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UNAVAILABLE wrote...
The assumption is based on the basic principle that it is far better to overestimate your opponent than to underestimate them. And the evidence does not show they beat "everyone else" by suprise. It shows they beat the Protheans by suprise. Other than that, we know little more than at one point in time, someone had a cannon that was powerful enough to kill at least one Reaper.
How can you overestimate an opponent you know next to nothing about? If anything, you're underestimating them by thinking you can win without saving the base and studying their capabilities. It's a video game, and nothing disasterous will happen regardless of what you do. However, in real life, destroying the base makes little military sense.
So which assumption should I make, that the Reapers are a bunch of wimps that can only win by suprise, or that they're an incredibly powerful armada that could easily win even in a fair fight? I think I'll be better prepared if I assume the latter.
As I said above. If you working on the assumption that they're increadibly powerful, wouldn't you want to know exactly what capabilities they have other than indoctrination? Other possible weapons they might use against us? Your argument is basically, we should fear them to the point of running away from them, rather than bravely facing the threat and studying them while there is still time. Mass indoctrinations will happen when they arrive. Better to study that and other weapons now so we can counter act it.
I also question how valuable any study could be. According to Vigil it took the top Prothean scientists (who were more advanced than Cerberus) "decades of feverish study" to figure out how to alter the signal from the Citadel to the keepers. So that's how long it takes to study a single comm signal, something tells me that the Reapers are somewhat of a more imminent threat.
As someone else pointed out, the mars data leapfroged our knowledge by hundreds of years in a short time. Bersides, they weren't just studying a single signal. They were building a mini mass relay. They also had to work in secret with limited resources.
Considering that in my view the base is a trap, yes, it would be better to have them working on other things elsewhere.
Studying what? The cell life of a bacteria? A scientist can get more data in a couple weeks at the base than they could in several lifetimes. Even if they do get indoctrinated, the data they get even from being there a limited time is well worth the price.
Not true. There is an assumption that studying the base (forgetting the years of study aspect) might yield useful technology, but there is no guarantee. Even if you gain understanding of some technology, it could be decades beyond that before anyone figures out how to use it in a weapon, strengthen shields, etc.
Of course there is no guarantee. That doesn't mean we should put our head in the sand and cower like babies and have little or no chance in getting any useful data.
This is the function that Sovereign fulfilled, or was supposed to. While I don't agree that the Reapers depend on suprise for their victories, they certainly like to keep it on their side. Automatically kicking on indoctrination aboard the Citadel is bound to get noticed, and could potentially alert the galaxy of an imminent attack. Having a dormant Reaper hidden in the galaxy allows that Reaper to best decide how to proceed should the relay fail.
Sovereign could have sent a signal to automatically kick in indoctrination in case the signal to open the relay didn't work. The citadel proves not all reaper tech indoctrinates.
The fact is we're not the ones who underestimate the reapers. It's they that underestimate us. With the base in hand, that may be their fatal mistake. We may suffer some losses studying the base, we may not. However, we will learn more about our enemy than a paragon who choses to destroy it.
Modifié par mosor, 21 septembre 2010 - 10:50 .
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