Mass Effect: Annihilation discussion thread

– crowds of refugees coming from attacks on Noveria and Virmire – even though both of them were uninhabited
Wrong. Both worlds were habited.
Noveria – probably only by workers who had homes elsewhere. Virmire – it's implied that it wasn't. And none of those planets were attacked at a large scale – only a single lab on Noveria was destroyed and one small nuke was detonated on Virmire.

– quarians waiting for the geth to "abandon" their homeworld – no quarian we see ever said that they anticipate anything like that.
That "most of them" never saw Rannoch on their eyes is technically true, "everyone" includes "most".
Not a lore error to expand on the mentality of individual quarians.
Such individuals probably existed but it's an error to expand their way of thinking on the entire race and especially their decision-makers, none of which thought so.

– quarians described "bird-like", like why
Because of their feet. Also not a lore error.
OK, I get it. I understand such a wording, but I don't approve.

– humans not caring about space at all as an insignificant minority. First counter-example: the protesters Cora meets in the first chapter of Initiation, seeming to be a common sight.
Most of human population (billions) still live on Earth. The ones who spacetravel or live in colonies are still a minority.
Right. And this book tries to imply that everyone wants to space.

– Blasto 8 being the favourite movie of the drell Sleepwalker: There wasn't even Blasto 7 at the point they departed...
Just because it wasn't mentioned it doesn't mean it didn't exist.
It didn't because it was still in production:

– the drell living poor underdog lives on Kahje, contrary to what the Codex says about them.
Another expansion on how Drell individuals lives. Not really a error.
Thane and almost every sentence in the Codex about the drell culture imply otherwise.

– only one city on Kahje being able to support drell lives. I don't know what the description of Kahje on the Wiki is based on, but it clearly says "domed cities", in plural.
Only place where they can live without fear of getting Kepral's Sindrome due to the high relative humidity everywhere else on Kahje.
OK, I found the source. Quoting verbatim from Homeworlds 4: "Kahje. One of the many domed cities of the drell..."

– mirroring surfaces described as more a human than quarian trait of ship desing, contrary to what was said in Initiation
Confess i really don't remember this detail.
It wasn't said directly, but generally: quarian design is about keeping the passenger focused on what's on the ship, human design about making it easier to admire stars etc.

– a grandmother of a quarian on the Arc dying on Rannoch during the geth uprising – quarians don't live that much
We never had any information before about Quarians lifespan. So also not a error.
Really? Maybe, but if it's not an error then they can live well beyond 300 years. Unlikely given that they reach maturity around age of 20.

– drell being adjusted to see the entire spectrum of hanar bioluminescence through a surgical operation not a genetic modification
Why not? They live in the future where FTL travel is possible, so why i ocular implant seems impossible? Remember how much of them Shepard had after ME2?
Thane says that he's received genetic modification to see like that. It's possible that an another way it to implant someone, but in the same sentence it's said that it was a dangerous operation; why do something like this if you can use safer methods?

– most quarians being single children: this would cause their population to dwindle while it's just zero-growth
They live in ships with limited space, air, food etecetera. Population control between the Quarians is not a lore error.
But it's mathematics that if most of them were single, their populations would fall. Even if they live as long as the asari, because war casualties.

– "Keelah se'lai" not simply "Keelah" as a screw word
Now that is just nitpicking.
But it's annoying. Full "keelah se'lai" was always a salute, not a screw word.

– all mass effect fields being called "biotic" fields – this is only the case of those fields produced by organics
Because they are one and the same.
Physically yes, but they're only called "biotic" when produced by organics. "Biotics are organic – the geth make no account for them." (ME: Discovery)

– Keelah Si'yah moving at an approximate cruising speed of eleven light years per day – with this speed, they'd have reached Andromeda at that point
Did you made the calculation to afirm that or is just nitpicking again? But since i am here:
365x11= 4015 Light Years
2.500.000/ 4015= 622,666 Years
My mistake. I thought this distance was to be travelled in 683 years. Too much SCP Foundation, I guess.

– the raloi thing discussed before, maybe not actually a contradiction
Seems like expansion on lore.
Assuming that the asari really discovered them hundreds of years ago and told everyone details about them.

– drell choosing what to remember; I'll need to see through conversations with Thane to confirm whether it's actually a contradiction or not.
They can choose to remember or not (but Thane did mention they can get "lost" on memories sometimes).
As I said, I'm unsure.

Singularity fields not being deadly but working like Stasis

I believe those on the ark are now immune but I'm not so certain about any other races that come on board. It might be a quarantine that's entirely precautionary, or it might be that once they reached Andromeda (the book is 30 years before they arrive) they encountered other issues.