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Happy 4th, for those of you in the states. Happy my-neighbors-probably-won't-burn-my-house-down-with-poorly-regulated-expositives-today, for everyone else!

Now, Time for some Strippers! Or, at least, one Stripper With a System! In this episode, the mentoring begins, and the Shadow Broker is in for a rude surprise visit! Also, a lemon. Since, well...this is the one fic that should have more of those.

Honestly, I've been writing more of them than usual, but weirdly not really on purpose? Mostly because several of the stories had gone a fair distance without one, or else they serve as a good way to break up other types of less cheerful content. There's going to be one in the Displaced Hero release on the 8th, for example, but it was added almost purely as a palette cleanser after something like 25,000 words covering the Invasion of Geonosis -_-.

Anyway, that's for the the 8th, right now it's still the 4th! So it's time to enjoy Stripper With a System ;-). As usual, the new content is attached in various formats. I'll do doing author's note shortly in the comments, as well. A reminder: I'm not updating the Master Files until a story is done for the month. So not until the second release of Stripper, on the 20th, in this case.

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Novus's Fanfiction Works

This comment is for author's notes! Beware spoilers! And if you want to comment on one of them, please do so in a separate comment NOT nested here, in order to keep these orderly!

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Chapter 21: A/N 1: Ambush mentoring! As a number of people observed, Bruce has a lot to teach the entire team, not just Lucy. We'll see more of his mentoring Lucy specifically in the future, but I wanted to show that 'mentoring the whole team' bit first, since he won't be spending as much time physically around Momo and Rylia in the future.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Chapter 22: A/N 1: Rylia still has to deal with being in the moody body of an Asari Maiden, even if it doesn't pop up much beyond her horny levels ;-). Getting snappy and pouty about not being able to play with her new toys is absolutely a side effect... A/N 2: Of course, Momo has the cure for that. It also gave me a chance to show something a bit different about Rylia compared to many of my main characters. Specifically, that she's a switch. Somewhat similar to Izumi in My Hero Automata, she defaults to 'Dom' but is perfectly willing to enjoy being on the 'Sub' side with her lovers too.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Chapter 23: A/N 1: This chapters was a bit of a struggle to get right. Frankly, the actual Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC shows an unrealistically small number of enemies for a ship the size of the Broker's. Applying a bit of realism too it, then, I needed to strike a balance between too hard and too easy. All without getting dragged into the weeds of details, since this fic isn't really supposed to be combat focused. Hopefully, I struck a decent balance.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Chapter 24: A/N 1: Yep, I figured the Broker would know about the planned raid on Mindoir. I haven't actually decided yet if Shepard will be there. As I went with a Spacer background, she doesn't NEED to be, but I can also see an easy way to make it work. To be decided later, really. A/N 2: The geek in me is now itching to design elements of a ship for Rylia. Despite being low priority, the early stages of them working toward that will probably appear quickly because I won't be able to help myself...

Orchamus

Be nice if Rylia can continue her make friendly with the humans direction and get them to look past the sexy to want to work with the Asari far more often than Turians. Just never really cared for them other than Garrus bro, not enough characters to connect to.

Joseph

I didn't even need to read this to find the happy 4th of July to be hilarious. Yes, the fireworks can be quite annoying when you are trying to sleep, never mind the fire hazard that they can present if you get really unlucky.

Aeden Emrys

Thanks for another great update! Love the first title in the update! It's good that they now are the ones behind the Shadow Broker and it sounds like they are already hard at work making it count! I look forward to seeing what happens next in this greatly interesting story of yours 😁!

Novus's Fanfiction Works

I'm mostly the same way. The actual Turian government is...not great. I can understand why humanity went for working with them, reasons I've had Rylia highlight previously. But they were honestly the third worst choice, I think. The Salarians or Batarians would have been even worse, but the Asari, Volus, Elchor, or Quarians would all have been better. But politicians are politicians, so focusing on the 'Big 3' and shying away from dealing with the lack of central government for the Asari, makes sense...for politicians. Thankfully, Rylia has a better chance of getting through to the business people and, through them, their military. The fact that most of her summons so far are human (and Kara at least looks human) will help bridge the gap, too.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Seriously on the fire hazard part. My neighbors always shoot off a ton, to the point I can't used the backyard without HOT ASH burning skin like rain. I legit do not know how they haven't set the entire street on fire, aside from the fact that the humidity where I live makes everything wet enough to prevent that being easy -_-.

Orchamus

I'm imagining economic discussions and tech discussions on talkshows and everything, all on this Asari Maiden...TIM gonna be losing his shit over even more aliens getting good with humans and the craze she starting

Novus's Fanfiction Works

I couldn't resist the title ;-), given what the chapter contained. Batborg WILL mentor you, whether you like it or not...

