Lore Thursday — Concord

An Outer Colony, Concord was settled in 2490 due to its position relative to slipspace routes and its mineral wealth. While the planet was attacked by the Covenant in 2551, the UNSC and Concordian militia secured a rare victory.

One thing I like about Halo lore with regards to the UNSC and humanity is that they are very advanced when it comes to metallurgy. It's an aspect that doesn't get talked about much but the way they refine and strengthen metals at a molecular level is fascinating.

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An Astarion line that makes me go absolutely insane when looking through a Dark Urge lens is 'a spawn is less than a slave. They’re a puppet. We have no choice but to obey our master’s commands. They speak and our bodies react – it’s part of the deal'

Like!!! The parallels between a Durge and Astarion make me want to chew through sheet metal!!!!!!

oooh magical girl gabriel oooh

based off of this dress i saw . it was . cute asf

I think you've mentioned before that after the fires of ibis, a portion of the Rubiconian population was evacuated off planet? What with 50 years having gone by there has to be multiple generations who have never set foot on Rubicon. I wanted to ask what life is like for the Rubiconian diaspora and what they think about the survivors left on Rubicon and vice versa.

The Rubiconian diaspora are split into two groups (to simplify it, in reality it's pretty complicated, but the simple summary is):

The Intellectuals: when Dr Nagai triggered the IBIS system to initiate the Fires, there was advanced warning for this that had some of the intellectual elite of Rubicon fleeing the planet. They had the resources and means to drop everything and go: access to spaceships, money, etc. When they fled to UEG space, and reports of the Fires came in, the UEG gave them an offer: they could accept silver citizenship to Earth and maintain the quality of life they're used to, so long as they share their knowledge and research with UEG.

Quite a lot of them took this offer, and fifty years on their descendants are naturalised Earth humans. This has come at a cost, though. While they had to give technological and scientific research over to the UEG, they had to waive any rights to their ""remains"". The UEG, for some reason, are very interested in Rubiconian physiology, and the more "pureblooded" they are (as in, they can trace their lineage back to the original Rubiconian settlers), the more pushy they are about having access to their bodies upon death.

Because Rubiconian belief has them not very attached to their corpses (they tend to mulch them or use them for scientific endeavours themselves), they agree to this with little fuss. In their eyes it seems like a steal: give up your world's secrets and your bodies when you die, in exchange for safety and security. Rubicon is gone in their eyes, and there's no way it's coming back with how razed it is. The UEG emphasise this point as well: Rubicon is completely destroyed. No chance of recovery, ecologically. Yup. Gone forever, this is your home now.

Publicly, the Rubiconian Liberation Front is mocked as a bunch of half-feral colonists that have been driven insane by Coral contamination, or a bunch of Coral smugglers pretending to be Rubiconians. This is the propaganda the Rubiconian diaspora holding UEG citizenship are fed, and it's what they believe - whether genuinely, or because they want to maintain their comfortable lifestyle.

The Refugees: Right, these Rubiconians are the ones that fled after the Fires, and are a mix of those who managed to find functioning spaceships post-Fires and flee, or were evacuated from the surface when the UEG's first response fleet landed on the planet.

This was done by the UEG to ensure that no surviving Rubiconian scientists or "pureblooded" Rubiconians slipped the net: upon evacuation, the refugees were told to submit their identification papers and the like - on the surface this was to reunite them with any family members or the like that they may've been separated from, but in reality it was so the UEG could confirm their identities, how many generations of Rubiconian they were, and segregate the "useful" from the "useless".

The useful were given the citizenship offer, but the "useless" were shipped off to an industrial colony that needed an influx of new workers. The UEG spun this as a PR move, obviously. They saved the Rubiconians and gave them new homes, new jobs! Meanwhile the refugees were forced to work in gruelling production facilities on frontier colonies, in exchange for food, shelter and meagre wages.

Needless to say, this group of Rubiconians are exceedingly bitter towards the UEG. There's even a common belief amongst them that the UEG was the cause for the Fires, that it had been planned since they thought Rubicon was becoming too big of a threat to its supremacy, not helped by reports of them establishing the PCA and looting Institute ruins for technology.

Though they can't do so openly, they quietly support the RLF's movement on Rubicon. They all hope that one day they do succeed in overthrowing the PCA and reclaiming their home, so that they can one day return - many have plans on how to escape the colonies they're trapped on. They're just waiting for the day they can return.

As for Walter and Carla, they intentionally destroyed their papers and pretended to be simple Rubiconians from unimportant origins. Even then they didn't really slip past UEG's notice. While Carla was half-Rubiconian, half-Earth, Walter was as pureblooded as they came, able to trace his bloodline to the very first settlers of Rubicon with no mingling of other humans from other colonies, which was picked up when the UEG did their "routine" blood test. The UEG were very pushy about Walter, and even when they relented and let Carla keep him, they actually took pains to settle them within the solar system itself, rather than the frontier colonies where majority of the Rubiconian refugees went.

