Everything Wrong With Mass Effect 3 Redux by GCN

Let's not be silly about this. The "it's impossible" statement is simply true for the navies the MEU actually had, not the navies it theoretically might have had.

As for the navies it might have had, how many dreadnoughts the MEU could have constructed in the available time is an open question. We wouldn't be able to build many more aircraft carriers in 2-1/2 years from now than we are already planning to; it's physically impossible, not least because we don't have enough people with the right skills. MEU manufacturing technology is probably more flexible than ours. How much more so? How fast can they churn out a dreadnought, or smaller somethings which can fight a dreadnought? We don't know, and it doesn't matter. Reaper numbers were at Bio's discretion. The number of Reapers which show up is however many the plot requires.

And being able to inflict a tactical reverse on the Reapers doesn't prove a damn thing, and you know it. The Japanese were able to sink major US warships up until the very last day of the war, but they never had the capability to defeat the US Navy and industrial base outright.

Also note that as Citadel fleet strength increases relative to the Reapers, things get worse for the organics, not better. If the Reapers are having trouble taking on the might of the galaxy, they can just start destroying planets rather than getting into battles. Instead of harvesting Earth over a period of ten years, they could have burned the life from it in ten minutes. There's no real defense against this with the established techs of the MEU.

That is not an argument. How long does it take to build a dreadnought in the MEU? If it takes years, as warships currently do, matching Reaper numbers is hopeless in the existing timeframe.

Edit: just to be clear, of course they should have tried to do this anyway, since they didn't know how fast the Reapers were going to show up or how may there were; we saw the final ME2 cutscene, but nobody else did.

The Reapers have no industrial base, They can't replace lost ships until we're defeated.

More importantly, my main point here, is the only reason conventional victory is so "impossible", is because Bioware wanted it to be impossible. They made sure every Government and race in the galaxy acted in the dumbest, most unrealistic manner possible. Subjecting themselves to numerous methods of self sabotage so that the only way to avoid getting harvested is an ass-pull narrative device. If the behaviors of people and governments were handled in a more consistent, competent manner then it's a lot harder to sell your audience on your idea that you need space magic to win. Likewise, if you handle the people and governments of the galaxy with respect and competence, and still show through action that victory is impossible without space magic, then your audience can't have arguments like this, because then we would all have to agree that there was truly no other alternative. But then again, given how divided the writers room was about Star Brat and his 3 dumb choices (according to "totally not patrick weekes") I suspect the writers themselves were not on the same page in terms of victory being "impossible".  

Considering the Geth are more advanced, have no limitations when it comes to work like need of food/sleep/etc, and knew of the Reapers but could only build one Dreadnought in half a year is all the proof you need that the galaxy wouldn’t have been able to build enough to face them.

How long does it take to build a dreadnought? It took 2 years to build the SR2, a ship that is a lot smaller than a dreadnought.

Does it? If anything, it slowed the harvest until the reapers could bring in reinforcements. The other thing is those ships were destroyed from the inside. This is what you posted that came from codex masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Codex/The_Reaper_War

Could they have mass produced enough weapons in time? There's no evidence of that, except that you want it to have been true. Building warships in the MEU is expensive and time-consuming , as Polka Dot notes above. (A Treaty of Farixen only makes sense if you can't pump dozens more dreadnoughts out in a couple of months.)

But, again, this doesn't matter. Like I said earlier, Reaper numbers are at Bio's discretion. However many ships the MEU built or didn't build, the Reapers would have had enough to defeat them handily if Bioware wanted them to have them. The DM always has more points than you.

They build the crucible in a matter of weeks, and you're telling me that they could not mass produce ships and weapons in a short period of time? And if they were competent to begin with, they would pull all of their resources to build effective ships with advanced weaponry to effectively fight against the Reapers. As I said once again, the governments are denying the threat of the arrival of the Reapers. If they were, then they would take the threat very seriously, and mass produce effective weapons and ships to prepare for the Reapers.

If you have never heard of MrBTongue I highly recommend checking out his channel below. It's my one-stop shop to help me sleep at night after ME3 Ending. I hate the argument that it's because the ending was "too sad". I undermines the entire thematically jarring and lore breaking ending.

www.youtube.com/channel/UCI3GAJaOTL1BoipG41OmfyA

Prett ysuer that Legion himself says tha tthe Geth believe the reapers were a threat a smuch to them as they were to organics.

I watched his review on the ending, and I understand what he's coming from that the ending did put details how Shepard's squad lenders survive the final push to the Citadel Beam, slideshows of different endings, and the narrative that BioWare is going for.

But the entire ending makes no sense from the beginning. Like for example, how does Shepard survived a death beam from Harbinger? Shepard would've been obliterated, and it would've end the story right then and there. But lo and behold, the power of plot armor gives Shepard a fighting chance to reach the beam and into the Citadel. And what makes them so sure that the beam is safe to use, where it could be a deathtrap for anyone that the beam can melt them into goo for proccessing? They haven't take that to consideration that what if the beam is dangerous for people? And how does the Citadel finally under the control of the Reapers, where the Protheans reprogrammed the signal for the keepers, to not override the Citadel to open a portal for the Reapers? The only way to override that was Saren using the Conduit to override the Citadel controls for Sovereign to open a way for the Reapers. And it never explains how the Citadel was regained by the Reapers on the third game.

And the whole star child was a cluster fuck to begin with. The main reason why it decides committed mass genocide of sentient species who advanced in technology, was to "preserve and help organics to ascend". That's like saying, "Hey, I'm saving an endangered species of animals, by killing them off to preserve the endangered species." And comparing itself to fire to justify it's meaningless existence, is one of the worst explanations that I've ever seen in my life. And the organic/synthetic argument was very poorly written, because it's a very poor excuse to justify mass genocide and mass extinction. How is that a solution to a problem that can easily been solved, by coexisting with sentient synthetics? Like unifying the Geth and Quarians for the first time in 300 years, after centuries of conflict between two peoples. And they are working together to make their homeworld a better place. There should be no need for synthesis to coexist with synthetics.

It's like Mac Walters and other writers don't really know what they're doing. And that is why it really needs a complete rewrite.