This may be something I never understood, or maybe I'm just forgetting a plot point from the first game, but why did Saren care about stealing the Beacon at the beginning of Mass Effect 1? … In ME Saren used it to close the gates in order to stop reinforcements. Shepard opened the relay again to allow the Alliance fleet to join the fight. So there doesn’t seem to be any need to go … · Saren Arterius discovers that Humans conduct AI research which has been strictly forbidden since the Awakening of the Geth. The Council confronts Ambassador Goyle which in … · Indoctrination is a slow process, but by the comments from various characters in ME1, it seems like it's not that slow: as I recall, the Tholian hostage describes it as taking …
