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[Liadan]

ME1: Pressley

ME2: Miranda

ME3: Kaidan

[Kynare]

ME1: Pressley

ME2: Miranda

ME3: Kaidan

 

Pretty much this, although Kaidan and Ashley were Shep's sidekicks (unofficially) in ME1. They were the super human trio! 

 

Garrus also usually took precedence over Miranda during ground combat in ME2 since Shepard had more field experience with him. Miranda handled everything else.

[Sylvan_Moon]

ME1: Pressley

ME2: Miranda

ME3: Probably Garrus.

[Larry-3]

Mass Effect 1
• First Mate: Kaidan
• Second Mate: Adams

Mass Effect 2
• First Mate: Miranda
• Second Mate: EDI

Mass Effect 3
• First Mate: EDI
• Second Mate: James

And I really do not like my ship being "Alliance vessel" or "Cerberus frigate". I am only an agent for the Alliance and Cerberus. I consider myself a mercenary/freelancer.

[Oni Changas]

Mr. Vakarian. If we're going strictly Alliance, then Kaidan. He's been shown and built up to be a decent leader (or instructor) himself, and unlike Ash, I can buy him as a spectre who earned his way in.

[General TSAR]

And I really do not like my ship being "Alliance vessel" or "Cerberus frigate". I am only an agent for the Alliance and Cerberus. I consider myself a mercenary/freelancer.

I don't think we've ever been freelancers.

 

But in ME/ME2 we had greater autonomy, hell we could even work AGAINST our faction(s); but in ME3, nope proud Alliance pig dog.

[CrutchCricket]

ME1, you were Alliance through and through- though being a Spectre offered you more freedom.

ME2, you were with Cerberus though you could hold yourself apart and independent.

ME3, back with the Alliance. A step backwards. We should've been full independent.

[God]

ME1, you were Alliance through and through- though being a Spectre offered you more freedom.

ME2, you were with Cerberus though you could hold yourself apart and independent.

ME3, back with the Alliance. A step backwards. We should've been full independent.

 

I wouldn't say you were alliance through and through. Being a spectre was more of what was given.

 

Cerberus was where we were most 'apart and independent' in the games.

 

Indeed, with ME3, we were back to being alliance primarily, even in the face of Spectre-hood. By that point, Shepard should more or less been the one in charge of the galaxy. The head of state, if not the mind behind strategy and tactics. He's the public hero, and the guy leading the fight. Everyone else's job is to make sure that he has an army and fleet to lead the fight.

[teh DRUMPf!!]

ME3, back with the Alliance. A step backwards. We should've been full independent.

 

Eh, to me it felt like there was an unspoken agreement that Shepard was running the show. All the reporting with Hackett just a formality.

[God]

Eh, to me it felt like there was an unspoken agreement that Shepard was running the show. All the reporting with Hackett just a formality.

 

Indeed, though I'm very uncomfortable with it.

 

By ME3, the only reason Shepard is a 'Commander' is because it sounds cool. The ranks in the game are meaningless for the most part.

 

As Master Chief says in one of the Halo comics when offered a promotion to a flag rank, 'The Admiral just doesn't have the same ring to it'.

 

That's how I feel about Commander Shepard's rank. IMO, he should be above everyone else at this point. As I said, he's basically the head of state now.

[God]

One thing that also annoys me there is how characters you blended with in ME2 now see Shepard as different than them. Like Jack and Aria both call you boy scout/girl scout. 

 

That just sucks. I go from this independent badass/James Bond in Space to "boy scout". I'm basically that little dork in Liara's hologram, doing his little "salute" wearing the tight military uniform and with a stick up my ass. Now the star of his own Michael Bay action flick..... instead of the dark Sci-Fi Noir story. Complete with whiny damsels in distress who need coddling.. Instead of the Femme Fatales.

 

It's no surprise he has nightmares.

 

I get that vibe too. 

 

Granted, I think in-universe, the alliance has perpetuated propaganda around Shepard to the point where he's similar to how the military and NASA portrayed the Mercury Seven. That's how I think most people, including people like Ashley, view Shepard.

 

The truth is, he's really not like that at all. He's fully willing to throw innocent civilians under the bus if it means either furthering his own agenda or helping the war effort.

