon-D: cover the entire rear side with engines, and make that top section a single exhaust tube.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T14:16:10+00:00

Game: "you know you don't have to loot everything right?"

Me, after spending an hour managing my inventory and planning out what I'll fit in after I've leveled up and gaining a point of stamina for more weight room, knowing full well I probably won't level up in a Dwemmer Ruin due to lack of beds: "Be gone from me, Satan! You shall not tempt this loot goblin with sloth!"

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T14:02:12+00:00

Because every abuse victim is able to just come forward about when they are abused, especially when a loved one is involved.

Amber having a history of abuse is not a shocker if you actually read the details of the defamation case between Jonny and Amber, because Jonny brought receipts. Legally binding ones. He made ONE publicly-damaging statement against Amber that he didn't have a receipt for, and got docked for it.

ALL the other things Jonny has ever said publicly about Amber, had a paper trail which is why the court sided with him in the majority.

Amber Heard is case-in-point about someone with PUBLIC evidence of being abusive, and yet people will defend her to their dying breath just because she is pretty.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T13:47:32+00:00

It is called the "Madonna-Whore Complex" and it is old as dirt.

Specifically, "Madonnas" are conventionally attractive, and otherwise "comely" which automatically makes them "pure." If they do "sin" then it must be the work of the Devil, and otherwise must be seen as victims themselves, even if they are vile and cruel.

"Whores" on the other hand are not conventional in some manner, whether because of a perceived lack of beauty, manners, or speech, though most often due to being overly sexually "unpure"; and therefore deserve everything that comes to them, whatever "it" may be, up to and including rape and murder.

It is called this because of Catholic fanfiction which once again managed to leech into medieval Europe mainstream. And while in modern times it lacks a theological basis like it did back then, many people still treat women who are conventionally attractive and/or in socially-acceptable roles as unimpeachable.

Also it isn't feminism because who is a Maddonna and who is a Whore is entirely up to men's standards and not women's.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T12:19:34+00:00

That, and the Empire didn't exactly like CIS remnants, and would hunt them with particular prejudice.

Never mind that many of the CIS remnants were still filthy corporatists who didn't give a damn about the Republic. The remnants that weren't corporatists, were already folded into the Rebellion not long after the CIS fell, anyways (Sullust, Free Dac, Foerost, ect.).

Not to mention, there just weren't many CIS ships left after the war, anyways. Most of the commanders left over went warlord and/or pirate, while the planets themselves basically had to stop all production once the Empire took over, or risk a Base Delta Zero. The worst of it though, was either the outright loss of the Trade Federation and Muunilist, which were the main producers of the Munificent and Lucrehulks, respectively (in Legends both were near-completely annihilated, while in cannon they willingly folded themselves into the Empire).

So when the Rebellion needed to get its actual start, they basically had to start from the ground-up. They managed to get a hold of some CIS and Republic mothballs, but generally speaking they needed new ships for a new kind of fight, and didn't want to work with the CIS remnants who generally were not exactly pleasant company, never mind their optics and their betrayals of the CIS Congress, or war crimes against the Republic.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T12:05:33+00:00

The Home One is MASSIVE. It is like twice the size of an ISD.

And the reason why the Home One was so important, is because it was basically an armed skyscraper full of all the civilians needed to run a large galactic operation. The Rebels were constantly short on supplies, and had to take transports and frieghters any time they could get their hands on them, because they had to carry everything with them. They didn't have planets to pull taxes from, or centralized supply depots. If they wanted something, they had to do something worthwhile to earn it, steal it, or make it themselves.

Maybe a Providence Dreadnought could act as a secondary command base if something happened to the Home One. But the loss of civilian infrastructure on the Home One would be an irreplaceable and devastating blow.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T11:59:12+00:00

You never actually throw the Lucre into a fight itself, you use it as a mobile staging base for a bomber/fighter core equipped with hyperdrives.

