video, backdated to pre-plots

[thebioticwoman]

[Shepard has settled into her quarters, and the background to her transmission is a thrilling expanse of undecorated wall with a little bit of couch cushion visible near the bottom of the frame. She herself is a red-haired, pale-skinned human woman with green eyes and a calm, no-nonsense demeanor, wearing what looks like it could be a military or merchant marine uniform, though it has no obvious insignia or rank.]

My name's Shepard. I just got here, obviously, and I have a question. The staff was polite about it, but considering one of them nearly dropped his datapad when I floated the idea, there's obviously something they're not telling me...why is "Spectre" a bad codename?

[She could just freakin' Space Google it, but this is a good icebreaker. Besides, she doesn't have her omni-tool and she finds the omnicomm interface unreasonably clunky and inflexible.]

Comments

[thebioticwoman]

[If he's good now, he'll be better when he's 18. nottalking.gif]

Are humans here pushy about Earth religions?

[That would be awkward.]

[headinjuries]

It's not as bad here as it is back home, I guess.

There's like a religious sect that's into Superman or something though? Which seems kinda weird to me.

[thebioticwoman]

That might be weirder for me if I knew who Superman was.

[No Earth culture Bioware might have to pay royalties for using seems to exist in Mass Effect, isn't that odd?]

[headinjuries]

He's like, the Captain America of...

...wait, okay, that one probably doesn't work for you either, huh.

[thebioticwoman]

'Fraid not.

[headinjuries]

Okay. Uhhhhh.

- this is really hard without being able to just compare it to something, ugh!

[thebioticwoman]

A famous historical figure?

[headinjuries]

Kinda. Who was also a superhero and generally known for being an all-around badass?

[thebioticwoman]

If you're gonna build a religion around a real person, it really should be a dead one. Less chance they'll show up and tell you you're doing it wrong.

[headinjuries]

Superman's been dead here for a while, but I guess with all the time travel and other people from the Justice League showing up it almost doesn't matter.