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Shepard Quest Mk V, Base of Operations (ME/MCU)

Well medi-gel is really just nano-machines triggering localized, immediate gene-therapy promoting healing, yeah? That's exactly why I said we don't need another tech to improve implants when Extremis is already on the tech tree.
 
But how does it effect any change on the patient's cells in that case? Just...differentiating to match whatever tissues it comes into contact with, creating an organic "plug" to stick into whatever holes you got? Also containing antibiotics, and cells dedicated to combating infection?

Not really sure how you go about improving something like that without nanomachines anyway - the problem is guiding the healing at that point.
 
Ignis fatuus said:
Limited A.I built into the dispenser?
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Regardless of how complex the intelligence running the dispenser is, how does the gel know what to turn into, and where to do it if it just gets squirted into the wound wholesale as we know it does?


Anyways, barring a dedicated VI/AI controlling nanomachines specifically tailored for healing...Extremis is probably the best thing to get since that functionality can just be included.
 
I figure that medigel contains an anasthetic, a coagulant and a full spectrum antibiotic that adheres easily to the skin and maintains an airtight seal even under combat conditions.
 
Hazard said:
I figure that medigel contains an anasthetic, a coagulant and a full spectrum antibiotic that adheres easily to the skin and maintains an airtight seal even under combat conditions.
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If I remember correctly, medigel is a human invention which technically violates Citadel prohibitions on genetic engineering or created organisms. It's way more fancy than that, though the fact that it works on both Levo and Dextro species is an interesting kink in the 'it's a living creature' thing.
 
We should look into giving more Aid to Dr. Liara T'Soni both in money and in troops/security. Maybe opely mention what we are doing would push others into giving her more money.
Have heard of the Collectors yet or of the weird Omega relay the "eats" ships? Might want to use that or Omega as a nice out of the way test bed...
 
more like it gives us a way to "look" and try other tech and ideas
Unless the general plan is to turtle and build up power....
 
Bolo said:
We should look into giving more Aid to Dr. Liara T'Soni both in money and in troops/security. Maybe opely mention what we are doing would push others into giving her more money.
Have heard of the Collectors yet or of the weird Omega relay the "eats" ships? Might want to use that or Omega as a nice out of the way test bed...
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We gave her a hundred million credits, which covers the high-ball estimate of all her needs. Why would we throw more money at her, for no reason?

Just let her do her job.
 
My thinking was that there is this Huge mystery with the Omega really?
No one knows what's around or why ships don't come back, If we can get an idea of something artificial either behide the whole thing or just that something is there then the other powers might be persuaded to build defenses or have a fleet based there to protect/prevent what ever it is from coming out/in.
Now instead of having a free bolt hole the Collectors are bottled up.
 
You are drastically overestimating the Collectors. They show up maybe once every couple decades - most people don't believe they even exist. The Omega Relay is a mystery, but since every probe going through has failed and nobody wants another Rachni War, it is left the fuck alone.



Look, Omega is the center of the Terminus. It is the meeting ground for all the various factions to come together and hash out deals, and is in a very real sense as politically important as the Citadel - the galaxy basically revolves around a Citadel-Illium-Omega axis.

Fucking around in Omega is NOT going to happen. The second a Citadel power tries sticking their nose in there, the Terminus turns against them like a pack of dogs, united against the outsider. The various broken Terminus factions aren't going to do anything, and Aria isn't going to let anyone bring that kind of firepower into her system anyways.

That is a terrible idea.
 
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Bolo said:
My thinking was that there is this Huge mystery with the Omega really?
No one knows what's around or why ships don't come back, If we can get an idea of something artificial either behide the whole thing or just that something is there then the other powers might be persuaded to build defenses or have a fleet based there to protect/prevent what ever it is from coming out/in.
Now instead of having a free bolt hole the Collectors are bottled up.
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I presume that everyone thinks the Collectors just have a lot of guns pointed at their relay and don't welcome visitors.

As for building something at the Omega-3 Relay...you do remember where it is, right? Practically next to Omega the 'Citadel of the Terminus Systems'?

Nobody's building shit there unless you can convince Aria to spend a few billion credits to fortify a Relay that's only dangerous to suicidal idiots instead of investing in more drugs, strippers and monuments to her own ego.

Because yeah, the 'powers' (by which I presume you mean the Citadel) ain't going there for anything because they don't want an apocalyptic pan-galactic war.
 
