User blog comment:Ygrain/EDI and the geth: their purpose in the story?/@comment-3581090-20120727155928/@comment-2228120-20120727190544

Yeah, Earth versus the Fleet, or possibly versus the Citadel - now, is it ever mentioned anywhere what was done to all those people on it? Bailey? Kolyat? The Council? Those extra refugees I let in? Were they just harvested? No epic fight?

Now, if I take my team for a suicide mission, I expect them to be OK with being killed or left behind as the situation demands. At best, if one of them is hit, I'd send the other one to try and get him to safety - and, instead of those two anonymous soldiers fighting off the husks who were saved by the Crucible blast, we could have seen these two either surviving, or being overwhelmed just before the fire reaches them, depending on the EMS/loyalty.