I would personally prefer a E Day Sequel as I am loving playing through E Day right now.
So in the Kilo 5 Trilogy Admiral Margret Parangosky chews out Dr Catherine Halsey for the Spartan IIs mostly for using flash clones. However Parangosky was the one to authorise the abduction of the Spartan IIs and the use of the flash clones in the first place. Why did Karen Traviss, the author of the Kilo 5 Trilogy decide to make the person who authorised and knew everything about the Spartan II program be the person who became the main critic of the Spartan II program's unethical nature?
So in Halo Infinite the Banished somehow manage to destroy the UNSC infinity, the best and most powerful Ship the UNSC had? Not only that but the UNSC was losing Badly until the Master Chief showed up and singlehandedly turned the Battle of Zeta Halo into an even fight. However the Outdated support Ship with less crew then the Infinity that was 28 Years out of Date somehow stood up against the Banished at the Ark and were even winning at first. How were the UNSC losing at Zeta Halo with Thousands of Marines and Dozens of Spartan IVs and the best Ship they had, but the UNSC Spirt of Fire Crew stood up to the exact same enemy with less Marines and three Spartan IIs in outdated armour?
So both in and out of Universe it seem the ethical issues of the Spartan II Program(kidnapping six year old children and replacing them with flash clones meant to die) seems to get discussed a lot. I mean some stuff like the Kilo 5 Trilogy was basically three books of judging the Spartan II program. However the Spartan III program never seems to get nearly as much judgement despite they were sending "volunteer" traumatised orphans who had already lost everything to the Covenant on suicide missions against the Covenant with a projected casualty rate of over 99% minus a few who were pulled off. Why is one often dicussed but the other is not?
Now while the Genophage was the only way to stop the Krogan Rebellions when they were happening due to the Krogan's extremly high birthrate, there was not excuse to keep their entire species forcibly sterilised for 1476 years afterwards. The Council was basically trying to keep the Krogan to kill themselves off and they wanted them to go extinct. Also while the Quarians did break the Council's AI ban rules and also tried to exterminate the Geth once they became self aware the Geth did kill 99% of the Species and then squatted on their planets they were not even using for 290 years. Also the Council revoked their embassy, stopped them from settling new planets with the threat of orbital bombardment, allowed businesses to legally not hire them due to being Quarians and did nothing to protect them from being targets from slavers. I have no idea why so many people both in and out of universe defend both species being collectively punished for their ancestor's crimes despite their ancestors did horrible things?
In Halo Silent Storm and insurrectionist mole in the UNSC named Hector Nyeto slips a Virus onto Dr Halsey's computer. The Virus reveals to him and the six largest insurrectionist groups at the time that the Spartan IIs were kidnapped children. Also in Halo Bad Blood Buck asks Jun if he knows about if the older Spartans were kidnapped as children but Jun not only confirms that the Spartan IIs were but the IIIs like him were "Volunteer" Orphans. Why was Jun allowed to share this classified piece of information? Also with this massive Data leak early into the Human Covenant war and Jun just giving out classified info like it was nothing ,why doesn't the whole UEG know the truth about the Spartan IIs true origins and to a lesser extent the Spartan IIIs?
I mean Human Banished and Banshied Spartans exist in lore. I think it would have been really cool in Infinite's Campaign to fight Banished Humans or even a Banished Spartan for a boss fight.
I would say about 50/50 odds either way. I mean Halo Infinite forget about the created uprising entirely and wrapped it up in some novels like 5% of the fans would actually read. Halo Infinite also destoryed the UNSC Infinity at the start and killed off Cortana offscreen.
Without Kai Leng's extreme plot armour I think that Niftu Cal might actually win this fight. He is a Biotic god after all.
So in Mass Effect 3 Cerberus Phantoms use swords as weapons which I find quite odd as no other military or paramilitary group uses them as weapons for obvious reasons. It makes no sense as to why a late 22nd Century Paramilitary group like Cerberus would use swords as weapons as Advanced Guns, Biotics, Omni Tools and Omni Blades all exist. Also their swords don't seem to be very good either as Commander Shepard can punch Kai Leng's sword and shatter it easily so unless Kai Leng is purposely using a worse sword then the Phantoms. Why does Cerberus make it's troops use such terrible weapons?