[God]

You gotta remember though.. Jacob relates to you in ME2 because Shepard's reputation was squashed and no one really cared about what he did. The Alliance "built a composite image" for their poster boy, while the Council thinks you're crazy... like on Fox Mulder levels. Then you're digging yourself further by working with Cerberus and later killing 300,000 batarians. Shepard can't get a break.

 

Ironically, the Reapers appearance suddenly shows that he's not so much of a nut job after all. 

 

As I said, the composite image is basically their own prettied up version of Shepard. That's how propaganda works. Look at the Mercury astronauts. The image NASA and the military gives you is quite a different picture than what the real deal was. 

[Darkarus]

ME1: Pressly to run the ship Kadin/Ash to lead a squad if I couldn't (I headcannon that Shepard wants to see Ash get the respect and rank she deserves instead of being punished for her Grandfathers Heroics)

 

ME2: EDI can run the ship and Garus can lead the squad if I can't and Miranda can sit down and shut up about it (I like her as a character but not as my CO/2nd in command)

 

ME3: EDI can keep running the ship and Garus will always have my back.

[Larry-3]

I do not love the Alliance, but I do hate them. It is neither love nor hate, but more... tolerate.

When Anderson mentioned how I was reinstated and threw me new dog tags, I would have told him that I will help him however I can, but I am never joining the Alliance again.

In fact, we should have had the option to choose just like we had the option to be Spectre. I will gladly be a Spectre, but the military? Forget them.

Give me a trench coat and a ragtag crew. I will be like Han Solo and Malcolm Reynolds.

Going Back To The Alliance was a step backwards... from my point of view.

[Silcron]

On the whole being forced back into the Alliance. Why couldn't we just call the Council? I mean, if we got reinstated as specters we're above the human goverment, we're literally above the law. If we called the Council and they agreed to give us to the Alliance then fine, which I don't know exactly why they would. They don't speically have good relations with the Batarians and now that that system has blown up they are not exactly in a position to make demands or even back up any threat, but I could see the Council choosing to use Shephard as a scapegoat.

At the moment Hacket told you (I think in ME2 Arrival) that you're going to have to go to Earth there should be even a renegade option to remind him that trying to incarcerate a spectre means interfering with his job and that Shephard has the authority to arrest Hacket for saying that. And if not reinstated as a spectre, well, "come at me, bro."

Now in topic:

ME1: Pressly, specially after that talk in which you get him to be more accepting of alien allies.
ME2: Temporarely Miranda, then Garrus. I'd rather have a XO that is actually going to be followed in case of need than someone who is going to be questioned. Miranda has the qualifications but I don't see her being fit for the job, at least with this crew.
ME3: Garrus, as he'd havethe position from ME2 and is someone I trust fully. It could have been Kaidan, but not after ME2 and Mars.

[Call Me Jord]

Shagging the Captain in the engine room and having a potentially lethal fight with an unstable crew member?

 

But the prize.

 

The Priiiiize.

[wright1978]

ME1, you were Alliance through and through- though being a Spectre offered you more freedom.

ME2, you were with Cerberus though you could hold yourself apart and independent.

ME3, back with the Alliance. A step backwards. We should've been full independent.

 

Yep ME3 was a step backwards. Really should have been independent, using SPECTRE status to build an alliance of the various factions rather than tortured and indocrinated to salute at anyone in an alliance uniform. Part of their whole the galaxy can burn as long as humans and Earth are temporarily liberated.

[CrutchCricket]

Eh, to me it felt like there was an unspoken agreement that Shepard was running the show. All the reporting with Hackett just a formality.

I certainly didn't get that feeling, running every errand Hackett and anyone else cared to give me. And I'm not talking about the overheard sidequests either. Like others have said, Shepard was a figurehead, not the real power behind the uniting initiative. But it could've been soo diferent.

 

Yep ME3 was a step backwards. Really should have been independent, using SPECTRE status to build an alliance of the various factions rather than tortured and indocrinated to salute at anyone in an alliance uniform. Part of their whole the galaxy can burn as long as humans and Earth are temporarily liberated.

We already had the foundations way back in ME2.

