## Somewhere over the Rainbow (arc 5/Gone with the Sun) [HSF][RST][FF][Mass Effect]

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* Created: 2015-08-05T22:36:38

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> **u/SCarinae** [+1]  (34 seconds later)
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> "Keeping faith" is the sixth story arc in the "Gone with the Sun" series, posted today. This particular arc is not simply rational, it has a rationalist component in a character's problem-solving.
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> Earlier arcs were notified in prior threads; posted stories appear below. The first was "Eternity", 
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> recapitulating the events of the Red Flash. The opening chapter of the story proper is:
> arc 2, "Queen's Gambit", followed in order by:
> arc 3 "Grave to cradle",
> arc 4 "Road to Nowhere",
> arc 5 "Somewhere over the Rainbow",  and now
> arc 6 "Keeping faith".
> To recapitulate the earlier post's description:
> The next ME apparently involves an N7 operating in Andromeda.
> Mass Effect 3 came out some time back, following which I wrote a 'rationalist' novel exploring the aftermath - 
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> posted for the canonical year and a day. It explored consequences of ME3's 'red flash' from the point of view 
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> of certain characters.
> As it happens, the closing lines of the last arc had survivors heading for Andromeda. Imagine my shock when 
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> the recent E3 2015 trailer, "Mass Effect: Andromeda" was issued, showing an N7 in Andromeda, obviously not 
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> Shepard but still. Hence the excerpting of the final scene as a prologue.
> This latest post is Arc 5 of that story, dealing with exploration, restoring survivors, and coping with 
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> trauma. Each arc ends with a pointer to the next

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