Bara_no_Hime said:Actually, the bigger question I had is...Indecipherable said:So I was just replaying Mass Effect 1. Can anyone explain this.
Why did Saren need to attack Eden Prime to learn the location of the Conduit?
Wait - I'm not done yet...
When, as a Spectre, he already had full access to the Citadel and could have walked in, pressed the doom button, and left no one the wiser until hot Reaper death arrived.
(of course, the real answer is "because if he'd done that, there wouldn't have been a game")
Except that the control consoles was smack in the middle of the most guarded room in the whole Citadel, and Bioware made that clear by having Wrex, or Ashley, or both (it's been a while) wonder where the hidden snipers are, because they must be there. And people would indeed question what he was doing in the council chamber, messing with stuff no one else knew about.
With the conduit he can invade the citadel with a bigger force and kill everyone in the normal control room before activating the main control console.
The thing about the keepers was made clear in ME1 as well.Kermi said:As you find out in ME2, ordinarily the Keepers are supposed to reactivate the Citadel to let the Reapers through, but the Protheans managed to modify them so they became harmless caretakers instead of Reaper agents. This is why Sovereign had to recruit Saren and find the Conduit on Ilos to seize control of the Citadel directly.