Van Ropen said:
We gave her a hundred million credits, which covers the high-ball estimate of all her needs. Why would we throw more money at her, for no reason?

Just let her do her job.
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What exactly is she doing right now anyway. I don't really remember all that well. A prothean dig somewhere?

Lets hope we get some clues on the main plot from that. I doubt anyone would have funded her as well as we did, so she should atleast discover more than she did in canon.
 
Yeah, she is off on one of her Prothean digs - though it has actually been delayed by the discovery of other ruins in the vicinity. We can't say if she is going to find anything though...on the one hand, she is better funded, but that doesn't mean there is anything more to find relevant to the Reapers. She did go on these digs canonically after all, even if she never got much respect for them.

Maybe that will change? She will find more about Protheans and such in general, leading to more academic weight, could be useful later.
 
Van Ropen said:
Yeah, she is off on one of her Prothean digs - though it has actually been delayed by the discovery of other ruins in the vicinity. We can't say if she is going to find anything though...on the one hand, she is better funded, but that doesn't mean there is anything more to find relevant to the Reapers. She did go on these digs canonically after all, even if she never got much respect for them.

Maybe that will change? She will find more about Protheans and such in general, leading to more academic weight, could be useful later.
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Given the asari Lifespans, and her age, I doubt that she'll be able to gain enough academic weight for it to matter, much.

But given how shaky her reasoning for this dig was, it isn't too unlikely that she was denied funding the first time around. As such, this Dig could be a massive wildcard.
 
Van Ropen said:
Yeah, she is off on one of her Prothean digs - though it has actually been delayed by the discovery of other ruins in the vicinity. We can't say if she is going to find anything though...on the one hand, she is better funded, but that doesn't mean there is anything more to find relevant to the Reapers. She did go on these digs canonically after all, even if she never got much respect for them.

Maybe that will change? She will find more about Protheans and such in general, leading to more academic weight, could be useful later.
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I have a vague recollection that in the first game, Liara somewhat knew about the cycle of mass-extinctions. Its possible that with better funding, she could find something more conclusive to suggest that a real danger exists even now.

The Citadel and the Council obviously will dismiss her regardless. They did not believe in any of it despite having a corpse of a reaper sitting right there. However I would assume Revy is more intelligent, so this could basically give an IC reason to start researching the reapers further. Heck, it could eventually lead to finding that dead reaper. Ofcourse, a way would need to be found to counter indoctrination before it could be "dissected".
 
The easiest way of discovering the Reapers (aside from activating the V.I. on the Asari homeworld) would be to stumble onto the Leviathan chain of clues and somehow survive them.

Alternately finding the Klendagon Gun's target might help. Indoctrination would suck though.
 
Datakim said:
I have a vague recollection that in the first game, Liara somewhat knew about the cycle of mass-extinctions. Its possible that with better funding, she could find something more conclusive to suggest that a real danger exists even now.
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Problem is, there really isn't anything conclusive to find - even the Prothean beacons themselves are questionable in the absence of Sovereign itself.
 
Van Ropen said:
Problem is, there really isn't anything conclusive to find - even the Prothean beacons themselves are questionable in the absence of Sovereign itself.
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Well, the Beacons are pretty darn good at getting a warning out. It's just unlucky that literally none of the species in the modern galaxy understand Prothean psychic messages of 'THE END IS NIGH! ALL HOPE IS LOST! FEAR THE REAPERS!'

Except possibly the Thorian, who is an asshole.
 
Bolo said:
My thinking was that there is this Huge mystery with the Omega really?
No one knows what's around or why ships don't come back, If we can get an idea of something artificial either behide the whole thing or just that something is there then the other powers might be persuaded to build defenses or have a fleet based there to protect/prevent what ever it is from coming out/in.
Now instead of having a free bolt hole the Collectors are bottled up.
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The Omega 4 Relay is extremely close to the accretion disk of a black hole, presumably Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. There is very little drift allowed, and the Normandy needed the Reaper IFF not to fool the Reapers, but to permit transit through the relay with almost no drift. When they come through, there's wreckage all over the place of ships that have attempted to pass through the relay over millions of years. The debris field acts as additional protection; without the IFF the ship would have pretty much zero chance of making it through intact. As it is, they had to dodge quickly to avoid the wreckage.
 
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