What you want the most to be done to MELE?

If they acknowledged the existence of the Conduit at all, they'd have to acknowledge the plot of ME1 in general, which would raise questions about their Idiot Plot in ME3.

Like why did Sovereign bother to spend decades (or maybe centuries if Vigil is to be believed) working in the shadows, gathering allies and grooming indoctrinated stooges for a high risk plan involving an all out assault on the Citadel, when the rest of the Reapers only need 6 months to get from where they are to the nearest Relay.

Or, if the Citadel is the hub of the relay network and can shut it down, why they don't send a thousand Reapers to attack it before the game even starts and strand us on Earth.

Better to just ignore that first game entirely. After all ME3 is the best place for new players to to start the trilogy.

I want them to fix the bugs in Kaidan's final romance scene that were caused by the last patch in ME3.

Vigil says that the prothean researchers theorized that the Reapers in dark space enter a state of hibernation to pass the time it takes for organic civilizations to rise again. So if we go by that then the Reapers were sleeping during the events of ME1 only to be woken by Sovereign's destruction. Or if you don't want to take this into account then the Reapers were probably hoping on Sovereign to suceeed.

As to why Sovereign bothered, the Citadel is a mass relay into dark space so the Reapers wouldn't have needed 6 months to arrive also it was part of the Reaper's trap (to overran and cripple the heart of galactic civilization) and let's not forget that Sovereign nearly suceeded on its assault but thanks to Shepard its plans ultimately failed.

Now I agree with you that the Citadel not falling early in ME3 was stupid. I personally think that the Reapers were simply more focused in taking planets and harvesting so they had no use for the Citadel. (Remember they only took the Citadel because TIM told them about the Crucible).

Emily Wong.