#data nimbus

[datanimbus]

Explore DataNimbus for secure data storage, collaboration, and analytics.

[duckapus]

A couple things about the aftermath of Project Thunder:

-The CCC had to replace Juliano and the retaken worlds with backup data to keep Connected Cosmos functional. This means the Rising Star Circus crew now has a non-living npc version of Juliano to deal with on top of coping with the fact that they're trapped here.

-While the memories of the stolen worlds' inhabitants were restored and the Twilight purged, the worlds themselves weren't restored to their original state. So they still need to repair the damage and deal with the three-ish month timeskip that CC:TG's lore caused.

-Said timeskip means that Tulip is now 18. She doesn't know how to feel about that.

-SMG7 is, in fact, now paralyzed from the waist down. As soon as Tulip finds out about this she immediately starts building her the most kickass wheelchair possible (which considering her skills will be pretty damn kickass), and making the Van and the mansion (the latter of which needed work anyway between Reboot Saiko's attack and the Twilight apocalypse) wheelchair accessible. 7's actually pretty excited about it, though she's made it very clear that that's as far as Tulip's help should go. She's specifically banned whatever cybernetics Tulip might be thinking of.

Look, don't get her wrong. She loves Tulip. She trusts Tulip. But nobody besides Tulip will know how to install the robo-spine-whatever and she is not letting a teenage insomniac mad scientist with 4 IQ and no medical license operate on her no matter how cool the inevitable superpowers would be.

-Ash manages to get a dedicated projector for Alice (her body is technically a hologram, and Tulip's phone both can't actually project holograms (which makes her less durable) and probably isn't sturdy enough to withstand hits strong enough to knock Alice out. Said projector is a little blue pin shaped like a cat head that Tulip sticks onto her jacket when Alice isn't using it.

-Thankfully there aren't any custody issues over Tama. She'll still be living in Luminos Castle with her new family and Blotch will still be living with Overseer, just now that she knows where Tama is (and that she's alive) she'll be visiting a lot. She's not calling Nimbus "mom" though. Among other reasons they're too close in age for it to not be weird.

-Due to everything that happened, Renata and Sleeping Gaia are now well aware of the Digital Multiverse, and given that they found out in pretty much the worst, most confusing way possible everyone's got a lot of explaining to do.

-Mira now knows about her true origins and is having an existential crisis. To make matters worse, while they were able to purge the Twilit Corruption from her the ordeal activated the long-dormant data of the Werehog transformation, so she now has to deal with that every night.

-Steve, Welony and Bob are working on a new scarecrow body for Rob.

-CPU looks upon this absolute trainwreck and decides that all of them (or at least as many as logistically possible), need a fucking vacation. And fortunately, while it'll take a couple weeks to get things set up, there's a certain resort-owning Admin who owes him and Vitality several favors.

-Speaking of Vitality, she's still in a coma. Though when Kelsie checks on her (after dealing with all the wounded from the battle, of course. Swag makes for a lousy patient, especially when he's told he won't get to keep his crazy god powers) she notes that her recovery has accelerated slightly.

[scienceswitch]

What is Google’s Project Nimbus and why is it controversial?

Google’s Project Nimbus is a cloud computing contract that Google and Amazon signed with the Israeli government in April 2021. With a hefty price tag of $1.2 billion, this collaboration between tech behemoths and the Israeli government was poised to revolutionize the way data is stored and processed. But not all is sunny with Project Nimbus; it’s a project that has  become as controversial as it…

[trendynewsnow]

Google's Controversial Involvement in Project Nimbus with the Israeli Government

Google’s Involvement in Project Nimbus In May 2021, Google announced its participation in a substantial $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military, expressing its enthusiasm by stating it was “delighted to have been chosen to help digitally transform” the nation. However, internal documents obtained by The New York Times reveal that just four months prior,…

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved in our archive

If you needed a sign to mask up again, let it be Today talking about it on the front page and including a picture of someone properly wearing a quality mask.

[astr0morty]

Counting the # of times each R&M character sits in each chair around the dining table

I've always found it funny that the whole family is always sitting in different chairs around the dining table (my family, and I'm sure many others, have unofficial 'assigned' seats at the table), so on my latest rewatch of the show, I kept track of the number of times each character sat in each particular chair. (Please keep in mind that while I tried my hardest to count every single time and record them as accurately as I could, it's entirely possible I made mistakes/mixed something up).

Firstly, this is how I numbered the chairs:

Most common chair everyone sat in:

Jerry: Seat #1 (17 times)

Morty: Seat #2 (14 times)

Space Beth: Seat #2 (5 times)

Rick: Seat #4 (10 times)

Beth: Seat #4 (15 times)

Summer: Seat #6 (17 times) 

Chart of the Total Counts:

Important Note:

Sometimes there's only one seat on the side facing the window, so for consistency it is counted as #6.

When there are three seats on the 2-3 side, the middle seat is counted as #3.

More statistics/notes are listed below!

Additional characters: 

Leonard sat in seat #2, Joyce in seat #3, and Jacob in seat #5 one time (Anatomy Park)

Uncle Steve (parasite) sat in seat #4 one time (Total Rickall)

Mr. Poopybutthole sat in seat #6 one time (Total Rickall)

The President sat in seat #1 one time (Thanksploitation Spectacular)

Misc. Notes

In Rattlestar Ricklatica: Rick (seat 4), Morty (seat 3), & Summer (seat 5) are sitting at the table playing downbeat. This is included in misc. count, since it doesn't fall under the breakfast/dinner categories.

Mr. Nimbus sits in seat 4 (?) and Rick in seat 1 (?) during Mort Dinner Rick Andre; it’s difficult to tell though since the table is facing a different direction (these are not included in the total count).

Unnamed girl from Vat of Acid montage sat in seat #3 once. The chairs the rest of the family sat in during this scene is counted under the misc. category, since once again, it wasn't during a meal but they were still sitting around the table.

I made note of the decoy families during Mortyplicity, but these are not included in the total counts:

Decoy family #1: Morty: #2, Rick: #3, Beth: #4, Summer: #5 Decoy family #2: Summer: #2, Beth: #3, Rick: #4, Jerry: #5, Morty: #6  Decoy family #3: Morty: #2, Summer: #5, Beth: #6

The family from Jerry’s original dimension at the end of Solaricks is included in the total, as well as the one scene from when Morty was in the Fear Hole and they were all eating breakfast. (Generally, I included alternate families, flashbacks, montages, etc. in the total count if it was shown on-screen for more than a couple seconds, otherwise I'd make note of it seperately.)

There are several flashbacks in Unmortricken when Evil Rick and Morty show up in random homes while the family is seated around the table, shooting Rick and tranquilizing Morty. I didn't include these in the total, but listed them here:

Normal alt. dimension: Jerry: #1, Morty: #2, Rick: #3, Beth: #4, Summer: #6 Victorian dimension: Jerry: #1, Summer: #3, Beth: #4, Morty: #5, Rick: #6 Long sleeves dimension: Rick: #2, Morty: #3 (others can't be seen)

Rick and Morty eating burritos at the table in Rickfending Your Mort is counted under misc. since again, it's not breakfast or dinner.

Note about seat numbers:

This is already mentioned above, but sometimes certain seats are missing or there are extra seats; generally, this is when Space Beth is there, and there are three seats on one side. Sometimes, there is only one seat on the side facing the window.  

For example, in the following scene, I counted both Beth and Summer as seat #3 because there are 3 seats on that side temporarily. There was one other case where this happened, and I did the same then as well.

