[quote]CrazyCatDude wrote...
Now? Now you want my help? Fine. I'll help you. I'll help you because its my job. I'll help you because it will save the lives of people who don't deserve to die for your arrogance. But mostly, I'll help you because it's the right thing to do. But when this is over, I'm going to tell everyone that I warned you, that you had three years to prepare, and that you did nothing. And when they come, howling for your blood, I'm going to do exactly what you did. Nothing.[/quote]
This one is awesome; one of my very favorites. Good for a Renegade/Paragade/Renegon.
[quote]Vilegrim wrote...
The firing squad is waiting, and I will be selecting your replacements.[/quote] How dearly I wish they'd let us do that...

[quote]General User wrote...
"You know, in certain older,
civilized cultures, when men failed as utterly as you have, they would
throw themselves on their swords..."[/quote] *laughs* Nice one! I wonder if they'd consider it... probably not. I assume after the first two games that none of them really has a sense of shame. Well, maybe the salarian.
[quote]Gibril wrote...
"My god, what is that? In the space, it's a ship, it's a giant purple hanar, no, it's... YOUR F***ING WAKE UP CALL!"
Or
"Damn, looks to me like Saren's flag ship, must've been a large run of them made, you know?"[/quote]

These are great, too.
[quote]GoG ToXiC wrote...
"Hey, Velarn! Maybe if you dismiss
their claims of annihilating all organic life in the galaxy they'll go
back to dark space!"[/quote]

Perfect. That can go straight into the game as far as I'm concerned.
[quote]Sister Helen wrote...
Someone posted earlier about being pleasant, then destroying the council politically at a later point.
I
really like the idea of using the Shadowbroker to destroy the Council
politically. I'm not sure it can be done (the salarian councilor's
lifespan is so short, it would probably just affect his family's
breeding negotiations and not him, personally... And the asarian would
probably outlive her critics.... The taurian would probably have the
most embarrassment to live down, of the three.)
Instead of Udina or Anderson for Council, my Shep would support Wrex.[/quote] I liked that Shadowbroker idea as well. I wouldn't go after the Salarian councilor, though--he has less life experience to draw from than almost all other species, and he was the least bastardy. I can give him the benefit of the doubt that he mostly learned how to conduct his business from the other two.
[quote]Omega Torsk wrote...
The Destiny Ascension has a gun. Use
it this time instead of wetting yourselves on it while it gets
bombarded. As for the Alliance dropping in and saving your ungrateful
hides,
again... fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice...
*Kasumi salute; the link terminates*[/quote]That is a
very good Renegade line.
[quote]Wereparrot wrote...
[quote]Grand Admiral Cheesecake wrote...
[quote]TobyHasEyes wrote...
There are more important things to be done then vent personal slights
[/quote]
I disagree.
Remembering to avenge personal slights in the middle of a galactic
extinction is just the kind of thing Shepard should get to do! It's a
morale booster!../../../images/forum/emoticons/sideways.png
[/quote]
Lecturing the council alienates them and wastes time.[/quote] It's not a "personal slight" that the Council has committed--it's a very impersonal, objective atrocity that the Council has perpetuated in having their heads buried in the sand all this time. They may, after all, be responsible for the extinction of all advanced organic life, since they alone had the power to investigate Shepard's claims.
As to lecturing the Council "alienating them"--I am as worried about alienating them as I'm worried about accidentally causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Even if it were possible, it wouldn't be relevant.
It's not even just their actions. It's their smug attitude; their refusal to even let you
investigate. They always knew better, didn't they? As a student of the social sciences, there's little that repulses me more than the kind of arrogance which says, "I prefer to believe the universe is as I've decided it is, I like it and it makes me feel safe, so I'll make sure no one else can examine other possibilities." And the price for their refusal to even consider what you have been continually telling them is a threat? Salarian lives. Asari lives. Turian lives. Human lives. Krogan lives. Entire
worlds. That is worse than an outrage, it is an
atrocity, and an at least partially
preventable one.
The Council has been useless for
three ****ing years. If they
are not committed to
finally doing their jobs after witnessing the Reapers destroying homeworlds
everywhere,
knowing they could've done something to at least improve our chances and save vast numbers of lives, to the point where
Shepard venting an unbeLIEVably deserved "I told you so" can
alienate them enough to cause even the
slightest hesitation to do
anything that needs to be done, then any galaxy which would allow them another INSTANT in their respective positions is frankly too damned dumb to continue existing.
If they survive and are not found to have been indoctrinated all along, Velarn and the asari should arguably be put on trial for criminal negligence. They had ample warning and the testimony of one of their own Spectres years before this happened. They actively hindered Shepard's attempts to prevent these disasters and never helped unless the evidence was actively stabbing them in the face at the time. Imagine how different things could have been if the Council had been composed of people like Matriarch Aethyta and Anderson with an actual modicum of wisdom in their respective personalities.
As an aside, wouldn't it be awesome if the asari got scared enough to choose an unconventional thinker like Aethyta for their replacement? Working with her would be a dream come true.
[quote]Arcian wrote...
"You did what you did for what you
believed were the best of reasons. No one, even from the lowest worker
to the rulers of galactic civilization, is exempt from making mistakes.
Make up for
this mistake by believing me
now."[/quote] And thus you give them an easy out, allowing them to never, ever face responsibility for their actions like adults. I honestly can't hear Shepard saying that. Not even as a Paragon.
If you must be civil to the smug, pompous, arrogant, backstabbing politicians who only
accidentally didn't doom the galaxy completely, then I think this is more characteristic of post-ME1-Shepard:
"You dismissed my claims that Saren was guilty as a human smear campaign. You dismissed my contact with Prothean technology as a silly dream. You dismissed my claim that Sovereign was more than a warship as gullibility. You dismissed my warning that the Reapers were coming as mere paranoia. Skepticism would have been understandable--but this could not be called skepticism. You
chose blindness, chose to refuse to even look at the signs instead of deferring to the scientific method and allowing me to prove myself right or wrong. It almost killed you once, and many humans died defending you. Many more, of every species, will die now defending the galaxy you refused to prepare for war.
"It didn't have to be like this.
"If you are not destroyed in the bombardment, and you can somehow find a way to live with yourselves despite the memory of the many chances you had to let me do the job you appointed me to, but instead tied my hands and left me hanging out to dry, then you had best throw those towering egos out the window once and for all, and commit yourselves to the only thing that can
possibly redeem the deaths we could have prevented together--throwing
every resource you have at saving what remains."
Even Paragon Shepard doesn't let culpable parties off the hook. Take a look at Tali's trial if you need an example. Shepard's not afraid to call anyone on their bs, and the Council must not be an exception.
Too many people would throw their tv or monitor out the window. Those things are expensive, you know.