A good suggestion for the inciting incident might be something to the effect of Romance is Mandatory, or similar. An otherwise fairly harmless but still totally annoying indictment of behavior re: Hypatia's typical 'tudes.
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I think Kimiko would not want to leave the station, both because she doesn't see a lot of merit in the refugees or entering their sphere of influence, and because she's already very entrenched where she is. I've made a point out of her slow buildup and reinforcement in zone 16, so her bat-cave is pretty much a fortress at this point, which might become relavant.
EDI, on the other hand, would definitely want to send her mobile platform down with Shepard. "This platform is disposable," as she would put it, and there's nothing like having someone able to tell you firsthand that everything up at the Station is fine, without physically having to go and check. Robot shipmom got your back, Shepard.
See also: a cool convo between EDI and Shepard in which EDI is brought around to the renegade way of life re: killing rogue AIs. And possibly reveals her origins???? :0
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For the Training Montage section, a reverse emphasis on my part would be awesome because Kim Ross Invents Weird Things has been the name of the game so far and you guys want portal guns and other awesome weird things she's been cribbing from the junkyard, right?
Yes. Yes you do.
Aww yiss.
EDI can hang out and come to moral crossroads over things and eventually get a red dialogue option to the face and do a heel-turn because that is how these things work in ME, okay. Shepard can talk you into doing whatever she wants, it is a fact.
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As for the assault, I can see coneivably including both my characters in it, although Kimmi would probably be a bit of a burden, while EDI is.
Well, EDI can kill things.
It might be fun to have a combat mode more suited to the synthetics, with a digital battle being waged on the grid-metaphor or something similar, and having the effect of Hypatia-loyal enemies being fried or otherwise disabled as a result of victories in the invisible, digital realm.
I just want to portray EDI as the general of a digital army, deploying all her cyber-warfare suites and being a robo-bamf, I am so biased omfg.
Too many words, Mica. Too many.
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I think Kimiko would not want to leave the station, both because she doesn't see a lot of merit in the refugees or entering their sphere of influence, and because she's already very entrenched where she is. I've made a point out of her slow buildup and reinforcement in zone 16, so her bat-cave is pretty much a fortress at this point, which might become relavant.
EDI, on the other hand, would definitely want to send her mobile platform down with Shepard. "This platform is disposable," as she would put it, and there's nothing like having someone able to tell you firsthand that everything up at the Station is fine, without physically having to go and check. Robot shipmom got your back, Shepard.
See also: a cool convo between EDI and Shepard in which EDI is brought around to the renegade way of life re: killing rogue AIs. And possibly reveals her origins???? :0
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For the Training Montage section, a reverse emphasis on my part would be awesome because Kim Ross Invents Weird Things has been the name of the game so far and you guys want portal guns and other awesome weird things she's been cribbing from the junkyard, right?
Yes. Yes you do.
Aww yiss.
EDI can hang out and come to moral crossroads over things and eventually get a red dialogue option to the face and do a heel-turn because that is how these things work in ME, okay. Shepard can talk you into doing whatever she wants, it is a fact.
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As for the assault, I can see coneivably including both my characters in it, although Kimmi would probably be a bit of a burden, while EDI is.
Well, EDI can kill things.
It might be fun to have a combat mode more suited to the synthetics, with a digital battle being waged on the grid-metaphor or something similar, and having the effect of Hypatia-loyal enemies being fried or otherwise disabled as a result of victories in the invisible, digital realm.
I just want to portray EDI as the general of a digital army, deploying all her cyber-warfare suites and being a robo-bamf, I am so biased omfg.