User blog comment:JediSpectre117/Council not helping in ME3/@comment-2250460-20110921060626/@comment-118213-20110923133026

Actually I think it is you contradicting your self:' '"And they have had only 300 YEARS to appearenty plot their grand takeover."'' - is what you said, now you say that they don't need 300 years... I mearly brought up Nazi Germany as a matter of proof that one didn't need centuries to prepare for a war. Which is what you suggested.

We don't know when Saren first made contact with the Geth, but Vigil implies that it was longer than a couple of years. And Saren's mission with Anderson implies that he first encountered Sovereign around 20 years before ME1.

"Fathom", "surely", "imagine", "if"  again your speculating! These are facts we don't even know. But even if there true you seem to be proving my point, with these resources, manpower etc the Council have enough reason to believe that Sovereign was a Geth-construct. Which is after all the outlying point of my argument.

Shepard talked to Vigil, Sovereign and Harbinger, Shepard saw the two visions. Shepard received the cipher from the Thorian. The Council didn't, nor did anyone else (but Shepard's team and Seren).When your very decisions effect trillions of lives you can not go around making major decisions besed on the word of mouth, and the fact that Seren and Tela Vasir were both of questionable character that goes to show that they dare not just believe the word of a Spectre. The fact that in Mass Effect 2 Shepard has turned up working with a terrorist organisations makes her reliability questionable too.

You also seem to forget the point that a Human dominated or lead council is as reluctant to believe the reaper threat as well.