#suite n7

[felassan]

[source (Senior Reporter at Kotaku), linked Kotaku article, two, 'FC 24's performance link', three, four, @/N7SeveranceDay (source of the last two images, "Account supporting BioWare employees laid off in 2023."), five, six, Polygon tweet, Polygon article]

"BioWare Continues to Refuse to Pay Severance" statement transcript:

“BioWare Continues to Refuse to Pay Severance On August 23 of this year, BioWare eliminated “approximately 50 roles at BioWare”. Following the layoffs, seven ex-BioWare employees engaged the services of R. Alex Kennedy to represent their interests, stating that the amount of severance offered was insufficient under Alberta common law. Counsel for the employees has attempted to reach a compromise that would avoid requiring lengthy court proceedings, but BioWare’s lawyers refused any offers to negotiate and settle out of court. The basis of Kennedy’s claim is that according to Alberta precedents and under Canadian law, these employees should be receiving approximately 1.7 months of severance per year of service they gave to BioWare. BioWare has now filed a Statement of Defence, which argues that the seven terminated employees are only entitled to two weeks of severance per year spent in service to BioWare, because of a contract provision that Kennedy says is not enforceable. The filing means BioWare will be taking these former employees to court rather than working towards finding an out of court resolution. The developers involved in the suit have expressed their disappointment: - “We are disappointed that BioWare prefers stalling and intimidation tactics to fair dealing with people who have given years, and in some cases decades, of dedication and hard work to the company.” - “We believe they are using intimidation and stalling tactics to try and get us to drop out. A lot of the more junior employees and those with families, who had more monetary pressure on them, could not risk waiting on a court case that may take many months more to resolve, and have already had to drop out.” - “At the time of the layoffs, BioWare offered us professional assistance in finding new employment, and an additional payment, but ONLY on the condition that we signed an agreement saying we cannot talk about any details of the settlement, and that we would completely waive any right to legal action or even to complain in any way about anyone associated with BioWare now or ever in the future. Tactics like that sure make me think that BioWare knows it is in the wrong.” - “Despite what they publicly announced when they laid us off, this process has been anything but empathetic, respectful, and communicative.” The latest BioWare layoffs were the third round so far this year, and many of the developers affected even in earlier rounds are still searching for work, though some have started to find new positions. Regardless of employment status, the members of the current lawsuit state they remain determined to pursue BioWare in court, regardless of their employment status: - “We strongly believe that if Dragon Age: Dreadwolf does not do as well as BioWare or EA wants at launch, there will be more, even larger layoffs. Therefore, regardless of our own well-being, we believe it is important to hold BioWare responsible and get a clear decision on what settlement amount is legal. We’re no longer part of the development team, so the best way we can help our former teammates now is to hold BioWare accountable and ensure that the next group who is laid off are not treated as poorly as we were.” November 7th marks “N7 Day”, which is a fan celebration of BioWare’s Mass Effect games featuring Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy. The developers involved in the lawsuit are hoping N7 Day this year will be a reminder to BioWare of the importance of loyalty to your crew, and hope fans can have a little fun and help express their support with memes and images using an #N7SeveranceDay hashtag. The ex-employees involved in the suit are all based in Canada and have an average of 14 years at BioWare.”

[source]

You can express your support using the hashtag #N7SeveranceDay.

Edit: [Part 2/update] [more on the Keywords topic]

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[bogunicorn]

Y'all know Bioware picked N7 Day to drop that new teaser because they want the fanbase to forget that almost all the people who made ME and DA special have either left or been fired and the company is being sued in a class action suit because they refuse to pay proper severance to the employees they very suddenly laid off, right? Yes?

Like you get that it's bait? And they're going to do the same shit with the Dreadwolf marketing when that starts ramping up.

#bog post #fandom bs #if you're fully aware of all this and STILL getting hype for the next ME game #playing into their marketing getting other people invested etc #you're a stupid asshole

[ladygwyndolin]

Thinking about an AU with Liara as the Illusive Woman...wearing the suit and smoking and everything...and she's got Shepard as her right hand cybernetically enhanced N7 assassin...I need to lie down

#mass effect #shiara

[iheartgarrus]

N7 Month Day 5: Elcor

(AO3 Link - Shepard and Garrus get a cultural education.)

