The incompetence of the Alliance and Council.

The incompetence of your own side plus that of any possibly allied factions is a pillar of BioWare plots. See also: DAI's mage/templar conflict, Wardens going full moron, the entire Andromeda Initiative and so on.

In BioWare games I often feel like I have to force everyone to their own salvation through a constant barrage of kicks delivered to pretty stupid derrières.

It starts with the asari. Had that artifact been made public however long ago, it's possible something could have been done. After all they were the ones that made the law about anything prothean related.

Then there's the circus, I mean Alliance. You have the Anderson guy constantly saying I believe you, I trust you, then turns around to tell Shepard it's up to him/her to stop the reapers. He never cared. The circus never cared. How hard would it have been to ask the so-called prothean expert to investigate the Mars archive after Saren was stopped? Then the circus decides to lock up Shepard. Shepard has the cipher. But no, lets lock up someone who could understand prothean stuff by having him/her investigate the Mars archives, or whatever. And there's that Anderson clown again. He says we just need you to help us find a way to stop the reapers. **** you Anderson. You're now asking for my help after saying it's up to me to find a way. Yeah. **** you Anderson. But it's the whole Alliance leadership that is pathetic as seen at the beginning of ME3.

As much as I don't care about the council, I agree with a couple of things they do/say. If someone were to come to me with words that something is out there that will to something, something, I would need some evidence that proves that. Shepard and squad have omni-tools that could be used to record stuff. Look at ME3. Wrex faces Shepard with audio of what was said between the salarian and Shepard. The other thing is the asari councilor could have done the mind meld thing. But that would have taken something more to happen. Maybe if Shiala was brought back to tell the council what she told Shepard might help. In ME3, they don't give Shepard help right away at first when the plans for the device are presented to them. It's a longshot and why didn't the protheans use it?

I will add the protheans. In the plans why not have a picture of the device being attached to the Citadel? But that couldn't happen because of the lame excuse given by Vendetta on Cronos. On Thessia, Javik mentioned his species thought the asari would be wise and all that stuff, but turns out they weren't. Why didn't they implant the cipher into the asari?  The reaper war might never have happened.


I will add another, Bioware. They had to make the reapers stupid in this cycle for them to be destroyed. Had they travelled to the Milky Way right away after finding out they can't use the their relay trap, the galaxy would have been harvested.  

Why would the Alliance or Council do anything? Those colonies were outside their jurisdiction, many specifically because they didn’t want the Alliance or Council involved in their lives. They even stated earlier that moving in would cause a war with the Terminus Systems which would kill a lot more people.

It’d be like if the US after the Revolutionary War got into trouble, they got mad at Britain for not helping them despite them making it clear they wanted Britain gone.

The Alliance didn't establish those colonies. Those colonies wanted independence from them, thus why they established themselves in the Terminus Systems as opposed to the Attican Traverse which is under the Alliance.
Sure the Alliance wants the colonies to be successful, but they have no authority over the colonies in the Terminus.

Not all of the colonies hit by the Collectors were in the Terminus Systems or outside of Alliance space.

Shiala and the Protheans should have played a much bigger role, as well as Liara. Both melded with Shepard to either give (Shiala) or share (Liara) the Prothean Cipher. Apparently, neither the Asari Prothen Beacon/Archive nor the Human one were fully transcribed or translated yet. Get the blue gals and Shepard on that.

I would say t'soni could have learned about the protheans after mind melding with Shepard after he/she got the cipher. Isn't that how it worked with Shiala? I would guess it works in reverse? The cipher is a missed opportunity. Here's more about that.

I mentioned the asari and the artifact in my above post, but I should have added that if Bioware were given more time, they originally had the Thessia mission happen before the coup. Meaning Shepard would have known about the artifact earlier.

So last night I completed The Arrival dlc, and when speaking to Admiral Hackett, Shepard said when he was done with the Collectors that he would go back to earth and stand trial. So I was wrong Shepard wasn't imprisoned because of Cerberus, but because of what Hanako Ikezawa said the 300,000 dead Batarians.

Are you sure about that?  When I first played ME2 I saved the fleet instead of the Council in ME1, and made Anderson Councilor.  In ME2 either Anderson or Shepard asks for their Spectre status to be reinstated.