Mass Effect: Archangel

[Matrix Dragon]

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.

Eh, I've always had a hard time believing that theory. One, because Anderson clearly still believes in ME2, despite the lack of evidence he has access to. Two, the Council doesn't exist in a vacuum. They're the representatives of their governments, not literal royalty. If their government believed it, they'd be telling their representatives to follow the party line or be replaced. And lastly... Well, like Anderson says in ME2, there's not much evidence. Most of Sovereign exploded and parts were stolen by scavengers (The Council can only work out where a third of his remains are, if that), and the parts left only suggest that it was a really advanced spaceship. The AI on Illos is broken, and the only person Saren ever mentioned the Reapers to is Shepard, who really doesn't have much evidence of her own to provide. If that dead Reaper Cerberus was sitting on hadn't fallen into a gas giant, then maybe she would have, but for most of ME2, all she had was theories.