EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Issue #1/13 of the new Foundation series for Mass Effect is out. I grabbed it via Dark Horse digital because we're all well aware of my problem.
I've read it, so here's a plot summary (spoilers for the issue, plus Citadel DLC):
I liked it because it was a nicely compartmentalised narrative and not overly stupid.
I've read it, so here's a plot summary (spoilers for the issue, plus Citadel DLC):
- Year 2161, three years after the First Contact War.
- Set on an asteroid mining facility near Themes, providing materials to the Alliance for building Arcturus Station.
- Using child labour.
- Opens with a kid getting hit by an adult.
- Hot super heroin steps in. Fucks up the dude. Demands information for the location of a somebody, doesn't get it.
- Helps the kid get out of the mine and into the station hub, and has him feign injury to get him into the hospital.
- While the limited medical staff are distracted, she dons a doctor's disguise and checks the computer records for the location of this somebody, who is "Mr. Roth."
- Ditches the kid. Talks her way past security into Roth's house.
- Sees a dude on the phone, assumed to be Roth, talking to someone about how Arcturus will be completed in a year and thus their services will no longer be needed, so it would be best to make plans to sell off the children to Turians (who apparently are offering a good price).
- Lady pulls knife, takes him by surprise.
- Demands he make a deposit "on behalf of your organisation" out to one Barla Von.
- Dude recognises the Shadow Broker sent her, fights back, implies he's not Roth but an agent himself to someone else. That someone else: Cerberus.
- Banter; she thinks Cerberus is a terrorist organisation. He's all like "nah man we cool". Apparently they blew up a freighter full of Turians but it's okay because they were slavers.
- "At least Cerberus stands for something."
- Aforementioned kid seeks her out, opens the door, momentarily distracting Cerberus dude.
- Chick takes this opportunity to fuck his shit, cutting him real good.
- Demands to know the location of Roth. Guy says he's heading back to Earth. Guy is all "you won't kill me" and the kid is all "don't kill him" and she's all "nah fuck that noise I'm going to kill him", and does.
- Leaves with the kid. Assumes security disguise. Talks her way past shit. Heads to her ship to begin her pursuit of Roth, which identifies her as "Miss Brooks".
- Kid asks her to take him with her. She's all "nah no way you're just a kid!". Kid gets defensive, says he wants to be dropped off somewhere and can find his own way. Chick refuses, says nobody can be trusted, even if he thinks so now if he were captured they'd get something out of him. Says if he could survive here all on his own, and elsewhere on his own, he can probably find another way off the station on his own. "Good luck, boy."
- KABLAMMO!
- Kid shoots chick in the back. Says he's not a he, but a she. Knows people cant be trusted, thought the chick might be different, but knows otherwise.
- Takes ship and gets the fuck out of there.
- Flash forward.
- Child is now an adult, using the name Rasa, though you might know her as Brooks from the Citadel DLC. Is meeting with the Illusive Man, and says "A man I once knew said you stood for something. I guess I want to stand for something too."
- Set on an asteroid mining facility near Themes, providing materials to the Alliance for building Arcturus Station.
- Using child labour.
- Opens with a kid getting hit by an adult.
- Hot super heroin steps in. Fucks up the dude. Demands information for the location of a somebody, doesn't get it.
- Helps the kid get out of the mine and into the station hub, and has him feign injury to get him into the hospital.
- While the limited medical staff are distracted, she dons a doctor's disguise and checks the computer records for the location of this somebody, who is "Mr. Roth."
- Ditches the kid. Talks her way past security into Roth's house.
- Sees a dude on the phone, assumed to be Roth, talking to someone about how Arcturus will be completed in a year and thus their services will no longer be needed, so it would be best to make plans to sell off the children to Turians (who apparently are offering a good price).
- Lady pulls knife, takes him by surprise.
- Demands he make a deposit "on behalf of your organisation" out to one Barla Von.
- Dude recognises the Shadow Broker sent her, fights back, implies he's not Roth but an agent himself to someone else. That someone else: Cerberus.
- Banter; she thinks Cerberus is a terrorist organisation. He's all like "nah man we cool". Apparently they blew up a freighter full of Turians but it's okay because they were slavers.
- "At least Cerberus stands for something."
- Aforementioned kid seeks her out, opens the door, momentarily distracting Cerberus dude.
- Chick takes this opportunity to fuck his shit, cutting him real good.
- Demands to know the location of Roth. Guy says he's heading back to Earth. Guy is all "you won't kill me" and the kid is all "don't kill him" and she's all "nah fuck that noise I'm going to kill him", and does.
- Leaves with the kid. Assumes security disguise. Talks her way past shit. Heads to her ship to begin her pursuit of Roth, which identifies her as "Miss Brooks".
- Kid asks her to take him with her. She's all "nah no way you're just a kid!". Kid gets defensive, says he wants to be dropped off somewhere and can find his own way. Chick refuses, says nobody can be trusted, even if he thinks so now if he were captured they'd get something out of him. Says if he could survive here all on his own, and elsewhere on his own, he can probably find another way off the station on his own. "Good luck, boy."
- KABLAMMO!
- Kid shoots chick in the back. Says he's not a he, but a she. Knows people cant be trusted, thought the chick might be different, but knows otherwise.
- Takes ship and gets the fuck out of there.
- Flash forward.
- Child is now an adult, using the name Rasa, though you might know her as Brooks from the Citadel DLC. Is meeting with the Illusive Man, and says "A man I once knew said you stood for something. I guess I want to stand for something too."
I liked it because it was a nicely compartmentalised narrative and not overly stupid.
