General User wrote...
Most all of the arguments in favor of keeping the CB are based on the various boons it represents. Most (though not all
) of the arguments for blowing it revolve around the morally ambiguous nature of handing it over to Cerberus. All of it takes place under the shadow of the Reaper threat.
I would really, really appreciate it if someone, especially a renegade or base keeper, could break down the Reaper threat from their perspective. Basically, how big, how credible, and why? What do you think will be the primary challenges in overcoming them? And how do you suggest going about that?
I would certainly find it most interesting. And I think it would provide valuable insight into our respective decision making processes.
The reaper threat is absolute. They have been perpetuating a cycle of extinction for tens of millions of years with
hundreds of trillions in casualties
at the very least. Both the Citadel and the Alliance fleets were completely ineffective against Sovereign. The only reason we won that fight is because Sovereign apparently downloaded itself into an avatar to fight Shepard directly and lost.
At this point in time, in a ship-to-ship confrontation with the reapers, with every race in the galaxy united, I believe we stand a very low chance of winning. If I wasn't for the geth, quarians, rachni, and krogan, I would say a near-zero chance. It is absurd that some people believe we can afford to be picky about what avenues we take in order to stop the reapers and will destroy the collector base because of that. People who do that have no idea if there will be another option (short of metagaming), and they're putting the galaxy at risk due to their massive ego or all-important morals.
One of the primary challenges in the fight will be indoctrination. According to Vigil the reapers used indoctrination very effectively in order to sabotage resistance efforts. We need to find out how the hell it works, how to prevent it, and how to detect it. The collector base builds reapers and is a huge opportunity to attempt to study something that could cripple our fight for survival.
If we're going to defeat the reapers we need to fight some weakness or other angle of attack. I don't think a giant space battle is going to be the way to do it. An example of this would be Star Wars. The rebels certainly didn't have the firepower to go up against the Death Star directly. Instead, they stole the plans for the station and located a single weakness and took advantage of the pitfalls of the station's design in order to achieve victory.
We know the reapers are made using both organic and synthetic materials. We also now know they use nanotechnology and quantum entanglement technology to control bodies from dark space. Could we use the facilities in the collector base to perhaps create nanomachines that will destroy the organic material within the reapers and cripple them? I don't know, but we need to keep that base unless we just want to wing it during our fight for survival.
pf17456 wrote...
For renegades it's about trusting your boss and doing what you're told.
I'd appreciate it if you didn't make such ridiculous assumptions. If you're not going to take this discussion seriously, please excuse yourself.
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