[SPEAKER_08]: Specters, welcome back to another great, wonderful, marvelous week of the Mass Effect lorecast.

[SPEAKER_08]: I am your host in seven the legend, and I am emphatically trying to include other adjectives to describe this show because I realize that I have used exciting far too much.

[SPEAKER_08]: Genesis is my co-host as always in Genesis, how are you doing?

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, enthusiastically good tonight.

[SPEAKER_08]: Alright, we're breaking out that the Saras, and that is not an alien life form.

[SPEAKER_08]: So we started episodes on Ari's lore from the comics, and then we got totally sidetracked.

[SPEAKER_08]: But here we are, fourteen weeks later, and we're coming back to finish the job.

[SPEAKER_08]: Not the only job I want to finish with Ariah, but that's where we are.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, there's fourteen weeks, seriously.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's a really long time.

[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't realize that it had been that long that we since we talked about Arya, but it also didn't realize that we'd been doing the show together that long.

[SPEAKER_03]: And now I'm trying to think back of when we started doing this together, when is our one year?

[SPEAKER_08]: Hmm, I want to say it's around the new year.

[SPEAKER_08]: Isn't it?

[SPEAKER_08]: It's around January?

[SPEAKER_08]: At some point?

[SPEAKER_03]: That's, that's right, New Year, New M.E.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, see, I remember.

[SPEAKER_08]: That was a test.

[SPEAKER_08]: I know you well enough.

[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't a test, I honestly forgot.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, okay.

[SPEAKER_08]: So when we left off with Ari, what were we talking about, Genesis?

[SPEAKER_03]: So we had discussed the first half of the invasion comic.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that was where we see a service ship invading Omega and having an agent, an agent on board.

[SPEAKER_03]: We met General Olog Petrovsky.

[SPEAKER_03]: and an agent ash, both of whom were human serverous agents, working on taking control of Omega, but in their own separate ways.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the iconic line that we left off on was the elusive man telling ash, I am ready to start the real battle for Omega.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_08]: Right, the mask comes off because at this point, Arya was totally under this impression that Cerberus was couldn't go there to help with the Agitant invasion.

[SPEAKER_08]: But it's completely reversed now.

[SPEAKER_08]: The game is a foot, so to speak.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're all over the place, literally tonight, and I'm here for it, because that theme also will follow through.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, it will.

[SPEAKER_08]: So the plan is an action.

[SPEAKER_08]: Agent Ash has, and I think it goes by both Agent Ash and Colonel Ash.

[SPEAKER_08]: But Colonel Ash has now stopped pretending to quote, help Arya and Omega and get rid of those agitans, but Arya is still in orbit with Petrovsky.

[SPEAKER_08]: under this impression that Cerberus is there to help.

[SPEAKER_08]: So really interesting detail here in the prelude to the second half of this mass effect invasion comic that we're referencing.

[SPEAKER_08]: The narration mentions that Cerberus, those Cerberus invaders who are flying ships toward Omega [SPEAKER_08]: have come from beyond the Omega-four relay.

[SPEAKER_08]: Now, Aria thinks that those are Agitans, flying those ships, it's Cerberus, of course.

[SPEAKER_08]: But regardless, Cerberus is coming from beyond the Omega-four relay.

[SPEAKER_08]: So that's kind of surprising, considering that I don't remember any scene in the game specifically on camera, where it shows Cerberus has a base there.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's true.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think that we see it, but we know that server is definitely sent ships there because that's where they got some of the data that we received from Mass Effect II and knowing all of that.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then again, this time frame is in between the events of Mass Effect II and Mass Effect III.

[SPEAKER_03]: So we got to think about what's going on in that as well, but obviously before the relay got disabled or destroyed.

[SPEAKER_08]: And that's how they got the human reaper.

[SPEAKER_08]: So, it's no surprise that they went there when I guess I am surprised about it is they amassed such a force there that they could use it to stage the invasion of Omega.

[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, what better place to do that, right?

[SPEAKER_08]: Other than beyond the Omega-four relay, which is technically so far from Omega, Arya might never have suspected it, and yet it's a back door right into Omega.

[SPEAKER_03]: and a backdoor right onto Aria's main land of holding.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, probably a lot of people wondering about that backdoor after seeing the Matrix, but I won't go down that road any further.

[SPEAKER_08]: Now, okay, so Arya is on board a legs ship, which is named the Elbrus.

[SPEAKER_08]: There's a ton of mythological references here, by the way.

[SPEAKER_08]: And she does not realize the invaders are Cerberus.

[SPEAKER_08]: She's under the impression they are agitants.

[SPEAKER_08]: So the Elbrus and Arya's merc ships are getting absolutely decimated.

[SPEAKER_08]: And the Elbrist itself is nearly falling apart and that leads Arya and Oleg to debate strategies here.

[SPEAKER_08]: Should we advance to Wardo Mega just try and plow through that line and risk death before we get there?

[SPEAKER_08]: or do we back off?

[SPEAKER_08]: And if it's the latter, then where would we even go?

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't think it really takes a lot of imagination for anyone who hasn't read this comic to understand that Arya doesn't want to back off.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's really not her style.

[SPEAKER_08]: So she suggests that they disable or somehow take out the mass relay.

[SPEAKER_08]: And surprise, Oleg is not a fan of that idea.

[SPEAKER_08]: I wonder why Oleg doesn't wanna take out or disable the mass relay that his own troops are coming from.

