Nexus Uprising - is it the same Sloane Kelly?

Not sure specifically what you're referring to but my point is that turning traitor isn't compatible with her personality from the book.  At least in my opinion.

We were in her head in the book. We could see what sort of person she was and I don't think that was the person we met in the game.

Ok, so we agree that the game ignores the book. The background you pick up in game is largely the skewed opinion of Tann rather than what actually happened.

That's fine but then that still doesn't explain why she's suddenly turned into a ruthless criminal supporting all sorts of criminal and underhanded activity that is counterproductive to the AI she signed up for. I get that she'd be upset with Tann for the way he let loose the Krogan, I get why she might become a de-facto leader of the exiles trying to help them set up and survive. But to then turn against the entire AI and Nexus and take up the rebel's cause even though there was no point during the book where she actually believed they were in the right seems out of character.

It's one thing to ignore the events of the book, it's another to be incompatible with the personality she had in the book. What I'm saying is I don't think her personality and actions work as being the same character from the book.

Which you can be fine with or not fine with.  Just seems a shame, to me, that the writers didn't seem to be on the same page...

I disagree. Since the book does give us her POV we can see how she goes out of her way to annoy both Addison and Tann even when she thinks they have good intentions only because she doesn't like them and sees them as inept to their positions. She was definitely not leadership material as much as the ones she hates.

And close to the end she joins the losing side, from the people who thought that stealing weapons, food and starting fires at hydroponics were good ideas, just because she didn't like the idea of using the krogan to stop the "rebels". Sure the krogan hammered the rebels hard but it's not like they indiscriminately killed everyone and by the end of it there were a lot of prisioners. Even Kesh (the most level headed person between the four) agreed that the best decision was to quell the uprising fast before the fools finished breaking a ship that was already limping.

So the book showed to me that Sloane was a hothead who only liked to do things on her way. Her only redeeming feature was her loyalty to the people she saw as "hers".

Because of that i don't find that hard to believe she would be playing mob boss with her "security forces" on Kadara port.

I think the POV is part of the point.

In the book Sloane experiences the issues of a broken Nexus and a dead leader. She, and the others, muddle along and do the best they can. Sloane looks for the option with the least amount of fallout when shit hits the fan and gets caught in a crossfire because of it. Whatever you think of her actions from then on is up to you.

But in the game Ryder meets her after hearing her called a traitor and a watered down account of the uprising. As the reader and player we see a bigger picture, but Ryder only knows what she's been told. Sloane, at the point Ryder meets her, has zero trust for the AI and so zero trust for anyone associated with it. She's snarky and rude and dismissive and if you disagree with her she throws you out. But Ryder doesn't have the context to understand where it's come from.

I don't feel sorry for Sloane, I respect the choices she made in the shit she found herself in, especially considering that she really bought into the "new beginning" thing that Jien Garson was selling and had to face the same Milky Way BS when she woke up. She was naive to think that even with JG in charge the old species tensions would vanish in cryosleep. Somewhere between exile and settling Kadara Port she lost her idealism. IDK if her version of Kadara Port is better or worse than what was originally there, but it represents a change in character. I don't think it's out of character, how she is in Kadara vs in the book, just a change from her experiences and a different POV.

It's late here in Scotland, I hope that isn't too rambling.

I actually think the book did a fairly good job of showing how easy it was for her to become an exile. She didn't like authority and really didn't like Tann and Addison. Then when Calix was killed, that was what set her off. There's also in-game information (I think in the security console on the Nexus) that shows that they found the Asari's body somewhere in the Pfeiffer system. I did scan that system hoping for more info or debris or something, but didn't find anything.

The only thing it lacks is how you get from Head of Security to Lord of the Flies, but given how it ended and how angry she was at the Nexus, I don't think it's all that difficult to fill in the gaps.

Erm, the Krogan thing, anyone?