Foreign Invasion

[Iscah]

Are we justified in going over there, killing what is going to end up being a shit ton of them along with their leaders, only to rescue a single POW of an alien race that does not even belong on our own world in the first place?

If Azdaja was just "an alien" that we have no loyalty to, then we probably wouldn't be intervening.

But she's not just an alien; she's our friend's sister and he is desperate to save her.

Also, how many thousands of years do they have to live on Etheirys before they're allowed to be considered as "belonging" to the place? They hatched here. It's their home.

Edit to add: Also, phrasing it as "going over there to kill loads of them to rescue a prisoner" makes it sound like the killing is a core part of our intent. We just want to rescue Azdaja and get out of there, and if we could have done it without disrupting any of the locals, we probably would.

Why do we have meanwhile scenes at all? Just have us using the echo.

Others have covered why it can't just be a direct Echo vision – things need to be shown to the player that the character is not aware of.

Still, I have wondered if you could wrangle those kinds of scenes as "an Echo that the WoL witnessed much later after it ceased to be relevant, rearranged into chronological order for better storytelling".