Fighting Amongst Ourselves

Ha ha ha... yes this, 100% this. It is not even just the uprising, even when we swallow the mutiny pill, we have to take the "most mitineers are experienced, veteran criminals" pill.

This "uprising" is a plot device which is even worse then space magic.

My guess is
1) to give us another faction to fight
2) to skip on implementing real first contact (angara/kett) as the "exiles" already made that for us, which explains the angara/kett knowledge of "english"
3) what is a "space opera" game without some pirates and criminals, eh?

I think people have covered it pretty good. The "Stasis Sickness", or neural damage that may have occurred. Then, ofc, human nature. And meta wise..more baddies to shoot.

I think it's like the whole "Lord of the Flies" scenario. The veneer of civilization, or being "civilized", is really quite thin, indeed. Take people out of that situation; put their backs up against the wall involving basic things like food and survival; throw in some power issues and you got a gas fire.

I mean, it's all well and fairly easy to be all nice and polite in "civilized" society, when you have everything you need pretty much at your fingertips. But the real test of character is what do you become when taken out of that situation and put into one of extreme duress. And no cavalry is coming. It'd be a great social experiment, tbh.

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the Benefactor slipped a few less than vetted participants into the lot just to see what would happen. Or maybe there was something within their genetic stock that was deemed important to preserve. Something that may not always be conducive to being on your best behavior. Say what you want, but the Exiles managed to do what the AI never could until the Pathfinder showed up. The Exiles managed to establish a thriving settlement. A tyrannical one, but there it is.

Really, though, I think it's just because people fight. Things escalate. And the situation they were in could make anyone testy, to say the least.

Sorry, but it is not human nature . Maybe in some Holywood (or whatever) fantasy world.

I dealt enough with lowlife thugs and criminals to know, when they are given a chance, they turn away from being criminals. Except they are extremely deep in and/or so fond of the "living standard" they actualy have to be criminals because they can not achieve that living standard a legal way. But you know what, such people would never board the Nexus "forward station", the people in charge would go sure to have qualified and extremely reliable people... but not here, we have to take their stupidity to let people with criminal psyche be the first to wake up ... eh yes sure.

A lot of unexpected bad things happened (Scourge, death of primary leadership) that put AI leadership in the hands of people who aren't capable.  Lack of food and every golden world being a disaster meant that things were unusually hard.  Tempers flared, leaders weren't in agreement and a revolt happened.  The losers left, as did the krogan because first Tann (who used engineers as grunts) and then Spender (who lied) manipulated them and left them angry.  Instead of going to war, they left.

I kinda like this thought process, but one of the things that felt familiar with the kett exalting people kinda reminded me of the Reapers a bit in that they too was transforming races, but also purging them. The kett felt like they wasn't really their own race in a sense.

I'm still pissed we don't have an option to force them back to "the fold", let them die or even set them up to die (collectively). The sheer stupidity and attitude of people like Sloane Kelly and a slew of other NPCs is just outright bad writing and forced drama, befitting, at best, a bad soap opera.

This new and completely alien world could have had/been so much more than Prothean clones, collector clones, geth clones (same same, but different, but still same), incompetence overflow and the god awful usual internal strife/conflict - but they took the low road, in settling on the choices of the least interesting, and most trite of cliches.

Maybe they should hire Peter F. Hamilton, to give them a better outline for the story next time...

I still like the main quests overall - but it's very much in spite of the bad writing and forced drama.

FTFY

Now we need a "Thedas in the Andromeda Nebula" conspiracy theory. And this is the BSN ...

Waking up to a massive power bill and then getting cut off. They all blamed each other for not paying the bill.

I think people should look at this scenario in context of "game design".Splintering the Human Ark before waking from cryo means that rebel outposts have been established and are ready for the player to visit/explore.

Is the game crafted around the story or is the story crafted around the game play????

People were fine when they went into stasis.  This is a perfect example of "Came Back Wrong", and it's addressed in the game.  The problem is that Bioware was way too subtle about it.