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From the album Weekly Challenge #24 - Fantastic Photoshop
The Alliance vessel SSV Normandy [SR-2] on a close base-approach to drop Kodiak shuttles amidst the ensuing chaos on one of Palaven's classified militarized moons, Menae.- 1 Comment
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TMW - Arvuna Satellite System | "Trapped Colony"
Huston posted a City Journal entry in Mass Effect: Beyond
Overview ~ Days on end go by as the search of Dr. Garneau becomes a wild goose chase in the select few systems where Garneau has been thought to have found. The crew then find themselves scowering the backwater garden world satellite system of Dranen, Arvuna for the seemingly difficult to find scientist. But with the Balor system in dismay, and cities being overrun by Reaper forces, the Aysur system is cut off from the Caleston Rift's own Mass Relay. With virtually no way of escape, many take their chances to go off-world in shuttles that attempt to make the run for the Balor Mass Relay. And with the Normandy crew spending several days on the world searching for Garneau, distress signals from nearby cities and settlements drag the crew into aiding with evacuation on the now isolated colony. Schulmanator They sure do! You'll get to see just how much trouble they cause in later updates Efkin Thanks #1SithLord Lol, indeed. Thanks 976 Thanks a lot Dryan, really appreciate the comment Fox Sorry disappoint Fox, here's another serving of ME:TMW ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Note: My BATs for this update rendered poorly, with most of the buildings having no nightilghts despite having rendered them. I only got some of my BATs to actually have nightlighting--gonna have to re-export the rest. And I've spent just about three days trying to get them done, but my computer doesn't really want to co-operate. Better get a new laptop soon Oh and just to mention, this is a side story of a multi-part update I'll be doing soon, and that picture of Arvuna and Dranen was made by me. Yep. Me. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Amongst the dozens of moons of the gas giant system of Dranen, lies a water world claimed by humans as a backwater system, posing little political and strategical influence for the Alliance, as well as the Citadel Council. Thus the system is largely left to fare on its own, just as any other colony in the Terminus is claimed to do. But as the galaxy plunges into galactic war, Reapers invading begin to encroach on colonies and clusters, and while Arvuna remains safe from the mean time, escape from the Rift's only relay isolates the human population that reside on the colony. It leaves many on edge. And many to take their chances either on Arvuna to stand their ground, to evacuate and make an attempt to run for the relay. It all seems quiet on the water world colony, but as fears of an impending offensive on Arvuna lingers, many take their transport ships, freighters and shuttles to the skies to evade the danger and possibility of attack. A colony wide exodus is underway with thousands evacuating countless settlements. However, some of the many try to wait it all out. But out in the oceans, encountering calm skies then intermittently treacherous storms, Joker flies the Normandy around the planet, in search of Dr. Garneau, who may possibly have leads on the location of Leviathan. After many hours of scanning for the doctor on Arvuna, they find no signs of the him anywhere. On the side, EDI and Comm Specialist Traynor receive and pinpoint numerous distress signals from a multitude of colonial settlements around the planet. As their search on Arvuna for Garneau brings no avail, they plan to head out of the system and look to the several more potential locations. But before they leave Arvuna, Samantha informs the Commander of the distress calls from multiple townships, and convinces him to aid in evacuation before perusing his search. With the backing of his crew, he decides to aid in transporting a number of isolated colonists out of the system, they head for one of the settlements closest to the Normandy's location, knowing fully that the Normandy is capable of escaping the cluster through the Mass Relay, undetected. Joker makes the approach for the settlement of Himavrta, in the treacherous rain, and with the radiation shielding in their sights, they know that the settlement is not far out. Though in an almost zero-visibility environment, scanners reveal that they're close to the colony, and below them is the shoreline of the Himavrta Island settlement. The torrential rain and gusty winds make flying conditions oddly difficult, and mass effect fields are up to allow the Normandy to easily maneuver on the Earth-like gravity world. In the ship, people seem restless. James and Steve try to keep themselves busy and prepare to help with the evacuation, clearing space in the cargo hold for evacuees with the help of crew. In the Engine room, Engineer Adams, Ken, Gabby and Tali try to keep the Normandy's systems operating smoothly and managing the eezo core, with pounding weather scrambling some of the Normandy's systems. Meanwhile, in the crew quaters, Dr. Chakwas tries to file through the