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beyondthespheres · 10 months

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My favorite Transformer Windblade as depicted by Saren Stone.

#Transformers #Comics #Windblade #Saren Stone

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neoncitynights · 4 months

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#cyborg #android #robot #cybernetic #synthetic #cyberpunk #science fiction #scifi #art #artist #fayren #Saren Stone

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pengold · 5 months

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Best robot moth

#digital art #digital illustration #fantasy #digital drawing #vtuber #vtuber fanart #pngtuber #robot #moth #fayren #saren stone #to the lamp!

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starscream-scheming · 8 months

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A bunch of screamers I like, he’s totally fine don’t worry about it

#starscream #transformers #my stuff #tfp starscream #earthspark starscream #animated starscream #g1 starscream #idw starscream #and of course a Saren stone screamer in there because I enjoy #this took weeks I suffered for this AGH #maccadam

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noritaro · 8 months

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Twitter really liked this for some reason??

#nori art #not putting this in the TF tags #uhhh art in the corner is Saren Stones concept art(?) for Blurr #she made him look saaaaaur cute like omg!! thank youuuu

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n7cloacadestroyer · 9 days

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Very true. I also have doubts that the thorian that Shepard fights on Feros is well and truly dead. Shiala and ExoGeni's recovery team are the only sources we have that confirm its apparent demise. ExoGeni has a vested interest (as well as a demonstrated willingness) to lie. They were willing to purge the colony to protect their secrets and probably would have if Shepard hadn't intervened. So we know that we can't trust them.

Shiala, on the other hand, seems trustworthy at first. She's vital to the plot of ME1, as the prothean cipher would be lost to Shepard after the thorian's supposed death had she not intervened. She wishes to stay with the colonists to atone for their suffering which she feels responsible for. Even if you take the renegade option to kill her, it still reflects well on her character.

But something we often overlook is that she was definitely indoctrinated by Sovereign, following Matriarch Benezia to join Saren. A reminder that Matriarch Benezia was so far gone that she couldn't stop herself from trying to murder her own daughter. Sovereign probably couldn't have exerted any more control over her without turning her brain into pudding.

Indoctrination is stated to be a degenerative condition by multiple characters throughout the series, but we hear about it first from Rana Thanoptis, who was studying the phenomenon at Saren's base on Virmire. We learn that Sovereign (and later, all reapers) emit a kind of energy field undetectable by contemporary technology that subtly alters brain waves and thought patterns, making organic minds more susceptible to suggestion by slowly removing the capacity for independent thought.

If we take the narrative at face value, Shiala remains the only character in the entirety of the Mass Effect series that has experienced any degree of remission in their level of reaper indoctrination. This isn't extremely suspicious on its own within the context of Mass Effect 1, but given what we learn about it going forward? Gigantic red flag.

It's also worth noting that Saren offers Shiala to the thorian in exchange for the cipher, a fate she willingly accepts as an indoctrinated slave. Saren then betrays the thorian, as he has a reputation for. No surprise there. What is surprising is his apparent lack of target priority.

If Saren/Sovereign wanted to breach the colony to destroy the main thorian node beneath it, why didn't they just bombard it from orbit? Instead, they send the geth to attack the humans in the colony and the nearby ExoGeni building. "Killing the flesh that would tend the next cycle," as the thorian says.

There is another creature within the Mass Effect continuity that reproduces via spores--the Thresher Maw. That's the reason we find them on so many different worlds in-game. Their microscopic spores are hardy enough to survive dormant within the vacuum of deep space and atmospheric reentry, so they are unwittingly spread by space travelers, both past and contemporary.

What if Saren was cutting off the thorian's vectors of propagation without directly attacking it? Because large-scale disturbances like bombardment risk throwing its spores into the atmosphere or worse--into orbit where it could cling to passing vessels along with other bits of magnetized space dust.

I also suspect that the geth platforms on Feros were so entrenched because they were never intended to leave. If the thorian's influence can indeed overpower reaper indoctrination, as it seems to be doing with Shiala, the machines have a very good reason to be concerned and act accordingly. They seemingly intend to starve it out/quarantine it--a smart move, all things considered. Especially if my suspicions are correct.

We meet Shiala again on Illium in Mass Effect 2. Her skin has turned green, and she seems fatigued, to put it mildly. We learn that the colonists continue to experience strange side effects and rudimentary linked nerve signals, even sharing sensations like heat and pain when near one another. In addition, they experience headaches and muscle spasms similar to when they were under thorian control seemingly at random. She also notes that her biotics have become 'unstable'.

The colonists contacted a Baria Frontiers survey group to perform some medical scans to diagnose and resolve their chronic issues and were offered a contract to get them for next to nothing. The problem was that they had unknowingly agreed to "invasive follow-up procedures" at the company's behest. With enough charm or intimidate points, Shepard can help Shiala by convincing the Baria Frontiers rep to revise the contract.