Heres a photo of one of the most common seating arrangements I noticed (excluding Space Beth):

Well, thats all I have! Hope you guys found this data at least a little interesting! :)

[sacred-coffin]

New Ghoulette Survey

I ran a survey that asked users to report what name they have been calling the new ghoulette, and to also rate the names people have been using. I received 204 responses to my form, and gathered 6 responses from discord (with no ratings). I am no longer collecting responses. I will also discuss issues with the survey, and share the raw numbers if anyone would like to see them.

This is a chart showing the percentage of people who are using which names.

I believe the "Other" category only had two repeat names, Vesper (3) and Nimbus (2). Some responses were not counted towards this chart, as some submissions chose "other" and filled in some variation of "I don't know." Haze holds the highest usage vote.

More under the cut.

The names were rated on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being "favorite" and 5 being "least favorite." The overall name ratings, from most to least favored, are as follows:

Tempest (2.68)

Haze (2.79)

Solaris (2.82)

Umbra (3.09)

Other (3.55)

This chart breaks down the ratings by name choice.

Again, a lower score is preferable. However, you may notice that for Umbra and Other, the least favored options are... Umbra and Other.

There were quite a few instances where a submission would vote for a name, and then rate it as a "5." I believe these responses to be mistakes, however I have no way of being certain. None of those responses were removed or edited. I made multiple posts to try and reach people and let them know they can change their response if they answered in error, and there were plenty of people who did, but of course I can't reach everyone. For this reason, I can not say that this data is reliable. If there is any interest, I would like to run another survey that may get more accurate results.

Another mistake I made is with the last question on the survey. It didn't occur to me at the time that it would be valuable data to require people to tell me where they found this survey, nor did I think to make it a multiple choice question. Because of this, I had plenty of people choose not to respond and... a lot of people who just used it to say whatever they wanted.

On that note, I did try to eliminate bias in a few ways. I know that I have very strong opinions, and some degree of influence, within my social sphere on Tumblr. I tried to increase the reach of this survey by posting to as many ghost tags as possible, but I also posted it to places that I do not have an active presence in. This includes discord servers that I "lurk" in, like the official ghost discord, and also bluesky (which I only occasionally open). Because I did not gather any worthwhile data on how people found my survey, I can't say much on how well it managed to exit my sphere of influence.

If you would like to see all the numbers yourself, and possibly correct me on anything (as I am human, I make mistakes, and I am by no means a statistician) then you can see the google sheets here.

Thank you to everyone who responded and helped share my survey! I love numbers.

[dialectical-etherealist]

Comprehensive List of Companies Supporting Israel’s Genocide

1. Weapons & Military Suppliers

These companies directly supply arms, drones, missiles, and military tech used in attacks on Gaza and occupation enforcement:

Lockheed Martin (US) – F-35 jets, guided missiles.

Boeing (US) – Apache helicopters, smart bombs.

General Dynamics (US) – Armored vehicles, munitions.

Northrop Grumman (US) – Components for Israel’s Iron Dome.

Raytheon Technologies (US) – Missiles, radar systems.

Elbit Systems (Israel) – Drones, surveillance tech, cluster bombs.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems (Israel) – Iron Dome, Spike missiles.

BAE Systems (UK) – Armor kits for military vehicles.

Thales (France) – Weapons systems, targeting tech.

Leonardo (Italy) – Military helicopters, naval weapons.

Rheinmetall (Germany) – Military vehicles, weapons tech.

Airbus (EU) – Supplies military technology and aircraft components.

Safran Group (France) – Aerospace and defense electronics used by Israeli forces.

IMI Systems (Israel) – Weapons and ammunition, now part of Elbit Systems.

Kongsberg Gruppen (Norway) – Supplied components for weapon systems used by Israel.

Turkish Aerospace Industries (Turkey) – Reported to have engaged in joint military ventures with Israeli firms in the past.

IWI – Israel Weapon Industries – Manufacturer of rifles and arms used by Israeli police and IDF.

2. Technology, Surveillance & AI

These firms provide AI, spyware, cybersecurity, and data systems used in targeting, repression, and apartheid policies:

Google & Amazon (US) – $1.2B Project Nimbus (cloud computing for Israeli military).

Meta (Facebook/Instagram) (US) – Censoring pro-Palestine content, enabling surveillance.

Microsoft (US) – Azure cloud services for Israeli govt.

Intel (US) – $25B investment in Israel, chips for military AI.

Nvidia (US) – AI processors for drone targeting.

NSO Group (Israel) – Pegasus spyware against Palestinians.

Cellebrite (Israel) – Phone hacking tech used in interrogations.

Cisco (US) – Networking infrastructure for Israeli checkpoints.

HP (US) – IT systems for Israeli government & military.

Palantir (US) – Data analytics for Israeli surveillance.

HikVision (China) – Surveillance cameras in illegal settlements.

Check Point Software (Israel) – Cybersecurity used by Israeli government and military.

Verint Systems (US/Israel) – Surveillance and intelligence software used in policing Palestinians.

Nice Systems (Israel) – Provides surveillance tech used in checkpoints and border monitoring.

Toka (Israel) – Provides cyber intrusion tools; co-founded by former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.

Orbotech (Israel, owned by KLA) – Supplies systems for military electronics production.

Amdocs (Israel/US) – Telecommunications surveillance partnerships with Israeli state.

3. Banks & Financial Institutions

These institutions fund settlements, arms deals, or Israeli military bonds:

JPMorgan Chase (US) – Invests in Elbit, Lockheed Martin.

BlackRock (US) – Largest investor in Israeli weapons stocks.

Bank Hapoalim & Bank Leumi (Israel) – Finance illegal settlements.

HSBC (UK) – Holds shares in arms firms supplying Israel.

Barclays (UK) – Invests in Elbit, Boeing, Raytheon.

Deutsche Bank (Germany) – Funds settlement construction.

AXA (France) – Invests in Israeli banks backing settlements.

Citigroup (US) – Holds Israeli military bonds.

Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot (Israel) – Major financier of settlements.

Bank Discount (Israel) – Involved in mortgage loans for settlement homes.

BNP Paribas (France) – Invests in weapons companies linked to Israel.

Morgan Stanley (US) – Holds shares in weapons manufacturers aiding Israeli military.

Wells Fargo (US) – Investments in companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

UBS (Switzerland) – Invests in companies involved in arms and settlement support.

4. Construction & Infrastructure

These companies build settlements, checkpoints, or infrastructure supporting occupation:

Caterpillar (US) – Bulldozers used to demolish Palestinian homes.

Alstom (France) – Jerusalem light rail linking settlements.

Siemens (Germany) – Infrastructure projects in settlements.

EDF (France) – Energy projects in occupied territories.

Veolia (France) – Operates waste services in settlements.

Manitou (France) – Forklifts and heavy equipment used in house demolitions.

Volvo Group (Sweden) – Construction equipment used in settlement development and demolitions.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (South Korea) – Vehicles used in house demolitions and IDF operations.

Electra Group (Israel) – Construction of military and security infrastructure in occupied territories.

5. Retail & Consumer Brands

These companies normalize occupation or fund Israeli militarism:

Puma (Germany) – Sponsors Israel Football Association (linked to settlements).

SodaStream (Israel) – Operated in occupied West Bank (now moved but still criticized).

Ahava (Israel) – Settlement-made cosmetics.

Sabra Hummus (US/Israel) – Partly owned by Strauss Group (supports IDF).

