"Sorry, Virmire Survivor: you may never get a real chance to reconcile, to understand why, Shepard did what Shepard had to do."
I don't think that the VS gives a rat's furry hind end about what happens to Shepard. They wrote him off after Horizon and accused him of being a traitor both personally and professionally.
As for blowing the relay, that's what I would have done in the same circumstances. I would have tried to warn the Batarians about what was coming as well.
Regarding the trial, I really don't know where BioWare's head is at. I've seen the leaked betas and there is nothing there that would indicate that anything bad happened to Shepard. He's in an open room staring out of a window with a data pad in his hand. I expected him to be doing heavy labor using a sledge hammer to break big rocks into little rocks. Whether it is still like that in the release is anybody's guess, but if I were the Batarians and they did that with Shepard there would be a war.
If you cut a man loose and charge him as a terrorist and try him, that's one thing. But to ground him and keep him out of circulation until all the bad press blows over, that's tacit approval and a cover up. The Batarian prison had cameras all over the place and there was a two day lag before the relay was blown. How much do you want to bet that the photos were sent to Batarian intel to determine who broke into a secret prison that nobody should have known about?
That would have resulted in contacts to both the Citadel and the Alliance to find out what they knew, when they knew it, and what their intentions are toward the Batarians. With Anderson off of the Council and Udina in, do you really believe that the Council would have Shepard's back? If Hackett were serious about the "grave" consequences during the de-brief, the Alliance would roast Shepard as well with the happy assistance of the VS who would believe that Shepard was getting what he so richly deserved. Why should they expend millions of lives for who they believe to be a terrorist nut case?
I knew that I would be signing my own arrest warrant as soon as I pressed the button on the Project and Shepard should have known it as well. Nobody believes that the Reapers are real, the galaxy's opinion is that Shepard is nuts, TIM has been spreading lies about him like manure in order to undermine trust, and even the VS survivor who knows him best believes him to be a fraud and a liar. That has "sacrificial lamb" written all over it.
Let's see if BioWare takes the story where Arrival was willing to go and actually makes Shepard pay for his actions or see if they are just going to sugar coat it and go from there. Remember the Kodiak that lifted off at the end of Arrival? How much do you want to bet you will see them again as witnesses against you regaling the court with tales of how you lost it and murdered Kinson, them, and 300,000 Batarians because of your delusions about the "Reapers."
And before anybody says how are they going to cover up the fact that they had converted an asteroid into a mobile platform, all they have to do is to agree that they found what they thought was a "Reaper" relic, but that it turned out to be a mobile platform with a powerful mass accelerator weapon on it like the one that made the graze mark on Klendagon and that you (Shepard) kept insisting that it was actually Reaper tech and destroyed it and the relay as they tried desperately to stop your rampage. That would explain the communication with Hackett and explain why they were in Batarian space. Then all they would have to do is to claim that the Batarians could not be allowed to get their hands on the weapon and that Kinson was caught while trying to get to an Alliance contact in order to clarify what they had found when she was captured by the Batarians. Given the VS reaction to you and that of the Council, who do you think the Alliance will believe?
Regarding my ME2 LI, you damn skippy I would take the opportunity to have a night with her before heading off to my own conviction and I would relieve the Cerberus crew as well before the Alliance got their hands on the SR-2. Further, I would order EDI to delete all references to them in her archives and to turn over the rest of the Cerberus data to the Alliance. When the Alliance boarded the Normandy, they would find only myself aboard her.
Hope they have Marlboro cigarettes at Fort Leavenworth.
Retour en haut
's. It's dumb, its wrong, and I feel horribly sorry for any Tali that was put through it.
.
