What happens if you save Sloane?

I agree the writing here was lopsided. 1% of people read these books, Bioware, please stop relying on them. I was already halfway lost through Wicked Hearts and Wicked Minds in DA:I because I correctly assumed I was missing some huge chunk of story, and the same is true here. Pls.

The thing is, Sloane runs a mob, too. She's thrown out angara who've lived in Kadara port for way longer than she has because they couldn't pay her protection fees, she has people beat up in the streets as intimidation and casts them out for whatever she considers breaking the law. Whatever good she's done before, and whatever evil was necessary, it doesn't really matter now if she can't follow up on it with a steady rule anymore. And maybe that is the right perspective to come at it. Pathfinder doesn't get a book with information on the uprising, either, s/he can only judge what is in front of their eyes.

Kadara is pretty much slotted to be Omega 2.0 at this point, it was already considered a criminal hive before Sloane showed up there. There'll be criminals in power here for at least a while and for me, if Sloane had given me any indication she could keep her rulership and provide some form of stability, I might have considered her. Morally, she and Reyes are on one level. However, Sloane is not intelligent enough to keep the position. Reyes uses his anonimity, but she could easily be pressured because it's obvious who her loved one was and of course that would be used against her. Then, she honestly thought she was gonna have some wild west shootout with Reyes out in the Badlands. If she's that easy to trick, realistically she's gonna be off that throne in six months anyway, whether you help her or not. Reyes at least seems to know what he's doing and he's more savvy in that he knows to keep an eye on his contacts to the angara, too. Sloane has provided the angara with a prime example that we might be the kett light, appearing to be helpful at first, but then taking over and kicking the angara out of their own hometowns if it pleases us because we're stronger and therefore in charge. I doubt Reyes puts an angara in power as his puppet to be altruistic, but politically, it's helpful he stays in contact with them more than she does.

It's interesting, what you consider the drawback of the Collective, I consider their strength. They play a political game. They can be bargained with. They'll probably sort out their internal struggles quickly and quietly by assassinating each other. Sloane... I don't know. We can ask the same question you asked about Reyes. What if Sloane dies, who will succeed her? Her position is basically queen of Kadara Port, and we know monarchy is always a crapshoot. You can have a wise ruler, or you can have James VI the Madman.