I am curious as to other gamers choice for the ending of Mass Effect 2 when given the chance to save the Collector Base or Destroy it. My choice was to save the base. Forget about the weary reputation of Cerebrus or the 'Illusive Man' the whole freakin Galaxy is facing extinction!! On that note I thought it is better to use all the advantages of info and technology that we can.
We can debate 'right and wrong' after we get past the Total Annhiliation by Reaper part!! After all it was the tech that Garrus got from the last reaper ship 'Soverign' that provided the upgrade for the Normandy's cannons. Normandy destroyed the Collector Recon ship with TWO shots!Well anyway that is my take I wasn't going for 'lets do the right thing and destoy the base' when the resulting end of that can be the death of everyone and everything. At least Cerebus gave a damn - so I gave them the base. What did you do?.mod edit. Destroyed it.Knowledge is power and it could have been very effective in the fight against the Reapers in the end, hell that choice could be the determining factor between whether existence survives or not, but it could also put Cerberus at the top of power in the end and I wasn't about to let that happen.
The knowledge could also have such ramifications as to the races of the universe gaining too much knowledge too quickly, therefore using it for the wrong purposes, etc.It makes sense in my head.:P. I am curious as to other gamers choice for the ending of Mass Effect 2 when given the chance to save the Collector Base or Destroy it.
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- Mass Effect 2- Freedom’s Progress Colony Freedom’s Progress is a typical Alliance settlement, with a small military force supplemented by mechs and security drones. A complete communications blackout led the Illusive Man to find out that the colonists have disappeared in the last few days.
- Published June 7, 2010, 6 p.m. About Mass Effect 2. While Tali describes Veetor as nervous, Prazza offers a less charitable adjective: unstable.
My choice was to save the base. Forget about the weary reputation of Cerebrus or the 'Illusive Man' the whole freakin Galaxy is facing extinction!! On that note I thought it is better to use all the advantages of info and technology that we can. We can debate 'right and wrong' after we get past the Total Annhiliation by Reaper part!! After all it was the tech that Garrus got from the last reaper ship 'Soverign' that provided the upgrade for the Normandy's cannons. Normandy destroyed the Collector Recon ship with TWO shots!Well anyway that is my take I wasn't going for 'lets do the right thing and destoy the base' when the resulting end of that can be the death of everyone and everything.
At least Cerebus gave a damn - so I gave them the base. What did you do?.mod edit.phearlessI save the Collector's base. Cerberus already has Collector's bio-armour, SR2's EDI already has Sovereign's processors, SR2 has Sovereign's weapon tech (from upgrade). What's missing? Sovereign's shields,hull/armour, reator/power systemsand FTL (transgalactic drive). There's no point saving it, if you listen to what Mordin said throughout the game about Krogan extinction because they used technologies that's beyond their understanding.So human are doomed to repeat it, and by using Reaper technologies, we are evolving in a way that's predictable by the enemies (i.e.
How the Reapers destroyed all the civilizations before us)Also, notice how the Reapers use hit & run tactics throughout the game ( Protheans might have a chance if they didn't build around the citadel mass relay), how they needed the Geth flee to do their works. They are all proves that Reapers do NOT want the galaxy to form up and fight against them, they are NOT as strong as they claimed, they are just really sneaky.So even though I played as a full Renegade throughout the game, (minus some dumb choices like Morinth vs Samara) I chose to destroy the base. What's the point of fighting off a group of enemies, to give chances for another one to rise? Illusive man proved time and time again, the end justify his means, and his end = human domination. Saving it was the only choice that made sense to me.
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The technology gained could benefit the entire galaxy and be a major asset to humanity. It's reaper tech, but who cares? The reapers destroyed the intergalatic government using the Mass Relays but nobody rushed out and blew up all of those.Even if Cereberus uses it for bad. Every alien race turned their back on humans in ME1 and the Alliance turned their back on Shepard in ME2. They deserve a hardcore screwing imo and whatever happens to them is 100% karma for being jackasses.There's no point saving it, if you listen to what Mordin said salxis Moridin also thinks the attempted genocide by killing 999 out of every 1000 babies is the ultimate solution to the galaxy's problems.