 

Awesome ship with cloaking and the best weapons in the galaxy? -Check

Badass crew- check

Impregnable fortress (space beyond Omega4)- check

A backdoor into every government and faction just about everything (Shadow Broker)- check

An army (True Geth already pledged to stop Old Machines)- check

A second army? (rachni, if you saved the queen)- check

The key to the underworld (Aria)- check.

 

To hell with everything else, we can start resisting the Reapers singlehandedly if we wanted. Or, more intelligently, we could've used what we had to coerce/force everybody else to start preparing through every means sly slippery and seductive. Or outright kick the door in with an army behind you and threaten to glass them unless they pick up their weapons and stand to.

 

Folks I give you, the Hand of Shepard.

[God]

I certainly didn't get that feeling, running every errand Hackett and anyone else cared to give me. And I'm not talking about the overheard sidequests either. Like others have said, Shepard was a figurehead, not the real power behind the uniting initiative. But it could've been soo diferent.

 

 

In the game itself yes, and I think it should have been both.

 

It could have been different. And I wish it were different. As I said, by ME3 Shepard really should have been the driving force for everything, with everyone answering to him and giving him what he needs to beat the Reapers.

 

As I've maintained, Shepard is not a cog in the machine, even the most important or visible piece: he IS the machine. Everyone and everything else are the cogs that allow Shepard to overcome the Reapers.

 

Shepard, on his own, cannot defeat the Reapers, but the galaxy, without Shepard, can not and should not be able to overcome the Reapers either. Shepard isn't the vehicle for the galaxy to beat the Reapers, the galaxy is the vehicle for Shepard to beat the Reapers.

 

So actually, more appropriately, Shepard should be the pilot of the machine (the galaxy) to beat the Reapers. Without a machine, he's a guy on the ground (a damn good one, and the best that has ever lived, but still just one human), but without the pilot, the machine is just a hunk of metal and thousands of parts that can't do anything without the skill and drive of the pilot.

 

As it is, it's kind of flipped around as an issue in the game. Shepard should have been the one giving the speech to everyone prior to the mission to Earth. 

[CrutchCricket]

In the game itself yes, and I think it should have been both.

 

It could have been different. And I wish it were different. As I said, by ME3 Shepard really should have been the driving force for everything, with everyone answering to him and giving him what he needs to beat the Reapers.

 

As I've maintained, Shepard is not a cog in the machine, even the most important or visible piece: he IS the machine. Everyone and everything else are the cogs that allow Shepard to overcome the Reapers.

 

Shepard, on his own, cannot defeat the Reapers, but the galaxy, without Shepard, can not and should not be able to overcome the Reapers either. Shepard isn't the vehicle for the galaxy to beat the Reapers, the galaxy is the vehicle for Shepard to beat the Reapers.

 

So actually, more appropriately, Shepard should be the pilot of the machine (the galaxy) to beat the Reapers. Without a machine, he's a guy on the ground (a damn good one, and the best that has ever lived, but still just one human), but without the pilot, the machine is just a hunk of metal and thousands of parts that can't do anything without the skill and drive of the pilot.

 

As it is, it's kind of flipped around as an issue in the game. Shepard should have been the one giving the speech to everyone prior to the mission to Earth. 

Again, here is where you lose me.

 

By skill and public perception Shepard has risen to be the symbol of the fight against the Reapers, the speartip in their charge. But that's it. Anyone else could take his place if they've done the kinds of things he's done or if they're built up in the public eye like he is.

 

Shepard is intrinsically special to us because he's the PC and protagonist of the story. But he has no intrinsic specialness in the world in-game. If he dies the galaxy may die with him. But it will die because they allowed their strength and faith to falter. Shepard inspires but he should inspire self-determination, confidence and belief in oneself, not in himself. He should inspire unity and cooperation by making people realize that is the right (and only path) to victory, not because he decrees it. In some ways, it's almost right that he does die at the end, or even in the middle, prompting the endgame with the galaxy then rallying around themselves and realizing that though he's gone, the values he upheld and the strength he showed isn't gone, it's in each and every one of them. Like Legion dispersing itself among the geth, everything he had, everything we need to win is now in each of us. Shepard is no longer necessary.

 

Holy ****, I think I may have just found a non-disgusting, no nonsense way to frame synthesis. Well, actually no, it's still corny as hell and still violates everyone's free will. But it can be justified outside the holokid's bullshit so that's still a step up.