This is probably one of my favorite chapters for a Mass Effect story.

I'm glad the good doctor lives

I have a feeling the jamming issues are a result of possible sabotage. :(

With humanity's insatiable curiosity we tore apart the citadel and reverse engineered everything it's such a way we were intimately aware of all the details every last screw every last nut of the citadel therefore we discovered the traps and all the counter traps and remove them and replaced it with a trap of our own it's not just a normal trap but complexity level fractal usually mathematical formula like that makes computers explode on themselves the only way for a computer to understand is to use physical shapes but the only way for the reapers to connect over to the citadel is the use pure mathematics of a fractal basically all their computers are going to explode on them or burnout all the components therefore rendering the reaper threat up to at least 99.99%. since all the reapers and nothing but rogue program robots and the makers of the reapers replaced 70% of their brains of machines to amplify their psychic abilities either all threats are going to be brain dead or completely disintegrated component like robots.

This is such a rare breed of thought-through and believable fics, good writing. Unfortunately, it also suffers from the popular 'never describe anyone's appearance' syndrome.

Will there be a fic that doesn't put so much focus on religion? Religion is a dying ideology. It is what it is. By 2100 there will only be religious fanatics left. Not something that'd happen overnight, but generation after generation. It will be such a minority barely worth mentioning in a science fic story

Yeah yeah get on it already its already been a month if you only acted that way from the beginning

When will the system's reinforcement arrive? Or are they forgotten already?

Is he really an N7?

Wait? Turians is already attacking their colony and they haven't even evacuated the civilians to the bunkers yet? tf

Bruh, How stupid this humans can be? Imagine the amount of stupidity it would take to have you reduce your navy's presence on your own system border lol

The Ad Hoc Rationale is strong with this one

... is that a 'Gas Giant Cruiser' event from stellaris?

My only real thought in this section is that it's a tad parochial - there are going to be a lot of different reactions on Earth from a lot of different folks and it might be a nice perspective shift to have a saucer cultist feeling justifiably smug, a Taoist commenting upon the moment or a reasonably sensible atheist explaining the actual logic behind 'aliens, therefore your book is, at the very least powerfully incomplete'. Maybe because I loved that scene in Babylon 5 where everyone got to showcase their cultures religion and the human offering was to fill a cargo bay with dozens of priests, shamans and philosophers.

mhh this felt like i read about the darkest of black magics : RELIGION!

in case it's not clear i think that the root of all evil is religion