User blog comment:JediSpectre117/Council not helping in ME3/@comment-1388547-20110921204155

I suspect an important part of Mass Effect 3 will be *persuading* the Council to help -- at first they'll probably be mainly interested in securing their own space, and be perfectly willing to throw humanity to the Reapers as a distraction. That said, I also suspect that the Council actually does take the Reaper threat seriously. They acknowledged the threat of the Reapers at the end of ME1; they stonewalled Shepard in ME2, but at that point Shepard was a known associate of a human-supremacist, anti-Council organization -- they'd have been fools to reveal their plans, no matter how much good Shepard had done in the past. I seem to recall indications from the Cerberus Daily News articles that the turians, at least, were building up their navy, and we know there are some new warship technologies floating around because we get to upgrade the Normandy with them. I think it's just a question of how hard Shepard will have to work to persuade the Council to support humanity, rather than using Earth to buy time...