History Headscratchers / MassEffect1

* It seems inconsistent. Mordin talks about a fertility rate of 1 in 1000, but he seems to refer to krogan children that are NOT stillborn. Even EVE, a fertile female, talks about her first stillborn being heartbreaking in ME3. But then, what is the difference between a ''fertile female'' and a ''non-fertile'' one? In this context, it seems like there are two possible (conflicting) perceptions and I'm not sure if it's intended in-universe or not. A portion of people seems to think that ''fertile females'' are females that successfully produce 1000 healthy babies, but that doesn't gel with the 1/1000 statistic that keeps being brought up. Are some krogan just misunderstanding what the genophage is, is it a writing inconsistency, or is something else muddying the waters? EVE is special because she's immune to the genophage (to an extent, since she still produced stillborns, before the mutation perhaps?) but every female would seem to have the same chance as any other, labeled ''fertile'' or otherwise.

** Flattering, not really. VERY form fitting though, to the point that the female version seems to squeeze down or compress the chest area. Light armor sometime seems to be something out of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' or ''Franchise/MetalGear''. Said form fitting armors can be justified by the fact that they double as space suit. Such a design should allow for minimum movements hindrance while protecting the body from depressurisation. If I remember well, such a design is actually worked on by NASA.

** The [[http://imgur.com/2Gb43.jpg arse-crack]] on the female human medium armor seems neither flattering (YMMV) nor practical. It Just Bugs Me. Gives a new meaning to '[[NegativeSpaceWedgie Space]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Wedgie]]'...

* Okay, so the in-universe translator is really effective, and that's all well and good. My confusion is why all the aliens are lip-synced perfectly with English even though they're technically speaking their own tongues. Unless they ''all'' know English as a secondary language (e.g., [[StarWars Galactic Basic]]), [[FridgeBrilliance which I suppose wouldn't be unthinkable in ~some~ sense, given that humans are learning alien languages as well]].

** Flattering, not really. VERY form fitting though, to the point that the female version seems to squeeze down or compress the chest area. Light armor sometime seems to be something out of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' or ''Franchise/MetalGear'', while heavy armor give a whole new meaning to BoobsOfSteel. Said form fitting armors can be justified by the fact that they double as space suit. Such a design should allow for minimum movements hindrance while protecting the body from depressurisation. If I remember well, such a design is actually worked on by NASA.

* It seems inconsistent. Mordin talks about a fertility rate of 1 in 1000, but he seems to refer to krogan children that are NOT stillborn. Even EVE, a fertile female, talks about her first stillborn being heartbreaking in ME3. But then, what is the difference between a ''fertile female'' and a ''non-fertile'' one? In this context, it seems like there are two possible (conflicting) perceptions and I'm not sure if it's intended in-universe or not. A portion of people seems to think that ''fertile females'' are females that successfully produce 1000 healthy babies, but that doesn't gel with the 1/1000 statistic that keeps being brought up. Are some krogan just misunderstanding what the genophage is, is it a writing inconsistency, or is something else muddying the waters? EVE is special because she's immune to the genophage (to an extent, since she still produced stillborns, before the mutation perhaps?) but every female would seem to have the same chance as any other, labeled ''firtile'' or otherwise.

*** It's possible that Shepard is specifically talking about the ones lost against Geth ships while protecting the Ascension, while the "third of its vessels" bit was about the entire battle. Or one was a mistake. Regardless, they do tell al-Jilani that the Turians lost twenty cruisers and the Alliance lost eight in ME2 interview.

** [[CriticalResearchFailure Except we can very, very, VERY clearly see the opening at the "ring" is closed when the Citadel closes its arms during Sovereign's attack.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKIbuNajk6U Observe here in this video at 2:04.]]

* Joker suffers from brittle bone disease, of which one of the symptoms is [[http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/66/BonesCase-40,41-%26-42.jpg blue scleras]]. Yet [[http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/Sandtigress/Mass%20Effect%20screens/me2anelle/2010_12_3000_07_29.jpg Joker's scleras]] are a normal, healthy white. What's going on here, limitations of the hardware, or a CriticalResearchFailure?

** AI research and creation is illegal because of the ethical quandary it poses. As an organic, you can only create life via biological processes involving your own body and other organic life forms. Synthetic life on the other hand is created from first principles i.e. from basic elements and compounds. In creating them, you are essentially "playing God". Now that this life form exists, what governs its relationship with you? As a life form, are you supposed to set it free and allow it to live and evolve as it pleases? Or do you take responsibility even ownership of it? The parent offspring relationship codifies how organics deal with newly created organic life, but would that same thing even apply to synthetics? Where does the boundary lie between teacher/mentor and enslaver? The council would rather just ban it and KillEmAll rather than tackle this vexing issue.

* something has been bugging the hell out of me. Every time you talk to an NPC, they all have this eccentric habit of their body language being scripted and wooden to a fault. Like they all do this thing when the conversation is over where they move their eyes to the right, turn their head, and awkwardly walk away, EVERY time. As great as the writing and dialogue is, it really puts them in {{uncanny valley}}. This is the most whiny complaint I have ever indulged in but I just keep noticing it.

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** Considering the aforementioned gunnery chief's example (math alert): we have a 20 kg projective being accelerated at 0.01 c each second. Let’s assume the main gun runs the full length of a dreadnought, say 1000 m. The acceleration comes to 3e6 m/s^2. At that rate, the projectile, regardless of mass, will travel the length of the gun in just over 0.025 s after which point, no more acceleration. The projectile, assuming it starts from rest relative to the dreadnought, is now moving at about 77500 m/s with a kinetic energy of 60 GJ. That is the max amount of energy that could be transferred to the target, and this presumes the projectile magically maintains its speed when its mass returns to normal. Turns out the [[WritersCannotDoMath writers' math isn't even correct.]] The gunnery chief states that the projectile impacts with the explosive yield of a 38 KT bomb...38 KT is about 160 TJ. Remember, 1 TJ = 1000 GJ. If anyone wants to double check my numbers, I used the relativistic model for kinetic energy...never mind, the difference between the Newtonian and relativistic models is negligible at this speed, although if anyone is interested, the relativistic model can be found on Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy#Relativistic_kinetic_energy_of_rigid_bodies here]].