> This story started out as a very different one. The first scene in what became
> Part 1 was originally (shortly after I finished ME2) the beginning of a shorter
> story called Apology Accepted, in which the Normandy team basically did just
> what they were setting out to do.

> I was prepared to just 86 the whole thing, though I quite liked some of the
> dialogue in the opening scene,

At the risk of sounding somewhat creepy-obsessive-profiling about it, may I ask if this was the post you made at the time?

(I did not actually remember that this whole time, honest. I was browsing through old forum posts for want of anything better to do when it caught my eye.)