The 24th episode of the "Marauder Shields" Mass Effect comic. In this one... We visit the Crucible to take a deep breath before the plunge.
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This is an ongoing story providing an alternative fan-made ending to the Mass Effect story, with a single game-changing maverick transforming the course of history: Marauder Shields. Be sure to start reading at episode 6. Special thanks to MichelKobayashi, and to my awesome team, my own Normandy!
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P.S. This episode was supposed to be published yesterday, but... Life got in the way. And yes, it is intentionally paced to be a slower episode, with a bit more text...
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Kahlee Sanders. One of the few things I don't like about ME3 was how they got her description wrong.
As Drew Karpyshyn(the guy who created her) describes in the novels: Kahlee Sanders has long dark blonde hair(natural, a genetically recessive trait extremely uncommon in ME's era), and brown eyes.
In ME3: Kahlee Sanders has light blonde hair, and blue eyes.
This is the first time I read a Marauder Shields panel by listening to the audio book first. I was listening to it while reading this episode, and all I gotta say (apart from the good VAs)...
I am so, sooooo glad that you gave Jacob some character. He's often ratted out for being dull and two-dimensional, but the way you wrote him in this is just....I have not words. Why didn't Jacob get this kind of character development in game!?
Anyway, amazing job as always. I look forward to more of the Marauder Shields project!
That buzz... has me terribly worried for the Crucible team.
I'd say Kasumi seems out of character here for wanting to be on another suicide mission, but I actually do buy that she'd want to be there once she was actually put into a position of having to watch from up close. Perhaps knowing she would feel that way was a reason she fought so hard to avoid being a part of the team again.
He was lying on the call. He feels bad that while everyone else is down on Earth getting fragged, he's just been chilling up in space reading GQ and sipping ice tea or whatever he's been doing.
ETA for Marauder Shields 25? I loved how you addressed the crucible-reaper problem, and i long for new chapters way more than new audiobooks. any update?
As Drew Karpyshyn(the guy who created her) describes in the novels: Kahlee Sanders has long dark blonde hair(natural, a genetically recessive trait extremely uncommon in ME's era), and brown eyes.
In ME3: Kahlee Sanders has light blonde hair, and blue eyes.
This is the first time I read a Marauder Shields panel by listening to the audio book first. I was listening to it while reading this episode, and all I gotta say (apart from the good VAs)...
I am so, sooooo glad that you gave Jacob some character. He's often ratted out for being dull and two-dimensional, but the way you wrote him in this is just....I have not words. Why didn't Jacob get this kind of character development in game!?
Anyway, amazing job as always. I look forward to more of the Marauder Shields project!
...but then I picture Will Smith as Jacob...
And everything is all right =3
Well played, sir.
I'd say Kasumi seems out of character here for wanting to be on another suicide mission, but I actually do buy that she'd want to be there once she was actually put into a position of having to watch from up close. Perhaps knowing she would feel that way was a reason she fought so hard to avoid being a part of the team again.