Now we're led to believe that these procedures are being forced on the colonists simply because an uncharacteristically racist asari just wants to see them suffer… but what if the initial scans showed some kind of anomaly? If there are parasitic spores within their bodies controlling (or at least influencing) their minds, discovery of this fact would certainly spell doom for the parasite in question. So would it not be in the parasite's best interest to avoid anyone looking at the colonists too closely?

Furthermore, it's strange that the symptoms result in biotic instability for Shiala, an asari commando who has been training her biotic abilities for at least a few hundred years. Unless the thorian spores have begun to sprout and grow throughout her central and periphery nervous systems, thereby disrupting/altering the path that nerve signals must take to reach the eezo nodules in her nerves?

In Mass Effect 3, we meet her on the Citadel presidium after the evacuation of Zhu's Hope. She confirms that she is indeed indoctrinated, but says that her connection to the colonists through the residual thorian spores "is louder" than the tell-tale whispers. She and the colonists have seemingly adapted to the presence of the thorian spores and can now "feel" one another, and "act with one mind" as they fight against the reapers, "ignoring pain when the need arises." They can share some degree of learned experience as well, as Shiala further elaborates, "with one mind, the untrained fight with the skill of veteran commandos."

She's also, notably, still green. So it seems like the colonists just abandoned the whole "let's get medical care" idea and just learned to live with their new hivemind? Yeah, that's extremely suspicious given everything we know about the thorian.

Conclusion: Shiala and the colonists are simply an extension of the thorian, and this is how the creature propagates itself. Feros was not the Thorian's home world, and it was likely carried there by the protheans or a space-faring civilization that predated them as spores within their bodies. When they die, their bodies will be consumed by the spores within them and begin a new "cycle" for the thorian. (got to thinking about this reply from @dragonflight203, but it got a little too big for the reply box.)

#mass effect #mass effect spoilers #mass effect trilogy #feros #thorian #commander shepard #mass effect lore #shiala #saren #reapers getting skill diffed in mind control by a fungus from the stone age #text

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trashiiplant · 2 years

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been a good tad since I drew these guys from literally any continuity

#transformers #starscream #swindle #transformers idw #saren stone's desings hit different #these r just some quick ish doodles #so if u see any mistakes just... shush #trashy art

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postapocalyptic-cryptic · 2 years

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I’ve had enough I’d like to be a giant robot now

#preferably drawn by saren stone but I'll take alex milne too I'm not picky

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ghostingcrows · 2 years

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I want Saren Stone to do the art for Shattered Glass II

I would lose my fucking mind

#I really really REALLY love Saren Stones art

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sourswords · 3 months

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let's take ibuprofen together

#transformers #shitpost #(from windblade vol. 1 no. 4. saren stone i love your art i want to eat it)

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aknolan · 2 years

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It's hard to pick a favourite thing about the Windblade comics because everything about them is so incredible. But I really do love the art so much. It looks so good, and then when I take a closer look... I can see how it's made. There is nothing that has motivated me to try drawing again quite like this. This beautiful art that I can look closely at and learn from.

It's wonderful.

#windblade #transformers #idw transformers #tf #I'm talking about saren stone's art here #though the later art by sara pitre durocher is also very good for this

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aspanse · 1 year

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A sketch page of the disaster twink feat. One smol Megan🫶 this is where my T. rex hands sketch came from

I saw someone do studies of Saren Stone’s Starscream from the Windblade series and I just had to try my hand at it! It was really fun tbh!

#starscream #tfp starscream #idw starscream #transformers prime #tfp #transformers #maccadam #he’s my little meow meow bouncing around in my head :)

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shandsformation · 8 days

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saren stone bg studiessss

#inhaling their art everyday ou gh #transformers #maccadam #my art

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suitsofarmour · 3 months

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Hey Suits! Congrats on the 700 followers :D

I’d love to see a little Saren Stone Starscream in your style.

THANK YOU!!!

AND I LOVE SAREN STONE’S DESIGNS Starscream was so fun gahh

#i would actually kill for a physical copy of one of the windblade comics she drew for ahghghh they’re so eye candy #starscream #transformers #idw transformers #my art #requests

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brolly03 · 5 months

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Some Windblade edits I made in my free time! :D

I had a fun time re-reading the whole Windblade 2014 while making this.

I loveeeee seeing Windblade in Saren Stone’s artstyle, so vibrant and lively. 💜

A super quick edit to indulge my shipdom. I dislike how Rattrap ruined this scene of themm ;-; I know he just got punched in the face (sorry Rattrap that looks painful) but come on you are sticking out like a sore thumb here bud.

#windblade #starscream #windscream

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meditral · 1 year

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...I still may or may not be immune to Saren Stone's IDW Starscream after all this time.

Still working on some bigger pieces, so have a Screamer in the meantime. :)

#starscream #transformers #maccadam #the art tag goes here #idw transformers #artists on tumblr #digital art

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