Estée Lauder (US) – Invests in Israeli tech/military startups.

McDonald’s (Israel franchise) – Provided free meals to IDF soldiers; criticized globally.

Papa John's (Israel franchise) – Public support for IDF during military operations.

Re/Max (US) – Real estate listings and sales in illegal Israeli settlements.

McKinsey & Company (US) – Strategic consulting services for Israeli military and defense projects.

Teva Pharmaceuticals (Israel) – Headquarters in Israel; one of largest global producers of generics, often called for boycott due to tax and supply chain ties to settlements.

6. Shipping & Logistics

These firms transport weapons or support Israeli military supply chains:

ZIM Integrated Shipping (Israel) – Arms logistics.

Maersk (Denmark) – Ships weapons to Israel.

FedEx (US) – Logistics contracts with US military suppliers connected to Israeli operations.

UPS (US) – Transport contracts with companies supplying Israeli military.

Crowley Logistics (US) – Involved in DoD logistics and weapons shipping, including Middle East arms routes.

7. Media & Disinformation

These companies spread propaganda or suppress Palestinian narratives:

Disney (US) – Investments in Israeli tech firms.

Wix (Israel) – Censors Palestinian websites.

Netflix (US) – Hosting Israeli military propaganda films and censoring Palestinian documentaries.

CNN (US) – Accused of editorial bias and suppression of Palestinian perspectives.

The New York Times (US) – Documented history of biased reporting favoring Israeli government narratives.

NBCUniversal (US) – Publicly sponsors Israel-related content and suppresses criticism.

TikTok (China/US) – Content moderation has disproportionately removed pro-Palestinian posts.

8. Political Lobbying & Advocacy Groups (US)

These organizations work directly to influence U.S. foreign policy, fund pro-Israel politicians, and push legislation criminalizing or delegitimizing Palestinian activism (e.g., anti-BDS laws):

AIPAC – American Israel Public Affairs Committee - The most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in the U.S.; shapes U.S. foreign aid and military support to Israel; influences Congress and funds political campaigns via affiliated PACs.

NORPAC - A political action committee that raises funds for pro-Israel candidates and policy measures.

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) - Right-wing Zionist group known for promoting Islamophobic rhetoric and attempting to deplatform Palestinian voices on campuses.

Christians United for Israel (CUFI) - Christian Zionist organization pushing for unwavering U.S. support for Israel based on religious and political ideology.

Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) - A lobbying group targeting Democrats, promoting a pro-Israel line and opposing progressive candidates critical of Israel.

Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) - Promotes pro-Israel policy among Republican lawmakers and donors.

JINSA – Jewish Institute for National Security of America - Works to link U.S. and Israeli defense establishments, promoting shared security narratives and defense cooperation.

9. Campus & Youth Organizations (US)

These groups operate on college campuses to promote pro-Israel narratives, combat BDS campaigns, and surveil or silence pro-Palestinian activism:

StandWithUs - A well-funded PR and legal group that provides resources to students and universities to suppress Palestinian rights campaigns and intimidate activists.

Hasbara Fellowships - Trains college students to spread pro-Israel propaganda and discredit Palestinian narratives.

Campus Reform / Canary Mission (see below) - Partners with other pro-Israel groups to identify and blacklist student activists.

Maccabee Task Force - Funds campus events, speakers, and advertising campaigns in favor of Israel and against pro-Palestinian activism.

Hillel International - Jewish student organization often accused of silencing anti-Zionist Jewish voices or forbidding partnerships with Palestinian student groups.

10. Surveillance & Blacklist Operations (US)

These entities monitor, document, and attempt to discredit or intimidate activists, academics, and journalists who support Palestinian rights:

Canary Mission - Maintains a blacklist of pro-Palestinian student activists, professors, and organizations to damage careers and reputations.

Act.IL (now defunct but replaced by similar efforts) - An Israeli-government-affiliated app that directed users to flood social media with pro-Israel content and report/censor opposition.

NGO Monitor (Israel) - Tracks and smears Palestinian and international human rights organizations; used as a resource to defund NGOs critical of Israeli policy.

11. Legal & Policy Fronts (US)

These groups focus on litigation, legal intimidation, or the drafting of legislation to criminalize BDS and restrict speech critical of Israel:

Lawfare Project - A legal think tank that brings lawsuits against pro-Palestinian activists and institutions to intimidate and silence dissent.

Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center - Engages in "lawfare" against Palestinian organizations and activists internationally, often working closely with the Israeli government.

Zionist Legal Advocacy Center (ZLAC) - Focuses on campus legal threats and complaints against pro-Palestinian professors or student groups.

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) - Though traditionally a civil rights group, the ADL has been criticized for equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism and opposing BDS on U.S. campuses.

12. Media Influence & Public Relations (US)

These organizations influence media narratives and public opinion, often targeting journalists, filmmakers, and educators critical of Israeli policies:

The Israel Project (TIP) - PR firm that distributed talking points and trained spokespeople to promote Israel in American media (no longer active but content still circulated).

HonestReporting - Monitors and campaigns against media coverage perceived as critical of Israel, pressuring outlets to adopt more favorable language.

Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) - A media watchdog that lobbies outlets to revise coverage, often accusing journalists of bias for reporting on Israeli war crimes.

Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) - Translates and disseminates selectively chosen content from Arabic media to paint Palestinians and Arabs in a negative light.

Sources & Verification

UN Database (2025 report on business ties to settlements).

BDS Movement (documented boycotts).

Amnesty International (Respected human rights organization).

Human Rights Watch (Respected human rights organization).

Who Profits (Independent research center dedicated to exposing the role of the private sector in the Israeli occupation economy).

Investigative reports (AP, +972 Magazine, The Guardian).

Various corporate investment disclosures.

[whatevergreen]

"Microsoft, Amazon and Google among major corporations identified as being part of a “joint criminal enterprise” in helping Israel carry out a genocide in Gaza. The companies have made unprecedented profits from the slaughter of more than 62,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

In a landmark report released on 30 June, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese exposes the corporate machinery both sustaining and profiting from Israel’s occupation and apartheid in Gaza and the West Bank – and now its ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The report – entitled “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” – identifies 48 separate corporate actors in sectors including, arms, tech, construction, tourism, energy, finance, academia and agriculture. According to the report, they represent only the “tip of the iceberg” as the broader web of corporate complicity is far larger.

It outlines how tech giants Microsoft, Alphabet (parent company of Google) and Amazon grant Israel access to their cloud and AI technologies, enhancing the Israeli government’s ability to process data, make decisions and conduct surveillance and analysis.

Israel’s apartheid and military systems require ever-growing cloud storage and computing capacity. To meet these needs, the Israeli government and military’s cloud computing project – known as Project Nimbus – brought Google and Amazon onboard with a $1.2bn contract in 2021.

When the Israeli internal military cloud overloaded in October 2023, Microsoft, Google and Amazon stepped in to provide crucial cloud and AI tech. IDF computer chief Col. Racheli Dembinsky recently described cloud tech as part of “a collection of systems with which the IDF fights to the end”, citing these companies in her onscreen presentation. Dembinsky said: “You have to understand that it’s a platform that’s a weapon.”

What’s more, Microsoft, Amazon and Google have established research and development (R&D) hubs and local data centres in Israel, while they enjoy what the report describes as “unprecedented government-granted access to data and a captive population”. According to Albanese’s report, this has helped unleash “the first AI-driven and livestreamed genocide, while providing the data sovereignty to shield impunity”.