[SPEAKER_08]: And so we've got a panel here from the comic up on the screen and you can read some of the dialogue boxes if you're watching along with us.

[SPEAKER_08]: And you can see that Oleg is quoting some old military doctrines.

[SPEAKER_08]: In the midst of this battle, presumably to prove how much he loves history, how very smart he is, [SPEAKER_08]: and how much he loves World War II documentaries.

[SPEAKER_08]: But he then tells Arya that the Elbrus is fitted with the right FF-IFF to travel through the Omega-For-Relay in retreat.

[SPEAKER_08]: And he spins this as, well, we should go to the source of these invaders to find a solution.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: So the source to find this solution, RIA doesn't find it at all peculiar that servers happens to have the same IFF capabilities as the mysterious invaders.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, right.

[SPEAKER_08]: That is kind of a huge hole where she might be like, uh, am I walking into a trap?

[SPEAKER_08]: I guess the only excuse you could find is that she's so frantic because the ship's getting torn apart and she's more focused on leaving.

[SPEAKER_08]: She does not want to abandon a band in Omega.

[SPEAKER_08]: Like, that is full stop.

[SPEAKER_08]: It doesn't matter.

[SPEAKER_08]: She doesn't want to abandon her station because she is Omega.

[SPEAKER_08]: if you remember.

[SPEAKER_08]: So ultimately, this is an up to her because Oleg is flying the ship and it's on fire.

[SPEAKER_08]: So there's little time to think here.

[SPEAKER_08]: And at the same time, Ari is second in command, until is monitoring this whole situation from the control room on Omega.

[SPEAKER_08]: And he sees Ari as trans, transponder, go through the Omega for relay and then, until gets an idea.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, isn't he a little enterprising slurian?

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, you mean Baterian, but well, are you as gone?

[SPEAKER_08]: I see an opportunity, well, that sounds more crogan.

[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, I don't think I can do the Baterian voice, but he sees an opportunity.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's like, it's time for Onto.

[SPEAKER_08]: Whatever his last name is, it mentions it in the comics.

[SPEAKER_08]: I can't remember it.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's time for Onto to take control.

[SPEAKER_08]: and so he starts basically turning on Arya the second she's gone.

[SPEAKER_08]: So now it's his plan then Arya's absence he's going to become the pirate king.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no.

[SPEAKER_03]: There is no pirate king of Omega.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's not going to happen at all.

[SPEAKER_08]: No, like bro calm, you know, calm down.

[SPEAKER_08]: You are not on screen enough in Mass Effect to become a main character.

[SPEAKER_08]: What are you thinking?

[SPEAKER_08]: No.

[SPEAKER_08]: Come on, dude.

[SPEAKER_08]: I see that Maya has decided to make repeated appearances on the lorecast.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh huh, she's the third co-host to this podcast, Are you swear?

[SPEAKER_08]: For those of you just listening along, I can see Maya's striped tail with a white, white tip extending just above Genesis's mic and now ramping around her neck.

[SPEAKER_08]: Now, and now it's in her nose.

[SPEAKER_08]: Hi, Maya.

[SPEAKER_08]: She wanted to be included in the conversation about Arya.

[SPEAKER_03]: She, yeah, she's got a thing for Arya for sure.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I understand.

[SPEAKER_08]: To be fair, who doesn't?

[SPEAKER_08]: But Arya and Oleg, they arrive at a surport station once they get past that Omega-four relay.

[SPEAKER_08]: which the narration reminds us is the most inhospitable environment in the galaxy for a few reasons.

[SPEAKER_08]: Number one, deadly radiation.

[SPEAKER_08]: Number two, the immense debris fields that will tear hole in any ship trying to go through it.

[SPEAKER_08]: And number three, the supermassive black hole at the middle.

[SPEAKER_08]: So it is really truly a feat of engineering and technology that servers could build anything here, let alone an operational base.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's pretty intense.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, I remember watching that scene during the suicide mission where it is extremely dangerous to be going through this relay.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that's with Joker, manning the ship on one of the greatest ships built in order to fly through all this.

[SPEAKER_08]: And with all those upgrades at the norm in the got in Mass Effect too, you have to wonder, did the elucimant just take note and keep records of those?

[SPEAKER_08]: And it's like, oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, with all of these upgrades, Shepherd made it.

[SPEAKER_08]: So we'll just use some of these upgrades in the base that we're building.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, and by the way, here's a massive collector base that we can data mine.

[SPEAKER_03]: I also really liked the station name of a furnace and you know, that's definitely a hellish zone.

[SPEAKER_03]: It fits.

[SPEAKER_08]: It is, and for those mythology buffs out there, they'll probably recognize a furnace because of Lake of Ernest, which was the fabled entrance to Hades.

[SPEAKER_08]: So, of course, the elusive man would name this base of Ernest because Cerberus is what guards, you know, the underworld from the land of the living, and the furnace is the entrance between the underworld and the land of the living.

[SPEAKER_08]: One might think that he kind of missed an opportunity to call the caron relay, a furnace, but caron being the ferryman of the river sticks.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, never mind.

[SPEAKER_08]: This isn't a mythology podcast.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's a mass-fect one.

[SPEAKER_08]: And on the a furnace station, Ari is first to be on the station, not from Cerberus.

[SPEAKER_08]: According to Oleg.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's...

