User blog comment:Bluegear93/Volus/@comment-1786741-20121009221651/@comment-4721065-20121010115911

@Aleksandr the Great: Well, this is far from the first time that the lore had undergone a poorly executed shift. Just look at the geth: while they did deconstruct the "evil robots" trope pretty well with them, they forgot about one tiiny detail: in the first game, you're told that not one of the ships that had ventured into the geth space in 300 years returned. Needless to say, this doesn't match well with the image of them being a peaceful specie.

Or look at the Cerberus throughout the series. They have gone from a largely unknown rogue military group to a far more powerful organisation that is known by virtually EVERYONE you meet in the space in two years than become just as - if not more powerful - as Alliance while somehow arriving at the brilliant conclusion of implanting Reaper tech in all members in spite of CONSIDERABLE evidence that this results in indoctrination.

Finally, a news report in ME tells you that attack on Eden Prime had essentially frozen all investment into the colonies. In the sequel, more than a million people get abducted and yet no-one is even considering doing the same, let alone fleeing these colonies to the safety of Earth. In short, volus getting powerful biotics is far from the worst thing to happen to Mass Effect plot-wise.