History Headscratchers / MassEffect2

** It's a ''hover'' tank, designed to, get this, '''hover''' along the ground. It's not designed for full flight. These rockets aren't simply blowing their entire fuel load in one big burst to overpower gravity, like a space shuttle launching. They're expending force constantly to keep the craft aloft. The maximum altitude the craft can maintain depends entirely on how much thrust the rockets can expell continuously. The thrust can be increased to gain higher altitude for travel or pick-up, but only in short bursts as the rockets simply aren't built for the strain of providing that level of thrust indefinately. ''That's'' how rockets work (in magic unicornland).

** It might have been a XanatosGambit by The Illusive Man to gain Shepard's trust: "See? The agents of the Reapers are everywhere, Shepard. You should really join Cerberus, because we totally don't torture children." Or maybe it was to show the player that Miranda is cold. Or maybe he wasn't a spy, and Miranda isn't omniscient like she thinks. SoYeah.

*** Except he acted practically the same way both times.

** It's a ''hover'' tank, designed to, get this, '''hover''' along the ground. It's not designed for full flight. These rockets aren't simply blowing their entire fuel load in one big burst to overpower gravity, like a space shuttle launching. They're expending force constantly to keep the craft aloft. The maximum altitude the craft can maintain depends entirely on how much thrust the rockets can expell continuously. The thrust can be increased to gain higher altitude for travel or pick-up, but only in short bursts as the rockets simply aren't built for the strain of providing that level of thrust indefinately. ''That's'' how rockets work.

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*If thermal clip technology was introduced recently in the setting (less than 2 years), and the ship Jacob's father was on crashed 10 years prior, why do enemies drop thermal clips?
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** The Flotilla is not entirely sterile. It's mentioned in the Codex that only some of the ships are sterile, and they are used for any out-of-suit activity.

** If there were enough programs to make Geth smart enough to build new bodies, they'd certainly be smart enough to build some guns.

*** That's not how rockets work. Hovering 1000 meters above ground takes as much thrust as hovering 1 meter above ground, which is exactly as much as is needed to counter gravity. You only need more thrust while accelerating upwards, when you are climbing at a constant speed the thrust is again the same as when hovering. In aerodynamic flight (planes and helicopters) there is a ground effect that reduces drag considerably when flying below half the wing span, but the Hammerhead does not employ aerodynamic flight.

**** That doesn't change the fact that there is something wrong there. I could just be unbelievably paranoid but other people have noticed it too. I am utterly unable to shake the feeling that Ashley/Kaiden is indoctrinated, or replaced with an evil clone, or god knows what. If they laid a hand on my Kaiden...

*** Bullshit.

** Hyperadvanced technology aside, the Collectors have a limited amount of manpower. They had only gotten half of Horizon onboard their ship when Shepard showed up, which forced them to abandon the remainder to deal with him and later escape. Ashley and Kaidan, despite being tagged and frozen in the opening cutscene, were apparently in the lucky 50% that the Collectors didn't have time to, um, collect.

*** But since Geth make all decisions though consenus (which is different from majority rule), you didn't leave it up to the Geth.

*** Actually, Legion says it ''isn't'' a math error; the Geth and heretics simply came to different conclusions. To paraphrase the analogy Legion used, the Geth came to the conclusion that 1+1=2 while the heretics concluded that 1+2=3. Both conclusions were logical and valid, but they led to different opinions. You're not correcting a math error; you're taking away their right to self-determination by purposefully brainwashing them to toe the Geth line.