biomag wrote...
If I recall it right:
Let the council die.
Udina gets his orgasm after telling Shepard that they are dead and what great plan that was - Shepard says: Idiot, I didn't do it because of that!
Should be that easy if its not messed up by a transfer bug. I think that was my start into the game.
And Udina's answer is, either explicit or "behind-the-scenes": Thank you, Mr. Shepard for getting me rid of these alien morons, now go play some war with the geth and let the grown-ups handle what's really important.
Shandepared wrote...
I just figure the asari, turians, and salarians being listed under the "Council races" is an oversight. After all, humanity isn't listed under Council races.
It's because the ME2 Codex is largely the standard issue Alliance Codex from ME1. Cerberus only added some new enties.
Shandepared wrote...
When Anderson says the Council doesn't trust me I assume that Udina populated the Council with a bunch of paragons. It makes sense. He want people on there that might genuinely try to treat anyone equally. As the man in charge he still ensures humans come out on top though.
As Shepard is blamed for the Council dying the new Council would be unwise to associate themselves with him.
Same result as from populating the Council with pet aliens, who have little power within their own species hierarchies and even less say in the actual Councl's decisions. But maintain the outward look of multilateralism.
Shandepared wrote...How else does one explain "former" Council races unless those races are no longer on the Council?
We've been through this before: "former" must refer to the Council, not to the races.
Look, I don't say there is no controversy about this, and some stuff does look like it was meant for the "All Human" Council, but the very intro text you get about "Humanity seized the power" states in the adjacent line: "
Human led Council".
BioWare decided that no matter if Shepard was renegade or paragon in ME1, and whatever the final speech Udina gave back then, it would yield exactly the same results. And they made it legit. Way more than a single thermal clip.