I want to sum up my thoughts as quick as possible, so here
goes. I know it is long but read what you can. Post 2 will be the hours after,
Post 3 will be my closing remarks, and this post will be speculation of the story.
Please remember, I may have missed some things, but this is
the story I know.
No doubt the end(s) of ME3 has everyone in a bunch, but after some hard
thinking on this I have come up with what is only logical to assume given that
I know the story from start to finish. So here it goes, this is what I assume
happened in the hours after firing the crucible. Also, I will be sharing my
thoughts on hours/weeks or whatever was before crucible.
Let's start off by taking a look at a few things. I want to address the
reapers. Now, I am basing these assumptions purely off of the games, none of
the novels that have been released, if any.
First off, the Citadel AI. I noticed a few people saying that they had some
questions un answered by the kid that controls the reapers, so maybe I can help
by saying this. He said that the reapers were the controllers of chaos. Organic
life brought in the chaos and the reapers harvest organic life and turn it in
to reapers to preserve order. However, I get mixed feelings with this because
he could be talking about two things here
1.) In physics there is something known as Entropy. I feel like the writer was
trying to relate this story to that law in some way. Entropy is a funny way of
saying chaos. The easiest way to explain entropy is through changes in the
states of matter. As matter changes in to a gas form entropy is increased
because matter is almost free to do what it wants. When it is in a solid Matter
can barely do anything at all, thus entropy is decreased. Relate that to the
reapers trying to control organics, and maybe it has something to do with the
story.
2.) Who, exactly were the reapers? In ME1, Sovereign says that the reapers have
been around since the beginning. Well, the kid said no matter what, synthetics
will always be the end of the evolutionary cycle. This leads me to conclude
that reapers weren't around at the beginning of time, but instead the first
advanced organic civilization. In an attempt to stop things like the
geth/quarrian war, they harvest organics and turn them in to synthetics off the
bat so that they can all be under one flag, Thus preserving the order.
One more thing about the kid and the dream sequences
before I move on. The dream sequences were directly related to the story of
ME3, and ME3 alone in every way. Take dream 1. Shep is chasing after the kid the entire time and
never gets to him, ending with the kid in flames. I think I can see the
symbolism, correct me if I'm wrong, but the kid embodies how shep feels about
the situation. In dreams 1 and 2, and what happens outside the dreams, is
pretty much the same but without the action. Shep is running away from the
reapers (dream1) the reapers and the people ding (dream 2 with the shadows) and
then in dream 3, and if I recall this right, just before dream 3 shep says
"...it's time to stop running..." He even mentions this with kai leng.
Which is why in dream 3 we see shep with the kid finally and them both burning.
This is just a thought, though.
On to the illusive man. This is what made me scratch my head a little. When
introduced in ME2, the most notable feature of TIM was his eyes. We knew right
off the bat he was some form of bionic/synthetic. Could it be that he was
indoctrinated from the start, though? It certainly doesn't seem that way. After
all, if the collectors were servants of the reapers, and were only trying to
get a head start on the reapers goals or genetic harvesting, why would an
indoctrinated man be trying to stop that? So that leaves the question of where
did he become indoctrinated? As careful of man as he was, certainly he wouldn't
have fallen victim to his own indoctrination research. He had to have had
contact with reapers at one point or another. I don't see this really as a plot
hole, but more of less open speculation of how he became synthetic before ME2,
and if that had any effect in his indoctrination.
Furthermore, the "Cerberus is an idea" idea. The idea of Cerberus was
to promote human dominance over everyone else in the galaxy. This was around
before ME1, since projects that were Cerberus based in ME1 started before the
game started (presumably). No doubt that the reapers also hit Earth, the human
home world, hardest. If the reapers only wanted to jump a curb and complete the
synthetic evolution immediately, this suggests that the reapers, and Cerberus
were the same team all along. Not to mention, reaper/citadel AI was a human
child. Of course the AI could have just been a fabrication of shep's mind, but
its open to speculation I suppose.
The last thing I want to note about cerberus, is that perhaps the illusive man
was a synthetic that has been around since the reapers themselves. In ME2, and
correct me if I'm wrong, the illusive man's journal entry states that no one
knows where he came from, or who he is. He was just there. Perhaps for millions
of years, he has been trying to find a way to control the reapers. The prothean
VI on thessia said it himself, every time someone comes along and tries to
control the reapers, and the crucible fails. Not to mention, this could
somewhat explain his indoctrination. As the reapers got closer to the galaxy,
their hold on him became stronger, and he was unable to resist them. He also
only took a human form, because he wanted to be allied with who he thought was
the strongest, and most capable race in the galaxy.
Will add more of the speculations of that later, but I suppose it's time to
give my logical assumptions of what happened in the hours after.
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