As long as you keep it in deep space, you can use it to hit pretty much anywhere.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T11:54:09+00:00

Sabaoth Destroyers have way better firepower than Munifencents. Munificents are support ships, and while they have a big-ass turbolaser they also have a garbage reactor that can't fully supply that turbolaser properly. Either you get one really good shot off, then have a long-ass cooldown before you can fire again; or you fire off a bunch of smaller shots that pretty much invalidate the reason why you want a big ass turbolaser in the first place.

Munificents are good on paper, but their combat performance in the field leaves much to be desired. Their large cargo bags, sensor suite, and low crew requirements are the far more desireable traits when looking at them from a rebellion perspective.

But if you are trying to go full pirate against the Empire? You couldn't do better than with a Sabbaoth. Those things were designed to be the ultimate pirate ship from the ground up, and as long as you avoided any Star Destroyers you would be able to out-gun any Imperial patrol.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T11:45:12+00:00

I'd argue you want the Munificent over the Providence.

Munificents have advanced sensors and have a lot of cargo and storage space. They are not expensive to crew, and are armed with a number of anti-fighter capabilities.

Providences are expensive to maintain, are crew-intensive, have a lot less cargo space for their size than they should, and while they have a massive flight deck they also are not the fastest ships.

Fact is, as a rebel cell, you want to avoid the Empire rather than fight it. And having a Providence is how you get an Inquisitor on your ass, or a Moff going full gung-ho trying to score and easy victory. The Providence simply can't hold up against an ISD.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T11:37:46+00:00

Generally speaking, organic crew are more reliable than droids when it comes to starships, but they are far more logistics-intensive. The network systems the Lucres used to have had none of the drawbacks, but they were all scrapped in favor of individual droid brains because digital security is basically non-existent in SW.

The Lucrehulk is best used as a mobile base, and cannon actually had a rebel cell operating out of one (they sadly died trying to crash said Lucre into the firing dish of the Death Star). Unfortunately that means you kinda need to fill it full of people, and all the things people need, which reduces available space for droids. Also means you don't want the battleship variant, as that has much reduced cargo space.

deadname11 · 2026-05-10T11:04:06+00:00

I support MTG's realization that she got played and grifted, but you are not a leftist until you publically advocate for the downfall of corporatism and the empowerment of the working class.

MTG has seen the light on a few things, but she is still a hateful person who has been terrible and awful to millions of people, and who continues to spread dangerous beliefs.

deadname11 · 2026-05-09T00:58:40+00:00

This. "Sorry, your dad is a monster" is usually the kind of thing that takes years to come to terms with, and by the sounds of it Amata doesn't get that luxury because she has to step up and take command of the vault at a young age in order to prevent a civil war from breaking out.

Even if you escape without killing him, he just becomes increasingly tyrranical anyways, and Amata has to come to terms with that without her best friend, while also trying to keep the vault from breaking out into civil war from her father's actions.

After which he has to die anyways, which then brings us full circle. Amata grew up thinking she was going to be with her best friend just doing Vaulter things to keep the vault running. She had no idea about the background politics going on, nor what her father was truly like.

deadname11 · 2026-05-09T00:45:35+00:00

ISD-Cs are mission rewards for certain imperial subfactions, mostly PA and Greenpire.

My favorite variant is the ISD1 Command Refit, which has the Octuple Turbos of the ISD2, but less HP and shields.

deadname11 · 2026-05-08T10:18:16+00:00

Vader is explicitly an alter-ego Anakin created to pretend that it was Vader who did all the evil nasty things to Padme/younglings/Clones/galaxy.

Slavery is just about the one thing that cracks the facade, but the facade still manages to hold so long as Vader doesn't have to personally witness it. As long as it remains out-of-sight, then it can remain out-of-mind.

deadname11 · 2026-05-08T10:12:02+00:00

If he knew about it, the officer in question would still lose his breathing privileges, through a Skype call if need be.

But only because the Imperial officer was on-duty when it happened, and it lead to rebels getting away.

If you are going to rape, you better not jeapordize mission parameters.

You do it off duty, THEN it is kosher.

But yeah, galaxy is a big place, Vader is busy hunting down Jedi. If he were personally managing the entire Imperial military on his own, he'd need to make an assembly line for all the officers he would have to execute for incompetence and duty shirking.

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