So For Trilogy Appreciation Week, I published the transcript for Kasumi's loyalty mission and I wanted to summarize what I think is interesting to learn in this mission and the codex entries for it.
The villains of the galaxy gather together for Hock’s party. Kasumi calls them "the worst liars, cheaters, and mass murderers you'll ever want to meet." And they gossip together.
Peruggia is the security password chosen for the vault, which is the name of the man who stole the Mona Lisa. So we also learn that the Mona Lisa was stolen!
We learn from a datapad in Hock’s apartment that there are at least 4800 galactic languages. That to me is probably one of the most interesting part of the mission. What it implies about languages, species, evolution... It's a lot. If anyone who is into languages wants to comment on it, please do!
The graybox technology can have a decryption key that is a memory, an emotion, even a smell, meaning permutations could be “infinite”. Here's the codex entry. Other than interesting ideas about how it came to be (slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease), we also learn that one of Keiji's aliases was probably Abraham Rumoi.
The vault and its content give us some lore informations:
Egyptian statues can be sold even outside of the Alliance as “Asari go nuts for this sort of thing”.
Turian art is rare outside of Palaven, which is why the sculpture they find is, according to Kasumi, one of the most valuable pieces in the vault.
A model of a turian ship called the Kara is found in the vault, to Kasumi it’s like a “Turian Titanic” so we can guess that even at this point in time the Titanic still has a myth-like quality to it, and that other species also experienced horrifying wreckages with loss of life. The Kara might have been THE turian luxury spaceship. I also wonder about the name Kara. I'm no expert (at all!) but I do see that it's the feminine form of karus in latin, meaning expensive, beloved, dear, precious... So that might work for what it's supposed to be.
They are stone tablets that look like the writing is from the trade language, but according to Kasumi this looks like quarian script and is very old. How old, I do wonder.
Michelangelo’s David seems to be inside the vault but how we can know it is the real one is beyond me.
Kasumi is upset that Hock has "Lady Liberty" in his vault and the codex tells us so many things about its past that it's hard to explain here. It's worth reading.
There's one piece just called "Rachni Queen" and I always wondered if it was a statue, a real frozen queen, something made of a specific material? I don't know!!! I'm not a scientist!!! I'm not trying to make a pun here but it bugs me that I don't know.
And there's a statue of a creature that isn't exactly like the yahg but sorta looks like it? In my original post with the art pieces I wondered if it was DA inspired. I still don't know.
And statues of krogan. One that seems to follow Kasumi with its eyes.
And there's Bekenstein itself with its codex entry:
There's apparently a popular song that says: "If you can make it on the Bek, you got 'em by the neck." Charming!
