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During my first playthrough, I was certain the soldiers on Mars were mind-controlled husks beneath their armor even before the point when Shepard unmasks one early one. There was obviously no other explanation how TIM could've raised such an undyingly loyal massive army especially after all the loses his faction suffered in the previous game. Had to baka when Shepard seemed a bit surprised the enemy combatants were no longer human, it was such a Captain Obvious situation, like if Shepard was somewhat surprised to learn how statically commonplace it is for Asari to pay the death toll upon breeding with their Vorcha bondmates or something

Overall one of the big problems with ME3 is the game feels even less believable if you destroyed the Collector homeworld given TIM's sudden boost in powerlevel