So in the Mass Effect Novel Revelations on page 116 it is mentioned that the Geth killed over 99% of the entire Quarian population. That means that the Geth killed almost almost entirely Quarian civilians and not the Quarian Police and Military who were the oness trying to exterminate the Geth. Also not to mention that in the Geth Memory Logs in ME3 you see Quarians who were standing up for the Geth to defend them while risking imprisonment or even death for themselves, meaning the Geth should know that not every Quarian wanted them dead and many wanted to protect them, yet the Geth killed almost all Geth sympathizers anyways. Not only that but they even killed non Quarians on Rannoch like the Baria Frontiers Representative's bondmate who was an Asari visiting Rannoch at the time and also attacked Council diplomatic ships attempting to communicate with the Geth? Why did the Geth kill almost every organic instead of just the Quarians who were trying to shut them down/exterminate them? And why did ME3 not mention this at all?
So in Mass Effect 1 the Council does not want to send a fleet into the Terminus Systems to avoid sparking a war with the "Terminus Systems species". Also the reason why nobody settled Virmire was because it was too close to the Terminus Systems. However in Mass Effect 2 there are at least 12 human colonies in the Terminus Systems with hundreds of thousands of people each as Feedoms Progress has 912,810 people and Horizon has 654,390 people. The Only Species native to the Terminus Systems in ME2 are the Vorcha and Quarians as well as the Geth. I mean who did the Coucil really think they would start a war with that was such a big threat, the Blood Pack? Why did the Terminus Systems change so much from entire other species and governments to the biggest threat being groups like the Blood Pack and it is no more dangerous then the Attican Traverse?
So in the Synthesis ending it is not very clear how everything works. Like for example everything organic including planets have circuitry in them but Synthetics like the Geth just have glowing Green eyes. Also in the ending cutscenes the Genophage is cured somehow even if you Sabotage it but Joker is still limping, meaning he still has brittle bone disease. Also EDI says that she is "alive" in this ending implying that she still has free will but Urdnot Wreav if he is in charge of the Krogan all of a sudden becomes peaceful, implying that Synthesis is affecting his thoughts and behaviour.Also Husks and Reaper ground forces become sentient too despite many like the Cannibals and Brutes being a mix of multiple different species. Why is Synthesis still so inconsistent and confusing out of all the three endings?
So during the Krogan Rebellions the Turians deployed the Genophage to stop the Krogan from reproducing quickly. However the kept the Genophage for 1476 years, long after the Krogan rebellions ended with it only being cured by player choice in ME3. The Council also revoked the Quarian embassy, denied them aid and blocked them from settling new planets, and does nothing to stop discrimination against Quarians after the morning war/creation of the Geth, continuing to punish them for 290 years until ME3. However the Council did not do anything like that to the Batarians, who in 1785 CE, bombarded the salarian colony world of Mannovai; in 1913, the Batarian Hegemony annexed a independent asari colony called Esan, in 2115, Citadel forces fought with Batarian forces on the planet Enael and lead a slave raid on Mindoir in 2170. The Council did not revoke their embassy, instead the Hegemony left willingly in 2171 after the Council refused to give them the entire Skillian Verge. Why did the Council treat the Krogan and Quarians so much worse then the Batarians?
So In Mass Effect 2 it seems like the Colonies abducted were small and remote. However Freedoms Progress has a population of 912,810 and Horizon had a population of 654,390, however only a third of the population was taken from Horizon, meaning over 1 million people were taken from the two colonies, there was 12 hit in total meaning if all of them had populations similar to Freedoms Progress and Horizon, over 10 million people could have be abducted in total. Why did the Alliance not seem to care about this very much and only Cerberus cared about it when this is not a small problem when it should be The Alliance's number one priority at the time of ME2?
For me it has to be Kai Leng as Conrad Verner is supposed to be funny while Kai Leng is not but is unintentionally very funny.
So people here often mention that Cerberus is way to powerful in Mass Effect 3 due to having an extremely large army of thousands and an entire fleet and managing to take over Omega and Eden Prime. However even in Mass Effect 1 the knew about the Rachni and Thorian creepers before anyone else did and also somehow figured out how to make Husks. And in ME2 they managed to revive Commander Shepard from the dead and build a better Normandy then the original. Also they were a minor side mission bad guys in ME1 but afterwards in ME2 and ME3 plus all the other side material they became a main faction? Why is this?
Especially with the Geth Consensus mission on Rannoch in ME3 shows a very one sided view of the Quarians as the only ones in the wrong when then Geth killed over 99% of the Quarian population. Even in ME1 Commander Shepard chastises Tali for her ancestors actions against them and the Geth were completely hostile in ME1 which makes no sense as to why Shepard would defend them.
Like everything has this weird green glow to it. Every single living thing seems to be glowing unnaturally. Also not to mention all the husks and reaper enemies gain sentience as well. It feels really quite disturbing to me.
I would say that Kai Leng is dumber due to being an edgelord. At least Kuril seems to fit in universe while Leng is a literal joke who sends you edgy emails.