TMW#23 - Lera System | "Aerene's Gate"

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Entry posted by Huston · June 19, 2013

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Overview ~

Notable for being the gateway to the wider Violet Nebula star cluster, Lera is a gas giant like any other in the galaxy. A former Asari research outpost orbits above the station, until it was repurposed by an Asari entrepreneur and brought to life to cater the needs of passing traffic coming from the Lera Relay. When the Reapers arrive, all this is changed, and the fate of the stations over this world are grim. Will anyone survive this encounter?

Schulmanator

Thanks a lot, it's nice to see you dropping by Thanks for the complement as well!

MilitantRadical

Thanks a lot, always appreciative of your comments

ggamgus

Thanks a lot ggamgus

Ace

Thanks Ace, Sci-Fi's kinda my thing, so are a host of other concepts, but Sci-Fi just happens to dominate my interest, so I take extra care with these updates to make sure they're as high quality as possible to serve the seemingly limited number of Sci-Fi fans P.S. I like the irony of "you really brought that planet to life" despite what was happening

KonstantinII

I don't think your Henchmen would've made it out alive, these companies wouldn't allow you to take anything potentially valuable, besides I don't think they'd be storing any blueprints or intel on such a disparate planet with lodes of criminals And unless those ships happen to be in the Mass Effect Universe, ready to take on thousands of Reaper ships with unfathomable technologgy, sure, but this invasion isn't an isolated incident that occurs on only one planet may I remind you *Ferust, Salacia hint hint* It's sorta...galactic, meaning dozens upon dozens of worlds are being invaded all at once, some later than others so you'll probably be wanting more than 23 ships

Haljackey

Lol, never seen that movie, but I've seen a couple of screenshots of it, I guess it does look similar Thanks!

IL.

Thanks a lot, I think this is the longest and most decent update I've made for TMW to date, though it hasn't really been that long since I started TMW

RepublicMaster

Thanks Will, took a while to add those effects, nice to see you appreciate it

city98

Sorry, they aren't available anywhere on the net, they're specfically crafted by me, my own BATs, and I'm unlikely to release them since they're mostly incomplete. Only made them for the sake of this update really. And please, when you visit any City Journal, don't just ask for the BATs, it's not what the page is for. It's rather ignorant to say the least. If you really want to know, please PM instead and I'd happily see to it unless the BAT, like in this case, is made by me.

fatjuice888

Thanks a lot for the comment and answering city98's question, glad to see someone's reading my notes

Hazani Pratama

Thanks a lot Hazani, always great to see you around

spursrule14

Thanks, always appreaciate the comment

SimCoug

Thanks a lot SimCoug

KonstantinII (2)

Yeah, it's the Stagnum system formerly, but I changed the name to Kanaze to fit the planet's backstory better (probably something you may never know about but I'll probably slip the information in sometime in future Kanaze updates )

daTSchikinhed

Thanks a lot, I appreciate the complement

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vinlabsc3k

Thanks a lot for the complement, always appreciative of it

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Notes: Is anyone reading this?

Well. If you are, thanks, nice to see you're reading this and won't have to ask any questions regarding unfamiliar BATs and other things cause it's most probably likely that the BAT is mine in these updates, but when they aren't then bet on it that I'll mention it here in these note segments and if there are any BATs that aren't mine that you wanna ask about; PLEASE, do not ask on through the comments. DON'T HESITATE TO ASK ME THROUGH PM, it's much more ideal.

Really this time, there isn't much to it, I BATed, but which looked more like I drafted a station and quickly tried to render it on my 30-day trial of 3dsMax. It's expired now so can't do much about, I'll probably have to just make do with GMAX's sick rendering. Bleh. And I think my computer's got a virus. Everytime I'm on Firefox, it underlines words and comes up with ads? Weird. But other than that, everything's pretty peachy.

And just to let you know, the next planet udpate after Lera is going to be set on an official Mass Effect planet based on a side mission set on a comm station on doomed garden world.

Again, Thanks for reading this

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Yes, we're exploring two places in one, but one's more interesting than the other. Especially when you take into account that one's a gas giant. But unless you're at Austra, you have squat to look at.

Along the fringes of the large Aerene solar system lies the planet Lera, a gas giant much smaller than Austra, Aerene's largest gas giant world. It was the first object that Asari pioneers and researchers first saw when they ventured into the unknown system after the Relay was illegally activated by an unknown Terminus outlaw group. The founding Asari later in the 1950s then decided to construct a fortified research station, set out to explore and observe the star systems of what was then the newly discovered Violet Nebula cluster. They're objective was mainly to observe the vacuum of space and find and chart planets in the Aerene system and closer surrounding star systems; eventually, if they were lucky enough, they would find another garden world for habitation in the process. In the following decades, the Asari who observed this region of space were without luck, finding no garden worlds, yet discovering a number of planets in the gas giant range, to worlds that were charted that had no viable atmosphere. It would only be in the later decades of the 2000s and 2100s that they would find more garden worlds than first expected. They would also find out that they would be beaten by the Human Race in finding a garden world that was right under the noses of the more technologically superior Asari.

