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[kazumasoju]

Im making the decision now, just afraid about how this will affect me in mass effect 3 *crosses fingers

[Dean_the_Young]

It's a side quest. The chances of it having any sway are... minor.

[CanadAvenger]

Well the way I see it (and it has been brought up already) is that in the long run, it's more effective to save the lives of the civilians.

Look at it this way: If a missile destroyed a town and all the people living there, only leaving the spaceport as an source of economy.... Would you want to move there? At the risk of possibly being attacked again at a great loss of life?

If the spaceport is blown up, yes there goes the source of money for the colonists, however they can rebuild, as the knowledge is not lost.



BUT since this mission is glitched (the journal will always show the opposite outcome as to what was chosen) I guess you have to destroy the spaceport to technically save the people? I dunno.

[InvincibleHero]

CanadAvenger wrote...

Well the way I see it (and it has been brought up already) is that in the long run, it's more effective to save the lives of the civilians.
Look at it this way: If a missile destroyed a town and all the people living there, only leaving the spaceport as an source of economy.... Would you want to move there? At the risk of possibly being attacked again at a great loss of life?
If the spaceport is blown up, yes there goes the source of money for the colonists, however they can rebuild, as the knowledge is not lost.

BUT since this mission is glitched (the journal will always show the opposite outcome as to what was chosen) I guess you have to destroy the spaceport to technically save the people? I dunno.

Some of the colonists survive by saving the spaceport. They are not all magically at home and die.

I always save the spaceport. The colony was marginal and would be written off leaving those survivors to make own way offworld with no spaceport. if they can even survive in the short term. A spaceport is the lifeline for any colony. They are not a self-sustaining world.

[PauseforEffect]

A spaceport can eventually be recovered. People's lives....not so much

[InvincibleHero]

PrimalEden wrote...

A spaceport can eventually be recovered. People's lives....not so much

Except Cerberus or whatever corporation that founded the colony will just write the whole thing off stranding those colonists that did survive. They are likely to die in a not to distant future. Taken by Batarian slavers or just flat out starving or any of a myriad of reasons.

[Fixers0]

I always save the Spaceport, of course loss of Civilian life is regretable, but the amount materials and equipment as well Personel lost at the spaceport is intolerable

[XEternalXDreamsX]

I don't mean to revive a dead thread but instead of making a new one, I've decided to comment on this one.

I'm at this point again.

Now this is hypothetical~

Your state has a capital. Your state has a "Spaceport"/a place that is needed to keep your state habitable. You can save one. Many people die either way. China is on the verge of coming to attack your country. Do you sacrifice those people in the capital so that you can use the state as a base of operations for the upcoming war with new 'colonists', or lose your entire state while on the verge of an all-out war with China and save the people to help elsewhere (if they are not shaken too bad).

Not too hard of a choice??

[Xellith]

Its not about whats right and whats wrong. This is a very black and white issue. Save the spaceport. The reapers are coming - they will be swarming all over us in about 2 weeks. A few hundred people is a sad thing I know. But this is war. Unfortunately these poor people were collateral damage. The Citadel Races can ill afford to lose a strategic position like this. This is how I see it as a spectre.

As a human being however... I'd save the colonists.

But as stated - this is war. You have to make tough decisions. Like allowing Mr Bhatia's wifes body to be tested instead of giving it back to him. Sometimes you have to make hard choices.

[-SAREN-]

DuffyMJ wrote...

A human being is worth more than a factory. A single human being is half-responsible for (on average in the US) 7 grandchildren each of whom are half responsible for 7 additional grandchildren and so on and so forth. Any one of those children could be inventors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, artistic geniuses, writers, professors...

I first saw it as the soldiers had sworn to protect the civilians and were supposed to die in the line of duty if they had to. 

but reading this i thought that those soldiors would be more likely to have descendents who would be soldiers and even if more lives were saved intialy by saving the colonists, those soldiers and their descendents would save more lives over time than those colonists who would most likely just die in me3, being unable to defend themselves. The soldiers would have a better chance to survive.

[Wissenschaft]

Err, hate to revive a dead thread again but consider I just did this mission and I know it has no effect in ME3, I wanted to share my thoughts. I saved the civilians even as a Renegade. If the Alliance is willing to let civilians die just to save infrastructure than the terrimus systems citizens are right in believing the Alliance cares nothing for them. 

That said, this isn't even an order from the Alliance. This is just EDI asking what missile to stop. Theres no way this backwater colony could help in anyway vs the Reapers so saving the starport because it will help the alliance war effort is ridiculous. There won't even be time for the Colony to be repopulated by the time ME3 starts.

I'll save the people, if it sets back colonization in the sector than so be. The Alliance can deal with setbacks but dead people can't be replaced. Thinking of people as just a renewable resource is monstrous and that is the difference between Cerberus and my Renegade Shepard. Its a line hes not willing to cross.

I'd imagine that the Alliance would send transports to rescue the colonist before they starved to death on their broken colony so saying they are just going to die anyway or be captured by slavers isn't a convincing argument.

Modifié par Wissenschaft, 15 décembre 2013 - 09:45 .