The Elite Elite wrote...
I just looked at the codex entry for the Rachni just to make sure I got this right. The Rachni attacked the first people who came through their relay right away. Then they couldn't negotiate because the queens were underground on their hazardous homeworld. Then after the Krogan pushed them to the brink of defeat they still refused to surrender. So yeah, I don't find the Rachni trustworthy at all. Given that history I'd say that yes, wiping them out does indeed appear to be the right thing.
No, I have the bad guy with a gun to her head telling me that her kind didn't really mean it, it was all a mistake. Yeah I'm supposed to trust her? I suppose if during WW2 you came across Hitler tied up with a gun pointed at his head you'd believe him if he told you that he didn't really mean to exterminate the Jews, that it was something messed up in his biology?
Who said anything about promoting a pre-emptive strike against the Geth? I just said let's keep the possibility that Legion isn't telling the truth and his presence is for something other than what he says it is. I'm still for taking the risk and keeping it in my group.
If we don't get what we need to defeat the Reapers there will be no long-term to worry about. If we can't stop the Reapers there won't be a galaxy to be torn apart by a dictator TIM.
Where are getting the idea that the Collector base indoctrinates like
the Reapers do?
As someone in that very thread said, those cases were an outside force coming in and giving that tech to them for free. In this case we came in and took the tech ourselves from the enemy.
So you will do exactly as the reapers do: destroy a civilization? Because of an ally you percieve a risk? What, you can't rely on your own first hand experience instead of relying on ancient Council data (that you probably killed anyways, that does not mention the Queens AT ALL?).
But don't you see, pre-emptive strikes is what you do when you murder a nation/enslave a people or use them as tools whether it is Rachine, Krogan or Geth based on very limited info.. Unlike the reapers, you don't have any goals you just do it because it "risky".
Okay, so you give power to a Stalinistic dictator that thinks big. Muder some millions here, enslave a nation there, lose a world here, experiment on your own people there, attack the Quarian fleet here, use other races as "shock troops" as he calls the Cerberus experiments in ME1 there.... Funny you mention Hitler, because that is exactly what I picture with all the comments you have made. So in your case Sovereign was right "your salvation through destruction".
So you think a place CREATING a REAPER wouldn't have INDOCTRINATION PRESENT IN A REAPER when a REAPER that has been inactive for 37 million years still indoctrinates?
Okay, let's imagine that Cerberus sacrafices enough lives to gather the needed data. They use Reaper technology against a reaper fleet - who do you think has the advantage? Now, let's imagine the impossible - Cerberus wins - they defeat the reapers with small numbers of inferior reaper based technology and there is a power vacuum. Do you think the council will just let Cerberus run the galaxy? Do you
think every single race will bow to humanity? Sure, they might after a
while - yet it is not worth finding the answer in that way. TIM has already started creating a reaper-human hybrid and that is not one that should run the galaxy. I believe you hadly think at all about the consequences.
Technology for free? Technology taken? Irrelevant. Okay you can ignore it because of slight variations, yet you talk some petty risks solved radically and ignorenot only the risk Cerberus with Reaper technology but the one with just Reaper technology?
"Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays. Our
technology. By using it, your civilization develops along the paths we
desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic life. You exist because
we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.
"
Rings a bell?
Your selective application of "risks" can only be logically explained by intense role playing of a renegade (with everything the word implies), yet I fear you are not looking for logical explanation even when you have pages of it.
Modifié par Neuzhelin, 18 juin 2010 - 11:55 .