What did you do today in ME?

- Noah, Ashley and Liara picked up a rare package on Eden Prime, taking a living Prothean back from Cerberus. Noah naturally was wary of their new guest, but after talking to him he had to admit that Javik said some things he could relate to, and thought they might get along after all.
- Afterwards, Noah, Ash and James liberated a fuel reactor from Reaper forces, losing the present captain there in the process. She was commended posthumously later on.
- The team went to check on what turned out to be an Ardat-Yakshi monastery. They bumped into Samara, who tried to find her daughters, but that didn't change Noah's plan of finishing the work of the asari commandos there, blowing the place to hell. The Reapers had started to turn Ardat-Yakshi into abominations. Only one of Samara's daughters made it out alive, and Samara shot herself in order to save her daughter. She promised to stay at the monastery and that the Reapers wouldn't take her alive. That was enough reason for Noah to leave her alive.
- Noah gained more support for the Crucible by recruiting some ex-Cerberus scientists. Jacob was among them, so it was easy to trust they weren't all spies for the Illusive Man.
- Noah delivered some things on the Citadel before trying to meet with the asari councilor. But it never came to this, since he followed Hackett's message about a Dr. Bryson. He just wanted to talk to the doctor, but ended up chasing a monster. A monster that was responsible for all the pain the Reapers caused, but now finally fought against them as well instead of hiding. Leviathan, the origin of the Reapers...
If he didn't need them in order to win the war, Noah would have been glad to somehow kill those that remained. They're dangerous as hell.
- Noah returned to the Citadel and set a meeting with the asari Councilor, who hinted at something valuable for the war effort hidden on Thessia. Noah took any lead he could find. While the Normandy stocked up on some more necessities before leaving, Noah killed some time with a couple people of his current and former crew - Javik, Jacob, James, Tali, Miranda, Steve, Jack.

Eden Prime

Monastery business

Recruiting some scientists

Back on the Citadel

Leviathan


Noah denied Miri resources to do her thing, oh oh! I thought about that choice for a couple days, but in the end it's very in-character to do it that way, and I've had Miranda alive for the past few playthroughs, soooo... whoopsie

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Rallying the Galaxy for a counterstrike against the Reapers is no easy task. Case in point, Cerberus continued to be an obstacle. Shep returned to where it all began: Eden Prime, where she uncovered not just any old Prothean device, but an actual living, breathing Prothean referred to as Javik, and he is out for Reaper blood.

Her next stop was Grissom Academy, to save a bunch of kids from Cerberus, naturally.

Then came the summit in order to make an alliance that can turn the tide in the war. One one solution can be made for the Krogan and Turians to work together and stand by humanity to save Earth. The Genophage Cure. Shep & company traveled to Sur'Kesh, the Salarian homeworld, to rescue the last remaining female Krogan immune to the disease. After dealing with a few bumps along the way, including helping her Krogan son deal with Reaper enslaved Rachni, saving a Turian platoon, destroying a bomb, and plowing through tons of Reaper forces, the Genophage was cured, but at great cost...


50,000 Year Nap...


Saved By The Belle...


Krogan Queen...


There Be (Indoctrinated) Rachni...


Junior Platoon...


Out With A Bang...


Be Gone, Genophage...

Yeah I've played all 6 but then I'v eplayed the originals as well the only thing tha t worries me about Soldier is the fact we can use al lweapons anyway regardless of class which kind of makes soldier irrelevant in the LE. Thoug hhaving said tha tSoldiers are the only ones who can use adrenalin erush and Concussive shot though. Soldier used t obe on eof my favourites if I wanted t oplay the game as a classic shooter wi than yweapon I want. No wwith the changes it's better t omaybe go with an actual powers class. I haven't played Soldier on the LE ye tthough so I might find some other wa yto make playing Soldier exciting  but Ican't speak for that though. Soldier's the onl one I've not played on the LE yet though as I've played the other 5.

My favorite class is Engineer.  I love disabling weapons and Geth.  I never played the original Trilogy aside from the graphical update with ME1 I don't know what has been changed.

I want to try another scenario in the foreseeable future, but on Xbox. I want my Shep to have the same name, face backstory, class, etc, but I want to make some alterations that would make her more Paragade/Neutral. I want the playthrough to be more grim but still hopeful. For example, I want Garrus to kill Dr. Saleon & take out Sidonis (Mercy Kill), Shepard to kill Finch, Toombs, Balak, Jeong (in self defense), and Rana Thanoptis, the Alliance fleet to concentrate on Sovereign, Miranda to kill Niket, and Zaeed to kill Vido, along with all the new changes I've made recently, like convincing Kasumi to get rid of Keiji's Graybox, and destroying the Heretics. I also want to use both Paragon and Renegade exploits (UNC: Lost Module & Lorik Quinn) so that I can do both Besieged Base, and The Negotiation.

I kind of want my Mass Effect experience to be like a Western, where the main character is good, but also gets their hands dirty without looking like the bad guy. A Paragade. Neutral Good. She lets Garrus kill Saleon because he's a diranged psychopath, letting Balak go would only put more colonies at risk. Letting Vido go would only allow him to enslave more civilians. Sure Zaeed eventually kills him, but six months is a long time. As for the Council, Sovereign is an unknown. A machine with power the likes of which no one has ever seen. Time is running out. It's logical to concentrate all firepower to take the Reaper down to save the Galaxy. As Spock once said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

Again, compassionate when needed, and making tough decisions without being evil. Good to hear friends, lethal to her enemies. She'll comfort Tali after she sees her dead father in on scene, then burn a Krogan from the Werloc Clan alive in another.

What do you think about this?

Thank you for this invaluable list.  Now I don't have to be paranoid when I land on a planet and drive on flat land.

Doesn't Rana kill a bunch of people in ME3 because she was indoctrinated the whole time? How can Shep let her go, if I want Miranda to shoot Niket, or Mordin to shoot Maelon?

Anyway, about my comment above, I have completely stopped my current playthrough. I'm actually really excited to do the aforementioned scenario. Just need to get an Xbox first. I also have to move first, so it might be a while.

In regards to the decisions in game, specifically being Paragon and Renegade, you don't think she'll seem a bit bipolar, do you?
For example, she'll charm to convince Cole to give her the extra items on Eden Prime (threatening the civilian would be out of place) and the C-Sec officer to allow the Hanar to preach on the Presidium, but she'll also intimidate to resolve the situation between the biotic extremists and Chairman Burns.

Compassionate towards some, especially with friends, but more aggressive to enemies, or other kinds of obstacles. Take Toombs for example. I would like for Shep to have no choice but to shoot him down, then arrest the scientist. She'd save the wounded Batarian in Mordin's recruitment mission, as well as the wounded Salarian in Thane's, but leave the refinery workers to die to stop a dangerous man like Vido from getting away.



A hero who makes tough decisions, even if there are sacrifices. I mean, how would you describe a character like this?
Are there any examples of characters like this?

I was thinking about the whole Rana thing more. It's weird, I spare Shiala on Feros all the time. Would sparing Shiala and not Rana be hypocritical? I mean, we're talking about two different situations, right? Shiala was another one of the Thorian's victims, but she also worked for Saren (technically Benezia). But her words were sincere, and she did help a great deal with the cipher. As for Rana, the encounter was after all the indoctrinated test subject (some of whom Shepard shot down out of mercy). Victims of experiments that turned them into mindless Husks. She was part of that house of horrors. However, it doesn't seem like she was there willingly. I don't know. Virmire is a screwed up place. Screwed up things happened there.