certified ancient dinosaur

how it feels to be surrounded by perverted mutants

Always With You

do we know how high up garrus was at c-sec? he was a detective but he was also the detective in charge of the investigation into saren which says a lot because 1. it's a very high-profile case which you wouldn't assign randomly: garrus might keep butting heads with pallin but pallin ultimately recognises him as skilled and competent to assign that case to him. and 2. he was in charge of that investigation which could just be a turn of phrase but could also imply there's more than one person working on it (which is likely, considering once again the charges presented and the suspect's status) and garrus is leading that team. i think that makes sense with his later character development and the shadow broker dossier remarking on his ''exceptional team-building skills'': his team on omega likely wasn't his first experience with leadership, as he is already predispositioned towards it and seems to have led a team in the saren investigation too.

That's an interesting idea, but I prefer the opposite approach. I think he was the only guy assigned to look into Saren as a gesture of appeasement to Udina who wouldn't shut up about a Council Spectre attacking a human colony. "See? We're looking into it." It's clear that the Council isn't taking the allegations seriously from their hearing about it.

the tired smile might as well be a grin… this is her maximum setting during the war

writing is a fantastic hobby but the kicker is it's a lot harder to show your friends as it's progressing. with a sketch i can show someone and they'll be like oh that's an apple. you can't do that with words until you get a lot of them down. so i'll just be like damn fuckin. uhh. check this out

Gas giants, in almost all modern models, form behind what's known as the frost line in a solar system. The frost line is defined as the region where stellar output energy is no longer substantial enough to prevent molecular gases from clumping together and forming ice, and is also generally the line where your light gases like hydrogen and helium are not excited enough to be pushed out by the stellar winds. The frost line depends on the mass of the star during its initial formation, so there's really no absolute distance for it. When stars form, the protostellar nebular collapses inward, with gas and dust exchanging angular momentum to allow particles to fall into the common center (barycenter) of the system. A number of steps later (they're not relevant to this), the material has changed from a protostar (where material is still falling inward) to a star (when material is, mostly, no longer falling inward). Stellar wind now pushes dust and gas outward, and what's left of the nebula forms a proplyd that differentiates through angular momentum exchanges and gravity into your materials for different planets. Generally speaking, inside the frost line, you get your terrestrial worlds; outside, you get your gaseous worlds. But the nebula doesn't dissipate for some time.