Should the Arks have been armed

The Arks, the Nexus, the Tempest, the Nomad??? Does a bear shit in the woods? Is the Pope Catholic? Does the sun raise in the East? Is Bioware totally incapable of sticking to even its own canon and giving us a game with a good story that is bug free?

And if we were the Systems Alliance?

The principle is the same

P.S.

He doesn't mean what you think he means

Well fucking DUH...

It does indeed. And the ability to erase an pre EZ civilisation is a nice stick to have.

If we were the systems alliance then we have precedent to work with ie. First Contact War, if talking about the Systems Alliance during the events of Andromeda...I don't know, they weren't the ones who traveled to a new galaxy or had the Kett arrive at theirs, though I imagine their experience in the First Contact War would make them weary of attacking straight away. 

Again, my example was about modern day earth seeing a far more advanced species arriving in or near our atmosphere, I don't think the principle is the same because of the technological gap between a fictional advanced society from a video game and real life.


As to what the other poster meant...If I misunderstood then fair enough, I can't read into his comment anymore than what I took at face value. If you care to elaborate for him, I'd be happy to readdress the statement.

Last year when a Russian SU-27 did a barrel roll over a U.S. ship in the Baltic (as they often do to goad our pilots) our now president was on the record stating 

"I don’t know, you know, at a certain point, when that sucker comes by you, you gotta shoot,”


In one of the presidential debates our now president had this to say in regards to Iranian sailors taunting US ships


"And by the way, with Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn’t be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water. Okay, believe me."


I have eyes and ears...I don't have to rely on assessments of the socially undeveloped to know that's shit policy right there.

Ah, well a beta like me wouldn't know these things apparently.








Jesus Fucking Christ...

Since you added this on later, I guess I'll address that too because I'm dumb enough to keep taking the bait.

As former military, I wouldn't have a morale boost at the thought of killing others for no other reason that to make us look strong. 

I don't think PC culture means what you think it means in this situation...We normally call that diplomacy and no serious leader would ever hear the leader of the nation with the most advanced military threatening hostile action and say "oh they're just talking metaphorically that he's going to blow us up."

Stop being obtuse. If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and tastes like shit...it must be shit.

Okaaay

This is where I back away slowly...


Sorry for hijacking thread with politics OP.