numerous records that she is intends to manage while tending to her supplies. Garrus tries to pull himself away from calibrating the Thanix cannon and gets ready to get to ground with the civilians. Liara, in her own private quaters, is busy with managing broker contacts, before she loses all communications beyond Arvuna. Instead, she begins flicking through her datapads. Kaidan on the starboard observation deck, looks into the storm restlessly, before immediately deciding to get up and check the situation on the CIC. Joker, being the pilot on the bridge, along with EDI co-piloting the Normandy, has little visual range in his field of view, with the storm obscuring his sight. He relies on the ship's array of sensory data and scanners to inform him of their location and any dangers that might be ahead of them, while at the same time, EDI simeltaneously carries out system tasks regarding the Normandy and informing Joker of any impending hazards. Samantha as well tries to manage data and distress signals coming from all over Arvuna, with John listening in to her every regard, with communications from various settlements before deciding to ready himself for the civilian extraction on the ground. Down below, Himavrta's inhabitants lay distressed, and despite the storm, a little torrential downpour seems to be the least of their worries. Unsure about the situation in Balor, many residents make their way to the settlement's rural spaceport landing zone. Crop shuttles, Kodiaks, Kowloon class freighters and arriving privateer ships help people to go off-world as the Reapers slowly expand their reach in the Rift. As many take to the mass planetary exodus, the lack of lights in the colony make it obvious as to the scale of the inhabitants that have decided to leave Himavrta and Arvuna. As more people are encouraged to evacuate the nearly defenseless colony, the skyline of Himavrta continues to darken in the deep storm's casted shadow. Just on the outskirst HImavrta. the wind turbines that the settlement is dependent on for electricity are abandoned one by one, as per shutting down the colony. With few people to maintain the systems, the power generated is dependent on the few turbines that are still being managed, while the rest are left alone, likely to be thrown off by the dangers of the high winds. Those who have chosen to stand their ground on the settlement try to wait out the storm, and may decide to leave when it is too late. But for now, the stubborn inhabitants left behind lay in wait while their neighbors leave their prefabs abandoned. Down, closer to the shores, a colonist remains calm about the situation, despite the number of abandoned prefabs around him. The storm's intensity rises and falls, with winds blowing the rain into some radical angles and onto the windows of Himavrta's colonial prefab windows. Fortunately, most people have begun to become adapted to Arvuna's wild weather systems of snow, ice and rain. But seeing as the colony nears the equatorial belt of the planet, rain is seen as far more common than snow. At Himavrta's rural spaceport-landing zone, shuttles which arrived, have now mostly left, with other arrivals coming to extract civilians from the township. People wait in prefabs and shelters, awaiting more rescue help from privateers and shuttle pilots. Waiting for what seems like hours, more shuttles arrive to extract locals for evacuation. The shuttles carrying the many residents of Himavrta then lift off with an intent to reach the Balor Mass Relay. Their chances of succeeding in evading the cluster's invading forces seem to be dwindling. But as their distress signal is caught by the Alliance frigate, Normandy, the many civilians still stranded on the ground have high hopes to escape the cluster for safer colonies, or even the Citadel. The stranded colonists, stressed and in fear, then board the Normandy with haste, the ship's crew guiding them into the ship, ready to leave behind their isolated and endangered colony. -- Once they board all the civilians they can take, the Normandy lifts off, it's Loading bay filled with shaken refugees and anxious colonists. The ship leaves Arvuna behind, heading for safer, unoccupied neighboring clusters and even the Citadel in an effort to transport the civilians safely to a more secure area. ___________________________________________________________- 8 Comments
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Overview ~ Before the crew of the Normandy repair the ship and leave the uncharted garden world system for Earth, the Galaxy's fleet moves in on the Citadel barely hours after the Crucible's activiation to aid any surviving civilians on the barely functioning Citadel Station, repaired and saved from total destruction by the mysterious and resillient keepers. But as they search through the Citadel's rubble, survivors from all around the station begin to appear in significant numbers. Though when they search through the Citadel's Presidium Tower, they discover a survivor who somehow beat the odds and help in large droves pour in. emperordaniel Thanks a lot, very nice of you to say Blakeway Thanks a lot Juls IL. The first picture really isn't SimCity 4, the second one is an almost exact rendition of the