Days after Shepard's discharge from the hospital, Garrus walked into their living room to find a couple of elcor wearing… odd outfits on the vidscreen. After watching for a moment, he asked, "What is this?"

"Elcor Hamlet. It's 12 hours long, and I figure if I'm going to be stuck on this couch all day every day, I might as well finally take the plunge." Shepard adjusted her blanket and patted the couch next to her. "Come on, it's kind of fascinating."

"Suspicious: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

He took the invitation and sat down, quickly becoming hypnotized by the low, droning voices (which his translator was rendering in a turian dialect that hadn't been spoken in centuries) and the way the elcor slowly ambled back and forth on the stage to punctuate their words. "Huh."

The next time Garrus checked his omni-tool, he was startled to find that an hour had passed, and he shook his head and stood up. "Sorry, I need to go back to work."

"Suit yourself," Shepard said with a smirk, her eyes never leaving the screen.

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[helix-studios117]

Halo Effect

In the year 2150, humanity found the Halo Arrays. Ancient ringworlds which they decided to use to achieve Slipspace-Travel, and they reverse-engineer old Forerunner technology from these ringworlds to make all sorts of neat tech, leading to a technological new-age that lasts for 400 years and counting. (Forerunners are still called 'Forerunners,' but they play the Protheans' role).

It's currently 2552...

The United Nations System Alliance (UNSA, which is The UNSC + The System Alliance) are the military and political arm and protectors of humanity, but a shadowy intelligence-agency called "Agamemnon" (ONI + Cerberus) led by 'The Visionary' (Doctor Halsey + The Illusive Man), operates in the dark as they commit various war-crimes in the name of humanity and it's protection; the military and the police are one-&-the-same.

Agamemnon created a program that would train a new breed of military-police troopers that are above jurisdiction and have free-reign to do what they'd like called the "Spectre-II Program" (The Spectres + N7 + Spartan-II) with the best Spectre among them being a Commander-ranked Engineer-class Colonist with a background for being particularly ruthless named John Shepard-117, though he likes to go by the callsign that Captain Jacob Anderson gave to him: "Master Chief" (Anderson was previously Master Chief when a young John asked if he could Master Chief one day).

The Spectres are dedicated to fighting The Matrix (Covenant + Geth), a hivemind of religious cyborgs who believe that the Halo Arrays are ACTUALLY created by The Warforge (Reapers + Prometheans), a legion of sentient starships that are piloted by The Spores (The Flood + The Collectors), and want to liberate thenselves from humanity and their ancestors by activating the rings.

The truth is they were obviously made by the Forerunners to be a counter against the Spore/Warforge, as the SWs collect and harvest any all sentient life to feed and cleanse the galaxy so that the whole universe can live under the Spore's rule; so the Forerunners made death machines, the Halos, which destroys all life in the galaxy so that the mech-piloting parasites can starve. It worked and life began again...

But the Spores/Warforge returned.

And the fate of the galaxy rests in John Shepard-117's hands after he learned about all of this from a Matrix excavation-site on Madrigal Prime, where he touched an ancient Forerunner beacon they were digging up. So assembles a ragtag-team of remarkable people to help him, including: Garrus "The Seraphim" 'Vadamee (a vigilante who atones for his past mistakes by killing the wicked across the galaxy), Kai Alenko-125 (a fellow Spectre-supersoldier and a powerful biotic), Leenda'Zorah (A sniper with keen-sight and is constantly in a skin-tight Hazmat-suit; John gives her Spectre-armor that's the same in-design as her original Hazmat-suit, but offers far more protection and has all sorts of bells-&-whistles that'll keep her safe), Miranda (a super-spy and scientist who is the daughter of the Visionary; her real legal-name is either Keyes or Lawson, but she'll never tell), Ares (a brutish bounty-hunter and ex-clan-chieftian who hails from a planet of dying warriors) and Durandana (the UNSA Normandy's ship AI, given physical form in the form of a blue woman who looks exactly like a younger version of the Visionary).

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[bagog]

N7 Month, 2023 - Day 19: Volus

A little thing about that little volus dude from ME2

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The galaxy trembled at the feet of a biotic god.

