User blog comment:Ygrain/Long Days, Long Nights 1/@comment-2228120-20120916105053

Ugh. That's an unforgivable blunder on my part, and thanks for pointing it out, guys. I guess I must have made a mistake as I was gathering notes before I started writing, and it dragged on along ever since :-( I have to think through what to do about it, as I will have to change or tweak the references to the time setting throughout the whole story - luckily, nothing major.

As for the crew diversity, I was trying to stick with the spirit of ME1 which reflected the multicultural background of the expanding humanity fairly well (while since ME2 on, it seems that the non-English part of the world sorta got erased).

Toombs is going to be only mentioned a couple of times, since the game doesn't suggest that he should be particularly close to Shepard, and with 49 other people to pick from, I decided that Shep will have different pals.

Wayne is mentioned in the first part of the chapter and is going to make a couple of insubstantial appearances throughout the story, as well as Armistan Banes :-)

Thank you for the support, guys, you can look forward to weekly updates :-)