User blog comment:JediSpectre117/James Vega your guard and before trial./@comment-4048340-20110919020328/@comment-1900300-20110920065540

And also since the plot of ME3 focuses on Shepard gaining support from each race! If the Council still had the authority to call for a united attack on the Reapers at Earth, why are you needed to gain the loyalty for these races in the first place? Where is the Council to call for more troops from there member nations? Because they have withdrawn to their own terriory in the face of threats. It is this kind of seperated front that the Reapers want.