Niftu Cal saw the worlds now through a haze of crackling blue, his own aura of command made manifest in a biotic halo.

“Fear me, lesser creatures!” Niftu wheezed. “The Age of Niftu Cal is upon you! Feel my mighty power!”

He stood upon the planet now, mounting Illium as if it were a mountain of excess and trickery and power. He stood at the top, now, the oceans beneath his feet and the cities cowering in his shadow. Mighty asari warships appeared, and Nifty flung them into the depths of space, cartwheeling like toys, with a mere thought.

Gone were the days when a hapless Niftu Cal would be abducted off the street, used as some crazed asari’s pin-cushion… test subject. He was ‘afraid’ then, a feeling he no longer knew the meaning of. What a sense of humor the fates had, though! That out of such infantile terror would be born a titan of pure, raw power!

He picked up the Citadel, plucked it out of space with a hand. He gazed down at the people below—the masters of the galaxy. Well, former masters. Gleaming blue, he crushed the Citadel in a gloved fist. None would stand in his way! He was filled with the ecstasy of domination, he began to cackle. Standing on the disc of the galaxy like it was a dais to his throne, he burst out laughing: a terrifying sound that shook the hearts of lesser beings galaxies away.

He looked now at his gloved hands, still wheezing from his powerful laughter. The gloves—the suit! What need had he for a pressure suit when he was a biotic god? His new world should know their deity as he truly is! Still cackling, Niftu Cal began to tug at the seals of his pressure suit.

Damn things wouldn’t come loose.

He tugged, pulled, struggled.

This couldn’t be… he was a biotic god… a BIOTIC GOD!

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“Wh-what?” Niftu Cal woke up, found he had an easy time breathing. When he looked down, his hands were not covered and an asari doctor in a pressure suit stood nearby, looking puzzled.

“Welcome back,” She said, helping Niftu sit up.

“Wh-where am I?”

“Medical clinic. When they carted you in here, you were unconscious and babbling. I’ve flushed the drugs out of your system but you’ll want to take it easy for a while.” She beckoned to a pressure-suited salarian nurse who came over and helped Niftu to settle into the bed.

“I… I was a biotic god…?” He said weakly.

“Sure you were,” the nurse said, adjusting the blanket around the rapidly fading volus.

“F-fear me?” Niftu said, a tiny voice.

“No.”

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[virtualfotodivision]

Calien Shepard | 07.18.2023 | Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Fem Shep N7 Cat Suit by MentalHygiene

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[katlakitty]

N7Month Challenge - Day 16: Storm

The ice cracked dangerously as the Tempest set down on Voeld, Sara held her breath as the entire ship shifted. Kallo's worried expression didn't reassure her that their landing spot was safe or stable enough for the small ship. Sara couldn't stay and find out if they needed to return to orbit, she had to find the resistance to help them.

She put on her suit and armor and joined the rest of her crew in the loading bay. None of them looked very eager to leave the ship. Jaal, as far as Sara could tell, was tense and Peebee was mumbling something about knitted scarfs and mittens.

Sara doubted they would have helped against the raging ice storm outside, but she made a mental note to get a scarf and mittens for her. If there was any wool in Andromeda she could even knot them herself, a matching set of a Remnant hat, scarf, mittens and socks. Lexi would be happy to find she had found something to occupy herself with during her downtime.

"Oh, fuck no..." Sara cursed as they set foot into the storm.

"Or a hot water bottle, is there a sauna on the Hyperion? That would be a-awesome." Peebee said and started shivering.

There were cold warnings popping up on the display of Sara's suit too and SAM urged her to hurry.

"The resistance headquarters on Voeld are just up this way," Jaal announced and gestured into the turmoil of snowflakes up ahead.

"Right," Sara was shivering now too. "Do they have a Sauna?"

"No, but they have heaters."

"B-better than... N-nothing." Peebee said and started jumping.

Sara agreed with her and they slowly made their way through the snow. She only slipped once and Jaal caught her before she could fall down a cliff. Up until this point Sara had loved the cold season on Earth and the snow. But she had never experienced a snow storm or temperatures like this before and was tempted to change her mind about it. They arrived at the Resistance outpost before she could declare her newfound dislike though.

