Weight of the World

(Closed starter for @saviorgoddessastrid)

As another day began for the denizens of Terra Hope, a private message straight from Red(M) would be received by Astrid. The message was short, but its tone belied a sense of urgency.

Astrid, it’s Red. Someone will be arriving at Terra Hope within the next three hours. Please, have a talk with her, get her to air things out. The Admiralty and Public Relations can’t contain things for long if the VIP went ballistic. We’re running out of both time and options. I hope you can help as best you can. Best regards.

And sure enough, around two and a half hours later a single GDI corvette emerged from the Transdimensional Gate at the edge of the Hope System.

After the usual exchange of travel data, the corvette entered Terra Hope’s vicinity, landing near one of the Temple’s designated visitor docks.

A single figure disembarked from the corvette, a young woman, with shoulder-length raven hair and icy blue eyes, clad in a seemingly Initiative-based military outfit. Clearly, not standard naval attire. Her very demeanor, too, belied something more.

A pair of clerics was who the visitor met with first. As she waited, the woman gave a polite, quick nod to them. “Greetings. You are Lady Astrid’s personnel?”

Dextro won’t kill you, honey. Still, proceed with caution.

darthempress:

I’ve been reading a variety of materials on amino acids lately and my good friend who has a phd in microbiology has also informed me of some fascinating facts.  Mass Effect is not a perfect example of real science, but I really wish it was because they did so much right.  Sometimes, however, they do fudge up.  I mean, breath masks in space?  And it’s because you like them not because they’re practical and a viable option?

Kill me now.

But one fallacy in the Mass Effect universe is the prevalent assertion that Turians/Quarians cannot ingest human food and vice versa.  It is stated many times in all three games that it’s not possible for Turians/Quarians to obtain nutrition from Levo proteins and that it is even potentially fatal, causing an allergic reaction.  This would not only include food but other things such as saliva and semen, which would make sexual relations between the species a bit difficult.  The sexual issues seem to have become null and void as of ME3 (which is strange given the writers’ continued stance on Levo food being unfit for Dextros), but this whole “Dextro can potentially kill me” thing is far from the truth.

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