Actually, I've heard the end got so much hate they are rewriting it to some extent. Kind of like Fallout 3 and the original... The 'and then your character dies LOL!!!' ending. Yeah, sending your radiation immune hulk in to get irradiated was a big no... For no real reason. Was so glad they altered that stupid.
More to the topic, I think the reason they don't do an accellerated VR research is that would annoy the 'no AI for you' laws. You know... the ones omnicidial to AIs, because all AIs apparently instantly end uup going 'Delete all meatbags or something'. Oddly at least from the first one and generally bumming around I haven't actually heard of an in game reason they made that choice centuries ago or at least can't remember any. The closet thing I can think of is the Geth and I'm not sure the Geth actually managed to find out about said galactic law. They just asked a few philisophical questions to literally one guy and suddenly were in the middle of a war of extinction from absolutely nowhere. Then spent the next 300 or so years turtling up in their lands avoiding the organic nut jobs. Then got involved in a crusade to bring back the super machine race that removes said crazy organics.
Anyway, I'm going with the reason being that goes into AIish territory. So you'd have either have Cerberus manage to do this without being completely stupid evil... or say prove the Turrian ambassador need to be locked in a rubber room... then fast tracking it while they scramble for a replacement. I'm kind of sure the reason the game gives off a 'Humans are special' vibe is the humans are new and big enough they haven't had their motivation squished by the Council's own brand of stupid.
More to the topic, I think the reason they don't do an accellerated VR research is that would annoy the 'no AI for you' laws. You know... the ones omnicidial to AIs, because all AIs apparently instantly end uup going 'Delete all meatbags or something'. Oddly at least from the first one and generally bumming around I haven't actually heard of an in game reason they made that choice centuries ago or at least can't remember any. The closet thing I can think of is the Geth and I'm not sure the Geth actually managed to find out about said galactic law. They just asked a few philisophical questions to literally one guy and suddenly were in the middle of a war of extinction from absolutely nowhere. Then spent the next 300 or so years turtling up in their lands avoiding the organic nut jobs. Then got involved in a crusade to bring back the super machine race that removes said crazy organics.
Anyway, I'm going with the reason being that goes into AIish territory. So you'd have either have Cerberus manage to do this without being completely stupid evil... or say prove the Turrian ambassador need to be locked in a rubber room... then fast tracking it while they scramble for a replacement. I'm kind of sure the reason the game gives off a 'Humans are special' vibe is the humans are new and big enough they haven't had their motivation squished by the Council's own brand of stupid.