You can find a collection of all my N7 Month drabbles on AO3.

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[felassan]

Article: 'Mass Effect Merch Is Back At Insert Coin, And Some Of It's On Sale'

"Suit up, commander. The Normandy needs you. Eight products from Insert Coin's Mass Effect range have been restocked, most of them sporting Shepard's iconic N7 logo."

[source]

#bioware #mass effect #video games

[fandomnerd9602]

Patching Up

Fem!Peter Parker x Stark!Reader

Before you and Petra officially tied the knot, there was a little rough patch.

The time without Petra by your side, whether it was on patrol or just watching Star Wars on her couch with Ned and Harley, was just torture. You just missed her but you needed time to cool off and so did she.

The argument was about the usual: how hard she had been pushing herself as of recently. It was her best and worst trait wrapped into one.

You wanted her to start wearing the Iron Spider outfit as an added layer of protection, you were showing it to her in the Avengers Tower labs at the time.

“It’ll just slow me down” she’d counter.

“I just want you safe, baby” you’d say back.

But she wouldn’t budge. It got into such a heated argument that she shouted, “I don’t need you! I don’t need your help!!”

That broke something inside of you. “I-I’m so sorry” she said, tears already welling up in her eyes. “I didn’t mean that. Baby please speak to me”

“I-I need a break” you said a little unsure

“O-okay” she whispered back before swinging away into the New York skyline. At that moment, it was the last time you saw her for the last week or so. And it’s been absolute torture.

Then came today. You got a small text from Petra which said the following: Can we meet at the Empire State Building? Please.

You texted back: what time?

A short response came: now?

You quickly put on your power suit and flew to the Empire State Building. You found Petra looking out from her usual spot on the rooftop. You could tell she was looking a little nervous and uneasy. You quickly got out of the Iron Knight armor, this was one battle you had to face without your suit.

“Hey” Petra offered you a sad smile, her chocolate brown eyes held so much sadness and evidence of sleepless nights. You weren’t much better, evenings without Petra had been the worst.

“Hey Spider Monkey” you say with a sad smile.

“I-I need to say a few things and please don’t interrupt” Petra was begging you.

“Okay” you agreed with your fiancee.

Petra took a deep breath, “I love you. So much. I don’t want to call off our engagement. And I’m so sorry. I-I didn’t mean anything I said. I need you and I know where you were coming from”

Petra pauses allowing you to speak, “Petra I love you so much and I can’t bare the thought of not coming back to you”

“I know” she whispered, taking a step towards you. You take a step towards her. “I’ll wear the suit when it’s most dangerous, okay?”

“That’s okay.” you reassure her, “and I promise to honor your decisions and not be so overbearing”

“Okay” she flashes a genuine smile. Petra pauses for a second before leaping into your arms, hugging you tight. She wraps her arms around your neck and her legs around your waist.

“I missed you” she whispers before kissing you. “I missed you so much!”

You exchange a couple kisses, lost in the moment with one another. The heart ache without one another which was so overbearing is now relieved. You had each other back in your arms.

“I missed you too, my Spider Monkey” you say with a little laugh. Petra makes a quick little monkey sound before kissing you again.

It was just a little snag in the fabric of your love, every couple has it. You just counted yourself lucky that you and Petra were mature and loving enough to patch things up. Love isn’t some perfect silk blanket. It’s a quilt, made of patches and images that mesh and contrast, but it all comes together to form a perfect work of art.

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[shadoedseptmbr]

On the beach (somewhere between the devil and the deep blue sea) N7 day

not exactly N7 but on the way there-

Sarge leans over her, eyes glinting on the rifle wrapped in the bottom of her wet suit still clutched to her chest as she sprawls across the sand. "Well, Shepard. That's an approach." "Seemed a good idea at the time, Sarge." "Worked for you. You gonna get up anytime soon?" "Not until you make me. Sleep when you can, right?" That gets her a snort, seems approving. She'll take it. He raises his head like he's looking around for the rest of the squad before he grunts. "You got about five minute before the rest of 'em scuttle out of the surf, looks like." She took a chance and gave him a thumbs up. "Dunno what it is about you. What makes you better than them?" She isn't going to answer that, trap clear as the daylight breaking but the toe of his boot almost gentle against her ribs stirs her. "Not better. Just…done this all, already- done it scared, done it hungry, done it tired. Hell, Sarge. I've done it high, drunk, and strung out on top of all that. Well." She shifts, considering. "Ain't done it with a pound of quartz sand up my asscrack, I guess. Something'll trip me up, don't worry."

