@Pyro411,I think the assumption would be theres one in operations and Tanns office, but that raises even more loopholes then because anyone that tries sending a message to the MW will immediately notice there is no comm network. With Tann being such a underling like he was I doubt anyone told him about the upcoming Reaper War, it would be nice to have a few characters that come to light that did know about it though and everyone finds out if nothing else it would add a new twist, provide motivation to survive and generally make the story more interesting. Someone really didn't think the story through at Bioware if you ask me let alone be fully familiar with the events of the last 3 games. Bioware needed a Mass Effect fan writing the story familiar with its intricate details, theres plenty of great writers and directors out there that used to love Mass Effect now I don't think anyone would want to associate themselves with this series. If you needed further proof of this, just look how silent all the voice actors have gone they are probably all rightly worried about how much Bioware and EA have damaged their reputations with this game. Ironically, its the character that dies in MEA that have their reputation enhanced, Clancy Brown was simply phenomenal in his brief appearance as Alec Ryder in the game. Gave me the same chills as that epic moment Shepard becomes a Spectre, or more specifically, if you picked the right options as femshep to keep it "all business". The delivery of those lines by all voice actors involved plus the music in the background was perfect. Better than perfect, in fact. It is a standard Bioware have fallen oh so very far from with MEA.
When it comes to lack of comm network I had a thought on that as well...
In the extended endings of ME3, if you basically tell Star Child to fly a kite, it shows a computer with an antenna still functional for the next cycle. I was assuming something like that could be put into place as a relay point. Also with the lack of communications back & forth so far, that could easily be explained away by it being above Tann's pay grade... possibly a breadcrumb quest for Ryder/Sam to unlock at some point.
For that quest I'd say have it buried so deep in flavor text that it'd be one of the really rare secret achievements/trophy for the game "Communication's Restored"
Now if they actually did put it in, I'd be pretty shocked, but hey this is EA we're talking about, so likely it'll be a DLC disguised as Customer Feedback wanting to know what happened to Shepard & Co
If I'm honest I thought things like this would be explained in the story. My hopes for MEA were very muted with all the suspicious silence and lack of information about the game and I said in quite a few places how dodgy all that silence and lack of info looked but even I couldn't set the bar low enough for myself to prepare for the eventuality of what MEA turned out to be. You know you done facked up when you disappoint those who are already expecting to be disappointed - the bar simply doesn't get any lower.
