winginson said:
I'm going for my first playthrough here, which I did as a "what would I do run?" and ended council dead anderson.
My reasons. You are specifically told that saving the Acension will result in many casulties, possibly meaning not there will not be enough ships left to beat Sovereign. Under those circumstances the only logical choice is to let them die so everyone in the galaxy doesn't.
Yes I know that Shepard was always gonna win and after seeing both endings there is no real difference whether they live or die. I really think there should of been more difference depending on what happened.
Actually there could be an argument that saving the Ascension is the most logical choice.
For one thing, Shepard knows that the rest of the Reapers will try to come eventually, no matter what. The Ascension is also one of the most powerful ships in the known galaxy. Thus it'd be an asset in the long run.
As well, the council, while obstructive, are still a symbol of unity and, most importantly, they are obstructive for the right reasons. They question you because what you claim has very little in terms of proof that they can see, and when they do get evidence, they are fairly quick to do something(this can be seen while trying to prove Saren's guilt. They dismiss you when you have very little credible evidence, yet also act reasonable when you do bring them evidence.) That being said, they are rather stupid about certain things(I think most anyone could see Sovereign's not of Geth design), but then again, Shepard has been rather dumb of things as well.(Ilos? the pointlessness of that journey is astounding in hindsight) Another thing to note is that Shepard is part of Cereberes at the point it sounds like the council is denying the existence of Reapers, so even if they were merely putting out a media blackout so everyone isn't panicking about the space-thulus coming to get them, they wouldn't be likely to divulge much information about it to Shepard anyway.
O.T: Saved council, Anderson human representative.
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Zeel said:
People harping about "galactic stability" are complete fools. These are the same three assholes who were just sitting up in their bunker while a renegade spectre goes around trying to commit Racial genocide.
Anyone who thinks the council members were promoting galactic stability aren't thinking clearly. They needed to be purged, clearly they weren't doing their jobs effectively anymore.
How weren't they doing there jobs right in ME1? Because they were questioning someone about the existence of giant space-thulus? I want you to think of the concept of Reapers, and tell me that you'd believe someone who started talking about there existence, especially someone with little in terms of practical evidence.
Oh and BTW, don't bring up ME2 as an example of them being bad at there job, as there was no way you'd know that they'd be like that after the end of ME1.