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[a-cosmic-elf]

Snippet Sunday

Thank you @eridanidreams for the tag. I just realised that I could share something I’ve already posted. lol. It doesn’t have to be a wip.

tagging: @kalliesa - my wonderful beta, without whom, this fic might never have made it this far. If any of my other mutuals would like to be tagged in these things, let me know.

This snippet is from the last chapter of my Mass Effect fic.

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Sebastian saw the fireball approaching along the corridor over Tegan’s shoulder. He could hear the creaking of the floor, the groaning of bulkheads, and then the straining of the outer hull as pressures and extreme temperatures increased until the structure gave way and collapsed.

As the floor plating buckled and fell from beneath them, Tegan tossed his weapon aside and threw himself into Sebastian’s arms. The station came apart all around them, yet Tegan held him close, pinned as Sebastian was to the structure, and he wouldn’t let go.

“Oh god, T, this is it,” said Sebastian. This is how we die.

Explosions are weird in space. You see the ball of flame, yet as soon as the area warps and gets blown apart, the instant lack of gravity and loss of excess oxygen snuffs out the fireball, dispensing the remaining molecules on fire like a million beads in all directions. The twisted ends of the metal are still bright, and sparks fly from damaged cables no longer connected to systems, waiving impotently in the zero-g. The force of the explosion, though, keeps coming.

Tegan continued to hold on as the energy surrounded them, and then along with everything else, they were forced out into space and clear of the station.

Released from the door, as the structure fell apart, spinning madly out into the expanse, it took Sebastian a little while to catch up with current events. He tried to focus on Tegan before him, not the whirlwind light of billions of stars surrounding them.

He cried loudly. Pain seared through his body from his wounds and the realisation that both of them were doomed. Tegan, no. His cry turned into a scream of frustration, still barely hearing himself over his suit’s own internal alarms.

[Alert: Suit breach.]

He was venting atmosphere. Quickly, his suit’s VI took over, and the tactical N7 special ops grade armour automatically closed and sealed the breach. Thank god for quarian engineering.

[Alert: Emergency O2 at 63%]

All they could hear now was each other’s breathing over the comms. Tegan held fast to Sebastian as they kept travelling, the station's wreckage slowly breaking up below them, and something else hit them.

Sebastian couldn’t see by what, but it forced them away even faster, thankfully knocking them out of that dizzying spin.

They rode the shockwave out as more debris came away, revealing the station’s dark inner core. Whatever that thing was, it was so dark that it was like looking into a black hole; no light escaped from it. It hurt Sebastian’s head to look at it, and he felt like a million people were screaming in his mind. He turned away, unable to feel his legs; he gratefully accepted Tegan’s armoured embrace, chest-to-chest.

Tegan wrapped himself around him as best he could, enough so he could secure his suit to Sebastian’s. He then attempted to call the rest of the team. “Golf-Romeo-Two, come in.” Tegan put out on the ops channel through laboured breaths.

There was static.

“Golf-Romeo-Four, anybody, do you copy?” Tegan tried again.

There was no answer. The line was dead. Some small craft had made it off the station before the blast. They had no way of knowing if one had carried Leng and Jideobi. It didn’t matter, it was short-wave burst communications, and they would be too far away. Sebastian and Tegan were on their own, with no hope of rescue.

“Seb, talk to me,” Tegan asked over the comms.

Sebastian let out his pain and frustration in one angry tirade, “What in the ever-loving fuck, T? Why don’t you ever do as you’re told! You were meant to be protecting them! Not me!”

“Seb, we trained them, remember! You… What was I supposed to do? Leave you to die?!”

“Like I fucking ordered you to! What part of that did you not understand? They’ll court-martial you for this. I’m not going to stand up for you this time.”