Every so often the UEG make an offer, but Walter knew better than to accept whatever they're peddling. The only concession he makes it making a blood donation whenever they request it, if only because they do pay him quite a bit for that, though he can't for the life of him understand why.

Hilariously, these blood donations actually funded quite a bit of their early operations before Carla managed to establish herself as a successful black market weapon's dealer.

This is so fucking cool I'm losing my goddamn mind

truly wild to think that thanks to cryosleep, red team not only slept through most of The Horrors™ (after their The Horrors Special VIP Advance Screening™, that is), but now all of their (surviving) peers are weary 50-somethings while they themselves have not yet reached drinking age

they are younger than the ferrets

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sry w being slow w replies again not only do I have 3 ppl commissioning me (nightmare) but I am unbelievingly stressed 👍 and also in pain 24/7

also the critical political aspects of halo, especially concerning the UNSC, UEG (united earth government) and ONI's war crimes against the outer colonies and more, could've be so amazing (like they did in hunt the truth before halo 5's horrid arrival)... but 343 lost their 'nads post-halo 5 bc every gamer bro was complaining about halo 4. i would LOVE for halo to be especially critical of the UNSC bc they are an imperialist regime (much like the US military) and are only seen through a good lens bc of the fight against the covenant - but it's like we're getting an extremely sanitized halo series where they've forgotten about their own critical themes against the UNSC in favor of writing a story where everything is alright in the end and there are absolutely no consequences to what the UNSC has done... apart from the insurrectionists.

I'm playing Yakuza Like a Dragon, and for the bros like me

1 yeah Zhao tianyou bi as all hell. Beyond. He's <3 <3 <3 (also his family didn't let him play more than an hour of video games per day and he's a big softie who pretends he'd kill people but so far hasn't and ichiban certainly thinks he's too much of a sweetie to do such things, he also cooks great)

2 that being Said. I'm not actually seeing any particular major Ship potential between him and ichiban as of chapter 11. That doesn't mean one can't ship them, just I don't see a lot of Canon scenes particularly leaning that way. I pretty much only see Canon scenes joking lightly about Eri/Iciban, though ichiban seems to have no interest in her that way. (Then Nanba/Ichiban is likely the most thoroughly written relationship so far in the game period, which makes sense as he's one of the first core party members). By all this I mean. While I love Zhao Tianyou.

As a ship with intense chemistry moments galore, Majima Goro and Kiryu Kazuma definitely fit that mold better (including often paralleling each other) with majima also being Hella bi but having also a very distinct lock on Kiryu and special intense fondness for him (which the kiwami majima everywhere mechanics only cranks up since it basically puts you on dates and bonding scenes before each fight). So far I'm not really seeing any particular Yakuza Like a Dragon ship really give the intensity of that enough to go 'well dang wowza how else would I even interpret this.' Like, I'll give it this, Zhao Tianyou definitely has a fondness for ichiban, and for this party giving him a way to escape the boss job he didn't want and make a difference and connect. But that's pretty true of Eri too (while also hinting at her crush), Saeko too (who seems very sibling like attached to ichiban), Han Joon-gi (who seems to not have many friends prior to this) too. So overall the relationship of zhao/ichiban comes off more similar to the other party members with ichiban, rather than anything noticeably more intensely specific as a pair dynamic (like kiryu/majima who pretty heavily do lol... though also, in their games they're loners so when they do make connections those connections always become easier to ship in comparison).

Idk just me noting stuff. This could change. I'll see lol. After all I didn't expect the Nanba friendship to be SO important and heart twisting and critical to the main plot but here we are. I also didn't expect Ichiban and the Young Master's bond to come back as Aoki (which those two definitely got a kiryu and nishiki ish intense connection in light of Aoki being what may be the main Antagonist, very Yakuza 2 vibes in a few ways with the brotherly betrayal the political involvement and corruption).

oh god I'm thinking about the Touden siblings and euuugueuugh

When the zine server hits you with the "1st check up!" and you haven't even started

I think Rebecca may be Chrom’s type. Unsure however, more testing might be needed

A true match made in heaven. No, he is not staring at her like she is the only thing he can see? She's everything he could hope for. He thought his world was colorful but with her, he is seeing new colors he didn't see before--sights, experiences, heck smells.

Life with her is PERFECT.

"Well, well, queen of Ylisse, what are you trying to achieve with this? Haven't you already stole and locked this heart to be yours, and yours only?" hand placed on his chest, over his heart. "Aren't you a bit greedy, my love?"

Hands gently cups her face, thumbs caressing her cheeks before he kisses her softly. "You don't have to write papers or fill in anything; I love you, and I know you love me. No need for all these roundabouts, perhaps this is the only shortcut I believe in--" and he kisses her again. "Direct and sweet... your style, no?" he chuckles at her leaning to kiss him again. "See? Screw papers... Rebecca, you have my heart and my love. I could've never asked for a better friend, partner and a wife than you. Thank you for giving me all these great memories--thank you for giving me a family, a warm home to return to every day."

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