[SPEAKER_03]: not cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what to do with that information because it's not like an achievement.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yay, Arya for being the first at something.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, what the hell?

[SPEAKER_03]: She's probably pissed about this situation.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I would be getting increasingly suspicious if I were Arya.

[SPEAKER_08]: I would be getting increasingly suspicious because she [SPEAKER_08]: Um, has such a huge base so close to her system.

[SPEAKER_08]: And Oleg even calls it the staging area for our studies in this sector.

[SPEAKER_08]: But she calls it bullshit, saying that it's just a depot for their Reaper relics.

[SPEAKER_08]: She advises Oleg to just blow up the damn place quote, but you won't because you don't want to lose your wretched treasure trove.

[SPEAKER_08]: And quote, [SPEAKER_08]: I found that to be a really interesting thing for the pirate queen of Omega to say.

[SPEAKER_08]: You won't blow up this place because you don't want to lose your wretched treasure trove.

[SPEAKER_08]: So even the pirate queen has some standards.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she does have standards, but also I do like, you know, it's a wretched.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a treasure trove.

[SPEAKER_03]: These are very piratey things.

[SPEAKER_03]: Are, are, are, are, are, are, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, [SPEAKER_06]: I heard a peg leg walking down the hall.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, man.

[SPEAKER_08]: I need more pirate dialogue from Arya.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's what I need.

[SPEAKER_08]: Arya needs an eye patch at some point.

[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe she'll show up in the next game with an eye patch.

[SPEAKER_08]: Who knows?

[SPEAKER_08]: Artists also kind of like Lobsters where no one truly knows how old they get.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm kidding.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, so the two are being escorted by a Cerberous detail inside this base, inside a furnace.

[SPEAKER_08]: And they get to this lab where a scientist tells Oleg that they were experimenting on an agitent trapped in steel.

[SPEAKER_08]: First of all, horrible idea.

[SPEAKER_08]: don't do that I don't know what provoked you to do actually I do I know exactly who provoked you to do that but don't do that because they were experimenting on an incredibly deadly mutant uh trapped in steel trapped uh when it began whispering to them hmm [SPEAKER_03]: We see this already in Mass Effect One where it did not work even the salarians who were in cages and in cells and completely shielded away could still hear the whispers.

[SPEAKER_08]: And you know what's totally unacceptable about this whole thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: Servers knows from firsthand experience, from the experiments that they ran on those uncharted worlds in Mass Effect One.

[SPEAKER_08]: So Timiboy knows what the hell he's doing.

[SPEAKER_08]: And he knows damn well that this is likely to get out of hand, especially if he's aware that he is the villain.

[SPEAKER_08]: So now most of the facility is overrun because the whispering led to the agitants breaking free and then they killed people and then they did what agitants do.

[SPEAKER_08]: So speaking of which agitants start attacking this lab that they're in.

[SPEAKER_08]: And while Arya, Oleg and the Cerberus troops are trying to hold them off, that scientist transforms into an adjutant too, which is really cool because there are very few points in the lore where we see that adjutants create other adjutants, just through like this almost zombie, like proliferation.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's very interesting to see it, especially the way that they have it laid out in this comic book, just the transformation that happens.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, in theory, we know that that's how husks work.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I guess we do see it when Sharon gets completely re-perfied and we see his transformation, but to see it from an adjacent side is also really interesting.

[SPEAKER_08]: All right, exactly.

[SPEAKER_08]: And so cue the badass battle sequence because there are some super cool artwork panels of Arya here, and I'm going to show them on screen right now.

[SPEAKER_08]: Arya whips out the biotics.

[SPEAKER_08]: My phrasing is on point today.

[SPEAKER_08]: And she is just unleashing what I can only describe as a biotic, come and have a ha in one part of this.

[SPEAKER_08]: And it just kills all the remaining agitants.

[SPEAKER_08]: But as we know about biotics, the harder you push, the harder it pushes back on you.

[SPEAKER_08]: My phrasing is on point.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm really not trying to do this.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is just Freudian slip after Freudian slip for me today.

[SPEAKER_08]: But it knocks her unconscious.

[SPEAKER_08]: And so Oleg is tending to her and he then orders the crew to get a medic, which you might think is rather chivalrous and ginner and magnanimous even for a Cerberus officer to do, especially for the pirate queen.

[SPEAKER_08]: but you'd be wrong because he then gets a call from Timmy boy and the elusive man tells him that we don't we actually don't know what's said on the other side, but he ends the call, Oleg ends the call and then starts carrying Arya away and he's saying [SPEAKER_08]: Oleg is saying to Arya, I guess even though she's unconscious.

[SPEAKER_08]: So Oleg is saying, not much of a reward for your efforts here, my dear, but the fortunes of war are what they are.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm sure you of all people will understand.

[SPEAKER_03]: I really just don't like this guy.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't like him.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I know why I don't like him.

[SPEAKER_03]: But this just adds to it.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's got like big kind of like he's got like big plenty of fish fifty-year-old creeper vibes.

[SPEAKER_08]: Is that just me?

[SPEAKER_03]: He's also giving off.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh.

[SPEAKER_03]: I've read that before.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know what you're talking about.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you haven't read that book.

[SPEAKER_03]: You only watched the movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: He is I am very smart.

[SPEAKER_08]: And he wonders why he's alone.