Microsoft reported $70bn in sales and an 18% increase in profits in the first quarter of 2025, boosted by its cloud computing and artificial intelligence business. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Google Cloud revenues increased 30% to $12bn led by growth across core Google Cloud Platform products, AI Infrastructure, and generative AI solutions, while Amazon Web Services segment sales increased 19% to over $28bn.

The report states: “[Israel’s] forever-occupation has become the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and big tech – providing significant supply and demand, little oversight, and zero accountability – while investors and private and public institutions profit freely.” ...

this is the first half of the article - read the whole thing here: https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/02/tech-giants-and-british-bank-named-in-francesca-albanese-report-on-gaza-genocide/

Also, the advanced edited version of the UN report can be read and downloaded here:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf

[nando161mando]

"No Tech for Apartheid’s protest is as much about what the public doesn’t know about Project Nimbus as what it does. The contract is for Google and Amazon to provide AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli government and military, according to the Israeli finance ministry, which announced the deal in 2021.

Nimbus reportedly involves Google establishing a secure instance of Google Cloud on Israeli soil, which would allow the Israeli government to perform large-scale data analysis, AI training, database hosting, and other forms of powerful computing using Google’s technology, with little oversight by the company.

Google documents, first reported by the Intercept in 2022, suggest that the Google services on offer to Israel via its Cloud have capabilities such as AI-enabled facial detection, automated image categorization, and object tracking."

[wanderingchronicle]

this one isn't good or plot-relevant enough to qualify for a B-side but there are cloud boy and/or chamomile sickos on this website so I am poasting for the delectation of @bee-dazzle @river-oceanus @namidragons @penguin--person @wilting-fl0wer @vertumnanaturalis. here's Cirrus being awkward, Expeditions boy scrungling hours, some light toilet humour.

Cirrus banks, circling around to touch down in the clearing, kicking up dust as he lands. It’s a nice day, or at least he thinks so – cool and crisp and sunny, everything dusted with spark-snow. 

He has a pack full of weird little instruments, and he’s meant to be gathering data under the auspices of two more senior surveyors. He can see Verbena, tying up his lilac dreadlocks, but the other surveyor is– Oh. It’s Chamomile.

He’s in his mid-forties, maybe – well. Not maybe, Cirrus knows Chamomile is almost exactly thirty years older than him, so he’s forty-five, nearly forty-six. He makes maps, overseeing the gathering of survey information and then doing mysterious, arcane things to it that result in maps. 

Additionally, Chamomile is his biological father. He knows this, because when Stratus asked Mom if they had another parent, Anne had smiled gently and said my friend Miles knew I wanted children, so he agreed to help me even though he didn’t want to be a parent himself, because he knew how badly I wanted you. And that’s kind of a sweet story, but it’s a little different when you’re face to face with a whole adult who contributed half your genes but who you don’t really know. 

Chamomile is tall and rangy, with a short beard and a mane of auburn shoulder-length curls that Cirrus deeply envies, pulled back into a half-up with a clip. His arms are bare despite the chill of Early Quiet, exposing a tattoo of an hourglass-shaped terrarium in the process of being breached by the plants growing inside, and a band of the same floral motif he’s seen on his mother’s leg wound around the opposite forearm.

Cirrus has never really spoken to Chamomile except in passing, outside of a message once a year on his birthday that he never quite knows how to respond to. He’ll get another one in ten days, and he’ll tap out an awkward response, and then that’ll be it for another year. Sometimes Chamomile catches Cirrus looking at him, but he always looks away before he can see what the reaction is.

It’s stupid. There are plenty of kids who have donor parents, or who were creche-raised. It’s just gametes, you don’t have to have a relationship with someone just because you’re related. They can be just another adult. 

But Cirrus is so curious. He has a lot of questions, like how did you and Mom become friends and why did you decide to help her have like one billion kids and so cartography huh what do you do for fun. When he looks at Chamomile, he sees strange fragments of his brothers and sister – the gap between Anemone’s teeth, Nimbus’s straight dark brows, the rangy build he sees echoed at a smaller scale in his identical brothers and in the mirror.

His job today is to collect information about topography, under supervision. He doesn’t really need the supervision, but he’s fifteen and the instruments they use to take snapshots of the landscape are fragile, so they only get taken out with a senior surveyor. 

“Watch your step,” Verbena calls out, “the ground’s not super stable.”

“I don’t recommend falling off a cliff,” Chamomile replies, “it’s a miracle my knees still work properly.” 

Verbena laughs, a grid briefly appearing on the ground underneath him followed by a beep. “You should consider not falling off a cliff, old man.”

“You should consider jumping off one, squirt,” Chamomile replies, with a flicker of a smile. Cirrus keeps his head down. A grid flashes underfoot. Beep. Another flash. Beep.

Chamomile and Verbena leave him to it, and they don’t talk any further. Cirrus watches the grid distort over uneven ground, including the edge dropping down a steep cliff. Beep.

“Hydration break,” Verbena says after a while, “Rus, do you want something to eat?”

“I’ve got like…soysweets in my bag,” Cirrus replies, a little uncertainly. He’d made the soysweets himself the previous day, and he can’t tell if Verbena is offering to share food or not. He likes Verbena – Verbena is about seven years older than him, but always treats him like he’s smart enough to make his own calls. Also, Cirrus likes looking at cute older boys, sue him.

“I have trail mix,” Verbena grins, displaying a row of needle-sharp teeth, “and Miles has mushroom jerky and these like…cheesy things, and a thermos of blep. Do you want to pool snacks?”

Cirrus considers the likely consequences of eating a whole packet of soysweets (a terrible sugar crash later) and nods, sitting. “They’re salty caramel ones,” he says, “at least in theory, this batch didn’t turn out very salty but they're still good. I’ll add more salt next time, I just didn’t want to overdo it.”

Chamomile’s head turns abruptly, giving Cirrus an appraising look. “You make soysweets?” he asks, one eyebrow lifting.

“Uh, yeah,” Cirrus curses how easily and visibly he blushes, digging out his packet of squashed soysweets, “I’m not as good a cook as Milly, but I’m pretty good at sweets. I can bake, too, just…not so often.”

“Shoot,” Verbena says, impressed, “hidden talents! Why are you out here getting all dusty instead of making treats, then?”

Cirrus mulls this over for a moment. “I like being outside,” he shrugs, “and collecting the data is fun. I’d go crazy cooped up in the Quarters all the time.”

Chamomile smiles, pulling out a sectioned container containing mushroom jerky and what turn out to be weird savoury cookies, while Verbena produces a bag of trail mix, and the three men sit down for one of the weirder meals Cirrus has participated in.

“The soysweets are good,” Chamomile says after a pause, “thank you for sharing.”

“No trouble,” Cirrus replies, through a mouthful of jerky, “the merits of an all-soysweet diet are…well, there aren’t any.”

Chamomile’s violet eyes crinkle at the corners. It’s a new expression on him. “Is this personal experience?”

Cirrus snorts. “Personal experience with Cumulus destroying the bathroom, more like.”

“Oh no,” Chamomile sighs, while next to him Verbena flops on his back on the ground and howls, “he didn’t. He seems like such a sensible kid…”

“The wisdom of experience,” Cirrus says sagely, and a wry grin flashes briefly across Chamomile’s face. Verbena convulses in a fresh wave of mirth, gasping for air. Cirrus finds himself matching Chamomile’s grin with a less certain one of his own. 

