Barquiel wrote...
I would give the base to the council.
- evidence
- every species would benefit
As the only option is to hand it to the evil space-racist, I destroyed it.
I think our experience with the Council in the first game tells us what they'd do here:
Evidence of Reapers: Salarian Councilor- "Everyone knows the Collectors have advanced technology there's nothing here that supports that this had to be made by "Reapers.""
Every Species Would Benefit: It's a genocide machine. No one benefits when you must sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to get a Reaper larva to experiment on. Also for some reason they guys who created the base and know the tech only used Humans to make their Reaper, so the only known viable ingrediant to make a Reaper would be more human lives. Any other alien species may have...unforeseen consquences. It could be unstable, it could not form, it could be insane. We have no idea why the other races were deemed unusable but they were and it had to be for a reason.
Cerberus is a Terrorist Organistation with delusions of grandeur. But the other groups aren't perfect either.
The Council is racist (only three races are important enough to decide the fate of the galaxy?) but worse they're so busy trying to control their little worlds that they constantly miss the larger threat. Given the Collector Base they'd likely send some scientists, get a few reports, put those reports somewhere classified, the Shadow Broker would get them, and then someone will buy the information. They won't act on anything because they're caught up in politics. Always remember, a Reaper appeared with an army at its back, invaded the Citadel, docked onto the Citadel Tower, and began to interface with the Station and the Council STILL doesn't see a threat with the Reapers.
The Alliance are bullies. Time and time again that's pointed out by different species. They showed up thirty years ago and demand things from the other races simply because they're selfish and arrogent. They've spread far and wide and seem entitled to everything in the known universe. At the end of the day, this is a group that brought us Udina and Cerberus. And many on these boards still believe there are connections between Cerberus and the Alliance heads. Giving them the Base would ultimately lead to Cerberus having the base, either through connections, dealings, blackmail, or simple infiltration.
The Turians? Ever read about their warfare tactics? This would be used as a weapon.
Batarians? Duh.
Asari? They'd give it to some one and continue to shake their asses in bars and generally do whatever they please.
Quarians? They've been roaming space for 300 years, apparently long enough to evolve in a way that makes normal life impossible, entirely because they can't decide if they want to colonize another world. Given something like this they'll likely do nothing with it because they couldn't decide what to do with it.
Geth? They'd strip it of hardware and then go back to making their own future.
In short, BioWare's created a diverse universe where there is no universally accepted 'Good Guys'. They're all flawed, their beliefs, laws, actions, and systems are flawed but still manage to function just like real life.
So the only way the Collector Base could not be misused would be if there was an option for Shepard and a team of their choosing to examine the structure and once they were sure all useful information was taken, destroy it so no one else could get access to it.
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