[SPEAKER_08]: This guy is so very clearly single.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_08]: This guy is so clearly single.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's the guy who you have worked with, who goes on and on about his extensive wooden duck collection at home.

[SPEAKER_03]: I prefer rubber ducks, thanks.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna walk out on the conversation.

[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, that wasn't a personal attack.

[SPEAKER_08]: That was actually, I was drawing from a little bit of experience there and sorry to that guy if he somehow got interested in mass fact and he's listening.

[SPEAKER_08]: But anyway, you get my point.

[SPEAKER_08]: So they're walking away with an unconscious area and she wakes up and there are some biotic dampener handcuffs on her.

[SPEAKER_08]: and Oleg is standing right next to her.

[SPEAKER_08]: Chris Cross, right?

[SPEAKER_08]: So she's confused somehow.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know how she hasn't caught on yet, but she's confused until Oleg shows her a recording of Agent Ash.

[SPEAKER_08]: Last she knew he was in custody on Omega, but it turns out he broke free, killed some of her mercs, until he got to Omega Control.

[SPEAKER_08]: and then he killed most of them, too, in Ari's command center.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then he gets on the PA, and he announces to Omega that Cerberus has killed the last of the creatures threatening Omega.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm just imagining what Ash's voice sounds like, because we don't see him in the game.

[SPEAKER_07]: But Cerberus now considers control of this station, vital protecting the galaxy, against the Reaper Minis.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, we have different voices for this character in our head.

[SPEAKER_03]: Can I hear yours, please?

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, see, for me, he's actually a really well drawn out character and is kind of attractive.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I definitely heard something a little bit more swab in my head.

[SPEAKER_08]: I was thinking like, uh, Empire from Star Wars.

[SPEAKER_02]: Mark Hammond, voices this man for me.

[SPEAKER_08]: Really?

[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so I was thinking more like dumb hog leasons character from the newest Star Wars trilogy.

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, who did he play?

[SPEAKER_08]: I can't remember his name right now.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's like a, he's like an officer.

[SPEAKER_08]: The famous scene is when he's in the ATAT and Luke decides that he wants to meditate and go super Saiyan.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then he's ordering.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, Kylo Ren is a board.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, you know what?

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm talking about the Renhead Redhead Star Wars.

[SPEAKER_08]: Colonel, I think he might be from the Empire.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, that's how I imagined.

[SPEAKER_08]: Ash.

[SPEAKER_08]: I still want to hear your ash voice.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, I can't pull up a Mark Harman.

[SPEAKER_08]: You could.

[SPEAKER_08]: You could try.

[SPEAKER_08]: But I'm not going to put the spotlight any on you anymore.

[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_08]: So Ari points out here that the Agitans actually came from serverless territory in a furnace.

[SPEAKER_08]: So what the hell is Ash talking about?

[SPEAKER_08]: And of course, [SPEAKER_08]: This is the server's playbook.

[SPEAKER_08]: Create an emergency, sweep in of this, sweep in and you're the savior of set emergency, and use that to seize power.

[SPEAKER_08]: Wish we could say this was novel.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, unfortunately, it's very much not the first time over the last time we see this happening.

[SPEAKER_08]: I try not to watch too much news.

[SPEAKER_08]: But anyway, with that, let's go to the midbrake.

[SPEAKER_07]: Shall we?

[SPEAKER_07]: We have beef, bacon, we have beer, the foods of my people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Young men have funny ideas of what a story are like.

[SPEAKER_00]: I blame the extra net and computer games.

[SPEAKER_07]: Rex, Shepherd, Grant, Shepherd, Rex.

[SPEAKER_08]: Alright, here we are in the middle of the show and we've got two new reviews for everyone.

[SPEAKER_08]: One comes from Hostraot on Apple who leaves a five star review and says as someone who works in the space industry, okay super cool first of all.

[SPEAKER_08]: This game for me has been one that inspired a vision of a future of space exploration and development, and hearing you all talk about these topics each week has made me pick up the game again and again.

[SPEAKER_08]: Appreciating it that much more.

[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you for all the research you put into this episode or into each episode.

[SPEAKER_08]: And at this point, I am wondering to myself how many more topics [SPEAKER_08]: Can you cover left in this game?

[SPEAKER_08]: You all keep finding more.

[SPEAKER_08]: Hoping there's still a lot more to discuss in the future.

[SPEAKER_08]: Indeed, there is Hosternot.

[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you for the kind words.

[SPEAKER_08]: And you can't see my creative living schedule.

[SPEAKER_08]: No one can.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's my page.

[SPEAKER_08]: But...

[SPEAKER_08]: I have a lot.

[SPEAKER_08]: I have a lot of topics left to go.

[SPEAKER_08]: Enough to last us at least another year and a half, maybe two years.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_08]: We'll see.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's the fun part.

[SPEAKER_08]: I always come up with more topics as I'm doing this show.

[SPEAKER_08]: But anyway, thank you, Hofstra, not so much.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm very curious about what you do in this space industry.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm also supremely jealous.

[SPEAKER_08]: So if you're company's hiring, let me know because I'm unemployed.

[SPEAKER_08]: Genesis.

[SPEAKER_08]: We also have another review, but this one sent to us in a message on Patreon.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, from Karina, and it says, while I'm here, I want to say how much I love your podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: You pour so much heart and effort into it, and it really shows.

[SPEAKER_03]: This show has helped me through some very difficult times, and I truly can't thank you enough.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm looking forward to chatting with you soon.