The afternoon is uneventful. They’re taking a bunch of snapshots of some cliffs in the Prosaic Plains that will later be reconstructed into a more detailed topographical map. Cirrus takes a break to reapply sunscreen – you only need to burn your ears once before you get very diligent indeed – and realises that while he’s been distracted, Chamomile has wandered up to him, drinking tea out of a flask.

“Good work today,” Chamomile says, without preamble, “we’ll be heading home soon. How are you holding up?”

Cirrus finishes rubbing sunscreen into the back of his neck. He doesn’t know how to deal with this, at all, and he has to say something or he’ll explode. “You don’t have to make a fuss of me because I’m your kid,” he says eventually, “it’s not…you don’t need to.”

Silence. Cirrus looks at the ground. “That would be overstepping,” Chamomile replies, sounding if anything a little amused, “I’m checking in as the supervising Surveyor on this expedition, not because we’re related.”

A humiliated flush rises up from the collar of Cirrus’s shirt to colonise his whole face. “Ah,” he says, a little strangled, still looking at the ground, “I’m. I’m fine. That was…really presumptuous of me.” 

“You are,” Chamomile adds, “perfectly welcome to speak to me outside of work. But I am never going to presume a relationship you don’t want to have with me.” 

Cirrus takes a long moment to digest this idea. “Okay,” he says, “cool. Glad we sorted that out.”

He ventures a glance up at Chamomile, who is regarding him curiously. “I do have questions,” Cirrus blurts out, “but like, not now?” 

Chamomile’s mouth tugs up at the corners. “I will answer them to the best of my ability,” he replies, and his tone is very solemn, but there’s a glitter in his eyes Cirrus realises is humour. Then he leaves, wandering off to wave down Verbena. 

Later, Cirrus touches down outside the colony and signs his glider back in. It’s still early, which is the payoff for getting up at the ass-crack of dawn, and he’s contemplating a nap when he realises someone has fallen into step next to him.

“Chamomile,” he acknowledges, “hi.”

“That’s Miles to you,” Miles says, “any of those questions done cooking?” 

Cirrus reaches for the absolute pile of questions he has and comes up with all the most inane shit possible, like so what made you want to fuck about with little instruments all day and what do you do for fun and what music do you like. “Honestly all I can come up with right now,” he wrinkles his nose, “is that I’m mad I didn’t get straight or curly hair. Just, frizz.”

“That’s not a question,” Miles replies, a little ruefully, “but you should consider talking to Anemone. I think Kom taught her how to look after her hair.”

A knife permanently embedded in Cirrus’ heart twists at the thought of his elder sister. “Anemone is basically a Helio now,” he says, unable to keep the bitterness out of his voice (she agrees with the ones that bully you she thinks less of you) “she doesn’t…talk to us.” 

Miles is silent. Cirrus sneaks a glance at him out of the corner of his eye and sees him scratching his chin, gaze distant. 

“Your hair is likely also curly or wavy,” Miles offers, after a long pause, “I would suggest washing it less often and using your fingers to detangle rather than brushing, and you may see an improvement over time. Worth a try.”

Cirrus frowns. He needs to wash his hair daily, or it turns into an oil slick at the roots and a frizzy mess everywhere else. “Huh. I mean, okay. I’ll try that? I’m gonna go take a nap now, I’m going to watch a movie with friends at Rex’s bar later.”

“I won’t keep you,” Miles says amiably, “enjoy your movie.”

With a nod and a wave, Cirrus peels off towards the Living Quarters, chewing his lower lip. He had a conversation with Miles. It was pretty normal. It was kind of nice. Miles is nice. His mother is nice, but it’s the kind of nice where he’s always going to be her baby. He’s fifteen. He’s not anyone’s baby these days, not when at his age his sister was already a soldier risking her life for the colony.

-I am never going to presume a relationship you don’t want to have with me-

It hadn’t occurred to him, that he might get to choose. It’s a nice feeling. Biology isn’t destiny or a guarantee, he can choose. And the minute he thinks it, it feels stupidly obvious. His brothers are his identical triplets, but they’ve chosen to be very different people and also turned around to choose to be best friends, to choose Nimbus above and beyond the circumstances of their birth.

Anemone has chosen the Heliopause, and her soldier boyfriend, and he’ll resent it but he’ll have to live with it. Miles has chosen to say this is your decision, and Cirrus likes him more for it.

[purple-fox-girl]

A gigantic list of the maximum possible War Asset value and how you'd get them. Yes, I know it's cluttered and inconsistent and I maybe did the math wrong or missed an asset entirely but shut up its 4:25 AM rn

FLAT VALUES WITHOUT PENALTIES

AVAILABLE REGARDLESS OF CHOICES

(Can be lost by not completing the requisite quests before certain points, generally do these as soon as you can so you don’t risk them being locked later - Choosing not to do any of these is not considered a choice for the sake of this list - Some may require a choice to be made, but the alternative would be zero assets) (Note: Whichever reputation check answer you give during one of Diana Allers’s interviews will add 5 points to one of your assets. For the sake of this list, whichever asset is seen first in the list gets the bonus 5, but it really doesn’t matter, it all adds to the same final value if they do them.)

Terminus Fleet: 

Base 50 - Speak to Aria at Purgatory after Priority: Palaven

Plus 50 - Complete Aria: Blood Pack

Plus 50 - Complete Aria: Eclipse

Plus 50 - Complete Aria: Blue Suns

Total 200

Volus Dreadnought Kwunu:

Base 50 - Aethon Cluster, Esori, Solu Paolis

Shadow Broker Support Team:

Base 40 - Hourglass Nebula, Sowilo, Hagalaz

Elcor Flotilla:

Base 40 - Silean Nebula, Phontes, Oltan

Shadow Broker Wet Squad:

Base 25 - Krogan DMZ, Dranek, Rothla

Governor Grothan Pazness:

Base 20 - Kite’s Nest, Indris, Cholis

Void Devils Fighter Wing:

Base 30 - The Shrike Abyssal, Kyzil, Heshtok

Vorcha Labor Team:

Base 15 - The Shrike Abyssal, Thal, Tyrix

Liquid Assets:

Base 40 - Crescent Nebula, Tasale, Illium

Leviathan Enthrallment Team:

Base 400 - Complete Leviathan DLC

Omega Eezo Hoard:

Base 300 - Complete Omega DLC

Omega Raiding Fleet:

Base 75 - Complete Omega DLC

Arcturus First Division:

Base 60 - Complete N7: Cerberus Abductions

Alliance Engineering Corps:

Base 130 - Obtained automatically

Plus 40 - Complete Valhallan Threshold: Prothean Data Drives

Plus 40 - Complete Hades Nexus: Obelisk of Karza

Plus 40 - Complete Hades Nexus: Prothean Sphere

Plus 40 - Complete Athena Nebula: Hesperia-Period Statue

Toal 290

Alliance Cruiser Shanghai: 

Base 40 - Exodus Cluster, Asgard, Terra Nova

Rogue Fighter Pilots:

Base 20 - Complete Cortez’s subplot conversations and meetings

Diana Allers: 

Base 5 - Recruit at docking bay

Eden Prime Support:

Base 25 - Complete Priority: Eden Prime

Plus 25 - Retrieve one piece of intel during mission

Plus 25 - Retrieve two pieces of intel during mission

Plus 25 - Retrieve three pieces of intel during mission

Total 100

Alliance Naval Exploration Flotilla: 

Base 75 - Exodus Cluster, Asgard, Tyr

Communications Arrays: 