Matthew Robar

If we want a political advisor, we’re kinda limited to Star Wars/Star Trek and other similar galactic scale multi species polities, we’re also further limited by beings that can pass as human, the few I can think of is: Padme amidala, leia organa, bail organa, S'chn T'gai Spock, Johnathon archer

Novus's Fanfiction Works

In no particular order... Jeffery Sinclair and Ambassador Delenn - Babylon 5. Laura Roslin - Battlestar Galactica Inara Serra - Firefly Luke Cage (Somehow there is a version of him that got elected mayor of New York O.O) Green Arrow (One version of him is the Mayor of Star City) Wonder Woman (Finicky with the no magic thing) Legend (Worm, the least evil member of the conspiracy) Black Panther Charles Xaiver or Magneto Tony Stark (some versions NOT the MCU one) Blackfire - DC (Some not evil versions where she was a good Queen) Lilandra - X-men (Dubious, most versions of her are a little...morally questionable) Emma Frost (some versions) Mera (Aquaman's much more diplomatic wife) Milder versions of Dr. Doom I could probably keep going, honestly, particularly if I start dipping more into video games...

Matthew Robar

I’d have to argue against several of these, mainly the ones that dealt with purely human politics. There’s an extra dimension to politics in an inter species polity, that you’ve hinted at. Namely the irrevocable differences due to biology and culture shaping the wants and needs of alien societies that they’d be completely unprepared for. That’s even ignoring some of these that dealt with politics on such a small scale of a single city. -blackfyre seems a fun choice, she’s naturally powerless due to a birth defect and gains her abilities via experimentation but I want to see more fandoms interacting and we’ve already got 2 people from DC -Dr doom seems the most interesting, he’d fill multiple niches like Bruce and also be the first “villain” , he also is well known for juggling truely alien psychologies, negotiating and manipulating demonic and eldritch beings, mass effect aliens would be a breeze -Emma frost could be a good fit, she’d be able to dominate politics as true telepaths are completely unknown while also bringing experience with galactic power such as the Shi’ar and kree empires and also have the business first perspective the others maybe lacking

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Eh, even most of the ones on the list you are probably thinking that way of, aren't as limited as you think. Take Green Arrow as an example. Yes, he only ever held political office as high up as Mayor of Star City...but that was ON TOP of the political aspects of the Justice League, who regularly dealt with interstellar powers. Mind you, I don't think he's the best choice. Rylia's process is a direct copy of my own. I make long lists of possible options, then repeatedly narrow it down to a short list. Which then gets put up for voting. Emma Frost and Blackfire are probably the two on that list most likely to make the final voting list. Honestly, Inara from Firefly has a decent shot of making the list too, since her position as a companion is virtually identical in concept to an Asari Consort...

The Foreign Traveler

Everything’s ALL coming to plan… Also, not many edits! Edit 1: …Bruce “retuned”… …Bruce “returned”… Edit 2: …”by” dubious… …”my” dubious… Edit 3: …while “maintain” stealth… …while “maintaining” stealth… Happy 4th Novus.

twilightwanderer

Nice update, Bruce mentoring everyone regardless of their expectations was fun, and the Shadow Broker takedown opens up a ton of opportunities for the future. I'm personally hoping to see them make some form of contact with one or both or Wrex and Tela Vasir using their (presumably) extant connections with the Broker.

twilightwanderer

For political operatives, obviously my mind immediately jumps to Leia Organa, but I also want to toss out Mon Mothma: while she doesn't offer as much versatility as Leia, I'd argue she's a better pure politician (at least the Legends version) while still retaining a moral center. Another option would be Elizabeth Weir (SG-1 and SG: A); while her experience may be more restricted compared to other sci-fi settings, it's likely more directly applicable to the political landscape in-universe than anyone from an established galactic society (e.g. Star Wars, later Trek), or a human-only setting (e.g. Firefly). Finally, on the topic of Stargate, I'll renew my campaign for Sam Carter as an option for military advisor/commander, since that was mentioned as well.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

The political suggestions aren't bad, but I can't see Samantha Carter asa good option for military advisor/commander. She's more a scientists/engineer than a commander. General Hammond or Jack would honestly be better for the role, if drawing from Stargate.

twilightwanderer

To me, the science and engineering are in her favor, especially with her experience applying them to combat against technologically advanced enemies. Even without that though, she was a combat pilot, has extensive boots on the ground and asymmetric experience as XO then CO of SG-1, led the Atlantis expedition for a time, and commanded a Daedalus-class battlecruiser for 4 years, with a pending promotion to Brigadier General as of final appearance, and that's assuming she's pulled right at the end of canon, as opposed to a post-canon version as with Momo and Bruce. Jack and George are fine picks too, but I don't see that she loses much to them in military terms other than maybe Jack's spec ops background (potentially valuable but not indispensable and also available in-universe) and both's greater experience at flag rank (if taken from Sam's last canon appearance). Obviously, it's your story, don't add a character you don't think fits, and there are plenty of other good options for military advisor (heck, I might argue Legends Ackbar on sheer command experience and capability), but I like Sam as a character and wanted to make my pitch for her consideration.