Its a great idea, except the Mass Effect government isn't quite that simple, with just the Council, the Systems Alliance, and the Reapers/Geth.

Even though the Turians have a seat on the Council, there is still the Turian Hierarchy.

Asari may be the founders of the Council, but there is still a separate Asari government (well, they don't really have a government TBH).

Salarians have a Council seat, but the Salarians still have their own separate semi-feudal government.

A Council fleet would be doable, but the Turians aren't in the Council to foster harmony, its to use that power for the good of the Turian race. Salarians? A nice comfy Council seat gives a lot of protection against being attacked. No-one wants to piss off a Council member, and attacking their species will do that.

So to be realistic, we would need the Council, the Systems Alliance, the Turian Hierarchy, the Salarians, and the Reapers/Geth.

Balancing all those factions will be tough, especially when the Reapers get involved, seeing as how
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They are an unstoppable race of A.I. dreadnoughts.

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Of course, for balancing, we can go by species and their tactics in general, with Turians focusing on lots of armor and kinetic shielding, Salarians on high-powered lasers and knowing everything about everything and everyone, the Systems Alliance using combined arms tactics and highly mobile fleets, and the Reapers on swarming the enemy with disposable Geth until they get a Conduit running and a Reaper shows up and blows everything to bits.

Not a whole lot is known about most of the ships used by each race. Would be an interesting mod, though.

Well, a fair amount is known about each species's individual tactics, simply from the in-game Codex.

Salarians rely on stealth, sabotage, and information to win.

Turians have bigger, more powerful ships than everyone else.

Alliance uses combined arms tactics and high mobility.

Geth spam lots of weak ships, until they get a Reaper to obliterate everything.

A Council faction, consisting of the best, most powerful and expensive ships from the Turians and the Salarians, plus the only ones with access to Asari ships. Did I mention the Ascension?

So, we know what Alliance ships look like, they are part UNSC, part TEC.

Turian ones probably are big, heavy, expensive, and slow

Salarian ones are faster and smaller than everyone else's, most likely looking Normandy-ish.

We know what Geth ships look like, kinda like Geth, seeing as their ships are Geth.

Asari ships would most likely be like their commandos. Few in number, something you do NOT mess with. Supermodel ships with a Mike Tyson punch.

Like the Codex had a Turian general saying, "Asari commandos are some of the best soldiers in the galaxy. Fortunately, there are not that many of them."

Well, its not that. Like the Codex says, you would have to be an idiot to take on a dreadnought with anything but a dreadnought. And the Salarians aren't stupid. They have dreadnoughts.

I was merely saying that the different races have different military setups. Turians have big, powerful ships.

Salarians are smaller on average, but they know everything there is to know about the other side to compensate.

The Alliance is like the United States in space. We use mobility to our advantage, same with the Alliance. We have fast, powerful ships because we have a much smaller armed force than any other species, so we have to make the most of it.

What mass effect is the best game there is.

Anyway yes the codex does say this but then would that meanthis is an only capital ship mod because apart from the normandy and the dropships of the geth there really is no mention of warships accept for fighter carriers of the alliance and dreadnoughts.

Yes they are.

In the Mass Effect Codex isn't there a list of ships that could be used for this?
Also Why not have the Geth/Reapers, Citadel species and perhaps the Quarians who focus on spamming weak ships rather than strong ones also since they have enviro suits they wouldn't need tech to colonise ice or lava worlds and since each ship has a large population everything above frigates could colonise worlds.
One of the Quarian Capships could be a life ship which is huge agricultural ship that could maybe give a bonus to starting planet development.
Also it's been said that Quarians are skilled miners so they could have bonuses to their Crystal/Metal mines.

And here is the codex list of entries about ships.

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Im talking about someone else doing it I cant mod.

Well that could be a problem because its a joint operation between the turians and alliance but then it is commander shepards ship and a spectre ship.


So I would have to say it would be a council ship because after every main mission you as shep have to check in with the council not the alliance.

Yes that is true I guess you know since there are no heroes in this game why not just make a normandy class ship and put it in the capital ships factory maybe restrict the amount allowed to be created to 2 or 3.

No. The Geth don't use stealth. Flashlight heads, remember.

Well, yeah, but in ME they used fighters for scouting in systems. However there isn't a lot of empty space in Sins. The researches could be done, simply as "Advance Scouts" or something else plausible.