Retcons or contradictions that you have noticed

Apr 2, 2017 12:12:49 GMT Dean The Not-so Young said:

With what weapons from where?


Even ignoring certain fundamental design problems- even in the ME universe dreadnoughts are built around the gun not the other way around- even if you think slapping missile boxes on everything would be a good idea, you still need missile boxes to slap on. The Nexus didn't carry them, so that means they'd have to be created, and the Nexus really isn't in a position to do that. This is an effort that doesn't even have self-sufficient farming down, let alone orbital manufacturing. We're talking a space station that hasn't even finished constructing itself, or even capable of being self-powered.

Even putting aside the question of time commitments for any retrofitting- MEA takes place on a span of weeks to months, which might not be enough even if they started from day 1- before you can have ships with weapons you need weapons to mount on the ships. That industry- which requires production- which requires power and resources the Nexus doesn't have. The colonization effort has fabricators on the scale of small arms and component parts. We havent' seen anything capable of retrofitting a ship.

They talk all the time about their precious APEX teams because APEX teams are all they have. They literally have to lean out the door to shoot other ships if they have to.

That's probably not a matter of choice.

First of all, it seems that the Nexus does have access to larger weapons than personal firearms - the colonies are protected by some larger guns. At the very least mount whatever you have available on the Nexus.

After all, the Nexus requires protection much more than the colonies, as it contains the largest group.

Second, the Nexus has the manufacturing capabilities needed in order to stay self sufficient given enough recourses are available, they can produce habitats and the machinery required to survive in harsh conditions,

they couldn't have brought everything from the MW because they didn't know the exact conditions they will face, and if they ran out of a certain part or machine without the ability to replace it, they are fucked.

And I do remember finding a large amount of mineral deposits all over the cluster. Hell, you have quite a few asteroid fields out there, that should provide more than adequate resources.

If I can manufacture in the Tempest an Isharay, essentially a miniature plasma cannon used for sniping, I'm sure all the scientists on the Nexus can figure something out in order to produce some larger weapons based on

whatever type of tech they choose. After meeting the Kett, producing means of protection should have become part of the survival effort. You need food, air, water, but just as essentially - you also need  weapons if you want to survive the Kett.

I'll mention again the idiocy of using something like a remnant drive core to power your colony toasters as opposed to using it for what it was intended - protecting a space ship.

These efforts should have started immediately after the magnitude of the Kett threat became apparent, meaning rather early on.

The Nexus doesn't need to become a Death Star in two days, but the problem is that you don't see anyone doing ANYTHING to make it tougher and help it survive a likely attack by the Kett.

When Kesh tells Drack that if the Kett find them they will fight, she is speaking out of her ass. They don't have the means to fight in space. The Kett can just blow them up at their leisure if they encounter any resistance.

The ability to wage guerilla warfare via the APEX teams only exists when the enemy is unable to find you and just wipe out your bases their with their space/air superiority.