Thargorichiban wrote...
Bah! You call me 20th century? Those damn Batarians are 18th century with their barbaric practice of slavery!
Do you know how many times I encountered humans being sold as property by Batarian slavers when I did my stint with the Alliance? One time was too many and it kept happening.
I agree with this. However, turning our backs on them on their hour of need is not going to win hearts and minds. The only possible conclusion is the increase of hostilities between humans and batarians.
I think it's time we took the first step towards breaking this endless cycle of violence.
First step of an invasion is cutting off communications. If it's not the Batarians who just swarmed into our system, then who? The boogeymen? Shepard's folly? The turians decide they don't want to play nice anymore?
Who can say that we are being invaded? First, the batarians could never hope to take on the Alliance with the numbers of ships they have on Utopia. There's not even a single dreadnought amongst them. And technical dificulties do happen which is probrably what happened to our comms.
While it is obvious the batarians are not tellings us the true reason, they might actually be refugees. There could be a civil war happening on batarian systems right now and we would not know about it due to the Hegemony's policy of keeping everything a secret.
Also, I couldn't help but notice how you failed to adress my point about the Council and trade relations.
Moore's law, liberal, Moore's law.
That would be more appropriate for the quarians.
I've never been happier that I kept my old Avenger from my service days than I am today.
Pfft, that old thing must not even be adapted to thermal clips.
Nobody uses the Avenger anymore. The M-96 Mattock has become the standard rifle for our marines.