Base 50 - Complete N7: Communication Hub

Alliance Sixth Fleet:

Base 90 - Complete Priority: Horizon

Alliance Spec Ops Team Delta:

Base 35 - Exodus Cluster, Asgard, Loki

Synthdiamond Heat Sinks:

Base 25 - Caleston Rift, Balor, Bres

Asari Science Team:

Base 90 - Complete Priority: The Citadel II

Asari Second Fleet:

Base 90 - Complete Priority: The Citadel II

Plus 25 - Encourage Liara to talk to Aethya in Presidium Commons prior to Priority: Tuchanka

Plus 8 - Complete Citadel: Reaper Code Fragments

Total 123

Asari Sixth Fleet: 

Base 90 - Complete Priority: The Citadel II

Base 40 - Complete Nimbus Cluster: Library of Asha

Total 130

Asari Commandos: 

Base 20 - Complete Kallini: Ardat-Yakshi Monastery

Dr. Jelize: 

Base 25 - Silean Nebula, Kypladon, Hanalei

Armali Sniper Unit:

Base 30 - Silean Nebula, Loropi, Yasilium

Serrice Guard:

Base 30 - Silean Nebula, Nahuala, Hyetiana

Asari Cruiser Nefrane: 

Base 30 - Athena Nebula, Tomaros, Pronoia

Asari Research Ships:

Base 35 - Athena Nebula, Orisoni, Gaelic

Asari Cruiser Cybaen:

Base 30 - Athena Nebula, Parnitha, Tevura

Asari Engineers: 

Base 30 - Athena Nebula, Ialessa, Trikalon

Husk Neural Map: 

Base 30 - Sigurd’s Cradle, Mil, Chalkhos

Advanced Starship Fuel:

Base 75 - Complete N7: Fuel Reactors

Javelin Missile Launchers:

Base 50 - Sigurd’s Cradle, Skepsis, Watson

Volus Fabrication Units: 

Base 45 - Aethon Cluster, Aru, Cherk Sab

Volus Engineering Team:

Base 50 - Aethon Cluster, Satu Arrd, Nalisin

Interferometric Array:

Base 45 - Attican Beta, Hercules, Eletania

ExoGeni Scientists: 

Base 40 - Attican Beta, Theseus, Feros

Prothean Data Files: 

Base 75 - Exodus Cluster, Utopia, Zion

Shadow Broker Starship Tech:

Base 50 - Hourglass Nebula, Faryar, Alingon

Terminus Freighters:

Base 30 - Hourglass Nebula, Ploitari, Zanethu

Element Zero Converter:

Base 50 - Vallhallan Threshold, Micah, Farlas

Emergency Fuel Pods: 

Base 30 - Vallhallan Threshold, Micah, Elohi

Advanced Power Relays:

Base 50 - Argos Rho, Gorgon, Camaron

Haptic Optics Array:

Base 50 - Argos Rho, Hydra, Canrum

Jovian Dissertation:

Base 5 - Pylos Nebula, Nariph, Isale

Radiation Shielding Sheath:

Base 25 - Pylos Nebula, Dirada, Sineus

Cerberus Research Data: 

Base 50 - Complete N7: Cerberus Lab

Advanced Fighter Squadron:

Base 75 - N7: Cerberus Fighter Base

Ex-Cerberus Scientists:

Base 25 - Arrae: Ex-Cerberus Scientists 

Dr. Brynn Cole:

Base 25 - Arrae: Ex-Cerberus Scientists

Krogan First Division:

Base 50 - N7: Cerberus Attack

Admiral Zaal’Koris:

Base 25 - Complete Rannoch: Admiral Koris; pass reputation check to convince Koris to be rescued

Turian 79th Flotilla:

Base 40 - Apien Crest, Gemmae, Pheiros

Turian 43rd Marine Division:

Base 90 - Complete Priority: Tuchanka

Turian Seventh Fleet:

Base 90 - Completely Priority: Tuchanka 

Plus 5 - Complete Citadel: Medi-Gel Sabotage

Plus 40 - Complete Apien Crest: Banner of the First Regiment

Plus 5 - Renegade answer to Allers interview after Priority: Tuchanka

Total 140

Turian Blackwatch: 

Base 75 - Complete Tuchanka: Bomb

Turian Engineering Corps:

Base 110 - Complete Priority: Tuchanka

Turian Spec Ops Team:

Base 40 - Argos Rho, Phoenix, Pinnacle Station

Dextro Rations:

Base 10 - Sigurd’s Cradle, Lenal, Triginta Petra

Dr. Ann Bryson:

Base 20 - Don’t take either renegade interrupts while she is indoctrinated at the lab

TOTAL: 4,073 

ASSETS DETERMINED ONLY BY MASS EFFECT 1 CHOICES

Alliance Fifth Fleet:

Base 90 - Obtained automatically

Plus 15 - Hades Nexus, Hekate, Asteria

Minus 25 - Saved council in ME1

Plus 5 - Warn two businessmen on the Citadel

Plus 8 - Citadel: Improved Power Grid

Plus 7 - Authorize: Civilian Consultant Authorization at Spectre Terminal

Plus 5 - Renegade answer to Allers interview after Priority: The Citadel II

Plus 8 - Complete Citadel: Cerberus Ciphers

Total 113

Zhu’s Hope Colonists:

Base 30 - Save all colonists and spare Shiala in Feros: The Thorian in ME1

The Destiny Ascension:

Base 70 - Save Council in ME1

Salarian Special Tasks Group: 

Base 35 - Getting Kirrahe killed in ME1, speaking to Tolan at starting area of Priority: Sur’Kesh

Urdnot Wreav:

Base 25 - Kill Wrex on Virmire or do not recruit him in ME1

Clan Urdnot:

Base 300 - Complete Priority: Tuchanka (Wreav needs to be leader to avoid losing asset later)

SUBTOTAL: 573

TOTAL: 4,646

ASSETS DETERMINED ONLY BY MASS EFFECT 2 CHOICES

(Note: either choice in Legion: A House Divided will result in the same final value IF peace is brokered between the Geth and Quarians in ME3. This list will assume the geth heretics were destroyed)

(For the 103rd Marine Division, technically choosing to skip Arrival reduces the strength by 50, thus its placement)

Spectre Unit:

Base 40 - Complete Citadel: Hanar Diplomat w/ loyal and alive Kasumi 

Hanar and Drell Forces: 

Base 50 - Complete Citadel: Hanar Diplomat w/ loyal and alive Kasumi

Dr. Karin Chakwas:

Base 10 - Saved from Collector’s in ME2, told to stay at labs 

Kahlee Sanders:

Base 20 - Complete Grissom Academy: Emergency Evacuation 

Plus 5 - Save all students in mission

Plus 5 - Stopped Project Overlord and saved David

Total 30

Jack:

Base 25 - Survived ME2 and completed Grissom Academy: Emergency Evacuation

Alliance Frigate Normandy SR-2:

Base 50 - Obtained automatically

Plus 15 - Installed Thanix Cannon from Garrus in ME2

Plus 25 - Installed Silaris Armor from Jacob in ME2

Plus 25 - Installed Cyclonic Barrier Technology from Tali in ME2

Plus 35 - Complete Citadel Docks: Retake the Normandy

Plus 35 - Complete Citadel: Party

Total 185

Mineral Resources: 

Base 100 - 75,000 to 100,000 each element, must be collected pre-Suicide Mission

Kasumi Goto: 

