DLC exists or not. For the sake of argument (and to make this post not
pointless), let's assume that it does exist.If anyone is curious why I think
it does exist, you could look here ---
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/7785343/2#7789546.
But digressing. So far all of the discussions I've seen have come down to
people who are very supportive of it or very set against it. The general arguments
for it are the chance to learn more about a culture that we know almost nothing
about or the very slim chance that we could "save" the Protheans. The
general arguments against are the improbability of a being surviving 50,000
years, even in status, and the fear of a deus ex machine solution a la Halo. I
think that both sides have valid points so I propose a third option that
hopefully will have most of the benefits without a majority of the hindrances.
I propose that the Prothean squadmate be a Prothean AI. As many people have
pointed out, it would be incredibly difficult to keep a being alive in status
for 50,000 years. It would require an immense amount of resources and as noted
in ME, the protheans had difficulty maintaining status pods for several hundred
years, much less several thousand. A machine would not have that problem. A
machine can be put into hibernation for extended periods of time with virtually
no use of resources. Given the right conditions, I see no reason a machine
could not survive several thousand years in such a state. Given that the
Protheans were technologically advanced enough to build the conduit backdoor,
it is not a great stretch to assume that they had the technology to make
advanced AI systems. (Note: I know that one technology do not necessary mean
they were that advanced in other fields, but can we at least acknowledge that
it is probable?)
Please note that everything after this is pure speculation, I am simply providing
an example of how I believe this could be done right. I imagine that a separate
group of Protheans escaped the Reapers. For the sake of argument, this group
was small enough to escape the notice of the Reapers but also too small to
maintain a variable population. Knowing this and also that any contact with the
larger galaxy would give themselves away, they decide to preserve the "essence
of the species" the best they can. They constructed an advanced AI to be
as close prothean as possible and sent their remaining year teaching it
everything they could about their people, customs, history, eat. I imagine a
mechanical body with a holograph interface overlay similar to Avina, but use
your imagination if you'd prefer some other construction. This AI would serve
to teach future races about the Protheans and warn them about the Reapers. Now
given that this is an isolated location, they would not access to any advanced
weapons or secret Reaper killing devices, hence avoiding the deus ex machine
issue. After it was completed, this machine would be put into hibernation until
a sign that the Reaper threat had passed (perhaps the signal for the sphere
found during the Firewalker mission?).
This could be handled such that Shepard finds evidence of a broadcast that
suggests there is a surviving Prothean. Searching for more information and
expecting to find a living Prothean, they go in search of it. After a long
hunt, they find the Prothean AI. This AI would be able to provide us with tons
of information about the Protheans and perhaps some things that don't work when
fighting the Reapers. Now give that Shepard is the only person in the galaxy
that speaks Prothean, with maybe the expectation of Laira, and seeing as how
said person is one of the foremost experts on the Protheans and the Reapers and
is located on the Normandy, it would make sense for the AI to go with Shepard.
Thoughts?
PS- Sorry about the wall of text. I wanted to make sure people understood what
I was saying and it got rather complicated.
Modifié par dcal31, 03 juillet 2011 - 08:27 .
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