Xilizhra wrote...
Yeah imagine the situation where some Alliance soldiers see Shepard beeing dragged aboard Harbinger by Marauder Shields, I mean it is not like people would keep an eye out for Commander Shepard...and then a few hours later he walks into camp saying he escaped...
Just her being dragged aboard would be a major morale blow in and of itself, wouldn't it? And if Harbinger can supposedly kill everyone in the area, no one would even see it.
For that matter, in this scenario, the breath scene would happen regardless in-universe; the only difference would be whether or not Shepard woke up indoctrinated or not. Which would make the choice to show it only in Destroy very odd.
Harbinger supposedly missed killing of Anderson and Shepard on the beam run.
But beyond that a Reaper is not perfect for all they want to say, it wouldnt take more than missing a single person for all of Shepards usefullness as an Indoctrinated agent to crumble in to nothing as no one would ever believe Shepard escaped Harbinger unaltered, at least not unless they were stupid.
Also even if no one has sight on Shepard they are without doubt tracking him/her through his/her communication equibment or similar ways as they seem to always know exactly where Shepard is. Having the signal coming from within Harbinger would not exactly be a good signal or even if it was cut of they would Shepard was in the same area as Harbinger when the signal disappeared.
Also yes Shepard beeing dragged aboard Harbinger might be a severe morale blow or it would have the opposite effect turning Shepard into a martyr, in fact that is more likely. Shepard or not everyone in that fleet came knowing they would either defeat the Reapers or die. The only way they are getting out is by winning, giving up, fleeing is not an option.
But if we talk morale blows what would be the biggest blow? Shepard dying/getting captured or an Indoctrinated Shepard wiping out the command of the fleet by turning upon them?
And regaridng the breath scene. Yeah under IT essentially happens no matter the choice, but what would your thoughts have been if Control or Synthesis where Shepard is vaporized suddenly cut to his body prefectly fine and breathing in rubble? The entire thing would be obvious then.
Though dont get destroy wrong, even if we dont see Shepard getting vaporized his survival is just as unbeliavable especially in a condition where he would be taking any kind of breath.
He is near the center of a fireball which is more than 10 times as large as the nukes over Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the devastation they wrought was without the fireball ever touching the ground. This explosions however is blowing chunks of the Citadel which has a hull described as so hard even the strongest weaponry can barely dent it.
In this Shepard, who is probably allready dying from blood loss, has passed out twice and who has a burned out armor with no shields is standing near the center of the explosion in an exposed area. To give another example from Hiroshima, a man who was killed by the nuke was incinerated his ashes melted into the staircase behind him creating what looked like a shadow of where he had been standing.
Shepard would be exposed to soemthing more than a thousand times as intense as that. Survival in Destroy from a litteral perspective is utterly impossible.