Base 25 - Complete Citadel: Hanar Diplomat w/ Kasumi Loyal and alive at the end of ME2

Zaeed Massani:

Base 25 - Complete Citadel: Volus Ambassador w/ Zaeed loyal and alive at the end of ME2, talk to him at the Citadel Holding Area

Samara: 

Base 25 - Complete Kallini: Ardat-Yakshi Monastery with Samara having survived in ME2 and taking the paragon interrupt to keep her alive at the end of the mission

Optimized Eezo Capacitors:

Base 15 - Saved Donnelly and Daniels in ME2, pardon from Spectre terminal in ME3, complete Citadel: GX12 Thermal Pipe

Reaper Brain: 

Base 110 - Save Collector Base in ME2, complete Priority: Cerberus Headquarters

Dr. Gavin Archer:

Base 25 - Saved David from Overlord in ME2, complete Grissom Academy: Emergency Evacuation and Arrae: Ex-Cerberus Scientists 

Jacob Taylor:

Base 25 - Complete Arrae: Ex-Cerberus w/ Jacob alive from ME2

Ex-Cerberus Engineers:

Base 10 - Flirt with Kelly enough to invite her to dinner and save her from Collectors in ME2. Convince to change identity on the Citadel, do not pick renegade option when told she was a spy.

Mirana Lawson:

Base 25 - Complete Priority: Horizon w/ a surviving Miranda from ME2 AND after talking to her all three times on Citadel, given alliance access, and warned about Kai Leng after reading dossier from private terminal

Geth Corps:

Base 300 - Complete Priority: Rannoch, make peace

Plus 5 - Paragon answer during Allers interview after Priority: Rannoch

Total 305

Geth Fleet:

Base 300 - Complete Priority: Rannoch, make peace

Minus 150 - Heretics destroyed, make peace

Total 150

Geth Prime Platoon

Base 60 - Complete Priority: Rannoch, make peace

Grunt: 

Base 25 - Complete Attican Traverse: Krogan Team w/ loyal and alive Grunt from ME2

Krogan Clans:

Base 300 - Complete Priority: Tuchanka

Plus 40 - Complete Citadel: Kakliosaur Fossil

Minus 50 - Destroy Maelon’s data in ME2, causes Eve’s death 

Total 290 

Quarian Civilian Fleet: 

Base 200 - Complete Priority: Rannoch, make peace

Plus 50 - Destroy Geth Heretics in ME2

Total 250

Quarian Heavy Fleet:

Base 200 - Complete Priority: Rannoch, make peace

Plus  25 - Support Admiral Gerrel in argument after Rannoch: Admiral Koris

Plus 50 - Destroy Geth Heretics in ME2

Total 275

Quarian Patrol Fleet:

Base 200 - Complete Priority: Rannoch, make peace

Plus 50 - Destroy Geth Heretics in ME2

Total 250

Dr. Mordin Solus:

Base 25 - Complete Priority Tuchanka w/ alive Mordin Solus AND with Wrex and Eve dead convince him to sabotage cure

103rd Marine Division:

Base 100 - Obtained automatically

Plus 20 - Hades Gamma, Plutus, Nonuel

Plus 25 - Nubian Expanse, Kalabsha, Yamm

Total 145

SUBTOTAL: 2,475

TOTAL: 7,121

ASSETS DETERMINED ONLY BY MASS EFFECT 3 CHOICES

(Note: Killing or sparing Petrovsky results in the same end value. For the sake of this, killing him is taken + convincing Din lets you avoid a point penalty on Turiain Sixth Fleet + sparing Balak avoids point penalty on Alliance Third, thus placement)

Volus Bombing Fleet:

Base 75 - Complete Citadel: Volus Ambassador via reputation speech check

Citadel Defense Force:

Base 10 - Complete Priority: The Citadel II

Plus 7 - Support Dock Officer in argument

Plus 5 - Support Reluctant Civilian in argument

Plus 0 (optional) - Support Arguing Couple

Plus 8 - Authorize Partner Benefits at Spectre Terminal

Plus 7 - Authorize Civilian Deportation Order at Spectre Terminal

Plus 7 - Authorize Medical Supplies at Spectre Terminal

Plus 7 - Authorize Surveillance Authorization at Spectre Terminal

Plus 7 - Supported Worried Merchant over Angry Merchant, and authorize Militia at Spectre Terminal

Plus 5 - Authorize Citadel Entry at Spectre Terminal after Grissom Academy

Plus 5 - Supported Cafe Owner over Frustrated C-Sec officer 

Plus 5 - Speak to bank teller in Commons

Plus 8 - Complete Citadel: Target Jamming Technology

Plus 8 - Complete Citadel: Cerberus Automated Turret Schematics

Plus 8 - Complete Citadel: Biotic Amp Interfaces

Plus 40 - Complete Irune: Book of Plenix

Plus 40 - Complete Dekuuna: Code of the Ancients 

Plus 40 - Complete Silean Nebula: Rings of Alune

Total 217

Biotic Company:

Base 75 - Complete Grissom Academy: Emergency Evacuation, sending students to the war

Advanced AI Relays:

Base 45 - Support Admiral Xen over Tali after Rannoch: Geth Fighter Squadrons

Turian Sixth Fleet:

Base 135 - Complete Priority: The Citadel II

Plus 8 - Complete Citadel: Cerberus Turian Poison

Total 143 

Salarian First Fleet:

Base 150 - Complete Priority: Tuchanka by sabotaging genophage cure

SUBTOTAL: 705

TOTAL: 7,826

ASSETS DETERMINED BY CHOICES FROM MULTIPLE GAMES

Rachni Workers:

Base 100 - Complete Attican Traverse: Krogan Team w/ saved Rachni Queen from ME1, saved again here

Batarian Fleet:

Base 100 - Complete Citadel: Batarian Codes, convince Balak to join war effort

Plus 15 - Complete Citadel: Batarian Codes, convince alive Balak

Plus 40 - Complete Kite’s Nest: Pillars of Strength

Total 155

Alliance First Fleet:

Base 90 - Obtained automatically 

Plus 15 - Hades Gamma, Farinata, Juntauma

Plus 30 - Complete Omega DLC killing Petrovsky

Plus 15 - Hades Nexus, Pamyat, Dobrovolski

Minus 25 - Save Council in ME1

Plus 8 - Complete Citadel: Chemical Treatment

Total 133

Alliance Third Fleet:

Base 90 - Obtained automatically

Plus 25 - Gemini Sigma, Ming, Parag

Plus 15 - Nubian Expanse, Qertassi, Norehsa

Minus 25 - Save Council in ME1

Minus 4 - Private Talavi’s transfer request granted*

Total 101 *I have no clue who Talavi is but I’m including anyway because I have zero clue if it happens without intervention or with intervention

Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani:

Base 5 - Paragon interrupt during interview during Priority: Citadel I

Plus 5 - Never punch her throughout the trilogy. Hard, I know.

Total 10

Ashley Williams/Kaiden Alenko:

Base 25 - Decide who survives Virmire in ME1. Keep them alive at the end of Priority: The Citadel II and deny them back on the Normandy

Dark Energy Dissertation:

Base 1 - Interact with Conrad Verner in ME1 and ME2 WITHOUT letting him die. Talk to him during Citadel: Medi-Gel Sabotage

Plus 4 - Complete Feros: Data Recovery, UNC: Asari Writings and buy Elkoss Combine Amory License all in ME1

Total 5

Salarian Third Fleet:

Base 125 - Complete Priority: The Citadel II w/ alive Thane that has been spoken to at the Hospital prior.

