Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-10390252-20141031210524

Mercen-X wrote: 2. By Reapers, do you mean "Reavers"? (Firefly reference) No, he meant 'Reapers'. It's a Mass Effect reference - The Council in the game disbelieved in the existence of these omnicidal aliens until it was literally too late to do anything but pick up the pieces after hundreds of billions of deaths.

The interesting difference here is that I'm not seeing a denial of the problem from Vale's Council. They're going the opposite direction by subscribing to the "do something now, do something flashy and call it 'problem solved'" fallacy. They're likely going to cause more damage by rushing into wholsesale changes and giving Ironwood carte blanche to do whatever he tells them is necessary to bring 'security' and, in the process, act as a White Fang recruiter.