Things that don't make sense (v2)

After several ME3 missions, Shepard magically appears inside the War Room, but this prevents some of the events on board the ship from making any sense. For example, on Palaven, Liara leaves to investigate the problems on the ship involving EDI which are already happening while Shepard is on the planet. Those problems, according to Traynor, are making the comm systems go haywire, yet Shepard is encouraged to answer a comm from Hackett immediately while still in the War Room. Shepard can also have a conversation with Primarch Victus before being told by Joker there is a problem when exiting the War Room.

Furthermore (and themikefest should like this one since it makes Liara seem like a complete idiot) - If Shepard stops in at Liara's room before going to the AI Core, Liara just asks "What's happening?" even though she expressly left the planet some time earlier in order to investigate the problems occurring on the ship.

Possibly the most idiotic argument a person could make trying to equate AI and VI. Nor do I understand how sentient beings in one form are superior to sentient beings in another form. There's that race that downloaded themselves and became the "Virtual Aliens". Did they stop being sentient beings because they gave up their bodies?

It's definitely the OP who is seeing things from a distorted perspective, probably as a way of disassociating from the idea of allowing all thinking beings to be destroyed if they chose Destroy. They need to reevaluate and decide what is or is not acceptable and move away from the idea that they're "off the hook" because they aren't organic. Honestly, all organic life grew out of inorganic matter so the point fails. You know where I stand on RGB but it requires accepting the consequences and not pretending they don't count.

In this case, I took "maturity" to mean sexual maturation, like puberty in humans. Some 12yo humans may technically be capable of reproduction, but they're still children.

Maybe 2 further points on this:
1. Liara's comment makes sense to me, especially because when she says it, they are talking about her scientific research about the protheans and her precise words are "But among the asari, I am barely considered more than a child."
Now, if we compare that to someone on earth, saying this in a similar context, there is a lot of wiggle room there. In science today even a 25 year old grad student or freshly baked PhD might be considered "barely more than a child" in the scientific community. So I don't have a problem with that.

2. What does not make sense to me is that Samara tells us that the AY syndrome is genetic. With the levels of genetic engineering that apparently even humans use on a regular basis, there should be no way, that they cannot detect an AY, even before birth. A regular DNA test for the relevant markers should be enough. With the level of gene therapy, we see and can read about in the codex, they should also be able to devise a therapy easily. But in any case, this whole idea that they need to wait until someone actually shows the symptoms in order to detect a genetic disorder in a civilization on that medical and technological level is a bit ridiculous.

Why is it so silly? MEU is not perfect: people, races, individuals, rules, norms, customs, stupidity, bribes, secrets, wars - the list is endless.

Jeff has Vrolik syndrome: meds help him, but he still suffers, difficult to walk not to mention of other things he would like to do.
Garrus mother died because of Corpalis Syndrome which can't be cured, but the salarians at least try to find some treatment.

The progress is clear as day, but not everything can be fixed, even with advanced technologies.

The whole galaxy is trying to adapt, including some infamous virus or very old disease, like AY, old as the asari race (would like to ask Javik about it with their experiments).

Difficult to call it "silly", but such thought as "advanced MEU can't think of some test for future AY" comes to mind, only with the following "Nobody's perfect".

Was more of a rhetorical question included in additional opinion on the topic as yours was clear enough.

But thank you for detailed clarification, Element Zero.

That actually makes sense. Genetically-created assassins. Never happens when asari mate with other races, only with other asari. That sounds like a pretty solid idea.

Javik wouldn't know anyway. He was a warrior, whose job was to send Protheans into battle. How much happens in our own nations that we don't know about? Tons and tons and tons of things. Even generals wouldn't know this stuff. He was clueless about the intricacies beyond knowledge that the Protheans had directed their evolution and that the Protheans thought they were the ones who would end the Reaper threat. They hadn't expected that asari would be too full of themselves. They hadn't thought to use the AY agents the indoctrinated. They were what have made the asari a greater empire. Too bad ego, fear and arrogance prevented that from happening.

Somehow I have never thought of this.

This is called a plothole. Holy moly! A big one.

Genetic disorders are often the result of multiple gene mutations rather than a single specific gene. It's possible that the sample sizes for these rare disorders haven't been big enough to isolate the various markers that combine to cause the disorder.

It doesn't seem to fit Ardat-Yakshi, though. The Asari have had them throughout their history, including the 2000+ years of cooperation with Salarians. They have enough AY at any given time to justify monastic complexes. The timeline alone makes "insufficient sample size" hard to believe. Throw in the number of afflicted implied by monasteries, and it just doesn't work for me. I wish it did! 🙂

As much as I love this series, it's not written by a team of scientific minds, military minds, etc... There aren't a lot of subject matter experts on hand, since it's space fantasy rather than "harder" SciFi. As the series progressed, misunderstandings, inconsistencies and contradictions multiplied. A big part of enjoying it, for me, is knowing which parts I can rationalize, which parts to ignore, and so on. Ardat-Yakshi I simply try to not spare too much thought.

I have hEDS, so it's an amusing coincidence that you used that example. I even participated in that study, adding my f-ed up genes to the catalogue. 😄

I certainly hope that my species has eliminated all forms of EDS 2000 years from now, especially with the Salarians helping us. Anything less would be inconceivable.

The whole "how many AY are there?" is a part of the issue. Do we really believe Lessus is the only such monastery in the galaxy? Banter with Liara and the rest of the crew made it sound, IMO, that this monastery is not unique, and that it had a large population of AY. This comes, of course, right on the heels of ME2's "only three exist". It's a mess.

There's also the strong desire to find a cure that often drives research. How few they are is unclear, but AY seem to occupy a lot of head space for Asari. Liara even suggests that AY might be the cause for the aversion to "pure bloods". I just don't see how a highly motivated, highly advanced species could fail to cure this with millennia to get it done.