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By "archive," I was referring to the temple. And you are arguing that nothing, not the beacon, not the numerous artifacts stashed away in that temple, could have helped in any way before then. Even though we've spent weeks in the narrative hauling ass to the far ends of the galaxy in search of anything with Prothean writing on it to assist with the Crucible project. Keep telling yourself that.
I haven't "made up" anything. Shiala has the cipher, and is capable of sharing it with others. We had an opportunity to pick her up on Feros much, much earlier, but didn't (a very stupid move we, the player, are granted no control over). These are uncontested facts in the narrative. If EDI says that Shepard is the only one with the Cipher, the only one who could have helped, she's either wrong, pacifying the grief-stricken Shadow Broker with a comforting lie, or the writers ignored it - none of which erases this fact. It's no more complicated than that. Frankly, for all the field use he sees in my typical playthrough, I'd have liked the option to send Javik off to the Crucible (I like talking to the guy, but only one of my four Shepards could make biotic explosions happen and I didn't feel like dragging Liara everywhere I wasn't already forced to).
Activated or not, the Asari were clearly able to derive information from the beacon. Every single squadmate you bring to the temple makes this observation. You can't argue it would have been useless when they've already done quite well for themselves by making use of it. They didn't withhold it because it was useless; they withheld it because it would be a huge scandal to reveal they were hoarding Prothean tech to themselves, a practice they outlawed for everyone else. We can call out just about every politician in the game for their bullshit, so why are the Asari exempt? EmoShep whines that "Thessia fell, and That's On Me!"
Why does Shepard claim personal responsibility for the fall of Thessia (which fell before we even got there), potentially after callously brushing off the genocides of four other species for which (s)he actually was responsible? Why do we automatically agree with Tevos' whinging about how she "never thought this day would come" when Shepard has been screaming from the mountaintops about it since day one?
I'd recommend you read Crutch's post too.
There are not "numerous artifacts" in the temple. There is one hidden artifact ...the beacon. Maybe you should try to listen to the dialogue instead of spacebarring through conversations. And I've never claimed that there is no other useful date stored in the beacon. All advanced galactic civilizations are based on Prothean technology (to quote Nihlus). It's one of the first things we've learned in ME1 and it seems that the Asari got their prothean technology from the beacon in the temple. They shared some of the technology they found ("rather than hoard resources, the asari bartered freely"), but obviously not everything.
But let's assume for the moment that the prothean technology stored on Thessia is somehow more advanced than the prothean technology stored on Mars or Sur'kesh. Maybe the asari have "Bigger, better eezo cores" because of their beacon and didn't share it with the rest of the galaxy before the war. And? Asari scientists are working on the crucible since the coup attempt (so virtually the same time as anyone else). I guess they didn't tell everyone that they found the blueprints for their "Bigger, better eezo cores" in a prothean beacon, but they obviously shared every information that could help constructing the crucible before the matriarchs reveal the existence of the beacon to Tevos. Revealing the existence of the beacon wouldn't have changed everything, as much as the usual asari haters want to believe it. Vendetta said it was programmed to withhold the information about the Catalyst until the Crucible was built. The crucible is supposedly finished during the assault on cronos station. This doesn't leave any room for speculation.
EDI doesn't say Shepard is the only one with the Cipher. She says "You would have needed Shepard's cipher to comprehend it"...and that is true/confirmed by other characters. Yes, "You would have needed Shepard's or Shiala's cipher to comprehend it" would have been more accurate, but many players never met Shiala. I guess the writers didn't want to confuse new players (Shiala? Who?). And what is Javik supposed to do at the crucible construction site? Troll the crucible scientists? I don't have the DLC...but as far as I know, he's not exactly a scientist/engineer. The Crucible is not even of Prothean design.
Our squadmates are talking nonsense when they enter the temple. What do we know about the beacon at that time? We only know what Tevos told us about it (There is an artifact on my homeworld. It could be useful). Yes, the Asari were able to derive information from the beacon. But neither Shepard/our squadmates nor the player knows what exactly they found. The beacon was a boost, but it was not essential. People forget, for example, that the mars cache wasn't just a singular beacon a la Athame temple but an entire research base with ships. Humanity hit the motherlode of prothean finds compared to every other race. ("In 2148, prospectors exploring near the Deseado Crater found the sourceof these disturbances when they unearthed a subterranean Prothean ruin, containing a malfunctioning mass effect core and several starships,as well as refined element zero") But the asari are the most advanced race because they learned everything from a prothean beacon which they couldn't even properly activate? Right...
Yes, "we can call out just about every politician in the game for their bullshit", including Tevos before the Thessia mission. But we can't blame her after the Thessia mission...or the AY monastery if you play it after Priority:Thessia (Shep and Tevos talk a bit about the evacuation efforts on Thessia). That alone should tell you how stupid it would be to blame her for something she isn't even personally responsible for.
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