The controversial tell-all e-book “Criminal Negligence: The Citadel Council and the True Story of the Geth Threat” went on sale at midnight last night and was lapped up by lovers of conspiracy theories and politics everywhere. Written by a C-SEC officer personally responsible for asari Councilor Tevos’ safety, “Negligence” alleges that the Citadel Council knew the geth were traveling outside the Perseus Veil long before their attack on Eden Prime. Other revelations, such as the geth spreading to not one but five planets before their attack on the Citadel, are now being revealed to crank up the hype on the author’s tour of the Council’s homeworlds.
Tags: c-sec, citadel, council, Councilor Teyos, Eden Prime, geth
I knew something was wrong! I live on the edges of the Terminus systems and I thought the stepped up Alliance presence right before the attack was odd! People were calling me crazy, but I was right! Can’t trust the Alliance or the Council it seems. I guess politicians are all the same regardless of the colour of their skin…or scales for that matter.
I don’t believe a word of it. It’s just like the stories of the counsel intentionally sparking the Krogan rebellion to mine Element Zero from Tatchanka. These flicks are made for the idiotic, uneducated, masses….
I bet Conspiracy-Dan is crawling all over this video.
Just downloaded my copy, and the allegations of the Geth spreading are not hype. A school friend of mine is a marine who served with 3 MEB two years ago; two weeks before the attack on the Citadel they sent his expeditionary brigade (along with bunch of frigates, a dozen cruisers, a dreadnought, and two carriers) out to the Armstrong Nebula of all places. My friend told me that there seemed to be command confusion on whether it was a training exercise or a FONOP (“freedom of navigation operation”) against the Batarians. It wasn’t a training excercise, all the ships were loaded with live ammo, the kind you’d use against shields and synthetics. And the Batarians hadn’t been active there since Torfan. Not saying the author’s right, but his story fits the facts.
A buddy of mine who works for the Alliance told me that Shepard had taking orders from Alliance brass to stop a small Geth scouting force BEFORE the attack on the Citadel, but it turned out to be a much larger invasion force which they kept quiet about to not worry people. Look where that got us…
Bah. Just another crazy. What’s next, the geth are on the Citadel now, dressing as Keepers?
With the three hundred years they’ve had to build up, if they wanted to, they could send an absurd fleet out of the Veil and take over any swath of systems they felt like, assuming they didn’t somehow get stupid and decide to actually engage in house-to-house fighting.
Actually landing and establishing a base on inhabited planets would be the dumbest thing they could do, and they were smart enough to shove the quarians off of their homeworlds. I don’t understand what they were trying for on Eden Prime or the Citadel, but if it was an invasion they wanted, and they have more ships like the one they led the Citadel attack with, we don’t stand a chance in fleet battles anyway.
Great. Now I’m going to be up all night again trying to figure out why they decided to do something like charge at the Citadel. Geth tactical doctrine can’t be that screwy. There’s something else going on here, but geth making tiny planetary outposts? Absurd.
I personally think that the geth believed they could decapitate the Citadel in one fell swoop, leaving us leaderless when they launched their main invasion. It’s possible that they only had the capability to build one of those super-dreadnoughts, and, if they’d managed to take or destroy the Citadel, they thought they could easily launch a greater attack against Citadel space.
It probably would have worked, too, if they hadn’t miscalculated the Alliance’s military capabilities. Possible that they’ve been planning the attack so long that the Alliance didn’t factor into their calculations and battle plans.
I don’t know. That could be it, but it still seems like a bad idea. Single-stroke decapitation strikes only work in the movies; they just tend to piss off the remnants.
Really? If communication hadn’t managed to escape, as was probably the geth’s intention, I think it could have led (rather unfortunately) to open war between the Citadel species.
That’s a very pessimistic view, I think. However, it also leads to the problem that it’s impossible to keep communication contained in the Galaxy, unless you somehow manage to shut down the mass relays. A ship with a working FTL communications suite is capable of getting a message to any planet, as long as they don’t stick around in one spot for too long.