You're going to let someone like that decide the fate of the galaxy? There's no point saving it, if you listen to what Mordin said throughout the game about Krogan extinction because they used technologies that's beyond their understanding.So human are doomed to repeat it, and by using Reaper technologies, we are evolving in a way that's predictable by the enemies (i.e. How the Reapers destroyed all the civilizations before us)Also, notice how the Reapers use hit & run tactics throughout the game ( Protheans might have a chance if they didn't build around the citadel mass relay), how they needed the Geth flee to do their works. They are all proves that Reapers do NOT want the galaxy to form up and fight against them, they are NOT as strong as they claimed, they are just really sneaky.So even though I played as a full Renegade throughout the game, (minus some dumb choices like Morinth vs Samara) I chose to destroy the base.
What's the point of fighting off a group of enemies, to give chances for another one to rise? Illusive man proved time and time again, the end justify his means, and his end = human domination.salxis SR2's Sovereign weapons killed the Collector's starship. The Collectors is what's left of Protheans. The Collectors/Protheans needs real firepower.
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Saving it was the only choice that made sense to me. The technology gained could benefit the entire galaxy and be a major asset to humanity. It's reaper tech, but who cares? The reapers destroyed the intergalatic government using the Mass Relays but nobody rushed out and blew up all of those.Even if Cereberus uses it for bad. Every alien race turned their back on humans in ME1 and the Alliance turned their back on Shepard in ME2.
They deserve a hardcore screwing imo and whatever happens to them is 100% karma for being jackasses.QUOTE='salxis'There's no point saving it, if you listen to what Mordin said SenorKami Moridin also thinks the attempted genocide by killing 999 out of every 1000 babies is the ultimate solution to the galaxy's problems. You're going to let someone like that decide the fate of the galaxy?It was either spread the Genophage or risk a Krogan uprising. I'm not saying mass genocide is right, but they did what they had to do. Saving it was the only choice that made sense to me. The technology gained could benefit the entire galaxy and be a major asset to humanity. It's reaper tech, but who cares?
The reapers destroyed the intergalatic government using the Mass Relays but nobody rushed out and blew up all of those.Even if Cereberus uses it for bad. Every alien race turned their back on humans in ME1 and the Alliance turned their back on Shepard in ME2. They deserve a hardcore screwing imo and whatever happens to them is 100% karma for being jackasses.QUOTE='salxis'There's no point saving it, if you listen to what Mordin said SenorKami Moridin also thinks the attempted genocide by killing 999 out of every 1000 babies is the ultimate solution to the galaxy's problems.
You're going to let someone like that decide the fate of the galaxy?Krogan are blood thirsty by nature (as in Grunt's case), if we don't control their population, they will destroy everything. Another example is the 'scientist' on Krogan planet, they would rather destroy than preserve as shown many time by Krogan history. Mordin's right about controlling it, they are controlling the fertility rate, you can't murder something that hasn't been born yet (i.e. It's not even in Larval stage). QUOTE='Squall18'I totally destroyed it despite the illussive man not caring much for me at the end.
It sets up for 3 soo perfectlyPhoenix534The Prothean ship destroyed, the Reaper fleet awakened from hiberation, Shepard possibly dead(depending on which ending you got. My Shepard's alive) Mass Effect 3 can't come soon enough.If you died in the suicide mission, which I did it on purpose for my 4th play through (dragged everyone down with me as well:evil:) you get an epilogue ending, concluding the story of Shephard! You don't' need to buy ME3:D. QUOTE='Phoenix534'QUOTE='Squall18'I totally destroyed it despite the illussive man not caring much for me at the end. It sets up for 3 soo perfectlysalxisThe Prothean ship destroyed, the Reaper fleet awakened from hiberation, Shepard possibly dead(depending on which ending you got. My Shepard's alive) Mass Effect 3 can't come soon enough.If you died in the suicide mission, which I did it on purpose for my 4th play through (dragged everyone down with me as well:evil:) you get an epilogue ending, concluding the story of Shephard! You don't' need to buy ME3:Dlol.
I wonder what ME3 will be like for those people? Also, the only people to die during the Suicide Mission for me were Mordin and Kelly. They will be missed. I almost cried when I saw Mordin lying on the ground after being shot down. QUOTE='Phoenix534'QUOTE='salxis'QUOTE='Phoenix534'The Prothean ship destroyed, the Reaper fleet awakened from hiberation, Shepard possibly dead(depending on which ending you got.
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My Shepard's alive) Mass Effect 3 can't come soon enough.If you died in the suicide mission, which I did it on purpose for my 4th play through (dragged everyone down with me as well:evil:) you get an epilogue ending, concluding the story of Shephard! You don't' need to buy ME3:Dlol. I wonder what ME3 will be like for those people? Also, the only people to die during the Suicide Mission for me were Mordin and Kelly. They will be missed. I almost cried when I saw Mordin lying on the ground after being shot down.
