User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-4721065-20130419132524/@comment-4237253-20130419211627

1. That doesn't make sense. Do you mean the Normandy wouldn't have been destroyed immediately? Their attack only happens in the late game. We should be finding out about the Omega-4 relay from the get-go. It's blatantly ridiculous to hire people for a job we don't even know about. We know there are probably going to be Collectors. All we know is we need a way to counteract the Seeker Swarms and we need guns to shoot them. Mordin makes sense. Zaeed makes sense. Why not hire a hundred Zaeeds instead? That would have made more sense.

Saying an army wouldn't be effective in a debris field is an argument after the fact. They didn't know there was a debris field. If they gathered some intel and said "we need x specialist for y job" and "a large amount of debris means we can't send in a lot of ships" that'd be fine.

2. Exactly. He found the wreckage. Earlier, Lily said nothing came back. Something can come back. If the Normandy can do it, how about sending in one of those shuttles? That would make sense. Instead of risking everything at once, send in a recon team to investigate.