Divergent Codex: The Revised History of the First Contact War (Mass Effect)

[X] …a sizable research station. (Canon) (+0 DP)

Let's take advantage of our extra time to work through technology left behind.
 
[X] …a ruined crater. (+5 DP)

I'm going to go ahead and make it clear that I think the idea of us not having advanced eezo tech doesn't mean we're magically going to discover an entirely different tech tree from the rest of the galaxy. We're just going to be technologically inferior to the Citadel species, and that's not the end of the world.
 
[X] …a small outpost. (+2 DP)

[X] …a hidden military installation. (-10 DP)

[X] …a ruined crater. (+5 DP)
 
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[X] …a ruined crater. (+5 DP)

I'm going to go ahead and make it clear that I think the idea of us not having advanced eezo tech doesn't mean we're magically going to discover an entirely different tech tree from the rest of the galaxy. We're just going to be technologically inferior to the Citadel species, and that's not the end of the world.

I think it'll make humanity inferior yes, but only due to their tech lacking the same maturity as the Citadel powers. It'll lead to some interesting workarounds though, which will be fun to see.

[X] …a ruined crater. (+5 DP)
 
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[X] …a sizable research station. (Canon) (+0 DP)
[X] …a small outpost. (+2 DP)
 
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Time for a bit of human ingenuity.
I think this will force humanity to research none Eezo related technologies.
What is going to make us is that our tech will be significantly inferior than the rest of the Galaxy... Nothing more, nothing less.
[X] …a sizable research station. (Canon) (+0 DP)

Also voting for this because it seems that we may have a heat start about the reapers thingy...
The exact details of what was found inside remains unknown to the general public, classified at the highest levels of Humanities governments even centuries later.
[X] …a hidden military installation. (-10 DP)
I'm going to go ahead and make it clear that I think the idea of us not having advanced eezo tech doesn't mean we're magically going to discover an entirely different tech tree from the rest of the galaxy. We're just going to be technologically inferior to the Citadel species, and that's not the end of the world.
We are entering a war with the Turians, it may not be the end of the world but it is going to be VERY painful...
 
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[X] …a ruined crater. (+5 DP)

Humanity: The fucks an eezo? Sounds like a skin disease
 
[X] …a ruined crater. (+5 DP)

[X] …a small outpost. (+2 DP)

[X] …a sizable research station. (Canon) (+0 DP)
 
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[X] …a sizable research station. (Canon) (+0 DP)
 
[X] …a sizable research station. (Canon) (+0 DP)
[X] …a small outpost. (+2 DP)
[X] …a hidden military installation. (-10 DP)


Anything but the crater option. It's not going to make humanity have super special tech no one thought of because they're all idiots, like in far too many bad fanfics.

It will just make it worse.

Also depending on some factors not having the mars archives could just flat out be a galaxy wide bad end.
 
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[X] …a sizable research station. (Canon) (+0 DP)
[X] …a small outpost. (+2 DP)
[X] …a hidden military installation. (-10 DP)


Anything but the crater option. It's not going to make humanity have super special tech no one thought of because they're all idiots, like in far too many bad fanfics.

It will just make it worse.

I thought that was fairly obvious? The trouble is, we're going to be running out of ways to fill the huge DT debt we've gone into, to my consternation. It's relative impact is a +5, so significant, but not world-ending, judging the costs of the other items we've been presented with.
 
[X] …a sizable research station. (Canon) (+0 DP)

[X] …a small outpost. (+2 DP)

[X] …a hidden military installation. (-10 DP)


Despite what shitty fanfics say Eezo isn't a trap by the reapers that the mass relays. Eezo itself is basically magically uranium.
 
[X] …a hidden military installation. (-10 DP)

Look, just keep writing omakes folks. We gotta take this. I will personally promise to write an omake of anyone's choice if we just go ahead and take this.

Particle rifles, stasis pods, Advanced knowledge of the Reapers.

For god sake, take the poisoned chalice and sip it slow.
 
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As a way to chip at the DP debt with omakes, someone could write our relationship with the others, how our relationship is with the terminus, Asari, turians, salarians, quarians, the council as a whole, etc. another idea is writing about the institutions of this humanity and maybe classes of ships?
 
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