This 8-page story marks Walters' first solo comic book writing credit. It's actually a lot of fun to walk about in this massive universe and spectacle that we've created through the eyes of someone other than Shepard." Their reactions are usually along a certain path, so this allows us to take those characters and show the universe through their eyes. "In this case what I'm doing is focusing on characters who Shepard, who you do control in the game, that he would run into and meet. We asked Walters about the challenge of bringing Mass Effect's branching, expansive, contextual narrative to life in the pages of a comic book, a format that is decidedly less prone to user input. It makes sense if you think about it, but maybe there's a story behind it. And I thought that I didn't really mention why that is. The idea I had was that I had a moment where Liara meets Aria on Omega, and Aria has a very negative reaction to a mention of the Collectors. "We wanted to continue to explore the original comic book, Redemption, and find a snippet in there.
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"Dark Horse and the Bioware team are always looking for new ways to explore the Mass Effect universe, and an opportunity came up to do a smaller, 8-page story on their MySpace page," said writer Mac Walters. The best part about said story? IGN has it, in its entirety, for you - today. Dark Horse has teamed with Mass Effect game writer Mac Walters to craft another entry in the ME universe, this time in the form of an eight-page story. Starting with the release of the second part of Bioware's epic galactic trilogy and moving to expanded stories courtesy of Dark Horse comics, fans of Commander Shepard have had no shortage of material.īut what comes next? With the game out and the comic book, Mass Effect: Redemption, in stores and collected, would fans of Bioware's galactic epic be left sitting in the cold? Not quite. Fehl Prime's disappearance becomes known to the general public through news reports dated December 29, 2184, although Mass Effect: Paragon Lost depicts the surrounding events as happening at least two years after Commander Shepard's disappearance in 2183.Mass Effect fans have had a very, very good year.Ryder misremembers Quiet Eddy's location as Kepler Verge instead of the Hades Nexus.The date in question is actually a Monday. An anti-Andromeda Initiative stinger run by Khalisah al-Jilani supposedly airs on a Sunday, December 27, 2184.EA, the EA logo, Mass Effect, Mass Effect: Andromeda, BioWare and the BioWare logo are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc.All Rights Reserved. When essential-and dangerous-tech is stolen, Cora is assigned to recover it before it can be used against the Initiative, and end the mission before it can begin.Ĭopyright © 2017 Electronic Arts Inc. The mission will send 100,000 colonists on a one-way, 600-year-long journey into the unknown. Returning to Earth, Cora finds herself a stranger among other humans, and joins the Andromeda Initiative as Alec Ryder's second-in-command. She was assigned to the asari commando unit Talein's Daughters, where she honed her abilities to become a skilled and deadly huntress. Lieutenant Cora Harper joined the Systems Alliance to develop and enhance her powerful biotic talents.
Jemisin and Mass Effect creative director Mac Walters An original novel written by Hugo Award-winning author N.