Things that don't make sense (v2)

I wish I could like something more than once. 

This is what BioWare needs to do with Andromeda. All this "well if you just read the novels/comics/web series it will explain everything" crap needs to stop. It's lazy writing, and incredibly pretentious of the the game creators (of any game series) to set reading assignments before your fans with the vague insinuation that one isn't a true fan unless they pour over every single piece of content in all forms of secondary media related to a video game.

I hated it in ME 2 & 3, I hated it in Halo 4, I hated it in DA:I, and I will really hate it in ME:A if BioWare decides to cop out on explaining anything in-game.

I think it makes some sense for them to not create a 400-hour game laden only with huge info dumps about backstories and technobabble that really don't progress the plot of the game.  While the ME Trilogy did fail to provide some details that should have been in the game, overall I felt that there was sufficient information there for me to understand the situation and the characters fairly well.   The only thing I was confused about was the references to Grayson in ME3, since I had no previous exposure to that name from within the games themselves.

If ME:A becomes all about supplying us with unending useless codex details about huge backstories for every single NPC referenced in the game, I'm afraid it's going to be a very, very long and boring game and I'll probably fall asleep playing it numerous (or else just lose interest completely and never finish it).

Maybe I quoted the wrong post... people seemed to be going on about Bioware putting details in their comics and such that should be in the games.  What would make sense to me is just some balance... which I do think they do strive for.  I just don't want to have to read an in-game encyclopedia every time I go to play an new installment of this series.  I'd rather go out and buy a book if I want that sort of detailed information.

Now that one actually does make sense because despite what the name might suggest, the Hahne-Kedar is an earth-based manufacturer. The mechs named after norse mythology like FENRIS, LOKI and YMIR are produced by them.

I always thought that when I saw the massive number 61 on the Presidium in ME1. It also works the other way in ME3, where the Alliance base on Mars has signs written in an lien language (I think, IIRC).

Fear of AI?  Sentient mechs (something that looked sort of like LOKI mechs) arose on the Citadel.  They were destroyed, even though all they wanted was to speak with the Council.  And then there's the geth.  Any Council race who was around during these occurrences might not want to risk making a potential AI.  Humans have no such ingrained fear and so went ahead and made them.  Note that the rogue VI situation on Luna and the whole Overlord thing shows that humans remain unafraid of AI.

We should all pool our money together and buy stock in that company. They're making a killing!

So if the other Council races are deathly afraid of AI, then why would they allow a member of their government to not only manufacture mechs (which aren't sentient AIs to begin with but that's besides the point) but then purchase them for use as labor and security? 

It seems a little illogical for that to be the case here. If there was truly such an ingrained fear of potential AI uprising then humanity would have been sanctioned even harder than the quarians for even proposing this as an marketing idea.

Perhaps afraid that if they did turn into AI it would look bad on them.  Humans just don't seem to care.  Also, how do we know Hahne-Kedar wasn't making the mechs before humans got an ambassador on the Citadel?  We really don't know one way or the other.  I guess we could poke holes in things all day or just come up with something that's at least mildly plausible.

The Citadel for one. It doesn't get more "Council space" than that!

Mark Shepard:

Diplomatic Ships: Finally had our meeting with the salarian dalatrass, Primarch Fedorian and Wrex. The asari weren't joining because the dalatrass was upset that the krogan were coming - yet, the dalatrass is there. In exchange for krogan help on Palaven, Wrex wanted a cure for the genophage. The dalatrass was completely opposed but Wrex knew about Maelon's data (that Mordin and I had saved after we stopped his experiments on Tuchanka) and that the salarians were holding some female krogan who had been cured. The dalatrass finally admitted it and, under duress, told us where they were being held. Then, when I said we were going to get them, she had the gall to call me a bully. At a guess, the salarians would not be helping Earth or with building the Crucible.

Sur'Kesh: We were told we couldn't land at this STG facility. Wrex got angry and jumped out of the shuttle. Finally, the word came from the dalatrass and the rest of us landed. Kirrahe, now a major, was here. He told me he would fight for Earth regardless of what the politicians decided. Nice to know friendships I'd made meant something.

Just as we were entering the elevator, alarms went off. Something was attacking though it didn't seem like it was Reapers. In the facility, I found Mordin Solus in charge. He was Wrex's inside source and, unlike when we ran with Cerberus, he not wanted to cure the genophage. Things were looking up. Downside was that only one of the females was still alive and very weak. We were going to have to take her out using unorthodox means. It was Cerberus who wanted her dead.

The salarians are experimenting on the yahg, the race from which the former Shadow Broker came. They're a brutal species who was prevented from leaving their planet due to massacring the first contact team. Given what I'm seeing it just makes the dalatrass's objections to cure the genophage extremely hypocritical.

Mordin attributed my help in getting he and the krogan female to the shuttle to my "affinity for destruction". Sounds about right. I capped it all off by taking out an Atlas mech.

Normandy: Mordin was going to begin synthesizing a cure using "Eve" (the krogan female), Maelon's data and Wrex's DNA. Then Fedorian and Wrex both came to me with "secret" problems they had.

War Assets: 1393 + Major Kirrahe = 1413/2 = 706

Crew check-in: Joker: Doesn't trust the krogan. EDI: Had questions about the genophage. Cortez: Convinced him to take a break. Vega: Weapons mods. KEI-9: Strolling. Allers: Arguing with a crew member. Donnelly and Daniels: Discussing EDI. Adams and Chakwas: Discussing her abduction by the Collectors. Mordin, Eve and Wrex: Discussing cure and Wrex's distrust of Mordin. Garrus: Thought someone maght try to set him up with Eve. Liara: Ready for the next mission. Pets: Enjoying looking at one another. Traynor: Enjoying the benefits of serving on my ship.

Emails: A report from Earth said M-920 Cains can take out Reapers. Already knew it when I used one on the human Reaper at the Collector Base. Glad Earth has figured it out. Feron sent me some information. Kirrahe reminded me an STG team would work with us.

The Krogan Rebellions

We are told that in the Krogan Rebellion, the Council forces ultimately had to deploy the genophage because of Krogan manpower advantages. Here is the problem: The Krogan head count could have trillions more than the Council forces and it would not matter in the slightest if their fleet was smaller and inferior. Krogan ground troops can't seize planets unless their ships can secure relays and the space above those planets and keep any ground invasion supplied. Anything that happens on a planet's surface would ultimately be a sideshow to what went on it above it, in space.

In order for Krogan manpower to be a tipping point in their favor, they'd also have a greater ability than the Council to churn out warships and transports. Otherwise, that manpower advantage is stranded on Tuchanka and completely useless. The Krogan having a greater industrial output than the Council however does not make sense in the slightest, considering they controlled far less star systems than their Council adversaries, and their home world was a post-apocalyptic ruin. The Asari-Salarian-Turian coalition should have had a decisive resource advantage and been able to outpace the Krogan in warship production, probably by several times over.

Manpower should count for fuck-all in a Sci Fi space war.