In preparation for Mass Effect 3...
I went back to replay the old games, because I've had time enough since the first one to have gotten a brand new computer (with subsequent reformats and savegame losses). It's neat to look back and see little hints and foreshadows and whatnot (and eeeeeee Kaidan ♥) but it did make me just a little pissed off at the 2 years forced amnesia they had to have gone through between games. I mean
look
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okay I get that you don't want to call Sovereign a Reaper ship, for Reasons. Sure it's completely unfamiliar and has technology way beyond what any other species has produced up until now. Yeah it attacked alongside a Geth fleet and clearly there's a huge difference in design between it and the Geth ships. Pieces of Sovereign are probably strewn about the station as debris, go get a couple of those to study. And if (when) all your researchers become indoctrinated zombies, well, that's just even more proof that we are dealing with something foreign and pretty hostile to organic life.
Surely that battle was seen by not only all the survivors of the Citadel defenders on their ships, the Council*, and anyone still on the Wards (which given a population of 11 million+, there were fires and explosions and heavy casualties but not EVERYONE died!), but also anyone watching any sort of news coverage. You're telling me that In The Future absolutely nobody carries around any kind of recording devices at all? Maybe on that wrist-mounted computer they always whip out at convenient plot moments...no camera? Camcorder? Shit, even a voice recorder might work, considering that's all you needed in the first place to get Saren's Spectre status revoked (ABSOLUTELY NO WAY you could ever fake something like that btw, incontrovertible proof right thar).
1) Asari can do the mind-meld thing with humans. 2) Your visions can be shown to other people, as Liara proved, and 3) they can be shown to other people multiple times, as Liara proved. Last I checked, the Council still had an asari on it* and/or the asari do still EXIST, find some to corroborate this crap.
And fiiiiiinally, we know the Protheans died out 50,000 years ago due to Mysterious Causes; even if we can't reach a consensus on why, it's still a fact that their entire culture is pretty much gone. We were told, and it was verified, that the Conduit is actually a mass relay leading from Ilos back to the Citadel (oh and was there a reason we can't go BACK to Ilos? I don't remember it being destroyed or anything). The point was made ingame that civilization doesn't really spread out much beyond the mass relays because they are what make interstellar travel efficient. Even assuming that Sovereign was an isolated event and not the advance guard of a massive invasion that it (and many others) claimed itself to be, and even assuming that you can't have multiple undetected relays leading to the same place, it still doesn't make much sense - just a thought, here - to keep your civilization centralized right next to a back door that was already proven unreliable once, at least not without boobytrapping the hell out of it. Even if there isn't a relay to dark space hidden on the Citadel ready to transmit the "open me" signal for any indoctrinated sleeper agents that might be able to gain access to it, it's still not a sound tactical move to go well THAT back door is not a security threat which could ever happen again I think we're safe guys. Nah, just tuck the keys under the floormat and write the password on a sticky note attached to the monitor, it'll be fiiiine.
*yeah I saved the council, for some reason both the council and Ashley pissed me off a LOT less this time around. Perhaps I have matured in the intervening years, or at least mellowed out. :p
thinks back to last night
recalls yelling and swearing at people for failing at Raid Mechanics
decides she has not actually matured or mellowed :(
But yes - silly thing is, rather than going through to ME2, I am now going back through ME1 again to do it "right" (and by chance I almost managed to do everything right on the first semi-blind playthrough, but almost is not good enough for OCD-perfectionist :p
look
just
okay I get that you don't want to call Sovereign a Reaper ship, for Reasons. Sure it's completely unfamiliar and has technology way beyond what any other species has produced up until now. Yeah it attacked alongside a Geth fleet and clearly there's a huge difference in design between it and the Geth ships. Pieces of Sovereign are probably strewn about the station as debris, go get a couple of those to study. And if (when) all your researchers become indoctrinated zombies, well, that's just even more proof that we are dealing with something foreign and pretty hostile to organic life.
Surely that battle was seen by not only all the survivors of the Citadel defenders on their ships, the Council*, and anyone still on the Wards (which given a population of 11 million+, there were fires and explosions and heavy casualties but not EVERYONE died!), but also anyone watching any sort of news coverage. You're telling me that In The Future absolutely nobody carries around any kind of recording devices at all? Maybe on that wrist-mounted computer they always whip out at convenient plot moments...no camera? Camcorder? Shit, even a voice recorder might work, considering that's all you needed in the first place to get Saren's Spectre status revoked (ABSOLUTELY NO WAY you could ever fake something like that btw, incontrovertible proof right thar).
1) Asari can do the mind-meld thing with humans. 2) Your visions can be shown to other people, as Liara proved, and 3) they can be shown to other people multiple times, as Liara proved. Last I checked, the Council still had an asari on it* and/or the asari do still EXIST, find some to corroborate this crap.
And fiiiiiinally, we know the Protheans died out 50,000 years ago due to Mysterious Causes; even if we can't reach a consensus on why, it's still a fact that their entire culture is pretty much gone. We were told, and it was verified, that the Conduit is actually a mass relay leading from Ilos back to the Citadel (oh and was there a reason we can't go BACK to Ilos? I don't remember it being destroyed or anything). The point was made ingame that civilization doesn't really spread out much beyond the mass relays because they are what make interstellar travel efficient. Even assuming that Sovereign was an isolated event and not the advance guard of a massive invasion that it (and many others) claimed itself to be, and even assuming that you can't have multiple undetected relays leading to the same place, it still doesn't make much sense - just a thought, here - to keep your civilization centralized right next to a back door that was already proven unreliable once, at least not without boobytrapping the hell out of it. Even if there isn't a relay to dark space hidden on the Citadel ready to transmit the "open me" signal for any indoctrinated sleeper agents that might be able to gain access to it, it's still not a sound tactical move to go well THAT back door is not a security threat which could ever happen again I think we're safe guys. Nah, just tuck the keys under the floormat and write the password on a sticky note attached to the monitor, it'll be fiiiine.
*yeah I saved the council, for some reason both the council and Ashley pissed me off a LOT less this time around. Perhaps I have matured in the intervening years, or at least mellowed out. :p
thinks back to last night
recalls yelling and swearing at people for failing at Raid Mechanics
decides she has not actually matured or mellowed :(
But yes - silly thing is, rather than going through to ME2, I am now going back through ME1 again to do it "right" (and by chance I almost managed to do everything right on the first semi-blind playthrough, but almost is not good enough for OCD-perfectionist :p