Things that don't make sense (v2)

Yeah, I supposed 1-800-GOT-JUNK views it that way. Somehow didn't get the impression Saren was into that sort of business though.

I think the operation was a ruse to collect Krogan for his breeding facility on Virmire.

For all of the Virmire base being trumped up as a "breeding facility" for Krogan... we only see a few Krogan mercenaries, 1 Krogan doctor and no sign of any females or krogan hatchlings/babies or any Krogan test subjects of any kind. We also don't see any evidence of any tank breeding happening either. What we see of the labs is all about studying indoctrination using fairly recently captured salarians and, evidently, some unrelated experiments about turning humans into husks. I know Rana Thanoptis explains that we're not on the breeding level; but wouldn't it have made more sense to have some Krogan (perhaps indoctrinated ones) in one of the cell blocks?

There are a whole lot of breeding tanks in the vicinity of the bomb site, in addition to those at the laboratory.
That we didn't see any krogan babies doesn't mean much, as even Okeer was breeding fully grown Krogans.

The breeding tanks we see are all empty, but my headcanon justification is that all Krogans were released, armed, and sent to stop Kirrahe's teams.

Fun fact: I'm relatively sure that the tanks on Virmire are the same model as used in ME3 Sanctuary. I think Grunts tank is also based on the same asset, with very slightly alterations done to it.

It's a good question.  We do see a krogan/turian "husk" in the form of a brute, but no pure krogan transformation.  And we definitely saw no evidence, or mention, of krogan indoctrination.  If that's the case, you want those guys fighting on your side without a doubt.  From an RP perspective, it would bring something new to the table when deciding whether or not cure the genophage.

Maybe Harbinger is a good indicator:

"Krogan; sterilised race, potential wasted.”

edit:

Also,

"Quarian; considered due to cybernetic augmentation, weakened immune system too debilitating.”

“Drell; useless, insufficient numbers.”

I'm not really sure. Just throwing it out, as food for thought. Probably the only time we get an assessment like that from Reapers.

Maybe it's not even relevant and is some relic of Drew K's old dark energy storyline, which required mass use of a race. Maybe it required all genetic abilities in tact. /shrug

Here's one (and I mentioned it before on the old BSN Board a couple of years ago):

Vendetta refuses to reveal the catalyst to Shepard and Co on Thessia as a security measure to keep that information from the Reapers. This makes sense up until we find out that the Catalyst was the Citadel itself.

Say What?!

I would like everyone to consider that except (obviously) for the very first cycle, every cycle except ours start with the Reapers using the Citadel Mass Relay, capturing the Citadel, and then shutting down the Mass Relays except for the Reapers themselves crippling any enemy Command-Control-Communications-Intelligence right out of the gate. Our own cycle is unique in that the Reapers were not able to control the citadel out of the gate, and that was due to the efforts of a Prothean science team (per Vigil) that worked Feverishly centuries after the Reapers had already left the Galaxy for Dark Space and the rest of the Prothean race was long dead.

Given what the Protheans 50,000 years ago (and thus Vendetta) should have known, once Vendetta was satisfied that Shepard and Co weren't indoctrinated, the fact that the Citadel was the Catalyst should have been one of the very first things it would have revealed. Given a normal cycle, it makes no sense to keep this factoid a secret and in fact is counter-productive. After all, since the Citadel is obviously going to be the most heavily defended Reaper strongpoint (for reasons all on its own). Thus even if the Reapers do find out, they won't be able to defend it any more than they already are (at least in the Prothean cycle). Naturally the entire project has to be kept a deepest darkest secret, but playing games with this sort of information just makes it hard (and it's already virtually impossible) for anti-Reaper fleets to coordinate for an attack to retake the Citadel in order to use it. [Or at the very least Vendetta should WARN future anti-Reaper forces that retaking the Citadel (which should be the Prothean assumption) is what it's going to take.

The scenes only make sense for the situation as it applies in this cycle which is completely unique. It's like the developers forgot they even made ME1.

Several things here:

1.  The Protheans didn't know the Catalyst was within the Citadel, nor could they (or anyone else other than the Levieathans I suppose) know that.  You are assuming facts that the Protheans couldn't possibly know.  For that matter as far as Shepard is concerned the Catalyst is the Citadel and reports to Alliance Command as such.

2.  The Protheans didn't know about the relationship between the Keepers and the signal.  Vigil in ME1 makes that very clear.  It took DECADES of research after the fact for the Prothean Science team on Illos to make that discovery and do something about it....and that happened AFTER the Reapers destroyed all the rest of the Protheans.

3.  The Citadel is essentially indestructable.  Certainly it is to Reaper weapons and if it's that way to Reaper weapons I think it's a pretty safe bet it is to anyone else's as well.

4.  The whole point is that given what the Protheans knew when Vendetta was programmed, keeping the fact that the Catalyst was the Citadel (as far as the Protheans knew) is the LAST thing they'd want to keep secret.   Notice (in the refuse ending) that one of the very first things Liara does is warn future cycles that the Catalyst/Device is in essence a trap.  The Protheans should have done the same logically....or at the very least warned any of those that found it that attacking Reaper Central would be needed.  The Protheans would have to assume for future cycles that:

    a.  The Citadel would be the very first thing to fall, and the thing most heavily guarded by the Reapers.
    b.  That it wouldn't matter if the Reapers knew that the "Catalyst was the Citadel" (and of course in hindsight we find out the Reapers knew all along) because the Reapers wouldn't guard it any more tightly than they already would have anyway just by virtue of being the master relay for the entire mass-relay network.

I agree... this whole Shepard dying thing was really just unnecessary "overkill."

Or Vandetta is correct the catalyst is the Citadel and that the Leviathan AI that called itself Catalyst only exist as a projection in Shepard's mind.

Also why can't Shepard bring Vandetta back from Cronus Station?