[SPEAKER_03]: Take care.

[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you, Corina.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's so kind of you.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I, I try to, uh, leave everything on the field so to speak, uh, with the show that shows my baby.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I know that every week in Genesis tries to do the same.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I have a story very similar.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'll just take it to second tangent here and I like two, three years back.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was leaving a dear friend's funeral.

[SPEAKER_03]: He died way too early in life.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I had been mindlessly listening to the lorecast on my way to the funeral, paused it, left it off, got back in the car after the service, and I heard you and Tom just laughing.

[SPEAKER_03]: at some corny joke.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't even remember what the joke was, but the combination of just like this dark mood that I was in and then the laughter that was pouring over my speakers just had me cracking up right along with you guys and I was like, thank you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I needed that in this moment and you guys were literally right there for me.

[SPEAKER_08]: I, you know, you never told me that.

[SPEAKER_08]: That story.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's the first time I'm hearing it live right now.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I feel humbled because I remember listening to the Elder Scrolls lore cast.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is going to be like a domino, like a, like a, like a, like a matrushka doll of hey, I was going through this traumatic experience.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I found a podcast.

[SPEAKER_08]: I was listening to the Elder Scrolls lorecast when I was going through a little bit of a rough breakup.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I just remember being able to completely take my mind off of it.

[SPEAKER_08]: and like getting lost in the lore of the Elder Scrolls, which I love, it's so much.

[SPEAKER_08]: So it's unreal to hear that this show has had that effect for other people, but I'm hoping that we can continue that tradition and helping people through their workday, helping people through this or that.

[SPEAKER_08]: And if that's you, [SPEAKER_08]: Then you can leave a five star review.

[SPEAKER_08]: Hopefully five stars.

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[SPEAKER_08]: Now, Genesis, I have a voice line that I want to quiz you on.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I think this is a pretty good one.

[SPEAKER_08]: So...

[SPEAKER_08]: Alright, let's go ahead and play this, and I'm stalling to give Genesis time so that she can unmute the stream and hear it on her end.

[SPEAKER_08]: She's giving me a thumbs up, so I think she's ready.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, here we go.

[SPEAKER_08]: All right, I'm gonna play that one more time, both for the chat and both for Genesis.

[SPEAKER_08]: So here we go.

[SPEAKER_05]: All right, Genesis, you got two plays.

[SPEAKER_05]: Do you need one more?

[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, there's the six second delay from the on Twitch.

[SPEAKER_03]: So you keep like talking right as the final parts of Samantha trainer speaking.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I know that it's at ME three Samantha trainer talking at some point.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just don't know the exact scenario.

[SPEAKER_03]: So if you could play it for one more time and then wait until I give you the signal.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, you're two thirds of the way there.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'll play it one more time.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to reply to something on Twitch.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think that story would be perfect for you.

[SPEAKER_05]: The hidden dark side of the most beautiful race in the galaxy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, the beautiful dark side of the most of the hidden race of the galaxy is she talking about tally.

[SPEAKER_08]: You were very close with trainer and Mass Effect three, but it was not tally.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'll give you one more guess.

[SPEAKER_03]: And she's talking about Lyara, like this one, this one has me stumped.

[SPEAKER_08]: Locer, so she was actually talking about, she was talking to Diana Allers, if that helps.

[SPEAKER_08]: And Allers was doing a story on the Art Ayaqshi.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: The fact that it was over in Intercom should have clued it in that trainer was talking to somebody in one of the side rooms and doing a story on it that would have been Diana Alice who should have been somebody else.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, so I was like, okay, this is obscure enough that it's not going to be like an easy, like an easy kind of low hanging fruit.

[SPEAKER_08]: But anyway, I'm glad I got you.

[SPEAKER_08]: I got you.

[SPEAKER_08]: This one's going down in the history.

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[SPEAKER_04]: After time adrift among open stars, a long tide of light and through shows of dust, I will return to where I began.

[SPEAKER_01]: Celery and reproduction different, very little sex drive.

[SPEAKER_01]: If intended to try human, would try you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Out my bakeries.

[SPEAKER_08]: And we're back.

[SPEAKER_08]: And now we've got a real situation on our hands.

[SPEAKER_08]: Omega is being occupied by Cerberus and Arya is in captivity on board a server station in the deadly heart of the galaxy.

[SPEAKER_08]: Genesis, what happens next?

[SPEAKER_03]: A lot.

[SPEAKER_03]: He probably went over a little bit of this already, but I'll kind of summarize it in how I was reading it because we view things differently, and I like that a lot of this may be standard service practice, but standard omega protocol is to seize the opportunity [SPEAKER_03]: The blue sons and blood pack are already pushing back against Cerberus, not only to regain control from them, but also to take it for themselves.

[SPEAKER_03]: Arya really is the only one who can keep them civil, working together, or at least working towards the same goal.

[SPEAKER_08]: So the thing here is that I don't think anyone should be surprised that Arya's gone, all of a sudden, Cerberus is an absolute shit show.

[SPEAKER_08]: Why?

[SPEAKER_08]: Because you've got the blue suns, the blood pack, and the eclipse who were all waiting in the wings.

[SPEAKER_08]: And the only person who had a iron fist that kept them in line was Arya.

[SPEAKER_08]: Now Arya's gone.

[SPEAKER_08]: So we've got this power vacuum, right?

