User blog comment:JordanaBrewsterFAN/Mass Effect 3 4th DLC./@comment-78.8.158.162-20130119154502/@comment-4967682-20130122040926

They still managed to have the armies and fleets to secure the Citadel and Omega. Those are the size of large cities and have entire fleets guarding them. They also have a fricken BATTLESHIP above Omega, giving them more dreadnoughts than most races.

While they're not on the level of the Galactic Empire (that was mostly a joke on my part), that's still ridiculous and not at all consistent with their previous appearances. Building the Normandy SR2 and reviving Shepard was supposed to take a significant chunk of their resources. But by Mass Effect 3 they can build two whole fleets of super advanced cruisers (much more advanced than what the Alliance uses) and hundreds of thousands of also super advanced ground troops, complete with the dropships and APCs to carry them all, and high tech weapons and armor for every soldier? Once again, they're not the same organization they were in ME2 at all.