“Court-martial me, ay? If that’s the price to save your life, I’ll take it. I’ll do my time, gladly.”

“You’re not meant to be here. You shouldn’t be here! T, for fuck sake, no! You stupid bastard. You stupid, stupid, fucking idiot.”

“Bloody oath,” agreed Tegan, laughing, “so, is there anything else you want to say to me?”

Sebastian released an exasperated wail, “I ahhhh, I well I guess, I love you too,” he cried, his voice cracking in pain, “I'm sorry, I should have granted your transfer.”

“What? And let someone else watch your back? Yeah, that’s not gonna work. Love. You know I would follow you into hell. On second thought, though, maybe you should have. I let you down.”

“What do you mean?”

“You told me to make sure we got out of here,” Tegan said, his voice suddenly unusually flat. He had accepted their deaths, “I failed.”

“No, no, no, T, don’t you do it. Don’t you dare blame this on yourself. This is me; this is all on me.”

“Ahhh, fucking fuck-sake. We could try other channels?” Tegan offered in a last-ditch attempt to find a rescue.

“Negative. If the batarians pick up the signal and identify it as Alliance, it would start a war, and millions could die. I’m sorry, T, I had to do this. You didn’t.” Sebastian was unable to hold back the tears.

“Hey, hey, stop apologising, Love. It’s okay,” Tegan’s voice was immediately changed, calming, comforting; even from behind a full suit of tactical armour, they could read each other so well, their role reversal was instantaneous. “Wherever you go, I go, remember?”

“Into the cold dark of space? Not exactly what I had in mind,” Sebastian choked up the words.

“Oh yeah?” Tegan chuckled, “what did you have in mind?”

“I don’t know, somewhere quiet, planetside, beer in one hand, your hand in my other, a big sky over our heads until the end of our days.”

“You, Sebastian Crosse, retire? Nah, you’re yanking my chain,” Tegan laughed again, “N7s don’t retire.”

“I’d give it up for you if you asked. The Alliance gave me many things. I met you. I should have counted my lucky stars and cashed out while I was ahead.”

“Hey, if that’s all it took to knock some sense into you, couldn’t we have dropped a door on you back in Melbourne?”

“If you didn’t want me to leave, why didn’t you tell me?”

“You’re Sebastian fucking Crosse! You were always a little scary, even before they put those stripes on you. I knew you were their superstar. I knew I wasn’t good enough for you.”

“That’s not true. I was scared too. And clueless, and… I needed to know it was real, not just an infatuation. But it’s too late. Now we have to watch each other die.” Sebastian could hold his nerve in the face of almost anything. But not losing Tegan, knowing that shortly after his own death, Tegan would undoubtedly suffer the same fate- asphyxiation.

“Love, I know, it fucking sucks.” Tegan agreed, “I love you, Commander Sebastian Crosse. I knew who I was falling in love with. You were always going to do this, and I would always follow you. You’re just gonna have to accept that.

“I’m glad to be here because, to be true, a universe without you is one I’d rather not be in. I want to go out with you now. To be here with you is the single best thing I’ve ever done in my life, Seb. It’s been an honour and a pleasure,” Tegan moved his head to look around them, “and well, at least that one big fucking sky. I gave you that, at least. I’m only sorry about one thing.”

“Which is?”

“I can’t kiss you right now without killing us both in seconds.”

Sebastian shook in Tegan’s arms as he laughed.

“It’d be totally worth it,” mused Tegan.

Unexpected darkness fell over the pair, and Sebastian saw it. Shadow and light moved towards them. “What’s that?” He asked.

Tegan turned his head to look, “Erm, that’s a Mass Relay, Seb.” He said sarcastically, “You know, the things we use for near-instantaneous interstellar travel?”

“Yes, but- we FTL’d here. There’s no relay in Dis….”

#snippet sunday #cosmic writes #mass effect absolution

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ok jumpsuit it is.... i think the Alliance blue looks best and suits Alice's look. the SR-2 normandy one feels weird, and I dont like the look of the black N7 or white and purple spectre agent one.

#Lexie plays Mass Effect #and it'll match her alliance armour that im giving her this pt