[SPEAKER_08]: and all hell is breaking loose.

[SPEAKER_08]: Meanwhile, the adjectives are there and services there, but it's not really like the blue sun's even care.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's services there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right, they are definitely taking Omega for themselves and not necessarily because, oh, I'm fighting against service.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, they see service as an easy opponent to take over and therefore gain the control of that part of Omega.

[SPEAKER_08]: Right, so I remember a couple panels in this comic where Agent Ash goes up with a Cerberus escort in the middle of a firefight between blue sons and blood pack and goes up to a blue son's mark and basically goes, what the hell is going on here?

[SPEAKER_08]: And then the blue sons are like, who the hell are you?

[SPEAKER_08]: Basically.

[SPEAKER_08]: They're like, we're a little busy.

[SPEAKER_08]: We're fighting the blue, the blood pack because when the agits insinvated, we tried to push him back and then blood pack.

[SPEAKER_08]: We were in blood packs territory, at least some of us were blood pack got pissed off, tried to kill us, screw them, we're gonna try and kill them.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then agent ashes like, oh my god.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then walks away.

[SPEAKER_08]: which is pretty much the panel, like if you read it, I'm totally paraphrasing here, but meanwhile, all of this is going on, and Arya is thousands of AU away, and she is on Oleg's ship, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, she has been knocked out and a placed in biotic blocking shackles.

[SPEAKER_03]: A rigor has suspended her by those bloggers that cover her hands to her elbows and a second set around her ankles.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hey now.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hey now, hey now.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's actually done really cool in the artwork as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: Seeing these, it almost looks like biotic fields of that are holding her in place.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it's drawn out really well.

[SPEAKER_08]: I would tend to agree that I liked the way that it's drawn out.

[SPEAKER_08]: However, I do have to mention that during this panel, in which I'm seeing it, and I wish I had taken a screenshot of it right now, I have to wonder why [SPEAKER_08]: is Arya being held horizontally in these biotic shackles.

[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, and she's not just being held horizontally, but she's spread eagle.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's a weight distribution that's involved in rigging, and it being held upright spread eagle is more strain on your wrists, and you can dislocate your shoulders.

[SPEAKER_03]: Having your center mass being distributed that way is actually a safer practice.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm not gonna ask how you know that.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm not.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's just wheat distribution.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, what is Oleg say?

[SPEAKER_03]: Oleg says that no one has ever realized how biotically capable she is, and that no one has ever truly known her true power level.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that kind of raises some interesting flags because we see how strong Arya is in the games and in these comics, but Oleg is saying that there's even more to her than we haven't seen yet.

[SPEAKER_08]: To me, it sounds like Oleg intends to find out, but in the worst possible way.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you, probably.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to, I have a little inkling on how this whole mission plays out by the end of the game.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, right.

[SPEAKER_08]: You can say that again.

[SPEAKER_03]: But Arya, of course, does wake up for this.

[SPEAKER_03]: And her first question is actually how long has she been out of it?

[SPEAKER_03]: And the only way that Oleg responds is that it was long enough for him to read a physical book version of War and Peace.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think we have seen a physical book in the trilogy, like in the game.

[SPEAKER_08]: I do have to correct you on that.

[SPEAKER_08]: So there are a couple times where we see books number one, the gift shop in Mass Effect three, I believe, and then also board the Normandy in Mass Effect two in Kasumi's quarters.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do we see any of them actually reading it?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because there is also like the little library section in Caten's bedroom in Mass Effect three, but I don't think we ever see them holding and reading a physical book.

[SPEAKER_08]: No, I don't come to think about it.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know if that was in their animation, if repertoire.

[SPEAKER_08]: I could be wrong.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_07]: But anyway, oh, like, you know, I'm gonna have to read a physical book version of Warren Pan.

[SPEAKER_08]: Like, yeah, we get it, dude.

[SPEAKER_08]: You're very smart.

[SPEAKER_08]: You're very well read.

[SPEAKER_08]: My God, is this guy in the wing?

[SPEAKER_03]: You were out long enough for me to read the book version of Warren piece.

[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't try to give you the, oh, that's the wrong character.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mark Harmon is Ash not Oleg.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, there he go.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, that was the Mark Harmon thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, skip back to like the first half if you want to have that in context.

[SPEAKER_08]: So, um, [SPEAKER_08]: Arya is not dull, so she and I imagine she hates being talked at like this while she's restrained and Oleg is flaunting his rather lack thereof intelligence.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because not only is our queen strong, she's also very intelligent.

[SPEAKER_03]: And she quickly works out that the agents weren't just a mistake that escaped, but probably part of the elusive man's plan to take over Omega.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then we see another doctor that is about to place a mental blocker in Ari's head, and so that way not only are her biotics controlled, but what if she has biotic capabilities that don't require her hands?

[SPEAKER_03]: Some people can just send thoughts.

[SPEAKER_03]: Some people can blast center masks instead of going, creating a ball, a comma, a comma, a hostile through your hands.

[SPEAKER_08]: I think I know now why Arya was at first an exotic dancer.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she does have a great center mask.

[SPEAKER_08]: and apparently biotic capabilities that do not require her hands.

[SPEAKER_03]: Our pirate queen, she shows off yet another level of epic by throwing her head back and busting the face open of this doctor.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a great moment.

[SPEAKER_03]: So she breaks free from her restraints and we see.

