Rumor: Omega DLC Data Found on Mass Effect 3 Discs

[pandorum]

That Zaeed thing, if true, is what I'm going to be looking forward to the most. That will explain what Zaeed meant when he said he turned on Cerberus because of what they did to him. I always thought that was odd. I could find no information on how they turned on him and why he started going against them. It seemed too personal to him for it to be the Suicide Mission in Mass Effect 2.
And this should not have come as a surprise to anyone. I remember that within a week after Mass Effect 3's release, people were already talking about how one of the DLCs would have to be about Aria and Omega. I'm looking forward to it. I enjoyed the story in Leviathan and the fact that it changed the ending slightly. Looking forward to this too. Maybe, if they keep releasing all these DLCs, eventually it will change the ending enough that we don't get what we currently have. One can hope.

Why would Cerberus want to attack Omega? What value could a mined-out husk of an asteroid full of pirates possibly contain to warrant an invasion and then a blockade? If they wanted to eliminate the pirates, why didn't they just bomb the thing from a distance?

Access to the Omega 4 relay, and what is now known to be on the other side. When Aria starts helping the Alliance/Council, that puts her at odds with Cerberus. So, if Cerberus want to continue studying the Collector Base (or, based on your decisions, what's left of it) the they have to remove Aria and her forces.

Other then that? Well, the Terminus Systems is a huge place with vast resources, most of which has to terminate at, or at least pass through, Omega. So long as Cerberus could effectively hold it (which they could. I mean, as mean as the gangsters are, they're hardly going to be good at organised resistance) then Omega would be a huge steal for Cerberus.

I guess that's a decent reason for attacking Omega.

But the gangsters are good at organized resistance, since according to the story they pushed Cerberus back which forced them to set up the blockade. Which begs the question, why can't Cerberus, who now inexplicably commands a fleet and army that can attack the Citadel and Salarian homeworld and hold bases on multiple planets, not defeat a bunch of pirates and gangsters on one asteroid?

Why don't they just destroy Omega, or cripple it's life-support systems, and build themselves a new base? Since they were able to pull a big space-fleet and army out of their ass, them building a space-station doesn't seem that far-fetched.

Cerberus really annoys me, if you couldn't tell.

Cerberus normally attacks from within with tons of sleeper agents that do not know who they are teamed with till the attack first happens. Omega was the real assault they have tried and they clearly underestimated the power of a united mercenary force of the Blood pack, Blue Suns and Eclipse. Plus them types never play fair which is new for Cerberus to fight a enemy witch has its own dirty tactics.

 

[Aeshi]

"A notorious Cerberus tactician orchestrating the Omega blockade crashes on a planet after being attacked by Aria's raiders. Aria wants to grill the tactician and asks you to retrieve her before Cerberus does. Your shuttle down to the planet is rocked by a missile: Cerberus has had time to establish a defensive perimeter," according to the report.

So they've had enough time to set up missile defences to shoot down approaching shuttles, but not enough to retrieve (and presumably fly off with) one person?

 

[deathbydeath]

Why not just, I dunno, nuke Omega if it's that much of a problem? Never seems to be anything but trouble.

It's Cerberus, everything remotely involved with them is infected with the stupid.