I'd rather be sleeping

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The original Mass Effect Trilogy, much as I love the series, is rather drab and desaturated. ME1 had some colorful places, but its sequels had a bit of a "misery filter" applied to them that sucked a lot of color from the environments.

In contrast, the most absolutely messed up planet in Andromeda, H-047c, is still quite pleasant to look at. Tossing in other planets like Aya, Havarl, and Habitat-7 shows how much the environmental artists wanted it all to look like something you'd want to explore.

That's not to say that everything is happy and bright. The vaults look both colorful and oppressive when you're in them. Wreckages don't look like they've been collecting dust for a century.

What if they supported you without question, threw their weight against forces that had kept you down for literally a thousand years, even when they needed that power to win a war.

What if they looked up at you with bruised eyes and an even worse heart and handed you a species for your entire future, the future you thought your species lost forever and asked “will you help me?” As if it was ever a question of your loyalty to them.

What if this one human whom you love like a family you never actually had, whom you love more than your blood, dragged themselves through the muck and blood and wore themselves down until they were holding on by frayed nerves and broken nails brought you to their planet and thanked you for being there.

As if you wouldn’t have gone to hell and back for this human, as if you aren’t one of the few to know she sings off key when she’s drunk, she dances like a one legged varren, she builds models and loves animals and she cares so, so damn much about the people around her.