In retrospect, I'd actually say Ashley was kind of a small preview for the insanity of today. There's quite a few people online who will ignore the entire character in an instant claiming "Ashley is racist, and thus is a terrible person!" and then write her off on Virmire without a second thought. However, not only is her position is both understandable given her history (if they bothered to look into it) and (as the series progresses) is also provably accurate for the Council. But, no, muh racism! so the whole character must be written off.
I always had Ash die because to me the idea of making sure the nuke was properly made was more important than just holding the line somewhere else.
It's why in Dragon Age Inquisition, I always did the mission where I time travelled because if the enemy could go back in time to fuck with stuff, I could lose the war before it even started, even if the expense is that I lose troops who become possessed by demons. That sucks but to me the potential threat of time travel is worse than the other that was presented to me.
In retrospect, I'd actually say Ashley was kind of a small preview for the insanity of today. There's quite a few people online who will ignore the entire character in an instant claiming "Ashley is racist, and thus is a terrible person!" and then write her off on Virmire without a second thought. However, not only is her position is both understandable given her history (if they bothered to look into it) and (as the series progresses) is also provably accurate for the Council. But, no, muh racism! so the whole character must be written off.
I always had Ash die because to me the idea of making sure the nuke was properly made was more important than just holding the line somewhere else.
It's why in Dragon Age Inquisition, I always did the mission where I time travelled because if the enemy could go back in time to fuck with stuff, I could lose the war before it even started, even if the expense is that I lose troops who become possessed by demons. That sucks but to me the potential threat of time travel is worse than the other that was presented to me.