The second has this too; you can ask who the hell Cerberus is, who the Collectors are, what Illium’s deal is, the works. Flows surprisingly well, though.
Probably lingering resentment over the Relay 314 Incident. Garrus is my main main, though, but as he says - he’s not a very good turian,
With enthusiasm: They should also add [, the first hanar Spectre, to the third as a squadmate.
“This one has forgotten whether its heat sink is over capacity. It wonders if the criminal scum considers itself fortunate.”
But as the Council is keen to remind you off - Saren is such a brilliant genius he can convince geth that the ship they built is a Reaper. Why would he shoot himself in the head if he knew he would come back anyway?
True, but the fate of the galaxy is at stake! Besides which, the asari councillor is presumably a matriach, renowned for their mental strength. Liara was a maiden (well, not any more - giggidy!) and managed to pull the location of the Conduit from Shep’s head.
It even works if you didn’t actually shove a gun in their face - people with remember that anyway! Good old Conrad.
A whole freaking lot of what Saren did remains a convinient mystery nobody can be bothered explaining. Since he’s dead, no need to worry about his ‘flagship’ which happened to be the most advanced dreadnought in the entire galaxy, that’s dead too! And the geth are on the backfoot, despite only a few months earlier they developed a weapon that could rip through an Alliance cruiser like piss through toilet paper.
It’s on [url=http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/N7:_Archeological_Dig_Site]Joab](]Blasto[/url), you have to fight your way through a bunch of Blue Suns to get it.
Aren’t all Collectors teched up? Even if the Collector General was the brains, this still leaves the question of why they are abducting humans - something we have video evidence of. Like Timmy-boy says; why not just kill them if it’s simple revenge?
Well, him and his squad. The Collector base fits the description, though.
It’s only advanced organic life that is targeted. “The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilisations rise. Evolve. Advance. And at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished.”
I don’t know of anyone who would suggest that the Protheans were around 37 million years ago - not supported by archaeology or…well, common sense. It was a battle raged while “mammals took their first steps on Earth.” I doubt the Protheans were doing much better back then either.
Back in their day was 50,000 years ago - all evidence points to a great collapse at the apex of their glory (hmm…). The beacons show their own destruction, not exactly a triumph…
The humans, depleted after the Battle of the Citadel, stretched too thin to even investigate attacks on their own colonies? Even Shep is just one person.
According to Vigil, that’s just what they did, then left their indoctrinated slaves to starve to death.
Turning the geth (even 5% of them, which turned out to be quite a lot) didn’t seem to be a problem for one Reaper - imagine what thousands of 'em could do.
The Thanix cannon is a miniaturised version of Sovereign’s main guns, not an exact replica. The Codex notes that it gives the firepower of a cruiser to a frigate - which is why the Normandy SR-2 gives the Collector cruiser a good spanking. Greater manoeuvrability and parity in firepower.
But, as EDI says - Reaper kinetic barriers are impervious to dreadnought fire. Even with the Thanix the Normandy couldn’t blast through the barriers on the derelict Reaper.
This assumes that we can even shut them down in the first place, let alone fire them up to deny their creators access. Although Vigil’s data file he gives Shep to access the Citadel’s master control unit is further proof of Shep’s story - why would Vigil, a Prothean VI, have the foresight to predict that Saren (and a bunch of geth) would stop by Ilos, then have the means to sabotage the Citadel in the even that it is attacked by them? Reaper cycle would explain the data file and Vigil’s foresight.
Indeed, Legion confirms this, in that the ‘programmes’ within Sovereign referred to itself as Nazara. “One ship. One will. Many minds.”
That’s also assuming we can even shoot mecha-Cthulhus down from a distance. If we can figure out how the Etamisians took the shot (too late) we might have a chance. Or if that Volus figures out what the “lost crypts of the beings of light” on Klencory can do against the “machine devils”.
Or the equivalent of the Collector General. Harbinger’s lines make it clear that he’d prefer Shepard’s body intact.
Also a possibility, and an explanation of why he wants Shep intact… ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL…OF YOUR HEART! I KNOW YOU FEEL THIS!
Been near a larval Reaper, though. If she disabled the Normandy in the Collector base they could have turned Shep’s squad into Reaper-goo and simply waited for the Collectors to finish building the T-800…er, I mean Human-Reaper. AIs are patient, after all. EDI’s proven her loyalty by now though.