Repeating the Mistakes of the Zha

I really do not think they will be going down the AI war path again, the original trilogy was enough.

Ugh, this again. I'd much rather discuss the sailing train offshot. Speak of which:

Hir 2 : SAM's Syncretic Synthesis

Starring : Philosophers in beach bodies.

Scene 1 : (close up on sand grains open out to beach, piano music)

Sitting on a blanket J...

I just don't see the connection, or the fear.  Project Overlord interfaced a human with a VI connection in order to control the Geth.  IE mind, body, soul, etc....sticking him full of creepy tubes to provide a way to...control the entire Geth network.  

This is entirely different.  This is just an information exchange between one AI and one human.  Its kind of like Sherlock's mind palace in Sherlock but a lot more literal.  The AI can point things out to you that your natural human brain might have missed.  But in no way shape or form does this mean that Sam can just hijack Ryder.  At worse if Sam ever did go rogue all he could do is make Ryder see things that aren't there.  

Not really. The Zha were living okay until the Reapers invaded and started "reaperizing" and harvesting everyone during the Prothean's cycle.
We don't blame humans or turians for the husks and marauders so why do the same with the Zha?

We know it's possible.  We saw it in Overlord.

But do standard biotic implants and cybernetics have wireless functionality, a signal that can be hacked, or manipulated by a rogue AI?  For that matter, do standard cybernetics have that extensive a reach through a human body?

It's not a contradiction in law unless the AI setups are similar. And even then it took the Reapers to invade the Zha'til.

Shepard wasn't 'possessed' there and nor was she hacked, though I do have to believe that what did happen to her was a result of her implants.  BUUUUUUUTTTT David did not gain full control over Shepard, Shepard still had free will, otherwise she would not have stopped Overlord in the first place and David would have then hacked EDI. 

My point is, and this might be a little weird, I acknowledge it, is that...why wasn't this such a concern with Shepard and with all the implant technology in general?  I mean, I guess there are some differences between them, but the point of the matter is I see Shepard's implants being a lot more extensive to what Ryder is doing and yet it was not an issue.  Either in the narrative or without the narrative.  The only time it might have been mentioned and had an impact was during Project Overlord when Shepard started to see visions of what happened to David.  And this is given an AI personality (David) which was trying to hack his way out of the system to where if you failed Project Overlord it would have taken control of EDI/ The Normandy.  So if Shepard's implants were hackable to give David full control over Shepard and make her do things, he would have done it. So he can't.  And thus, because I believe the Ryder implants are a lot less extensive then the Shepard ones, then I doubt anyone can simply 'hack' Ryder either, at least to the extent of giving them full control over Ryder's body/ mind.   

Now this could be because anyone hacking the tech does not have the means to do so, or it could mean that a sentient mind always acts to serve as kind of an overide if anyone were to exert strong will over their implants if its something like a normal Biotic one, Ryder's, or Shepard's. 

Yeah. Expecting some huge plot holes and no immersion in this game, can't wait! So many plot holes already lined up, they've already dug their own grave, crawled inside it and asked someone to throw dirt on top. Go andromeda!!

Personally I would like to see the other half of Transhumanism. Every mention of that concept in mainstream media involves some form of artificial intelligence or some cyborg what-have-you, but what about the other side of this coin? I'm talking about genetic modification, of splicing in traits from other species to compensate for weakness of the primary species. XCOM: Enemy Within touched on this with the gene modded soldiers, and the game Evolve explored this notion with the character of Slim but no one else seems to want to look at such an element. It would certainly touch on some more unique topics compared to everyone else with their robots and "implants".

The idea of potentially losing one's humanity as you modify yourself more and more could be an interesting plot line, and a nice antithesis to the Pinocchio-bot narratives that the technology side of transhumanism frequently falls into.