DRAG0NFLIGHT Wrote:I've always wondered if maybe, since the Citadel is a Reaper construct, there might be some kind of localized Indoctrination field effect working over whoever is appointed Councilor, so that they tend to dismiss reports of Reapers, even in the face of overwhelming circumstantial evidence. It wouldn't be overt, but you'd have to slap them in the face with incontrovertible evidence to sway them. And their seeming inability to see what others do suggests even solid computer evidence isn't convincing without real, in-person data.I had an idea for a similar story. It was a ME/Star Trek Online fusion, where the events of the first ME happened about 200 years earlier and the Citadel hadn't encountered humans, yet. Sovereign was destroyed by the combined efforts of the citadel fleets, and the Council, realizing what the Citadel was, decided to abandon and shut down the Citadel to keep it from being used.
Unfortunately, they ended up moving the seat of the council to Feros.