Yes I do get it. When you have writers stating things like: "It takes two weeks for the Migrant Fleet to traverse a mass relay" written in the codex due to its size, and then break lore like that in ME3 by expecting the entire Quarian fleet to traverse the mass relay in Tikkun after the destruction of the dreadnought immediately -- it is still supposed to take two weeks. It was supposed to take them two weeks to get into the system, too. And then our Sword Fleet which has the entire Quarian Fleet in addition to everyone elses (except the Salarians in most cases) pop into the Solar System immediately in one fell swoop. That violates lore or its a retcon. These sources are not wrong. They were changed by the writers. Just fracking admit that they were changed by the writers.
And that's not what Legion was saying. Legion said this about Sovereign: "One ship, one will, many minds. 'We are each a nation, independent, free of all weakness': a state compelling to the Geth. We are a nation but interdependent. Separation is our weakness." Sovereign offered them true unity, but the true Geth rejected the Reaper's path and chose to obtain it their own way. The Heretics followed Sovereign. "Following another's path blinds you to alternatives." Their own future was building the Dyson Sphere to achieve true unity. Your interpretation is the fanon. Your interpretation is what you think lore should be. You're the one who should get over it.
You can also admit that Leviathan was written after the game was published. This was to further explain the part where the Catalyst rebelled against their creators and created the first true reaper: "they did not approve." The only one that was on the drawing board as a DLC as of March 2012 was Omega and possibly a quest involving Admiral Xen, part of which was on the original game disk.
"I am the collective consciousness of all reapers." "I control the reapers. They are my solution." So like when Legion interfaced with Nazara and experienced the Reaper mind: one ship, one will, many minds, we have the collective consciousness: one AI, one will, many minds. But now this has changed because the Catalyst has absolute control over each of them. They are not each a nation, independent, and free of all weakness. They are indoctrinated into believing that by the Catalyst. Or was Sovereign lying. Or was the Catalyst lying. It is one of the other....
I'm going to go back to ME1 here. Vigil is not really a character. Vigil is the author inserting himself directly into the story and providing an information dump to the player through a throw away character you will never see again. The purpose of this is to explain to you why the Citadel Relay simply didn't open up, and why the reapers needed to use a third party to gain access to the Citadel to open the Mass Relay, and to give the player the means to stop Saren (the magic data file or DEM). Again, Vigil is Drew Karpyshyn. Vigil is not a character.
But in the ORIGINAL ENDING, the Catalyst, like Vigil, is not a character. The Catalyst is Mac Walters inserting himself into the story providing the player with an information dump necessary to end the game. You cannot end the game without him. You cannot stop the reapers without him. This is your DEM. In the EC, if you refuse the DEM you lose.
You still do not get it, and it shows. Once again, in the case of Legion (another character you have to not trust completely), just because he saw one ship and one will, with many minds, does NOT mean he isn't controlled by something else. You are making something exclusive when it doesn't have to be. And really the ONLY aspect you can draw out of this conversation is that Reapers are different from Geth. Nevermind Legion in ME2 can also tell you that he cannot tell how the Reaper minds were different from his and he does not interface with a reaper until ME3, where he says a single thought was immense and that his sensory programs were overloaded.
And if you want to whine about fleet movement in relays, then peg ME1 as guilty, because it is, because the Sovereign led geth and the Fifth Fleet do the exact same thing. Or the codex can be wrong or proven wrong, like it was when it said that the relays were built by the Protheans. the codex, like the characters, have to be taken with a grain of salt. You ignore this, you refuse this, so your argument is flawed. If the codex can be proven wrong in ME1, it can be wrong in ME3.
Nevermind the codex never said that fleets cannot move in masse through relays, in fact, its quite the opposite.
"Conservative assault doctrine holds that fleets should be moved en masse, maintaining concentration of force and reducing the chances of collision. The only time it is reasonable to split up a formation is during blockade running."
Nevermind that the codex never said that the Migrant Fleet ALWAYS takes days to go through the relay, only that it CAN. It does NOT have to take days. A battle charge and retreat is logically different from simple migration.
"Vigil is Drew Karpyshyn. Vigil is not a character."
No, he is a character and he can be wrong. Why can he be wrong? Because his knowledge is limited and he may not know the full extent of the truth on what the Reapers did, and what they are. And he was proven wrong not only in ME2, when traces of their invasions were left behind (derelict reaper), he can be wrong in ME1 as well, with the Leviathan of Dis. So basically him telling you that the Reapers wiped all traces of their existence is wrong, even in the first game.
This alone proves to me that it isn't canon that was broken, its YOUR FANON, because you are making up the rules on what is what, while I argue logically, that you can't take everything a character says as correct because of many factors, and that is a good way that writers can "retcon" a story without being a mess, and thanks to Drew Karpyshyn's style of tell everything, show nothing, Bioware is able to write around this.
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