[SPEAKER_03]: I believe this whole damn podcast is a spoiler alert.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now Oleg has a chat with Timmy Boy, and he all but confirms Arya's suspicions that the agitants were a setup, which seems to actually surprise Oleg.

[SPEAKER_08]: That is surprising.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, the fact that Oleg didn't not the fact that he didn't see the elusive man's plan coming from a mile away.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it's not surprising that he wasn't letting in on this plan because we all know how much he loves to compartmentalize.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, but the fact that Oleg didn't see right through this like Ariadade, that is surprising.

[SPEAKER_08]: And for me, it's surprising that OLA wasn't glued in on this because OLA has such a level of authority of command over this entire operation that you would think that the loose of man would want his general in charge in the field to understand that the agitants were a setup.

[SPEAKER_08]: But yet again, we find this situation in which, you know, we saw in Mass Effect II, with the elusive and lying to us about the dormant Reaper, and numerous other things lying to us, admitting the truth, and he does it again to Oleg.

[SPEAKER_08]: So I guess we should consider Shepherd not special at all in that.

[SPEAKER_08]: Even Shepherd was lied to, of course, Oleg is.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: So back to Arya through her sheer marshal and biotic force, she is able to take out enough serverous agents to make Oleg read doc on Omega, which is wow, because she threatened to airlock the remainder of the crew.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Oleg actually agreed that he didn't want any more serverous lives needlessly lost.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I appreciate that, which is weird for me to be taking all upside, but he's actually being protective of his crew.

[SPEAKER_03]: They are all human though, so it makes sense.

[SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: But he has an ace up a sleeve, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: He does, because he was just going to turn on her in the last moment.

[SPEAKER_03]: But again, Arya saw that coming from a mile away and then went to kick his ass and completely broke free again, making it back to Omega.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that is how Arya got back on Omega.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the next few pages, actually quite a few pages, is just a lot of back and forth of Arya working with the Mark Groops and Oleg trying to outmaneuver her.

[SPEAKER_03]: But for me, [SPEAKER_03]: It really boils down to page two, fifty-three of the omnibus version.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a beautifully drawn out page, and I hear the narrator boxes being voiced by Arya in my head.

[SPEAKER_03]: It follows the same theme of that Oleg is trying to run old human battle stories.

[SPEAKER_03]: and trying to get his the previous wins that we know from history and lore, retold us his own.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I will read the narrator boxes for you.

[SPEAKER_03]: For general patrosky, every engagement provides the chance to test another earthly military maximum on a cosmic battlefield.

[SPEAKER_03]: Here on Omega comes the chance to test from one of the ancient fields of jungle warfare.

[SPEAKER_03]: The gorilla wins if he does not lose the conventional army.

[SPEAKER_03]: The conventional army loses if it does not win.

[SPEAKER_03]: Servers is not the systems alliance, but there is much about its military that is conventional, highly skilled, regimented, or fashionable, ready, or anything, except a battle in which none of the normal rules apply.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I just think that that is so perfect for everything that Arya is doing.

[SPEAKER_03]: She knows that the person she's up against in this fight is going to be regimented.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be following the rules of engagement.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be following these old school battles.

[SPEAKER_03]: Except we're on Omega Baby, those rules don't apply.

[SPEAKER_03]: As Arya was able to combine and command all of Omega's works, she set up a glorious trap with a blue sun's hideout, but it was being guarded by a blood pack variant and a clip's mix.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was the third squad of Cerberus that she had taken out through pure ruse and play, and that is my pirate queen.

[SPEAKER_08]: Wait, I had shown that panel up on the screen because there's so much action happening in just those two pages.

[SPEAKER_08]: And of course, this is like the perfect cat and mouse game, or should I say like immovable object and unstoppable force game between Oleg and Arya, where Oleg is so rigid.

[SPEAKER_08]: Right?

[SPEAKER_08]: And Arya is the definition of fluid.

[SPEAKER_08]: She doesn't really have any rules or credo that she lives by besides protecting Omega at all costs.

[SPEAKER_08]: She doesn't really have any strict rules.

[SPEAKER_08]: She's going with the flow and constantly manipulating and maneuvering to find the upper hand in every situation.

[SPEAKER_08]: Whereas Oleg is so big into his military doctrine, he cannot think outside the box.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly, he is all about sending the soldier that way, make the reports read out this thing, do everything like this, and Ari is like, no, let me mix and match, let me recombine, let me play with the configuration of who I have to work here.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it, it just makes it for a beautiful play.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then, yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: I was just going to say that it also plays to Ari's talents that she's not commanding just one force she has the blood the blood pack the blue sons and the eclipse among other murks who all have different talents and Cerberus is at least a one trick pony in terms of they have their specialists [SPEAKER_08]: that they seem to only use against Shepherd.

[SPEAKER_08]: But in this battle, they seem to just be throwing waves of mechs and assault troopers and everything.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And at the near the end of this, Petrovsky is realizing this that this full frontal attack is not really going to work.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then he makes his play.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he calls for the pull out.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Omega is again an open city.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that the agitants are loose again.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, Aryan knows that this is a lie, but not exactly how, and she realizes that Oleg is playing this off thinking that it's MacArthur and Manila.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I don't know this story.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is a little more too reference, but go on.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: But because Oleg is not the only one who can read, thank you very much.

