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[Grumpiergoat]

Just out of curiosity, is there an official answer somewhere on whether or not Sovereign's shields go down either due to,

(A) The fleet finally punched through them, or

( Defeating Saren caused Sovereign's shields to drop.

I always read it as the fleet finally punching through the barriers at a Dramatically Appropriate Moment, not some silly feedback loop from defeating Saren. Still, something resembling an official answer would be nice.

[Kloreep]

I always read it that way too.



I can't remember where now, but I recall seeing a reference in ME2 (maybe in the Codex?) to it indeed being coincidence and not some sort of handwavium-powered connection between the two events.

[Varus Torvyn]

My take on it is in line with (. Saren was dead, but Sovereign placed himself into his body. Once your team killed him in the Council Chamber, then the Reaper Ship part of him had no AI left to operate it.

[Pacifien]

I took it as (, but I didn't particularly like it that way. I just couldn't see how the fleet could ever punch through those shields otherwise. Hmm... that makes me wonder about things that happen in ME2...

[Kloreep]

This is from the ME2 codex, but given it's only about ME1 I think I can post this here sans spoiler tags:

At about the same time Shepard killed Saren, Sovereign's once-impervious kinetic barrier overloaded and the Fifth Fleet focused its military might to shatter the flagship.

(Secondary -> Citadel and Galactic Government -> Battle of the Citadel)

Dosen't really invalidate (, but it does seem to me to imply (A).

[Zaxares]

I've always believed it to be A, but I wouldn't rule out B having some sort of influence in the matter.

[Grumpiergoat]

Pacifien wrote...

I took it as (, but I didn't particularly like it that way. I just couldn't see how the fleet could ever punch through those shields otherwise. Hmm... that makes me wonder about things that happen in ME2...

The problem is that if the fleet couldn't punch through Sovereign's shields, Sovereign might as well have just marched up to the Citadel after the Mass Relay didn't open and started laying waste to everyone who got in its way. The game notes during a few points that even Sovereign couldn't hold out against an entire fleet.

Still, I was hoping there was some sort of official answer on this (a developer/writer chiming in or the like). That codex entry is still a bit vague.

[Schroing]

Doesn't Shepard interface with Soverign and the Citadel and shut down his shields from that podium-thing after killing Saren/convincing Saren to kill himself? About the same time he gives the fleet orders and whatnot.