VentureBeat claims we're going to get a MET Remaster "Legendary Edition"

Hmm. Maybe he is after all. Truly the hate for him transcends the games.

So unless something is forcefully spoonfed to you, it doesn't exist? 

Oh, and for example here: 

Yep. Totally confused these with Angaran fighters hours before we even know of the Angara. 
Also in the final fight with Avitus piloting a Trident (which look nothing like Angaran fighters btw). 

And where were those fighters when the Kett showed up to take the Hyperion? Why weren't they deployed when the Hyperion entered Andromeda to escort the ship to wherever?

He is. He has the best hairstyle. He's very good at doing cart wheels. He's very good at crying like a baby on Thessia and Cronos. He sent the asari flying on Kai Leng Airlines though I would have had him stab the asari.

Would it be possible for Bioware make a greater hate sink than Kai Leng? I do think they can.   also I am sure that you, Hanako and me can create one and forward that character to Bioware.

Yes, a single line of dialogue indicating the AI is armed with anything but pistols and rifles is "spoon-feeding"

Particularly given their primary exploratory vehicles, which could be facing anything from first contact situations to hungry fauna, to space pirates, are completely unarmed. 

And where were these fighter in ANY situation where some firepower could be useful? Defending EOS? during the mutiny? Searching for missing ARKS? "Hey, I know, lets send the completely unarmed scout ship do do all that stuff!"

What's wrong with sending an unarmed scout ship? Planes like the SR-71 have done an amazing job without needing guns. Like the SR-71, the Tempest has speed (the SR-71's anti-missile policy being "Gun it". ) and stealth. 

It'd be hard to balance any true laser weapons in ME due to them being able to bypass shields due to lore, but yeah it'd be interesting to see.

That is IF it was ever being released in the first place.

Or those two were trying to shit stir.

They'd be perfect for an enemy that's meant to be ever scarier than the Reapers. Having weapons you can't detect or dodge even if you could just ripping apart even the strongest defenses in seconds would be absolutely terrifying. Just imagine a scene where you are in a ship with a fleet ready to engage something that seems to be heading towards where you are, and before you even pick them up on sensors some other ships in your fleet instantaneously start exploding or are sliced in half. 

While I will preface what I am about to say by you are probably quite right about the Arks themselves since they are primarily colony/ exploration ships and not warships...

We have seen plenty of examples of ME armor plating being quite reselient to energy weapons.  I mean that almost *has to* be a thing given that there is energy weapons in the universe so any engagement would have to be very bloody and brief affairs otherwise.  (And I never got the sense from what I did read from the lore that Mass Effect operated like the Honor Harrington series where you had to 'close' to energy range under extreme missile bombardment)

But the SR-2 itself did tank the Collector ship's energy beam at the end of Mass Effect 2...which was at least a Cruiser likely using tech inspired by Reaper gun technology...with hardly any damage when its hull was upgraded.  

Edit: Also I just realized to Hanako's point...granted could be an example of gameplay/ story segregration...but we also know that the Kett plasma weapons do count as *kinetic* energy in the setting considering Ryder and the squad's suit shields are effective against the ground based equivalents...as I am quite sure are everyone else's milky way shields when you use them against the other Initiative races (though I have never used Kett weapons so I could be wrong....but that would be weird as hell).