[SPEAKER_03]: Arya is also Queen.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, the next thing that we see is that she is scouting out a group of humans and knows enough of her own Omega citizens to clearly see that even if they are in blue sun's armor, they aren't her people.

[SPEAKER_03]: She can tell that these are servers playing dress up.

[SPEAKER_03]: live by the ploy, die by the ploy.

[SPEAKER_03]: She springs her own trap inside of the setup trap inside of a setup inside of a ploy.

[SPEAKER_03]: It gets really meta in here.

[SPEAKER_08]: Chris cross.

[SPEAKER_08]: All right.

[SPEAKER_08]: So what is her trap?

[SPEAKER_03]: She sends on to and a few other marks, a Crogane S.S.

[SPEAKER_03]: and a Vortja posing as refugees that had been hiding out in the former Plague Zone.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so there's a cute little callback to the Plague Zone that we cured.

[SPEAKER_03]: And unfortunately, Cerberus knows that we cured the Plague Zone.

[SPEAKER_03]: So they know right out the gate that these are not refugees.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, unfortunately, Ash also had an agenda running right side along Oleg.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he decided to free a Reaper Agitant and let that wipe out the competition.

[SPEAKER_03]: Agitant then killed Anto, but then it killed Ash to attacking him and turning him, beginning the transformation into an Agitant.

[SPEAKER_03]: So we get to see this transformation starting again.

[SPEAKER_03]: Arya took down the big giant beastie and while Ash is transforming Oleg, killed him.

[SPEAKER_08]: I can just hear Ash right now.

[SPEAKER_08]: I can hear him going, go, my little minion.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then the agitent like six on toe and he's like, yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then it finishes eating on toe and it turns around and looks at him like, bro.

[SPEAKER_08]: And he's like, no, what are you doing?

[SPEAKER_07]: No.

[SPEAKER_03]: I like that voice we're on to for for Ash much more now.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, we'll stick with that one.

[SPEAKER_08]: See, see, I knew you'd come around.

[SPEAKER_08]: All right, so, uh, on to his dead, so no you're serving for him, but Arya and Oleg are still around even though Ash is dead too.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so the three D chess is still being played in this moment.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Oleg reveals his original plan that was part of the set up that was part of the set up.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he now has enough server ships surrounding Omega to completely obliterate the base and burn it to the ground.

[SPEAKER_08]: Would he really do that because the elusive man, according to Ash, wants Omega as a staging base?

[SPEAKER_03]: I think that he wouldn't necessarily burn everything to the ground, but there's enough firepower to decimate the population of Omega.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it's the threat of the population, not necessarily the base itself, that [SPEAKER_03]: is what Arya decides is the price is too high to pay.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so she decides to make a run for it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that doesn't seem like our pirate queen, but it's the right choice for Omega as a whole in this moment.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that's why she chooses it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So she does care.

[SPEAKER_03]: She does care, and she takes that.

[SPEAKER_03]: But not until she reminds Oleg that in the end, MacArthur retook that city, meaning that somehow someday, Arya will return.

[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, I see that World War II reference coming full circle with MacArthur returning to the Philippines.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's awesome.

[SPEAKER_08]: So that really leads us into the very beginning of Arias Omega DLC in Mass Effect III.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because the final panel is her on a ship flying out.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then it says continued in math, the events of Mass Effect three.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, oh, there's just something exciting about reading that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Even though I already know exactly what's going to happen, trying to picture about like how if I were reading this before I got my hands on ME three, like how cool it would have been to already have had this story going on in my head.

[SPEAKER_03]: going into the Omega DLC.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, come to think about it.

[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't read any of the comics before playing all the games.

[SPEAKER_08]: I wonder if anyone has.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I'd love to hear from them.

[SPEAKER_08]: Especially, you can leave some comments on our YouTube or Spotify or you can email us.

[SPEAKER_08]: But that is all we have for the rest of the Mass Effect invasion comic.

[SPEAKER_08]: I know last week we said we were going to talk about Paul Grayson and I promise you we're going to get there.

[SPEAKER_08]: But we got a little bit more to learn to talk about with Arya if I'm not mistaken.

[SPEAKER_08]: And so I do want to finish off Ari's episodes and then we will jump over to Paul Grace and probably throw in some corporations if we can find them between now and then.

[SPEAKER_08]: But Genesis, this has been a great episode.

[SPEAKER_03]: It has.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ari is always great to talk about and I love learning more and more of her backstory.

[SPEAKER_08]: I do too.

[SPEAKER_08]: I will never turn down a chance to view R is backstory.

[SPEAKER_08]: But that is all we got for this week's Specters.

[SPEAKER_08]: Genesis, how can people get a hold of you?

[SPEAKER_08]: What do you got going on by next week?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so you can always hit me up on the discord.

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You can also follow me on the social media.

[SPEAKER_03]: I rarely post, but at least it's a way to connect and DM if you would like.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And the cyberpunk lorecast where we explore the foundations of the past, the state of Night City today, [SPEAKER_03]: and the news of the future for all things cyberpunk.

[SPEAKER_08]: Alright, highly recommend all those shows.

[SPEAKER_08]: In the meantime, I am kind of playing stay at home dad right now.

[SPEAKER_08]: So I don't think I have any streams coming up.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm trying to work that back into my schedule.

[SPEAKER_08]: Also still busy applying to other jobs for a full-time job.

[SPEAKER_08]: So life is busy.

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