Or it could just represent an artillery shell landing on him at random as happens to a lot of people in active war zones as the roll is probably more to see if he survives being in an active war zone rather then an assassination roll.
Revy is operating via telepresence. She is still safe and sound on Mindoir but with a QEC relay letting her command her suits as if she were in orbit (thus minimal light lag) rather then across the galaxy.
That would be a trash level narrative for any quest, and this quest is of a much higher grade than that. So that possibility can be ignored.
Brian is Revy's ex-boyfriend who left to join the Alliance Military. He and Revy decided to be friends because of the extreme long distance.
Brian is pretty inconsequential all things considered. And definitely isn't near important or close enough to Revy for something like Lazarus to be considered. She'll be sad of course, but not to the obsessive point of trying to bring him back from the dead.
He's important enough to get his own death roll and narrative focus, and that's enough for me. Plus given his interest in the N7 program, I've a suspicion that he's a Shepard expy with the potential to become a Hero Commander. I want him to live.
I don't, and think there are better things to allocate resources to.
That's a really bad argument considering that canonically Shepard died to not the Reapers personally but their servants the Collectors and Brian just died in a battle against similar enemies. So ironically it could be argued that it still definitely works to show he is an expy.
Revy does impossible stuff all the time. As in she literally created a power source that impressed a super advanced race of billion year old lovecraftian being that view her as worthy of their respect despite them normally viewing every non member of their race as insects. We plan on creating a way to deal with aging. Undoing death is just a very logical conclusion to the list off things we already want to do.
Context there is Shep at that point already completed ME 1 and everything else without dying. That has value. Brian failed to even make it to N6...
Eventually yes, that isn't in question, but that's in the future. Revy has more pressing things to allocate resources to. And quite frankly brain is at the moment nothing more than an old friend she sometimes talked to.
have mentioned before that Brian would be a valid target for future resurrection if desired, unless you of course wait too long and the body is buried/decomposed or cremated.
so not to damaged? Or just the head is fine?
as long as the brain is intact and is preserved it should be saveable, trauma team has done much the same and you could be better than them. even if the person would not be completely human anymore
Shitting on Brian for dying despite the fact that he died before he could enter the N7 program is a freaking terrible argument when you consider that he pretty much died before he could take the training that would have made him far more effective. Shepard in canon could die in numerous ways throughout the franchise, heck they could have died in one instance in M2 due to being poisoned by a freaking bartender with them only surviving due to their cybernetic enhancements.
okay so there is a time limit then, that's good to know.
Keyword there is "Could", Shep could have died, but Shep didn't die to all of that, Shep made it through it intact.
I think this is a bit harsh? That and not particularly realistic. The fact is, Brian is not especially elite all things considered (best case, he's piloting a Legionary despite his inexperience thanks to prior piloting training, but standard Legionaries aren't actually invincible on this battlefield). He's not part of ParSec and it's even higher gear standards. And he's caught up in a battlefield where a significant portion of forces were shot down just in transit (which would kill anyone, Power Armor or no). Then there's the swarms of Batarian pseudo Husks, artillery, and heavy power armor with heavier weapons. The fact is, having plot armor is probably why Brian only had a 10% chance to die, and even then he might have been saved by Revvy if she didn't nearly crit-fail. The rest of the landing forces didn't have odds nearly as good as that, and might have even been effectively wiped out without the last second (and evidently too late for Brian) 95 on Revvy's remote Mk 2 suit.
