Things that don't make sense (v2)

Wrex isn't the only Krogan or the only clan leader though. He can easily be deposed or taken down a few pegs by another clan. On the way to the Shroud he's talking about all the territory they'll need. I don't trust that Wrex won't advance the Krogan when possible (I would) or that someone else won't come along and do it for him.

My canon Shepard always sabotages the cure because of that.

It's the toughest decision for me in the entire trilogy. Sabotage feels incredibly wrong, I'd backstab an entire people that came around to trust and help me. I'd betray myself and everything I believe in and fight for. It feels like it makes me the worst asshole in the galaxy. On the other hand, Cure seems like a terrible idea to me, putting the entire post-Reaper galaxy at risk.

Thankfully I know the ending, and so I know there'll be eternal happiness and peace and rainbows, so I can safely cure them.

Another reason why I prefer Control. That way I can make sure that everyone will bow before me bwa ha... erm, cure them without risking the future of the galaxy.

I sabotage the cure. My Shepard's job is to stop the reapers. When the dalatross offers salarian help, I take it. The genophage means nothing. Stopping the reapers is more important.

I assumed the Citadel was severely damaged and parts of it collapsed on him.

I thought the explosion at the centre of the Citadel (where Shepard was) was pretty huge... like, hydrogen bomb huge. In fact forget that, considering the size of the Citadel, the fireball of the explosion was about 10km in diameter. That's a pretty big boom, I imagine the chances of survival in the middle of it aren't very high.

You mean, the sequel I'm looking for, where a surviving Shepard maybe isn't center stage (due to healing from serious injury) but where we see Alliance forces taking on Space Pirates who are taking advantage of the mess. Appearances from all surviving squadmates and crew.

I don't want Cerberus. I mean, I guess we could do a mop up job but they're pretty worthless without TIM. I was thinking more that it would be a Council Space-wide threat while in the process of getting things up and running. Can you imagine people looting Thessia because they no longer trust the asari following the discovery that they've been withholding Prothean tech that everyone else was required to share? I mean, those ladies have been hit hard but now people are just getting bold about attacks on them.

Repercussions from out choices would be great, though I imagine it would be difficult to have a game that might or might not have any of the following: the geth, the quarians, the krogan or the freaking Reapers.

Allright, so I moved from ME2 to ME3. Playing with the Extended Galaxy Mod (EGM) and ME3 Recalibrated is a lot of fun so far. Some conversations (e.g. the encounter with the kid in the air duct on earth and the first convo on the Normandy) are much better now.

But I digress, here is one thing I somehow never noticed before but it's a nice bit of fridge logic:
When you pick up Javik on Eden Prime, you see his experiences just before he was sent to sleep. The Victory A.I. says two interesting things:
1. Javik's pod has a malfunction and the auto-awake system (i.e. the alarm clock) is damaged, meaning he will stay in stasis indefinitely or until someone else finds him (that would be us).
2. When Javik yells that Victory should not shut down any other pods, the A.I. said "Power levels will be triaged according to protocols."

That second point indicates that the Eden Prime facility works just like Ilos and power is shut down for non-essential pods to preserve the important ones. This also implies that in order to keep these stasis pods working, they need constant power. On Ilos, they didn't even have enough power to keep more than a dozen stasis pods active for a few centuries (and that was the facility that could power a mass relay). But on Eden Prime, somehow, Javik's pod is a) self contained and can apparently be powered indefinitely while all the other pods in the facility somehow still need to be shut down according to triage protocols.

So how does that make sense?

This issue is as old as ME2 but still, I'm gonna link this article on it because it always makes me chuckle :
www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=30943

I think one of the ME writers in an interview talked about how they weren't fond of Cerberus going from "secondary villainous organization" in ME1 to the superpower it is in the later games. Reading that article makes me wonder how more interesting the game would have been if Shepard was recruited by an organization composed of the non-human races that would have been around a lot longer to build their own network galaxy-wide.