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[Merkit91]

"Commander" now, eh Balak? I knew he had connection to Hegemony- too fast Charn and his slavers begun to listen to him.
Make me wonder- will we see him only if we let him go or if we sent him in jail.(it will be really funny to find out that he was send to Purgatory to serve jail time before it's destroyed).
Or maybe he will show up even if we shot him- Shepard survived after destruction of the Normandy, who says Balak can't survive after few shots?

[husky husk]

Merkit91 wrote...

"Commander" now, eh Balak? I knew he had connection to Hegemony- too fast Charn and his slavers begun to listen to him.
Make me wonder- will we see him only if we let him go or if we sent him in jail.(it will be really funny to find out that he was send to Purgatory to serve jail time before it's destroyed).
Or maybe he will show up even if we shot him- Shepard survived after destruction of the Normandy, who says Balak can't survive after few shots?

Shepard didn't survive, he dead, I said he dead.

[Volkrex]

Wow, my canon ME3 playthrough is gonna get a lot more interesting

[casedawgz]

I told him I would hunt him down. Hopefully I don't NEED to team up with him. Killing him 4 years later will be so delightful.

[Jynthor]

Eh, he's already full of holes.
No way I'd ever work with him anyway.

[Northern Sun]

I knew he was working for the Batarian government. Glad I left him to rot in prison.

[CrazyCatDude]

Saphra Deden wrote...

It's so dumb it's actually funny. Anyway, Balak is one of my favorite characters. Though I'm sure ME3 is working in overdrive to ruin him.

Here's an old post I made about him:

I would like to discuss Balak.

What are your impressions of him?

Is he a madman? A hero? A victim?


For my part he's clearly a madman, but a tragic one. His motivations are the key. I think that Balak is possibly motivated by grief. One thing I am certain of though is that he was not always a violent and hateful person. The Alliance's conflict with the batarians must have hurt Balak in a very personal way.

The evidence for this is in his refusal to take responsibility for anything he's done. When Shepard first confronts him Balak defends himself by pointing out how the Alliance pushed the batarians out. To him this is just righteous retribution for what humanity did to his people. Finally, if you attack him, Balak accuses Shepard of killing the hostages.

Balak said...

I gave you the chance to save them and you threw it away!

Who's the real terrorist here?

This reaction in particular says a lot about him. From his perspective it wasn't him who attacked X571, it wasn't him who killed the hostages. The real perpetrator of these heinous acts was the Systems Alliance. Yes, heinous. Deep down Balak does think what he has done is wrong and or else he wouldn't be so eager to shift the responsibility for it onto Shepard. He is most certainly a shell of his former self, blinded and fueled by anger and pain.

There's nothing tragic about Balak.  He's a scum bag who tried to murder an entire colony, and when he got called on the carpet, whined about how it was all the victim's fault.  Every time he starts his whiny little speech, I'm reminded of a rapist who defends himself by saying "She was asking for it.  Look what she was wearing."  He wasn't a hero, or a victim, he was a terrorist.  And before anyone starts on the "Shepard did the same thing to the Batarians," drum, the situations are completely different.  Balak tried to murder the entire population of a colony purely out of spite because the Alliance laid claim to a few worlds the Batarians were maybe, possibly going to colonize in the future, then rather pointedly objected to Batarians raiding their colonies and taking humans as slaves (and by pointedly, I mean the assault on Torfan).  Shepard sacrified the Bahak system only because it was necessary to save trillions of lives.  The difference is that one is an act of terrorism that dweliberately targetted civilians, and one is a legitimate act of war which resulted in high levels of collateral damage.

If the Hegemony actually made Balak a commander after what he did at Terra Nova (assuming you let him live), that's only further proof of the irredeemability of the Batarian government, not that much of that is needed when they do things like sue the Council, claiming that the Council's refusal to let them enslave, buy and sell anyone they want is a violation of "cultural rights."  Never mind other species "cultural rights" not to be enslaved, raped, tortured and murdered.

[casedawgz]

Agreed. Scum of the galaxy.

[knightnblu]

I'll be darned...the renegades called that one for sure.

I let him go with the idea that I would put a bullet in him later. Wonder if I still can in ME3...hmmmm.

[P_Bed]

Damn, i was hoping for a shot to put an bullet between his four eyes but if we need his support then so be it.

[redbaron76]

I hope that my shepard gets a chance to kill him again to correct letting him live in Bring down the sky. But then I did have to save colonist and let him get away, weel second time is a charm.

[groundhogie]

This is one character who I am glad won't be featuring in my game. Generic Batarian commander will be good enough for me, even if he is not as competent as Balak is apparently suppose to be.

[Agamo45]

Figures, that paragons would have an anti-human terrorist as an ally.

[hawat333]

I support Balak.
What's left of him anyways.

[ediskrad327]

Arcian wrote...

Volkrex wrote...

Wow, my canon ME3 playthrough is gonna get a lot more interesting

>canon
You keep using that word. It doesn't mean what you think it means.

mmany in BSN don't know what it means

[ediskrad327]

so his name is Kahairal? interesting, it will be nice to see him again although the idea of him as a commander is kind of a loooong stretch

[phimseto]

Wow. I mean...wow.

Color me intrigued, though my BDTS playthrough left Balak in the hands of the alliance.

I would be remiss if I did not point you in the direction of this thread:

http://social.biowar...3/index/9494925

Modifié par phimseto, 27 février 2012 - 08:41 .