All my 'hero' crew members are alive. QUOTE='salxis'QUOTE='SenorKami'Saving it was the only choice that made sense to me.
The technology gained could benefit the entire galaxy and be a major asset to humanity. It's reaper tech, but who cares? The reapers destroyed the intergalatic government using the Mass Relays but nobody rushed out and blew up all of those.Even if Cereberus uses it for bad.
Every alien race turned their back on humans in ME1 and the Alliance turned their back on Shepard in ME2. They deserve a hardcore screwing imo and whatever happens to them is 100% karma for being jackasses.There's no point saving it, if you listen to what Mordin said salxis Moridin also thinks the attempted genocide by killing 999 out of every 1000 babies is the ultimate solution to the galaxy's problems.
You're going to let someone like that decide the fate of the galaxy?Krogan are blood thirsty by nature (as in Grunt's case), if we don't control their population, they will destroy everything. Another example is the 'scientist' on Krogan planet, they would rather destroy than preserve as shown many time by Krogan history. Mordin's right about controlling it, they are controlling the fertility rate, you can't murder something that hasn't been born yet (i.e. It's not even in Larval stage).
In the year 2183, the galactic community was rocked to its core. Commander Shepard, after becoming the first human member of the Citadel Council's elite Special Tactics and Reconnasiance (Spectre for short), pursued the criminal Saren, only to uncover a prophecy fortelling the return of the Reapers, ancient mechanical lifeforms that were responsible for purging the Prothean civilization and every major galactic civilization every 50,000 years. One such reaper, known as Sovereign, attacked the Citadel. Thankfully, Shepard was able to destroy the Reaper, thus sparing the galaxy from a full-scale invasion.Unfortunately, the Citadel Council was not ready to confront the possibility of the Reapers' return. To quell such rumors, they had sent Shepard out into the far reaches of Citadel space to investigate the geth, the artificially intelligent robots that had aided Sovereign.It is during this otherwise routine mission that Shepard's ship, SSV Normandy, encounters an alien warship of unknown origin. The warship opens fire on the Normandy with powerful laser weapons, crippling the ship and killing many onboard.
With the Normandy on the verge of destruction, Shepard orders the surviving crew to evacuate. Shepard manages to get her pilot, Jeff 'Joker' Moreau, into an escape pod before the ship is destroyed.Unfortunately, Shepard is knocked out into space by the explosion. Her armor is damaged and leaking oxygen, and she falls into the atmosphere of a nearby planet.
For all intents and purposes, Commander Shepard is dead.However, there are those outside the Systems Alliance that will not let this tragedy stand. With human colonies vanishing and the Citadel Council reluctant to investigate, this shadowy group commences the 'Lazarus Project'. Shepard awakens on an unknown space station that has fallen under siege by rogue mechs. Guided by a voice over intercomms and in her armor, Shepard fights her way through the mechs and meets up with a soldier, Jacob Taylor, who claims to be with the Alliance. Jacob explains that Shepard had been dead for two years, but had been brought back.As Shepard and Jacob fight their way further through the station, they come across a man named Wilson, who had been injured while attempting to shut down the mechs. With the situation deteriorating, Jacob comes clean to Shepard about the fact that he and Wilson are actually with Cerberus, a privately-funded human supremacist organization.
Jacob promises more answers to Shepard's questions once they and Wilson escape from the station.As they reach the shuttle bay, they run into Miranda Lawson, another Cerberus agent who shoots and kills Wilson; Miranda explains that Wilson had sicced the mechs on them and tried to kill them. Together, Shepard, Jacob, and Miranda make for another Cerberus station, so that Shepard could be briefed on the situation by their mysterious leader, the Illusive Man.The Illusive Man discusses the matter with Shepard via holographic conference: human colonies are vanishing, and no one knows why, nor is anyone attempting to investigate the cause. The Illusive Man wants Shepard to investigate. Not just anyone would do: the Illusive Man had put considerable time, effort, and resources into reviving Shepard because she was an icon who stood for humanity at a key moment in galactic history, being not only the first human Spectre, but also having destroyed a Reaper.Shepard disembarks with Miranda and Jacob to a colony, Freedom's Progress, where humans had vanished. Their search for answers uncovers mechs that attack them on sight, which is strange since the mechs should've recognized them as human. They soon learn why when they encounter a group of quarians led by one of Shepard's old friends, Tali'Zorah.