Yes, but how many mass relay trade and communication routes go directly through the Citadel? Don’t mistake me for a total pessimist, I do believe in interspecies unity and in cooperation (no pun intended), but, honestly, it’s the fact that humans and turians, unfortunately, don’t trust each other, at least, the militaries don’t.
True, though humans seem predisposed to distrust anything that doesn’t give them what they want when they want it. I almost got into a fistfight the other day because I told one of the men here to wait for me to fix his omnitool while I worked on the colony’s receiver. I guess he really needed his porn fix, because he wasn’t ready to back down until a few other humans showed up.
I know my old military pals don’t put much trust in humans because they have no respect for the greater shape of things. At least, most of them don’t.
Yes, our species does have an unfortunate tendency toward immediacy. What do you expect from a species whose dominant power for nearly two hundred years hadn’t even existed two hundred years before that? A lot of the problems humanity – and the Systems Alliance in general – has had in integrating into the rest of the galaxy is the Americanist doctrines that have dominated the planet since the mid-twentieth century. Though, indeed, I love my native country and what it, at least, usually, stands for, it does tend to be… abrasive and self-righteous, even at the best of times.
Abrasive and self-righteous can be fun, though. I have to admit, I had a rather dim view of humans until I started hopping between colonies and helping them with their communications equipment. Human ingenuity is good, but it’s best when paired with a few old tricks.
The best part about living with humans, however, is that nobody eats my food. And I don’t have to worry about the stranded or trapped-in-a-room cannibalism that some of your books warn about.
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the ships involved report communication difficulties during that battle? I think I read that somewhere. As if, I don’t know, the superdreadnought was jamming communication and somehow keeping the Widow relay closed on Fifth Fleet’s nose.
If that were the case, then how would the Fifth Fleet have known when to make the jump? They had to have had some kind of signal from the inside. It may have kept them back for longer than expected, but it didn’t keep them out. And if a relay is open, a ship can get through.
Well, it depends on how much we can trust the reports. I mean, who really expected the mass relay monument to actually be a mass relay itself? Obviously nobody at C-Sec. The geth had control of the Citadel Tower within the first ten minutes of the battle, which is in the official records. The question is, how much can you actually control from the Citadel Tower. If it was, as reported, liberated by Commander Shepard, then it was probably at that moment that the Fifth Fleet was called in. But as long as the geth held the Presidium, there was either little or no communication with elements in the Serpent Nebula.
That is true. I’d not read the reports in a while, and reading them again, i can see where you’re right. Hah. It’s funny, really, because normally I try to be on top of these things.
Of course, if you can control mass relays in that manner, I wonder why it hasn’t been used properly in war yet. With a few well-placed intelligence assets, you could jam a mass relay seconds before a hostile force jumped in, disrupting their momentum. With the right timing, it could be powered back on, and any remaining enemies could be destroyed while the attackers have the initiative.
Hm. There are drawbacks, though; obvious ones, like what happens if the enemy force is bigger than the attacking one, and if you have to retreat, you can’t use the relay until your man on the other side decides it’s fine for you to come back.
Still, it can’t be discounted. I wonder what other secrets of control are hiding in the Citadel’s walls.
Maybe our local “organic” Geth specialist can shed some light on this….
We do not understand what you are insinuating. We are not Geth. We are organic.
That said, the Geth who attacked the Citadel were a splinter faction who severed ties with us. We were not privy to their actions prior to the attack on the Citadel, although it would not be illogical to assume that they believed themselves to be furthering a greater cause.
That’s the problem with so-called “greater causes”. They distract from the immediate and the sane.
Hey guys, lEt’s not buy into alL the rumors here man. People have the right to an opinion Man but, lEt’s be realistic. The getH arEn’t reallY involved in A giant coveR up story, thE council aren’t either. Wives tales And rumors is all iT is man. Chances Have It that those Notorious Geth assaults are nothing but their artificial intelligence Malfunctioning, Everybody knew It was a matter of time. KrogaN and element zerO… Who has seen The facts about tHat? Everybody knows whaT happened, it was those damn salaRians and the genophage that caUsed The krogan rebellion. Has everyone forgotten already?
