Omega: Blue Team Has The Boom

Hey, let's get out of that mine!

My laptop still isn't fixed: the keyboard is utterly shot, but I can still use my drawing tablet. No more crayon for you all, aren't you relieved? My tablet actually has handwriting recognition software, which lets me type dialogue, if you were wondering.

... I'm typing THIS text on Husbando~'s computer, though, because fuck handwriting entire paragraphs.

You know, I didn't notice this when I first played it, but I did when I had to break it down for MSPixel: Omega is a very disjointed story. "Okay so here's some new aliens OH SHIT LET'S REROUTE POWER o no bombs?!????" I'd be curious to know which Bioware staffer wrote this one.

Also, why the hell would Cerberus blow up Omega? They're on Omega. I know Cerberus is kinda dim, but damn.

Sure, nice boss lady.

Let us now travel through the picturesque Omegan landscape:

Make sure you look around here to pick up an easter egg.

Enough hosing around. Aria and Shepard have a planning sesh when they get to the bombs.

Anyway, we have to deactivate all the bombs, it looks something like this:

... what. What. This sequence is just like shooting the Thorian in the nipples back in ME1. Lie to me, say I'm wrong.

Let's call Nyreen, see what's going on there.

Aria shoots out a fan for us to walk through, it's really neat:

We land straight in a lab that apparently was designing adjutants.

There's a terminal that fills you in on the creation of the adjutants. I'll save you a few minutes: the adjutants were designed as sort of a vampire species. They can bite other people and turn them into more adjutants.

Okay, but why? "Well, gee, it's so Cerberus can build an army."

Okay, but why? They can already reaperize people, they did it to Paul Grayson. They make this huge deal over how they totally could have mind controlled Shepard. Why, then, did they need to make a whole other alien that could do exactly what they already had the tech to do?! That has to be the biggest damn waste of resources I've ever heard of.

Fuck Cerberus. Let's keep playing.

Gotcha, Nyreen, catch you later.

Anyway, let us now to the steps of Afterlife.

And we shall continue down this life path on Friday.