History Headscratchers / MassEffect3

** Same reason anyone one cheats on their girlfriend, really. Seriously, the [[YourCheatingHeart list is staggering]]. it seems to be Bioware's fault that every relationship so far has been permanent (unless if you cheat on your [=ME=]1 love interest), and Jacob gets the flak because he's the only one who does and because he happens to be black. Why aren't you complaining if your black Shepard cheats on Ashley, Miranda, or Jack?

[[Folder: Staff Analyst Brooks ignorance of basic Alliance Technology.]]

* The codex has established that just one projectile from a dreadnought-scale mass accelerator hits like a nuclear weapon. In fact the Drill Sergeant in ME2 specified that the impact of a 2kg slug from an Everest-class dreadnought releases a third of the energy of the Hiroshima bomb. Orbital bombardment obliterates whole cities; in fact exploration reveals dead worlds which have been subjected to precisely this form of genocide. The Reapers do it to planets they can't be bothered to harvest. BUT here we have Shepard, standing not 50 yards from the Reaper he's targeting for ''the entire Quarian fleet'' -- the impact of whose barrage would have ''vaporized'' Shepard, Tali, the other squadmate, Legion, and everybody and everything else within five miles of Ground Zero. SlapOnTheWristNuke indeed!

* Real answer: rushed development. ME3 was done in a tearing hurry to meet EA's release deadline, and corners had to be cut. Each additional dialogue option starts an exponential chain of responses, each of which then has to be voice-acted and possibly mo-capped or hand-animated (although you may notice that ME3 doesn't bother animating a lot of conversations). In fact, even the apparent binary dialogue choice is often an illusion- the response is the same either way, and in some cases even what Shepard says is the same!

** Revisit the Temple with Javik in your party. The asari probably got the idea for male divinities from the protheans. As for why that didn't turn any heads, this information was probably kept hidden by the asari government, same as with the Beacon/Prothean VI hidden in the Athame statue itself.

*** It's possible that they were using point-defense and low-powered weaponry instead of their main guns. We know that ME ships do have these weapons for precision targeted bombardment around friendly positions. That would also explain why the Reaper was able to take multiple direct hits from the ship guns while it was in-atmosphere.

* The codex has established that just one projectile from a dreadnought-scale mass accelerator hits like a nuclear weapon. In fact the Drill Sergeant in ME2 specified that the impact of a 2kg slug from an Everest-class dreadnought releases a third of the energy of the Hiroshima bomb. Orbital bombardment obliterates whole cities; in fact exploration reveals dead worlds which have been subjected to precisely this form of genocide. The Reapers do it to planets they can't be bothered to harvest. BUT here we have Shepard, standing not 50 yards from the Reaper he's targeting for ''the entire Quarian fleet'' -- the impact of whose barrage would have ''vaporized'' Shepard, Tali, the other squadmate, Legion, and everybody and everything else within five miles of Ground Zero. PlotArmor indeed!

** Even ''more'' factors: 1)For obvious reasons, evolution is slower in organisms that breed slower, and larger species generally breed slower than smaller ones. The Leviathans are freaking huge. 2)The rate of evolution is also affected by the intensity of environmental pressures. Significantly reduced environmental pressures result in laughably unsurvivable organisms like the dodo. Half the plot of ''Flm/Idiocracy'' is the fact that sapient civilization removes nearly all factors that might thin the herd, so the only traits that get selected for are ones that result in more offspring.

** Guys, the codex entry for banshees says they're made "from asari ''with active or latent predispositions to becoming'' Ardat-Yakshi." Meaning oyu don't have to actually ''be'' an ardat-yakshi to qualify for reaperization, you just have to be a carrier for the pertinent allele. So even if the Codex ''didn't'' say that 1% of Asari are ardat yakshi, that's still a lot more potential future-banshees than just those Asari actually going around literally fucking people to death.

* Just corssed my mind, and maybe I'm overthinking, but think about it for a minute: The clone was simply that - a clone of the original Shepard. He did not undergo extensive surgery and cybernetic augmentation that turned the original Shepard into the SuperSoldier he is since [=ME2=], he would only have Shepard's original body and abilities. Which are formidable, sure, but not on par with the enhanced version.

* I can understand that the Citadel DLC is a lighthearted comedy episode that serves as a hillarious and heartwarming farewell to the Normandy crew you come to know and love so the Reaper War going on in-universe isn't the main focus, but in order to get the most out of it (aka all your crew are at the party), you'll have to hold it off until you finished Priority: Horizon, after Miranda saves her sister and deals with her father. After that event, though, Miranda says that she puts a tracker on Kai Leng and tells Shepard to act fast to track him back to the Illusive Man before the trail goes cold. If that's the case, how did Shepard and his crew have the time for all the events in Citadel DLC before going back to their mission? The event of the Citadel DLC took place about two days at the very least (one day dealing with the Shepard Clone, and another day spending time with your crew at the party).It was obvious that the party isn't held on the same day as the clone incident, because Wrex said he had to go back to Tuchanka first and told him to call him again should they decide to hold a party, and your ME2 crew are obviously going to take some time to travel to the Citadel as well. In all that time, Cerberus apparently never found out about the tracer Miranda put on Kai Leng and removes it?

* Just corssed my mind, and maybe I'm overthinking, but think about it for a minute: The clone was simply that - a clone of the original Shepard. He did not undergo extensive surgery and cybernetic augmentation that turned the original Shepard into the SuperSoldier he is since ME2, he would only have Shepard's original body and abilities. Which are formidable, sure, but not on par with the enhanced version.

** Their ships are {{Palette Swap}}s of normal human ships of their classes, and Cerberus has Cord-Hislop Aerospace as a front. I speculate they built or acquired normal ships through fronts then upgraded them with Reaper tech when they were ready to come out of hiding.