User blog comment:JakePT/The New Normandy/@comment-3061137-20110426024001/@comment-1900300-20110426040542

Which is exactly what im saying. the Alliance took and retrofited the Normandy once Shepard lands for the trial. the Reapers show up and Shepard is forced to run for it to the Normandy as choas reigns. People arent going to stop them from taking it, sice they have other things to do and once Shepard steals it back the Alliance cant waste resources hunted down a ship when the ships stealth doesnt work on the Reapers anyway. It was Shep's ship and for all intents and purposes still is, but i doubt the Alliance had any intent to return it when they took it from the Commander in the first place. That was the assumtion it had an issue with, since the Alliance were taking a ship they believed to be their's and had no obligation to return it when they were done.