Tali had come to Freedom's Progress in search of Veetor, a young quarian who came to help out on the colony as part of his pilgrimage. Veetor, who's fragile mental state was made more precarious from exposure to pathogens, had overridden the mechs to protect himself. Tali is none too trusting of Cerberus, but nonetheless agrees to help Shepard find Veetor.Unfortunately, Tali's fellow quarians don't trust Shepard and rush ahead, only to be gunned down by Veetor's mechs. Shepard fights her way past the mechs and finally meets with Veetor. When Veetor recognizes Shepard as non-hostile, he explains that 'monsters' had come and taken the human colonists away. Security footage captured images of these 'monsters', which Miranda and Jacob recognizes as the Collectors; reclusive aliens from beyond the mysterious Omega-4 relay.When Shepard reports her findings back to the Illusive Man, she is instructed to set out and gather a team to investigate the Collectors, offering her dossiers on the most qualified mercenaries, freelancers, and others who can aid. To further aid in her investigation, she is reunited with Joker, who had joined with Cerberus for a chance to fly again after the Alliance had grounded him.
Better still, Cerberus had rebuilt the Normandy, enhancing it with their own non-Alliance sanctioned upgrades, including an artificial intelligence dubbed the Enhanced Defense Intelligence, or 'EDI' for short. Shepard is directed to Omega, a space colony in the Terminus System that was notorious as a gathering place for the worst criminals in the galaxy, to recruit a mercenary known only as 'the Archangel'. According to Aria T'Loak, the asari crime lord that reigns supreme over Omega, 'Archangel' was being targeted by all three major mercenary groups operating out of Omega: the Blood Pack, Blue Suns, and Eclipse had set aside their differences all for the sake of killing one lone turian vigilante.Shepard and her team meet with the mercenary coalition, learning more about 'Archangel' and how he had disrupted their operations. She joins with them under the pretense of aiding them as a diversion, but once they are within reach of the vigilante's hideout, turn on the mercs and meet with 'Archangel'.To Shepard's surprise, 'Archangel' is actually Garrus Vakarian, the turian C-Sec officer who helped her fight against Saren and Sovereign.
Garrus, who had long taken issue with C-Sec's drowning in red tape and inability to make meaningful efforts to improve the life of those they were charged to protect, quit C-Sec and came to Omega to make a difference in his own way, his activities proving to be a thorn in the mercenaries' sides. Together, Shepard and Garrus fight off the mercs to secure a way back to the Normandy.One persistent merc attacks Garrus with a gunship, gravely wounding him. Shepard manages to shoot down the gunship, but Garrus's wounds are grievous. Thankfully, Shepard manages to get him back to the Normandy in time to be treated, allowing him to make a full recovery, albeit with significant facial scarring.
Mordin Solus, a salarian scientist with a history in the Special Tasks Group, had been reported as operating a clinic in Omega. Unfortunately, the clinic was in the middle of a quarantine zone where a deadly plague had been ravaging the non-human population. Mercenary groups, mistakenly believing Mordin to be the cause of the plague, had started making attempts on his life.Shepard fights her way through the mercenaries and eventually finds Mordin: an elderly and eccentric doctor with a peculiar way of speaking, but with intelligence and insight into the Collector threat. Mordin offers to aid Shepard in exchange for helping to eliminate the plague; he had already synthesized a cure and needed to distribute it throughout the quarantine zone.
After fighting off a group of violent vorcha acting on behalf of the Collectors, Shepard inserts the cure into the environmental systems, solving the crisis and ensuring the safety of everyone. One individual the Illusive Man requests Shepard recruit is Jack, a human with biotic prowess that can rival even the most powerful of asari. At present, Jack was being detained on a turian prison ship, Purgatory.
The Illusive Man had already arranged for Jack's release: all Shepard had to do was retrieve her.Unfortunately, the mission doesn't go all according to plan, as the warden of Purgatory decides to imprison Shepard instead, seeing her as a very valuable hostage. Shepard fights her way through the prison guards to the cell controls, deactivating them to release Jack. To her surprise, the rumors of Jack's powers turn out to be understatements: once she is released, Jack makes short work of YMIR Mechs.Shepard manages to kill the warden of the ship as she crosses paths with Jack in the shuttle bay. Jack realizes Shepard is affiliated with Cerberus, enraging her. Since Shepard was the only way she could escape from the collapsing Purgatory alive, she begrudgingly agrees to accompany her on her mission.
