Awesome shot of Wrex and Garrus (and I like your fem!Shep!). I miss playing with Wrex. He is my go-to squaddie in ME1. I actually like all of the characters in ME1, but I have my favorites. For RPing, I love Ash and Wrex, for combat it's Wrex, Kaidan and Garrus. Of course when Geth are my main target, Garrus and Tali work best. However, on Feros I prefer Garrus and Kaidan; because of the Shaira clones, I like having a biotic around. But Kaidan wins out over Wrex here because he also has tech skills against the Geth.
So, going to get Thane early or not??? I was thinking about how I have read how some people manage to trigger Horizon before getting Jack and/or Grunt. Doing so would allow you to recruit Thane before all the regular first-round dossier recruits get...well, recruited. I tried to make this work on the xbox, and it was a no go. But I got to thinking....because the xbox version uses two discs, and trying to get to Illium after Horizon forces the xbox to tell you to put in the second disk. This makes me think that THAT is what is preventing me from triggering Horizon early, and being able to get Thane sooner. With the PC version, you wouldn't have this issue. So I wonder if you did the following if you could trigger Horizon:
1) Go get Mordin
2) Go get Garrus
3) Speak to Aria
4) Pick up Zaeed
5) Go to Citadel and talk to Anderson
6) Pick up Kasumi
7) Do the Normandy Crash site, the Cerberus hostage being tortured for intel, and perhaps an N7 mission
This might be enough to trigger Horizon before Jack and Grunt. If/when I get the PC version, I think I will try that again. If it doesn't work, then I will gibb him in early at least once. I really want to hear any dialogue he has on those early missions.