I personally never understood why some people think ME2 was off point about fighting the reapers.

It would fly if cerberus actually was a off book black ops group as indicated in ME1. That the information that they aren’t gained in the books was wrong, almost like they were super secret spy’s who mislead others. People with enough political pull like a cripple who could become a alliance pilot suffer smaller amounts of punishment than annoying engineer dudes because it wasn’t actually treason and the punishment was more show than real.

Except it meant he committed treason not just against the Alliance but against the Council.  There were no real repercussions for his actions.

It's one of the things some of my Sheps also thought - why does TIM think I trust a guy whose stupidity got me killed?  Besides, nothing indicated Shep had any special affection for him.  Don't know who would have replaced him but I'm sure an AI at the helm would have worked just fine.  Or a "pilot" who was just a stand-in for EDI.

What cracks me up about Jeff, I will go down with my ship, Moreau, is Williams/t'soni/Alenko will tell Shepard that Joker won't leave the ship. So those 3 run up to the ****pit to hear Joker say I won't leave and then go all the way towards the back, down the stairs and then go towards the front to tell that to Shepard? Was it that hard for them just grab Joker and get him to an escape pod?

Joker had no idea Cerberus was trying to bring back Shepard let alone had his/her body. The only one who knew was t'soni.

He said he joined Cerberus so he could fly.

"Find me some evidence in the games that TIM doesn't smoke salarian tobacco". This is not how this works because not everything has to be in the games. The line fits Retribution and ME3 very well and may conflict ME2 on the level of impressions, but not on the level of literality.

Anyway, garden worlds are too valuable to bomb into slag.

I'm not asking you to prove a negative, I am asking you to prove a positive.





I stand corrected on the number of apocalyptic wars the krogan have fought, however that doesn't change much. The underlying biology that drove them to that nuclear holocaust is the same biology that lead them to the secondary holocaust of the genophage after the Krogan Rebellions. Wrex is great, but Wrex is one man and he will not live forever. Furthermore, an astute observation of how we built his power base in ME2 reveals that it is based on the scarcity of krogan reproduction. He holds onto power by gating access to the most fertile females and as such each tribal leader must do Wrex's bidding if they want to have children and grow their tribe. Curing the genophage will undo this. Any ambitious and short-sighted leader will be able to greatly expand his followers through children even with access to only a small number of females. Wrex will lose power even before he inevitably dies. The krogan population will expand, and expand, and expand, and eventually they'll be driven into conflict with the other species, just like before. The Krogan Rebellions didn't happen over night; it was a gradual build up, a slow boil. Wrex had the right idea back when he killed his father; stop making war and start focusing on breeding. Wrex had a plan to save the krogan even without curing the genophage but somewhere along the way in ME3 he forgot about this and is making a stupid mistake. Most likely, it is the writers who forgot about this.

The krogan were found by the salarians, and then given advanced technology with the goal of bringing them to technological parity so they could join the salarians and asari in their war against the rachni. This was taking the krogan out of their natural environment. The krogan never reached space on their own. They weren't capable of it because their biology had made their technological societies too unstable.



I'd drop big asteroids and comets onto the Rachni planets. Let them dig as deep as they want; it won't matter. Even if any survive and I can leave automated sensors in orbit to monitor the surface for any activity. A technological society generates a lot of energy and requires a lot of resources. If the rachni ever look like they are developing anything beyond the stone age I bomb them right back into it. That's assuming they survived at all.

Really, the writers ought to have read more science fiction.


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You see this is one of the weaknesses in the writing even going back to ME1. If you are in the position to deploy krogan troops into rachni tunnels then you already have air/space superiority. If you have that then you've already won. You can just sit there passively and play wack-a-mole if you want to. The rachni are helpless and if they are confined to their tunnels then they're not an interstellar threat anymore. Furthermore, I find it very peculiar that the Council troops couldn't deal with a toxic environment; if they can even reach the rachni home world then they have learned to survive the hostile environment of space. It was a very bone-headed on the writer's part to state that the krogan were needed for their physical biology because apparently sufficiently protective space-suits weren't available. There are better ways the krogan involvement with the Rachni Wars, and the resulting fallout, could have been written in.

An asteroid falling on earth created the Gulf of Mexico... I don't think being dug in would help the rachni survive an asteroid drop on their planets, TBH.,. despite the ones we were shown not apparently having surface water.  Lt. Durand can assure Shepard that having the Normandy bombard them wouldn't help... but the difference between a single ship bombarding an area of the planet and an asteroid drop would be night and day.