Is There A Chain of Command? Because Ryder Doesn't Seem To Be Aware

SPOILERS AHEAD, you have been warned



Well, you aren't "just a scout" - look at Alec (and the other pathfinders or pathfinder-replacements (their seconds in case they bought it!)), he is part of Initiative-Leadership (he designed the freaking AIs the A.I. is using after all, hell he bosses the captain of the Hyperion around (despite the fact that it's her ship, she says so but in the end it's still his way or the highway!)) and the others are also in similar positions of authority, so we are kind of SPECTREs (I mean look at who they selected for pathfinder (and pathfinder second in command), those people are quite similar to SPECTRE and N7 recruitment criteria...one of them actually is (or was) N7 (Alec) and another is a former SPECTRE (Avitus) and another was a damned Asari Matriarch (and her replacement is a damned fucking combat proven Asari Huntress who basically seems to have re-written the book on Asari commando warfare! So someone like John "Lofty" Wiseman, who wrote the SAS survival-guide!)!)...officially we might not have similar authority (as in others could overrule us, but it's not like we would just have to sit down and take it...just like when the director tries to make you his puppet, in theory he could, but in practice he can't especially since he can't just take S.A.M. out of you and without the AI nobody would be an as effective pathfinder!)

Still, it's probably not like the military - I'd love to read the A.I. book (to know what certain people can and can't do officially (not that they probably couldn't...not everybody plays by the rules or if they do they don't play by the SAME rules (can't get into a leadership position by being totally nice and all - you got to show you can handle people trying to keep you down and all that!)) - that it's always clear cut...then again the A.I. seems ill prepared for anything (they have no backup plans, they can't tough it out till planets are viable (without the Remnant tech we'd all be dead probably!)), kind of strange when you consider who is in the A.I.-Leadership (Alec Ryder for example) and who the secret "Benefactor" probably is (it's not confirmed, but very very very likely that it's TIM!)...look at their basic equipment:

Most is either not very good (works fine, but is pretty basic) and some of it is downright endangering the people using it (Initiative helmets and space suits for example, same for an unarmed scout ship that has more in common with a luxury yacht than a true scout ship IMHO and again the same for the Nomad Rover (that thing is ok for a civilian prospector to use, but not for a scout venturing bravely into the unknown, boldly going were no one has gone before (sorry, CNR!))...strangely they seem to have access to blueprints for better stuff (hell, they have the Normandy plans (!) and not only the SR-1 if I am right!)

It's also kind of strange that they didn't dock some frigates with the Arks (the Turians wouldn't go somwhere without a few warships and a backup-plan IMHO, it's highly out of character for them to just take an unarmed ship without escorts into the unknown! Hell, not even Humans do that, especially since the First Contact War!) to provide a basic line of defense for future colonies and the Nexus!

Ok, maybe that's got something to do with "we have to accellerate our timeline" (might not have had time to pack the good stuff, that's why it's plans only - make the good stuff yourself if you really need it!)

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