When the peak of interest in scouting for worlds and researching this region of space began to dissapate, the station was gradually abandoned, and funding was cut short, leaving it vacant. By then, a host of profitable Helium-3 and Hydrogen mining stations were setup, and their corporate owners had eyed the formerly designated Lera Outpost, with a confidence in the idea to repurpose the station for monetary gain. An Asari entrepreneur from the colony world of Illium set out to expand her activities from extraction, refinery and refueling in a dulled fuel depot environment to create a welcoming and more hospitable rest-stop and resort to cater the needs of those passing by the well used Lera Relay. With such an idea in mind, she saw the opportunity in using the vacant Lera Outpost, and sought to repurpose the station to her liking. These days, the station thrives as a refueling station, rest stop, and even opened to housing permanent to temporary citizens, further establishing a thriving commercial and trading culture on the Asari

built station.

The station in the later dates of renovation, was given a new designation by its new tennant. The Lera Gateway Station.

The station is built quite high over Lera's atmosphere and ring system. The simplistic design of the station, though dulled, still gives it an elegant contemporary feel, and has won over its inhabitants and passing traffic, luring them to this hospitable station. Raids by Terminus Pirates are avoided as the station remains quite heavily fortified and small fleet guards the system. In the background, the Lera Mass Relay, the Violet Nebula's only connection to the wider Milky Way is seen floating over the gas giant. A number of ships seem to be arriving through the relay, indicated by the eminating linear blue lights.

Around the station, several merchant freighter ships are navigating their way into and out of the station. Two ships are readying to enter the station docks for refueling. Meanwhile inside, people of all races in the galaxy come to call the station home. About 20,000 people live aboard the station and live their lives in solitude above the purple-pink gas giant planet below them.

Meanwhile, in the gas giant's lower atmosphere, mass amounts of pressure generated by its thick gaseous atmosphere of varying elements have compacted the Hydrogen below into an almost liquid form. Here in sight is the closest thing Lera has to a surface. An ocean-like coverage of Hydrogen in metallic form sits, colorless, only given a purplish-pink hue due to the atmosphere's tint, though the reality of this would be that no light penetrates through the clouds far enough to illuminate this layer of metallic Hydrogen. Simply meaning that you wouldn't be able to observe this rather dull scene. Yet, here you are, looking at it. Nothing more than mere speculation.

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Lera Gateway Station, Lera / Aerene System / Violet Nebula -- 2186 C.E.

...Flashforward...

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Warnings of an incoming Reaper force blurted through sirens and warnings given by galactic authorities and nearby clusters. The inhabitants of the Lera Gateway station were in panic with the number of ships running low to evacuate its 20,000 inhabitants. Fleets were beginning to mobilize, some stationed alongside extraction facilities closer to Lera and some stationed with the LGS. Human manned fleets reinforcing the front were sent from Ferust to aid in evacuations and join the defending fleets.

Unfortunately, time was running short, and luck wasn't on their side.

Dozens of Reaper ships began to arrive through the Relay, and their numbers began to overwhelm the defending fleet. With little outside help, the various stations above Lera, including the LGS were left vulnerable to Reaper attack. The Reapers arriving through the Relay spared only a few ships to destroy the infrastructure of Lera, as they had more important worlds to attend to rather than waste time on an insignificant space station.

The defending fleets' ships were no match for the Reapers, finding that their resistance was truly futile. The war over Lera remained nothing more than a spat for the Reapers, succeeding in destroying the stations. Explosions from above the planet began to brighten in the background, and when the Reapers sighted the Gateway station, an ominous red light tormented the civilians abored the station and fired on its protruding arms, knowing what would come next. Bit by bit, the station was decimated, and the thousands of civilians aboard the station killed in the process. The Reapers job was done here, and they could move on to more promising targets.

...The few ships that managed to escape the attacks lie in wait in the dark, in hopes that the Reapers don't spot them on a nearby moon. Once the Reapers left to target other systems, they retreated to the Lera Relay in hopes that they could find refuge on some other system, or the Citadel farther reaches of the Serpent Nebula...

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Susaji 523

Posted: June 19, 2013

Lera Station is Great!

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Fatjuice 253

Blast those reapers to oblivion! I really hope there is someone who will defeat those monsters! I heard of a legendary commander by the name Shepard. Are the rumours true?