On to it then… for Paragons the right choice is clear: saving the Capital City of Watson saves lives. More lives saved means more people can join hands at the kumbaya guitar circle that’s somehow going to stop the Reapers.
I kid, I kid!
But, Obvious Paragon IS obvious.But for Renegades the choice seems less obvious, or at least more complex.
The dilemma is presented as the idea that allowing the spaceport to be destroyed will mean the colony will no longer be viable and will have to be evacuated. But why should this be so? Why can that infrastructure not be rebuilt?
Seems to me that (should the spaceport be destroyed) what Watson really needs is not an evacuation, but a patron, an organization to sponsor the colony and help them get back on their feet.
Such an organization would have to have extensive financial, industrial, technological, and military resources, but not necessarily vast reserves of manpower, since the saved city arguably has all the workers one would need to get the colony up and running.
Such a potential patron should also have to have interests in both cutting edge xenobiology (the vast potential for which Watson is noted), and in furthering the cause of human expansion (Watson is a major human colony in an alien dominated region of the galaxy).
And if, like any good Renegade, you saved the Collector Base, the Skepsis system is only one mass relay transit away from the Ω4. In other words, it’s the nearest human world to the CB, that alone should recommend it as a location for a base to exploit the fruits of the Collector operation to one extent or another. The vast natural and human resources and potential of the wider Skepsis System only sweeten the deal.
Let’s see… an organization with vast resources, but limited manpower, with both advanced xeno scientific AND pro-human political agendas, and one which either is (or shortly expects to) exploit the captured Collector Base for military and scientific purposes. I can think of one organization that fits that description to a tee.
Watson represents a real chance for Cerberus. A chance to step out (at least partially, no one says they can’t keep using their front companies) from the shadows, and do what they claim they exist to do: champion the cause of humanity! And help themselves a bit in the process.
I know not every Renegade is a Cerberus supporter, but ya’ gotta admit; there is a fair degree of overlap.
It’s a win for all involved. Watson needs Cerberus to survive, and Cerberus needs Watson to reach its full potential. So save that city!
Also, the Alliance built a base housing missiles capable of planetary bombardment in orbit around one of their own colonies. What's up wit' dat!?!
Modifié par General User, 04 janvier 2011 - 10:40 .
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I always go to save the spaceport for the sake of variance only to learn that I've actually been saving the city.
