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[TUHD]

.... GREAT... the SQL of the forums seem to be broken, it's reporting posts in this topic which aren't showing!

Edit: Oh. Nvm. Just a very, very slow SQL :/

Modifié par TUHD, 29 mars 2011 - 02:34 .

[Itkovian]

Flamewielder wrote...

Don't leave out the other big advantage the Citadel gave the Reapers: control over the relay network. Any Citadel fleet would be parcelled out accross whatever region was colonized by the Citadel race(s). Control of the Citadel makes it possible for the reapers to destroy any Council fleet piecemeal, instead of potentially facing a Council fleet that, if gathered all together, could be large enough to win. I'm not just talking about this current cycle, but all previous cycles together.

The imminent arrival of the Reapers THROUGH the Alpha Relay is bad news, but not as catastrophic as the Reapers arriving through the Citadel Relay. Even if Shepard fails to stop them from coming in at the Alpha Relay, the Council fleet is still able to respond. Still bad news enough...

THIS.

There is more to attaining control of the Citadel than simply allowing the Reapers to jump in.  It contains tremendous information on galactic civilisation, AND it gives the Reapers control over the relay system.

THAT is what made the Citadel trap so deadly, and allowed the Reapers to so effectively destroy every civilisation in the galaxy. Now they will have a much harder time of it.

If all they needed was a way to jump in the galaxy, they would have made sure their big relay was well hidden.

So yes, ME1's victory is a huge triumph, and without it we would never have had a fighting chance.

Itkovian

[Chris Priestly]

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[atheelogos]

egervari wrote...
So now we are to believe that this Alpha relay is the key? Why not just use this from day 1 then?

Because they didn't want to. Travel isn't instantaneous not even for a Reaper. Their reasons are their own, but I'd guess it has something to do with energy. Maybe they didn't want to expend the energy to manually travel to the system from darkspace.