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The Shadow Broker, Tela Vasir, Balak, Donovan Hock, General Petrovsky, The Shepard Clone... Man the DLC villains tend to be really "extra" don't they.

So the justifications for the Normandy pickup scene: The Reaper IFF makes the Normandy register as a Reaper, and while it can be easily compromised, it still takes an active effort from the Reapers to do so. Harbinger was expecting more Reapers to arrive since it went towards the beam with others, but arrived alone after Hackett delayed the rest. So Harbinger is expecting a Reaper and sees a Reaper, it has no reason to 'do a double' take on the Normandy especially while it's focused on preventing anybody from reaching the beam.

If a single person made it through, it was over for the Reapers, so Harbinger was fully focused on stopping the approaching troops rather than paying attention to the Normandy. And as the ship took off, Harbinger seemed to realize what had happened, since it shows it looking at the ship right as it leaves.

Even once it realized that that was the Normandy and not a Reaper, it had no reason to divert its weapons away form the vitally important job of protecting the beam.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:20 F Tier
7:26 D Tier
11:27 C Tier
14:41 B Tier
20:25 A Tier
25:28 S Tier
34:35 Outro

Music in order of appearance, lots of this stuff isn't on the soundtrack so I'm giving my best guesses where needed:

Uncharted Worlds: By Sam Hulick - CA: Electronic Arts
Virmire Battle(?): By Jack Wall Et Al.(?) - CA: Electronic Arts
Therum Battle(?): By Jack Wall Et Al.(?) - CA: Electronic Arts
Lattesh(?): By Jack Wall Et Al.(?) - CA: Electronic Arts
Collector Ship(?): By Jack Wall Et Al.(?) - CA: Electronic Arts
Combat Troops: By Christopher Lennertz - CA: Electronic Arts
Final Conversation: By Christopher Lennertz - CA: Electronic Arts
Callista: By Saki Kaskas - CA: Electronic Arts
Thane: By Jack Wall and David Kates - CA: Electonic Arts
Wake Up: By Sam Hulick - CA: Electonic Arts
Infiltration: By Sascha Dikiciyan and Cris Velasco - CA: Electonic Arts
Terror over Terra Nova(?): By Jack Wall Et Al.(?) - CA: Electronic Arts
Vigil: By Jack Wall - CA: Electronic Arts
Agent Combat: By Christopher Lennertz - CA: Electronic Arts
Leviathan: By Sascha Dikicyan & Cris Velasco - CA: Electronic Arts
Citadel Underbelly By Sascha Dikicyan & Cris Velasco - CA: Electronic Arts
Shop: By Toby Fox - CA: Materia Collective

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