I guess I was wrong, who would of figured?
If you are suffering an error, Conspiracy_Dan, we can provide the necessary firewalls and repair programs.
Interesting, I am detecting a hidden message embedded in this text, compiling now.
“help me they are watching me i know thet truth”
Now to determine whether this is another conspiracy nut gone paranoid or they really know something.
Not that there might be anything to know, given past experiences some of us have had when things get… “dark” in our operations.
Oh no….I hope Dan’s alright.
this one believes one has their facts wrong, this one belives the genophage occuread as a result of the rebellions, the rebellions did not occur because of the genophage
Yeah sure, I have a friend in the Alliance who said he heard another rumor that an Asari Matriarch was involved with some plant invasion to somehow recreate the Rachni and turn them into some kind of army that worked with the keepers to overrun the citadel. It makes a good story though, next thing you know someone will come up with a story that giant human skull faced robots will be sent from the far reaches of the galaxy to destroy life as we know it. What a joke.
The Human Systems Alliance does not comment on speculation or rumors. This is exactly what this author has done, and is simply using hype to sell more units on his tour, as clearly stated in the news brief.
Wait, I know that was extremely important, but…
The Counsilor’s name is Tevos? If you take out the ‘v’ and rearrange the letters it spells Toes… just sayin’. You’d think the asari, being so pretty, could name their baby leader something more dignified. Poor Toes! I love her all the greater, now, shouldering that name. *sniff*
Now, on to business! I for one am with the book.
What.
Conspiracy Dan seems to have a hidden code in his message, if you put together all the caps in his message, you get “HELP ME THEY ARE WATCHING ME KNOW THE TRUTH”
heh… no, that was just one of my pets hitting the capslock. I know nothing about any hidd- oh man… somebody is at the door. Oh man! Oh man! Oh man! It’s them!
Dan! Are you okay?! Hope whoever they are didn’t get to you.
If they did, I doubt he’d have the time to manually key in “somebody is at the door.”
He’s just one of those Conspiracy Theorists. We’ve got dozens of them on the Citadel. Every five months or so, someone claims the statuary on the Presidium is giving them a toothache or that the Keepers are following them around the station. We process the reports, keep an eye on them, and quietly wait for the next big conspiracy to grab their attention.
This author is an idiot knowing full well what this sort of writing can do to the reputation of the Citadel Council and any other goverment body,in time’s like these we need to have faith in our leader’s and hope that they lead us in the right direction,this information will cause alsort’s of conspiracy theories cause problem’s that take our attention away from our real concerns such as the geth,we have avoid this sort of material atleast till our fight with the geth is over.I don’t say this as an alliance Soldier but as a citizen of the Citadel
I must give the Council credit. It’s not easy to cover up something that big. Trust me, I’ve made many people disappear, let alone something that millions even billions of people witnessed. Hopefully they cover this up quickly, otherwise I would worry for the author’s safety. If he is afraid and any of you know him, refer him to me, I’ll make sure no one ever finds him.
I bought it and thought it was actually a good read. When I travel from system to system I have nothing to do between missions. So instead of hopping through a Mass Relay and hoping I end up some where I just dock and stay aboard my ship and read
This book is a bunch of nonsense.
Next thing you know, they’ll be writing that spectres are smuggling geth right through the front door of the citadel because that stupid human receptionist can’t tell the difference between a geth and a synthetic assistant!
We have experience to suggest that she can’t.
Do you?
Yes.
this so cool man!
i got chaty once with some guy who said he FLEW during the atack on the catadel!!1!
he sad that he seen the geth b4 in the armstrong nebula and even over at my brothers colony at FEROS!
oh man! I’m so syced!
that guy man!!1! what a joker!