Draconis6666 wrote...
Saphra Deden wrote...
lol, for realz, dawg
Covering up the crimes of a criminal who gots dozens of people killed all so that his daughter doesn't have her feelings hurt is totally the morally upstanding thing to do.
You see, it is crap like this that proves that Renegades are ultimately better people. Paragons have messed up priorities.
The Ruthless background says otherwise IMO, getting countless numbers of your soldiers killed because you didnt want to take prisoners because YOU personally felt like they needed to suffer is anything but being a good person or focusing on your priorities as a Commanding officer, your priority is to accomplish the set mission objectives with minimal losses to your own troops not to use them as meatshields to sate your own desire to see every alien on Torfan butchered. If being Renegade is always about being such a Badass then you should have gone and killed them all yourself since your so awesome.
Umm...
what!?Psychological Profile: Ruthless
Throughout your military career, you have held fast to one basic rule: get the job done. You've been called cold, calculating, and brutal. Your reputation for ruthless efficiency makes your fellow soldiers wary of you. But when failure is not an option, the military always goes to you first.
Torfan
Torfan was a base for criminals, mostly batarians, who built strongholds deep underground. In retaliation for the Skyllian Blitz, the Alliance raided Torfan in 2178. Though the Alliance took heavy losses, the enemy was annihilated. After Torfan the batarians began retreating from Citadel space. If Shepard is described as Ruthless, the Commander's reputation was cemented at Torfan. Shepard pursued the batarians and wiped them out - even those who surrendered - at the cost of many lives from the Commander's unit, earning Shepard the uncomplimentary title "Butcher of Torfan". Major Kyle, Shepard's commanding officer at Torfan, couldn't handle the loss of so many marines and was eventually given an honourable discharge, later becoming the leader of a biotic commune.
Where does it say anything in there about Shepard using Alliance soldiers as "meat shields" or somehow getting people killed because he had a personal vendetta against batarians (BTW, how exactly do you get an Alliance soldier killed by executing a surrending enemy?).
Torfan was a heavily defended base used by pirates and slavers who were holed up in massive fortified underground bunkers. Taking the moon was essentially storming the beaches of Normandy in WWII. A more squeemish, "Paragon" Commander may have simply written it off as impossible due to the staggering predicted losses in it's destruction. Imagine if such a person had been in charge back in 1944...
A Ruthless Shepard is simply focused on the mission, with an emphasis on getting the job done
at any cost. Alliance soldiers didn't die "needlessly" on Torfan due to some vindictive nature on Shepard's part. They were simply the necessary cost of taking the heavily fortified base, just as the 45,000 Allied soldiers who died on the beaches of Normandy were a necessary cost of taking the heavily fortified French coast and creating a beachhead that resulted in the ultimate defeat of the **** regime.
And hey, wouldn't ya know it, after the massacre at Torfan, the batarian slavers and pirates were so decimated and demoralized that they ultimately retreated from Council space entirely.
Modifié par JKoopman, 16 avril 2011 - 08:22 .
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