first image though Thanks btw! KonstantinII Thanks a lot, and it's a confidential CJ secret XxDirtyDanxX Thanks a lot darkaliendude It would definitely, I'd be all for that! And yeah, I did use PS for the color filtering Thanks! Sylvio Jorge Yes, it's definitely SimCity Thanks! Bipin Thanks a lot Bipin APSMS Thanks a lot, took a while to get the effects and scene right Hellken Thanks RepublicMaster Thanks a lot Will Hazani Pratama Thanks a lot Gugu3 Thank you MilitantRadical Thanks, it's what I was going for SimCoug Thanks a lot, and it definitely is ____________________________________________________________________________ Note: The Ending to Mass Effect 3. This is the second part of the 2 part episode update that depicts the ending of the main story. These 2 updates will be the apex of the Mass Effect: The Milky Way series. 2/2 Special Episodes *Ps. The update has been specially created in the way in which I have made a BAT which is much larger in scope to allow a view of a scene that wouldn't normally be capable of HD quality at SimCity's standard zoom levels. Note V2: Repaired the update for the new ST, and the broken links it had before ____________________________________________________________________________ It's not long until the crew of the Normandy repair their ship and take off, leaving behind the shady uncharted tropical garden world system they had crashed at to avoid the Crucible superweapon's fire. But before they leave the system, they mourn the loss of their Commander. But some refuse to believe that he's dead, some more than others. >--------------------------------------< >--------------------------------------< The crew of the Normandy are still oblivious to the full extent of the damage that the Crucible inflicted on the Citadel and as they repaired the Normandy's systems, they were also oblivious to a crucial discovery that unfolded at the Citadel's Presidium Tower and Crucible Docking Port. When the fleets arrive back at the Citadel, now over Earth, they immediately board the station to search and aid any surviving civilians aboard the severely damaged but still functioning station that had been saved from total annihilation by the resillient and mysterious keepers. They begin their search the Presdium Tower after it was the last location of a comm transmission, made during the Crucible's activation. Here they discover a survivor that had beaten the odds, and help comes pouring in droves. ... ... ... [vague echoes and creaking metal pillars] [echoes] 1 - Hello! Is their anyone in here? 2 - This is it, the transmission was pinpointed to this location. It should be in that way. 3 - HELLO! Are there ANY SURVIVORS? 2 - The Admiral and Commander should be in this area. We'll need to split up to find them. [echoes & vague voices] 2 - SIR, I FOUND THE COMMANDER! HE'S IN HERE! I need help to move him out of the rubble! ....And...He's ALIVE! He's still breathing and barely getting a pulse -- but I'm not sure he's conscious!. 1 - We're ON OUR WAY. Hold your position. 2 - Through here! 1 - Get a shuttle here to retrieve the Commander! [C-Sec and other military search parties move into the area] 1 - Hurry UP and get that shuttle down, this is critical! 7 - Okay, lets get him out of here. 11 - Can you read me? I repeat, we have found the Commander alive. We're transporting him by shuttle to Huerta Memorial. Can you read me? over. 2 - How's the situation at the Presidium hospitals? 7 - CRAZY. 1 - GET THIS SHUTTLE moving, we don't have time. ______________________________________________ 2 of 2
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TMW - Special #29.1 | "Normandy Crash Landing"
Huston posted a City Journal entry in Mass Effect: Beyond
Overview ~ When the Reaper threat is expelled by the Crucible superweapon, The Milky Way and its people are liberated. But on a distant garden world away from the Human home-system, the SSV Normandy makes a crash landing to avoid the Crucible's power. RepublicMaster Thanks a lot Will! Forthwall Thanks Shub Fox Thanks a lot Fox! #1SithLord That's great to hear! Thanks so much Hazani Pratama Thank you! Terring Thanks a lot Bipin Thanks haha KonstantinII It's partly a recap, but if you noticed, there are some fresh images Thanks anyway. gman28 Thanks, there are stories for most of them here already. For Lera Station, Ferust, Lera and Austra. Just not Vemas or Annex. I'll eventually get to them ____________________________________________________________________________ Note: The Ending to Mass Effect 3. This is a 2 part episode update that depicts the ending of the main story. These 2 updates will be the apex of the Mass Effect: The Milky Way series. 1/2 Special Episodes ____________________________________________________________________________ The Reapers have been defeated, the Citadel is in ruins...but the Milky Way is liberated. And as the many people of the disparate worlds of a once divided galaxy begin to emerge from scorched cities and ruined towns...and planets as a whole... ...the crew of the Normandy endure a crash landing on an uncharted garden world; avoiding the Crucible's wrath. ______________________________________________ 1 of 2- 17 Comments
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