One of the dossiers the Illusive Man gives Shepard is for a krogan warlord named Okeer, a veteran of the Krogan Rebellions who had started working with the Blue Suns on a means to cure the genophage. Jedore, the leader of the Blue Suns on the planet of Korlus, offered aid to Okeer in exchange for creating krogan supersoldiers to bolster her ranks.Unfortunately for Shepard and Okeer, Jedore is also dangerously paranoid and is trying to kill Okeer. Shepard and her team fight their way through Blue Sun mercs and genetically engineered krogan alike until they make their way to Okeer's laboratory. Okeer had been working on one 'perfect' krogan, one that was genetically pure and immune to the genophage.
With Jedore threatening his work, Okeer offers his aid to Shepard in exchange for killing Jedore.After Shepard disposes of Jedore, however, Okeer dies from poisonous gas flooding his laboratory. All that is left of him is his legacy, his 'perfect' krogan, contained in stasis in a maturation chamber. Shepard brings the krogan onto the Normandy and releases him from his stasis. The krogan immediately attacks Shepard and demands a name, his name, for Okeer had never bothered to name him. He decides to settles on 'Grunt', based on a word he heard in Okeer's final message that described him thusly. He agrees to join Shepard on her mission when she demonstrates her wisdom and lethality to him.
Eventually, Shepard hears from the Illusive Man that the Collectors were going to target a human colony on the planet of Horizon, where one of Shepard's old squad members was stationed as part of a goodwill mission from the Alliance; the survivor from Virmire, Kaiden Alenko/Ashley Williams.By the time Shepard arrives on Horizon, the Collectors had already come, paralyzing the colonists with swarms of small insectoids while the footsoldiers abducted them. Thankfully for Shepard and her team, Mordin had created a countermeasure that allowed them to fight their way through the colony undetected by the swarms.After restoring power to the colony's defense turrets and chasing the Collectors' ship away, Shepard is reunited with Kaiden/Ashley, who is shocked to find Shepard willingly allied with Cerberus. The two part ways on a sad and bitter note. The Illusive Man, believing Shepard would benefit from having old friends accompany her on her mission, gives her a dossier on Tali. Now taking the name of Tali'Zorah vas Neema after completing her pilgrimage, the quarian engineer had been conducting studies on the unusually rapid decay of a star that one of their old colony worlds, Haelstrom, orbits.
Now, however, she was under siege by geth forces occupying the planet.The star gives off intense solar radiation, such that Shepard and her teammates cannot stay out in its light for too long without overloading their shields and risking injury from the star's heat. Tali had managed to lock herself in a room to keep the geth at bay, but most of her team had already perished, and the geth were not going to let her get away.Eventually, the team rendezvous with Kal'Reegar, a quarian marine, who gives Shepard the information she needs to fight her way to and through a geth juggernaut and finally reunite with Tali.Tali agrees to accompany Shepard on her mission, but only because of her personal loyalty to her old friend; she remains very distrusting of Cerberus, and is even less pleased to learn that the Normandy had been outfitted with an AI. On the seemingly prestine asari world of Illium, Shepard learns that there is a skilled assassin, Thane Krios, whose services would be a boon to her mission. Upon arrival in the city of Nos Astra, she learns that her old teammate, Liara T'Soni, had become a well-respected information broker.Liara is ecstatic to see Shepard alive and well. Unfortunately, her work as a broker, and her personal vendetta against the Shadow Broker, precludes her from joining Shepard on her mission. She does, however, provide Shepard with information regarding the assassin she is seeking; her information suggests that an amoral and paranoid asari executive named Nassana Dantius is being targeted by Thane.Shepard heads to Dantius Towers, finding many of the people who had worked under Nassana dead or dying at the hands of mechs and Eclipse mercenaries Nassana sicced on them.
In the penthouse of one of the towers, Shepard confronts Nassana, who believes Shepard to be the assassin sent to kill her. Her belief is quickly disproved when the real assassin, Thane, suddenly drops in from the ceiling, killing Nassana's guards before taking her life.After killing Nassana, Thane lays her down and prays, not for her, but for himself. Having used the chaos Shepard wrought to cover his infiltration, he is interested in joining her in combating the Collectors. He admits that he is sick and dying, a fact that would not change were he to decline. Wanting to use what time he has left to make the galaxy just a little better, Thane readily agrees to join Shepard at no charge.