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If the old Mako could support the weight why couldn't the new one? As I recall, the Mako manipulated its weight through the use of a localized Mass Effect Field. That's how it could climb almost vertically up the side of a mountain. Plus, how much it can support presumably depends on the strength of the material used which could just as easily be some futuristic material that we don't have today that would have no problem with any amount of weight!


I'm not sure why you are arguing so hard for a position we know is not the case. Sure you could argue that small arms is better than no arms but I could make the same case against small arms:

"You go ahead and have your small arms. That won't help for long. Anything that can penetrate the shields of a Mako is clearly too powerful for small arms to do anything but annoy. You need heavy weapons..."

"You go ahead and have your heavy weapons. That won't help for long. They'll just call down an airstrike and you'll still be toast. If you really want to deter attack you need to have nuclear missiles..."

"You go ahead and have your nuclear missiles. They wouldn't hurt Reapers. You need to have a reaper killer..."

Everything's relative. The military mindset is "The best defense is a good offense". The settler's mindset is "The best defense is to look as non-threatening as possible so we don't get caught up in a combat situation we neither want nor can win".

Evidence suggests they went with the latter which is fine by me.



Hooten and the Lady is a TV show that recently started on Sky 1 in the UK. Think Tomb Raider or Raiders of the Lost Ark but with more comedy. They were exploring up the Amazon and got captured by natives.

Anyway, I still don't see how knowing the dangers relates to my point which was that civilians have extremely limited access to military hardware and may well not have the ability to acquire such things however valuable they might be at combating those dangers.


I'm only hypothesizing possible scenarios. Someone at Blizzard has apparently used the terminology that they were fleeing from the Milky Way. It's possible that they saw through the cover-up with respect to Sovereign and the battle for the Citadel and this is what prompted their need to depart before the Reapers got there.


I'm not saying it's indestructible, just that it's tough.

I don't remember the Journal entries on it but I always figured it could eat up the terrain pretty fast. Which would make sense given that it could make itself as light as a feather by manipulating it's ME field. It's ability to navigate tough terrain was also pretty unparalleled.

Small arms fire could destroy it eventually but I don't remember thinking of small arms as much of a threat.

Against a high tech military force I'm sure it would be vulnerable but against the usual threats of local flora and fauna on an unpopulated world being explored for possible colonization or resource purposes it would probably be more than adequate. My guess is they wouldn't even be using the Mako on a world with an indigenous population likely to be shooting at them.

At the end of the day there's a lot of gaps in our knowledge of the scenario. Maybe there's a heavily armed aircraft that always flies with the Mako on dangerous missions. Who knows! I just think it's a bit early to criticize Bioware's decisions on arming the Mako when we don't have all the facts.