The fate of Kadara Port

Eh? All I said was that he wasn't a giant asshole in the same way Sloane is, and that's true. I don't see Reyes running Kadara Port in the same atrocious way Sloane does. Where'd you get me saying he's the best human being ever though?

Still the only good Sloane is one with a bullet in her head! 

Guaranteed had I not read the book I would have chose Reyes. The books paints Sloane in an empathetic light such that I went with her instead.

Didn't shoot Reyes though.

I went with Reyes. He gives more respect to the Angara, the real locals that lived on this planet. Sloane did her job good when she started I suppose, but it was time for her to go, she was getting weak. What I didn't like is that she had to die, I repeated the scene a couple of times to see what other outcomes could happened. At the same time, I appreciated that Reyes just made it a duel instead of a full scale war. Will he betray you in the long run? who knows, but Sloane could easily do the same, she was never really friendly after all. Romancing Reyes at least shows there is actually some light to him.

Sloane was dead the minute I saw that she forces the outpost to pay an extortion fee

The choice basically boils down to: How do you like your corruption? Out in the open or under the surface. Outcasts beat people in the street. The Collective makes people "disappear" without a trace. Sloane demands a cut of the Initiative outpost's production as a protection fee. Reyes claims that the increased trade coming through will cover the costs...but he's a lying smuggler who lies. He's probably going to get his cut by going under the table, let's be real.

Personally, I went with Sloane; better the devil you know and all that. She's upfront about her feelings and intentions. If and when the inevitable betrayal happens, Ryder would know it was coming. Not so with Reyes.

It also doesn't hurt that a lot of the exiles respect Sloane for her part in protecting them during the uprising when the Initiative failed them. Trying to mend that bridge makes for a nicer narrative than assassination, imo.

APEX is not as powerful like it is in Multiplayer. Also they only do quick raids, not long term occupation and law enforcement.

While yes Angara lost Kadara port, it is still their sovereign claim of the world that AI will have to respect in future.

They don't kill three Ascendants in five minutes of course, but are definitely able to clear kett/remnant/pirate bases. What's left is done with regular militia which is capable of holding against a planet full of kett.

How do you even imagine that? There is no government to have this claim to begin with. They were and still are mostly a lousy coalition of planets, which didn't even recover enough when Fire Nat Kett Empire attacked. It would be like Italy and Greece having sovereign claim on Egypt, because Roman Empire had it back then.

So you don't think Charlatan's actions are contributing to the crackdown by Sloane's people at all? The way I see it, Sloane took an abandoned city and made it a home for the exiles and pushed the Kett out. She was more a Pathfinder than anyone else on the Nexus. After Ryder does their thing and establishes an outpost / gets to high viability that blunts a lot of the worst of Sloane's abuses as people have a perfectly good place to fuck off to. I also feel like people are jumping to some conclusion that she's out to start a war with the Nexus when it's really just Tann she hates. Everyone hates Tann though.

No. Sloane was a miserable, selfish shit even before the Collective came around.

Sloane is loyal to no one but herself. Even Drack mentions his dislike for Sloane, saying that she was in charge of security on the Nexus, but she betrayed the people she was meant to protect by joining the rebellion. Drack says loyalty counts, and Sloane is loyal to no one but herself.  Sloane makes her goons beat people in the street, tortures prisoners, encourages the production of an addictive drug, banishes people (murders people essentially) to the Wastes. Let's not forget the Angara settled Kadara first, but Sloane sits on her little throne like she owns the place, feeding off of the hard work of others, while the other exiles are impoverished and desperate. Sloane brings no hope, only a false sense of security since its citizens are only secure if they pay up. She's nothing less than a dictator. Didn't you find if laughable that she demands protection money from you once you made Kadara viable? Fuck Sloane. Especially laughable considering my high level, all powerful vanguard could take out every one of Sloane's goons with a single falcon punch. 

Compare Sloane to Reyes, who will protect your outpost without demanding payment. Reyes may take his cut from profits but those profits are reinvested into Kadara's infrastructure and economy for the community's benefit. It's pretty clear most people on Kadara have no love for Sloane, and shed no tears once she's dead--the only good kind of Sloane.

You take issue with Reyes shooting her in the back? My Ryder shot the Cardinal in the back. Assassination, "murder" is sometimes how you have to take out dangerous people.

100% agree with everything you said.

The writers went out of there way to make this a pretty balanced choice.

Siding with Sloane, the soup kitchen is there too. The Warden makes a comment that he has nowhere to send "the crazies" now that the Pathfinder has made things nice and cozy. And Evfra says Reyes was becoming trouble.

Go to the Collective base...they've got a huge stockpile of goods they stole from the Nexus. The Collective isn't a charity helping Initiative colonists. They're a ruthless gang of thieves who are going to take a cut just like Sloane; they're just less upfront about it.

Also in the Collective base... a farm of mushrooms used for their very own, continuous poison supply AND a holding cell full of corpses. Scanning them reveals they were beaten significantly over time then eventually executed. :/