Plus 8 - Complete Citadel: Heating Unit Stabilizers

Total 133

SUBTOTAL: 662

TOTAL: 8,488

[soon-palestine]

On Monday, a brave Google Cloud engineer spoke up against the corporation’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. A video of the worker standing up for their rights went viral, with some reposts reaching up to 8 million views and generating widespread global support, including from Palestinians in Gaza. Three days later, Google fired this worker.

Google has engaged in a clear cut act of retaliation against its own worker for speaking up about the terms and conditions of their labor.

This is the first immediate firing of a worker after a public, brave act of employee dissent against Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s shared $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli military and government. This is the second worker associated with the No Tech For Apartheid campaign that Google has retaliated against for organizing within their workplace, and the latest in a series of cases in which Google has retaliated against workers for speaking up about the corporation’s ethical malpractice in a range of business decisions.

While touting the importance of “democratic values” in the workplace, Google is shutting down free speech and silencing debate and dissent among workers within the company.

Google’s aims are clear: The corporation is trying to silence workers to hide their moral failings. Google is enabling the world’s first AI-powered genocide through Project Nimbus. Through this contract, Google and Amazon are aiding and abetting the Israeli apartheid state and genocidal campaign in Gaza against Palestinians. Instead of cleaning up its own house, and dropping its contract with a genocidal regime, Google is punching down on its own workers. For almost three years, thousands of Google & Amazon workers have organized against the companies’ contracts with the Israeli government and military, with no response from management or executives.

As a Cloud Software Engineer on critical technology that enables Project Nimbus to run on sovereign Israeli data centers, this worker spoke from a place of deep personal concern about the direct, violent impacts of their labor. They spoke from a deep belief that truly ethical engineering must account for the impact on communities around the world.

While terminating this brave worker, Google HR asked how they were feeling. The worker replied: “proud to be fired for refusing to be complicit in genocide.”

[thefirstknife]

Final Veil Log!

Osiris: I've reached the extent of what I can glean from the research data. Nimbus: What've we got? Osiris: Less than I'd hoped for. But the last of Chioma Esi's research has led me to an intriguing topic: Ghosts. Nimbus: Ghosts? As far as I know, Neomuna never had any contact with a Ghost before you all showed up. We knew about them, but… Osiris: Precisely. Chioma Esi was researching the entanglement of Light and Dark without fully understanding either. Our Ghosts are a link to the Light of the Traveler. Then how was the Witness able to — on numerous occasions — communicate through them? Nimbus: Is this about the, uh, the magnets thing? The parallel energy fields, right? Osiris: Very good. In areas of Darkness, the Witness is able to create a link, not unlike what it created with the Veil and the Traveler. Nimbus: Ah, like the Vex are able to hack into the CloudArk with their tech! It's a parallel connection. Osiris: And I believe that connection may not be one-sided. I believe that our Ghosts may be able to leverage this connection against it. Nimbus: Turn the enemy's weapon against 'em — well, that sounds great. But how? Osiris: That… I do not know. But what I do know is that while the Witness is out of our reach, it is also out of the reach of our Ghosts. Which means whatever lies beyond that portal — whatever is inside the Traveler — has left the Witness blind to OUR actions. Nimbus: And given us an opportunity to make a plan without it knowing. Osiris: Precisely! The Witness has played all the pieces it can. This is its final act, win or lose. Whatever we do from here determines the fate of everything. Nimbus: No pressure.

Super interesting questions that tie back to the whole idea of the Light and Darkness not being opposites and everything in the universe functioning by being able to use/channel them both. Probably going back to the theory that the Veil and the Traveler were once a single entity.

Interesting stuff about the Witness not being able to see what's going on in the system. Previously we didn't know about it, but then we got lore from Xivu talking to the Witness (in Deep) while the Witness was in the portal. And Xivu was able to report to it and the Witness reported back. So the Witness can't see outside of the portal on its own... But can if something deliberately seeks it out. Obviously our Ghosts won't do that so it can't reach back to them.

Similarly, with the new season stuff, Mara said that the Sol Divisive are acting as the Witness' eyes and ears in the system while it's away, but we honestly have no clue what the Vex are truly doing and I'll talk about that in another post. Either way, it seems like the Witness can't reach to us now, not through Ghosts.

This might be some stuff preparing us for whatever wild shit we're gonna learn in TFS in regards to the Light, the Traveler, Ghosts and the rest. Ghosts are capable of also channeling Darknes, much like the Guardians. It shouldn't be a surprise, but it's still intriguing that there's such a direct connection. Also interesting to know that our Ghosts might be able to seek out a connection to the Witness as a form of a weapon.

A lot to think about.

[taviamoth]

🚨 Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor:

—

The involvement of technology and social media companies in causing the killing of civilians by "israel" in the Gaza Strip necessitates an immediate investigation.

These companies should be held accountable and liable if their complicity or failure to exercise due diligence in preventing access to and exploitation of their users’ private information is proven, obligating them to ensure their services are not misused in war zones and that they protect user privacy.

"Israel" uses various technology systems supported by artificial intelligence, such as Gospel, Fire Factory, Lavender, and Where’s Daddy, all operating within a system aimed at monitoring Palestinians illegally and tracking their movements.

These systems function to identify and designate suspected individuals as legitimate targets, based mostly on shared characteristics and patterns rather than specific locations or personal information.

The accuracy of the information provided by these systems is rarely verified by the occupation army, despite a known large margin of error due to the nature of these systems' inability to provide updated information.

The Lavender system, heavily used by the occupation army to identify suspects in Gaza before targeting them, is based on probability logic, a hallmark of machine learning algorithms.

"Israeli" military and intelligence sources have admitted to attacking potential targets without consideration for the principle of proportionality and collateral damage, with suspicions that the Lavender system relies on tracking social media accounts among its sources.

Recently, "israel's" collaboration with Google was revealed, including several technological projects, among them Project Nimbus which provides the occupation army with technology that facilitates intensified surveillance and data collection on Palestinians illegally.

The occupation army also uses Google's facial recognition feature in photos to monitor Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and to compile an "assassination list," collecting a vast amount of images related to the October 7th operation.

The Euro-Mediterranean field team has collected testimonies from Palestinian civilians directly targeted in Israeli military attacks following their activities on social media sites, without any involvement in military actions.

The potential complicity of companies like Google and Meta and other technology and social media firms in the violations and crimes committed by "israel" breaches international law rules and the companies' declared commitment to human rights.

No social network should provide this kind of private information about its users and actually participate in the mass genocide conducted by "israel" against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, which demands an international investigation providing guarantees for accountability and justice for the victims.

[shifa-ameen]

Google has terminated 28 employees' contracts for their involvement in a 10-hour sit-in protest against the company's ties with Israel.

The firings were confirmed by Google a day after nine employees were arrested during protests at the tech giant's offices in California and New York City on April 16.

"This is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted," Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post on April 18.

The protests, led by a group called 'No Tech For Apartheid', were against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud contract signed in April 2021 between Israel, Google and Amazon.

The Nimbus project includes a cloud and machine learning system that enables data storage, collection, analysis, motif and feature identification from data, and prediction of potential data and motifs.

The system can collect all data sources provided by Israel and its military, including databases, resources and even live observation sources such as street and drone cameras.

Critics argue that the project could help Israel continue its occupation of Palestinian territories and segregation of the Palestinian people.

Credits-TRT world