There's no time to argue.
From Create Your Own Story
YOU: God damn, don't I get to say anything Paragon here? It's just Renegade or Indifferent.
ASHLEY: Well, the ship IS exploding. Kind of makes sense that you aren't trying to be a saint.
YOU: I guess so. Anyway, go get to the escape pods. BRB.
You slam a BUTTON while ASHLEY scrambles for the ESCAPE PODS, getting everyone in except for a few poor REDSHIRTS, who are set ON FIRE. The doors Vacuum-seal shut, and the PODS go shooting out of the WRECK OF THE NORMANDY.
Still in the EXPLODING WRECK, you get to take control of shepard and race through to the COCKPIT, taking the time to admire the EXPLOSION EFFECTS and EXQUISITE PLANET SCENERY as the SHIP tears apart. Thankfully, Bioware assumes you don't need a TUTORIAL on how to RUN. You find yourself wishing everyone did that. Finally, you reach JOKER.
YOU: Come on, Joker, we have to get out of here.
SETH GREEN (Squeazing a few more minutes of screen time out of this): I can't leave the Normandy! I can still save her!
You say:
