User blog comment:WilliamsonKnox/Villains of Mass Effect 4?/@comment-203.116.187.1-20150227053908/@comment-58.182.23.210-20150301082017

Point taken. Except that the Council peacekeepers were probably either wiped out or reassigned when the Reapers invaded. And I imagine that with the need to rebuild galactic civilization from the ground-up, a bunch of primitive brutes on some world in the middle of nowhere won't a priority... until it's too late.