{"id":1088,"date":"2016-09-22T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2016-09-22T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T19:08:24","slug":"no-mans-sky-meets-mass-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"No Man&#8217;s Sky meets Mass Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my version of the Mass Effect storyline, Commander Anna Shepard chooses to take over for the Reapers. They relinquish their powers to her, in shame and humility. To the galaxy at large, it seems that the Reapers have been destroyed and Shepard has disappeared. Only Liara knows the truth about what has happened, and she is good at keeping secrets!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the galaxy has entered a new age of exploration. New alliances are forged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hanar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hanar.jpg\" alt=\"hanar\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hanar.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hanar-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hanar-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hanar-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hanar-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/glyph-meets-sentinel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1090\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/glyph-meets-sentinel.jpg\" alt=\"glyph-meets-sentinel\" width=\"1890\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/glyph-meets-sentinel.jpg 1890w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/glyph-meets-sentinel-300x161.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/glyph-meets-sentinel-768x412.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/glyph-meets-sentinel-1024x549.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/glyph-meets-sentinel-500x268.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1890px) 100vw, 1890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Gek-in-lab-with-Grunt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Gek-in-lab-with-Grunt.jpg\" alt=\"gek-in-lab-with-grunt\" width=\"1630\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Gek-in-lab-with-Grunt.jpg 1630w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Gek-in-lab-with-Grunt-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Gek-in-lab-with-Grunt-768x426.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Gek-in-lab-with-Grunt-1024x568.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Gek-in-lab-with-Grunt-500x277.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1630px) 100vw, 1630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>These are screencaps from NMS that I played around with using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GIMP\">GIMP<\/a> (free art software!) and a Wacom graphics tablet. I&#8217;m just getting the hang of GIMP. I know the more I practice, the less awkward it will seem.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my version of the Mass Effect storyline, Commander Anna Shepard chooses to take over for the Reapers. They relinquish their powers to her, in shame and humility. 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